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Best of the West: Welcome to Frontera
In late 2024 I read an article saying that a good way to alleviate the stress and anxiety of our current world is to return to a hobby from your childhood. I started collecting some of my favorite childhood toys, the Best of the West / Johnny West action figures that were so popular in the 60s and 70s. I may have overdone it. All the buildings in my little town are made from cardboard, as is the stagecoach (except the axle and wheels). Most of the figures are a combination of the classic Johnny West line and the knights and vikings line, both produced by Marx in the 1960s and 1970s: Many are kitbashes using Marx bodies and 3-D printed celebrity heads found on ebay... with some help from GI JOE, Barbie, and other lines you might recognize. I added backstories for the main characters that include at least semi-plausible explanations for some of Marx's annoying historical inaccuracies. For example, how could Geronimo, Custer, Pat Garrett, and several Plains tribe...
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