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I was going to type up this crazy review about Kratos is Pissed: The continuing saga (there’s like six games right?) but I didn’t finish the game yet, and some of my favorite people came to visit which means my Lego town gets rocked by three under 10 year olds.

 

 

It was an epic battle between the Lego Police, and a gang I created called Team Chicken Man

 

 

This confused the three year old in the group who felt that Chicken Man is not a bad guy, yet he flew around with one of the Iron Man figures trying to stop Team Chicken Man.

 

 

More carnage from Iron Man and Team Chicken Guy. This little battle lasted a couple of days, with the older kids taking turns building up the police team with random minifigs to fight off Team Chicken Guy, and the older kids played with more of the Super Hero sets, and built some structures.

 

 

When not assembling a Lego town, I did add a couple of sets to the collection. The first was found at Target when I was picking up a notebook (What happened to the super cheap college ruled one-subject notebooks? Next time school starts and an Office Depot has their $.10 notebooks, I’m buying a couple of cases) I’ve been eyeing another Police Vehicle for a while to add to the force. I also picked up a couple of minifig packs in hopes of pulling the figure with the award (I didn’t).

 

The second pick is well, I couldn’t wait for them to hit Target, and with the Buy 1 Get 1 50% at Toys R Us it came out to maybe a buck or two more after taxes I picked up the two smaller Iron Man 3 sets

 

 

 

I hate to do reviews on sets because they are all cool in their own way, but the Iron Man vs Mandarian: Ultimate Showdown set is really underwhelming. For a $13 dollar set, there really isn’t much to it, but a small vehicle, Iron Man, and Mandarian. Only reason I bought it was because it is a different Iron Man suit from the Extreamis Sea Port Battle, and because I wanted to collect/need another set for the discount.

 

*Tangent: Ok I get that Toys R Us gets exclusive sets, early release sets, and I know they like to kick up the price, but holy cow, the markups have gotten insane. The A Wing has a $10 markup compared to a Target or Walmart. The only reason I bought the Iron Man sets is because with the B1G1 50% off is because after the “deal” it comes out to around 1 or 2 bucks suggest retail. I’m holding off on buying the Malibu set until it hits Target next month. /end random Lego rant

 

The family shot of my old Iron Man figure, the new Iron Man figures, and the first appearance of War Machine to Lego.

 

 

We had a random special election last week. Best part about it was that local news was joking about the really small turnout, because the ballot had one race. ONE. When I went to my local polling place there were three volunteers (one reading a newspaper on the couch) and the other two helped to sign me in, for the one race ballot. I really could have just filled out my ballot in front of them, but I had to walk it to the little booth. When I was done the volunteer asked if I could send people to go vote. Yep, 1 voter, and 3 volunteers.

 

 

I decided to try these again. Last time I tried something similar it was my first year of college and it ended up stinking up the dorm room. Those didn’t taste too good, but these microwavable pork rinds were not bad.

 

 

I tried buying some of the uniform updates for NCAA 13, but they were not available. I guess EA missed out on an extra two bucks from the two uniform packs I couldn’t buy. I don’t care for Under Armour, but it was the packs that have the new uniforms for Maryland, Texas Tech, Northwestern, Hawai’i, and I think South Carolina.

 

Simpsons Tapped Out had another game/tv show crossover this week. I missed the episode because I was battling with the cousins in Team Chicken Man vs the Lego Police.

 

 

I think buying Mr. Burns’ costume is a ripoff, but I had enough donuts in the stockpile so I can have him walk around as Fruit-Bat-Man.

 

 

The final bit of random update is I watched the NCAA Selection Show, and the Mountain West Conference has five representatives, one more than the ACC. I remember when everyone said the strength of the conference would take a dip once BYU and Utah left, but having five teams out of nine dancing is pretty strong. I feel Air Force and Wyoming should have been included in the NIT, but both found tournament bits in the CIT, and CBI respectively, so in total 7 of the 9 current members are in the post season. Good stuff.

 

Well that’s all for now, more later!

-Chris