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It is Friday yet again, and, horrible ref calls aside, it's a pretty decent Friday. A perfect Friday, you might say, for an update.
Updates
Unfortunately, there's not a huge amount to update about, but I'll see what I can do.
We had a review last week of a rather small and seemingly-inconsequential set. But we here at BZPower think every set is important, and hope to bring you a wide range of reviews, from large to small. So, like we said when we started reviewing non-Bionicle sets
So people keep telling me today is an important day and that I need to go do certain things and think certain ways. I'm not a big fan of that and prefer making my own decisions.
Anyway, that aside, today was a special day; it was cool toy day! An online toystore I came across was having a clearance sale and had some cool things in their inventory so I picked up some nice desk ornaments for work/home. First up is a mini Black Beast of Aaargh plush, which nicely compliments my mini Black Knight
So yesterday was President's Day, and being an employee of the Federal Government it meant I had the day off. Taking advantage of this holiday when most people still have to work, I took my car in for an oil change. They had a TV on in the waiting room blasting some news channel, and before I put my earphones in I heard a report about winter weather in Wisconsin and New Jersey. I chuckled a little at this since a few friends of mine, including Than the Moa, Senjo, and Friar Tuck live in Wisconsi
Alright, time to clear some things up. If you have heard anything to the contrary, unhear it. Pictures of ponies from the TV show, 'My Little Pony,' including 'wet mane' images, are not banned on BZPower, so long as they abide by BZPower rules. The content of pictures, as well as captions or comments relating to them, can make any image inappropriate. This site is not the place for sexual content or themes, so keep that off the site. I apologize for any of the confusion that arose in the p
Tomorrow is August 2, 2012. That will be the eleventh anniversary of my joining BZPower. It is also the first day of BrickFair 2012 Virginia, the fifth such event held. (Congrats Todd!) BrickFair 2012 Viriginia will be the tenth AFOL fan convention that I've attended. Sunday, August 5 is my twenty-fifth birthday. A quarter-century! Monday, August 6, will mark my eleventh year as a member of the BZPower Staff. All this right after BZPower celebrated its eleventh anniversary. It's craz
So I last appeared in episode #56 of LAMLradio, the Lego talk podcast. But the conversation continued on after the show ended. All of that was recorded as well and made into the next episode of the show. I guess we talked on too much for it to be one episode, heh. Anyway, you can check it out here, and listen to us talk about sorting and storing Lego. Word on the street is that there will be another clip from our conversation in Episode #58, making a new personal record for me.
I don't know
So I bought some awesome posters back in January, but between the plaster walls of my apartment, the sticky tack, and the weight of the posters, they wouldn't stay up. So I had to put up hooks and put wire on the posters and all this other stuff to get them hung, and by that time classes had started and I was way too busy to actually do it. Now that I have a little break though, I finally have put them up on my wall, so I thought I'd share them with you guys:
And while I'm at it I'll show
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Welcome to this week's update, please ensure your seat is in the full upright position and wait for a stewardess to provide your complimentary refreshments.
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So, to get things out of the way, go check out more boring BrickFest pictures. Space & Military as well as Castles & Coasters went up in the past week. Seriously, there are some amazing things there, so even though the pictures are old, check them out anyway.
Also, be sure to take a gander at the new Bionicle: T
Short entry for tonight, since I have to get back to doing homework.
College doesn't seem to get easier after the first year. In fact, it gets crazier, busier (as you can see by the title), and much harder. Who would've thought that getting an education required so much work? So let this be a warning to you all. Also, don't try to get your Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the same time, that just makes it worse.
Back to the forges for me...
BZPower has had a Calendar for a while now. It's seen intermittent use over the years depending on how the staff feel at the time. I just discovered a new feature that must have been added with the recent upgrade - RSVPing. Now events can be created with the option to allow members to RSVP to them. So now for real life kind of meetups, or even for contests on BZPower, we can keep a running tally of who is going. To test it out, I've added two upcoming LEGO Conventions: Bricks Cascade 2012 Br
So, here's what I've taken away from BrickFair this year. It was originally going to be a list, but that's been done by others so I thought it best to go pure-prose. This is just a first glimpse, hopefully this weekend there will be more coverage.
After five events of figuring out what I should pack and what I shouldn't, my car was still jam-packed driving there and coming back. Even though I gave away a whole bunch of sets, some prototypes, and some prizes for a few contests. At least I had
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So I missed last week, sorry everyone. Company and all that. I'm back in 2011 though, and it's time to get the updates back on the rails.
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We've been laying on the reviews thick and heavy. We wrapped up the 2010 heroes with a Breez review by ToM Dracone and a look at Surge by Shannara. McSmeag finally put together the remains of several reviews that were never quite finished. I had to drag him to my house and sit him down in front of a computer before he would even do that. On
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It's a late update this week, but that's because I've been so busy with BZPower stuff!
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So I heard it's like, our anniversary or something. Nine years is crazy, right? It boggles my mind to think that our site has been going on and thriving for this long - our members really are amazing, even though they whine and complain a bit. We wouldn't be here without you!
