Shibuya Streets

The past month has been very busy for me. I've been exhausted most of the time and have only been home in the evenings. That said there are some (very short) highlights.
 
I've been playing a lot of Lego City: Undercover for the Wii U... I wonder just how good that game is?
 
The Rayman challenges app on the Wii U is a lot of fun too.
 
I got to hang out in NYC with my boyfriend and an awesome friend yesterday. My legs hurt from all the walking.
 
Iron Man 3 is awesome go watch it.
 
As for life things... still nothing new on the house front and we can't fix things until the insurance company gives us money. And we can't accept the small offers they have given us as you can't fix a house with the numbers they are offering and ahhhhhh.
 
Free Comic book day brought us free comics.
 
The project Aleks and I are working on now has a mascot character and I am so excited for it.
 
Jedi Master J is an awesome friend and one of the coolest people ever.
 
Also it is my Birthday and this month feels good. This month feels good to me.

I must like pain. I have Bionicle: The Game on three different systems.
 
Three of them.
 
PC, PS2, and now Gamecube.
 
You see a week ago, Gamestop had used copies without boxes for less than $2 each. I bought one.
 
I LIKE PAINNNNNNNN

Today has been an eventful day in gaming. There was a lot of good and bad that happened today.
 
The Good
Lego City: Undercover now has a release date in the UK thanks to today's European Nintendo Direct. You guys can pick it up on March 28th.
The Wii U lineup just got a lot better, Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, and an Untitled Zelda were announced.
Untitled 3D Mario and Untitled Mario Kart will be fully unveiled at E3.
Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS will have the first details and screenshots shown at E3.
Yarn Yoshi, or Yoshi's Epic Yarn looks simply adorable.
Miiverse will be getting new features. The ability to create user communities, more than one official communities per title, usability improvements, filtering function, the ability to browse Miiverse from smartphones beginning this spring and it will have a special smartphone app in the future
Virtual Console will be getting GBA games! Also if you transfer games over from the Wii, upgrades will cost $1 to $1.50. The games will have more features such as off TV play.
Monolith Soft has a new game coming tentatively titled X.
Fire Emblem and Shin-Megami Tensei crossover game will be coming here too.
Wii U will get needed system updates in the Spring and Summer.
 
The Bad
Virtual Console games are getting a slight price increase.  For NES: $4.99 – $5.99 SNES: $7.99 – $8.99
THQ is officially no more with most of the studios and IPs having been sold off to various companies.
G4 which was once a gaming giant has aired the final episodes of XPlay and Attack of the Show today.
 
 
 
A lot was announced today by Nintendo as it was almost a mini E3, I'm personally looking forward to their E3 showing even more. I am very excited for what is coming on the Wii U this year.

 
 
Yeah... we're doomed.

So Splashmaster linked me to this earlier:

What is this? A fair of bricks?

Unfortunately due to issues I sadly will not be attending this year.

But hey, there is always New York Comic-Con. That we will be attending as we paid for the four day passes before the issues took place.

A good Le-Matoran doesn't watch out for that tree.

The tree watches out for THEM.

So, recently I got the Lego January 2012 Catalog. I was overall not really impressed by the new selection, except for a few things.

Thus, I will now playfully mock the Lego sets from their pictures. I’ll start with the themes in the order that they appear. I will discuss the themes in general but I might point out specific sets. I'm not doing all of them, and I'm going to be fully detailed on all themes. These are just my first thoughts.

All of this is done in fun. :3

Lego Ninjago
So apparently the Lego ninjas are now battling the Goa’uld. I have no idea why, but the minifigs look kind of awesome. Although I must ask, why do evil snake people have a crane with a wrecking ball on it? How does this Fangpyre Goa’uld Wrecking Ball fit with ninjas? And snowmobiles? Last I saw ninjas did not have snowmobiles. And helicopters? Jet planes? Really? REALLY?

Also, Cole’s Tread Assault looks like the Ninja Batmobile...

Lego City
So, Lego City is now working with Smokey the Bear. They are fighting forest fires… but the forests only have one tree in each set. So… it is more like a tree fire? Also, the police built a Police Station in the forest, to catch all of the robbers. There seems to be an epidemic in Lego forest!

Lego Dino
So Johnny Thunder has returned… oh wait… not really. It seems like Jurassic Park… complete with trying to capture and control the dinosaurs. I wonder how many minifigs got eaten? Honestly, Dino Defense HQ should just be called Lego Jurassic Park.

Lego DC Super Heroes
I actually like these sets. They have some awesome pieces and minifigs. The sets themselves look pretty cool. My only complaints are that the buildable Batman, Green Lantern, and Joker look… really really bad.

Lego Friends
I want these. All of them. <3

Purple and pink all over. These sets are the best Lego has made in awhile. <3

Lego Hero Factory
I’m actually not a fan of these new ones, too many large pieces. And the high prices. I’ll pass.

Lego Star Wars
I do want that Super Star Destroyer…

Those are my thoughts on the Lego in the catalog.