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  1. Hot Take: Ninjago is the house Bionicle built. Which isn't a slam on either brand. Bionicle laid the groundwork for the type of cross media line that Ninjago was able to build on and eventually stick. LEGO hasn't really landed another hit like Bionicle or Ninjago since, because both caught on organically. Lessons learned from the former helped the latter flourish.
  2. Has there every been a Toa that got a hammer as their weapon that was released in set form? Because I don't think so... meaning it didn't just take Onua fifteen years, but Bionicle in general. You make a good point. I don't think any Toa ever got a hammer. A few clubs, lots of axes...no hammer.
  3. It took 15 years...but Onua finally gets a hammer as his weapon.
  4. Any Digimon cards I'd have would be packed away in boxes somewhere. And unfortunately that's low on my list of things that need to be done this year.
  5. It's funny to look back on this blog after being away from it for over a year. I read some of the things I was talking about, and it's funny to think where it's ended up. It's funny to think, but since my last blog entry: 1) I've bought my first home. 2) I've recieved my first promotion. But neither of those would've been possible without the third thing: I met the love of my life, who motivated me to push myself harder than ever to get to where I am now. I've completed my first two half-marathons, gotten into better shape, and found a regular place for myself in a company softball team. Most importantly: I'm getting married in Novemeber. The woman I met just a few days after my Jan 23rd blog post ended up being just the person I needed in my life. So I apologize for disappearing off the face of the Earth, and I hope that those of you who have been doing your best to stay in touch don't feel like I've left you behind. This forum was a big part of my life for a long time, and I'll always hold a spot for it in my heart.
  6. I'm a huge fan of the Avengers, and thanks to a bit of luck have come across ALMOST a full set of Minifigs from the Marvel Super Heroes line. The only two I'm missing are The Hulk and Black Widow:I normally would just buy the sets, but the ones they come in are $60 and $80 respectively, so that's not an option currently. I'm curious if anybody has these two available for sale, and what sort of price I'd be looking at.Thanks!UPDATE: I have tracked down The Hulk. Now I just need to find somebody with a spare Widow.
  7. Yeah I'm seeing pics of those now too. Those look better than a lot of movie figures! Especially Prime and Arcee.
  8. So the Bowl didn't go quite as well as I'd hope, but on the plus side the Dark of the Moon trailer was pretty awesome. On that note, Hasbro followed up today with a flurry of pics of the new action figures. So of course...NERD TIME! Take it in. The Ultimate Optimus Prime figure. It's the first time Optimus has had a trailer since his Powermaster days. The downside of this figure is that it's also about $80. Though given trends of the larger scale action figures my guess is it'll be half that by the time the film hits DVD. Which won't be too long a wait I hope. The problem though, is while the vehicle mode looks incredible, the robot Moderator leaves a LOT to be desired... I love the look of the standard Prime mode, but the combined mode on the left seems less solid than I'd like in a figure that's supposed to be as "mighty" as this mode would imply. Now, I won't be one of "those" people and will wait until more reviews and closer pics come out. But right now I'm a little sketchy on the ultimate mode. I will give Hasbro a ton of credit though. This invokes memories of both the G1 Optimus and the Powermaster figure, as I hear that the trailer will have its own "base mode" similiar to the original Prime figure. Depending on the overall size of the figure and the playability in the combined mode this could be one of the cooler figures in the movie line for a while. And that's including the predecessor to this (Jetfire + Optimus from Revenge of the Fallen), which was a callback to the Unicron's Trilogy habit of having Prime combine with random jets. On that note, this makes me wish they'd give us a few more Bayverse combiners. They teased us with Devastator for the previous movie, but nothing ever came of that unfortunately.
  9. NFC and AFC Championship games today. I was rooting for the Seahawks, because it would've been awesome to see a 7-9 team win the Super Bowl. But after they got walloped by the Bears, and the Packers embarassed Atlanta, I'm pushing for the Bears and the Jets. As a Vikings fan, you'd think my reasons for rooting against the Packer would be obvious. They aren't. I hate Joe Buck. He's a terrible announcer. So I'm really not looking forward to what would happend if he was allowed to gush for four hours on Aaron Rodgers. And since my AFC support is behind the Jets (because Rex Ryan is talking trash and actually backing it up), I definately do not want the Super Bowl to turn into the Battle of the Brett. So join me in enjoying what should be some really good football games, and in a few weeks. GO BEARS/JETS!
