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Lots of new things lately + Lion King + Disney Movies

Monday, September 19th, 2011 at 3:19 am

Bought a new monitor and external hard drive recently…..and some blu-rays

Thor & X-Men First Class Blu Rays are being delivered as we speak.

Plan to get Bridesmaids despite having not seen it yet. Enough people have said it’s good so I’ll take their word for it. Z has seen it and she vouches for it.

Got Star Fox 64 3DS the other day….beat it quite easily. It wasn’t the challenge that I remember it was, in high school. But as I read reviews, that game isn’t about survival, it’s about dominating and how much you dominate.

Getting Kirby Mass Attack tomorrow…Z wants to get the “New” Super Mario Bros. for the DS….so we’ll be getting 2 DS games tomorrow….I expect to beat, and get 100% on both. I realize now how much of a Nintendo gamer I am. I was raised that way….got into RPGs after….and never really got into FPS games, except for Counter Strike. I’m just…I’m both really good, and really enjoy Nintendo type games.

Lion King

I ordered The Lion King Diamond Edition Blu Ray from Disney on August 7 for $25…about a month and a half ago. I got 200 Disney Bonus Points with it.

AFTER I order it, they come out with The Lion King Diamond Edition Blu-ray with FREE Lithograph Offer for $25. ALSO from Disney. ARGGH !@$&%$*@#$*

I’d much rather take the Lithograph than the 200 Disney Points. It would go with my Beauty and the Beast Lithography….but I can’t cancel my Aug 7 order. =(

And now, after going to watch The Lion King in 3D tonight…they have another pre-order…get $5 off.

3 different Lion King blu ray deals! >:( So angry. I think the Lithograph is the best one tho…

So…yeah, I definitely wasn’t planning to watch Lion King in 3D. Especially since I pre-ordered the blu ray. Technically, I was paying more to watch it once in the theatres, than to own in forever on blu-ray. It seemed pointless. In the end, I was trying to take my sister-in-law to watch the movie without her troublesome kids…but she bailed on the plan. Z and I still decided to go see it. Although it was costly, I was glad we did. There’s definitely a completely different experience watching the movie in the theatre, compared to watching something at home. It just doesn’t compare. When you’re in the theatre, there’s this…focus, that you can’t get elsewhere. Z and I have instated “Movie night”. Once every 2 weeks….alternating choices. I just hope Z doesn’t pick chick flicks for me >_< On that note, I saw Friends with Benefits the other day. It was better than I thought....funny but still kinda cheesy at certain parts. Disney Movies
I thought I had more than a few Disney movies growing up. I had a select era that began with Beauty and the Beast and ended with The Lion King…(technically with Aladdin and the King of Thieves, but that was mostly purchased out of “trilogy completion” sake – though it turned out to be a really great movie). Anyways, I discovered earlier this year that my Disney Movie collection was completely dwarfed by Z’s.

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My Movies (1st column)
Beauty and the Beast – Diamond Edition
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
Aladdin – The Return of Jafar
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Lion King
The Land Before Time II
The Land Before Time III
Pokemon the First Movie

Z’s Movies (2nd and 3rd column)
Casper
Aladdin
Aladdin – The Return of Jafar
Mulan
Cinderella
The Rescuers Down Under
The Little Mermaid
Robin Hood
The Great Mouse Detective
Dumbo
Little Women
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Mary Poppins
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Jungle Book
Dragonheart
The Fox and the Hound
The Secret Garden
Peter Pan
101 Dalmatians
The Rescuers
The Big Green
D3 – The Might Ducks
Alice in Wonderland
Pinocchio
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Bambi
Lady and the Tramp

I guess I can throw this on the accomplishments list, but we’ve been watching Disney movies like crazy lately, on VHS. There are a ton of these I’ve never seen or don’t remember but we went through the following in the last few weeks.

Cinderella
The Rescuers Down Under
The Little Mermaid
Robin Hood
The Great Mouse Detective
Dumbo
The Fox and the Hound
Peter Pan
101 Dalmatians
The Rescuers

I played a bit of Ping Pong with my parents today….Z and I are going to look for places we can play Squash. I’m really excited, I can’t wait :D U.S. Open got me so fired up to play some racket sports.

Anyways…3:15….have work tomorrow…will proof-read tomorrow…maybe >_< I sleep now, g’nite everyone :D

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Comics

Sunday, August 14th, 2011 at 3:02 am

My best inanimate friend wouldn’t be my gaming systems, it wouldn’t be my toys or my computer…it would be my comic books. Well written stories, well developed characters and fantastic art make up my favorite comics. While I have many comics, not all of them are good…but the great ones, I can read and re-read hundreds of times.

