Pic of the Day 187

Red Cobra Ninja, 12" figure by Sideshow Toys.

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Pic of the Day 186

Dangaioh, Revoltech figure by Kaiyodo.

For more pictures, visit the Dangaioh page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 185

Fun with Revoltechs

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Pic of the Day 184

Dancouga, Revoltech figure by Kaiyodo

For more pictures, visit the Dancouga page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 183

Getter Dragon, Revoltech figure by Kaiydo.

For more pictures, visit the Getter Dragon page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 182

Getter Go, Revoltech figure by Kaiyodo

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For more pictures, visit the Getter Go page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 181

Neo Getter, Revoltech figure by Kaiyodo.

I picked up a few Revoltech figures on sale from an online store, they're based on some anime(s) I've never heard of, and know nothing about, but they're very poseable, and very fun to play with. SO fun, I had to post two pictures instead of one.

For more pictures, visit the Neo Getter page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 180

Harley Quinn, Women of the DC Universe bust, by DC Direct.

I feel very lucky to have acquired this bust at significantly less than market price this past week. Being from the first series of these busts, they're quite rare nowadays, despite the somewhat higher edition size than more recent busts. Plus, I have the upcoming series 3 Harley Quinn bust on pre-order, so I'll have both Harley busts as soon as it's released, so that's neat.

For more pictures, visit the Harley Quinn bust page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 179

Emma Frost, Exclusive Diamond form statue by Bowen.

One of my favorite Marvel characters, Emma Frost is (or at least, as far caught up on reading comics as I am) co-leader of the X-men. And she can turn into diamond.

For more pictures, visit the Emma Frost Diamond Statue page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 178

Zatanna, Ame Comi Statue by DC Direct.

While I liked the look of this figure, I wasn't necessarily planning on getting it, but though a set of somewhat complicated events I ended up getting this figure for $10. And it was absolutely worth that price, being even better in person than I expected it to be.

Check out all the neat detailing on her cuffs, lapels, hat band, and those ribbon things have a different pattern on them, which is neat. Notice her shoes, and her fishnet stockings are actual material, not just painted on.

In fact, if you follow the ribbon things around to the back, the detailing on them is interesting. Plus she's got some kind of frosted detailing on the ends of her coattails. Also, take look at those nifty shoes.

For more pictures, visit the Zatanna Ame Comi page on my collecting wiki

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Song of the Week 10

Predator 2 - Alan Silvestri - 1990

I heard the soundtrack to Predator 2 long before I saw the film (or the first film). In fact, I've only just recently seen the two films, and while I think they're fantastic films, I probably did enjoy them more because I was already familiar with the music, and I freaking love it. The Predator 2 soundtrack would probably make ANY movie better. I'd go see a Barbie movie with the Predator 2 soundtrack. Hell, I'd even see the Twilight films if they were set to Predator 2. That's how much I love this CD.

The best example of why I love it so much is the End Titles piece. Like many End Credits pieces, it's rather analogous to the Overture of an opera, in that many of the themes from throughout the film are featured in it, so you get a good overview of the entire work. My favorite portion is the final theme brought it, about a minute and half from the end, especially the transition to it with the big gong smash. I like gongs.

End Titles - Predator 2 - Alan Silvestri

If I were buying this album on a track by track basis, the End Titles would be almost just enough to cover all the bases. But there is one more track that I really enjoy, that I don't feel is really represented in it. It probably is, but if so, the stand alone track still really stands enough alone that I don't notice it being present in the End Titles. Plus, it's got a fun name, El Scorpio, which jumps out at me for a couple of reasons, a silly one being that I am a Scorpio. But really, it's just got lots of great sound textures in it. I can't imagine how one could write something like this, it's just amazing.

My cousin and I recently had a big discussion about movie music composers, and he said that all Silvestri's music sounds the same, you can tell it's Silvestri. Predator and Predator 2 are the only things I'm really familiar with, but I just watched GI Joe: Rise of Cobra, and noticed at the end that Silvestri did the music for it. I liked it, and I would like to purchase the soundtrack, but it sounded nothing like Predator. I haven't heard anything that sounds remotely like this music, and no matter what else he's written, or what I think of it (I don't remember the music from Back to the Future, but I doubt it's any good), I will forever consider Alan Silvestri to be a genius, for these two soundtracks.

El Scorpio - Predator 2 - Alan Silvestri

When I was in high school, freshman or sophomore year, something like that, for a friends birthday party we went and played laser tag. It was really fun. It was really dark, smoke machines in some places, black lights here and there, laser lights, a very dark, moody location, lots of boxes scattered around, and sheets hanging from the ceiling, plus a sort of balcony area were you could obsevere part of the playing area (but was still part of the playing area) really great layout for it. They let about, oh, I don't remember, 10 or so people on the field at once, but the area was large enough that you could roam around for a while without seeing the others. It was a free for all game, and there was a very heavy sense of foreboding and hunting and being hunted, and it was just a fantastic mood to the whole thing, not at all like the Halo games I've played online, where it's a frenetic chaotic mess of just running and shooting blindly and dying every 7 steps. It was a slower, dreadful, intense sense of carefully hunt your enemy and kill them before they kill you, you will not respawn, death is the end, sort of feeling.

I think we played two games, and about half way through the second, I realized the fantastic mood was in large part due to the music being pumped over the loudspeakers. It wasn't some loud, repetitive trance music, or God forbid, pop music like the Backstreet Boys or Michael Jackson or whoever was popular in the early 90s, it was moody, hunter/hunted music. I checked at the front desk before we left to find out what it was, and they actually had on display the CD cases to what was being played during the game, and it was the Predator 2 soundtrack. There may have been other CDs on display, but the only one I remember is Predator. The next time I saw my Evil Cousin Rish, I asked him to see if he could find that soundtrack for me (so I must have been a freshman, without my own transportation at the time). A couple weeks later he gave to me one of the first 6 CDs I had, purchased from his favorite used CD shop, and I've had it ever since.

Well, I hope somebody enjoyed all the rambling, or even better, I hope somebody enjoyed the music, I highly recommend this album, it's probably one of my top five albums ever, definitely top five soundtracks ever.

View the Predator 2 soundtrack at Discogs.com

PS: Holy crap! He also did The Mummy Returns soundtrack, I'll have to give that a listen, I love that movie.

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Pic of the Day 177

Revoltech Alien

Revoltech Aliens Warrior

vs GI Joe Pursuit of Cobra Alley Viper

Coming soon: more Revoltech pictures! I've recently discovered how awesome Revoltech figs are, and picked up a few on sale, and just had a lot of fun with them.

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Pic of the Day 176

Crystal Convoy, KO.

Unfortunately, this is an unofficial figure, not by Hasbro or Takara, though based on a figure of their design. Unfortunately, the official figure was an exclusive release of some kind and sells for hundreds of dollars on eBay, so I'll never have it, but this one will do, despite it's inferiority.

For more pictures, visit the Crystal Convoy page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 175

Harley Quinn, Cover Girls of the DC Universe Statue line, by DC Direct

For more pictures, visit the Harley Quinn Cover Girls statue page on my collecting wiki

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