tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56548714963166798472024-02-02T12:28:28.351+08:00半支煙 pt 二a fat gecko blog IIFat Geckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06626852455522939953noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654871496316679847.post-45367001764880148422016-04-22T16:14:00.000+08:002016-04-22T16:14:29.090+08:00Neca - God of War 3 : Kratos the Ghost of Sparta.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And here's Neca's Kratos, the anti-hero protagonist from the epic game, God of War series. Standing at 7 inches tall, articulation is nice, paint detailing are a-ok. Comes with the two head sculpts, Blades of Athena, the Nemean Cestus and Boots of Hermes. The Cestus is kinda heavy for the figure but nice addition. Wish it comes with Blades of Olympus and Gauntlet of Zeus. </span></div>
Fat Geckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06626852455522939953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654871496316679847.post-37883724017950433622016-04-20T10:10:00.003+08:002016-04-20T10:10:45.305+08:00Coomodel - 2012 Death (Simulated Human Skeleton).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The glories of our blood and state</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Are shadows, not substantial things;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">There is no armor against fate;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Death lays his icy hand on kings:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Sceptre and crown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Must tumble down,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And in the dust be equal made</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">With the poor crooked scythe and spade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Some men with swords may reap the field,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And plant fresh laurels where they kill;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But their strong nerves at last must yield;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">They tame but one another still:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Early or late,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">They stoop to fate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And must give up their murmuring breath,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">When they, pale captives, creep to death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The garlands wither on your brow,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Then boast no more your mighty deeds;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Upon death's purple altar now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">See where the victor-victim bleeds:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Your head must come</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">To the cold tomb;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Only the actions of the just</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Swell sweet, and blossom in their dust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">- James Shirley, Death the Leveller.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">- Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">She should have died hereafter;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">There would have been a time for such a word.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">To the last syllable of recorded time;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And all our yesterdays have lighted fools</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">That struts and frets his hour upon the stage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And then is heard no more. It is a tale</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Signifying nothing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">- William Shakespeare, Macbeth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is Coomodel 1/6th simulated human skeleton in the form of "Death" released years ago. I stumbled upon it while shifting through the boxes of other figures in preparation for the final wave of sale of my collection. Took the opportunity to display it. Unfortunately the two wrist pegs are brittle and broken, even after hair drying time. Luckily it comes with a pair of spares. My over enthusiasm of using hair drying technique results in some serious warping of the hands though. Other than that, this is one sturdy figure despite its uh, skeletal design.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"War is Peace."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Freedom is Slavery."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Ignorance is Strength."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">- George Orwell, 1984.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A (mis) interpretation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Category: Non-biological extraterrestrial lifeform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Name: Megatron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Alias: Megatronus / The Great Tyrant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Age: 10,000 cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Rank: Lord Commander / Warmaster. