Chinese New Year

Recently didnt update blog for a long time, yet again, thus collected all the toy pics together. Quite troublesome to upload and slowly arrange and group them up. Well an update on the recent Marvel stuff mainly Marvel Select and some Marvel Fury line.

Marvel Universe -- Ironman and Goliath

gotten the yellow version and missed the other red version, local retailers did not bring in this piece yet again due to what ever reasons, think big figures are always more popular as compared to those small ones

Captain America vs Skrull Giant Man

Captain America looks not bad as chromed version and I think this piece the Skrull looks pretty decent, no variants for this piece though

Now to Marvel Select starting with Spiderman

Seriously I think this piece looks pretty bad, Spiderman looks ugly and the smashed up car looks like some green goo shit so don't get this piece if you hada choice get the older version. It looks much more decent and nicer than thisDaredevil (masked)

Daredevil I find it too skinny, plus he cant grab around the cross although it looks good.

His stick is also part of the figure as a piece which means you cant detach from this hand, wth right? zZZ

the short-packed unmasked variantfrom the back of the box we can see Abomination coming up, which is a big, heavy and value for money figure ha..

First Appearance Sabertooth

This piece is actually an exclusive piece and I think it looks really good, especially the face

Sabertooth

This is the normal version of Sabertooth, which don't look so bad but some how when placed beside the 1st appearance it kinda fades in comparison

Unmasked Wolverine

this is in the old Brown coloured costume

Bigbadtoys Exclusive Masked Wolverine

think this looks pretty much the same as the one above in the brown costume just that its wearing a mask but it comes with a nice Samarai bust thingy. Well think really enough of Wolverines from Marvel Select, other characters please.. Marvel Girl unmasked version seriously I think this piece really looks ugly, not only the costume don't really look that nice the face sculpt is really horrible the only redemption part is the gate diorama that comes with it, get 2 of it and u can form a full gate

Masked version

3rd Captain Marvel variant Kree version

well at least this piece is not so bad, repainting the whole thing rather that just the head I think the colour looks not bad ha

Firstly Happy Chinese New Year! When I was young, I used to look forward to CNY, not only for the red packets, but also the fun and the goodies. I still recall that when I was young, there was a chance that my birthday would fall on on CNY and I would get a double ang pao ha.. But as I get older now you do not have the same kind of expectations anymore. People will start asking about what you are doing, are you seeing someone, are you planning to get married soon and all. Minus all these, however I get to meet some people that I haven seen for a long time which we probably only meet once a year which is during CNY.

1 thing my family have yearly is steamboat for reunion dinner. There would be my family and 4 of my relatives so it'll be a dinner for 10! There would be lots of food, mean from pork to chicken to fish to prawns and to roast pork and duck, then vegetables, mushroom, abalone, fish maw, different kinds of fishballs n meatballs and many more. Forgotten to take pictures of it. Must remember to do so the next time round ha. This year had one more steamboat when my sister's friends came along and they brought a dish which my family seldom buy which I love -- beef! Ha i had lots of it.. And its one of the rare occassions which I love the soup.

Previously, during CNY I would have so many places to go but nowadays things are different. Or perhaps its me who have lost the feeling of going visiting. Perhaps don't really feel like answering the standard questions which people will usually ask when they haven't seen you for a long time. Well I grew really close to my neighbour over this period of time, a man in his late forties with 5 beautiful daughters and a son,yeah 4 daughters. We drink together pretty often and many times talking about things that I do not even tell my own parents. I do not know if its due to the beer or he is an easy going person or what reason but we can get along well. I know most of his relatives and his friends and at times some ask how come a young man is hanging with an old man. Ha well I think he isn't really that old and he looks much younger than his age. I always feel that for men, its easier to talk over a drink. There are no boundaries and barriers just like smoking ha..

Was supposed to meet someone for my birthday that day but due to some reason the person cant make it so ended up with no plans. Then went down to grandma's place with my mum and had 'yu sheng' with my relavtives. Came back during late noon and joined my neighbour to one of their friend's place. It was a 3 or 4 storeys high semi-detached which they got the Lion and Dragon Dance troupe to come perform. There was 4 Lions and 1 Dragon and when I was young I really loved the noise and excitment about it. Something interesting was that the hosts actually opened I think at least $100 worth of $1 coins mixed with those gold coin chocolates and while the lion was lying down peeling the oranges, it would throw or 'spit' out randomly the coins and there would be a scramble for the $1 coins. Ha.. It was a rare occassion that you would be hit be money lol.. I managed to get a few $1 without moving about much ha but some of the kids collected quite a lot ha.. End of it all, it was time for some gambling! Ha so get your money down and may Lady Luck be with us all..

