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>Until the Friday before Christmas, we’ll be posting one product a day to help make the holiday the most gifted one yet

Recalled 2001 2pac action figure.

More from the artist responsible for the Donruss Diamond Kings here

Because if your buying this and you don’t have a blu-ray player, you’re crazy.

$700

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ShoeZeum Guided Tour: 2,000 Pairs in 11 Minutes

Eight albums reworked by Johnny Marr and Rhino UK and packaged together for the first time:

The collection includes all four of the band’s studio albums – ‘The Smiths’ (1984), ‘Meat Is Murder’ (1985), ‘The Queen Is Dead’ (1986), ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’ (1987) and their sole live album ‘Rank’ (1988) as well as firm fan favourite compilations ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ (1984), ‘The World Won’t Listen’ (1987) and ‘Louder Than Bombs’ (1987). Each has been taken back to original tape sources and remastered by Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright at the world famous Metropolis Studios in London.

Available through Rhino UK

DELUXE COLLECTORS BOXSET
**INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED & STRICTLY LIMITED TO JUST 3000 COPIES WORLDWIDE**

A heavyweight trunk boxset including:
> All eight album releases taken back to original tape sources and remastered by Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright
> All eight albums on Mini LP replica style CDs in gatefold card wallets
> All eight albums on 12” vinyl LPs (5 singles, 3 doubles)
> 25x 7″ Singles (the entire The Smiths Singles collection) inc. specially reproduced rarities
> A 36″ x 24″ Poster of all album and single cover artwork
> ‘The Complete Picture’ DVD of the band’s music videos
> An 8 page 12″ booklet feat. expanded liner notes
> 8x 12″ art prints of each album cover artwork
> An Exclusive Code to download the whole catalogue as high quality MP3s (320k)

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A display worthy piece of memorabilia from Pete Rose that’s available through Walmart.

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Twice a year the Visiting Nurses of NJ has a rummage sale, one is this weekend. You can find  bikes, furniture, books, clothing, etc.. A few years ago, I picked up a Mongoose BMX bike for $30.00 and a Schwinn 3-speed for $25.00. It’s worth the drive.

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Oddities is a collector show that premiered on the Science Channel back in December. It’s always reassuring to know that there are people weirder than you.

An Unpublished 1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids, Missing Linc. $4500

Craze.

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They don’t make them like this anymore…Christmas in the Stars features R2D2, C3PO and a young Jon Bon Jovi. You can also click here to hear a Christmas classic What do you get a wookie for christmas (When he already owns a comb). Check out C3P0 AND R2D2, SLEIGH RIDE after the jump.

C3P0 AND R2D2, SLEIGH RIDE

Early Tron figures are making their way to Ebay, and word has it Olivia Wilde did not approve the licensing of her face, so her character Quorra comes with a permanent helmet. Read more about it here, did you know Christian Bale did the same for Terminator Salvation…?

An Apple-1 computer is up for auction November 23rd at Christies in London. The estimate? A stylish $160,000.

“Introduced in July 1976, the Apple-1 was sold without a casing, power supply, keyboard or monitor. However, because the motherboard was completely pre-assembled, it represented a major step forward in comparison with the competing self-assembly kits of the day. Priced at $666.66, the first Apple-1s were despatched from the garage of Steve Jobs’ parents’ house – the return address on the original packaging present here. It is not clear how many Apple-1s were sold, but by April 1977 the price was dropped to $475, and it continued to be sold through August 1977, despite the introduction of the Apple II in April 1977 (a major advance with integrated keyboard, sound, a plastic case, and eight internal expansion slots). It was officially discontinued by October 1977. A SUPERB EXAMPLE with the original packaging, manuals, cassette interface and basic tape, early documentation and provenance, and a COMMERCIALLY RARE LETTER FROM STEVE JOBS.”

Lot Description

APPLE-1 — Personal Computer. An Apple-1 motherboard, number 82, printed label to reverse, with a few slightly later additions including a 6502 microprocessor, labeled R6502P R6502-11 8145, printed circuit board with 4 rows A-D and columns 1-18, three capacitors, heatsink, cassette board connector, 8K bytes of RAM, keyboard interface, firmware in PROMS, low-profile sockets on all integrated circuits, video terminal, breadboard area with slightly later connector, with later soldering, wires and electrical tape to reverse, printed to obverse Apple Computer 1 Palo Alto. Ca. Copyright 1976.

[With:] Apple cassette interface card, numbered 2 in black ink manuscript to obverse and lettered G within triangle in black ink manuscript to reverse; Scotch C-60 cassette with typed printed label ‘BASIC’; Apple-1 Cassette Interface. Palo Alto: Apple Computer Company, (n.d., but 1976). 2 bifolia to form oblong 8° (140 x 216mm). [8pp.] Original company logo of Sir Isaac Newton under the apple tree to upper cover, 2 diagrams, 1 full-page – Apple-1 Operation Manual. Palo Alto: Apple Computer Company, (n.d., but 1976). 4° (280 x 215mm) 12pp. 8 circuit diagrams, 2 on one folding sheet printed recto and verso, one full-page. (Light vertical crease to folding sheet, marginal light pink ink marks to full-page diagram.) Original printed wrappers, stapled, with original company logo to upper wrapper and warranty within decorative border to inside rear wrapper (short split at foot of spine) — double-sided illustrated advertisement sheet with prices — original typed invoice for Apple-1 and Apple cassette interface totaling $741.66 dated 12/7/76, with salesman named as Steven — undated TYPED LETTER SIGNED ‘STEVEN JOBS’ to original owner, on ruled paper, one page folio — typed letter signed by Apple Technical Support Specialist John Fenwick dated 19 January 1982, one page folio.

ALL CONTAINED IN THE ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX, typed label to upper cover, ‘fragile’ stamps in red ink, various shipping marks in ink and manuscript (extremities rubbed, parcel tape fraying, lightly soiled, but in remarkably fresh conditon). 455 x 290 x 70mm. Provenance: Electric City Radio Supply, Great Falls, Montana (shipping label to box, invoice address) — Frank Anderson (of Great Falls, Montana, possibly the original owner of ECRS, letter addressed to him from Apple Technical Support) — Keith Purdy (of Scotts Valley, CA, business card) — unknown owner (photograph of owner with Steve Wozniak, Wozniak’s business card included).

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This one is for the collector. Every issue of Playboy Magazine on a portable 250GB hard drive with 200GB of Free Space for your stuff. The last part makes it worth it!