Wednesday, November 13, 2013

GUNDAM MIDYEAR CAMPAIGN UPDATE: REAL GRADE SET HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!

HEY!! Sorry to be typing in all caps like that but there's a good reason: I just this Veterans' Day (Remembrance Day if you live in certain other countries) received my Gunpla Real Grade set! In case you didn't read my previous post, I won a set of the first 11 Real Grade Gunpla models in a thing Gundam.info (the official Gundam news and video portal!) was holding called the "Gundam Midyear Campaign" where you could enter a code from buying certain Gunpla sets or any set in certain places to enter the contest. Once entered, you had to take a survey and then choose which prize drawing to enter. I chose the Real Grade set (it said that 88 people would receive it by the way), and later got a "you have won, congrats"-type email from Gundam.info. It said that my set would be delivered on the day Hiroshi Yamauchi died or later. (Funny [well, not humorous funny {death is never nice, except Hitler's}, more weird funny] how both those dates coincided with days relating to death. [Veterans' Day isn't about death, but Remembrance Day is.]) Well, it finally came, like 2 months later! My parents were actually concerned that it wouldn't ever arrive. Here's some pics:
The box was pretty big if you can't tell.
Why does it say 1964 on it...?
I'm assuming "GODZILLA" is referring to how super freaking huge it is. I can just imagine their box size scale: 'Tiny, small, medium, large, GODZILLA.'

I didn't actually know who or what the box was for until I saw my name on the address and written in marker in the corner of the box - when I saw that, somehow I knew.

The inside was just boxes and boxes of them (11 in all) arranged to fit in the box with barely any room left. I also found it weird how the bottom lid-things of all the boxes were black, shiny, and felt like that stuff paperboard boxes are on the outside. Normal Gundam bottom-lid-thingies are cardboard-feeling and pretty much look like cardboard too.

In the corner of the arrangement, there was a two-model-wide stack with 3 layers. In this picture, I've taken off the first layer.

The second layer moved. Why do I have such detailed coverage of the box and not the models? I don't know. Who cares about the freaking box?! Why am I so thoroughly discussing the box and the inside arrangement?!
I took out the models and made two piles - one pile would most likely topple over. If it didn't on its own, my brothers would make sure it did.
Ok, that's it for now. I've finished the RX-78-2 model and I've started on the MS-06F Zaku II (original green). Just found out the hard way: don't buy RG unless you like lots and lots of tiny decals. The RX had like, close to 120. The end result really pays off, though, I gotta say.

Well, in other stuff I went to In-N-Out again at some vague time. I've started a habit of adding pics of when I visit In-N-Out or other burger places to posts. I even have a "Burgers" tag for posts. Here's the pic:
Sadly, I can't remember when or why I went.
Also, like I said I would, I'm adding pics of my Gundam Wing model that I finished 33 days ago.
This is what the model looks like in good light, at a more or less frontal view.

It has these awesome wings (probably shoulda expected that from a Gundam with 'Wing' in the name) in the back.

Did I mention said wings can be extended for the awesome Bird Mode? (Bird Mode also requires attaching a big red plane-nose-type-accessory.)

Accessory 2(the red thing counts as #1): Inexplicably funny-smelling miniature figure of the Mobile Suit's pilot. In this lighting, it looks like his shirt is being pulled upward by some mysterious force, but really it's just tucked funny.

Accessory 3: Cool sword. No explanation needed.
Ok, that's it for now. (I really mean it this time.)

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Monday, September 9, 2013

Gundam update

I finished my Wing Gundam yesterday, it was super easy to build. Easier than the others by a lot. I'll update this post with pictures soon.

In other Gundam news, I won the Midyear 2013 Campaign!

