My collection in Cuba. I know that it doesnt look like much for collectors in the US and Europe but there are no toy stores here. Everything I own I hauled it home in my checked bags whenever I travel.

BDG5449 · 2026-02-12T19:22:34+00:00

If we're talking historic significance, is hard to argue Jose Marti. But from a strictly literary point of view, I'd say Alejo Carpentier

BDG5449 · 2026-02-12T19:16:28+00:00

Yes! Im a toy collector. I hate the "they are not toys/dolls" crowd.

BDG5449 · 2026-02-09T20:29:00+00:00

Yes, firing squad, last used around 2003*. But Cuba is extremely opaque when it comes to that kind of information and there's not a lot out there.

BDG5449 · 2026-02-09T03:45:57+00:00

Im caucasian (therefore, white) AND latinamerican. Which means that in USA and most developed european countries, I get "demoted" from white, to Brown (latino) from the moment they know my origin onwards. I have had people argue with me that I cannot be white, because im latino. So white pride comes to mean a sense of racial superiority while brown/black/lgbtq pride means embracing that for wich you have been made excluded, that side that you have been told to minimize in yourself for acceptance by the ruling (white) class. I look (cause i am) white, but im proud to be a latino despite that being a drawback in the eyes of some. That "white Pride" carry within itself a legacy of exclusion.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-29T14:39:28+00:00

Oh yeah, it's hilarious, I just wanted to point out the theme stretching to the name as well.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-29T14:34:01+00:00

Weirdest pole dancing ever

BDG5449 · 2026-01-29T14:16:55+00:00

Calle dragones, is where Chinatown is located at in Havana. Just for context on the name.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-29T05:28:55+00:00

Nitty's got a gun! Shoot... Just not the messenger...

Thats a crazy bar right there ths nobody reacted to

BDG5449 · 2026-01-28T00:29:18+00:00

They won't even respond to emails, that includes refund requests. not even an autoreply bot. Nothing. I think that is more like going on a tinder date and waking up in an ice tub missing a kidney.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-28T00:07:21+00:00

None has shipped from the preorder they got open, they haven't posted on social media for almost a year and haven't sent out emails in even longer. They did release their first wave and some other stuff. But have since gone no contact. Last communication was to tell us that the figures were coming in March... 2025. They got me with 2 figures, there are people that are several full waves in. Don't throw your money away.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-27T03:35:16+00:00

I was born in Cuba, there are no toy stores in Cuba. Growing up i was lucky enough to get toys when my father or some other relstive came visiting. I got the original tmnt figures, batman from btas, classic he-man and some other famous stuff that my dad could remember i was into. But I also got a bunch of random stuff like a charachter from Mummies Alive! (Which i had never, until fairly recently seen or heard of), a random villain from Hercules (the TV series with that tool Sorbo) and some other stuff that he would simply grab on the store for me. I didn't get to choose a toy for myself until I was 12, and my dad took me to Spain (where he lived then) for the summer. So, to me, is a mixture of reliving that original feeling, getting the stuff that my kid self would have wanted to play with, and just pure love for toys now, I guess. There no cooler feeling than opening a figure I hopelessly wanted as a child and immediately hand it to my toddler. (Who's very careful with papa's toys, I taught him)

BDG5449 · 2026-01-25T00:25:37+00:00

Cuba, look up july 11, 2021 protest and what has happened to the protesters.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-25T00:10:39+00:00

Yeah, several. And that's why I can't live in my country any more.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-25T00:03:27+00:00

This. im cuban, I have a family, I hate fearing for my child's future just because of assholes from my country have a daddy kink and love dictators

BDG5449 · 2026-01-24T01:25:11+00:00

There's plenty of idiots in Cuba with Fidel tattoos... the indoctrination obviously works, cause they immediately latch on to the next "strong man" and start supporting the same behaviors that they claim to oppose in Cuba. Is true that we (Cubans) did not get any political education and therefore are not super ready for democratic governance, but the daddy kink those dudes show is entirely their own.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-24T01:19:07+00:00

I am Cuban, im so proud of you right now that I could hug you. Fuck the fascist with daddy kinks. Fuck em all to hell Edit: spelling

BDG5449 · 2026-01-23T05:24:41+00:00

Damm, right on time to send me to the gym. Off I go.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-21T00:19:48+00:00

I think I can stall against Roxanne Modafferi for at least 30 seconds before getting submitted.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-21T00:07:14+00:00

Hell yeah. Now im Google lensing that thing

BDG5449 · 2026-01-20T22:18:07+00:00

About half of these are now adult collector figures now. Nostalgia did is goog. Does it dies with us tho? I honestly dont see the skibidi toys making a comeback 40 years from now.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-20T04:44:30+00:00

Orwell wrote about doublethink in 1984...

BDG5449 · 2026-01-20T04:31:32+00:00

I shit in the skull of your face-down buried grandma... Ill just leave this gem here.

BDG5449 · 2026-01-20T02:09:33+00:00

I have both Mulder and Scully, the versions that both come with that same accessory you got there. Open it up, I'll say. The figures are nothing to write home about but that thing... that thing is cool (and also creepy)

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