Metroplex on Metroplex!

Ah, thank goodness it's a holiday tomorrow! Been a while since the last one!

Metroplex is looking good!

Hot Toys - The Mandarin

Ummm, what? After seeing the movie... one wonders why anyone would want a figure of Tre... Uh, the Mandarin! :p For completists perhaps?

Yamato VF-19A

Picked up this classic VF-19A online for cheap! It's something i wanted to buy back then but procastinated till it was too late... luckily it popped up online again as fate would have it!

This is an alternate color version from the game VFX-2 on the PS1! Yes it was that long ago. :p This version is the initial release, not the newer ones, so the proportions and all are not like what you get nowadays. Still, it's the only release of it's type so far that's transformable, not counting the kit, die cast jet and the GN-DOU version.

Iron Man 3 - Mini Review

Caught this at Bugis+ last night, it wasn't too bad, off the bat i can tell you it's better than part 2; at least the "final battle" was more satisfying than the wasted opportunity in part 2. This movie takes place after the events in The Avengers, so there are a lot references to the events there.

Truthfully there are more scenes with Tony without the armor on than with the armor, the movie seems to be trying to make a point that it's the man beneath the armor, rather than the armors themselves that are important. I mean, the show starts off with Tony testing the Mk 42 suit.... boy, he's sure had a lot of time since New York! His new armor is cool, there are references to the extremis 'virus', but it's totally different again from the comic version, although extremis itself does play a pretty big part in the show.

The bad guy this round is The Mandarin... no spoilers but after seeing the movie, you'll know how "important" he is to the show, no doubt that Ben Kingsley steals most scenes he's in, at least they removed the weird slur he had in the trailers.

So, it's entertaining throughout, but to me it felt kind of messy, the scenes were all over the place and not in very defined acts, guess i'll need to watch it again to make sense of some of the parts. Will definately get the BD once it's out, but not the HT figures; most of the new armors appear onscreen for a couple of secs at most.

I'll give this a 7.5/10, fun to watch but needed to be more focused! Oh, stay till the end as usual for the secret ending after the credits, and spot Stan Lee!

Monster Energy

Hmmm.. Of the three types available in singapore ( original, khaos, absolutely zero), i still think khaos is the best, original tastes too artificial... Like coolant or something, while AZero tastes pretty normal, almost like another brand, Rockstar. No sugar though.

Khaos is still my favorite cos it tastes more like fruit punch than an energy drink, plus the sweetness is juuuust right; not cloyingly sweet like red bull, yet sweeter than your average soft drink! :) Bzzzz, i'm writing this now cos i'm having a caffeine buzz from finishing a can of monster... Lesson learnt, don't drink before bedtime!

Iron Man 3

Going to watch soon, hope it's ok! :p

Superhero Speed Dating

Even funnier! Like the Aquaman part and the cocktail! :p