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Affiliation: Cybertron Imperialis Auxilia - The Decepticons Legion (current).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Height: 35 feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Weight: 5.7 tonnes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Composition: Alternium mimetic poly bio-alloy; outer plating: hyper-hardened ferrum alloy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Abilities: Transformation; peaked physiology; leadership skill; master strategist, tactician and field commander; master armour martial artist and hand to hand combatant; genius level intelligence; demagogue; cunningness; deception; foresight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Standard weapons: "Brute Gun" twin barrel fusion blaster x 1 (current); power claw x 1 (current); impaler talons x 1 (current) / various energy, projectile and melee weaponries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Alternative mode: Mack M915 (LRT) Line-Haul Replacement Tractor (Mack Granite GU713 10-wheeler military ver.) w. M970 fuel tanker (military ver.) semi-trailer - AD 2007 / Various. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Strength: 10 / 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Intelligence: 10 / 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Speed: 10 / 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Endurance: 10 / 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Rank: 10 / 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Courage: 9 / 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Firepower: 10 / 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Skill: 9 / 10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Megatron, also known as Megatronus, and commonly referred to as The Great Tyrant, is an exceptionally powerful Cybertronian who rises through the ranks of Cybertron Imperiallis Auxilia as an Iron Captain to become the Lord Commander of the Decepticons Legion. Born shortly upon the end of the Unification War within the hive city of Kaon, Megatron single handedly begins the cataclysmic Cybertron Civil War which consume the planet and renders it into a dead world. Megatron is responsible for countless atrocities and acts of cruelty across the once mighty Cybertron empire spanning across the Eastern Fringe. Kaon is a mining and forge city, known for being the worse place in Cybertron. It is also the capital of the Decepticons Legion, the most powerful military force on Cybertron. Megatron cultivates his survival instinct amongst Kaon populace where the only rule is survival of the strongest and fittest. He possesses a gift of genius level intelligence, and tactical analytical abilities which allows him to create strategies and plans several steps ahead of his opponent seemingly like he can foresee into the future. Megatron is able to elaborate complex plans and schemes, and apply them not only in battle but any other activity involving cunning intellect. He is a sociopath with zero empathy and a megalomaniac with God complex. Megatron believes his race destiny is to subjugate other races thoroughly and only through absolute dominance would peace be achieved as well as securing all form of resources and living space existential for the survival of his own race. He has a violent hatred towards those whom he perceives as weaker, which is very much include everyone, and a xenophobe. Many races are driven to extinction during his rule, giving out orders involving star systems wide genocide and massacre. Megatron is a master of psychological intuition and a very charismatic demagogue, often uses his fiery oratory skill to manipulate and instill deep seated motivation amongst the Decepticons, with leadership skills that command absolute loyalty to him. The sigil of Decepticon is stylised after his likeliness. Megatron can easily adapt to any ever changing situation and turns it into his advantage. Megatron often lead from the front with his army of loyal, elite self hand chosen followers. With an imposing physical presence and gravelly, deep baritone voice, Megatron would instill fear and awe to those around him. He is a master hand to hand combatant with a fighting technique that is rooted in a primal-like brutality. In combat, Megatron would probe his opponent's strength and weaknesses before overwhelming them with torrent of precision strikes. With the exception of Orion Pax, later known as Optimus Prime, the Champion and High Marshal of Frateris Templar, and eventual Chapter Master of the Autobots, no opponents are known have survived any hand to hand combat against Megatron. His only weakness are his arrogance and over-confidence. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Megatron is known to have used every form of weaponries available but his primary weapon of choice is the fusion blaster. It is a fearsome weapon which agitates the sub-atomic particles of the target, causing a massive built up of heat. Living targets would be completely vapourised and nonliving targets, even the most heavily armoured vehicles and fortifications would be reduced to a molten slag with a blink of an eye from its nuclear powered fusion blast. It has a medium to long range. