Gundam RX78-2 Anniversary edition HG 1/144

So. This is wayyy overdue. Luckily for me i have some pictures of it in my phone. even though it's in storage somewhere far far away.

Overall. This is probably my most favourite Gunpla that i own. Every Gundam fan should have some model of the RX 78-2. And if you don't! this would be one that you would like to invest in.

Here's an example why it's so great, notice the particular attention to detail! and this is at the bottom of the feet mind you! Just imagine how good looking the rest of the parts are!

The Legs by itself. The gunpla poses great poseability, check out how articulated the joints are in the legs. I don't have a picture of the hands but the hands can pretty much move in any direction. Most gunpla at the 144 scale have stiff legs but this one is awesome. Also it can do a alsmot 90 degree spilt!

This is what all it's parts seperated looks like! The joy of making a gunpla!

Just like any Keroro Fan would, the head goes in at the last! yup yup.

Here's a posing shot, with all of his weapons! I have to admit it's not the best of angles. Hence why it's not on flickr. And here are more better looking shots!

Looks fantastic overall doesn't it? There's more pictures of it on Flickr! you can view them here.

Totally an awesome figure. Has tons of poseability and great articulation, Colours and details are great. And not to mention he has an awesome arsenal, bazooka, lightsaber, gun, shield and that chain hammer. The probably only downside is his lightsaber is a onepiece. If you collect gunpla you'll know what i mean! But this is a definite Must Have :)

Flickr?

harlow there sports fans. So. yep. I think i'm falling behind again on this blog thing. I really really should put more time and effort into it. Probably as much time and effort i put into watching my tv shows. I do have quite a lot to blog about! Gundams, heroclix, transformers, tv shows, animes, etcetera. I guess the hard part to do is take pictures and upload them. Its quite hard to take relevant and nice looking pictures. You don't want too little, cause then reading text would be an eyesore. But you don't want too much, or it'll be like "Oh, this again?".

Speaking of Pictures, if you noticed, i've found a different approached into putting pictures on my blog. I've instead of using the normal Upload a photo, i've used linking them from Flickr! which means YES! i do have a flickr account!

Flickr is basically a facebook for photo's. kinda. well you get the jist of it i guess.

I've decided to organise my uploaded photos so it can be easily viewed when necessary. This is mostly as you will expect it to be. Photo's of my toy collection.

Anyway my current Photostream you can click here.

It's been organised into 3 sets for now. Lego, heroclix, and transformers! i'm going to upload everything, past, present and future. Probably stuff that i won't even post here. And many stuff before i post them here! So do check it out :)

I've also put links on the Right hand column under my profile if you want quick and easy access!

The thing about flickr is though, there are so many nice photos uploaded with really expensive cameras. And i feel really noob with my little handphone cam. :( but it has a big heart and would like to share it with the world!

For now, enjoy this random set of photos from my flickr!

Discipleship

What is a disciple? Loosely it's defined as someone who follows a teacher. Basically a student of a mentor. Although true, the word disciple has been often linked with Christianity. Probably being since Jesus started off with 12 Disciples, now more known as the 12 Apostles, and later more and more being his disciples, following his teachings. All in all, Jesus was probably the greatest teacher to have walked on earth. Having thousands of Disciples. Now every follower of Christ is known to be his Disciples.

But what does it mean to be a disciple? To be a disciple is not to be static. It's sometimes easy to just live with what we know and not what to learn more and assume we know everything we need to. But that's wrong. Discipleship is a learning process. If we knew everything we wouldn't be disciples! We would be mentors.

Also, being a disciple means much more than learning. We must follow, in the footsteps. Disciples want to be the as good or even better than the mentor. Although impossible in this case, we must still try our best. Maybe it isn't important to you, but how would it be if someone were to be acting like you and making you look like a fool in public. So act like a disciple!

... Comes Brightest Day!

Welcome to Part 2 of my 2 part heroclix review. I don't think it was too hard to guess that after Blackest Night was obviously the Brightest day, any DC comic fan should know this, it was pretty much the biggest event of 2009-2010. Now let's see what we have in store for us today.

