Galaga

It's after Christmas, which means Hallmark stores around the country are discounting their Hallmark Keepsake ornaments.

Last year Topless Robot informed me of the Pac-Man cabinet ornament and how it was in the perfect scale for 4 inch figures. (Which I was heavily into at the time.) I figured this year they might continue the series with another arcade cabinet and I wasn't disappointed. This year they went with Galaga.

And since Hallmark clearance usually means anywhere from 25%-75% off, it means it's time for me to go out and find the Galaga arcade cabinet ornament. Fortunately there's one nearby where I live with some still left in stock.

If you put in the batteries (which I don't to prevent battery rust) you can make the screen light up and play the Galaga theme song. (The Pac-Man ornament did the same... with its own respective theme of course.) But I know what you really want to know, is it in perfect scale for 4 inch figures?

Yes.

Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 24

It's Christmas Eve, and that means we're on our last day of our advent calendar. What do you bring us?

Oh yeah, now we're talking. A chimney and Santa Claus! That's like two days worth of material in one. If all the days were like this then this calendar would have totally been worth the overinflated Lego price. Even if Santa has an incorrect hat, clothes and beard. (This has got to be a European Santa, you know, the kind you had to write reports about in the 4th grade. Dude has a fricking basket on his back.) And even if the glasses Santa is wearing make him look like a nerd dressing up as Santa at the office Christmas party.

Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 23

Down to our last two days!


Oooo, a Christmas Tree. This could be good... oh, no it isn't. It's okay, but it looks a bit lopsided. I feel like the Christmas tree should have been more impressive, particularly since this is the first fully Christmas Lego item in this set.

Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 22

Only 3 days left. I'm so excited!

OH... MY... GOD... LEGO CHAINSAW!

Unfortunately it's too big to be held by any of the figures without tipping them over. OVESIZED LEGO CHAINSAW. I guess this gives us a little bit of insight into yesterday's official city axe weilder. I guess he cuts logs. In the city. Where logs are so abudandtly necessary. I guess he could be the guy who makes fire wood for yuppies who have fireplaces in their condos with central heating because why shouldn't they have luxuries that are completley pointless. Or maybe he's the dude who cuts up logs and branches that have fallen into the street during windy days. Because the city's too cheap to buy a wood chipper.

But he already has an axe. Isn't a chainsaw overkill?

Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 21

We're moving into the home strech now!

It's a guy with a bright orange vest and an axe. An axe. What sort of guy who works for the city needs an axe? Is he the official Christmas tree cutter?

I do love his expression though. He looks perpetually annoyed. A surly Lego Minifig. Awesome.

Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 20

I've just noticed there's no Day 25 on this thing. I've never had a Advent Calendar before. Is that normal?

To Wikipedia!

Oh, it is! Okay. Fair enough. Let's open up day 20!

Another RC car, some... okay, looks like really tiny traffic cones, the kind people skate through, and a traffic cone that's sitting on a...flag base with a checkerd flag through it, how would that even work? Wouldn't you have to cut open a traffic cone and wrap it around the flag? I'm thinking too much about this.

Lego City Advent Calendar: Day 19

I lost count... So yes, here's Day 19... Wait, 7 Days (including this one, so does that mean 6 days?) left...

Hey, it's a kid and his remote control car. That's sort of Christmas-like, you know, because kids play with presents on Christmas. Although not really in the snow. And most of the City stuff so far has been very outdoorsy. And the kid has the tiny inarticulate "Short" legs they put on smaller sized Lego figures. I hate those.