What's up gamers, Russ Lime and here and welcome to another Top 3 Tuesday. Now this episode has been inspired by Gustavo Lopez and he commented, Do a Top 5 Favorite Nicknacks in your collection please. I love the term Nicknacks. Little things you would just display throughout your game room that kind of make it one of a kind in your own. So it would be counting down my Top 3 Obscure Gaming Collectibles and definitely stick around to the end because number one will certainly blow you away. Well number three in the list is certainly the smallest but it has a great backstory to it. Number three. It's this tiny little Mario figure that's climbing a vine. Now I got this toy back in the day when it officially came out. My dad had purchased me this at a store. I'm not sure which store I was at. Could have been a rental store or just Kmart or Caldores or something like that but I remember getting this one, King Hippo and a Princess Peach. I have to find those there. Lost amongst all the other collectibles but this one definitely stands out because Mario has been always a favorite of mine in gaming and it's such a cool little figure him climbing up the vine in Mario 2 basically where you climb all the vines in that level and I certainly enjoy that game a lot. The figure is about the size as in a mebo while you're standing on the vine or one of the Nintendo World and Nintendo figures about the same size as that. So reading on the bottom here it's a little hard to see. It says 1989 Nintendo America on applause and it's made in China. There is some like little residue because I think I put some hot glue or something to stick them on something back in the day but he's definitely held up over the years. Number 2. In coming in at number 2 is this awesome Mario plush figure that I picked up. Now this is officially licensed. This still has the tag on here. Super Mario Bros. 1988 says officially licensed by Nintendo America and the company is ACME. Not like the company that's in Looney Tunes. Different company. But yeah still has it on here officially licensed and all that. I tried to keep it on there. It's a little bit bent up but he's certainly interesting looking like his proportions are like a little bit off and he's almost kind of creepy. Yeah he's very like hard stuff so he's not super soft or plushy but definitely a lot of detail going into it. He's got his overalls there with the iconic buttons, the yellow buttons there. Not much going on the backside. Sorry Mario. But I usually have him up to my right here behind my games kind of creeping out and pairing out but you know he'll look great on the couch as like a pillow with other gaming pillows or just hanging out having them in videos. Certainly cool. Certainly unique and I've only seen smaller ones at game conventions. Not this size before so this is the only one I ever seen of all the game conventions I went out to. And guys well if you know me and you guys are subscribed to my channel then it might be pretty clear what my number one is but it's certainly not in my game room because it won't fit so we gotta go outside. Alright we should just grab this camera and let's go. Alright guys it's a little chilly out if you don't know I live on the east coast over in Connecticut so it's definitely winter coming. Number one. But my number one obscure gaming collectible is my Super Mario car that I drive. It's a full size modded out car that looks like a Super Mario car. Now I got this car back in March last year and I built it all the way up from the ground up making the blue shell that's on the top that's a cargo carrier here so it opens up it has hinges on it so you can open it and I have my spare tire in here some jumper cables it's fiberglass in the fur on the wings is actually furry. It's a little bit dirty obviously because it's outside all the time and the three tone paint scheme is actually all chalkboard paint that I painted the car with. I did a full video painting the car with chalkboard paint and it's pretty cheap way to paint your car. I got tinted both colors and put that on there and we got a custom graphic made by my friend Tom Ryan. It's got Mario and Luigi in 85. 85 for when Nintendo came out and I thought that was a significant year so we made it kind of like a slot car with the big 85 and Luigi's got the big monkey wrench so if he's going to be working on cars he'll be using that. It's pretty cool and then some checkerboard race flags that go up the car and then on the side I have my tags here at Russland and Sion M. Car is the hashtag so when I do post on Instagram or Twitter of the car that's the hashtag that I use. And I have some graphics on the top I have 98 coins I'm at world 63 and there's my scores so when I'm in the driver you'll see Mario right on the top there. And of course we got the custom license plate M-Car for Mario car. Back of the car has a little bit of promotion down here so it has checked me out on my Facebook page and YouTube and everything and my little 8 bit avatar as well as here in case people see the car and they want to take pictures and this cool little sign with blue shell on board from the only one that can actually have that on and it be true. But let's check out the trunk. So this is my speaker box it's a warp pipe speaker sub powered by my thwomp amp painting them to look like a thwomp and of course Mario is going to have a plunger and his monkey wrench there. Did it like the bricks in Mario just clean and simple? The headliner is all checkerboard to go with that race car theme and the fabric I have on the top here is donkey cong. I just got this at Joanne's fabric. And it's a neat little piece to have on the hatch right there. Alright opening up the back you can see inside here. I made these little VIP tables they're called so you can put a little drink in here, hold your any guess, cartridge or switch or something like that. There's a full build video of these on my channel. They're more for show and just look pretty neat and they kind of look like the Mario bricks there and moving into the driver's side right here. I have a full custom interior with the seat covers. Really adds to the interior overall look and you can see my shifter is a babam and I add it the donkey cong fabric as well for the shifter boot. Again I have another little table that I put right here and you can hold your game boy or you put your cell phone in here and whatever else you want. Mainly for show and it just pops right off in case you want to get to the glove box and just drops back in. Ready to go. And one neat feature is my sun visors. They have the NES remotes on them so when you put them down you can see it through the inside of the car. And I do have a sun roof with the fabric here but when I have the shell on you can't see anything so that's the only thing that's things with it. So I just keep it shut for now. So yeah guys it's certainly fun to drive around as car and see all the reactions. I do take it out to show car shows and gaming conventions and we show it off and people love taking pictures and seeing it and it's just great that people enjoy it in the gaming community. It is my daily driver and my only car that I do drive so anywhere I go people take pictures and are wowed by it. So hopefully you guys enjoy seeing the car. If you guys are interested in how I built it again I have a full playlist that will be available in the link in the description. I'm me purchasing this car and getting it to where it is now. But it's kind of cold so let's get back into the studio. Alright guys well hopefully you enjoyed seeing my obscure gaming collectibles. If you guys want to see more pictures of the Sion M car be sure to follow me on social media I post pictures on there regularly and again there will be links to awesome videos of the car and we're just head over to my YouTube channel. And if you guys have any suggestions of future episodes be sure to leave them in the comments section down below and it just may end up on the next top three Tuesday. And as always gamers I'm Russ Lyman and keep your world fun bit by bit. I'll see you next video.