Here's a look on the complete set of 7 new figures in the Heroclix Action Pack Brightest day. Unlike their predecessors, Blackest Night, these Figures are not dynamic poses but are more of a standstill. Even so, these look grrr-rreat! And come at a cheaper price! New figures comes new powers which brings a whole new playing field into Heroclix. Each figure also have the ability Regeneration, since they did come back from the dead. And the best part about these figures are....wait for it .... KEYWORDS! Not only do all of them possess the keyword 'Brightest Day', some of them have their own keywords. Now lets take a look at these figures up close.



Here we have Aquaman and Osiris. It looks to me they're pretty much similar in sculpt if you look at the poses. Probable only difference is that Aquaman stands on a tentacle. Aquaman gives a whole new playable field for the keyword "Atlantis", i mean he is the king of Atlantis after all. His Trait, allows him to deal damage to opposing characters whenever a Player with the keyword Atlantis is KO'd. This is generally attributed to the fact that the current revived Aquaman no longer controls aquatic life but only dead aquatic life. Fun Fact: every aquatic life he goes near dies. Anyways, imagine having an army of Aquaman. Lets say 4 Aquamans, If 1 got KO'd, the other 3 will be doing damage to each opposing character that attacked that Aquaman! Thats 3 x 2 = 6 Damage! Dangerous. Although it would be utterly useless against damage reducers.

Osiris is pretty much just like most Mystical character that receives their power from Shazam, only plus side is if he rolls a critical hit, the remainder of the game he modifies his combat values by +1. Try your luck with him.

Here we have Martian Manhunter, (The not so) Deadman, and Captain Boomerang. Martian Manhunter is probably one of the cheaper Powerhouses that comes with a lot of pow! Here he has a trait that allows him to use Exploit Weakness, Outwit, and Probability Control until your next turn whenever an opposing character is KO'd. Here's another character that has a new power after reviving, conversing to dead people. Overall he's a great fig, and i absolutely adore his sculpt, maybe just because it's half Black Lantern, and since i don't own any Black Lantern Figs, this kinda makes up for it! although sometimes i wish he was full black lantern.

Deadman, Now not dead, is my favourite figure in terms of stats. He's got a great healing power, and he doesn't die easily since he has a amazing ability to stop taking damage on the last dial. He's a wonderful tie up figure, and he has the ability to summon any figure with the brightest day or White Lantern Corps Keyword. Oh, did i not mention? He owns a White Lantern Ring, not sure why yet, but i'm sure will be revealed in the Brightest Day storyline eventually.

Captain Boomerang, One of the cheaper and weaker figure but with the ability to attack all characters in his boomerang path, it might come handy after all if you use him well! Great addition to the keyword Rogues.

Alas, our last two figures, Firestorm and Hawkgirl. Firestorm is probably one of the rarely used figures as his special abilities don't really give much options and you can use better figures for his cost. Not to mention his lack of keywords :/

Hawkgirl on the other hand is a cheap and strong warrior. Her trait Master Aerial Combatant allows you to modify her attack and damage values by +1 whenever she attacks a character with the Flight ability! Now that's what i call power!

All in all, a fantastic set, another must buy for DC Heroclix lovers, this set has not failed me. Great Quality overall, although there is some complains where Hawkgirl is weak at the legs and tends to snap, i haven't had that problem but it always doesn't hurt to pay extra attention to them.

So this wraps up this weekends Heroclix bonus edition by me. I hope you enjoyed it as much as i did. :)

From Blackest Night ...

Welcome, I've finally decided i should get going on my collections, today i bring you part 1 of a two part Heroclix review. I give you, my Heroclix Blackest Night Starter Set.



Here we have a complete view of all the Figures from the starter. I will briefly describe each figure later. One of the best parts about this set is that the figures have fantastic dynamic poses. It's been highly regarded as one of the better sets and a must for anybody who plays Heroclix.

