Link Travelers Blue Building - Mainly Marion

 Here I have a review of mostly MArion from Link Travelers due to bad luck on the rest of the rolls.

If You're curious, here are the instructions for the build:

Gashapon Quest Wave 3, Portal to the Beast Kingdom

 Land, Kingdom, place, whatever.  Where the beast folk live.  

So here I am with a review of the wave three of Gashapon Quest plastic model figures.  Amazingly these things come from Gacha machines, yep, they're not cheap, but they're pretty cool.  I managed to get 3 of the 4 waves released from the machines, most of it was done through Bandai's online Gashapon site, which I didn't do, because:

1. It's kinda annoying
2. I kept missing the ordering cut-off dates...
3. I think I discovered them kind of late.
4. After market prices are OBSCENE!

So here is the first set I managed to complete myself.  

Red Clear Version: Optimus Prime, from Terebi Magazine

 Released today, of all days (August 22, 2023), I managed to bag one of these bad boys and made a nice, terrible video, to join all the other terrible videos on youtube.

Please watch my terrible video.

Mad Max on the PS4, some musings.

This here is a review of the PS4 version of the Mad Max game.  When I first became aware of the game, I had a feeling it would be something I would like.  Recently I've been playing a lot of sandbox games and have played them quite extensively.

The Arkham series and their simple combat and stealth mechanics started it off I guess and that spread into the Shadow/War of Mordor, Just Cause games and to the Witcher 3.  Which are pretty much the majority of the "big" games I've been spending my time on.

At the time of release(2015), I think was playing a lot of Just Cause(maybe).  I remember seeing articles about Max and thinking that it looks fun, but thought I would be reaching the end of my tether for Batman Arkham style sandbox games.  I was also still playing Red Dead Redemption as well.

Reviews were ok saying it was standard fare and I felt satisfied with my decision to not bother with it.  I have always enjoyed the world of Mad Max and absolutely loved the movie Fury Road; it's such a simple premise but done very well and expands the Max lore quite nicely, but felt no strong urge to get the game that was released the same time.  The Mad Max game has little to do with Fury Road, but theoretically is set before it.

So eventually (2021) I see a tweet stating that the Mad Max is cracking a 5.99 price and I just so happened to have that amount hanging around on my long untouched PSN account. So I grabbed it.

Cool mystical glowing foxes!

Ah foxes, aren't they just the cutest little creatures, with the creepiest little eyeballs?  I love them.  And I found these crazy, but awesome foxes with a hint of Japanese magic and mystical-i-ness.  Check out the video to find out all about them!

More pull back Batmobiles！

 Glad to say I managed get get my grubby mitts on all the pullback batmobiles from Takaratomy Arts and their capsule toys. Yay. 

SO here is a video of the FINAL THREE.  Watch it and enjoy yerselves.

Previous Batmobiles here;

Tets' Toys and Shenanigans: Mini Batmobiles!! Takara Tomy ARTS Capsule toys. 

Crazy little Gacha Jukebox!

Greetos wonderful denizens of the internet!  Today I have a short n sweet video of a nifty little item I bought while I was touring GachaGachaNoMori.

Made by Toys Spirits http://toysp.co.jp/ , a company that seems to focus a lot on miniature items and I have found myself slowly grabbing more and more from them.  Generally both sculpt and function are pretty high.

This one is a Jukebox, of which there are 5 flavours, for full details, I suggest checking the video, as that is why I made it.

 

Gacha Gacha no Mori Store Walkthough

 In the delightful city of Yokohama is/was a delightful shop full of Gacha toys, called Gacha Gacha no Mori 「ガチャガチャの森」 (the Forest of Capsule toys).  

I thought it was cool as there are just heaps of  gashapon machines all over the place and it just feels a bit classy.  If you have a chance, I highly recommend checking them out.

https://www.gachagachanomori.com/   Their website for store locations.

https://twitter.com/gachanomori　　　Their Twitters as well.

I was allowed the opportunity to stroll through it with my camera and be a nuisance for a while.  So thanks for the opportunity, and if you're around one one day somewhere, check it out!

Also, check out my video that I made.

Kirby Magnet Capsule review

 Wa hey, over the Christmas break I made a quick trip to a place that has mucho gashapon toys and bagged myself a Kirby magnet.  Then I made a fascinating video on it, becase not many people make videos about fridge magnets and surely, surely someone on the internet wants to watch a video about a capsule toy magnet.

