The Nickel Guy

Yes, I know I'm a half bubble off but I'm having fun. So I have been saving up caps for my insulin shots as I thought these would make good pedestals for marbles. Sort of a golf ball / tee situation. They are shown here in a planned rough formation on my newly made wood and painted bleachers type shelf. I plan to make a more accurately measured dot under each one and drill with a same diameter drill bit and put them in place. Maybe I'll glue them in and give the whole layout a spray paint job yet. Finished photos coming soon. Here's what this looks like now. ( 2 pictures ) It is maybe 22 inches wide and 10 inches deep with 4 levels.

My Vacor 1 inchers that are mostly from Mega Marble assorted bags and posing on the Lego stage. 1 Sky, 1 Blue Jay, 2 Polar Bear, 1 Commando, 1 Liberty 1 Orca, 2 Mysterious Girls, 1 Supernova, 1 Flamingo, 1 Bumblebee, 1 Centipede 1 Raven, 1 Hippo, 1 Cats Eye, 1 Orangutan, 1 Thunderbolt 1 Sea Turtle, 1 Raven, 1 Troll (Has odd red spots too) 2 Monets, 3 Sea Turtles 4 Neptunes

My marbles showed up today. Ended up with 3 sets of 33, that's 29 player and 4 boulders in the Frosted Old Fashion. Blue 5/8 size was disappointing as there were only 5 in the bag of 87 red yellow green and blue. Luckily I got a half dozen blue boulders but sadly no yellow. Oh well, I am so OCD. I expect too much of an even distribution. Thank goodness it came out to three sets of 33 Mibs. Then the Butterfly Cobbles are truly a nice looking marble. I have 2 sets of 12. The Van Gogh Cobbles are very nice too. 2 sets of them as well.

I step on dog treats and chewy sticks. Gotta wear army boots to be safe around my house since the kids are gone.

Those 2x4's under your marbles look to be the scale I used. I am judging that by the looks of the marble size. They look to be 5/8th mibs.

There are some truly awesome specimens here. Holy smokes! 😮 So colorful Melissa

I have seen a lot of marble collection pictures where some dice sneak in and photobomb every now and then. ( Jacks and rubber balls too ) and I just wanted to post my tiny teeny red pair, my civil war era carved bone dice, which are somewhat square but very small, some old yellowed regular sized and red Lucite ones. A big colored dot clear die and then I inherited my Dads "Liar Dice" beer mug that I remember them using at home parties when I was a kid. I was so fascinated with that mug. I also got a slug of beer once in awhile too!

That wouldn't surprise me Tommy. Thanks!

Thanks Fellers!

I had these set aside for picture day and today was the day. Two on the right are 1 inch and three on the left are about 7/8 or 15/16 The first one is a played with Vitro Tiger Eye, the second one looks to have a few specks of aventurine in the green but who made it? The third, I am guessing is a Vitro. The two on the right look to me to be Marble King, the yellow green and blue is definately a Tri-color Rainbow and very nice. The other one, brown and blue I'm not sure what it is. Thanks for looking! 1 inchers

I did download that last night and it was not very user friendly. Then I uninstalled. Oh I'm sure I could have tackled it in time but I won't be using it. My brain already works like that. 🤪

Thank you very much for your thoughts and for taking the time to type them up here. I will get to the bottom of this. When I do I will explain it here of what I have learned on the different size baseplates and blocks that only work together with their own kind.

Oh thank you very much, I'm lookin now. LATE EDIT: The only thing that drives me nuts is that I can't figure out what size bricks go on a larger baseplate; The small ones I have used, maybe 1.25 inches long, to make my bleachers type display shown above fit on small pegs on a 64x64 peg square which is probably only 10 inches x 10 inches. The big baseplate I have but want bricks for is probably about 13.75 x 16.25 inches but is only 22 peg by 26 pegs so I think I want bricks that are about twice those I used in scale and maybe 2.5 inches long? I remember stepping on much larger Lego blocks when there were a lot of kids around many years ago. 😬 I think some of those cuss words still can be faintly heard orbiting this planet every couple years. What are the bigger ones called besides just bricks?

