Platinum 4: Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4

With the Playstation challenge now in full swing, I scored my 4th platinum on the Playstation tonight.  With Lego Harry Potter years 1-4 from the Lego series.

As with the other ones I played of the series so far, they are great fun.  For one, the tongue in cheeck humor is hilarious, I never saw the movies, but I learned now that

1. Ginny Weasley is a hot red-head

2. Baby Potter defeated Voldemort with headbutting a fireball back to the dark lord
3. Mandragora plants are funny... especially when a dark wizard gets earmuffs made of a spear through the head.

So far, I still loved the Pirates Lego game the most, while the Batman one was rather bleugh so far and will be a harder grind then the other Lego games to get the platinum.  Probably has to do with the fact that I always was a Marvel boy and have no real affinity with the DC superheroes.

Only critiscism I have on this game is that once you unlock a Dark Wizard (my first was Tom Riddle); free plays are walkovers compared to Pirates of the Carribean where you needed to unlock over half of the characters to be able to complete most expanded Free Play levels.  Tom Riddle solves it all...

Next on the target to score a platinum (well, I have one bronze in it so far, so I'm still starting the game up so to say) will be Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues.

Tatatatataaa tatatataaa tatatataaaa tatatatatataaaaa


still sounds better then nananananananana anyways...


Cheerios

Lego Promotional Sets

A small Lego post today, as I received and build (and bought) quite a few Lego sets the past weeks, both for me and the Little Munchkin.

I scored myself two now hard(er) to find polybag promo sets from various franchises, being the Pirates of the Carribean Jack Sparrow from the first movie release in a small rowboat

and Hawkeye and his equipment rack from the Avengers movie franchise series

Now personally, I like the Pirates series more, but Hawkeye being such a cool bloke, he is probably the only set of this series that I`m going to get myself, while on the other hand I do have my eye on one set from the Pirates series, being The Black Pearl herself.

It's here... the ULTIMATE PS3 battle

And this year, it's the real deal.  The rules have been made up, the price has been decided.  Now follows 1 year of gaming.  12 months of button bashing.  365 days to earn the ultimate bragging rights!

It's kicking off one day earlier, because of on the one hand we both will have a lot to do today and not much time to play, and on the other hand that way the children can have *something* to do while the families will be gorging down tons of food and sell drunken brabble.

Pitty I don't classify under a 'big child' on those days...


But the rules are simple.  Andy is starting with an 8670 points lead on the PSN network, and we're tracking it through the YourGamerCards (mine is at the bottom of the blog).
The winner is that player (or family to be precise) that gains the most points extra, with a small margin to be called a draw of around 250 points (slightly less then one Network game's full trophy support).  Basically, this bottles down to: if Andy has a 9000 point lead he wins, if the lead has shrunk in the end to 8400 or less I win...

But what is there to win?  FOOD, that other walhalla of the gaming nerd.  The deal is that the losing family organises a dinner party at their home for the winners.  Time to brag during that party... and toss some games in?

Anywyas, I'll be posting updated profiles on this blog about every first sunday of the month give or take calendar requirements.  I also added an extra page to the blog where I'll be updating more frequently to keep a bit more of an oversight mainly for myself.


Gentlemen... start your Dualshock's and press the PS Button NOW!







Yokai_Tomsche

Points: 22.695
Level: 12 - 83%

Platinum Trophies: 3
Gold Trophies: 45
Silver Trophies: 198
Bronze Trophies: 811

Games played: 176
Games Beaten: 22

AnRoDr

Points: 31.365
Level: 13 - 92%

Platinum Trophies: 7
Gold Trophies: 79
Silver Trophies: 246
Bronze Trophies: 1041

Games played: 150
Games Beaten: 15

This means Andy starts the year with a lead of 8670 points

Guess what I'm going to build...

GUNDAMS... in LEGO!!!!!


A friend send me the link to Rebrickable this morning (thanks Scott, you already made 2013 a great year before it started), which contains building plans for all kinds of MOCs (My Own Creations, a term used in Lego for self designed models).

Strolling over the site I discovered the building plans for making iconic Mobile Suits from the Gundam series, namely the

Zaku II

and the GM

I know what parts I'm going to be sorting out for during my january holiday week, and get the remaining missing pieces from the LEGO store in London when going there in february.

These are SO going to be centrepieces in my cabinet!!!

Carddass Saint Seiya Crusade: Asgard and Poseidon

I received my three booster boxes (45 boosters in total) of the newest Saint Seiya expansion this morning, and the sorting has been taken place.