Comfort to laziness

Its been awhile since I bought any 3.75 Star Wars figures. Local retailers have not brought in any new waves for quite some time, although they have been released overseas for quite some time. This is one thing about Hasbro in Singapore, they do simply do not bring in some stuff due to certain reasons like earlier waves did not sell well and stuff rather than reviewing the problem, they choose to not bring in later waves, oh well great marketing. How is a collector able to complete his collection then.. Well after missing the new 1st 09 wave, which has a nice hologram Darth Sidious and the Queen Amidala in travelling gown, I picked up some of the other pieces of The Legacy Collection.

another piece of Concept Art work of IG-88

Commander Cody

I find this a pretty nice piece, its different from the older version of The Saga Collection, plus it comes with the hologram Emperor which in the movie Cody takes the order for the execution of Order 66. Plo Koon, with dual light sabers. This piece is a different piece from the Saga Legends piece with different arms and legs pieces. Concept Ki-Adi-Mundi

Another piece of concept art piece this time round with Ki-Adi-Mundi, which I think the concept version is not bad, with a white light saber and a eye patch! dun look much different from the normal Ki-Adi-Mundi if without the eye patch ha..

Padme Amidala

this piece is from the Evo pack of Princess Amidala. think the head sculpt is nt bad for a 3.75" figure. comes with a plastic hood but a cloth white top

Clone Commander Deviss

Never appeared in the show but he looks cool as a trooper with the visor, grappling rope and a big gun, therefore will get off shelves pretty fast..

Malakili, the Rancor keeper

I bought the Rancor and Luke box set some time back for less than the cost of this figure itself plus it comes with a huge Rancor. Thus i got this Malakili to pair with the

Rancor

Princess Leia in slave suit,

this is the costume she was in after captured by Jabba and she was chained.

comes with an additional torso for the classic chained pose. This was the most sought after figure in this wave

Classic cute Ewoks from Endor

These are Nho’Apakk and Paploo

Attack on Genosis battlepack!

this is a battlepack which almost every collector wants and not just 1 but at least 2 as you have to get 2 to get 2 turrets for each gunship and it comes with 2 clone pilots for each battlepack. Juz nice 2 drivers n 2 troopers to in the turrets. Managed to get 2! Yeah now lacking the new Republic Gunship with fully closed doors!

Gotten some Lego minifigs, started with this STCC chromed Vader after 1 of my friend asked me to bid on it saying its cheap and bet I wont get it at that kind of price, else he 'chop'. Won the item with just 1 bid and yes my friend didnt 'chop' and I ended with a Vader minifig

My fav charac Darth Maul minifig with his dual weilding light saber

3 different stormtroopers, the normal white stormtrooper, the shadow stormtrooper and lastly chromed stormtrooper which is 2009 SDCC exclusive

I think humans are actually very adaptive creatures, able to adapt and change to suit the enviroment, though at time I think we should try to change the enviroment. Well that aside, I think when we are in a strange or new enviroment, we tend to change to try hard to survive to get ourselves more comfortable in the new enviroment and adapting ourselves to it. Like our forefathers when they came over to a strange new land, they toiled and sweat to bring about lots of changes and made a living out of things. However, today we have began to take things for granted. Things we have were not fought by us, but by generations above us, thus we do not treasure things as much and we did not go through the hardship but enjoying fruits of labour of our forefathers. As such we are in a comfort zone where things are easy as compared to the past. When we get easy with things and get too familiar and too comfortable, we fall into a zone we draw out, a comfort zone. In the zone, we become complacent and do not have a strong fighting spirit and energy to fight for things we want and to break out of the zone. We simply take things as they are. I think at such times, we need a wake up call, a serious and mega event and hopefully we realise how much we have lost out as compared to those who do not set themselves in their comfort zones. Hopefully we are all able to get out of our couches, embrace and evaluate ourselves to change and fight for the better. To seek to improve and to be more efficient and to be more adaptive to the changing enviroment. To break out of our own comfort zone..