Saturday, August 25, 2012

New HD Alphas look incredible

Wave 2 of the Go-Busters HD Alpha candy toy set looks to be just as stunning as its predecessors. Take a look at this BeetBuster!


In this release, there's BeetBuster, StagBuster, Beet J. Stag, and Gorisaki. See below for the full wave.





I'm really looking forward to picking these guys up.


Bandai to step into 12 inch toys

In a recent press release, Bandai has announced its intent to start making foot-tall figures in conjunction with Tamashii. The first two licenses to get this treatment are Star Wars and Tiger & Bunny.

A 12 inch Wild Tiger figure is up for pre-order from the Tamashii site September first, for release December 2012, followed by C-3PO pre-orders available at the same time with a release in February 2013.

See the Official Press Statement.

Monday, August 20, 2012

Apps available

Okay, so it's actually been available for a while now, and I've just been sending links to interested parties. I know my readership is small, nearly nonexistent, BUT I still want to make those of you have a good experience.

 


Here's the link!

Ranger Board didn't want me working on an app for them since they want to team up with TapaTalk or something like that, so I did this instead. Hey, why not? It's simple and leaves a small footprint. Once I get Flash CS6, I'm going to republish it so AIR is included and not a required download, but for the time being, you'll need it.

As an added bonus, I made (with some help from a friend of mine from Mutnick Media) a Spoony Soundboard, with all of his BETRAYALS in it.I just whipped it up for the fun of it, and I've gotten a ton of fun out of it.

Betrayed Me!

If you want either one customized for you, let me know.

MIA again, and where I am with my reviews

So, I haven't done any reviews lately. I have one that I haven't posted yet of the Legend Sentai Ranger Key series 1. Reason being, I don't like it. I have the Gobusters Ranger Key Set 2, Kamen Rider OOO set, and a new Figuarts to add into the mix, as well as an unboxing I've been holding off on until the Mega Force TCG comes out. I've pre-ordered the Gridman and both Liveman Figuarts from Image Anime, and will review them in November when they arrive.

The reason I haven't posted anything at all is because I have a new baby baby girl, and have been busy learning to develop mobile apps at work.

For my Gekiranger VS Jungle Fury review, I've had a tough time getting through Gekiranger. It's not that it's bad, I just got distracted with Kamen Rider. I'd never really watched Kamen Rider before, but I decided that since I was buying the OOO keys, I should probably learn about the franchise it comes from. Despite all the reading I'd done on it in the past, I hadn't actually watched any of it. Since Fourze is still ongoing, I started with OOO. After finishing that, I went on to Kamen Rider W, and am now on Decade. Once I finish Decade, I will move on to Kiva and Den-O. After that, I'm going to go back to Gekiranger to continue with my US/JP story comparison.

I will be doing a series review of Gobusters once it's completed. Akibaranger, being much shorter will probably not get a full review. In short, I liked it, but it's mostly just fanservice.

If anyone is wondering, no I'm not actually planning on reviewing the Kamen Rider shows. I just wanted to watch them.

For video reviews for the retrospectives, I'm not sure it that's actually going to happen. Reason being, I'm planning on getting into another review series. In my currently unreleased toy review, I had asked for commenter suggestions for movies that get a horrible reviews or guilty pleasures. There are so many angry reviewers out there ripping movies and shows a new one, sometimes in character, sometimes not. So, ever one to encourage people to give things a chance, I want to try to find the good points of bad movies. If I pick one of your suggestions, I have 5 spare ranger keys from my review and I will send out one of your choosing in a padded envelope. These reviews will be posted on my own server and on a new YouTube channel.

I have a bunch of stuff planned, and not a whole heck of a lot of time (I'm writing this at work...bad me) I don't have a schedule figured out yet. Also, I'm trying to convince my boss to either give or sell me one of our old and unused cameras, but he's not wearing down, so until I can convince him, I have to stick with my webcams and phone camera (which is actually pretty good). In any case, if anyone has has a bad movie idea, let me know!