Vid: Grimstone

Fancy some dinorobos? Of course you do:

This vid was a really long time coming. I actually started working on it as soon as Ian kindly sent me this awesome set way back in December, but I kept hitting a wall with it and for some damn reason I just couldn't get it finalised. So I left it to stew for a bit and came back to it last week, and it's like, what was the problem? It was probably the easiest one to make for, like, a year!

This was the first vid I made using my new editing software, the snappily-monickered Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11, which is a friggin' amazing tool. I mean, it came with a bunch of other stuff like Sound Forge and like a thousand sound effects, it was super cheap, and holy crap the things come out in actual HD. It's the futuuuurrrreeee

Super big props to the guys who got in on the mighty morphin' voice thing: Brent, Pat, Joe and Ian himself! They weren't the only folks who gave it a shot - I put a call out on Twitter for some voice action which about 15 people were awesome enough to answer, and it was a bit of a shitty job to pick the ones that made it. I mean, there wasn't a single bad one. Everybody really went for it! In the end, I just went for the ones that sounded the most Power Rangery. Nice job, everybody.

Super Late Vid: Dreadwind & Smokejumper

Word up, blogosphere. Look at this immediately:

Yeah, I completely forgot to do a blog about this review when I posted it last month, but whatever! I'm forgiven. Thanks. You're welcome.

Man, I had such a blast making this video. Every aspect of the Dreadwind and Smokejumper set is totally ridiculous: how much cool stuff they can do, how great they look, how much gear they come with, and most importantly how much fun you can have with them. 

I think that sense of fun translated pretty well into video form, and for me, this video serves as a reminder that making reviews is how I enjoy my toys these days. I mean, I know it's pretty weird to be a collector in the first place and I'm not quite comfortable enough with myself to actually play with my toys in the traditional sense. But it's totally fine for me to play hours and hours of Xbox. That's some double standard bullshit right there.

Also: Dreadwind and Smokejumper can combine with Armada Megatron! How awesome is that?