The January Review: Favorites of 2017

Welcome back to the January Review!  I knew this would become a regular thing, because I'm a lazy sack!  Alright, that's not all it is.  Y'all know I gots a kid and blah blah blah - time flies!  I can't cover it all, but thanks to Instagram, I have some (many) pictures of my favorites from throughout 2017.  So here we are in January of 2018, lookin' back.  Join me, won't you?  WON'T YOU?!

The January Review : 2016 - The Year of the Video Game Toys

These toys keep shooting out of my game systems, and I want it to continue!

A Little Detour to The Mega Man Network

Hey, you!  Do you like Mega Man stuff?  Well I do!  And I wrote a review for The Mega Man Network about this new figure of Mega Man EXE, from a line called "4 Inch-Nel."  Perhaps you'd like to read it?  Check it out here!  Let me know what you think here, or there!

Schwag Brag is on the Phone, Says it's Urgent

MAN, I have not had the time I wanted to sit down and take pictures.  As usual, though, I have been taking pictures of new things with my phone.  I've missed two weeks by this point, so let's just put something up already!  Here's a quick Schwag Brag of phone pics.

World of Nintendo: Ocarina of Time Link, Gravity Suit Samus, and Shy Guy

WHOA, I found almost another whole wave already!  Thank you, Meijer!  My local grocery store seems to be the only one on top of things.  Come on in and take a look, folks!  I guarantee you'll see toys.  In here.  'Cause that's what this blog is about.  Yeah.

World of Nintendo: Samus Aran

Here it is!  The number one toy to put in a backwards time capsule so my kid self could have made use of this figure: Samus Aran, star of the video game series: Metroid.

ACEN 2015: Haul it In

There's a convention near Chicago called Anime Central (Acen).  My friends and I have gone on and off, over the years.  It has changed; we have changed.  One thing has not: I buy things.  I buy a lot of things.  OH MAN LOOK WHAT I GOT OMG

Stalling for Time

Hey, folks!  This weekend I went to Acen (Anime Central); a convention near Chicago.  I didn't do aaaaanything in terms of preparing a post, so here's some random pictures from my photobucket until I'm done preparing pics of all the junk I bought at the convention.

Schwag Brag and the Deathly Spending

What's that I hear?  It's time for another Schwag Brag? 

Oh wait no, it was just Polkaroo.  That thing freaks me out, man.

Poses and Piles

The planned post for this week is running a little longer than expected, so here's some pics around the house!  This is all the junk I have taking up every flat surface I can find (but not pictures of all of it, because that's only privy to my friends that have to wade through it when they come over).

Schwagmas Brag/Regular 'Ol Schwag

WHEW!  That was ONE WHOLE YEAR that it took to finish Grayskull.  Some of it was warranted, but most of it was a hold-over from my high school days; where I have a large project looming over my head and I keep running away from it.  C'est la vie!

Now that it's over, I can finally get to some of the junk I've been pushing off to the side.  BUT FIRST...how about an update on my Christmas schwag and the junk I obtained before and around that time?

Hey Look, It's Zelda!

Wait, he's not named Zelda?  Then why did they call the game that?!

Huh huh huuuuhh....seriously though, click on in to check out the 4 inch World of Nintendo LINK.  That's right.  FOUR.  INCH.

Building A Better Man - A Mega Man

I haven't been workin' on the pics I've wanted to, lately, so I decided to dig through the files and find some things that should have been done a long time ago.  This is Kotobukiya's Mega Man model kit, and I got it back in 2010.  Also took these pics back then, too.  At that time I was reviewing G.I. Joes, and I had no idea where to put a review of a Mega Man model kit....so the pics sat around unmodified until now.  Not only did I get this done just for you good folks, but I also mostly remembered the jokes I had planned!  Mostly.  Probably not.  I may have just made up new ones.

Always Watching

My buddy over at The Plastic Eyeball did a post recently displaying all his Alphabots.  During whatever conversation we had where they came up, I had expressed interest in them (because they're robots, if you've been keeping up).  Can't remember how long ago this was.  Anyway, he had ordered some for me from the glow-in-the-dark set allowing me to spell my name! 

Toyless Interlude

I was going through my Photobucket (in my regular visits to see if they've fixed anything yet) and realized that I've got some really random junk pictures when taken out of context.  I thought you chaps might enjoy a good romp around the fine velvet rug of the sitting room that is my Photobucket. 

Zero Cool

So recently The Mega Man Network put up a contest to win a D-Arts Zero v.2 figure.  The rules for the contest were to show the judges how cool your Mega Man collection was; essentially proving that your collection is cool enough for Zero.  As we all know: Zero is bad like the Power Glove, so I had little trouble in finding some sort of joke to simultaneously show off my collection and the coolness factor of Zero.