Category: Otaku

Miscellania

First of all, Doctor Who was great. Season 3 is off to a good start…

This post is just to dump some of the stuff from my harddrive, such as this photo of the lego crane I made the other weekend. It’s much bigger than I thought it would be from the packaging!

DSC09659.JPG < Breakfast Crane This next shot is of some Star Wars minature's from the new 'Pocketmodel TCG'. Game packs are $5 apiece and come with rules, small dice, some playing cards and some small models of various ships from the SW world. I have little (no) interest in the game itself, but as a SW fan had to buy a pack to see the models. I'm quite pleased. The level of detail is high and the materials are much sturdier than in similar games (Pirates, Transformers). If you're interested in this sort of thing you could do worse than picking up a pack (I found it at Target): DSC09665.JPG < The base is about 2.5cm wide Lastly, I recently purchased (online, from the UK) a homebrew Gameboy Advance game called Blast Arena Advance: tealcartbig.jpg < Shot of the cart The game is extremely professional, but there isn't a great deal to it. The third of the following shots is a screenshot of gameplay, which consists of moving a target around the screen picking up the yellow squares. And that's it!
blastarena1.jpg blastarena5.jpg blastarena3.jpg

Extremely simplistic gameplay aside I’m happy with the purchase, both because of the overall slickness of the product and because of how cool it is just to have a homebrew GBA cartridge. Plus, the price (7 pounds, including shipping) was right 🙂

Set Your PVR For July 6!

Doctor Who starts again this Friday (July 6) here in America. Sci-fi will run back-to-back The Runaway Bride (2006 Christmas special) and Smith And Jones (Season 3 episode 1) from 8:00-10:30, so be sure to set your PVR’s if you’re in America!

Naturally I am excited, since I don’t doubt it will entertain as much as the previous seasons. I got a little bored of Rose as well, so I’m looking forward to the new companion.

Unfortunately, I buy Doctor Who magazine. Whilst it’s a very good magazine, the editorial is also ahead of the American schedule. So, despite my best efforts, it’s almost impossible to avoid spoilers unless I simply put the issues aside for a few months.

So, for instance, I know what ??? ???? ?o s,?oq ?s?1 sp?o? o? ??? ?o??op ???, and I know who this guy is:

50.jpg < Not the new companion And I also know the above dude is not You-know-who, since he doesn’t turn up until the third last episode of the season…

Promises to be a doozy 😉

Galactus

So apparently the recent Fantastic Four sequel did not include Galactus, which is kind of crap because that was one of the reasons I was interested in the film (which we ended up not seeing). Not that I have any interest in Galactus, or American comics as a whole, it’s just that I figured it would have been a spectacle.

No worries though, because I came upon this image of what he may have looked like, taken from the Marvel Ultimate Alliance game. As far as I am concerned, this shows truly outstanding character design:

Galactus_close_up.jpg < Galactus

Plus, it almost looks a bit like Andrew Eldritch don’t you think?