The Library That Never Was

Hey, folks. I am just popping in real quick before I head off to bed to let you all know that I beat the story mode of LEGO City today. It was pretty good. I am actually tempted to get the 3DS prequel game now because I quite curious to see if the two games' stories link up in a way. 
 
But anyway, I would definitely recommend the game to you folks if you ever planning on getting a Wii U in the future. It is quite fun and there is plenty to do, even after the story mode since there is so many collectibles to collect (Which is probably going to take me awhile to get them all since the city over-world is so huge.). Oh, and the humor is pretty good. 
 
There's a lot references to movies and other LEGO themes as well. Plus, it even has some Nintendo references since they did helped make the game. Like for example, if you smash into fifty things in row in a car, your car will act like it has received a Star from Super Mario Bros.
 
Hm...You know I might do a review of this game when I finished collecting everything in. Uh, would you folks like to see that? I mean I can assume you all that I am not just going praise the game and claim its flawless as I do have some criticism of it here and there. Although obviously as you can probably tell, I do definitely like the game. *shrugs*
 
Alright, so beside my rambling about LEGO City, I guess can let you all know that everything went well with my father's birthday today. We took him and my grandfather out for dinner since well, both them had birthdays this week (My father turned 52; My grandfather turned 75.). Oh, and I had grilled cheese, so that was good dinner. 
 
Hm...And I got to watch a bit of Book 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender this weekend as well. I'll have to finish it next weekend though since I didn't have time to watch through all the discs this weekend. Then again, my only friend in real life sounds like he wants to do something with me on my birthday, so I guess I won't be able to watch that again until Sunday probably.
 
So yeah, that was basically my weekend, folks. I should probably go bed. So thanks for reading this random entry of mines. I hope you all have a good day. Night, BZPers.
 
- JMJ 2013    

Hey, folks. I am just popping in to give you all a bit of an update.
 
Although then again, I am kind of more writing this entry to tell you all that LEGO City: Undercover is pretty awesome. And if you are thinking about getting a Wii U at any point in the future, you should definitely think about picking this game up because it is quite fun.
 
Really I could go on and on about the game here, but I think I am going to wait until I beat it in full before saying all my thoughts on it here. Heck, I might even do a review, if you folks really want me to. Hm...I doubt you would want that though. *shrugs*
 
But anyway, before I asked my question, I just want to officially announced that due to complains in the previous entry; I have retired my classic style for my posts here. So from this point on, I will be using nothing but default font and color for my posts here. Honestly I am not happy about this, but it is what you folks want, so I guess I'll listen to ya. *sigh* 
 
Now as I said in the entry itself, while I will be doing this from now on, I am not editing every post and blog entry that I have ever made on this site to remove my old style because it is more effort than I am willing to give for this silly thing. So be happy with what you get, folks.
 
Alright, moving on, I guess I'll ask this question, even though I am pretty sure answer will mostly be yes, you should. Should I check Doctor Who out? Just wondering because well, I know a lot of people here seem to like, so I thought maybe I should give it a try like I did MLP. So yeah, should I? Again, I am pretty sure the answer will be yes, but I thought I ask to make sure.
 
Okay, that's all I have for you folks. Hm...I probably would of talk about LEGO City some more. But well, I am kind of down in the dumps right now. I just don't feel like typing anymore than I already have. I am sorry, folks. Oh, and Happy Easter to those that celebrate it.
 
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you all have a good day. Talk to later, BZPers.
 
- JMJ 2013

Hey, folks. I thought I would pop in today to share some thoughts that have been on my mind lately. No doubt this will be a very boring for you folks to read. But hey, this is a blog, so I might as used it for its designed purpose.
 
Alright, so to begin, I guess I can mention that I got LEGO City: Undercover recently for the Wii U. And what do I think of it? I honestly loved it. The humor is great. The story & the voice acting involved is pretty good. Really everything about it seems good to me.
 
Well, then again, there is one thing that I don't like and that is load times (They are pretty bad. Luckily they don't happen too often.). Although I think Wii U itself is more at fault than game itself. *shrugs* Hm...I also don't like that I don't have means to save on my own really since it kind of annoying having to depend on the game to autosave things.
 
As for work related stuff, things have been pretty good. I am still quite busy with quotes, which is kind of good (Since quotes means we could be getting orders for those parts, if our prices are viewed as fair enough to the buyers. And that's obviously a good thing because orders are the life force of the company.). Although I definitely can't say I am fan of working with quotes since they kind of trapped me at my desk for hours on end and there generally pretty dull since most of time, I don't get to model anything in SolidWorks. That and front office has a habit of doing things with quotes without telling Engineering department first.
 