The set takes place in my favorite setting on the one hand, the Asgard (anime only) chapter, and follows through with the Poseidon chapter.  The God Warriors are normal rare cards, but the Poseidon generals are all metallic foils just like the Gold Saints used to be in the Twelve Temples set.

Not to bad a haul as I had the Microcosm ultra rare card in the set, this edition being Poseidon himself, and 3 out of the 6 `gold foil alternate` cards with Seiya, Ikki and Hagen of Merak.

All the commands and unit cards in all four colours are complete as well, bar the green ones where I still miss two Metallic cards, them bein Shiryu in Libra cloth and the Marinas general Krishna of Chrysaor, so that will be a total of 5 missing cards for this set excluding any Buy a Box promos, of which I had two Seiya`s and one Ikki in my three boxes.

Maybe an idea for Wizards of the Coast, to include a Buy a Box promo in each booster box instead of for the first xxx buyers of a set?

May the Brick be With You

Bit of an all lego Star Wars post here, as the holiday season has been good for me on that level.

It all started at the beginning of december, when my girlfriend got me the Star wars advent calender, meaning 24 days of either minifig or minikit goodness, including 2 limited edition minifigs.

My personal favorites in the end are on the first place the `snowman R2-D2`

Second place goes to `Santa Maul`

While for bronze, I`m stuck with a `3-day` tie, on the one hand a Gungan minifig and a Gungan catapult combo, on the other hand the Naboo figures.

Furhter goodness included under the christmas tree two Star Wars books, the `Bouwmeesters` which comes with bricks to build 4 `duels` of a Clone warrior vs a Droid, for which i opted to build the wood battle with a grav-vehicle vs a walker.  Other options where a speeder battle (tempted by that one as well), a mini kit dropship vs droid tank, and a set I didn`t like, being basically minifig versions of the dropship vs tank.

and the Star wars encyclopedia with a limited edition Luke Skywalker in the costume he receives his medal in at the end of A New Hope, having destroyed the Death Star in the battle of Yavin.

One happy big little child here hehehe...

Seasonal Greetings!

Ferocity in 15mm - Brush Slave League season 2

The second season of the Brush Slave League has started following in the immediate wake of the first year.  I was drawn in a threeway battle, and lost deservedly with a 11 / 6 / 6 score, as can be seen here.


The reason is pretty simple, the entry just didn`t work out and I couldn`t find the spare time to create a new one.  I went for 15mm Boar Centaurs by Splintered Light Miniatures, but my traditional basing manner dominated the paintjobs to much for comfort.

Next round onwards it`ll be almost all anime for all remaining rounds, curious how that is going to work out :-)

A Magically Year

Season Three has ended for the Planeswalker Points system of the Magic the Gathering sanctioned play, and that means it has been one year now that I`ve been playing more or less competitive.

And dind`t do TO shabby for a rookie, with a best result being a Top-8 placing in the GPT Moskou back in september.

At the moment, I collected 210 lifetime points (a few where from a pre-release / release chain right before the first season of 2012 started running, didn`t follow my progress back then nor played anything else then the releases) and 165 Yearly points.

Now, for someone of my `level`, the Seasonal points at best can get you a single buy in a GP, IF I manage to get 400 of them in a single Season (a season lasting 3 months), and 300 Yearly points qualifies you to be allowed to compete in the World Tour Qualifiers.

The scond will be more manageable the the first though, but I`ll go down fighting if need be...

During the first season, which ran from 26/12/2011 until 01/04/2012 I collected 26 points, not placing me in the top 20.000 of Europe and putting me in spot 558 out of 1346 in Belgium.

Second season, running from 02/04/2012 until 19/08/2012 yielded me a gain of 93 points, jumping me into the top 20.000 in Europe on spot 14.151 and in Belgium to place 401 out of 1537.  This was mainly thanks to the heavily attended Outpost Open in Antwerp with his Sealed and Legacy formats, which had a x3 multiplier and I attended the whole weekend.

Season 3, which has just ended after running from 20/08/2012 until past sunday, the 16/12/2012, hoisted another 72 points, good for spot 16.700 out of 20.000 in Europe and 349 out of 1374 within the national boundaries overhere.

As you can see, the turn-around of about 33% game wins (and considering those points are gathered by actually only competing in 29 events, of which 3 or 4 where only `Casual` format) I`m actually rather proud of how I brought it all off this year.

On into the next season, and let`s see if we can get at least the Yearly Points up from 165 to 300 before March 2013...