P0LYBIUS
welcome back, and i'm glad you like it! i remember black tonfa being the huge mystery when i first joined the site back in 08 (around the time that snakes on an avatar was just starting to fall out of the spotlight) and desperately digging around tektek to find what else i missed... you can imagine how disappointed i was when i found out that the extra poses on celebrity date were faked
emotion_facepalm
as for the grombie skin,
shockingly enough they did!... but you can only get it with wing stickers, which only drop from events. the potion for it costs a pretty penny if you can find listings for it on mp, but you get to pick which phase you want. the only other option for a grombie skin is a usermade remake that they did for phase 4, where the grunny layers under hairs and the mouth has been removed to allow for facemods (again, super expensive if you can ever find listings for it)

Oh man, thanks so much for all the info! Damn... I had like 40 wing stickers saved up, but didn't realize those potions were the Grombie skins, and spent them on other crap...
rofl
crying I'll have to grab the stage 2 eventually.
I'm gonna go look at snakes on an avatar, because for some reason I don't remember that one! The tonfa's a classic, though. I swear that and the contact lenses were on EVERY '03/'04er's wish lists, once wish lists were a thing. It was always weird to me that they didn't just release the tonfa in the shops back when they released held items. We got books, mugs, canes - but no tonfa?!
RIGHT? TekTek got me with that one, too.
rofl (Also, Ron Bruise's thread spam was a classic moment in Gaia history. Do you know if anybody has screen caps of those posts?)