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Thus, it is with his recognised abilities and skills that the Cybertron Governing Council appoints Megatron with the highest military ranking as Warmaster to lead the Cybertron Imperiallis Auxilia comprising of countless fleets to sail across the stars under the First Sphere Expansion military campaign due to resources depletion. Lasting 300 standard Earth years, many star systems and races are conquered by the expeditionary fleets under Megatron's command. Those who fights and are defeated would be subjected to planet wide extermination and genocide. Those whom survives are enslaved and sent to labour camps en masse to various conquered worlds for terraformation projects and star harvesting sites. Megatron greatest achievement as the Warmaster is his victory over the mighty Quintesson empire. When the Governing Council announce the end of the First Sphere Expansion, Megatron has successfully conquered the Eastern Fringe and carved out a galactic empire spanning several billion light years across. Megatron ambition and yearn for greater power have extended beyond as mere overall commander of the Cybertron military. His first plan is to purge all Decepticons loyal to the Governing Council in what is known as the Tarn Massacre. He then unites all Chapters loyal to his cause under his banner. He masterminds several assassination attempts upon the twelve Primarchs of the Governing Council, which results in the death of Nexus and Solus Prime, as well as subtly sowing discord amongst the general Cybertronian populace which results in numerous uprisings. Megatron presents before the Governing Council evidences of treason committed by the Autobot Chapter and their Chapter Master, Alpha Trion. His true objective is because Megatron views Alpha Trion as a political threat as the Autobots are the only paramilitary group powerful enough to challenge the Decepticons. The Chapter is declared Excommunicate Traitoris and ordered to dissolve with Alpha Trion and the entire First Company arrested and executed. The surviving members of the Autobots Chapter goes into hiding from the atrocities of the Decepticon Legion Destroyer extermination squads led by First Captain Soundwave. Presenting before the Council, Megatron declares the requirement of Cybertron existing ruling system to be reorganised into a state that can provide stability, and a safe and secure society. The Council he has manipulated and corrupted overwhelmingly applauds Megatron's decision, turning Cybertron into a military totalitarian dictatorship empire. He continues to implement aggressive military expansion plans throughout the galaxy, leading to the Second Sphere Expansion campaign. Megatron also declares Edict of Obliteration upon the Autobots, erasing all their achievements and official records. Megatron's dictatorship and rule is one of the darkest period in Cybertron long history and is widely referred to as The Old Night. He builds the fortress Palace of Thorne at Kaon. Megatron also organises popular gladiatorial like games involving prisoners of war and political enemies to fight to their death. The games serve as a form of control over the population. Atrocities committed under his orders begin to spread, including the infamous incident of which the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet running low on fuel and Megatron orders the expedition Master of the Fleet Starscream to use the newly captured prisoners of one million individuals from a newly subjugated world to be converted as bio-fuel to produce energons. Megatron rules for approximately 10 standard Earth years, a relatively short period by Cybertronian standard, before the Autobots initiate a series of guerilla warfare against him and his regime. Soon these pocket wars begin to evolve to sector size battles and eventually spread throughout the entire planet into a world war. Simultaneously, the Quintessons Hive Fleet begins their incursion directly onto Cybertron space, annihilating Battlefleet Nicor in its entirety and attacks the Ring of Iron first defence line. Megatron is forced to shuffle and spread the Deceptions Legion over several battle fronts. After the Battle of Iacon, the war begins to stagnant and becomes a battle of attrition involving close quarters combat. Every square feet and corridors are intensely fought for by both the Decepticons and Autobots. Every new ground gain would changed hands endlessly. Bodies pile up along the corridors and block pathways which are used as covers by both sides. The entire planet and its hive cities are eventually reduced to burnt out, destroyed wasteland littered with war engines and collapse mega structures. The Dyson Sphere like energy absorption panels which encapsulate the planet are eventually destroyed, depriving the populace of the means to produce energon, leading to mass famine and deprivation of basic needs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The war claim billions of lives across planet for the next 50 standard Earth years, pushing the race to the brink of extinction. When Megatron tries to obtain