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I move in just under a week, so before the movers come I finally moved stuff out of the way to get to the last shelf I needed to take a picture of to show off everything I had displayed. Let's get started, shall we? First up is Star Wars! My collection is still pretty small but continues to grow (and with S.H. Figuarts Star Wars now announced, I'm sure it won't stop). These guys actually don't have a dedicated space yet, but once I move in to my apartment I plan to line them up in front of all my Star Wars books. And now, anime! My how this shelf has grown! I'm pretty pleased with what I have here, but I'm not sure how I want to expand it. I'm still looking for Kirito at a good price (HAH!), Naruto and Saber 2.0 are on preorder, but I'm not sure what else I want to dip my hand into. A Silver Crow? Lelouch?? More Fate/Zero/Stay Night?? Who knows. Now, my game stuff. Still haven't gotten those Assassin's Creed guys I've been saying I would (which I'm actually angry about after seeing the Blackbeard three-pack in stores, but of course couldn't do anything without family yelling at me), nor D-Arts MegaMan... But hey, I still like everything. This picture does, however, predate me acquiring Lucario. Next up, half of my Transformers collection! All of my older stuff (sans RID Megatron because why not?) will be staying in storage at my parent's house, but I hope to one day have the space and shelving to put them all out. Thanks to those childhood toys, this is actually the oldest collection I started. My latest and biggest interest, though, is definitely the Toku shelf. This one is also a little out of date, seeing as I already have Kamen Riders Gaim and Baron, but who knows where I'd find room anyways? (It also just hit me that these, combined with the game shelf, will have nowhere to go in the apartment and I need to go buy a new bookshelf... Oops. At least they have nice boxes to stay in until then heh.) And my proudest assortment... BIONICLE! While not my oldest collection, these guys are undeniably what made me go from just buying toys to wanting to really collect. And I'm still at it. There's some small holes circa 2001, 2003, and 2008 I have yet to fill (small as in number of sets, the sets themselves are of course mostly the larger ones), as well as pretty much all of 2009 and 2010... But I think I'll get there eventually. The extra disposable income I'll be seeing soon should help. I'll definitely be doing some update shots in the new place, but with the realization above, I'm not toooo sure when that'll be heh. But it will happen, as well as some general shots of my apartment to show off some cool things not on the shelves. ~|ET|~

http://soundcloud.com/bfahome/sets/mata-nui I decided to start messing with music stuff, partly because of that not-contest and partly because I've been wanting to for a while. Probably going to try to make some things for a lot of '01-'03 events. e: welp looks like the popup's getting ornery again, just pretend you loved it

This method of making people's day has been passed down the #0579 family for GENERATIONS!

This heirloom has been passed down the #0579 family for GENERATIONS!

Civilization: Where you can develop the airplane in the 15th century, Gandhi is the single greatest threat to existence, and Ludwig Van Beethoven is a rock singer.

Hey, folks. As many of you probably know already, the LEGO Movie was released on DVD & Blu-Ray today. And naturally I thought a day like this deserve something special. As such, I am hosting a little giveaway here to celebrate the occasion. So without further ado, here is what I am giving away today: - Four copies of the LEGO Movie DVD Note: The DVD copy of the LEGO Movie does not contain Vitruvius minifigure. That's only available with Blu-Ray copy of the movie. ***GENERAL RULES*** 1) To enter, all you have do is leave a comment here stating "that you want in on the giveaway" and you will have an entry in it. 2) Please follow all BZPower Rules and Guidelines in your conduct for this. 3) The giveaway winners will be determine by random number generators or pulling a name out of a hat. 4) The entry deadline is June 24th, 2014 at 11:00 PM EST. 5) Post all questions & comments here. ***QUESTIONS*** 1) Is there a restriction on what BZPower members can enter? Like do they have to be from U.S. or Canada? Unfortunately this time around I think I will have to put in a restriction since I believe DVDs are region locked, so people from other countries, beside the U.S. or Canada, wouldn't be able to play these DVDs. So unless I am mistaken, this giveaway will be U.S. & Canada affair only. Apologizes to the members in other countries. UPDATE 06/21: It has come my attention that it is possible for people from other countries to play US region locked DVDs (See JrMasterModelBuilder's comment below). As such, I am updating my ruling here to say that if you have the means to play US region locked DVDs, then feel free enter in this. 2) Why are you giving away DVDs? Blu-Rays would of been better choice, especially since it has that Vitruvius minifigure. My reasoning for choosing to giveaway DVDs instead Blu-Rays mostly has to do with the fact that I was worried that someone might not be able to play a Blu-Ray disc, so I thought a DVD giveaway would be safer choice as it wouldn't exclude anyone. **ENTRY LIST** 1) dotcom 2) The Xinlo 3) fishers64 4) Bambi 5) Voltex Oblige 6) Ehks 7) Vorahk1Panrahk2 8) Kohrak Kal17 9) The Malicious Phantom 10) Ahktu 11) NuparuTheArchvisit 12) Bluest-of-Jayys 13) Lord Oblivion 14) kopaka's kool kompanion 15) Kohila 16) The 10th Rider 17) Indigogeek 18) ~ The 1st Shadow ~ 19) Click Removed from entry list as requested. 19) Regicidal Kaiser Manducus 20) CrunchbiteNuva 21) Kayru 22) Kapak Toa of Space 23) bluefish 24) SkullKid 25) powerjala 26) Eredar 27) Observance 28) Toa Smoke Monster 29) Renzari 30) TNTOS 31) PyroLizard Prime 32) Agent Fusion 33) CeeCee 34) Meso Zehvor 35) ~Shockwave~ 36) Liopleurodon 37) Toa of Dancing 38) Sniver 39) Kughii 40) TwistedLego 41) Sumiki 42) V-N 43) Meiko 44) Infamous Ironic Iguana 45) *** - JMJ 2014