So you know those big comic boxes? In the 11 years I collected comics (1994-2005~), I’ve collected about 16 large boxes worth of comics. Since I moved into my condo, they’ve stayed at my parent’s home. There are just SO many and I didn’t think I had space here. I won’t lie, I miss them. Miss them so much. Whenever I visit my parent’s place, I always leave with 50 or so of my favorite comics that I’m dying to re-read. I bring them to the condo, read and re-read them until my next visit to my parents, where I put my comics back, and get a new batch.

Anyways, I’m being forced to move my comics out of my parents house. I found out that there IS enough room for the 16 boxes inside one of my storage units. I’m so excited to get them back. I’ve moved 8 of them from the house to my condo so far…and I’ve been reading comics like crazy, since they’re so conveniently close. I find myself going down to the storage unit around 1am-2am and hanging out there for 30 minutes, shuffling through comics to bring back to the condo.

I’m moving 4 more tomorrow…soon I’ll have them all! I’m SO EXCITED! I’m giddy with happiness! :D

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Kotobukiya Black Widow – Leg paint issue?

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 at 1:43 am

This is a video response to someone’s comment on my post: Photography – eternally time consuming.
I made it simply because I’m such a nice guy and I appreciate legit comments :) His comment was:

Hi. Can I ask you a quick question about your black widow figure.
I just bought this from forbiddenplanetcom and mine had really faded blue colour on the left knee, lower legs and boots. Does yours have anything like that? I’ve been trying to find pictures to compare it to but I could do with a second opinion. FP support were no help at all, cheers

To summarize: I found no problems with my statue.

Also, I <3 Kotobukiya and all Marvel and DC Bishoujo Series! Also, I bite the skin around my nails…but at least I clipped my nails and they look relatively clean. Sometimes…there’s this BLACK LINE underneath full of dirt, pencil lead, and decaying flesh. I won’t lie to you, it’s gross.

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Solving the mystery killed her

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 at 10:31 pm

This picture. I loved it for 10 months.

I ordered an iPhone case of it. I got it today, along with 3 other things: Kotobukiya Marvel Comics: Black Cat Bishoujo Statue, Smashing Magazine Book 1 + Book 2, and 8″ Disney Toy Story 3 Peas in a Pod Bean Bag Plush

The Peas in the Pod are so cute! This plushie, which cost about $20 including shipping, used to go for $50 to 80 to 100 right after Toy Story 3 came out. I almost bought it for $50 but thank goodness I didn’t.

Anyways…this girl…after I solved the mystery, after I found a high res. picture, I no longer care for her. It’s no longer my iPhone background as of earlier today. There was something about the mystery of her. Where she came from. The picture I had was LQ so I couldn’t see the details, it was blurry. Not knowing was part of what made her beautiful. Like I said before, regarding the beauty of the Venus de Milo, part of the beauty is the mystery. What were her arms doing? What did they look like? She’s incomplete…and people can’t figure it out which makes it nag on their minds. They think it’s beauty, they think they’re captivated by it…but it’s really just their subconscious trying to put the puzzle together. Okay, that was an over-exaggeration. Maybe there’s a little beauty.

But anyways…sadly, I’ve lost quite a bit of interest in my used-to-be mystery girl. I have a new crush: this chick.

Mari Makinami

She’s got the glasses. She pilots a giant robot. She…um…I don’t know much else except that she’s a new, awesome character from Evangelion 2.0: You Can [Not] Advance Edit: ~~(which has some stellar animation)~~(which has the best animation I’ve EVER seen…EVER!). She’s taken over my iPhone wallpaper as of today. I ordered this a few days ago…

I CAN NOT wait for it to come… :D

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Omnimon & Predaking galleries

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 at 12:51 am

I got my D-Arts Omnimon toy this month. As I played with it, I didn’t think there was much I could do with it. Sure, it came with 2 capes but the joints are awkward, you can’t position it like you might want. So I wasn’t too thrilled in doing a gallery for it but felt compelled to give Omnimon the same treatment as my Wargreymon post from earlier. Turns out…after taking some pictures, that you can do a LOT….I had a lot of fun taking the pictures, giving him poses. There was one problem, my photos were a bit too dark, they should have a white background, like most of my photos….oh well :( Anyways, here’s the Omnimon gallery, followed by my comparison chart between my D-Arts toy and an old Omnimon toy. That is my Wargreymon comparison chart (again). And below that are my Predaking shots.

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The Generation 1 Predaking reissue is huge so there really isn’t much you can do with it…I only have 8 shots and most aren’t dynamic at all. For a $200 toy, I was hoping my gallery would be epic…but alas, it’s just too clunky to take good shots.

On another note, it was great to pull out my photography stuff, after 4 months (which is pretty long). With taking photographs, manipulating them, posting about them (all to the sounds of ReBoot Season 3!), I’ve been doing this for about 6 hours now. It’s so time consuming…

Tomorrow: Zelda + Web Development. That’s my plan :) Nice to do stuff just for me…that was the plan of this weekend and so far, I’m fulfilling it…

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