Lindsay Whalen Legacy Collection - University of Minnesota Head Coach

The Lindsay Whalen University of Minnesota Head Coach SGA bobblehead was given away on March 1st 2020.  

Lindsay Whalen Legacy Collection - Minnesota Lynx

The Lindsay Whalen Minnesota Lynx SGA bobblehead was given away on February 22nd 2020.  

Lindsay Whalen Legacy Collection - University of Minnesota

The Lindsay Whalen University of Minnesota SGA bobblehead was given away on February 10th 2020.  

Lindsay Whalen Legacy Collection - Hutchinson High School

The Lindsay Whalen Hutchinson High School SGA bobblehead was given away on February 2nd 2020.  

Lindsay Whalen Legacy Collection

I blogged about this set last summer but needed to set it up again and remember what a bobblehead giveaway actually is like.  The Lindsay Whalen Legacy collection.  These are the last 4 bobbleheads that were part of a giveaway in 2020 before the world flipped upside down.  The Gophers sold a bobblehead mini-plan that featured these 4 bobbleheads and tickets to 4 home games in February and March of 2020.  The next 4 blog posts will feature up close pictures of each one.  

PJ Fleck Golden Gophers Bobblehead

With the Big 10 announcement that football is back in October I thought it was fitting to share this PJ Fleck bobblehead.  This is a custom University of Minnesota Golden Gophers bobble.  Its full size, of course rowing the boat.  I like the detail of this one, sharp yellow jacket with maroon tie, complete with headset.  

  

Neal Broten Golden Gophers Bobblehead

 This had been towards the top of my want list for some time.  I always have said the hunt is whats addicting.  The more you hunt, the more you find (crazy, right)!  Having 2 little girls means I'm hunting less and less but try to find new avenues of how to hunt.  And then sometimes they just come to you.  I was able to buy this one from a fellow collector and a very reasonable price.  

As is typical, the more you hunt, the more you strike out too.  But at this point, striking out is irrelevent.  But completely worth it when you find something you've wanted for a while!  From pictures, I knew this one was pretty detailed, but seriously, the detail is amazing!!  

Lindsay Whalen Set

 Lindsay Whalen is one of Minnesota's most beloved hometown heroes!  The University of Minnesota captured her throughout her years from high school to now.  This was a giveaway set last winter, not many were produced and even less people knew about it.  Definitely a hard set to come by as I haven't seen many of them.  

The set features Whalen wearing her hometown Hutchinson jersey, her Gophers jersey, her Lynx jersey and then her as the coach of the Gophers Women's basketball team!  Definitely a nice set, good detail, well made and of course has the state outline as the base!  

New Add - Goldy Graduate

Obviously I love Goldy bobbleheads...I went to school at the University of Minnesota and a Goldy bobblehead was what started this crazy passion/obsession.  One of the latest to be produced is a Goldy Graduate bobble.  Great detail on this one and the cap/gown and base "M" make it really cool! 

New Goldy Bobblehead

The fine people at the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame are producing the newest Goldy Gopher Bobblehead!  I can't wait to add this one to my collection.  Most readers know I'm not a huge fan of Forever Collectible bobbles (I just like other looks better) but this will be an FC bobblehead.  They'll ship later this summer and of course Goldy is in a boat.  Ever since PJ Fleck was announced as the Gopher football coach, RTB (Row the Boat) has been everywhere.  It's always, Row the Boat, Ski-U-Mah.  And I love it.

PJ Fleck Mini Bobblehead

Row the Boat.  Ski U Mah.  PJ Fleck.  He's the new head coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team.  So many people look at Fleck as a second version of Tim Brewster.  Fortunately for us Gopher fans, Fleck has actually been a successful head coach before.  Other than the enthusiasm, I don't think there is much of a comparison.  This a mini bobblehead, of course in a boat.  It's pretty sweet!

Another Goldy Bobblehead!

I've been looking for this Goldy for a while.  I've seen it, but never for a price I was comfortable paying.  I'm not sure how rare it is, but it certainly isn't very valuable.  I'm not sure what happened with this bobble, its exactly the same as the Rainbow Foods basketball Goldy, except there is no plaque.  It also doesn't look like the plaque was removed as the paint certainly matches with the rest of the base.  I've also seen several of them, so it kinda tells me there is a story behind this one, and I'd love to know what that story is!