Where it can rain while the sun is out. Our weather is incredibly strange.

(it shouldn't need to be said that building gundam with constraction is way easier)

For what it's worth, you can look on the back of the DVD near the bottom and there will be several symbols, amongst them a globe symbol of some sort with a number in it. Chances are since this is a WB DVD then it will be locked to region 1 (US, Canada, and territories). Region free Blu-Ray discs exist but I've never of a region free DVD. They may exist, though. EDIT: And, sure, let me state "that want in on the giveaway." Thanks for hosting this. It's always wonderful to see such generosity.

This is Micah's fault? Picture links to topic.

I work at my community college in the Graphic Design department. I'm currently keeping things under control while my teacher has been gone for 3 days. So while everyone is not asking me questions, I decided to make a drawing of a Kanohi! And it has been excaclty 4 years since I've done so. This one is heavily influenced by Tanma and Lewa Mistika's Kanohi.

The art style is amazing - lineweight and shading are spot on, and the shapes are cool too... it looks so flawless. *admires*

Awesome design. I wish I had this sort of design skill. Or even this level of drawing skill. Sadly, the last drawing and design courses I was in were extremely traumatic for me so I don't know how long it might be before I'm fit to study those fields again.

Wait, Accel World is from the same author? I might have to check that out myself sometime. Currently the only thing I know about Accel World is that I really want a Silver Crow figma, but nothing about the story. I'm not a fan of SAO, but I wouldn't mind having the guy prove me wrong about him (with any hope it'd be SAO2, but that isn't out yet) and the concept for Accel World does sound way more interesting.

So I was just thinking about past BBCCs on BZP, and I ended up digging up an old version of the topic on the Wayback Machine. That nostalgia, man. Too bad the list isn't complete, and a lot of MOCs aren't archived, leaving many dead links. Still, good to look back on. That got me thinking about how currently BZP doesn't have a history topic for the new forums and the contests we've had here. Someone should compile the list of results for those contests. Given that I have some free time, I was thinking that I might try. If I get all of this put together, hopefully a staff member would be willing to post it as a new pinned topic. I suppose Tufi would be the person to contact about that? Anyway, food for thought. It would be nice to have a history topic in the BBC forum again. ~B~