Yeah, one of the models I got at SacAnime (2 posts down), the Wing one I think, came with this code when I bought it. Not like it was in the box, but the store clerk gave it to me. I was to enter it at the Gundam Info website to enter a contest. I selected the "RG Special Set," and won it! Here's what I'm gonna be getting by mail:
Yeah. 11 Real Grade models. I can't believe my luck! (UPDATE: Apparently, these 11 are the only Real Grade models that have been released yet. So when I get them, I'll technically have every Real Grade model ever! Except unreleased ones.)

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Retrogaming blog

Ok, remember when I said long ago that I'd make separate blogs for retrogaming, LBP2, and misc. stuff? I finally did it. So, go here for the LBP2 blog and here for my retrogaming one. The LBP2 blog doesn't include everything, sorry about that. It's just a wiki one at the moment. The retrogaming one is full-on though, even if it has no posts since I haven't gotten any new games since SacAnime.

Monday, September 2, 2013

A Post Filled With Lots of Stuff, All Stemming From My Trip To SacAnime

Ok, so get this: I went to SacAnime on Saturday! Woohoo! I didn't get to do as much as I originally hoped, but it was an amazing trip nonetheless. I didn't get a lot of pictures from the convention, or the vendors, but it did get sufficient coverage of some other stuff.
More burger pictures, yay. Just like the Six Flags post(s).

Why is this a picture? The drink isn't nearly as interesting as the rest.

Very shiny, but not as much as the Johnny Rockets burger from Six Flags.

The front of the main building.

My dad went dressed as the Riddler, and sometimes (well, more often than sometimes) people also dressed as Batman characters would pose with him. The guy on the left is the Scarecrow, I think.
We found a Harley Quinn also when we went to the vendor area.


There was even a huge group of people going as Mario characters.

We saw them multiple times.

This was my favorite cosplayer out of the gajillions that I saw. Amazingly accurate costume, makeup, even that one pose (it's a freeze-frame bonus) from the movie.
Here's the pose if you don't believe me.

I also got to see Charles Martinet!!! The guy who voices Mario!!!

It's hard to see him in this picture, he just looks like a bright white blob, but it's him!

I also got 3 new games at an awesome vendor that sold NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and PS2 games. Greatest finds ever, they were relatively cheap. I wish I had more money. Pictured is Burgertime (NES).

I also got Pinball (NES), although sadly it was a 3-screw.

The games at the vendor were organized with only their labels showing. It took me a while to spot Burgertime, and even longer to spot Pinball.
I have played this game for incredible amounts of time on end. (♪~Burgers! Burgers! It's all we have in mind! We make the best, you better get in line... You want it on a tray? Is it for here or to go? Any which way it tastes good you know!~)

Oh yeah, Pinball's enjoyable too.

Aand the 3rd game. This is the A2600 version if you can't tell. (The A2600, Colecovision, and C64 versions' cartridges all look the exact same. Not joking.) Sorry about the picture quality.

The label, if you can tell, is very...indescribably unclean. It has like these spots or blotches of grease-stuff that I can't identify on the label. It's like that stuff you find in old dictionaries.

Have I mentioned how often the RR's TVs have picture problems? Well, it's very often.
That's better.

You definitely can't tell from this picture, but I actually moved all my Famicom games to the shelf next to the boxed games because I ran out of room in that SNES cartridge holder that also holds NES cartridges and previously Famicom cartridges.

You know WHAT ELSE I got at SacAnime? (MY MOM! No, not really.) 2 new Gunpla (I used to call them 'Gundam models' as Keroro does, but apparently 'Gunpla' is the official name, no matter how goofy it sounds.)

And at great prices too! The pictured one (Wing) was like $7.63, and the other one was $15.00. Makes me feel like A-1 Comics was ripping me off every time they sold me or my parents a model for $30+.

Anyway, I bought the one with the B&W box because I thought ^THIS was what I was getting: The famous RX-78-2 with the trademark Roger Rabbit-esque color scheme. What you instantly think of when you hear "Gundam."

