Had a jolly holiday season this year spending the Sunday before Christmas going on a straight 18-hour clay molding/sculpting spree. You know I’m desperate when I throw myself that deep into my crafts. Rather than blowing a gaping hole in my nonexistent debt-swallowed wallet on a pair of designer heels or some expensive jewelery for my girlfriend, I instead decided…
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Merry Christmas 2013
Merry Christmas. The year’s coming to an end – almost. As with every year, Christmas is big. Not for the celebration of its actual purpose (the birth of Christ was it? I’m an apathetic atheist who cares not for religion and all its folly so please forgive my deliberate ignorance) but more for the copious amounts of money spent, gifts…
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Robo Toy Fest – December 2013
Fun was had this past Sunday (along with wallets blown to smothers and many a tear shed) at the annual giant robot toy show – Robo Toy Fest. My comrade whom I worked with on building the Operation: Virtue armor accompanied me to this mini-‘con in May of this year, though this time around we took the whole crew…
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NECA 7″ Gipsy Danger
Pacific Rim’s hero Jaeger, the US of A’s proud Gipsy Danger. The main mecha’s always gotta be the simplest and most well-rounded robot of the bunch. NECA’s first installment in this franchise fell short of many collector’s expectations and didn’t really achieve popularity until after the movie hit theaters in the first place. But that didn’t stop it from having its…
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Transformers Energon Leader Class Optimus Prime
Energon Optimus Prime…out of the Unicron trilogy Primes, (of which I’ve proudly owned all three simultaneously now thanks to this) this guy’s the most underwhelming of the lot. I’ve owned this toy before as a child, and other than being a design wreck, it’s also considerably smaller than its brother Primes, most notably in Super Mode.