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Ive got a Rubiks cube for xmas, and I cant put the damn thing down. Ill mess with it during tv shows and finding myself thinking about it during movies lol. Ive gotten real good at making 1 section of solid colors, and occasionally can get 2 solids at once. Its so damn addicting to me.
Anyone else have something (other then 40k obviously) that they just LOVE to play with?
Transformers. Especially ones that are flexible enough in their conversions to make new forms with.
Also, I want the new electronic Rubiks cube. Touch screens instead of movable blocks? Yes please.
I'm such a technophile.
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
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Vlad - yea I cannot wait till my son is lego age (SO DAMN CLOSE!!) I used to LOVE legos.
Platuan4th - You ever play with the new ones from the movie? Call me crazy, but I hate those things! My boy got 3 of them for xmas, and I can transform 2 of them in about 4 minutes. The 3rd is Soundwave....... I told him its a F***ing satellite
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
It showed up now. Are those the GI Joes they made after vietnam? I heard they made them more civilian friendly because too many moms thought their boys were gonna land in a hot LZ. Kinda sad in my opinion.
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The difference between commitment and involvement is like eggs and ham; the ckicken was "involved", the pig was "comitted".
Legos were the best. My kids are still too young, but it hasn't stopped me from preparing. I've held on to my sets and added to them even though I know my kids are still too young. I think I like their imaginext sets more than they do sometimes. I also liked GI Joe and star wars growing up. Now I am restricted to my kids' toys and GW miniatures.
dwarfs, wood elves, dark elves, bretonnians, WOC,
space wolves, orks, eldar
brother_zach wrote:It showed up now. Are those the GI Joes they made after vietnam? I heard they made them more civilian friendly because too many moms thought their boys were gonna land in a hot LZ. Kinda sad in my opinion.
Yes,those were the G.I Joes of the 70's, known as the Adventure Team,basicly a "friendly face" for a "war toy" during and immediatly after the Vietnam war,marketers felt this would make the toy more "acceptable" over it's 1960's predicesor.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
brother_zach wrote:It showed up now. Are those the GI Joes they made after vietnam? I heard they made them more civilian friendly because too many moms thought their boys were gonna land in a hot LZ. Kinda sad in my opinion.
Yes,those were the G.I Joes of the 70's, known as the Adventure Team,basicly a "friendly face" for a "war toy" during and immediatly after the Vietnam war,marketers felt this would make the toy more "acceptable" over it's 1960's predicesor.
See if I was a kid, I would have never liked that.
THis all sounds dumb from a kind borin in 1991, but they were remaking gi joes while I was little, and I bought nearly everyone I saw. Especially if it was an MP, because thats what my dad did in the army.
The difference between commitment and involvement is like eggs and ham; the ckicken was "involved", the pig was "comitted".
It's a matter of the time you were born in really,to most of the kids in my youth (1974-79) G.I Joe was a cool toy...but then again the only video games we had looked like this...
And no one I knew could afford them.
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I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Minnesota, land of 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000 Mosquitos
Man, I used to LOVE Legos! I vividly recall great memories of begging my parents to buy me a new set, then spending hours reading those instructions page by page to put it together perfectly...sadly, I think I stopped playing with them for a time, and they all got sold to a garage sale to help clean out our basement. The only one I have left is a mostly finished Pohatu figure from the Bionicle figure line...I'm not entirely sure what I'm missing from it, but I think I screwed up early on and couldn't finish it.
I still play some of the old Lego games that came out for the PC (Currently hunting down a copy of Rock Raiders, and I still have the disc for Alpha Team) with much more interest now. One of my favorite games was the old Legoland game...shame I don't have it anymore, and can't seem to find it anywhere. I used to play that game for hours as a kid...
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I love lego, up until i was 15 i had 3 big boxes full of random parts. I used to build a space ship, and have it crash land on an alien world, where the survivers had to build a new live. I may have to go to some carboots to pick up a ton of lego and dr who videos
Relictors: 1500pts
its safe to say that relictors are the greatest army a man , nay human can own.