These only downside of these figures really is that they lack the keywords to make them highly playable in Heroclix, regardless though they can still pack a punch! I mean think about it, superheroes and villains with power rings, surely they'll do more damage than they normally do.

Here, from left to right order, we have Indigo Lantern Atom, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, and Violet Lantern Wonder Woman. 3 classic superheroes, Atom is highly used because of his pretty awesome healing powers. Green Lantern has a special ability that lets him regenerate instead of taking pushing damage. And Wonderwoman is basically a high damage powerhouse. Atom's sculpt has been deemed one of the best heroclix figures, and if you look at it, you can see why. My only upset with this is the Green Lantern figure. He is so tiny. he looks like a small boy when standing next to wonderwoman. Atom's small but that makes sense, he is the Atom! he can shrink!

Red Lantern Mera and Blue Lantern Flash, Mera is somewhat evil since red lanterns are all rage, This gives her highly large attack and damage stats for a cheap cost. But the downside of her is she is easily taken out with low life of 6 clicks. Blue Lantern Flash is probably my favourite figure to use, a well all rounder with good stats, and useful Powers and Abilities like Hypersonic Speed, Enhancement, Perplex, etc. This figures are probably the most fragile out of the set. So pay careful attention when handling them.

Here's our two villains Orange Lantern Lex Luthor and Sinestro Corps Scarecrow. Lex Luthor is probably the most useless figure in my opinion, his stats are mediocre and his special ability is hard to use in expert games. Scarecrow on the other hand, doesn't play out well but i have to say his figure is probably the best looking one for me. I mean, check out the yellow lantern crows. Not fairly used but will probably have some usefulness in a Sinestro Corps theme team.

Overall a great starter kit, anyone looking to start playing i highly recommend getting this kit. Its just appealing, and one of the coolest Dc comics Collectibles you will find in the market.

animoviethon

So. If anyone wants to take a crack at it. Animoviethon would be. indeed. short for. Anime-movie-marathon. { i wouldn't have guess 8-) }. Reason for this being i've seen a couple of films and why not write about all of them in one go? simple enough. It's probably overdue anyway.

Now, in no particular order i bring you four, in my opinion, pretty decent anime movies, that might interest you.

Summer Wars

Here's a one different from your regular animes. Set in our contemporary period, a young boy pretends to be his seniors girlfriend following her back to her hometown for her grandmothers birthday. There's a virtual space, called OZ, where it's been hacked into by a virus called "Love Machine" and it was going to take over military missiles and all that. Its up to the boy and the girls' family to put all their wits together to try to bring the virus down.

That, my friends, is what i would call a super summary. Mind you, its been about couple months since i watched this. All in all, it's a fantastic anime in my opinion, and you should definitely 100% truly watch it. It comes off a little weird at first, but you will enjoy this shift from the animes that you watch today. Its got a little bit of everything for everyone, romance, fighting, a bit of mystery. What else could you ask for?

Detective Conan: Lost Ship in the sky (movie 14)


Here's the latest from the Detective Conan Movie franchise, the lost ship in the sky, i'm not sure why it's titled like that since the ship isn't lost at all. Here we have a very interesting take on Detective Conan, not your regular plot where you have an assailant, and probably 3 suspects, which Conan tries to figure out who it is. Or the single suspect with the air tight alibi which Conan has to disprove.

In the beginning, we see a terrorist group steal some kind of virus. Along with the plot is Kaito Kido who claims he will steal Jirokichi Suzuki's priceless Gem on an airship. Everything suddenly comes to chaos, as the terrorist group also enter the airship.

To be honest, the reason why Detective Conan is so interesting is because of the mysteries, For a feature length movie with such little mysteriousness, it might score unwell with long time fans who've watch every single episode and every movie.

