Category: Otaku

UFO Failing

  • January 5, 2008

There’s an arcade in Sydney, not far from Central Station, with a large amount of Print Club and UFO Catcher machines. It rivals some of those seen in Japan. I spent a few dollars trying to win some cute goods for KLS, and here’s a video of one such attempt.

If the link didn’t work, here’s a photo of the item I was trying to win.

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My approach may have seemed strange. I was going for the ’tilt approach’ – rather than pick up the item and carry it over the bin, I was trying to get under one side and angle it right over the edge. I was *very* close (It was at about 90 degrees when it fell back).

Lego AT-AT

  • December 23, 2007

This post is a little late, but here’s a shot and brief video of the lego AT-AT

Dsc09802.jpg < About 40cm tall Video of it walking

The video quality isn’t excellent, as I used my old Sony T1 camera. The previous videos were shot on KLS’s newer digital camera. I’ll be bringing the Sony to Australia though, and during that trip it will surpass 10,000 photographs taken (yep, ten grand). That’s a lot of memories from one little camera.

He may be ‘retired’ after the trip 🙂

With regards to this lego model though – it’s another amazing kit, and surely the standout from the 2007 line. It boggles my mind why this was online-only, because even at $110 it’s hands down better than any other kit this year. It was a great build as well. The innards are as complicated as you may guess they are!

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Atomic!

  • December 21, 2007

Less than a month ago I renewed World Of Warcraft for the fourth time in a few years. Things were different this time around. For starters I renewed to help JBF level his new Paladin up. For seconders I waved goodbye to raiding (even though I was very casual about it since BC) and in fact to my guild in general.

I formed my own guild – named Atomic.

There are three members at the moment, myself, JBF and SFL (a mysterious person never-before-mentioned on this blog).  Despite my initial wish to scale back on my playing, and only play whenever I was helping Jim…well once again I sold my soul to the gods of WoW.

mounts.jpg < Momo's mounts My account expires in 2 days, since I cancelled for my trip. But I will return!