Wow Meow!

I'm pacing the floor waiting, marbles on the way. I really think that the Butterfly issue is one of the nicest color combination and patterns of the newer Mega Marbles. I don't think it is a renamed issue from earlier ones. They are hard to find so I bought 24 7/8th size cobbles from Moon Marble. They aren't here yet but I am glad they're coming. I also think that the Van Gogh Blue base and Yellow curvy patches are a nice pattern too. So I have 24 of those on the way as well in 7/8th. These look very much like Angelfish to me but somehow having a slightly different swirl. My bag With my empty net bags I have accumulated of assorted lots, I am going to reuse those and make up lots of Frosted Old Fashioned. I will be getting 80 to 90 5/8th loose ones and 12 1 inch boulders. I suppose I could make up 4 bags of these having a bunch of small ones and some big ones. I have never seen one in hand but when I see them something tells me I am going to like them and having about 100 of them coming, I am sure to pick out a nice bag just for me and maybe trade off the rest. Who knows? I'll update here when they show up. Not my marbles above Credit due: I made this little collage, cropped and combined from images off Moon Marble.

Yes, I need a couple lighted tall curio cabinets like that. ( And the space to put them in ) lol Very very cool! Nice and neat. Excellent! I made the WOW for ya.

Don't know much about razors except I'm glad for my electric one and my occasional close shave with the disposable blue ones. Imagine shaving with those. Nice marbles. Great deal. I haven't been to any kind of show for years. I always spend a lot more than I planned to or am so tight I regret later not buying something.

Rather than quote myself (lol), I have named the 6 gray with blue and white swirls "Asian Elephant Hybrids" as I have added 4 more since that picture was taken. I don't find any marbles that look like those even with google image search except my own picture. The second image, the white brushed patches, those clear base non iridescent ones are in a bag named simply "White brushed patches" with all my sorted Megas.. I got more of them in a assorted Hobby Lobby bag the other day too. Maybe Mega Marbles ended up with a bunch of white patched clearies that were unintentional but acceptable mibs and toss some in these assorted bags as "fillers". They are nice but not very exciting.

stonehenge4242 I remember Ron Sheperd mentioned that seam on the backside of the cello was a good sign for vintage in one of those Stephen Bahr youtubes. Very early in this video. Nice bags!

I think it is Alley because of the pointy ends of the swirls and the other side is kind of blank with a small colored clip.

I don't think it's Jabo. I lean toward Pelt too.

Goes with the fingernails nicely Melissa.

stonehenge4242 was very kind to me this and I got a box of 29 marbles in the mail today. Mostly Mega Marbles and I suspect I have half a dozen cool Jabo's in this mix. 6 Big boulders. More than a few of these I do not have for sure! Isn't that nice? Whadda guy! Thanks. Big 1 inch Raven Big 1 inch Liberty The other Biggins' Liberty, and a black based boulder with white and brown swirls. (I can't find another like it but it might be a Raven too, just an odd swirl color other than yellow, it looks more brown) Raven, Bumblebee, Hippo and Flamingo 2 Trolls, 2 Firefighters, Serpent and Scorpion 2016 Parrot, 6 Jabos, 1 Jabo, 2 Bengal Tigers & 1 Davinci Banana Swirl, 2 fancy Jabos Went in with Old Fashioned swirls, Rooster and Wicked Owl and this owl is wicked sick, I just get a good pic yet. Awesome breed. He was hoping for a display on the Lego Stage so here we go. Click for bigger!

I think I might try to make up a bag of 24 plus 1 of these mysterious mibs from Hobby Lobby bags. I'll name them myself LOL!

Thanks, came from asst bags for 2023 or 2024 with the round yellow tag. No blue on either elephants I know of.