But hey, they got to get done and I honestly trust myself to get it done correctly more so than some of my co-workers since I never cut corners in anything that I work on. And beside, my boss is trying to gradually get me out of working on quotes since he does feel my efforts would be better serve releasing books, especially considering we got a lot of jobs now coming in.
 
Although it would help if my friend would come to Engineering department more often since I am supposed to be training him to take the reigns for model based definition quotes. But unfortunately he still has a lot of scanning to do in the Inspection department, it seems. *shrugs* But yeah, that sums up work in a nut shell.
 
*yawn* Well, it is kind of late here, so I guess I can call this an entry and posted it. I mean yeah, I didn't really ramble a whole lot here, but honestly I am pretty sure you folks have better things to do with your time than read an entry from loser known as JMJ here. So yeah, thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you all have a good day. Night, BZPers.
 
- JMJ 2013

Hey, folks. I am just popping in to remind you all that LEGO City: Undercover (Which is for the Wii U.) has just came out today (18th). 
 
Now I don't have it, so I can't tell you anything about it. But I will be trying to get it tomorrow, so I might post a bit of thoughts here, if I get around to playing it at all. XD Unless of course, you folks don't want me talking about it.
 
Well, do you folks want me talk about it here? Just wondering.
 
Uh, that's really about it for this entry. Hm...I guess I can ask this again. Is anyone interested in one of these BZPower shirts? I am asking because I was planning on doing a bit of raffle for them. But I hadn't really seen any interest in them here yet, so I am not sure if I will do that or not. *shrugs*
 
Alright, thanks for taking the time to read this, folks. And I hope you all have a good day. Talk to later, BZPers.
 
- JMJ 2013

Hm...How interested in would you folks be in reading a Bionicle story, where to certain degree you get to pick what happens based on character path you chose?
 
It kind of a similar idea to what xccj did in his blog awhile back, except in this case it is going to take place in Bionicle verse about 200,000 years after the defeat of Makuta via Moon.That and well, my idea is kind of taking up to 11 since I am kind going to try to like have personality type quiz to it for each group's story so to speak.
 
Like let's say for example, you picked the Matoran path of story. Well, basically by choosing a Matoran, you also given a personality quiz of sorts that determines which of three personality types of Matoran, you will be. This in return will effect how the story progress for you and the choices that you are given to progress it. That makes sense, right?
 
As for why I want to do this, its most because this first time in awhile that I have felt inspired to write some Bionicle fan fiction and I kind of want to jump on my idea. Obviously though, it is going to take awhile to get done, especially considering I am planning to have at least five or six Bionicle species to choose to progress the story as.
 
So yeah, it is not going be easy project or a quick one. But I think it will be fun and I want to give it a shot, even if you folks aren't interest in seeing it here. If you are interest in it though and you want hear maybe more about, feel free to leave a comment here if you want.
 
That's all for this entry. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you all have good day. Talk to later, BZPers.
 
- JMJ 2013

Hey, folks. I am just pop in to show you a cool CH-47 Chinook poster that I got at work today. So yeah, with that said, here are the pictures.
 
Oh, and apologizes for the pictures being kind of grainy again. I am unfortunately still using my cheap camcorder to take pictures, so grainy pictures seem to be unavoidable. *shrugs* I am sorry about that, folks.
 
Alright, that's pretty much all I have for you today. Well, actually I guess I could talk about some other stuff, while I am here. Like for example, today I got a package from Amazon that I ordered from there like three days ago. That was pretty cool. Oh, you want to know what was in package? Well, it was Book 1 & Book 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which means I now have the whole series on DVD.
 
Hm...You know I should totally like marathon Avatar: The Last Airbender next month during the weekends. I might just do actually since it has been awhile since I have watch Book 1 & Book 2.
 
Oh, and speaking of packages, I also ordered Deadman Wonderland recently, so I should hopefully have that by Friday according to the tracker. So yeah, I definitely going to have plenty stuff to watch during my free time from work, I guess. After all, I did buy like seasons 6 & 7 of Bones and season 4 of FRINGE at Target like two weeks ago (They were having a really good deal there at time. Like all of three of those DVDs were like half the price listed there.). XD
 
Hm...Next time I buy DVDs, I really need to try and get Seasons 1 & 2 of Dollhouse.
 
