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Apollo Creed USB key

2009-07-12T18:14:00.002-04:00

He was the Master of Disaster, The King of Sting, the Dancing Destroyer, and the Counter of Monte Fisto... and now Appollo Creed will store your data....but sticking his crotch into your USB port...http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/YOYA743Let it now be said that the Japanese haven't already thought of every DAMN thing.But somehow I find this very easy to swallow after Carl Weathers rousing appearance

Imperial Guard Valkyrie 3

2009-07-05T22:37:00.003-04:00

Easily the most irritating assembly of every vehicle kit I've ever built in my life, is the cockpit. You reach a point where everything is down to an art-form and a science. But every kit throws a little something different at you. The Valkyrie is no different.As with many cockpit assemblies, the Valkyrie uses the usual "fake legs" pilot figures. These pilots have no feet. They're just torsos

Imperial Guard Valkyrie 2

2009-06-27T21:58:00.003-04:00

The main fuselage is nearly completed. The next page of the manual features the typical layouts found in a Citadel Miniatures booklet: a small blow-up box showing what needs to be assembled multiple times and then set aside.Irritatingly, it describes a pair of turbine assemblies that do not have any supporting tabs holding their halves together. Only on the following page you will see that as you

Imperial Guard Valkyrie 1

2009-06-22T23:34:00.005-04:00

I know, I didn't get around to posting my final finished Stormlord. I will, I promise! But I'm just so excited to finally get my hands on the new Imperial Guard Valkyrie kit. Not because I play IG, but simply because I think the IG faction of Warhammer 40k have the coolest looking mechanical designs. They look grounded in real Earth technology but at the same time, taken to extreme

Nanoha ...ready for summer!

2009-06-19T18:25:00.005-04:00

Just in time for the official announcement (and release of the prototype photos) for the her best friend Fate T Harlaown, I spent my OT pay on the quarter scale (but full-scale *kawaii*) Nanoha Takamachi. At first I was taken aback by the size of the box delivered to my local post-office pick-up.Turns out the seller was just being extra generous with the packing. Quarter scale figures are pretty

IGN Video: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Xbox 360 Trailer - Battle Trailer

2009-06-09T17:38:00.001-04:00

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Luigi Snaps

2009-06-06T10:20:00.003-04:00

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Reaction: PK Cards

2009-06-05T23:12:00.002-04:00

Finally finished playing our first game of PK Cards The Broken Seal. It took us about 3 hours of play time. Part of me blames the fact it's our first game. First-time games are always like that: you are unfamiliar with the game mechanics. You second guess every rule because you wonder if you read it and understood the rules right. You debate with your equally bewildered opponent whether you both

A look at the Storm Arachns

2009-05-24T19:13:00.005-04:00

I have no idea what these are, but they look suitably nasty. I'm guessing that much like the time I picked up a Nina Zero/Babylon Zero, the rules governing these playing pieces will be in the Operation: Frostbite expansion that's currently in the mail (at least, yes, it has the O:F logo on the back this box).All I've gathered is that this from the latest product "wave" in the line. One thing I

Stormlord 4

2009-05-20T19:10:00.006-04:00

Here's a follow-up to the drilling work I mentioned... Thankfully, I've learned that less glue is better for 2 reasons: First it'll dry faster and cleaner, second it's easier to snap off mistakes. Here's the post-operation heavy bolter before I glued it back on.And to be honest, there's nothing else particularly interesting about this build because the rest is the final "turret" assembly. And as

Stormlord 3

2009-05-19T21:53:00.003-04:00

Something I forgot to mention in my last post...Here my super-heavy tank is coming together. But when you reach this point, you have emptied at least a couple of Baneblade sprues already. Except for one piece.On the port side rear panel, there is a tiny little exhaust bit that is a separate piece! See the two towing hooks? The one on the left - take a close look right to the left of that. That

Stormlord 2

2009-05-16T11:04:00.003-04:00

I haven't blogged most of the chassis assembly because it's essentially a Baneblade body. But now I'm starting to encounter the new stuff in this edition of the Imperial Guard super-heavy tank.In this photo, I want to introduce the heavy flamer sponson. I can't recall if the Baneblade kit had this option (it probably did). It's a tighter fit than the heavy bolter because there are more bitz

Incomplete Support Sites

2009-05-15T15:50:00.001-04:00

You wanna know what grinds my gears? An incomplete web-site that covers "most" situations but won't necessarily cover YOUR situation. When I got back from Montreal last weekend I was both pleased and disappointed with my latest Monster booster box for Monsterpocalypse. I was happy to find the Terra Khan figures. Not that they're hard to find, but it would end up being a good gift for my

photo dump

2009-05-13T22:20:00.004-04:00

Here are some goodies that arrived straight from Japan in the mail today.This FREEing 1/4 scale figure is new old stock. Emiri Kimidori was a little known supporting character who showed up briefly in an episode of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi. Not much to say other than, I'm glad to finally own one of these after waiting for (and giving up on) my local store to get it in stock for 6 months.

