Updates !

What's happening lately with me ?

• In May I received my first delivery of meat. Yes, meat. Tons of meat. More than meat the eyes. We pay 40$ each week and once every 4 months, we get a crapload of meat.
Observe Exhibit A, our freezer before delivery:

Now observe Exhibit B: our freezer after delivery:

As you can see, we are surrounded by meat. The bad thing about this, my girlfriend recently started a diet so I have to eat this all by myself by next delivery, in September. Help !

• On the Magic the Gathering topic, our small tournament finally ended. I finished second but I blame bad shuffling. Here's a pictures of the order I made with the local card shop.

• My girlfriend won tickets for the Monster Spectacular show at the PBS. While not a full scale show (for which they need an outdoor venue or the Olympic Stadium in Montreal), it was a pretty entertaining show. I do have to admit, it's a guy show but you get some "drama" to spice it up. The fight during the ATV race was totally fake and one guy flipped his monster truck upside down. The fight was totally hilarious, espcially after the "officials" broke it up and one guy "fainted"...
  

More update soon, gotta leave !

So what else is new ?

Been absent of the blogging world for a long time again. Life is always busy when you have a puppy, especially a Samoyed. That little (huge !) ball of energy keep us occupied almost day and night ! Can't complain tho, I love that white fluffy ball.

After a decade of staying away from Magic: The Gathering, I am now playing almost every weekend at work with some other geeky colleagues. It all started by my finding a pack of around 300 cards at a local Value Village. Nothing really of value, just tought it might be worth something on the net (boy I was wrong...). Less than a week later, Benson mention he'd like to try the game...

While it was an interesting idea at the time, he didn't know the mistake he had just made. We both have a slight tendencies to OCD and the following days we bought our first Intro pack.

Little did we know was that the simple idea of playing MTG became a craze that could even be considered a frenzy now. We thought at the time it would be cool if even a couple of guys would join us (well I may have said that to myself... anyway...). We are currently nine people playing it at work, with one guy searching for his cards at home and another waiting to borrow his friend cards.

We even staged a tournament during work hours ! Well lunch hours that is. So a simple 9 players tournament has been going on for almost a month now. At stake is a Fat Pack for the new expension block, coming on Thursday April 30th.

Just to show you the size of how this thing has grow: since I already had to buy a Fat Pack for the tournament and one for myself, I began to shop around to get the better price. Found a local job near my house who would do them for 36$ tax-in. I save around 2.50$ for each pack. So I talked to the others and in one day, my order grew from 2 packs to 7 packs and 3 box of boosters. We're talking a 72$ that became 627$ ! I'm pretty sure the owner has customers who buy much more than that but I'm pretty sure he's not complaining when a new guy comes in and commit to buy more than 600$ of stuff.

Another good thing that came out of this is that people we just barely knew in our division are now more involved in our small circle. You can never have too many geeks in one place !

And now the good stuff !

Since we moved, I was finally able to display my vinyl collection correctly. Up until September, almost everything I was buying went into moving boxes. So here's a quick look at my collection.

(Top of display cases. Notice Mario tipping his hat and offering you a mushroom.)


(First half of the case. Good selection of 8inch Dunny and my Touma stuff. I just loves his designs. Also you can see the House of Liu figure. I really like their simple line and how they look.)


(Bottom half of the cases. Yup, 4 Gameritas ! Right next to the other JLed stuff. Another of my favorite artist. Awesome figures all the time. The Teddy Troop box was signed by 123Klan since they now live in Montreal and it's where I got the figure. The PAW figure, down center, was broken during shipping or packing, but the webstore (Lulubell Toy Bodega), in their incredible awesomeness, offered a replacement, in the other color scheme (the one I had bought is totally sold out). More on this later.)


(The last but not the least, the Wall-O-Qees! It's hard to find a place for all those Qees.)


(And finally, my small plexi display case. Too much stuff to describe it all !)


So this concludes our little tour of my room. I hope you enjoyed it.

So, what's new ?

Since the last post was almost a year ago (that long, damn!), there's been a lot of stuff lately. My girlfriend and I finally moved in a real house!

Real house means basement and basement means bigger Weirdy Room! That's right fols, I got a 10 * 14 room all to myself and my toys. I was able to fit my whole video games collection, as well as all the DVD, 2 arcade cabinets, and my vinyl toy collection too and still has space to move !

Here's a little preview:
(Left side of room)

(The huge closet)

(Right side room)


Pictures of the Wall-O-Qees and of the glass display will come in another post.

I am really proud of what I've done with the room. It took me a while to arrange stuff and clean up afterwards (in fact, I finished earlier this week).

Of course, this is always a work in progress as I get new stuff almost weekly, but you get the gist of it.

Still alive !

Yup, still alive ! Gonna try to put some life back into that blog, starting now ! Keep posted !

My unsatisfactory experience with KidRobot 14

As a semi-hardcore gamer, release dates are an important thing. When a game I want is coming out, you better know I'm getting it on release date.

But when it comes to designer toys and figures, it's something else.

A normal release game will get thousands of copy of the game available in America. Easy to find and to get. Now, let's compare to the wonderful world of designer figures... On a good day, a figure might get 1500 figures, let's say in 2 colorway. Consider yourself lucky if you get one as they would normally be sold out in 1 or 2 hours.

I was lucky to get a Tristan Eaton Dunny when they released in January. They went out fast.

Now enter the realm of Huck Gee, a guy I never heard off before I was interested in designer toys. The guy is a phenomenon by himself. In January, he released a really nice set of 10 munny on eBay, as he only sell on eBay. He sold the 10 figures in a record of 17 seconds. The thing here is that each figures were 650$ ! And no, it's not a typo, it's six hundred and fifty bucks ! Each !

So, as Kidrobot released their Kidrobot 14, named Kidninja, designed by Huck Gee, you knew I would had to be really quick to get one, even tho there was 2 colors, and 1000 of them each,

1. Kidrobot were sold out in 15 minutes. Could not get one.
2. Voltage Land in BC were not selling them online since they didn't get enough. Could not get one
3. Magic Pony in ON alsy put they stuff 1-2 days late. Wrote them an email asking about them. Next day, they are sold out on their website and I get a reply 3 days after. Could not get one.
4. I learn from the Toy's R Evil Blog that Huck Gee made 50 Blood Splatter Kidninja (25 of each color) and they were to be released on eBay on Friday, 12:00 PM PST. By the time I hit refresh at 3:00 PM on Friday, they were sold out. COULD NOT GET ONE !

I can't resolve myself to buy it on eBay from other sellers with a 60% or more markup. That's just wrong.

So unless I find it in a store in many years, I'm not getting this figure. Ever...

Because of this, I won't even bother to put a picture of the figure here.

Starting a new website !

I'm starting a new website for Canadian Vinyl Figure Collectors, since nothing like this seems to exist.

I'll talk more about it when I get something done. Giving you the URL while I just registered the domain name wouldn't be of much use for now...