But no, I got something else because of this weird little 'Ecopla' thing that I'd never heard of. I looked it up, and apparently, it's a series of eco-friendly Gunpla models where the plastic is made of all the leftover stuff from the regular, dedicated (for lack of a better word) models. This gives the pieces a...unique...look that you'll see in the next picture.
Yep...every piece is completely black. It's still the same RX-78-2, but like half the recognizability of that one (for me, anyways) comes from the distinguished color scheme. It's a cool thing, really, Ecopla; it's just that I was caught off-guard and expected a full-color thing. I guess I should have thought something was up seeing the B&W box. (By the way, does that pose remind you of the Overly Manly Man meme? It does for me.)
On the bright side, all the weapons look almost the same considering they would've just been gray. Those beam swords look more lightsabery than ever! The only majorly discolored things in this photo are the shield and the little ship that was included for some reason.
For some reason, I wasn't too good at placing the decals here. In fact, that's an understatement. That's probably my worst decal job ever, and I bet it'll stay that way for a long time.
I also staged another fight-match-thing in my room like when I got the something-something-Zaku II. This time, Endless Waltz (that's as awkward to type as it is to read) was the referee because of his (Hers? Its?) extreme size advantage.

Oh...it's just a difficult-to-make-out (again, sorry about picture quality) rock-paper-scissors duel. (Fun fact: I swapped Zaku II's hand for a spare hand of Seven Swords' because that was the only model with a spare hand that looked like it was throwing an RPS besides rock or a one-finger scissors.)

Paper beats rock! Zaku II wins!
This is how my 'Finished Models' stack looks now.
Ok, that's it for now. I really regret forgetting to take pictures of the vendor area, they had like this one store fulla Gundam and nothing but and it was so cool. So many awesome vendors like that. Ok, I'll post when I finish Wing. I looked at the boards and it looked easy, but then I saw the manual; It's the most complicated enclosed instruction book ever.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

More Virtual Boy Stuff

I decided to try to get more Virtual Boy coverage with my 3DS. Unfortunately, zooming in only works when taking pictures, so the videos are still small, sorry. At least I figured out how to enlarge the video thumbnails, so they look big. Sorta. At least the pictures are genuinely big.
This is 90% of the intro for Mario Clash. I missed the warning message and the part at the end when Mario goes so far in that the walls disappear.

Here's one of me playing it. This time, I actually cleared 2 levels :P
When I make these videos, I do crappily because I have to balance the 3DS while holding the controller and rush the level anyway because my 3DS never has room for videos over 1:30.

Here's one of me playing Mario's Tennis, another game that's less fun but still cool. The 3D's pretty great in this game.

Here's some pics.

This opening message displays before anything else in every Virtual Boy game I've played. Notice you can't read what it says because of my 3DS' camera quality.

Hey, this is mostly legible! It's the title screen!
Sometimes in these pictures, my 3DS isn't completely lined up with the screen. Because of the spacing of the cameras, this is unavoidable, so I usually give the camera that's used for 2D the advantage. Sometimes I don't, as pictured.
Here's a better demonstration of that. For those of you who don't know a lot about this screen, you're supposed to be able to see a little square with "VB" in the middle in 2 corners of the screen on each screen, and your eyes should adjust to it so that it looks like one big picture with a VB icon in each corner.
Have I mentioned that our copy of Mario Clash has some...problems?
In case you can't tell, that's Mario on that middle platform and some Shellcreepers/Koopas on the bottom-front platform.
I really can't remember what this picture's for, but I'm sure it was for something.
This pic is just so messed up.
What are those blobs on the side? I don't remember seeing those when taking these pictures.
I also took 2 Mario's Tennis pictures. Why didn't I take more? I had like 9 of MC...
You get used to the red, by the way. Whenever I play this game, I think, "Why is Luigi's hat white?" It doesn't work like that outside of game, though, he looks more red to me as I type this.
Ok, that's it for now everybody. If you want coverage on any of my collection that hasn't been mentioned a lot (like, say, Virtual Boy Wario Land), just ask in the comments.