But anyway, beside buying DVDs of shows that I like, I also got today my first ever LEGO Architecture set (Its Empire State Building), which I have yet to actually build. It looks like a pretty simple build though, so it shouldn't take too long when I finally get around to building it. Either way, it is still going to be nice little desk display thing for me (lol I say this when my desk is still covered in Brickmas and Bionicle MOCs.).
 
Oh, and I build like one of my Lord of Rings sets last week. It was nice. I believe it was the Uruk-hai Army one. And I must say I really like the armor on Uruk-hai minifigures.
 
Alright, I think I ramble enough here now. Before I go though, I guess I should mention that I will be sending those MOCs in the previous entry. However they won't be able to make it to BrickFair AL in time, so I'll be shipping them out to Bricks Cascade instead when shipping information become available.
 
I may or may not make some more MOCs in the meantime. If I do, I'll let you folks know just in case you want to check out for some reason (*shrugs* No idea why considering I am a horrible MOCer.).
 
But anyway, that's all for this entry. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you all have a good day. Talk to later, BZPers.
 
- JMJ 2013

Hey, folks. I am just popping in today to get your opinion on what MOCs that I should sent to LEGO Fan Conventions listed here. Why am I asking you folks? Because I feel like I am biased about my MOCs. That and well, if you going to see them, I would like to know what you would like to see in person and all.
 
So without further ado, here are choices:
 
A) Ussal Crab > View 1, View 2, View 3 *Note: This MOC has appeared in one of these LEGO Conventions before, except it was pulling a cart with a Matoran on it (Although I do remember looking at a bunch of photos from that con for it and I didn't find it in any...So maybe it is so bad that it shouldn't be there again. *shrugs*).
 
B) Unnamed Rahi > View 1, View 2, View 3 *Note: This MOC was actually made like yesterday. So yeah, make of that what you will.
 
C) Unnamed Rahi 2 > View 1, View 2, View 3
 
D) Unnamed Turaga > View 1, View 2 *Note: This more of side note than anything else, but this Turaga was actually original to be a character in one of fan fictions, but the story never panned out. Honestly I kind of happy that it didn't since story's main character was my awful semi-self insert character.
 
E) Unnamed Matoran like Species (Ta-Version) > View 1, View 2, View 3
 
F) Unnamed Matoran like Species (Po-Version) > View 1, View 2, View 3
 
G) Unnamed Matoran like Species (Onu-Version) > View 1, View 2, View 3
 
H) Sent nothing because your MOCs are awful...
 
Alright, that's all choices. You can pick as many choices as you want (Except for well, Choice H since that would silly to pick more than one choice for, if you are telling not to sent anything at all.).
 
Also apologizes for photos being kind of grainy. My camera is well, not very good at taking photos of MOCs (Which is not surprising considering it is a cheap camcorder.). So yeah, sorry about that. I'll try to maybe take some better photos with my father's camera later.
 
With that said, I guess that's it for this entry. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you all take the time to leave a comment with what MOCs you think I should sent to these events. I'll talk to later, BZPers.
 
- JMJ 2013

12/24 - On the final day of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a Bionicle-ish figure.
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12/23 - On the eleventh day of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a piece of coal with a red ribbon attached.
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12/22 - On the tenth day of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a sapling Christmas Tree growing in small flower pot.
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12/21 - On the ninth day (21st) of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a Prison Boat with Ogel locked inside.

On the eighth day (20th) of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a robot.

On the seventh day (19th) of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a Nether Portal with R2D2 inside.

On the sixth day (18th) of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a little sapling tree.
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12/17 - On the fifth day of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave me a Japanese-styled shrine.
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12/16 - On the fourth day of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave me a hobbit sized hut.
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12/15 - On the third day of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a flatscreen TV.
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12/14 - On the second day of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a mecha walker with an alien pilot.
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12/13 - On the first day of Brickmas, my true love LEGO gave to me a old boombox! **Bonus
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12/24 - Alright, folks, this is the last update that I will be making for Brickmas.

And well, it definitely been fun. Enough so that, I think I might do this project again next year. Of course, it depends on whether or not you guys want me to do this again. So yeah, if you do want me to, it would be nice if you left a comment saying you want to see more of this as otherwise I just assume no one wants it and just not waste my time with it.

But anyway, thank you all for taking the time to check out each of these MOCs, especially considering a lot of them weren't very good. And I hope you all like the last one. Lastly, I hope you all a happy holiday season and a good new year.

12/23 - Hey, folks. I don't really have anything here to say, so just make what you will of today's MOC. Oh, and I am sorry about it being kind of a simple MOC today. I unfortunately just wasn't feeling very creative.

