Cowabunga!

.... and the Turtles get the LEGO treatment! Tres cool! From the New York Comic Convention now on in the US!

MOH + Linkin Park

These guys are everywhere now? Their songs are ok but... after a while, they all sound the same.

Here's their latest promoting the Warfighter game.

Too many Toys!

As we inch ever closer to the end of the year, the releases for toys and games are slowly starting to ramp up! Not been having much time to play on the console ( prob get worse when no. 2 comes!), so haven't been picking up any releases for the PS3 recently.

 

The 360 is almost stagnant to me; aside from a few exclusive titles, i hardly touch it these days. I wonder when consoles can truely match the processing power of a PC one day? I bought the Crysis bundle off Steam for cheap, and it's pretty much amazing how the graphics have improved over time. Crysis still looks pretty good for it's age, but when you see Crysis 2 on DX11 with Ultra settings.... boy oh boy... day and night man. :p Another one to see is the BF3 SP level "Going Hunting"... amazing.

 

Toys are getting too expensive these days... most of the 'nicer' stuff have become exclusives or limited and are AT LEAST $200 minimum these days.. Sigh, how i miss the days when i could go to Toy's R US and pick up an Aerialbot off the peg for $5...

 

Still, darn Hasbro/Takara is tugging at our Nostalgia by releasing MORE classic figures to whittle away what's left of my emancipated wallet. Know what i'd really like? A re-release of the headmasters... they'd probably do that knowing them!

 

This weekend is the NYCC and also the Plamo show in Japan... AND my brother's getting married too!

 

Time flies. ;)

 

Zaku I Sniper

Another thing picked up from TFH, this time, the Zaku I Sniper piloted by Yonem Kirks from Bandai under the Signature Ka version (basically a redesigned version by Hajime Katoki.. and an excuse to jack up the price!)

This version was from the Unicorn Gundam OVA, it was basically hovering overhead in a "Fat Uncle" cruiser using the beam rifle to snipe at the base to support an ongoing assault... The set also comes with decals to spruce up the look of the Zaku if you feel inclined to!

The Zaku I can be seen in the video above at about the 1:55 mark. :)

Unicorn Gundam - Glowing Stage Set

Picked this up from Falcon's this evening after work, been quite a while but i hope the orders are slowly trickling in.... TFH was packed with quite a few people... and newly arrived stock too! The whole gang was there today which was kinda unusual. :)

No photoshop work here! ;) The 'glowing' red areas are actually the way the paint is sprayed along those areas; the whole set comes with a display base with black lights, and the flourescent paint on the figure stands out from the body itself. Pretty good effect, and one of the better quality releases from Bandai recently.

 

All the have to do now is release a Die cast version with built in LED's! :p

Encore Fortress Maximus

Ooo! Wonder how this slipped my radar; didn't know about it till TFH released the preorder for it! This is considered the 'Holy Grail' for TF collectors, largely due to it's size. As with all Encore releases, the 'feel' won't be the same as the original, as the plastic used is different, and the moulding of the figure may change in some places. Still, pretty cool to have as a door guardian or something!

1/35 Scale EX-S Gundam

Seriously awesome piece of work. A 1/35 scale EX-S Gundam from the Gundam Sentinel Series! The EX-S is about 28m tall in the series, so at 1/35 it'd be about 80cm? Pretty darn big i guess.

 

This was the combined effort of 3 Korean guys; think if it was built by one guy, it'd take 3 months at least! Not to mention the amount of paint required for this.

 

There's also been a 1/100 scale kit from Bandai for this. But one takes the cake with all the tiny details afforded by the scale involved!