Some Hot Wheels I've been collecting...

Twin Mill III

Hotwheels are awesome right now. For only a buck you get a very cool toy with little buyers remorse. Plus you get to race them! I keep finding cool ones to play with at lunch. I love the sparkle on the above green one. Also the sleek design. My orange one has a top time on my Batman race track, I'll have to test this one soon.

'56 Merc

I must be drawn to green? This one reminds me of a Micro Machine I have somewhere. First Hot Wheel I have bought with an opening hood in a long time. Do you know that opening hoods, and doors give the car the ability to fly?

Elementals; Air and Water

As much as I am a sucker for shiny things, clear things are also drawn am I too. I saw the Fire and Earth the other day, will have to pick up next.

Invader

I saw it once, passed, was upset. Saw it again in color changer style, complained, friend over heard, found this one, gave to me on day after birthday. Awesome!

Bone Shaker

Way different than my usual selection, I really like the skull grill.

See you next time.

Robot vs. Panther

I have been itching to do some stop motion the last few weeks and finally found a full free Saturday to play. I set up a nice clean table, some lights (which I guess I need even more), charged some batteries, and started taking photos. I shot about 222 pictures for this short. My biggest mistake was using too high of a resolution for my pictures, as they were kind of fat. I wanted to build in Flash, but it just wasn't happening, so I moved to Photoshop, which has an okay animation feature. Just a ton of layers, and eyeballs to click on and off. I learned lots and if there is a next time, I hope to have the lights less distracting (camera capturing issue) and smoother movement. Overall lots of fun. Now I am wiped out for some reason. :)

Let's Play, Value this Star Wars Collection!

Dear Internet,

These are my new best friend's Star Wars collection. I am assigned to see if it's of any value. I see a few figures that have some possible coin; mail away Emperor, Old Obi-Wan, Boba Fett maybe, and AT-AT pilot. I was guessing it would sell around $40-60.00 on ebay.

What do you think?

Dan

What about that guy?

The Bounty Hunter! Review

huh...(eye twitch). It turns out The Bounty Hunter had nothing to do with Star Wars (eye twitch) Bounty Hunters. It was a somewhat strange romantic action comedy staring Jennifer Aniston and Gerald Butler, who was not Jango Fett, but just a once cop now turned Bounty Hunter. Fett... er Butler was hunting his ex for bounty while she dim wittedly hunts a story. Besides it not being associated with Star Wars it was an okay movie. I think critics panned it overall, but hey this obviously isn't a court room drama here. You kind of know what your getting into when you seen the trailers, minus the really cool bounty hunters. I found it a fun distraction, all be it a little long. Jason Sudeikis from SNL had a funny supporting character, taking many painful hits. So I guess the wait continues for a Star Wars themed movie on Bounty Hunters, or a least The Chronicles of Lando Calrissian starring Donald Faison.

The Bounty Hunter!

I am so excited! The Bounty Hunter finally hit theaters this weekend! I am surprised no one in the geek world has really talked up this movie yet. Well I am going tonight, and will cover an extensive review tomorrow. Man, Gerard Butler as Jango? Awesome! I hope IG-88 and Boba Fett throw down! I am dressing up as Bossk as I type.

Ninja versus Ninja catastrophe averted!

A few weeks back I showed off this great new game Ninja versus Ninja. I remember those days, young, bright eyed, ready to take on the world. I bought the game for our weekly board game day play at lunch time on fridays. I figured, it would be a good two player game to play, which is good as we only have two players. So what happens the first game? I loose. No big deal really, we were just learning the game. The technical issues of how and when to use your Shadow Ninja and what a 180 and a L move were figured out. So the next week rolls by and we play two games... and I loose. I don't just loose either, I get totally annihilated. Now Sideshow, my fellow gamer, will say I played stupid on that second game. But I will say I was already down most of my ninjas and a defensive strategy was my only hope. Really the game feels like if the rolls of the dice go your way, you win. If they don't, well, you loose. So week three comes up. I am now 0-3. Odds say I will win a game, so we play three more games. I loose all three, 0-6! One of those three another complete annihilation, but one game a almost close win, but still no win. Was I playing a mastermind or was the game cursed? I decided the game was cursed and challenged Sideshow that if he won the next four games, sending me to 0-10, I would give him the game, as I wanted nothing to do with it! So today we play, and what happens... I loo... WIN! Finally the dice go my favor and I win two games! I am now 2-6! I am not a complete looser anymore, and I can be happy in owning this game. Sideshow just couldn't get the rolls he kept getting in the first 6 games. I am a little bummed that it didn't go to 0-9 though, I wanted to tape that showdown for Youtube. Hats of to Sideshow though who took loosing much better than my cry baby ass.