And some other characters:
Friday, 22 August 2014
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
My visit to Miniatur Wundertland In Hamburg, Germany
Miniatur Wunderland is astounding. Measuring over 1300 square meters with moving trains (the largest miniature train track in the world, actually), moving cars and trucks, over 215000 individually sculpted figurines, and many functions which range from a crowd doing "the wave" to a working roller coaster, Miniatur Wunderland takes your breath away in a way that only LEGOLAND can (when it's one of the better LEGOLAND's).
Anyway, I know if you're anything like me you're aching to see that miniature working roller coaster, so I'll give you the video right now so we can get that out of the way:
Crazily amazing, right? I mean, I know the mechanics are probably fairly simple, but for some reason a miniature roller coaster really blows me away.
Then there's stuff like this, a functioning depiction of people doing "the wave" at what appears to be a rock concert or something:
Phenomenal.
And then you come across simple things like this, a train crossing a bridge, that really are beauty in motion:
And here's one of two trains:
Some nice pics:
An astounding place to visit!
Friday, 1 August 2014
Comic books are mind-blowingly amazing
I love comic books, specifically trade paperbacks. I love action in comic books most of all, artwork is almost equally important to me, and story matters to me too, but not quite so much as the action and artwork.
I mean, stuff like this is just breathtaking:
I mean, stuff like this is just breathtaking:
I really cannot emphasize enough how awesome all of those are... just.... just wow.
I think my favourite character of all time is Red Hulk. He's like the hulk, expect an intelligent strategist who's fully aware of what he's doing while in Hulk mode (which is actually all the time, but you get my point). And red somehow looks even better on a Hulk than green does, especially with that haircut of his.
I would say my all-time favourite arc is the New 52 Batman vol 1 & 2. So awesome, with an amazing climax.
I think my second favourite arc would be Captain America: The Winter Soldier, however I can't be sure of that, because I was just getting into comics then and wasn't really paying that much attention, and i think I may have delayed finishing it for a while, but I think I still remember being really impressed.
I love comic books almost as much as I love Star Wars (and I love Star Wars a LOT).
Monday, 28 July 2014
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Awesome LEGO Tumblr set
LEGO recently unveiled a new Ultimate Collectors' Series Tumblr and it looks AMAZING.
It's 15 inches (40 cm) long, which sounds awesome. The detail looks superb. I wonder if the wheels can move left and right, though, but if not it's still an incredible model.
It's 15 inches (40 cm) long, which sounds awesome. The detail looks superb. I wonder if the wheels can move left and right, though, but if not it's still an incredible model.
Saturday, 19 July 2014
Saturday, 3 May 2014
Futurama!
Farnsworth: Step off, you greasers! I was street-racing back when ships still ran on moonwater!
Gang: Damn, yo, get a load of speed geezer!
Farnsworth: Hey! That's it, you hoodlums! Your mouth just wrote a PayPal transfer request that your butt has insufficient funds to honor!
Gang: Yo, it is on! Before that, it was off.
That last line is awesome, totally hilarious. Then there's:
Fry (Sobbing): Poor Bender left me one last voicemail before the Robot Mafia buried him in the desert.
Bender (On cell phone): Fry, old friend, before I die, I just wanted to say... [Beep.] Hang on, I'm getting another call. Hello? [The gun fire commences and Bender screams.]
Hermes: Line up, people! Everyone take a shovel and one sixth of the planet. We'll meet back here in 50 years, our bodies broken and our lives wasted.
Zoidberg: And you say these are free shovels?
Classic zoidberg.
Leela: What? You're gonna wipe out 10% of the galaxy for a stupid golf course?
Mr. Wong: First of all, it 12% . Second, yes, you betcha.
Leela: But you have no idea what life forms might be evolving out there.
Mr. Wong: That's exactly why I'm hiring an impartial scientist to perform an environmental survey. That's him in the money shower.
[Farnsworth is in the money shower, giggling as money rains down around him.]
Into the Wild Green Yonder is a hilarious movie. Probably competes with Roswell That Ends Well as my favorite episode.
From Roswell that Ends Well:
Fry: My God! This means the flying saucer that crashed in Roswell ... was us!
Farnsworth: And the alien they captured was ... was...
[Cut to: Airbase Hangar. Men open a crate. Zoidberg is inside behind some bars. He waves.]
Zoidberg: Hello! [The general winces.] So what are you guys doing tonight? I'm up for whatever.
That episode is excellent. Fry basically goes back in time, kills his grandfather, has sex with his grandmother, and therefore becomes his biological grandfather. Such great stuff.
Though the quality of the show began to wane after the season with the four movies (whichever one that was), Futurama is probably the greatest TV sitcom of all time, and I was sad when it got cancelled.
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