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SIDESHOW EXCLUSIVE DELUXE EDITION The first 666 orders will receive the Deluxe Edition Alternate-Head? version of the Hellboy 12 inch Figure. This Sideshow exclusive figure will not be sold in stores and is ONLY available for purchase at SideshowCollectibles?.com.

This figure is almost sold out!

Palisades Toys, Aislesniper.com and Blister.jp team up to bring you the the ultimate Alien collectible, the Alien: Special Edition Pewter Mini Bust! This breathtaking version of the Alien: Special Edition Bust stands a stunning 9” tall and is cast in 7 pounds of solid metal. This awesome bust comes in a black bi-fold hardwood storage box (lined with form-fitting foam) and Certificate of Authenticity signed by Palisades Toys president Michael Horn and aislesniper.com President Michael Becker. Each Bust will come with 3 interchangeable clear domes. This historic Alien collectible is exclusive to aisleSniper.com and Blister.jp and strictly limited to only 750 pieces worldwide.

PayPal has announced the creation of PayPal Europe Ltd. and the moving of all European transactions from PayPal Inc. a US company regulated as a money transmitter by various states in the US, under the PayPal User Agreement governed by California law.Read the full PayPal announcement and click below.

It appears that there is an elusive set of framed Mighty Beanz being sent out by Moose Toys (the manufacturers of Mighty Beanz) as gifts! A total of 10 Beans are in the set each has a Christmas theme and is limited to just 250 pieces!! There is a set on eBay right now and with another 5 days left to run in the auction they could wind up selling for in excess of $1000! Click read more for the link ....

QRIO (pronounced, kinda like "Cuiri-o") is Sony's newest attempt at a consumer level AI driven robot. Still definitely more on the entertainment side of the spectrum (like AIBO the dog), Sony hopes to eventually be at the forefront of fully interactive and useful home robots.

Sony has no current plans to sell the 23-inch-tall Qrio, which the company introduced last year. Qrio is short for "quest for curiosity."

Instead, the machine is being billed as an amusing "corporate ambassador" that can highlight Sony's innovativeness. Sony would not say how much it has cost.

A Mighty Moose Bean has sold on eBay for an astounding $897.00 (U.S.)! This is, as far as I'm aware, the current record! It was an all blue Mighty Moose Himself from series #1, the reason it achieved the phenomenal value was because it was listed as being numbered no.#1 of #1000.

A guy from the USA is exporting our (the UK's) junk! "He walked through our facility and said, 'This is really nice furniture.' We said: 'This is the junk,' " said Andy Simpson, a staff member at Doncaster Re-Furnish? .

The first container load of furniture - about 60 pieces sent via ship, train and truck - arrived Tuesday night at St. Vincent de Paul's Seneca store. By Wednesday morning, crews had unloaded it and a couple of antique-loving volunteers were pricing the individual pieces with instructions to keep the range above wholesale but below retail.

Shipping cost St. Vincent $4,500. The agency avoided duty fees because the furniture, which couldn't be given away in England, has no value.

As they went over the chairs, cabinets and bureaus, Kim Williams and Tami Pierson oohed and ahhed at the delicate carved designs on some pieces and the finish on others.

While most of the furniture is too new to be considered antique, much of it qualifies as near-antique or vintage, Williams said.

She and Pierson got excited about two of the newer cabinets, one from the '50s that contained a working short-, medium-, and long-wave radio and turntable; the other a sleek little combo piece with a '60s-era secretary on one side and a bar on the other.

Antique Christmas lights is a site devoted to providing information about the development of electric Christmas lighting in America. Here you'll learn all about Twentieth Century electric holiday lighting in the United States, and see how it has changed over the years. Did you know that in the earliest days, Christmas lights were so expensive that they were commonly rented for the season? We've come a long way since 1900...