eBay Hunting for TF 1989-1990

Damn my eBay obsession started again. Recently I just couldn’t stop searching Transformers Micromaster toys. I really miss those in the past and just remember owning one of them but a painful memories destroying in the end. Hey, there isn’t any way to avoid it when you just an 8-9 year old kid who knows only playing instead of protecting it.

However, just to avoid confusion that I am much more into those vehicle and air planes that can transform into bases. I love those design back then and not to mention it was only released on year 1989 until the end on 1990. Quite an old Transformers toy and it’s more than 20 years old. Of course, there are ways to find it back once you start looking in eBay.

I manage to trace back most of them on the hard search. Some comes in complete sets and some with either missing or broken. The price and bidding are okay. Although some are expensive and over priced which I do normally don’t bother to look at it. As an old timer Transformers collector, I understand that was the exact value for ‘Mint In Seal Box’ (MISB).

Either way, I am happy to get those missing parts base with low price so that I can try out some challenging kitbashing and modify the whole thing. Well, I can’t say it’s an easy task trying to get hold most of them because no matter how old the Micromaster toy today. It is still very popular Transformers toy for collectors around the world. I lose most of the bid and feel pissed off due to the time different. I’m not that kind of crazy person would just wake up in mid-night and watch the bids.

Tokyo Toy Show 2010: Dreadwing and Smokescreen Exclusive Version

Yup, the brothers finally arrived few days ago, but I am too lazy to post up while continue gaming Starcraft II campaign for second time. Well, as you can see this is exclusive G2 ROTF Dreadwing and Smokescreen (redeco Mindwipe and Skystalker) exclusive toy release for Tokyo Toy Show 2010 which I got it for US$88.90 at RK. Now the price just suddenly roasts to US$109.90! Woah…lucky me.

I know it’s quite a lot of money spending on it. But I don’t have any regrets because I simply love these two bad boys and decided to display on the same shelf with the Japanese version of Dreadwing (name as Gigant Bomb) and Smokescreen (Smokesniper) which I got it this year from eBay.

Both of them looks great in alternate form and combine mode. Although the ROTF design is much more advance and taller compare to the older Dreadwing. Nonetheless, the combination design still loses to the previous version from my personal opinion and has a triple changes mode which you hardly can able to find much these days on latest Transformers toy line.

Cute Itazura Coin Bank

I should have pre-order this cute coin banks back on May!

August Weekend #1

I so into Starcraft game the past few days and finally finished yesterday. The last mission was seriously quite hard fighting Kerrigan even playing in normal mode. Damn, I love this game so much and hoping the expansions would come out next year (was told on 2012)! Well I guess it’s time to get myself some rest first and proceed with other things. Okay, I lied! I am still playing another round trying different stories and research on the game. Heh!

Talking about Gundam kits, I haven’t yet continued but planning to do so on this coming public holiday. The only things I done are stocking up the Tamiya spray paint this morning shopping in the local toy shop in KB. To my surprise, they actually have Transformers Power Combiner and latest Universe 3.0 sold there. I always see them normally putting up the movies version which I don’t interest in.

Another good thing it cost almost the same price sold in RK. This reminds me also not to be haste on buying them online next time and saves more on the shipping. I might be planning getting some of them next month if things worked fine on my budget saving. Damn, new car coming next month and got to renew mine old car road tax including the insurance at the same time. Yikes!

Starcraft II - Wing of Liberty Collector Edition

Finally my Wing of Liberty collector edition arrived on my door step today! It was truly a long awaited RTS title of my life after the first Starcraft and the expansion Brood War released ten years ago when my friend introduced it. I remember first playing online non-stop during my student time for years. Thank to this game, study never was my priority.

I won’t be explaining or going to review this game. You can read on the official gaming website for more information and rating because they gives you better answer. To me, just go for it! Anyway, you might know what special stuffs going too packed with the collector edition. Let me bring you a closer look again for your pleasure!

