“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
KLS made a terrarrium on Easter Sunday.
I was going to document the creation process but she did it very quickly and in secret, so all I have is completed shots 🙂
Here’s another:
What’s that you say? Something is different?
Maybe it’s the inhabitant:
Lego Minifig series 4, if you’re interested 😉
A few weeks back I tweeted the following:
Just ordered something great online. It cost me nothing, not even one cent (including shipping)! I’ll blog it when it arrives 🙂
Well it arrived, and here it is:
What could it be? I excitedly opened the package, and this amazing thing was inside:
Yes my good sirs, it is a brand new Game & Watch!
But not truly new, for this is the 2010 reproduction of the first ever Game & Watch that has been made available on Nintendo.com to registered owners of Nintendo product. It cost 1200 coins, which means approximately $1200 worth of registered Nintendo product.
It took me over 2 hours the other week to fill out 40+ surveys to get enough coins to redeem for this item 🙂
Those curves! That sexy faux brushed steel! That funi red button!
I like the Club Nintendo logo on the back.
But how does it play you ask? Well my friends, here is the face of someone playing it:
And here is some video of the action:
I only played it once, and in that single game my highest score was 160, as you can see here:
Was I wrong? Surely everyone will agree this is a legendary item 🙂
My brother got me this kit for my birthday:
I just assembled it. The parts are all aluminium, and the nuts and bolts that hold everything together are tiny!
The instructions are clear and very nicely done, with a 1:1 scale list of parts on the other side. It is very easy to know how to put the kit together:
Actually putting it together was quite challenging though. It took me about an hour in total, and most of the time was consumed by trying to get nuts on the end of very tiny bolts with very little room in which to maneuver. Of course I was stubborn, and never went and got tweezers. This particularly step was by far the worst:
The springs are there to make the wings have a bit of ‘give’. Unfortunately although the kit has a lot of springs, none of the others do anything and are purely for visual impact, such as this one:
I did like how some of the parts were made of ‘soft aluminium’ (as described by the manual) and can be bent as the owner sees fit. The antennae are an example:
Here’s a shot to show the scale of the finished mantis:
And here is a dramatic shot showing this mantid golem in it’s natural habitat:
