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I only have one set which is the Cobra Terror Drome. Me and my son built it early this week on Presidents day. It was a fun build but the quality of the bricks are not great. I really wished Hasbro would have given the license for G.I. Joe's to Lego since I'm a huge fan of that property. That Terror Drome set was what I was looking at; that and the ninja dojo because it includes the HISS plus the Baroness and Destro figures.

I have a couple, but compared to Lego, make mine Lego. I figured that would probably be the consensus here; just wasn't sure if I would get a beatdown just for mentioning Kre-O I loved Lego as a kid and still play with my nieces and nephews with their sets and my wife's old Legos (I unfortunately sold all of my castle collection years ago). I will say the one thing I didn't like about the Kre-O set was that the pieces didn't stay together very well. My wife knocked over Starscream once and it basically shattered apart. I remember having teeth marks in some of my old Legos from trying to pry some of those suckers apart!

Anyone collect Kre-O sets or would those be like the PGX of Legos? I picked up a Starscream set at Wal-Mart on clearance for $10 and was actually pleasantly surprised at how nice it looked when put together. I thought their G.I. Joe stuff looked pretty cool too.

As a big Spidey fan, here is one of my favorite covers:

Here is their ASM 50 they have listed. Description says "100% complete". Looks more like 98% or so

There was a King-Size #6 in the pics, I bet that's what he was referring to.

They come up in the Firefox browser if you want to see them.

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I just finished up Sunset Overdrive. I'm a pretty casual gamer and I really enjoyed it. It's open world and has small missions you do similar to a GTA game; the difference is it's a silly game that never takes itself seriously. I wouldn't say it's necessarily easy but I never got stuck at any point so the game flows pretty good. Not a "must buy" game but I recommend it.

Nintendo is at the very top right now when it comes to games. Super Smash Bros., Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart 8, DK Tropical Freeze, Hyrule Warriors, all this year, have all been praised. I actually just bought a Wii U because of the quality of games that have come out. Right now is the perfect time to buy a Wii U. In my opinion, at least at this very moment, Xbox and Playstation can't touch Nintendo when it comes to exclusive games Funny you mention that... I went out to Toys R Us just to get an overall view of what is out there. The Nintendo Wii U was tempting. I think people avoided the Wii U at release because it was "underpowered" and didn't feel "next gen" enough. Problem is... I think that's true for all 3 systems (WiiU, XBone, PS4.) As such, Wii U might end up having the best overall catalog. Not gonna lie- I've been tempted to get one too. But right now my PC is acting as my high-end rig and an NES is handling my retro needs. So we'll see... I agree with you on all 3 systems not feeling "next gen". It just feels that the last gen systems had plenty of life in it left, I didn't think we'd need new hardware, at least just yet. The biggest difference between generations was definitely last gen with the 360 and the PS3. People avoided the Wii U at release because of how terrible the marketing was. People thought the Wii U was just the tablet controller and thought the system were the exact same. They could've done a little better doing that, but I think right now, most people in the gaming community at least, believe that the Wii U is the better console because of it's library of games. However, I would never get a Nintendo system as my primary console. I got a Wii U a couple months after launch and ended up selling it a few months ago because of the lack of games. Besides Mario, there really wasn't anything out there to play. I'd say their next biggest franchises after Mario are Zelda and Metroid and they still have not released those games.

Hadn't played the 360 for a couple months so last week I went to turn it on and got the RROD. Opened it up and found a couple bulging capacitors. Figured that was a sign to grab a XBONE so I picked up the Microsoft store deal with the Assassins Creed bundle and got Sunset Overdrive for free. It's showing delivery tomorrow

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Shipped quick, sandwiched, wrapped, padded and boxed! Books were all as described - I'd buy again any time.

No, but I would suggest to Chip to try and find a copy of the 2nd Edition and read it cover-to-cover. I agree completely. For me the 2nd Edition is the go to book. I have tried and so far failed to figure out how to calibrate OSGG grades to CGC grades. No grading system can be completely consistent or coherent, but at least with the OSGG you have something to read and to study, and that is a big help if you are trying to improve. It seems people recommend the 2nd Edition. Why is that better than the 3rd edition? Specifically, its better than the 1st edition, which I am looking at again now. The 1st edition is based on the 100 point grading system, and each major grade tier, g to vg to f up to vf had a "defect section" which I did not find as a learner very helpful. The whole 1st edition is still to me imponderable. The 2nd edition is on the 10 point system, each grade has clearer illustrations of defects, better examples of grades, and a more accessible table for each grade tier of what is or is not consistent with the grade. I have not seen the third edition. That makes sense. I've seen a few different people recently recommend grabbing the 2nd edition so I was just curious. I don't have any of them so I think I'm gonna grab the 2015 edition when it comes out in December!

No, but I would suggest to Chip to try and find a copy of the 2nd Edition and read it cover-to-cover. I agree completely. For me the 2nd Edition is the go to book. I have tried and so far failed to figure out how to calibrate OSGG grades to CGC grades. No grading system can be completely consistent or coherent, but at least with the OSGG you have something to read and to study, and that is a big help if you are trying to improve. It seems people recommend the 2nd Edition. Why is that better than the 3rd edition?

Man, that's a lot of work! I thought I read you did really well in the grading contest?

That Silent Hill trailer is.....intense. This guy was cracking me up! - NSFW language

Offers were top notch. I would've grabbed the Preacher TPBs but didn't want to be that guy who took a day to post the new offer. Same here. And if I had seen the ASM 18 in time I probably would have jumped on it anyway and taken the beating for it

Big thank you to ajulliay for the SDCC Yoda spirit bank. I got him in yesterday and he is awesome!!

RAK TIME! I really wanted to like this series but just never got into it. I know a lot of people do like it though so hopefully someone here can pick it up and check it out. Free shipping in the US. $10 toward shipping any where else. Clone issues 1-8.

That is awesome! I can put this in my theater room once it's complete!

Great Gift of Knowledge (otherwise known as my good friend Google) That was fast, lets try this again. If only there were beautiful women with giant boobs knocking on my front door right now! ftfy Na, I'm bags of money. Boobs can get you through times of no money better than money can get you through times of no boobs Not quite, with bags of money you can buy plenty of boobs! edit: dang it, other tech beat me to it...

Hope his PM buyer throws in a few more dollars...

Can't speak for anyone else, but I think it's a killer offer!

I'm not ignorant. A great offer can be sold and that money could be used to purchase exactly what someone is looking for. There's more than one way to go out acquiring something in your wheelhouse as far as this thread is concerned. Peace, Chip And as soon as the board detectives found you doing that you'd be ripped a new one...