Let's Chat: Play Along Toys Eomer on Horseback

Here we have Eomer on Horseback from Play Along Toys Warriors and Battle Beasts series (2003). 

Here's one thing I noticed about Chat GPT. If you're familiar with Photoshop's ability to create a .PNG image where the central subject is saved as an image while the remainder is cut out and made transparent, then you know it can be a dicey affair at best. Granted, I have an older version but the ability to make .PNG images is very, very sketchy and often times ends in failure. Chat GPT doesn't appear to have that issue. No matter what I've thrown its way, the program has been able to surgically slice around every angle, and into every nook-&-cranny and save and utilize the core image all the while building backgrounds and textures based on my prompts. I like!

Ed

Let's Chat:Play Along Toys Sauron Before the Black Gate

Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy has been playing a lot lately and I started watching it again yesterday. I couldn't last through all three movies though before falling asleep LOL. Oh well. Here's a nice chat of Play Along Toys Soldiers and Scenes series, Fires of Mount Doom selection.

Ed

The prompt was simply to place Sauron in front of the black gate of Mordor.

Let's Chat: Play Along Toys Gothmog on Warg

To the best of my knowledge, the free version of Chat GPT doesn't allow you use and edit multiple images in a single chat. so if I want to portray a bunch of my figures in one image (like the multiple Dark Riders on horseback that I have), I'm gonna have to take them out of the tote bins, set them up and photograph them as a group shot, then load that one photo into Chat GPT and generate the image I want. At the moment I'm not prepared to go through all of that sooo, I'll be content to take whatever I already have and work with that.

This Gothmog on Warg figure is from Play Along Toys AOME Warriors and Battle Beasts series. Play Along did such an awesome job on these and their line of LOTR figures and scenes really was impressive but it was finite and left us collector's wanting for more. Now, I'm just anxious and curious to see what my 20+ year old photos look like with a bit of rendering using the latest in photo editing software.

Ed

FOUND PHOTOS: Sabertooth Games Combat Hex Sauron

Yet another round of found photos. Apparently, these photos were taken for fleaBay prior to selling this in 2016. I don't really have any seller's remorse with this one as I already had the terrific Play Along Toys version of Sauron.

Ed

Adventures in Chat GPT - Play Along Toys Gandalf The White On Shadowfax

I will probably post a few more pics under the "Adventures in Chat GPT" title and then probably integrate the images I have into other posts - we shall see. But I am enjoying the heck out of seeing what it can do with my LOTR and military figures.

The basis for this image was a photo I took (and blogged back in 2011) of Gandalf the White on Shadowfax. This was part of Play Along Toys AOME Warriors and Battle Beasts series.

Ed

The prompt was: remove the base and stem from the horse figure. Place figures atop a hill with the sunrise in the background

FOUND PHOTOS: Burger King Gandalf Glass (2001)

I found yet another set of LOTR-related photos. These were taken in 2016 and I just never got around to posting them. I posted photos of Burger King's Frodo glass back in January 2016 and took these Gandalf glass photos on the same day, yet the Frodo glass got posted and these didn't - go figure. Burger King also made Arwen and Strider glasses but I never got around to buying those.

Ed

From 2001 when these glasses were sold, until 2016 when these photos were taken, the batteries still had a charge in them although it is a bit hard to see.

FOUND PHOTOS! New Line Cinema: The Two Towers DVD Set with Gollum Statuette

I was perusing my old photos to come up with some more Chat GPT candidates when coming across this set of pics from 2016. Most of the photos still needed editing and in the files were .PDFs for a packing slip and sales receipt, so it appears as if I took all the photos, used a couple for fleaBay, and sold this off. Damn! Now I've got seller's remorse! 😂

Ed