MP-13 Soundwave

Been a while since i've purchased any TF's from the Masterpiece line ( as most seem to be repaints in one way or another ), but the upcoming Soundwave was too cool to resist! Pictured in color finally from the Tokyo Toy.

They'll be releasing Rumble and Ravage too! ;) Awesome.

Beard up!

Haha, this is a good one!

“We took 100 soldiers. 25 were Special Forces qualified and had beards, 25 were Special Forces qualified without beards, 25 were regular Army allowed to grow beards for the study, and the last 25 were regular Army without beards. All 100 of these subjects were in direct combat in Afghanistan during the study.”

He continued, “Xegis Solutions had several teams of researchers embedded with these troops to make observations on their combat effectiveness. The results were overwhelming, out of the 50 soldiers with beards, zero were wounded or killed and they had a significantly higher accuracy of fire than the soldiers without beards. The soldiers lacking beards had a higher rate of weapons malfunctions and basically, shit went wrong most of the time.”

Must be something they put in the beard! Or maybe top brass heard wrongly, and it was supposed to be 'beer'

Full read here.

Venus Transit

So, did you manage to catch Venus transitting across the sun?

"On June 5, the planet Venus will appear to pass in front of the Sun as seen from the surface of the Earth. This phenomenon, called a transit of Venus, happens only a few times in 250 years. The next one will be in 2117 AD"

2117.... i'll be 141 years old! :p