We like to try to celebrate things in as big a way as possible on our anniversary. Of course that means Premier pe
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Man, so what even happened this week? I don't even know, so I think I'm going to let some other people talk for a change instead. (Like Keanu, who is here and says HI!)
Hey guys. This is totes DeeVee and Nukaya Cloud Fire. We are totes tag-teaming this entry for Mandrew. Why? Because we have the touch! We have the poweeeerr!
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First things first, there's this awesome topic you should post in. Don't look at me like that.
Gatanui did a review of Hero Factory's TV series, e
I mentioned the possibility of BZPower T-Shirts at Brickfest, would anyone who knows they are attending be interested in one of these? If you're not attending, would you like to see BZPower sell T-Shirts online? The old Cafepress store is still floating around somewhere, but these would probably be nicer and newer. I was thinking of a simple design, a blue similar to the BZP Classic skin, with a small Hapori Tohu on the left chest with 'BZPower' underneath. There is the possibility of customizat
So, word on the street was right and I did have a brief appearance on another episode of LAMLradio, the Lego talk podcast. You can listen to Episode #58, which, while claiming to talk about Lego and politics, is really more about how the economy is affecting Lego prices and trends we may see in the future. It's pretty interesting stuff.
So, in my last entry I mentioned the idea of a potential BZPower podcast. What kind of stuff would you like to see in such a thing?
So, it's almost time for the second round of voting, and I've yet to decide how I'm going to sett it up. That's why I'm asking you guys to see what you think.
My first option is to have the top three entries from each poll go on to the semis, just like last time. Also like last time, all the first place winners would go into one poll, the second place into another, and the third place into the last; five entries in each. Then, from the semis to the finals, the top four first place, top three
So I was looking through my blog settings recently and noticed something about being able to turn on support for metaweblog clients or some crazy thing like that and I got curious. Apparently, with the right program and some fidgeting with the settings you can use an external program to add entries to your BZPower Blog.
I'm testing this right now with MarsEdit for Mac OS X. It seems ok, and possibly more convenient than making the entry on BZPower. I haven't been able to find a way to set cat
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I suppose it is that time again. I'll have to tear myself away from the Halo: Reach Beta for a bit to write some things up for you guys. Here we go!
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It's going to be interesting finding stuff to talk about now. All the major story updates are done and gone, so Bionicle news is going to be hard to come by. You guys are going to have to accept that we're going to be posting more general LEGO stuff on the front page. Such is life.
Speaking of which, Jason posted a set review e
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We've definitely hit a slow period here on BZPower, slow news, slow updates, slow server. Oh wait, that's been going on for a while. Anyway, thanks for joining us for yet another Weekly Update.
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Thanks for all your input in the spoiler policy poll. Bones and the rest of the Reference Team have been poring over the results to come up with a unified spoiler policy that will be implemented in the future. You will follow it or face the penalties, which have yet to be determined.
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I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, I know mine was pretty good. But now it's back to business.
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So the 2009 sets have been appearing in stores, so get out there and pick them up if you're a fan. We already have reviewed one of the sets, and have two more in the pipe that should be posted in the coming days, as soon as I have some free time.
Next up, the long-running project finally came to an end (for all intent and purposes). The new rank images are here! It took hours u
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Since most of my time tonight has been spent on the mailbag, you don't get anything else in this weekly update.
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Just kidding!
We wrapped up our Toy Fair coverage this week, looking at Bionicle, Ben 10, some Hero Factory, the rest of Hero Factory, and some games and LEGO Universe. I hope you all enjoyed it. I know Yannick and I did.
Another set review was posted this week; Bfahome reviewed the Wreck Raider to some mixed reactions. Get used to it guys. We'll still talk abo
Somehow over the past few years I've accumulated a bunch of Nerf guns that have been taking up a lot of space. I'm looking to remedy that issue by getting rid of some. Most of the below were bought used, but they all work and I've cleaned them all up to the best of my ability (in some cases that includes taking them apart and running the plastic pieces through the dishwasher). I've removed the air restrictors from several of the spring guns. No ammo is included. UPDATE: The Titan, Hornet, and
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Is it Friday yet? Oh, it is! Shoot, that means I need to crank out a Weekly Update!
Updates
So we have some awesome contests going on that you should check out:
Blog Contest #2 - I talked about this with Nukaya in the last Powercast. If you like to travel or think about faraway places, you should make a cool blog theme and enter this.
BBCC #58 - For reals, this time. It's sad to think that many of you weren't alive in the 80s. You have my condolences. They were awesome. Also, you ma
In case you were wondering, I never said I was going to post these every Sunday. Mailbag 1. Tough question. I might have to go with Indiana Jones, because he's awesome. 2. Blue. No, yellllllow! 3. 6 (See what I did there?) 1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. I'm a computer engineer working for the U.S. Army. fishers wins with this outstanding suggestion for a Behind BZP. Want to see your questions answered? PM them to me and put 'Mailbag' in the subject line. Being an Ambassador I had to go back and l