I'm cancelling you out of shame like my subscription to White Dwarf. - Mark Corrigan: Peep Show
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I have a bunch of those Bionicle figures somewhere, the ones made by Lego. I had the entire set of Rahkshi models.
I think I still have the video of the first movie somewhere as well.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
sometimes when i'm working the night shift, i'll be cleaning and putting away toys and always end up transforming the transformers before i put them away
KingCracker wrote:Anyone else have something (other then 40k obviously) that they just LOVE to play with?
Have you seriously asked this question?! I mean common! I'm waiting for a pubescent teenager to show up!
Anyway, I dont really play with toys these days... Although I used to absolutely LOVE Lego. I do love to play with my dog though if that counts?
And personally I've never liked Rubiks cubes, I just found them annoying as you never got anywhere. I really like those random shapes that you have to put together to make a cube though, If you know what I'm suffering to?
"It is the great irony of the Legiones Astartes: engineered to kill to achieve a victory of peace that they can then be no part of." - Roboute Guilliman
"As I recall, your face was tortured. Imagine that - the Master of the Wolves, his ferocity twisted into grief. And yet you still carried out your duty. You always did what was asked of you. So loyal. So tenacious. Truly you were the attack dog of the Emperor. You took no pleasure in what you did. I knew that then, and I know it now. But all things change, my brother. I'm not the same as I was, and you're... well, let us not mention where you are now." - Magnus the Red, to a statue of Leman Russ
I love playing with the cat. I've been teaching him to box with wood dowels over the past few weeks. But he is starting to bite a bit too much when I use my actual hands.
As for toys from the past; LEGO was the gak! GIJoes, Star Wars were cool too. He-Man was a lot of fun too.
I used to play with Legos all the time. GI Joes, too... and forget "adventure team". My grade school friends and I went all out. Sandbox trench warfare, anyone?
Nowadays I'll admit I have a weakness for Transformers, though I've never actually owned one.
KingCracker wrote:
Platuan4th - You ever play with the new ones from the movie? Call me crazy, but I hate those things! My boy got 3 of them for xmas, and I can transform 2 of them in about 4 minutes. The 3rd is Soundwave....... I told him its a F***ing satellite
Yes. I've got Ravage, the twins(both the separate new forms and the conjoined ice cream truck), and, of course, Soundwave(I'm a huge Soundwave fanboi, I own every version of Soundwave bar 3: G1/SDCC, Machine Wars, and MP3 player, all of which I'm currently hunting down).
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
Minnesota, land of 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000 Mosquitos
Cheese Elemental wrote:I have a bunch of those Bionicle figures somewhere, the ones made by Lego. I had the entire set of Rahkshi models.
I think I still have the video of the first movie somewhere as well.
My friend is actually a huge Bionicle fan. I think he's got all of the movies (Were there 2 or 3? I can never remember) a whole shelf full of various models, and he's even got the Quest for Makuta Adventure Board Game. I'm shamed by the fact that I only have one Bionicle figure and the junior novelization of the Mask of Light movie...
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My Armies:
Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers Da Great Looted Waaagh! The Court of the Wolf Lords
chromedog wrote:I take it you've introduced the cat to its ancient enemy - THE HAND MONSTER. Most cats will pounce at an open hand directed at their face.
Used to do it to my cat when he was a kitten. Will carry on the practice when we get a new one.
Our new game is "Fight under the couch", where he hides under the couch and I put my open hand down and he pounces only to be pwned. All necessary training for when all the big bugs and wee frogs start showing up in May/June.
The difference between commitment and involvement is like eggs and ham; the ckicken was "involved", the pig was "comitted". 
I also liked GI Joe and star wars growing up. Now I am restricted to my kids' toys and 
Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers 
Da Great Looted Waaagh! 
The Court of the Wolf Lords 
