Okay, the double Spectrum in the title kinda made me twitch, but there's really no help for it.
#1834, Spectrum, was a Flagship store special run in 2020, again limited to 3500 pieces. I got her from Kraynaks, too, but in a more roundabout way.
We missed our annual family Kraynaks trip that year due to the pandemic, which was super depressing. We’d gone to see the Christmas tree display at Kraynaks every year without fail since 1983, when I was four years old. Even if we had to move it to a different day because one or another family member was working or Mother Nature threw a temper tantrum and sent a blizzard, we always found a way to make it. It's one of the longest-standing family traditions we have, and it's one of the days I look forward to the most all year. 2020 was hard in a lot of ways, but not being able to go to Kraynaks with my family was one of the hardest things.
In early 2021, after we'd been vaccinated, a few friends and I went up to Kraynaks for a hobby shopping day. It was incredibly weird to be there without the throngs of people - even though it's fairly close by, I can count on one hand the number of times I've been there outside of the holiday season, and I'd still have fingers left - and the shelves were scarily empty. I feared Kraynaks was going to be another casualty of the pandemic, but my friends (who go there much more often than I do) said that's normal for them after the holidays. (They were right, of course. Kraynaks is still there and doing just fine.)
I wasn't with my family, and it was a strange time to be there, but it was still really nice to be with my friends having a hobby day and doing something normal after a year where nothing was normal.
Spectrum was one of the models I brought home that day.
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