tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108546532009-11-08T22:33:20.529-05:00We Are Legion!! The mellow side of life. Blogging about the fun stuff and material goods the Legion likes to play with. This technogeek has already outgrown the otaku fads of the day.Ben-Ohkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12568011230009872806noreply@blogger.comBlogger740125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10854653.post-73707240468702474052009-11-08T22:07:00.003-05:002009-11-08T22:33:20.544-05:00

Months ago, the opportunity to order one came up and believe me, it made me delay a few other things. This was effectively made-to-order since I don't blame any retailer for not wanting to stock this insanely expensive (but so freaking exclusive) item without a pre-order. In fact, it was so hard to come by, I wasn't even sure my order would ever arrive and if I would end up with just a refund 6

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Two whole months after the Planechase sets came out, I finally found the Planechase deck boxes at my local comics and gaming shop. There seem to be only 2 models available - one themed for Grixis (and or Zombies in general) and I got this one which is combination theme for the artifacts deck and the "Strike Force" red-white deck which I happen to play.The box is a typical Duel Deck-Box with an

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A bunch of new T-shirts arrived in the mail this week so I wanted to share them.Machine56 is an independent designer from Indonesia. You can check out his art on DeviantArt here. His last major line-up features some kind of cyborg skeleton guy with headphones. It's neat!I also pre-ordered these Mobile Suit Gundam shirts a couple of months ago. I was a little worried because at the time I had

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I couldn't help myself... It's a little tacky but it's rare and limited outside of Japan. And on top of which, I'm a long time Macross/Robotech fan. This Valkyrie-themed jacket caught my attention right away. It was just a matter of finding a means to acquire an item intended only for the Japanese market exclusively (because well, I'm pretty certain Harmony Gold would have something to say about

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The Valkyrie build was delayed for a variety of reasons, but here's the final follow up.First I wanted to turn the kit over and present possibly the ONLY image of the underside of the model anywhere. It's not clear from the instruction sheet nor from the photos. But the hatches don't have anything holding them in place until you finally put the wings and tail fins in place. Once everything's

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Today I'm bringing you a look at the Planetstrike scenery kits (which if you got a chance to check out the new expansion book, serve as more than just scenery). We'll start with the Aegis Defense Line kit.As you can see, there's very little to the set. There are 4 long walls and 4 short ones coming on a pair of sprues. Slap some paint on and you're done. The only thing to assemble is the

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It's been a long time but I finally finished up my collection of Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi figures by FREEing and Good Smile Company. The tale goes all the way back to wanting to support my local store but if they couldn't get it in stock within the first 3 months of release it was looking more and more like eBay was the way to go. Sadly, also costing me an arm and a leg more than it should

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The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde

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Out of nowhere Monty Oum rushes out part 5 of his CG-animated pet project only a few weeks after part 4 was posted.In this installment Monty eases off on the action a bit and builds on the narrative started in part 3. The Kasumi clones (taken from DOA2) arc appears to be capped off. And the Tifa's saga continues in Kill Bill fashion. In fact, I jokingly thought to myself, "taking a page out of

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Last year Monty Oum, a maniacal genius of action choreography and animation unleashed Dead Fantasy. It was a bold experiment merging fan-favourite franchises DOA and Final Fantasy in an crazy Matrix-inspired show-down. The first chapter was successfully cut together a dynamic tag-team fight scene while the second took things even further by turning up the difficulty on the action-photography by

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To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo lunar landing, I will take this time to lament the Lunar game franchise. Lunar is possibly the saddest franchise in gaming. It came and went and then came again huge... and then went again. It tried and failed for a three-peat. You probably missed Lunar. But for those of us lucky enough to have experienced The Silver Star Story, it was amazing and here

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Watch Luigi Finally Snaps on CollegeHumor

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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