After rolling through nearby Bard College and looking at some of their freaky architecture, we headed up to the FDR Presidential Library at Hyde Park - but first, we needed some lunch. We stopped at 2:00 at Eveready Diner, a fairly new construction made to look like the ultimate '50s diner. We later found out that they were on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives - one of the few places to have been featured multiple times. The menu was massive and included some very non-diner-like fair, such as a gyro, which my mom had. My reuben was beyond excellent, and my dad's roast was, to quote him, "succulent." You know it's good when he talks about it coherently. Having eaten, we got to the Library. We walked through the visitor's center to the library, where we poked around for a few moments to get a feel for the layout before doubling back to the visitor center, where a tour of the house at Hyde Park began. The knowledgeable ranger gave a thorough rundown of the house, which has been preserved, and told a few stories that ranged from hilarious to spooky. The funniest was the account of King George on his visit to the house and his encounter with a collection of Revolutionary- and War of 1812-era cartoons that adorned a section of the wall. The King looked at it for about ten minutes, then turned to Roosevelt and said "your collection has some pieces that mine doesn't have." Another funny story surrounded one of the few pictures that depicts Joseph Stalin smiling. While at the Yalta Conference, ready to pose for pictures, FDR was flanked by Stalin and Churchill. But to FDR, getting the Soviet agelast to break his façade was tantamount to a personal challenge. So the President whispered to Churchill that he was about to make Stalin smile. Leaning over to the mustachioed dictator, FDR whispered "I don't trust Churchill," leading to a rare grin from Stalin. The spooky story was regarding a sculpture of Roosevelt, portraying him from the waist up only, and in a chair. While both of these could be explained fairly logically, given Roosevelt's handicapped status, the artist sculpted it a full decade before FDR contracted polio, saying then that he saw the future President as "someone who just didn't really have any use for legs." The furniture in the house is all original, and includes artifacts such as the bed FDR was born in, the cloak he wore in the famous picture from the Yalta Conference, the chair he always sat in to await the results of elections, and one of his original wheelchairs, cobbled together from an old chair and bicycle parts. As a dabbler in architecture, Roosevelt designed parts of the house and its many eventual additions. Back at the library, we were able to walk through at a rather brisk pace, as we're already all familiar with the history of FDR during the WWII years. However, all the information on his early life was new, as was some of the information regarding his prewar presidency. The best part of the library was FDR's desk - fully preserved, with all of the artifacts arranged as they'd appeared when he died, and including his collection of ceramic pigs, which only the people close to him knew much about. We exited the library as it was closing, and then exited through the visitor's center before it closed. With no reservations and a willingness to get as far down the road as we felt was safe, we went a little farther south to the village of Wappingers Falls, home of the Hudson Valley Renegades of the short-season New York-Penn League. Their opening day was last Monday, and we had to park on quite literally the very edge of the parking lot, as the game had started a little earlier and was currently in the fourth inning. This was after we cobbled together five dollars in quarters to pay for parking, for we had used up our last dollar bills. With the promise that everything in the ballpark took credit, we got some tickets and entered the park. Of course, our first stop was to acquire a pennant, only to be told that you could not purchase a pennant within the bare-bones confines of the team store, but could find one being sold on one of the carts that were rolling periodically around the concourse. We looked, but with no description of what the thing looked like, we didn't know what we were looking for in the crowd, so we went up to a young lady also selling a few bits of merchandise behind a long table. While she had pennants, they weren't for sale (for some reason), and then again mentioned the carts ... only this time she pointed and said "there's one over there now." I wasn't around to hear the last of the conversation, as I bolted through a gap in the crowd, came to a stop in front of the shocked guy that was pushing the cart, and asked, with great urgency, if he sold pennants. He pulled out one and said that it was five dollars. We weren't even sure if we had five whole dollars in the car, much less on our person. As we explained the situation, he gave us the pennant and said that we could pay for it inside the team store. But the story doesn't end there, for the only person who could operate the machine to check out a non-team store item had gone outside. I worked against the grain and quickly explained what was going on, and she came inside. Triumphantly, we thanked them for their time and headed to our seats. The score was 0-0 when we entered and was 0-0 when we left, mostly due to the idiotic baserunning of one player, who was responsible for two of the three outs in the inning. We left during the seventh-inning stretch in order to get away from the crowd, but not before seeing some of the most sadistic and bizarre between-innings games. We've experienced games around the country and seen many a crazy promotion, from fans racing to put on a frozen t-shirt in St. Paul to fans rushing to build themselves into a gigantic hamburger ... also in St. Paul. These were for certain the weirdest games, which featured a spiteful host berating a woman for not knowing the lines from famous female movie characters, the same spiteful host moderating a bizarrely morphed game of blackjack where the loser ended up getting a pie tossed in his face, and a race wherein three teams of teenagers put disks between their legs, waddled over to a bucket, sat down, and tried to work the disks up and into the bucket without the use of their hands. It was exactly as bizarre at it sounds like. With all of that out of the way, we rolled on up the road and pulled into a gas station to call the hotline to find out where rooms were available. Once we had one, we hit the road ... but the road we were on was a toll road. Without an accurate way of assessing the coins we've lugged four thousand miles, we could only estimate what we could see, which was about six dollars. With no way of knowing what the cost would be at our eventual exit, we hoped for the best ... although a line from C.W. McCall's "Convoy" undoubtedly rang through our heads: "We crashed the gate doing ninety-eight/Sayin 'Let them truckers roll'." Fortunately there was no need to do ninety-eight or crash any gates, as we were able to pay the toll using the change we had, with plenty to spare. We approached New York City but peeled off about twenty miles out, getting into New Jersey ... somewhere. Unlike most states, they don't put up "welcome to New Jersey" signs. We knew we were in New Jersey nonetheless, and we got to our hotel a little after 9:00. While none of us were particularly hungry, we also knew that we'd done a lot of walking around and we hadn't eaten since 2:00, so we ate at the hotel. It was average food, and the real fun was with the waitress, who brought out a pitcher of lemonade after we'd all been through a refill or two. Faced with this challenge, we all pitched in. I, for one, was more thirsty than hungry, and I preferred the lemonade over the quasi-calamari, which was about 86% breading when all was said and done. Our key lime pie dessert was augmented by a second, on-the-house slice - a surprise from our bubbly waitress. This marks the third time on this trip that we've gotten a free dessert augmentation. Tomorrow: we try to get as far south as possible. It's too long of a drive to get home, but our plan is to make our final day as short as possible.

