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I finally had the oportunity to do something I'd been excited to do since my daughter was born six months ago - take her to the toy store!

We went to the biggest toy store in our area and she seemed to really enjoy the experience. The colours and lights really caught her fancy and she was, like her dad, enamoured with all the toys. Of course I bought her gift, but I was able to nab myself some new figures for my Sonic collection.

For some reason it's proven to be quite hard to find Jakks' Sonic figures in the England, or at least in my area (although on-line hasn't been much better), so there are a few I'm still after. At any rate, this trip I was able to pick up Tikal from Sonic Adventure and then two of the new DC x Sonic figures, Rouge as Catwoman and Eggman in Lex Luthor's armour. As you'll notice, the two DC x Sonic figures are the 2.5-inch side (or 6.35cm in proper measurements ^_- ). I've not seen if they'll be releasing larger versions or if Funko will be doing Pops of these as they did with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Amy and Silver. If Funk do, I'll probably have to grab those to go with the others.

As for the website, I've added the art, prints and posters to the Phantom collections page, as well as an About page which still needs a little bit of work.

As always, please leave a comment in the Guestbook if you so wish (it's at the bottom of the sidebar). I'd be great to hear from some of you.

TTFN.

The first bunch of galleries are now up!

Yes, they are all for my Phantom collection, and I've not added everything yet, but it'll give you a pretty good idea of what the site is going to look like. Each collection page will, at least initially, look like that. I thought it better/ easier to have the whole collection on one page rather than separate pages for each 'part' of the collection (books, figures, etc). I've finished putting together templates for all the pages as well, although some of those aren't live yet.

You might also notice I've added a guestbook. You can see it at the bottom of the sidebar, so please feel free to leave a comment.

Over the next little while I'll continue to add images to the Phantom collection gallery, maybe start on the About page and change one or two other small things.

Until then...

TTFN

The site is finally in a place where I feel I can let it out into the world.

The building of JoeyPajamas (a nickname my wife gave me that I still find funny, six years later) has been very much a learning experiance. While I've worked on websites before they had all been built mostly using the aid of a site builder, thus I hardly had to touch HTML or CSS. This was my first time building one entierly from scratch.

As with most people on Neocities, I'm here trying to detangle at least a little from modern internet, especially social media. I've found over the last several years I've moved more and more away from social media as the enshitification sets in. While I do still have accounts on a few platforms, most I rarely use.

There's also the fact that there really isn't anywhere decent to share your collection on. There have been such places, a few that I used too, but they all closed down. Current places like Instagram or Facebook (bleh!) don't allow enough freedom to really curate a collection gallery, especially one of a large size. Hence this site.

While there are still things I've like to do/ change here I'm fairly happy with how it currently looks. I've started to add the first of the collection galleries so that will hopefully be live soon. I've also got a few ideas for shrines and other pages. I'll add a guest book at some point, too.

I hope you like what you see thus far, and continue to pop back from time to time to see how the site grows.

TTFN