Gundam 00: Awakening of the trailblazer

Here's another franchise that's a big hit in Japan, Gundam. And with their latest feature length film. Awakening of the trailblazer. Here's another plot that's been shifted away from the norm. To most people, when you think of Gundam, you think robot on robot action. But in this film we have robots versus alien like substances. So if you're looking for intense robot on robot fun, i suggest you look else where cause this movie will fail you. But if you're a fan of the Gundam 00 series and have kept up with season 1 and season 2, this movie will definitely suit you nicely. They've managed to put every single character that's still alive, that played a part in season 1 and 2 into this. Even if their role is small. Which is one of the reason i enjoyed this movie, even though many of them sacrificed their life for the sake of humanity :(

The overall plot is, an alien substance in the form of a lost space ship returns to earth. After that, strange occurrences happens, and after a while, they've figured the unknown substance is causing it. Eventually more of this substance heads their way towards earth and it's up to the mobile suits (robots) to stop them!

Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

Lastly, we have the dissapearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, now to be bluntly put it, anyone who watched the series the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, MUST, i repeat, MUST watch this. One day, our good friend Kyon wakes up, remembering everything but the world has been changed, normal. So he puts everything together to try to make things back the way they were, trying to solve with the hints left behind for him. If you haven't watch the Melancholy, watching this is going to be a head-turner, you will not understand a single thing. So i suggest you watch the series, then watch this, kthx. But seriously, i loved it. Not only was the storyline great, it also involved a bit of mystery, cause you don't know who done it, who made it change? It's revealed halfway through out the movie BUT only to be muted when the name is said (which is a fantastic move by the producers) so unless you can lip read cartoons, you wouldn't know who dunnit till the very end of this 3 hour epic movie.

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So that about wraps it up from my side. Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as i enjoyed writing it. :)

Baptism

With the new year, dawns new goods, tv shows, resolutions, and a brand new blog (reconstructed anyway). One thing that is also renewed is religion!

How you may ask? I mean. New religion? well no. The religion is still the same. But at the start of the year. The Catholic Church has a celebration so we renew our vows we did during Baptism.

Baptism, simply put, its when we are reborn into Christianity. We say our vows. Many of us probably have it done at birth but in the Catholic church there are many rites. Normally for those born into this religion, we go through confirmation which is a sense absolutes our baptism. For older people, those not baptised at young, and baptised at a time they're old enough to understand everything. They pretty much go through both at the same time.

The point being is. God is wonderful. I believe each minute he lets us live is a minute that we are reborn. Its only done once a year where we renew our vows but everyday we're alive we should be grateful and repent. yessir.

So the question really is. what do you want to make out of your gift of life? are you going to just sit there, watching tv, playin games, collecting toys or are you going to try to make a difference in the world we live in? or at least in your life. Think about it. The choice is yours. :)

Scooby dooby who?

Nowadays cartoons have gone way way way down, in terms of standard anyway. Many cartoons have been revamped over and over. Transformers, from the classic, beastwars, armada, animated and the lastest one transformers prime.

One cartoon has kinda stayed true to it's nature over the years. Scooby Doo! basically Scooby and his gang uncovered fake ghosts and ghouls! Just a little bit of history. The original series, scooby doo where are you, first came out in the 70s. The best one in my opinion. It was even showed not less than 10 years ago on cartoon network. Although some of the reincarnations weren't that bad.

Now. Introducing. The Lastest reincarnation, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated. Released in june 2010, currently aired 13 episodes while 26 is suppose to be the production number. This series is suppose to be a direct sequel to the original Scooby Doo where are you ignoring it's previous reincarnations. In my opinion was a good step by the producers.

In the first episode, we see some of the classic baddies from the original series here in some sort of museum. Which might bring joy to fans of the original series who recognize some of these baddies!

While every story has a different baddie, as normal. This new scooby doo has an overal arch. Some mystery on crystal cove! Here you see Daphne holding some sort of medallion that was unrelated to the capture of the baddie!

I've watched only one episode so my review is based on that. Overall it sticks to the original, so i quite enjoyed it. The artwork is different but not bad. I'm definitely looking forward to more episodes to come!

The Perau

With a new year, and new beginnings, it's only best that i should introduce myself. The creator of the Perauverse. I am. Perau.

