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Assembling Avengers

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , Jul 11 2012 · 135 views
lego, avengers, marvel
I had a grand plan of "yay I'm going to get all the Avengers!" because I have the Jeep set and will get the Quinjet, which just means I'd need to shell out some cash for the Hulk.

And then I realized LEGO is making more Avengers: Wolverine, Spider-Man (already made ^_^) and Iron Fist.
Which means I'll need to acquire Wolverine and Iron Fist somehow too.

No biggie. I was going to get the X-Men helicopter set anyway. And will figure out a way to get Hulk at a decent price for a complete set of 2012-movie Avengers. But I'll probably just buy Iron Fist separately (because the set he comes in is $30, and I already have Spidey and Doc Ock, though Ock isn't built :( ).

Decisions of a recent-graduate who shouldn't be spending money on LEGO. Luckily the Quinjet and Helicopter won't be out of my pocket and gifts instead!

This also means I'll have to get any other Avengers they make. ~Crosses fingers for Storm, The Thing,* Nick Fury (or Furies (Furys?)),** Venom, Beast, and tons of others...~

-CF :kakama:
*I should build the Thing in miniland scale which would fit in with the minifigs.
**They should totally make Fury, Coulson, and Hill. In their own set.


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Prometheus

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , Jun 28 2012 · 115 views
life, movies, Prometheus
Non-spoiler:
Never has a fantastic movie been so terrible.
Or never has a jumbled mess of a film looked so great.

Which is actually saying two different things.

I had heard, going in, that it was very scenic and introduced some very nice "big ideas." I had also heard it had too many big ideas to satisfactorily answer even a few of those. What I did not know was that some of the things they put in made no sense and provided nothing to the story, or that there was potential for foreshadowing that was not followed up upon.
Spoilers:
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What really got my goat was how cliche and stereotypical tropish so many scenes were. I had expected more from Ridley Scott.

I'm glad I free passes, but I don't blame you for paying full price to see it (which apparently now is $12 at my theater D: ). But I also don't blame you for wanting your money back, or waiting.

-CF :kakama:


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Bring Back The Firefighters

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , Jun 15 2012 · 88 views

It's a sad day when Hank Green tells you that what is essentially published Twilight fanfiction has sold more copies than Ray Bradbury ever did in his entire life.

So it turns out nerdfighteria will be mass-reading Fahrenheit 451. Which sounds great because I have yet to read it (never required in high school. Or 1984, but we had to read Brave New World which I still take to heart 5 years later...) and think a big group thing like that sounds fun.

Until then I'll quickly finish John Green's The Fault in Our Stars (a perfect book!) and Batman: Hush.

-CF :kakama:


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Tumbler Tour

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 28 2012 · 120 views
Batman, Tumbler, life, sci-fi and 1 more...
Yeah, I was right there looking at it. Trying to figure out how it could, somehow, get to the highway and to my house...

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Back angles.

It's currently on tour across the States. It'll be in Baltimore, Maryland, today, Memorial Day. But there will probably be a bigger crowd than today at the National Harbor because there's a sci-fi/fantasy convention concluding.

B-)

-CF :kakama:


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Loki's Escape!

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 22 2012 · 138 views
LEGO, Avengers
Guess who's girlfriend got them the Loki's Escape/Jeep Super Heroes The Avengers LEGO set as a graduation gift?!?!

B-)

It's a really neat, compact set. And I guess what makes it so are the minifigs: Loki, Iron Man, and, to an extent, Hawkeye. Shame it didn't come with the doctor and Maria Hill.

Loki is awesome, of course. Iron Man even more so, I would argue, but both look fantastic! They both are so iconic and the details in the figures are amazing. Hawkeye? Alright, he's pretty cool too, especially with his sunglasses and compound bow. And I like the details on his back, with the quiver of high-tech arrows.

The truck? Well, I did not check it out too much. The figures take the show. But the truck is very well built and is not messing around (what would you expect from SHIELD?).

If there was one thing I would change, it would be giving Loki a glowy-blue bit for the staffhead, and him and Stark hair, and not making me watch that part of the movie thinking "when is Iron Man going to show up?".