12/22 - Hey, folks. Like yesterday, I don't really have anything to talk about here. Beside well, that I feel like today's MOC was rather uncreative and for that I am sorry. Hm...I might try tomorrow to do maybe a Bionicle-ish MOC. Although like I said before, I am not very good with humanoid builds. You will just have to wait and see. Thanks for taking the time to check this out. Be sure pop in tomorrow to see the next one.
 
12/21 - Hey, folks. I don't really have much to talk about here. Beside, telling you folks that I am sorry about vanishing for about three days. You all can blame my job for that since they got me sick and drove me up the wall with large amount of a work load, they had for me for past three days.

Thankfully though, I am on vacation from work now, so this definitely won't be happening again. So yeah, we should be sticking to normal schedule from this point on.

Alright, that's all I have to say here really. Thanks for taking the time to check out today's MOCs. Be sure to pop in again to see tomorrow's. Oh, and if you want me to try to get better pictures of any of MOCs, feel free to leave a comment here telling me which one you want a better look at.

12/17 - Hey, folks. Like I promised, I have another MOC today. Is it any good? *shrugs* I mean I guess I think it is pretty good. Although it could use some improvements here or there. Like for example, I think there should been lamps of some sort on ends of the bridge. The shrine building itself also looks it could use more color or at very least been made out of different color than tan.
 
And well, that's about it for my comments for this one. Actually wait...I guess I could mention that I originally was going to do joke for this entry and take a picture of five golden One Rings. But unfortunately I only have three rings available right now since rest are still in their boxes. XD

12/16 - Hey, BZPers. As you can probably tell today's object is nothing special. I was kind was just feeling a bit uncreative today. Hopefully tomorrow's object will be more creative than this. I am not making any promises though since I will probably be worn out from work tomorrow. There definitely will be a MOC of some sort though.
 
Maybe it will be Bionicle related. Well, actually probably not since I am not very good at humanoid builds honestly. But at very least, there will be something for you to check out tomorrow. You will just have to wait until tomorrow to check it out.
 
Oh, and am I only one that thinks my hut looks kind of like Burned Tower from Pokemon Gold & Silver? lol I am probably am the only one. But man, just thinking that makes me want to try my hand at recreating the Tin Tower (Bell Tower) from Pokemon Gold & Silver in LEGO form at some point.
 
And no, I probably not going to do that for this 12 Days of Brickmas thing since it wouldn't be in spirit of it. That and well, I would want to map this project out in LEGO Digital Designer first.
 
12/15 - Hey again, folks. I don't really have a whole lot to say this time around. I mean I guess I could mention that I was going to be linking a video here. But since I ramble in it for over ten minutes, I couldn't upload it where I normally do.
 
Trust me though, you are not missing anything by not seeing. All I was trying to do in it was try to poorly explain why I think I should stick with non-humanoid builds in this since I tend to have trouble with strengthen the joint connections in humanoid builds most of the time.
 
Although then again, I did end up giving you folks a tour of my desk in that video, so you might want to see that. *shrugs* Hm...If you folks want, I could film another video to show you all my desk. Honestly though, it is nothing special and well, it is very messy.
 
But anyway, feel free to leave your comments here about the MOCs. Oh, and I also wouldn't mind some camera tips as well since while the pictures do look slightly better, the quality of them is still not that great (Of course, then again, it might just be my camera.). 

12/14 - Hey, folks. I am back again with another Brickmas MOC. And well, I said before, I am not really following the format of the song. I just think it had a nice ring to it is all.
 
But anyway, today's MOC kind of a mecha walker, which honestly I think could of turn out better than what you see above. Unfortunately though, I don't really have my LEGO system bricks sorted through, so I am basically swimming through a tub of different pieces looking for just the right one.
 
So yeah, I have a bit of trouble finding pieces that match the color scheme and stuff. That and I originally wasn't even a building a mecha as I was just trying to build something that I could build two of, so that I would sort of match up with the song. And well, they looked like they would make good feet, so I thought I might as well make a mecha-ish thing instead of following the song format to the letter.
 
And as a result, I got this mecha walker thing, which I think is pretty good. It could been better though. For example, the hip connection for this MOC is not very strong, so one of the legs actually falls off a lot. Another problem that I have with this MOC is fact that torso does not look as good as I want it to be (Which is probably because I didn't spent near enough time building that. You folks can blame FRINGE for that. Oh, and tonight's episode was good, by the way.).
 
So yeah, this MOC is far from perfect and well, I am sorry about that. Also apologize for awful photo of it, I couldn't figure out how exactly to stop the weird blurring effect, I was getting. And well, I am too tired right now to figure out what the issue was. I'll try to make up for it tomorrow. Oh, and thank you for the comments for yesterday's MOC.