If you missed it, i'm a total NERD. (refer to link for my awesome definiton of nerd)

I enjoy good television, i still watch cartoons but none of that new age rubbish nowadays, only classic good stuff like justice league, batman, transformers (not the animated or armada for that matter juts the 80s classic). And am i sucker for collectible toys especially heroclix, gunpla and transformers.

I study Engineering. It's good fun. If you're considering it please don't hesitate to ask me.

Let's see. when it comes to alliances. I'm a DC comic, Decepticon, that's all i can think of so far.

I enjoy playing games, tabletop, card games, ps2,ps3, computer, any console i'll love it!

Religiously i'm a Roman Catholic.

I'm a domokun and a batman fan. Those are some other things i enjoy collecting as well.

OH. i'm not single. In fact i have the most wonderful girlfriend in the world.

Pretty ain't she?

well i hope you enjoyed that brief intro about myself. If you have any questions. just bomb away!

Nerd Factor

As a new millinea dawns, we come to see more and more people going back to the classics, just as aviator shades. What has been a pretty big hit is, the Nerd Factor. Everybody wants to be a nerd nowadays. Being a legitimate nerd though, i find it pretty annoying at times. You see tons of people dressing up like a nerd, batman and transformer shirts, nerd glasses. Tell tale signs of nerdiness. But most of those people know jack squat about being a nerd.

I mean ask anyone who wears a batman shirt, if they know how batman died (in reference to the comic arch batman rip not "the man who broke the bat" which some people can argue was the spiritual death of batman) or if they know who the current batman is. Most of them probably cant even answer those two. But thats okay given that it's still quite recent events in the dcu (DC universe, if you didnt understand that, you're probably not a nerd) BUT if you ask them to name the first robin and they can't answer it's Dick Grayson, we're going to have a problem.

So what does seperate the Nerds from the wannabes?

Welcome to Perau's guide to be a full on nerd!

1. first and for-most, you have to be studying something science or IT related, which has lots of specialized words, and you have to speak lots of jargon. Such fields include, maths, engineering, IT, biotech, medicine..etc. the list goes on.

2. You have to have a bunch of nerdy shirts, examples are like of below! (my decepticon soundwave and green lantern shirt)

3. You have to own a collection of toys. (I don't really have a self to put all this stuff, and since most are in storage, i just compiled some examples, I've got heroclix, transformers and gundam there)

4. You need to of course, follow some nerdy tv program. Back in the days they had transformers (the 80s version), star trek, and all sorts of other stuff. These days we're much more privileged with awesome DC comic and Marvel cartoons, justice league, avengers. And not to mention other tv series, smallville, human target. Anything related to comics, space, robots, aliens, whatever! Animes count, but it has to be nerd animes like gundam.

5. Whats a nerd without his comics? you obviously need to read at least one continuity. That shouldn't be much a problem. Its just one. You got like tons to choose from. mind you i have over 2000 comic books on my PC.

If you fulfill 1,2,3,4,5 You at least meet the requirement to be able to become a nerd. But thats the easy part. To really be full-on, you have to

6. Know what a skrull is

7. Play a nerdy card game (magic, pokemon, yu-gi-oh..) or table top games, (dungeons and dragons, star wars miniatures, heroclix, warhammer)

8. Know who is in the DCU trinity

9. Own a transformer toy

10. Join an online forum

11. Questioned certain casting of actors potraying superheros

12. Know that batman and spiderman do not come from the same universe

13. Wish you were a superhero

If you meet all those ! ( i think i was being lax) You're well on your way to be a nerd.

and know you know.

and Knowing is half the battle! G I JOEEEEEE

(watch video if you don't understand reference)

torchlight

Princeton defines the torchlight as light from a torch, (click it if you don't believe). wow right? You'd think Princeton would come up with something better than a definition a 5 year old would have come up with.

But alas, i will not be talking about a light from a torch, but in fact i'll be talking about a town called torchlight. in fact. it's overrunned with demons. or something like that. This would be, in fact, a game review! dun dun dun. (inserts epic sound effects)

Torchlight would be your classic click dungeon RPG. very much like diablo. The game isn't big in size, or needs very much graphics, but it will in fact gives you hours of fun!

