On Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 8:16:26 AM UTC-7, Irrellius Spamticon of the Potato People. wrote:
> I asked for and got the SDCC FT Max for my birthday, not really all that
> happy with it
I remember this. Well, one day they'll do a Titan-class Scorponok and you'll be glad he has somebody to fight.
> I bought myself TR Scourge and TR Blurr knowing I wouldn't find TR
> Triggerhappy or Doublecross in time,(Scourge's floppy leg panels are driving
> me crazy) and while I found them, I wasn't willing to pay TRU's $19 price tag
> or Walmart.com's $28.97 either.
Those prices are just crazy sauce. My store ran out of Deluxe toys before Christmas and I haven't been able to restock them since (I seriously cannot believe the last of the Combiner Wars Wheeljack toys finally sold).
Besides the leg panels, what do you think of Scourge? And Blurr?
> Bought a secondhand Fansproject assaulter on the 22nd, and the fanmodes are
> much better than the official ones.
I had to look at some pictures online to figure out what toys you were talking about. Assaulter's robot mode is really nice, but his "aircraft carrier" mode just doesn't look very good to me. (But then, Titans Return Broadside has a pretty sad-looking jet mode.)
> As for what friends and family got me, a Muslim coworker got me a kitten
> calendar, cat toys, and Christmas candy, and a santa hat when I told her I'm
> not really that religious.
That's really kind of thoughtful, actually.
> My direct family got me....DVDs of the first four seasons of Shameless, which
> I had never heard of but they started watching at season 5 so got me the
> first seasons so they could watch them
They say that people give the sort of gifts that they would want to receive. Sounds like your family is taking that very literally.
> They ordered a Cloud9 Quakeblast which came on the 27th, and I'm quite happy
> with.
I had always been under the impression that third-party stuff like this was intended to fill a gap left by a lack of official releases. Did you still find Quakeblast more desirable even with an official Masterpiece Shockwave on the market?
> People were lining up at 5 AM every day in hopes that our store would have
> some NES classics, Kindle fire TV, Amazon Echoes, or series 2 apple watches.
> No watches ever came in.
People lined up for the NES at my store, too. Which is kind of funny because they would be there at six in the morning even though we didn't start selling them until eight o'clock. I wish I had that kind of spare time to waste!
Zob (seriously, the things I could do with two hours)