So here it is.  Enjoy

Glowing in the dark, SCORPION!

No, not Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.  So far I only have a blue lightning version of Raiden, although a red/yellow glowing version of Scorpion would be kinda cool. Like he's fresh out of hell.  Anyhoo, this is a nice little articulated scorpion of the arachnid variety.  

What I found rather interesting about this toy, is how much I learnt about the little fellows and how similar they are to spiders!  

Learning stuff from toys!  Life is good.

DeLorean Bandai Exceed Model capsule toy time

 

Hey cool people of the internets, here I am with yet another capsule toy review, and this time I am having a look at the DeLorean from back to the Future.  That sounds kind of familiar right?  And it should as not so long ago, I did the exact same thing, but with a different one!  OMG, are we approaching the DeLorean event horizon as described by the wonderful Douglas Adams??

No.

So you can relax (for now).  

This video is all about Bandai's version of the enigmatic car that comes out of a round ball.

Mini Batmobiles!! Takara Tomy ARTS Capsule toys.

 

Here we are with another capsule toy review and this time it is of Batman's batmobile in various shapes and sizes.  Well, two anyway.  These little cars come with the bonus of being loaded with pullback engines!  

I've been enjoying making these silly capsule toy reviews and with them being short, they aren't that big of a drain on my meagre mind  

I hope you've been enjoying watching them.  I have some more to go as well, but am also working on my usual other stuff too.  Whatever my usual other stuff actually is. Anyhoo, enjoy the video. 

Toddle-oo!

DeLorean Capsule Toy Review, TakaraTomy Arts

Yet another Capsule toy review and this time it's looking at the Takaratomy A.R.T.S version of the goodl old DeLorean from Back to the future (specifically part 2).  Like Ecto1 from the Ghostbusters, KITT from Knightrider and um, other cars from other shows that are cool, I rather like the DeLorean, epscially since it also has Gull wing doors.  Horribly impractical in every day situations, but damn they look cool.

TT Arts made this little guy and I pikced one up.  Check it out for yet another video of Tets' Tat & Trinkets.

Smiski, the inside the house garden gnome

 Good time of day to all.  I thought I would drop a link another little video I made for a delightful little fellow called Smiski.  For all intents and purposes, (as eloquently stated by a friend of mine)an indoor garden gnome.  I like them, there is potential.

Thanks for checking it out!

Crab Capsule toy review

 So, for whatever reason I've been wasting money on various capsule toys recently.  After finding some cool ones, I had a dig around and there doesn't seem to be much organised information on these things.  A peruse of Youtube for example seems to result in a variety of vides along the lines of

Hey guys, look at all this crazy shit I bought in Japan!!!

And an unorganised video of a huge variety of stuff seems to follow without spending much time looking at and enjoying them. 

Which I think is a shame, as they are generally very cleverly designed.

With that in mind, I am launching a new section (yes, another one) that I cleverly call

Tets' Tat & Trinkets 

(still has the T, T and CH/SH combo of sounds y'see) where I will hopefully on a regular basis cover some of these remarkable little toys.  As well as other cheap stuff I find.

Here we go with the first one, ikimono Daizukan Common Box crab, by Bandai (yes, I chose an interesting one for the first one)  Scientific name of calapa lophos, 

Bandai Link page here

Quintesson Judge Judgement review

 Just a Quicky.  

A short review of the Quintesson Judge what came from Takara Tomy and changes into a base thing.  

Give it a watch, it's only 5 minutes and you've probably wasted longer time than that on shittier videos on youtube.

Thanks.

Siege Astrotrain Video review

Wheee!  Finally got my act together enough to finish this video review of Takaratomy's Siege Astrotrain figure!



Watch it, love it, share and enjoy!

Legends Blitzwing video review

After almost, or more than two years trying to do this review, I finally have it done!  Why did it take two years?
A combination of writer's block and videoer's block.  I'd record the talkies and sound bored.  I'd take the video, it was crap. This happened more times than I would've liked.... Eventually I settled on a nice in-between where I was satisfied with what I said, how I said it and managed to keep the video short.  I also was happy with my attempts at animations and creating graphics and stuff.

LG54 Legends Bumblebee and Spike

What the heck??  Two videos within a few weeks of each other???????  Has he gone mad?

Not really.  Well, not more so than normal anyway.