Just like any other dungeon RPG game, you enter a dungeon, and you proceed deeeper and deeeeeeeeper. There of course comes a point where you stop and think to yourself, why am i proceeding deeper? its way much more safer closer to town but thats up to you users i guess if you want to know or not what happens in the end.

OK, lets start with the basics. Being a small game you don't get much options, you can start off as a mage, warrior, or trapper. You get to choose from three pets, a dog, a cat, and a ferret. I went with the warrior, cause i'm a fighter. I like going at things head on, less talk more action! no brains, all brawn.

Let's take a look at my character ( this is of course, in it's final glory, after i completed the whole game, i wouldn't want to look like a noob to my fans!)

Marvelous isn't it! I've actually added some skills, as you can see i have a bright blue forcefield and some kind of phantasm guardian angel on my shoulder. My cat minion is by my side. If you can see it, there's your typical HP and Mana bar, and you have 10 slots for quick skills, spells, potions, and what not. Theres also this handy one when you can slot a skill with the right click on the mouse!

Fight Scene! Everyone loves a good one, and here is me taking down some high level dwarfs! and zombies for that matter. As you can see, the graphics are pretty cartoonish, but that doesn't bother me. And if you play it, it wouldn't you too!

Here are your stats and the inventory. There's also the skills and pet inventory, but those aren't really important for now. Whats important is you check out my heavy artillery dual weapons. oh yea. bad boy. For the ladies, you're character can have 2 rings and a necklace! If you would now look at the left. Underneath the name Perau, i've reached the rank of unattainable, which is of course. the highest rank possible in the game. no other ranks after, the rank before was demigod. Check out the high numbers in the strength and defence. i do 108% extra damage with a melee weapon. if that ain't bad i don't know what is!

Overall the game is great. Good fun to kill the time. Can get a little repetitive at times but thats why you don't play it for hours to an end! If you're looking for an adventure. I would certainly most definitely recommend this to you.

Supermobile

If batman can have a batmobile why cant superman?

well there you have it folks. Superman's got his very own ride. with his colours.
bet batman's jealous now! what you're looking at is. WFC Optimus Prime. (note the nerd notation WFC which stands for War For Cybertron, havn't actually played it but the toys from it look cool.) i just love how the car seems to be just about the right size. its a big armored car that looks like it can break anything in its path! now superman doesnt have to go charging head on with his fist anymore. you can thank me later superman.

Along with a new transformer, a new stop motion is in motion! hehe.
For my 2nd attempt on stop motion, i used my webcam instead of using my phone cam to take photos. a lot of rookie mistakes, but don't think its that noticeable.



Notes:
next time have sound.
better lighting.

I think i should have gone with the vehicle to bot mode instead since i showed you guys the vehicle mode first. but i'll save that for the next time i try my stop motion.


eyecatching isn't it?

i call it the auto justice league task force. also ajltk. owlman pilots the gundam. heh.

Great isn't it how the gunpla and optimus prime are just about the same height. i'd like to see that the gunpla are a security measure the perauverse has taken against of any hostile transformer takeovers. watch out world. transformers have landed

fukung!!!!

I know what you might be thinking. FUKUNG!! must be some ancient chinese martial arts.
i mean, if you're smart enough to see it. its kung fu with it's syllables backwards.

FUKUNGFUKUNGFUKUNGFUKUNGFU

which is it? fukung or kungfu?

but, alas, i won't be talking about martial arts. not today anyway.
fukung.net is just another one of the random websites i have much interest in. If you click the hyperlink earlier, it will probably bring you to a random picture. clicking on the same hyperlink will most probably bring you to another random picture, which is exactly what fukung is. a website with a bunch of random pictures. some i find are really funny, and some realli cute!

if you want to check out my favourite fukung pics. you can click HERE!!!1!!

just for kicks! check out some of the most adorable pics that you will ever see in your life!!!!!

all with compliments of fukung. enjoy~