I am sitting here this afternoon, frantically photographing and scanning new items, so I can log them into my collection, and onto my personal photo catalogue  (more to the point, off the floor, out of the way of our new dog, Felix, who seems to be everywhere, all at once). 

Do I already have this one? Where the heck did that one come from? Darn!  This one's too big for the scanner.

It just idly occurs to me, by way of the Danbury Mint Plate Calendar, what a huge undertaking this whole thing was.

Twelve plates, one interchangeable plate for each month. A couple of month have only one character on them, but most have three, four, half a dozen. No character appears on a plate twice.  And all were integral to the story.

Have mercy!!!!  I don't know why this particular thing brought it home to me, but it did!

I'll post photos of it later on. You know, for a company that normally does shockingly hideous schlock, I have to confess, I rather like some of their LOTR releases, especially this calendar plate set.