New Buffy figure?

Sideshow has released this sneak peak of a new collectible.

It does look like she's holding a stake, doesn't it? So hopefully it's Buffy.

You can speculate here, on sideshow's own forum.

I hope it's a statue, with a creative base and amazing likeness. Even tough my wallet is pretty empty...

Time & Space Toys - 75 % off Buffy and Angel items.

Time & Space Toys have a discount on the Angel & Buffy items they have left.

Read more here.

Weekly feature: Excerpt from original script

From the episode Benediction.

The following exchange was cut after Lorne suggested that maybe they should be wearing lead when using Fred's radioactivity device.

CORDELIA: Good point. Fred, how worried should we be about contamination?

FRED: I wouldn't be. I mean, not now. Not after we've been sucking this stuff up all day.

GUNN: Nice.

Top 5 list

Top 5 Buffy/Angel Episodes To Watch When You Need To Take Your Mind Of Things.

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So I just found out that my cat died. So to take my mind of things, I'm making a Buffy list, something that usually entertains me.

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Nr 5.

Him, Buffy Season 7.

It's a silly and funny episode, but it has enough character development for me to be able to focus on the fictional character's lives and problems, instead of mine.

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Spin The Bottle, Angel season 4.

As long as I go "la-la-la, Jasmine's not going to possess/is not possessing Cordelia, lalala, I can't hear you" over the Angel/Cordy bits, I have several good laughs.

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Life of the party, Angel season 5.

Very funny and light. It has it's depressing spots, but seeing everyone doing Lorne's bidding is pretty fun to watch.

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Over the rainbow/ Through the looking glass/ No place like plrtz glrb, Angel season 2.

I pick all these episodes because a) I have a hard time choosing, b) they all follow each other, not even seconds pass between, so they're kinda the same(I didn't put Belonging up there tough, even tough it was right before Over the rainbow, because it's not as light as the others).

These episodes are funny and light, and considering what will happen in season 3, with all the badness, I like watching these episodes, because they make me smile, and it's the last time I really feel like I'm watching a family on-screen, not a detective agency, filled with internal problems(okay, there was that time in Waiting in the wings when they were still all liking each other, but since that episodes ended with broken hearts...).

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Something blue, Buffy season 4.

I'm not really a Spuffy-fan(but I'm getting used to the idea of them not being completely horrible together) but seeing them "in love" like that was hilarious.

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That's it folks. These aren't the funniest episodes, although all of them are on my top list of funniest episodes, I just wanted to make a list showing which episodes I'm likely to watch pretty soon. I need Buffy & Angel right now.

Update: Collectibles

I made a blog post over at the SlayAlive blog that contains recent updates for Buffy collectibles.

For example the Georges Jeanty sketch book vol 3 that will be for sale here and at DragonCon tomorrow.

Check it out.

MY THOUGHTS: Time for PR

This is the cover for the Retreat arc (issue 26-30 of Season 8). Hard to see who's who, but my guess is Giles, Oz, Kennedy, Buffy, Satsu, Faith and Xander. And Twilight turning away in the background(pissed off at what Buffy's about to do?)

Buffy has her hands up, and she's walking forward, like she's surrendering. Or maybe showing that she's no threat?

I've thought since issue 21, when Harmony outed vampires to the public, that Buffy needs to do some damage control before people start grabbing pitchforks and torches. We don't want people grabbing any girl who might or might not be a slayer and burn them on stakes, witch-hunting style(which reminds me of a story from the Tales of the slayers, where a slayer gets burned by the people she just saved).

I'm not saying everyone believes that vampires exist because some blonde bimbo says so on TV, fangs or no fangs(people might just think that's a special effect). But the Tales of the vampires one shot that was released this year and a few other lines from Season 8 implies that enough people believe that vampires exist and that slayers are bad, which means that Buffy needs to get her story out there.

Tell them about The Council(not too much, then people might get scared of their power to manipulate society, like they showed they could do in Checkpoint, where they threatened to deport Giles) and how they've been killing vampires for centuries, saving people, and tell them to go check corpses in the morgues.

Does anyone bodies have weird neck-wounds? Any police reports about stranger crazy people trying to bite people who walk home late at night?

Some PR from Buffy's side would be good. Of course, the public is unpredictable. Maybe they like Harmony too much. Maybe the WW2 is still too fresh in people's memories, and people are afraid to judge vampires just because they're different, so they're willing to sympathize with these "poor misunderstood creatures" and dislike this "racist" organization that's out for dust.

EDIT- Better version of the cover

Another freaking amazing 12" custom by Willowswarlok!!!!

I wish I was rich. Or at least able to save money. Then I could afford a one-of-a-kind custom by Willowswarlok, like the one below.

So I need about £250. Or for a smaller 6" custom, about £90.

Does anyone need a kidney?

Click here for more photos and see how it was made.

(The little bitty 6" Chosen Buffy next to the custom is there for size comparison )