the key to creation of Cybertronian, the archeotech All-Sparks Cube or otherwise known as Vector Sigma, Orion Pax and a group of Autobots take the ancient device with them on board the Ark interstellar cruiser to escape the tyrant. Megatron and his elite chosen army go after them and tries to intercept the Ark onboard the Decepticon capital ship, Apollyon. Megatron successfully done so while travelling mid-warp but at the cost of damaging both ships. Exiting from the warp, the ships crash onto a young, prehistoric Earth. Both ships' passengers are put into stasis lock until AD 1984 when an underwater earthquake awakens the Decepticons. Alert by their enemies presence, the Ark onboard AI, Teletran, awakes the Autobots. Taking the forms of Earth vehicles and devices to hide themselves amongst the humans, they stealthily fight each other while desperately trying to establish communications with Cybertron, thus opening up a new front for the Cybertron Civil War. Eventually the humans come to realise the existence of these extraterrestrial non-biological beings when Megatron and his Decepticons begin to openly fight the Autobots in his relentless quest for the All-Sparks Cube. Alliances and enemies are made with the human race but many nations and its citizens perish in the ensuing war. In the pivotal Battle of Carson City in AD 1991, Megatron leads the Decepticons in a final push and assault against the Autobots. Although he successfully kills Optimus Prime, the Tyrant lost his right arm during combat and part of his face are sheared off and cauterised by the Autobot Captain of the 8th Company, Bumblebee. The Autobots win a pyrrhic victory against the Decepticons who retreat under Lord General Shockwave order on board the Abraxas, a Decepticon battle cruiser. Eventually the Autobots follow suit, leaving Earth to head back to Cybertron, 570 light years away at Lambda Scorpii, in the constellation Scorpius. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The disfigured and severely injured Megatron is left stranded on Earth. Using a tattered tarp to cover his facial injuries, he eventually replaced his missing right arm and undergoes a slow regeneration process by consuming the sparks and corpses of Autobots and Decepticons alike, as well as scrap metals and other mineral resources while hiding out in the wilderness of Namibia, undertaking the alternative mode of a Mack Granite modified military tanker truck. The local populace speaks of a monstrous iron giant lurking amongst them. Humans whom are brave enough to go hunting down Megatron would never ever return. Burning with vengeance and rage, as of AD 2008, Megatron has gathers various human militant groups to provide him resources to built a Space Bridge in return for assisting them win their political and ideological terrorist wars which eventually escalate into World War Three. As Earth nations collapse with social, economic and ecological destructions around him, Megatron awaits with patience the completion of the Space Bridge in order for him to return back to his homeworld of Cybertron. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I won't delve into saying anything much about Meg as he is so popular and I am too lazy to lay it all out here. There are also so many versions of him that it is personally mind boggling. The only titular version of Meg for me personally is the G1 version. Now a little bit of personal history with this fella. I never owned the original Meg, even if I have had other Transformers before. After the '86 movie and the end of the series on local channel (RTM or TV3?), I forgotten about the Transformers (and most classic cartoons of those times) and moved on. By early 2000s suddenly the general local toy hobby scene kinda exploded. It reminded me of the local comic scene before it all came crashing down. Anyhoo, I saw Hasbro and Takara Tomy beginning to re-issue those classic G1 line as well as the new ones, Alternators / Binaltech and more importantly, the Masterpiece series starting with the partly die-cast Optimus Prime. However I was never really into it as I slowly gravitate towards the 1/6th scale figures scene. Years later, as I typed this, I have sold off most of my figures. But I find myself getting some really premium (means on the upper scale of the price point) stuffs. Not wallet napalming statues price (think Prime1 Studio stuffs, crazy) but back to Masterpiece series. Not all but the ones I like. Now this is ThreeA Premium Scale, whatever that means, TF Megatron. Previous release was Bumblebee (to a rave review) and coming soon Starscream and Optimus Prime. And it ends there as ThreeA licensing has ended. All four figures based on Bayformers, the Dark of the Moon live action movie series. I could have gotten the exclusive Bambaland version but yet during the drop, I chose not to. Now the bug has bitten me and I ordered this from Toypanic / Toygarden way north in Penang. The difference between retail version and Bamba exclusive is the Matrix of Leadership (which looks like an inch long boomerang) and the tarpaulin, which turns into a tattered looking hood / cowl for Megatron to hide his facial injuries from event occurred in Revenge of the Fallen. Now this hobo version of Megatron is truly my