Should you get it? Well, do you want the figs or not? :P The car is pretty cool but is overshadowed by the figs. I know I'll be getting the Quinjet at BrickFair, so that also has Iron Man and Loki, but not Hawkeye (plus the Quinjet is awesome), but because I'll have two of those figs, one of each can be scrapped for pieces! I do not have much need for a Jeep...

-CF :kakama:
Now, to get my hands on the Captain America set (and a Hulk fig...).


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Graduation Pic

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 22 2012 · 145 views
graduation, life
Were you expecting something else? :P

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-CF :kakama:


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Post-Graduation Mental Breakdown

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 12 2012 · 90 views

First, first graduation entry from this morning.
Now:
I’m no longer a “college kid,” but I definitely do not want to identify as “adult.” Because no.

On top of that, I miss my friends more than usual. Probably because in the past, I was assured of seeing them again 4 months later in September. But now…plans are fuzzy. We all have our different directions to go in.

Combine that with tension of being home (sharing room with brother) and having the pressure to find a real job and eventually move out…

Yet, “all my feels” on leaving my friends and the place I spend the majority of my past 4 years living at and calling home.
I have literally stepped from one life into another, and it is new and foreign. I do not know what is going on and I am not prepared to find out. Yet I must.

What is important, however, is that I remain myself. And that I know how to do.

-CF :kakama:


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Entering The Real World

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 12 2012 · 88 views
life, college, graduation
Well, here I go. Graduation is about to start. Pretty soon I will be expected to actually get a "real job" (which is fine because hey I have this degree here), move out (which is fine because I like privacy), and become self-sufficient (which is fine because I practically already am).
I just don't like the pressure to get searching for those things...

But hey, I'm graduating! A BA in Journalism from Christopher Newport University with a minor in Philosophy/Religious Studies.

I've made plenty of friends (and some enemies) who I am going to miss (until I see them again, which I'll blindly assume will happen more often than it will, at least for the summer). I've learned a lot about myself and the things I believe in, the world around me and other people.

I am definitely not who I was when I moved in as a freshman, and seeing those marks in my life where I grew is exciting. And it is that fact that makes me realize that I can continue on in life, to develop myself so I make my mark on the world, however small (or large), and a mark for myself.

Granted, that is all pretty scary. I am pretty sure that were I to be handed $5,000 right now, I'd go escape and hike Europe for a few months, escaping all this madness and being able to be free of worry for just a little longer. No joke.

-CF :kakama:
(Three cheers for auto-publishing drafts!)



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Oooh, The Future!

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 11 2012 · 54 views
LEGO, Faber
I am quite intrigued by the interesting things Faber has been posting to his website (it's great that the front page shares updates. Though now I placed it in my RSS feed).

Two things:
First, I threw together this wallpaper with the MoL unused poster he posted.
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Because that's what I do: I make wallpapers I'll never use from cool images.

Second is his What about the future? entry with a cool and mysterious image and taglines. (Check it out because I won't deeplink it.) Color me intrigued! Probably more biomechanical stuff, in our world, and animals and the ocean and whatnot, and some promises (albeit from the creator, so it's biased, but what isn't these days?).

It'll probably be better than Hero Factory at least...and reward the Bionicle fan a whole lot more with any luck.

-CF :kakama:


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More Figs!

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 10 2012 · 58 views
LEGO
Swung by TRU today to grab more minifigs (and I got the Friends Inventor's Workshop for my sister for her birthday).

I had already gotten the dark knight (pretty cool), a space marine (awesome!) and the rocker chick (pretty nifty).

Today I snagged 2 more space marines (I could have gotten 4, but I don't really need that many. Money is tight...), two of Neptune (anyone want to trade at BrickFair? I also have an extra genie and minotaur) who's bare chest might come in handy for figs, except I already used the one from the surfer dude (for a Finnick minifig) and don't know how many more I'll need, but they don't hurt; I also got the Aztec, finally! He is definitely one of the coolest figs in the set. The headdress is amazing. Very noble and warrior looking.

What I really want is a bagpiper for a friend, but he's so hard to feel for. Other than that I think I'm done.

-CF :kakama:


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Free Comic Book Day!

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 05 2012 · 70 views
life, comics, sci-fi
Today was Free Comic Book Day!
(Sorry for telling you so late, but maybe your local comic shop is still open and has some good stuff left.)