Hey, this is only the third big road trip. Just wait 'til the Alaska trek.

I drew this after work today. The friends from out of town have left so it's back to just me...and my pencil.

I really preferred Aincrad to Alfheim, mostly for reasons of story. A big problem I had with Alfheim was the magic and everything, which was pretty weird when compared to the first season. The final fight scene was cool though.

EVERYTHING

I like to make responses to blogs based on the title alone. And this time? It was exactly what was said in the entry.

What an amazing video. I now ship Scout and Miss Pauling. I guess.

Aw, you mean that's not the start of some newfangled motorized bacon rack?

Post the topic already, you nerd.

Crud, Lin: Unikitty beat me to the punch. LOL

Thanks! I've cultivated my skills primarily in conceptual design and graphic design. But my roots are buried in lego somewhere. I LOVE concept design, but I've only been able to get money from doing client work. I've only been in Graphic Design studies for 7 years and still have lots of work to cultivate.

Dat doily.

Sure, I'll bite. Or comment, rather. I doubt an ibrow has much numerical chances against entire people but who knows

Now, you're definitely popular and for all the wrong reasons.

Woodcliff Lake. It's right across the border ... we exited on what was signed as the "last exit in New York."

There are two manga... Though I haven't really read much of either. One's a straight adaptation of the TV series. Then there's the Progressive, which is supposed to be a newer interpretation that expands on the story more. The light novel, though, is where it's at. I truly do think it's a good read and does have things the anime didn't.

As someone who lived in New Jersey for many years, I can assure you that there are 'Welcome to New Jersey' signs on many of the major roads. Where in NJ are you staying?

Ugh, I've been to the England part of the UK, and we traveled right up to the border of Scotland...but didn't go across. I'd really like to go there eventually, but I'll pass on the haggis XD

I'm here in notScotland eating nothaggis. =P He says he's there for research, but the truth is I yelled at him to get off my lawn so much that he fled the country.

They understand me!

There's always one... (Usually it's me)

In all honesty. I always thought one was to be cool on BZP if you DIDN'T make a comic.

Guess I'll have to check out Accel World, then. By the way, if there is a graphic novel of SAO, can anyone recommend if it's better/worse/the same as the anime? TV adaptations always seem different from novels (aside from FMA:Brotherhood). Anyway, I finished Alfheim yesterday. It was better than I expected, but I am kinda severely disappointed by the villain. When Kasugaya had the chance to kill him, I was pretty engaged in the scene. All I could think of was "don't... don't..." and I really wondered what he would do. That scene was pretty well done, in my opinion. Also I liked when his sister yelled at him after she figured out he was Kirito. She has made more progress than so many other one-sided crush characters I've seen. Also, siblings fight. A lot. I still think that aspect was creepy, but I'm glad with how they handled it. Now she just needs to get over it and the show will never allude to such a creepish topic ever again -ignores the dancing scene-. Anyway, what I liked most about this season was life outside the game with everyone meeting up and the highschool where SAO players attended exclusively. Yes, that was interesting. Let's see more of that.

I am definitely all of these things up to and including being Janus Husky.

Hmmmmmmm another reboot? Or has it been epic-ized now?

All names must be capitalized, says the English language. I have another solution in mind.