  10. Welcome one and all to 2011! We hope you enjoy your next 365 days here! With a new year comes new goals, mine this year? Get to 190 lbs., 10% body fat within 2-3 months. And keep it off.Complete a half-marathon.Increase awesomeness by 25%That last one is more of a joke, but I still think it's fun to add. Cause the goal ever year is to make it better than the last right? So what do you guys have in store for 2011?
  11. So as I mentioned the other day, I have been buying and watching a LOT of movies in the past few weeks. Especially now that I have a week of vacation time to work with. As a result, I've gone mad...seeing connections in several films based solely on the presence of various actors and actresses. But given enough free time and enough insanity, I am now able to present what I have (tentaively) named "The Expanded Inception Universe": I have reasons, but I don't think they'd make any sense right now. Give me some time to collection my thoughts. In the meantime, I'll leave it to you the reader to try and figure out these connections. Enjoy.
  12. I realized today, as I dropped some money on the counter at Target, that for the past week or so I haven't been able to walk into a store without walking out with a new movie. Some of its the deals, some of it is a desire to flesh out what has been a somewhat very limited library. As such, I've added the following movies to my collection since my birthday in November: American GangsterBlazing SaddlesThe DepartedThe HangoverInceptionThe Invention of LyingThe LosersScott Pilgrim vs. the WorldSuperbadTakenZombielandI have no idea when I'm going to have time to watch all of these (I've seen all of them exception the first), and with how many movies I've seen in the past month aside from these, I'm slowly going stir crazy. The end result will be something rather amusing...which I hope to have up by the end of the week.
  13. First off, a friendly reminder that I'm now on Twitter. So stop by and say hey! I tend to update that more often these days since I'm able to post to it on the go. Can't promise it'll always be interesting, but I figure once I get more followers I'll be able to use it more for sharing ideas than the current brain dump it is. That said..it's the post-Holiday season, a time of exchanges, returns, and assessing the damage to your pocketbook. In the meantime, here's the pile of goodies that I recieved this season. CashBest Buy gift cardsAbraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterDress shirt/argyle sweater comboatomic clock w/ temp sensorveggie choppernew picture frame for 5 5x7 photosThe Smurf's DVD (white elephant)Hand flexers (stress grips)Vikings t-shirtcenterpiece for coffee table + candleThis year's overall theme was "class it up". The clock, frame, and centerpiece were inteded to add some style to my place. They go with the new furniture I brought in over the course of the year really well. I quickly used part of the BB cards on Inception. So that means I now own my two favorite movies of 2010 (Scott Pilgrim and Inception). I also used some of the cash to pick up some games at a B2G1 sale (Guitar HeroL Warriors of Rock, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and Dante's Inferno). Looking forward to cracking open the book as well, as I've read the author's other work "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" and loved it. Will probably grab "Earth: The Book" this week as well. I teamed up with my sister this year to get our parents and grandma a nice set of professional portraits. I've been doing giftcards and such a lot the past few years so this time I figured it was time for something different.
  14. Okay, cool! I won't be streaming my Tweets to BZP cause sometimes I discuss movies, TV shows, music that might not be BZP friendly. But I welcome people to follow me. I'll update this post with my handle.
  15. So over Thanksgiving I upgraded to one of them smartphones that I kept hearing about. It's got Android on it, so I've got all of the social media apps with me on the go. Including Twitter. I guess before I go much further, is posting your Twitter handle against the BPZ rules? If it isn't, then I'll update accordingly if you're interested in following me. So how about you guys? You tweet? Update! For those of you interested, I can be found at "trtx84". I have my profile set to manually approve, so be sure to post here if you try to follow me so I know you aren't a spam bot. Been seeing a lot of those lately!