I picked up a Serenity/Star Wars flip-cover comic and a preview of The Hypernaturals. And got an extra DC New 52 comic which preluded the Earth 2 #1 I picked up today (along with World's Finest). And I really want to keep reading those!
Oh and an X-Men comic.

I also stopped by TRU today. When I called they said they had the Series 7 figs. What I failed to comprehend is that they wouldn't have a nearly full box to sort through.
So from about a dozen or so figs I picked out the dark knight, rocker chick and space marine.
Which is what I wanted. But I also want at least another spacer, an Aztec, and a bagpiper (for a friend). But I live near a TRU at home, when I'll have a car.

Good day, except for the terrible game of Risk. Oh well.

-CF :kakama:


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Cap And Gown

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , May 05 2012 · 49 views
life, school
I bought my cap and gown today, for graduation.
"Today" meaning Friday, despite it being 3am on Saturday, because it's still today, Friday, because I have not gone to bed yet.

So I guess this whole graduation thing is really happening in a week.
A "week" being seven days, counting from today, technically Saturday.

Until then I'd best send out resumes and pack my room.
And I kept telling myself I'd go where jobs are, but then I actually see job listings for reporters in places NOT in my home area (or relatively near) and I think "on second thought, do I really want to move to Minnesota or California or Iowa right now, so soon? At all?
We'll see.

-CF :kakama:


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Stomping Around

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , Apr 27 2012 · 44 views
Life, stomp, music
No, nothing to but the student living below me.

Rather, the musical performance Stomp came to the school's esteemed Ferguson Center for the Arts, and I snagged tickets with some friends for $10 each! High in the balcony, but the performance was still absolutely fantastic!

I have been anticipating this performance since the center's show schedule was published back at the end of the summer. Stomp has been on my "to see" list for almost ten years now, so finally getting that chance was, simply put, a dream come true.

It was so fun to watch them make music off of literally anything. The brooms, of course, or simply their feet and hands, and trash can lids and buckets and flexible tubes and whatever else suited their fancy.

What I also thought while watching the performance was that the troupe is almost the antithesis of the Blue Man Group. BMG takes tubes and paints and stays almost lifeless while they play futuristic, wild-looking instruments, whereas Stomp shows they are there to have fun using whatever junk they found around the street. (Either way, awesome!)

The performers are very ingenuitive and know how to put on a show. There was never a dull moment and their cleverness shone each moment.

-CF :kakama:


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Right, Ravenclaw!

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , Apr 24 2012 · 40 views
Harry Potter, life
How silly of me to forget. I joined in with the hype, being a Harry Potter fan myself, and just had to find out my house.

Way back when, I of course wanted to be in Gryffindor. The house. Harry's house. Hey, I was in 3rd, 4th grade, frantically reading books 1-3 and eagerly awaiting book 4.
But, after a while, I ascribed to Ravenclaw. Smart folks, them Ravenclaws, and I felt I wasn't going with the popular house.
However, after careful reflection, I definitely liked Gryffindor and felt it was my house. I very much like the idea of bravery, standing up for what you believe in even if opposed, holding oneself accountable, following through, having guts, etc. I felt Gryffindor was where I belonged.

Now, what Pottermore provides is just another one of many House-tests online. Some are highly inaccurate, some are done by psychologists with a Myers-Briggs test angle in determining your house (though from what I've seen temperament has nothing to do with it). What I wasn't expecting was the test that JK came up with for the Sorting Hat.
The test has been getting some criticisms, depending on if you like your house or not. I almost don't feel JK should have decided unless consulting with a psychologist, but oh well. Some of the questions/choices were quite weird.

In the end I got sorted into Ravenclaw! I can live with that. After reading the welcome letter, Ravenclaws are clever and witty, more than the average Gryffindor, and eccentric, to which I ascribe, so I am quite content with my house placement. I just might start to identify with it again like I used to.

-CF :kakama:


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A Good Power Suit

Posted by ChocolateFrogs , Apr 23 2012 · 38 views
life
Can be quite awesome.

But for me, equally awesome are also my hiking boots. Secure, rugged, wonderful. Puts me in a good mood whenever I wear them.

-CF :kakama:






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Interests: LEGO, Boy Scouts (Eagle), Geeking, Comics
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