Looking forward to seeing you again ProfStokes, no Disneyland for me, not enough energy for that and the festival. Besides, I wouldn't want to go there unless my daughter was with me. She'll be here, going to school. See you at the fest!  

I would like to be buried with my favorite blanket draped over me. It is luxurious king size, with a red and black pattern on both sides, of a oriental tea house, garden, and mountains. Someone put it over me 5 and a half years ago, after my family and I were in a near fatal car accident. We went off the highway at a speed of 70 MPH, rolled over 4 times, and I was ejected from the car. While lying unconscious with broken bones, and bleeding internally, somebody placed the blanket on me until a helicopter with paramedics arrived, and I ended up with it. I love it, it's so cozy.  

That's how I started going to the Dark Shadows Festival, when it was 10 minutes away from where I lived at the time here in Las Vegas in 1998. I remember being in the autograph line until after midnight on the first day, like 3 hours. I was wearing 2 inch heels and I was ready to take off my shoes or sit down on the floor. My Mom was with me. These 2 nice gentlemen brought us chairs to sit on and they even moved them for us when it was time to get up. I'll never forget that! I fit in breaks for meals, the dealers' room, etc. when I see something on the schedule that doesn't particularly interest me, a hard choice, most everything does. I hope to meet you this time Midnite, don't know how I missed you at the Night Of Dark Shadows 30th Anniversary screening last October in CA.  

I also have both versions of the Barnabas Collins Game with the 2 different coffin lids. The one with the Old English letters is much nicer, it also has bats on both sides of the word coffin, the other does not. It's more detailed. Joe, since your game has the fangs, I don't think it would reduce the value of the game significantly. The fangs are hard to come by. The other 2 things are not.  

I have the Barnabas Collins Game, Dark Shadows Game, both jigsaw puzzles, and the Vampire Van. The fangs in the Barnabas Collins game are the upper teeth only.

No complaints about my daughter, she's a great kid! The only time she gets a little wild is when she's with her dad's grandson who is close to her age, they're like brother and sister. We lost our second child, which would have been his age, so it works out great that he lives nearby. Otherwise, I end up spending most of my time with her when she's not in school. Parents are not as fun to play with.  

Bob, just a Coke for me. I'm the fuddy duddy here, I don't drink alcohol.  

What about his blindness?  ?!?

When I ordered my MPI tapes, I ordered both the Collector's Series and the Original Series all at once, that's about 200 tapes. It took a couple of weeks to get them all. They came in separate shipments. It's great to have those tapes!