Starcraft II: Wing Of Liberty Collector Edition (North America Version):

• Starcraft II: Wing Of Liberty PC DVD game
• Jim Raynor “Dog Tag” 2GB USB Drive (contains Starcraft and Brood War expansion set)
• Starcraft II: Behind the Scenes DVD
• Starcraft II: Collector Edition Soundtrack
• The Art of Starcraft II: Wing Of Liberty
• Starcraft Comic Issue #0
• Exclusive In-Game WOW Pet (Baby Thor)
• 2x Guest Game Pass card for Starcraft II: WOL & WOW

The entire box weight at least 2.7kg when it shipped out by UPS courier. Well, of course the art book itself is quite heavy, not to mention even the USB dog tag is made out of steel I presume. What a great addition to the collection, I love it! Overall, the packing box design was quite nice without needing to remove any seal damaging the looks.

While letting the PC doing all the installing work and updating the game, I decided spend my time checking out the art works book. Total 176 pages with full colors printed. This would probably cost US$29.90 or more if buying separately. Two pages teaser on the arts done by the Blizzard staffs.

As for the comic, I already had done reading in the toilet. That was simply just the first part introducing the War Pigs mercenary squad story. It seems like I have to get the rest of the issue to learn more about them. Hmm….

The top one is obvious a sound track CD, so the left is the installer DVD 9 and the right is the behind the scenes DVD. I haven’t watch yet but planning to save it for later when I have nothing to do. Quite interestingly after finding out that you don’t have to worried about losing or damage installer DVD. You can simply download the whole game online again through your Battle.Net account. Just in case someone stole it, house burn down or whatsoever happen in natural disaster.

Jim Raynor “Dog Tag” 2GB USB Drive that contains the first Starcraft and Brood War expansion set. Luckily I didn’t went to buy it.

There is a slide button on the back of the dog tag to push out the USB connector.

Yup, it lights up after you plug into the USB port. There are two led lights coming from the side and the top. Both come with blue and orange colors favors. Looks pretty cool I have to say. But the only down side is the dog tag simply too bulky and occupy a lot of the space (seen as picture above). Nonetheless, these pen drives reads and write really fast! Installing Starcraft game only takes less than two minutes with the total file size 1.23GB in window 7. I am happy this is not just an ordinary cheap pen drive even if the size is bulky.

The Worst Week

This is not a good week for me. Too many worrying problem just suddenly pop up in front of me these few days. I wasn’t able to get my PC working after the Corsair memory ram came back with countless crashing even after reformatting which is why I wasn’t able to post.

I have no idea what get into my PC lately. Corsair RMA sent me the same XMS2 DHX 2GB twin stick and it doesn’t work properly. Almost doing anything on my PC hangs up within a minute and had to force restart. It takes time testing every each hardware especially the hard disk drive is the longest. The test results were all positive even the new memory ram. The only left is the motherboard. If that was the problem, I am truly doomed without any PC. But after applying the latest BIOS update, I didn’t see any crashing until now.

Is it the motherboard fault? It doesn’t necessary if I already using the same memory ram for more than two years unless that was a different chip or some sort. These worry me a lot so I decided to drop a mail bomb to Corsair RMA to verify what kind of memory ram they had replaced to me. After few days later, the response came and letting me know that the memory ram they sent to me is not compatible with my motherboard and reconfirm with me later once their expert verify it. Let see how it goes.

Starcraft II has already release and hasn’t received mine yet. The most worry some is my credit card going to expiring soon next month and I’m not even sure if I could even able to paid for my pre-order for the collector edition. Damn, I wanted that game so much. Thanks to the HSBC bank haven’t reissue my new card while I trying to requesting getting it early. Play-Asia.com haven’t contacting me yet about shipped out yet so there are chances that I’m not going to get it due to the popularity. I pre-order it early after they listed within few hours so I’m not sure if already too late. Arggg….

Gundam Unicorn Epsiode 2 Preview (Long Ver.)

I WANT TO WATCH CHAR NOW!!!!