Holiday Season 2018

To you and yours, however you celebrate and whoever you celebrate with- The best to you and a happy new year

     I wish you time with loved ones and good meaningful conversation; I wish you peace and prosperity in the coming year.

Toysday: Roll the Bones

      I love Dice; nothing unnatural about it- The feel of them, the sound of them rolling draws me back to my first table RPGs back in high school and calls me back to a thousand battles won and lost, hundreds of kingdoms saved and a population of heroes and villains spanning years of realtime as well as millennia of game time

     I have some really, really gorgeous dice.

Gamescience and precision edge dice

Crystal Caste Dice

Chessex

 Random 20 siders

and Q-Workshop

     This year for her birthday I sent my daughter a set of Q-Workshop dice, to help her live out her own tabletop adventures

Toysday: Legends of the Fall

     So I skipped last week- wasn't feeling it, particularly with the news of the passing of Smilin' Stan Lee. One of those things you know is coming, but still don't ever want to see. But he left the world a legacy of legends and modern myths to tell and retell, and to watch and rewatch. He left the world a far brighter place from his passing through it than most do, by being a great dreamer and a storyteller.

RIP Stan- Excelsior!

     On Wednesday last week I picked up an order from a new-to-me merchant called Ages Three and Up. 

     It contained The first wave of voyagers from Hasbro's new Fall of Cybertron: Siege line, Optimus Prime and Megatron

     First, The Bad...I miss the Collector cards. 

     The Good: Where were these at during the last three lines????? Because they are flipping a-maze-ing

The battle damage paint apps are well done, in my opinion, and I like the transforming weapons- I'm really excited about this line

Toysday: 3D Printed Dreams

     I ordered some stuff from Shapeways- they have a lot of amazing transformers enhancement products, weapons, parts, pieces to turn one transformer into another...

So I bought some fun stuff, some helpful stuff- even some necessary stuff

I bought the original Windblade figure some improved heels so she could stand better

The Time bubble gun for movie Hot Rod

 And a chainsaw melee weapon for studio Ironhide

And a pair of sword which I gave to TR Metalhawk

Friday Funnies on Sunday: Idea for Cars 4

     You heard it here first:

     in a callback to Cars 2, Sir Miles Axelrod swears revenge on Mater and Lightning; The remnants of his shadowy organization, led by his brother Kilos, Target the two friends and send them on the run, away from their home in Radiator Springs.

    While hiding in LA, they meet a singer, named Freddy Cougar, Who introduces them to his Cousin, who he says can protect them.

     Enter Cade Carson, who seems and probably is insane. He talks to cars that aren't there, and insists they refer to him as

CARPOOL

The Merc with a mouth

With apologies and thanks to the original artist and Hot Wheels

Toysday: Favorite Subjects

     If you know me and follow this blog, you know I I love Optimus Prime. Andf in Classics scale, the perfect size for Optimus is Voyager- Leader is too big, Deluxe too small, Legends is "are you F##ing kidding me?" Voyager has enough Size and heft to look big against the deluxes without looking monstrous

     These are all close enough to suit my aesthetic