  16. T-Hybrid

    I Feel Old

    It's after midnight here. I stayed up on purpose so I greet the start of my 26th year with open eyes. Now it's off to bed. Gonna have a busy night tomorrow/today as I bid adieu to my first quarter-century on this planet and usher in the official start of my "late 20s".
  17. As some of you may know, I am a huge Minnesota Twins fan. On Tuesday night, the Twins clinched the AL Central title...and with it their 6th playoff appearance in the last 9 years. And it doesn't stop there. Thanks to Tampa Bay spliting a four game series with the Yankees, the Twins will take the field Friday in Detroit with the BEST RECORD IN BASEBALL! If they can hold of the AL East...the Twins would then have home field advantage through the AL Championship series. So pardon me for a moment while I enjoy this:
  18. It seems like forever since I last put an entry in here. Let's see, what I can talk about? Volleyball team has tanked. We're last in the league going into the playoffs...and unless there's a miracle we'll all have our Tuesday nights open starting next week. Softball on the other hand wrapped up Friday with the Mavericks securing the League Championship with a 10-2-2 record. Despite a hot season, I finished up with an 0-6 in our last two games. That includes a force out at home with the bases loaded and a flyball with the bases loaded. Went from Mr. Clutch to Mr....well...not so much. Other ramblings? Well, both Inception and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World are amazing! I'm sure by now those who want to see Inception have already, but Pilgrim just came out. You owe it to yourself to check that movie out. It deviates from the source material in the second half, but stays true to the spirit of the story and characters in the process. Also, the fight scenes are amazing! That reminds me. There's a trailer for a film called Devil. It starts off very promising, but at one point they announce "From Universal Pictures", and then add "and M. Night Shamalyan". I kid you not, every person in the theater let out a unified groan. We were all thinking the same thing: "Well that did look promsing up until that point..." In other news, some of us at work are thinking of starting up a Podcast. Not exactly sure what it would be about at the moment. I have a few ideas but I gotta run it by everybody and see what they think. I know at least one guy who's in regardless so it could turn into just a roundtable of whatever. ....Maybe that's the name? One last note, I may have to hook up the old PC (the one with Photoshop) so I can update the Haven with a new member of the Blue Vice. Digimon Xros Wars has introduced Kiriha and Mailbirdramon, so I will have to find a way to incorporate him into the layout. Open to suggestions for what I could do for a section. I was thinking Sports or Entertainment, something I can pool my thoughts under when I go see movies or play games. What do you guys think?
  19. I'm still alive. Things have been hectic around here, a combination of work....rec league sports (softball + volleyball)....and I've become a dang Achievement Hunter on the 360. It's become a lot of fun, got my completion to about 86% before I started the new Transformers game today. I think I've become addicted to that little "Bee-bloop" sound that you when it pops a new one. And I've also started borrowing games from friends to get more. There's a 23% completion in Halo 3 that's bugging the heck out of me! Played it at a friend's house a few years back and now that's the one that's "bogging me down" so to speak! Also, that War for Cybertron game is fun as all get out. It's nice to finally have a GOOD Transformers game to play!
  20. T-Hybrid

    Go Twins!

    The Minnesota Twins are playing pretty well, and tomorrow I make my first trip to their new home at Target Field. It's been raining off and on all week...so hopefully it holds out. I'm even debuting my new Justin Morneau jersey when I go there. If things work out, I should have some pictures!
  21. The Digivice from Savers looked more like an iPod than this one. The new one looks like a microphone (and the Digimon have headphones...so there you go).
  22. There's a new Digimon series coming this year. Digimon Around. Not sure what the title means, but the new promo pic is interesting... Looks like we're going to get a Digimon meets Power Rangers with a touch of Transformers. Kinda interested in what we're gonna see from this toy wise. I could use an excuse to buy some more transformers! The only downside...no Blue Digivice. At least not yet. So no opportunity to induct a new member into the Blue Vice. More details as they become available!
  23. Awww heck. I got so busy at work that i didn't get a chance this year to do my yearly format change. Sorry all. Any good April Fools Day antics that you guys can report back on? Ones that are BZP appropriate of course. There was one getting passed around at work that Google did that was pretty funny.
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