#when I'm bored I place the Myers figure on my horror-hating coworker's desk just to see her reaction

[glassprism]

Do you have any new/different opinions on the restaged tour looking back on it now to when you were able to see it? I find my opinions change more on things I've seen in person than boots so was wondering if you had anything similar! Also, what are you currently doing in your free time? I'd love to see any new /different collection you have

For the restaged tour, not really? It was pretty much what I expected, and I didn’t find my opinion increasing or decreasing noticeably. I did see some things I had not seen in bootlegs, but overall, my opinion remained unchanged. I think it changed more once the tour actually closed; again, not drastically, but I did have a sort of wistful, “well, they tried something new, I guess” kind of feeling. I didn’t like much of the actual ideas they had... or their execution of it for that matter... but hey, A for effort?

Weirdly, it was seeing another show live that did change my opinion a bit: Love Never Dies, when I went to see the national tour live. I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would, which I chalk up to three things: 1) the magic of my first live experience glossing over a lot of flaws, 2) a very high-energy cast, and 3) my very lowered expectations. I mean, I still think much of the themes and plot and characters of LND are terrible, but the experience was fun. And I think my more ambivalent feelings even after watching the restaged tour live can be explained by the fact that: 1) it was my first live Phantom experience but not my live show ever, so some of the magic had worn off, 2) my cast was a little less energetic (and I got the understudy Christine on her first day), and 3) I’d just watched a bootleg of a very good production and cast the day before and boy did the restaged tour compare unfavorably to it. So yeah, maybe not with Phantom, but with LND, seeing it live improved it a fair bit.

Anyway... I actually don’t have a lot of free time at all now! The school I work at does summer school, and they’ve re-opened offices for teachers (though not students), so I’ve been back at work for a month now. (Which may have been noticeable, as my posts and questions to asks are now all coming in a mass wave at a certain time, rather than the more gradual flow that was the norm when I was at home.)

As for collections, nothing much new, though I did finish my collection of Batman Cubeecraft (almost all of them downloaded from this guy - go check out what he’s made!), and they’re now set up in my office, so it looks different from the photo below. I tell anyone who comes by that they serve as my barrier to keep students six feet away from me:

Added a couple of Funko Pops over on the right (the Cersei Lannister one, so now my three favorite characters from ASOIAF/GoT are all accounted for, and also the Lisa Simpson one hiding in the back):

And my pride and joy, a new Michael Myers figure, from the Rob Zombie remake of Halloween; the left is what I have him as my file cabinet, but I took a picture of him with the more iconic mask just to be more recognizable, and placed him next to his Funko Pop counterpart for fun: