Why bother with the mall this season? If you hate crowds of people desperate to grab 10 dollar big screens or 1 dollar DVD’s of PAUL BLART: MALL COP, come on over to the MONDO RUMMAGE SALE!! We’ll have loads of screen-printed shirts for $5-$10, $2 vintage decals, we’ll also have DVD’s, screen-printed posters and a whole lot more for 25% off! Sale starts at noon Friday!
I am obsessed with ALLIGATOR and Robert Forster and a few years ago when I saw a YouTube video for this game, I thought it was a myth. I didn’t think I’d ever find it, but today while I was typing in random searches on eBay it came up for a super low price! I declare this my eBay purchase of the year for 2009!
The idea of the game is simple. You either TAKE little plastic barrels, boxes, briefcases, etc. out of the Alligator’s mouth or PUT more of them in. The Alligator’s mouth stays open and a trigger rests under the tongue where you are to put the game pieces. Each person takes turns spinning the TAKE or PUT spinner and if you aren’t steady of hand, the gator’s mouth snaps down and bites you. Rumor has it that the game was pulled from shelves because the gator’s teeth were so sharp that it was actually cutting kid’s hands when it snapped shut therefore making it the coolest game in the world!
I understand that studios want to cash in on merchandise from the movie’s they are releasing, but ALLIGATOR? Really?! This is insane. This goes along the same lines as the Remco Earthquake Tower Playset…two things that nobody was wanting but me.
Mondo is heading out to LA next week for two big events!
Friday November 20th at Gallery 1988, Mondo will be setting up shop for the night with lots of our friends providing live art. Skinner will be on hand watercoloring a limited edition Medusa art print we printed special for this show. Kevin Tong will have a new art print for sale (just got that image in and it looks incredible) and Harry Diaz will be screen printing shirts and prints by hand live in the store! Not only will all of these guys be hanging out, but Mondo will also have shirts, toys, and some exclusive and never before seen posters that we printed especially for this show.
The next day, we will have a table at DesignerCon at the Pasadena Convention Center. Once again, lots of exclusive posters and brand new releases. If you’re a fan of Mondo, definitely come and hang out with us next weekend!
It’s no secret that we sometimes release posters with sizes that aren’t “standard issue” to most stores. Mondo gets about a dozen or so emails each poster release from customers asking where they can buy a frame to fit their posters. Well, whether you live in Austin or not, listen up. From now on, you will never again need to worry about finding that perfect frame. We’re proud to announce our partnership with Austin’s own BALCONES FRAME!
Balcones has been in business for over 25 years and seriously makes some incredible custom frames. I know, I know…when I hear someone start talking about custom framing, I start to see dollar signs, too. The difference with Balcones is, they are independently owned and operated and have some of the cheapest frames in town. By the way, we’re not just sending you in their blind. We’ve got Balcones waiting for you! Take any poster you’ve EVER purchased from Mondo into Balcones to get framed and get 20% off of your order. See, your ol’ buddy Mondo is looking out for ya.
So, whether you’re taking a super rare Tyler Stout in or the HALLOWEEN/ NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. posters we’ll be releasing tomorrow online (did I just say that out loud?) you’re in good hands. When you get them framed, hit us up with pictures!
Anyone that knows me is well aware that 1) I am on eBay way too much and 2) I love Harryhausen. Can you guess how excited I was when I found this up for auction? With a little over 3 days left as I write this, this original Ray Harryhausen model from GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD is going for a cool $20,000. I wonder what celebri-nerd is gonna pick this up? Someone call Seth Green to buy this and put it in Robot Chicken. Enough with the STAR WARS parodies…this is real claymation here. Here are some other pictures. Click on them to take you to the auction link.
If you don’t instantly recall this character from the film, check out the above trailer. She starts messin’ stuff up at about the 1:18 mark.
Also, in other INSANE Harryhausen news, I heard a rumor that Japan’s Bounty x Hunter was carrying this sweater. If you live in Japan, are going to Japan, know someone who is going to Japan or know someone that lives in Japan…get this in a size XL and I will have a son and give it to you.
Forget paying you Tuesday for a burger today. Wimpy would straight up murder someone right now for this bed!
Several months ago, Kayla Kromer attended an after hours screening here at the Alamo of a movie called HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE.