12/13 - Now obviously since you are reading this, you are probably wondering what's this entry about. Well, basically I decided that I kind of want to do something here to celebrate the holiday season this month (Oh, and by the way, I am still thinking about doing a new take on my Gift Day short stories from years' past.) and I thought I might as well do a bit of MOCing.
 
As a result, I will be a trying to make new MOC each day for the next twelve days. And for each one of them, I will provided a link to look at them in my blog here.
 
Oh, but be aware that it is probably not actually going to follow the format of Twelve Days of Christmas since MOCs are all going to be random probably. Plus, I have feeling I butchered it already in this entry, so don't expect anything too grand (Especially considering my MOCs are not very good.).   

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So yeah, make of this what you will and well, I hope you all have a good holiday this month. See ya tomorrow, BZPers.
 
- JMJ 2012

Hey, folks, I am just popping in today to inquire about something LEGO related since one of the projects, that I was thinking about trying to work on next year, has an idea attached to it that I am not sure how doable it is. Basically what I want to know is if LEGO has made any motion sensors for their Mindstorms series and whether or not they can be program in a loop to turn a light on temporally and then turn it back off (I am pretty sure you can program like that in Mindstorms. But well, I hadn't use NXT series before, so I am not sure.).

So yeah, are there any motion sensors in Mindstorms? I personally hope so since I was kind of hoping that I could maybe make the eyes on this studless mosaic project to light up when people go near it. But well, if LEGO hasn't made any, I guess I can't do it. So if any of you folks know if there is a motion sensor by LEGO, I would appreciate it if you could leave a comment here to tell me. Thanks to those that do that.

Alright, that's really about it for this entry since well, I am tired. Oh, I guess I can mention that there is probably going to be Pokelog tomorrow since I did play quite a bit of Pokemon today. Until then though, thank you all for taking the time to read this and good night.

And yes, folks, I will be voting tomorrow. It should be easy to figure out who based on my Bio to the right.  That's all I am saying on the matter.

-JMJ 2012

Hey, folks. I am just popping in to tell you all that FRINGE is back today. And well, as you veterans of my blog know, I always try to write up a little entry here about my thoughts of the night's episode with a bit of rambling about other stuff as well. Obviously though, I am talking about the episode in whole detail since someone might of miss tonight's episode and I don't want to be spoiling for them.

So mostly I'll just be commenting on my overall feelings about the episode here. Of course, since this is being written during a hype state of mind (What can I say? I tend get passionate when I watched TV shows, I like.), my comments here about the episode are by no means my final opinion on them.

With that said, I guess I will start off by saying that I am pretty excited for this season since this episode does seem to be setting up some interesting plots (Which considering it is all Observer based, I am very interested in seeing where things go here.). Although I can't say a huge fan of leap forward in time for this season, but I can understand why it was done and I am sure I will get use to it.

Hm...And well, that's all I feel safe right now commenting on. I mean I could say more, but I don't want to accidentally end up spoiling something for you folks out there. So to be safe, I leave FRINGE talk at that and move on to something else.

Speaking of something else, is it too late to try and get into Ninjago storyline? I have seen a few of episodes of show on Cartoon Network awhile back and I am kind of interest in maybe checking out more of them to get a better idea of the story. I am not sure if I should though since I recall someone saying that Ninjago was being discontinued soon by LEGO (Which if that true, I kind have to wonder why considering it seems like it is pretty successful series for LEGO right now.). *shrugs*

Oh, and did anyone here catch the Empire Strikes Out last Wednesday? I am just wondering since I thought it was pretty good, especially in terms of humor. And well, it has kind made me wish I had seen the Padawan Menace, but unfortunately I missed getting to watch that one awhile back.

Hm...And now I am in building mood. Unfortunately it like one in the morning here, so it is not exactly good time to go play around with my LEGO (Which knowing me will just end with me sorting through bricks and Technic pieces for several hours.). I probably should be going to bed.

Before I do though, I just remembered that I wanted to mention that apparently my sister and I are in competition to see who get their license first. My money on her since she is pretty determined and she really hate taking the bus into work. So really it is not competition at all since I really don't see myself feeling comfortable behind the wheel anytime soon. *shrugs*

Alright, that's all for this entry. Thanks for taking the time to read this, folks. I hope you all have a good day. Night, BZPers.

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By the way, this misprint is still up for grabs, so if you want it shoot me a PM.

- JMJ 2012