My next piece for Collector’s Gazette is about the history of Teenage Mutant Ninja/Hero Turtles toys. So of course the inevitable has happened. I have the Revoltech set on the way as well. SIGH. Still, they look absolutely awesome. I have now entered what will be a protracted phase of resisting the undoubtedly amazing but also very, very expensive NECA 1990 1/4 Scale Movie Turtle replicas.
I’ve contributed to The Guardian before but never as an author, so I’m really pleased to have a piece published there today.
Server crashes, 40GB patches and DLC: gaming’s biggest irritations explained
My third piece for BLB is live. I shall admit that I was completely unprepared for how writing it would effect me. I had not appreciated quite how much of the detail of what we all went through I had buried away, and digging it up was quite a harrowing experience. It’s made me realise that I’m most definitely in no way at peace with it all. I’m not sure whether that means I need to explore the impact of everything in a therapeutic setting, or whether our brain rightly suppresses such things for a reason. At the very least I hope the article may help others in a similar situation.
I have now fiddled with my birthday bots. I’m a lucky boy. (Fanshobby Gunfighter was actually a purchase, but as he turned up on my birthday, he felt present-y.) My knee-jerk not-influenced-by-the-fact-that-these-are-warmly-appreciated-gifts assessments:
On a side note, I’ve now handled Badcube and MMC Trailbreaker, and Badcube and XTB Hoist. They all have pros and cons but none of them nail it. I think I preferred MMC Trailbreaker and, astonishingly, I’d probably go for XTB for Hoist (as fucked as parts of the design are). But all of them will go the moment Takara announces theirs.
My second piece for BLB. If you’re involved in a custody fight then this is the single most important piece of advice I can offer. And indeed, perhaps even if you are not…
I was really pleased to be given the opportunity to write about one of my favourite subjects is the last two issues of Collector’s Gazette. I’ll be writing a regular feature for them about more off-the-wall collecting hobbies starting in the summer.
Thanks ever so much to Maz for the picture contribution.
Maz very kindly invited me to contribute to another fine piece of his on the TF Source blog.
I mean, who could have seen that coming?
In the many debates I’ve had about the Bayverse films (although ultimately we need no debate – I don’t like them, you might do, that’s fine) the reaction I often get is “but just enjoy them for the mindless romps that they are”. The insinuation being that I’m snobbish about them for lacking intellectual depth.
But that’s not it at all. There are many, many wonderful shallow action films, but the Bayverse films are not that. Shallowness is not the problem. They are just horrible. The action is aimless. The characters are vacuous. The plot are pointless. The visuals are ugly. I really can’t find a single positive thing to say about them. I actively hate them.
The same can be said of other series too, of course, but I don’t care about other series. I DO care about Transformers, and it breaks my heart. I yearn to enjoy them.
I’m delighted to be able to say that I’m now writing a weekly blog for BLB about family law and all issues involving custody. Anyone who knows me well will know that it’s a subject that’s incredibly close to my heart, having gone through a court case to secure custody of my daughter last year.
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