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09-27-2011, 12:03 PM | #3881 |
Bovine Excrement Viper
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Online role playing? BAH. These kids today with their World of Warcraft and their Guilds and their Star Wars : the Old Republic. THEY DON'T KNOW what online ROLE playing is, dammit. Online role playing is a black screen full of white text via a telnet application like MUSHClient or SimpleMU.
I spent far, far too many hours of my youth MUSHing. And I don't mean the kind with automated enemies to fight. I mean the kind where most of your time was spent writing and building a character. |
09-27-2011, 12:04 PM | #3882 |
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I prefer Zork.
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09-27-2011, 12:26 PM | #3883 |
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Got my Coneheads today. The heads still look small. The chest/nosecone alignment on Dirge is off by enough to make transforming properly difficult, possibly hazardous. (It doesn't line up right when folded up and won't collapse all the way without significant force.) Half of the wing flaps won't line up right either, but I think that's user-fixable, don't have time to really screw with it today. Haven't decided if I'm going to request a replacement yet. Thrust's face really needs some light gray and yellow paint. Not sure why they went with the black and red, since the artwork has the right colors. Ramjet's vertical fins really need to fold in somehow — posing his legs (especially on the stand) is full of *clack tap click screech* "oshit I hope I didn't scrape any paint off." And... I think I'm done complaining now. Because otherwise...
HOLY SHIT these are freakin awesome. Fantastic colors, good build quality/fit and finish (except where noted)... just wow. The only thing that marks these as not Takara is the wing stripes. The only thing that marks these as not Hasbro is lack of Decepticon logos (and/or copious burn marks). Me likey. Now... to figure out a way to fit them all on the shelf. |
09-27-2011, 03:16 PM | #3884 |
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You know, I have to retract an earlier comment. The original Takara seekers all have the extra hinge in them to fold the wings back as well. The things I never knew about them. Like the tab in the waist/cockpit alignment to lock the torso together. I've had these things since they first came out and never knew about that...
They went with all the same faces for cost savings, I'd imagine. I'm not complaining though, Thrust is still my favorite of the three. Sunstorm's pretty sweet too, oddly enough. Now to walk away because I still haven't gotten two packages in the mail as I had hoped to. But at least no one's paid me yet either. This is why I wait to collect until after I've sent stuff out. Cause man, it is just hard to role out of bed any earlier than I want to and I don't want any one thinking I'm cheating them... One other note, October's gonna be a month of purging my collection. I'll have room for a while to set things up and take photos, then I can get rid of it. And I'll be free... Free. I'm very happy about this. |
09-27-2011, 06:08 PM | #3885 |
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Now to walk away because I still haven't gotten two packages in the mail as I had hoped to. But at least no one's paid me yet either. This is why I wait to collect until after I've sent stuff out. Cause man, it is just hard to role out of bed any earlier than I want to and I don't want any one thinking I'm cheating them...
Well, if you're happy about it, can we make some requests for stuff from your collection?
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09-28-2011, 02:01 AM | #3886 |
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You know, I have to retract an earlier comment. The original Takara seekers all have the extra hinge in them to fold the wings back as well. The things I never knew about them. Like the tab in the waist/cockpit alignment to lock the torso together. I've had these things since they first came out and never knew about that...
I thought about it. I'm not too enamored with the entire lineage, but it's amusing I guess. The only Sunstorm I'd probably fork over money for is a US Deluxe retail release. Quote:
Also, is it just me, or does the Matt Trakker head look like it should have been Chuckles? Yes, I'm still disappointed with the skinny grinning Anglofro Chuckles we got in AoCI. |
09-28-2011, 12:55 PM | #3887 |
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Distressingly on-topic, just got notice from BBTS that my Crimson Hiss preorder is in. I doubt I'll be finding it at retail before the 15 days is up. I guess BBTS wins this time.
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09-28-2011, 04:59 PM | #3888 |
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That got added to my PoL, too. I'm just waiting for the Shadow Commander set to come in before shipping it.
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09-28-2011, 06:19 PM | #3889 |
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Jeez, Hasbro is making it rain in the MU line. Still haven't seen the Cmdr Steve Rogers wave and now the wave with Ultimate Magneto, Astonishing Wolverine (the only appearance of the character I actually LIKE), Absorbing Man, Ice-Man, and Tony-Stark face Iron Man. I AM NOT MADE OF MONEY HASBRO.
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09-30-2011, 12:28 AM | #3890 |
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I'm procrastinating.
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