Stormlord 1

2009-05-11T22:40:00.003-04:00

Here comes another build series. This time I'm tackling the recent Stormlord kit. Here is what it looks like "out of the box."Take a good look with me because this is the last time we'll see all those sprues fitting so neatly in there. (How do they get them arranged like that?).But let me jump to something that's been bugging me ever since I attempted to build the Baneblade kit (it's the same

Big towel

2009-05-07T20:59:00.002-04:00

At first I just thought, well, if I was going to dry myself, I may as well do it in style and as a member of Team Gurren Lagann... and $25 was a pittance for the honour (or the goofiness of having yet another ridiculous piece of merchandising in my house... did I ever blog about my dakimakura?Anyway, nothing prepared me for when I finally pulled this towel out of its sleeve and unfolded it. It's

How not to foster foreign relations

2009-05-05T17:55:00.003-04:00

Does anybody remember that scene in Top Gun when Tom Cruise gives the Russian pilot the middle finger but later refers to the action as "keeping up foreign relations?"I got served a cease-and-desist in my inbox today for a property that hasn't been licensed in my country (or anywhere outside Japan as far as I can tell). My ISP received a C&D through BayTSP - a copyright enforcement agency working

New minis in the mail

2009-05-04T16:58:00.003-04:00

As is typical of the USPS, here is the tracking screen for the eBay auction I mentioned earlier today:And here is the eBay auction on my dining room table:The S-type Shinobi (the guy in a jumping pose) on the back right and the Shadow Gate on the front right are not part of the auction, I just put them there because I happen to have them in my collection. I can't wait to try playing with some

Things in the mail

2009-05-04T09:12:00.002-04:00

If a penny saved is a penny lost… here is an updated list of pending items. 1) After filing my taxes, I happened on an old link to HLJ where a Transformers sale is still on. I ordered the Music Label Soundwave. Sure, it's a crappy MP3 player, but… it's Soundwave - one of the select few Decepticons to appear in both Family Guy and Robot Chicken! He is

How Bant Broke Magic

2009-05-03T22:17:00.002-04:00

I didn't want to write and post this opinion earlier because I thought it would sound a little too whiny. But after last night's experience, I have had second thoughts.When Weirdguy came into my office a mere 4 months ago to show off a stack of used Magic: The Gathering he scored for a few dollars, I had no idea that my suggestion to play together would culminate in a tounament of almost 10

Reaction: Monsterpocalypse

2009-04-26T20:36:00.003-04:00

After a few weeks of browsing the manual from the starter set and picking up boosters are random, I was moderately ready to demo the game with Weirdguy. Here are my initial reactions as a complete n00b to this game.First, it's a pretty hard sell as far as CMGs go. The requires that each player picks up a “starter set.” This means between 2 people to play, they invest $50USD (at MSRP) up front for

Tournament of n00bs (Day 7)

2009-04-17T19:48:00.003-04:00

On the final day of my active participation in the round-robin, I dropped my 8th and final match to the tournament’s dark horse. He played a Black/White deck – both life-draining and life-restoring (from the Time Spirals era of M:TG, IIRC). Nothing spectacular occurred this game outside the usual events. I found myself skipping the first several turns before I could play Onyx Goblet (meaning at

Tournament of n00bs (Day 6)

2009-04-14T13:27:00.000-04:00

I am back on my losing streak of 2 games. Making matters worse is the upset I suffered today against Robin (of the Dynamic Duo). As I kept warning people, Robin's luck had to turn around sooner or later and he finally ended his 4-game losing streak with a win against me today (in fact he won the following game as well). As for myself, the unthinkable scenario made an encore appearance when

Life: Easter weekend 2009

2009-04-14T08:56:00.001-04:00

In case anybody out there cares... I'm back from my hometown. Like every other visit I arrived with a "crunch." Seems the ditch through-pipe has raised another inch or so (or the surrounding earth sunken a bit more). I'm afraid bottoming out the car has knocked something loose ...again. I didn't notice on the highway but it was when made my way through the city back to my house that I

Tournament of n00bs (Day 5)

2009-04-09T17:48:00.002-04:00

Another loss drops my total win percentage down to 33.3%. I’m not quite sitting dead last but I am indeed in trouble and the odds are against advancing beyond round-robin play. The fourth and final play-off position is 2 wins away and I need to count on at least 2 other players to lose their remaining match-ups in order to leap-frog them. And this does not address the current dark horse – one