While watching that movie, Kayla was hit with inspiration as the dorms at BusterBurger U. didn’t have bunk beds or cots or any of the shitty beds that we were all used to sleeping on in college. Nope. They slept in GIGANTIC HAMBURGERS with cheese as blankets and pickles as pillows. Kayla spent the next two months creating the ultimate in food/comfort and then when it was revelaed, it literally broke the internet. It was front page on DIGG, was featured on 100’s of blogs and in dozens of magazines, the funniest being a US Weekly issue where Jessica Simpson was proclaiming “I’m not fat!” on the cover. It couldn’t have been featured in a better issue.
Kayla has recently had a few personal problems and needs to let go of the bed. Last night she put it up on eBay with a starting bid of 1 cent and as of me writing this it’s already up to over 300 bucks! Want this Hamburger for your bed?! Click on the pic below and plunk down some cash!
This is it…tomorrow is the last day of the Mondo Mega Memorial Day Sale! I hate to see it go, but I am exhausted. It has been a crazy fun couple of days, but we have to stop the sale sometime. We are still going to offer 20% off everything online with the Coupon Code DEALZ, but we’re going to extend a fun promotion to all of our in-store customers. THE FIRST EVER MONDO SLASHER SALE!
WHAT IS A SLASHER SALE?
Well, it all comes from John Landis’ documentary about this guy that goes all over the country and SLASHES prices on cars at used car lots. So basically, anything goes tomorrow. I will be in store until five o’clock making deals left and right. You let me know what you can pay and I’ll let you know if we can accept it. Another thing that was cool in the movie was that the SLASHER gave away a car for free. The identity of the free car wasn’t announced beforehand, but if you went to buy that lucky car, you got it for free! Same thing tomorrow. I’m going to pick out five items in the store tomorrow that are going to be FREE. After they are gone, they’re gone so it makes good shopping sense to get there as early as possible tomorrow! Doors will open at 11:30AM so don’t get caught sleeping in!
If you still haven’t heard, Mondo is having a giant Memorial Day Sale where we are offering 20% off everything online and in-store. We’re also having a big rummage sale in-store with stupid low prices on shirts, hats and who knows what. We basically pulled out everything from the back room and are selling it. I think I even saw Brady Bunch bobble heads at one point during the day. Who knows what you’re going to find up here.
If you thought that the Mystery Poster Tubes were cool yesterday, just wait until you see what I’ve just cooked up for today. The thing is, you’ll never know what’s going on if you don’t follow us on Twitter. Click on this link right now and start following us.
I will be Tweeting sales pretty much all day and you’re going to want to be quick taking advantage of them because they’ll all be good for an hour only. Once they’re done with, they’re done with.
Sales will start at noon today so don’t wait. Get following us now!
UPDATE:These Mystery Tubes went FAST. They’re all gone! Thanks to everyone that bought one. I made sure to put something that I thought was good in every tube. And just so you know, NO…not every tube had a T. Stout poster in it. Even though the mystery tubes are gone, we do have a lot more posters for sale at the shop at 1120 S. Lamar Blvd. We’ve pulled everything out of the back, so come on down and see what you can find.
If you haven’t heard yet, we’re having a GIANT sale online and in the store. We’re giving you 20% off of everything online when you use the coupon code: DEALZ. In store, we’re giving you 20% off of everything as well, plus we’ve brought out all back stock and samples for our RUMMAGE SALE! If you had been following us on Twitter, you’d know that people are already writing about great deals that they’re getting. We have tons of shirts for five bucks, WATCHMEN TPB’s and all kinds of random stuff (Brady Bunch bobble heads?! Really?).
If that wasn’t enough, I decided to make 20 Mystery Poster Tubes. Each tube will have 4 posters of varying sizes and will cost $50 a piece. PLUS, I went through my personal poster collection and pulled out a bunch of RARE, much sought after posters that are LOOOOONG sold out. We’re talking the Tyler Stout THE THING poster, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA posters and the two below….
I know a lot of people have been writing asking if these are going to be released online and the answer is…nope. At least not yet. These are going to be reserved for people coming to the store for the rummage sale. I do love all of our out of town customers though, so I’ll allow phone orders on this stuff. Call 512-476-1739 and we can take your order over the phone. There are some great stuff in these even if you don’t get the chase posters.