Jeff Frazee Bobblehead

Here's a recent new addition of mine.  Jeff Frazee played at the University of Minnesota and grew up in Burnsville.  After his Gopher career, he played mostly for the Lowell Devils, minor league affiliate of the New Jersey Devils.  Frazee has had 2 giveaway bobbleheads - both by Lowell.

Updated Want List - Part 5 (Football Bobbleheads)

Next up focuses on a few football related bobbleheads I'd love to add to my collection.  None of these will be easy to find...actually its very unlikely I find any of them, but that's what makes collecting so fun, right?  The hunt is on...

Fran Tarkenton is first, this is an extremely rare bobblehead as he's wearing a white jersey instead of a purple one.  I believe there are only 10 of these in existence.  

Up next is a rare Vikings generic bobblehead from SAMs.

Lastly, another Holy Grail for me, Bobby Bell University of Minnesota Graduate bobblehead!

Updated Want List - Part 4 (Hockey Bobbleheads)

In part 4 of my Updated Want List, I'm focusing on a couple of hockey bobbleheads I'd like to find and add to my collection.  I'm sure there are a few other ones out there, but these 3 are my top 3 at the moment.  Ya know, until I see something else that I haven't seen before!

My Holy Grail and all Gopher collector's Holy Grail, Neal Broten!

Next up is a mini Nino Niederreiter bobblehead from his minor league career.  

Lastly, another minor league bobblehead of current Wild Defenseman, Ryan Suter.

My Second Custom Bobblehead - Glen Perkins

Several months ago I blogged about my first custom bobblehead.  I learned several little tricks while doing my Mauer custom bobblehead.  At the time I had ideas of specific customs I wanted to try. Even tho I still have those ideas, a couple other ones jumped to the front of the line.

Everyone knows my passion for Gopher Sports.  Being a U of MN Alum...maroon and gold always get my attention. I blogged about this specific bobblehead back in 2014...the final SGA bobblehead the Twins did that season, Glen Perkins.  After doing the Mauer bobblehead, I kept looking at the Perkins bobblehead, but his arms in front of his stomach caused a huge problem as I figured it'd be extremely messy when trying to paint around/under/over and in between that area of the bobblehead. Luck would have it...I received a broken bobblehead I bought from eBay...the arm was out of socket, but easily glued back into place and it looks just like new.  I found a couple extra Perkins bobbleheads and about a month ago started the process.  The first part - breaking his arms from the sockets they are glued in.  Once I did that cleanly (enough) the customizing was on.  See a side by side look of Glen Perkins, his SGA bobblehead and Perkins in his Twins uniform with his Alma mater's colors - Maroon and Gold.

Gopher Hockey Bobbleheads - Memory Company Versions

I think this will be my last post for Gopher bobbleheads for a little bit.  I've added several others to my collection and want to get those posted soon!  These are 2 versions of Gopher hockey bobbleheads that the Memory Company did in the mid-2000s.  As you've seen the posts...Gopher hockey bobbleheads are pretty popular!

U of MN Bobbles - Whalen & McCarville

Since I was doing a Goldy mini series, I figured I'd add a couple more bobbleheads related to the Gophers and the University of Minnesota.  I believe these were either given away or sold at Gopher women's basketball games.  Obviously 2 of the biggest stars to come thru the U.  Janel McCarville and Lindsay Whalen.  I find it quite odd that Lindsay is taller than Janel when comparing the bobbles, since she's definitely shorter than Janel in real life.  Still - 2 awesome bobbleheads.

Goldy Bobbleheads - Gymnastics

One last Goldy related bobblehead.  This is probably one of the hardest to find and expect to pay big bucks for it when you do find it.  It's the Goldy Gymnastics version.  These were given out at meets in 2003 celebrating 100 years of U of MN Gymnastics.  Quite the bobble.

Goldy Bobbleheads - 2 more Gold Country Versions

Here are the other 2 bobbleheads from Gold Country.  I took this pictures from the web as mine are in storage right now.  Pretty obvious that these are football and basketball.  They are both pretty rare. I'm still hoping to find out more about the story behind these bobbles!