New Additions: February 2026

 

This guy, until a couple days ago, was going to be the lone wolf for February acquisitions.  He’s #0985 Vic, a run of 200 pieces from 2001. According to the 2005 Stone Base catalog, he was produced for the Lawrence, Kansas Little Big Horn Celebration and Show Dinner and was sold by Happy Trails Collectables. I bought him off a Facebook ad from someone who was selling off overstock from a relative who had been a Stone dealer in the past.

He has a paint flaw on his chest that the seller didn’t see and wasn’t clear in the pictures - a large whitish area, like he was attacked by a rogue airbrush. I messaged the seller to see if that was normal for the run, and she said it wasn’t, because none of her others had been like that. She didn’t have any stock left to replace him with, so she offered to take him back for a refund. That was super nice of her, but while I was initially pretty disappointed with the flaw, I'll never find another one that cheap, so I declined to send him back. I’ll just find someone to fix him someday.

As you no doubt have guessed by now, Vic wasn’t the only thing I spent money on in February.

In my last post (literally, the one from Wednesday), I wrote about Mini Me Ima Shifty Goodbar, and mentioned how I’d hoped to add his larger counterpart on the ISH mold someday. Writing that post prompted me to put up an ISO ad for him on the Peter Stone Sales Page on Facebook.

Ask and ye shall receive.

A relatively recent (within the past couple years) hobby friend of mine messaged me on Thursday that she had one that she’d sell. She offered to ship him, but her house is literally right next door to my cousin JoAnn. (Small world!) My mom and I are going to visit JoAnn this summer, and my friend didn’t mind holding onto Shifty til then. Saves us both from having to worry about him in shipping. Until he gets here for his “official” glamour shot, here’s one my friend sent me.

 

 

Between the words “Shifty” and “Goodbar,” there are so many fun directions I could go with a show name. Side-Eye Snickers? Treacherous Toblerone? Shady Skor? Cagey Clark? 

I think I like the last one.