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.  

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 Addition - PJ Fleck Gopher Bobblehead

PJ Fleck...in Gopher Maroon & Gold?  Yes please!  It's a mini version, but incredibly awesome.  Ski-U-Mah, Row the Boat, Minnesota Gophers, all the tag lines and again an Elite bobblehead!

New Addition - Coach PJ Fleck Bobblehead

Gopher football coach, PJ Fleck, has a couple bobbleheads.  Below is a full size, extremely hard to find bobble that was givenaway when he was at Western Michigan, of course its a "Row the Boat" bobblehead!  The size and weight of this bobble is amazing and the detail shouldn't be questioned either.  Such an Elite bobblehead!

Gopher Alumni Eric Decker Bobblehead

A few years ago the St. Cloud Rox (of the Northwoods League) gave away an Eric Decker bobblehead, of course Decker was "decked" out (see what I did there?) in Gopher colors.  Wanted to blog about this one since its football season and the Gophers are 2-0.  I'll have another Gopher related bobblehead up next!

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.

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.