personal favourite - beaten up, rusty and looking mean as heck. Even in the movie, during his first appearance, Meg transformation from a truck into a bot has sparks coming out from scrapping pieces together, showing that he is truly still injured and in process of recovery. Standing at approximately 18.5 inches or 48 cm plus in height, this is a truly huge beast. Both torso and legs are extendable and fortunately, there is no "ThreeA floppy Iron Man torso syndrome". I am not sure what the scale of this figure is because I sucks at math but informations I gotten is that Hollywood Bayformer Meg stands at 35 feet tall. Overall the QC is good except for a few nitpicking, like the right eye is abit disconcerting because the it cuts across the eyeball instead of forming the shape of the eyelet and one of the chain rail holders and a panel actually came off (glue time again). The head couldn't turn sideway due to two panels on the lower end are obstructing it. Typical of ThreeA (or even Threezero, people tends to get confused though the two brands are literally owned or co-owned by one of the partners, just like VTS and Damtoys if I am not mistaken), the paint effect and weathering are as I expected (after all those WWR Robots, it is practically a standard for me to expect great weathering from ThreeA) although there are certain areas which ThreeA factory boys and girls miss couple of spots, in particular the inner panels area. The eyes light up but with tiny glow. The ratchet and ball joints are stiff and nice, with 70 points of articulation although I believe ThreeA taken into consideration those panels, read "not so important" point of articulation as well to boost the number up. Because for all the "70 points of articulation", ThreeA forgotten to add / design arm swivel onto Meg. And though the beast could stand without any need for a figure stand (rumours have it that Starscream would require one. I leave that to be seen), it has a bent posture due to design of the knee joint. As for accessories, Hollywood Meg comes with a "Brute" shotgun and a strip of real metal, nicely weathered chains. And if it's exclusive Bamba version, add a Matrix of Leadership and hobo cowl to it. That's all folks. Now, this Hollywood Meg doesn't transform. Afterall it is based on a movie, as such the CGI transformation cheats big time and if I tell myself, "I'm skipping this 'cause it won't transform" then I would be missing out on something as nice as this. Either I have to stick with normal line or sacrifice details for the alt modes (like the Bumblebee and Starscream MPM series). To complete the look, I took one of the Soviet sniper (DiD Battle of Stalingrad Vasily) cape and use it as his cowl. Never has a figure makes me looking out for haulers and lorries, intensely studying the blue or canvas tarpaulins before. Not sure whether I would permanently use it for Meg as I really like the look of it with grommets which I imagine adds character to the imaginary truck mode with the chains tying around it. But Vasily would not have his gear again as well as the requirement to "weather" it, something which I am not good at. All stories unrelated to TF canon. Thanks to WH40k, TF Wikia, and YouTube video reviews of Optibotimus and toys210. And I can't help looking at it all the time. Spooky. Note that the G1 technical specification of Megs are much different, and lower. His rank and firepower are 10/10, strength, endurance and intelligence are 9/10, courage at 7, skill at 6 and speed at a measly 4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Iron Kong Zoids were first introduced to the Western Front in M19.039 after a series of defeats and failures suffered by the Zenebas Imperial Army at the hands of the Helios Alliance. The Imperial Army primary heavy class Zoid, EZ-004 Red Horn had proven ineffective against the Alliance EZ-001 Gojulas. The Iron Kong, manufactured by the Lautern Heavy Industries whom held the exclusive military contract under the Imperial decree, was based on the design of an STC found within the tropical jungles near the equator of the Central Continent. The Iron Kong primary function were tactical and close assault, spearheading each attack at their enemies across the frontline. A herd of Iron Kong would brutally punch through any Alliance front line and wreak havoc at their defences. The Iron Kong proves more than capable of overwhelming and destroying the legendary Gojulas. After the initial victory of the Alliance in M19.018, the Reich would turn the tide of war from M19.039 onwards, first repelling the Helios army from the Reichland borders and regained back lost territories, then pushed forward to conquer majority of the Northern and Western Continents in M19.040 under a series of blitzkrieg campaigns. It wasn't until the Helios Zoids manufacturer, Rostock Corporation introduced the super heavy class Zoid, EZ-037 Ultrasaurus which were reinforced by the Gojulas units, that the domination of the Iron Kong Zoids on the global battlefield was truly contested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A Zoid Iron Kong was powered by an ultra compact plasma generator and armoured with super-hardened plasteel ceramic alloy with reinforced structural integrity based on a gorilla physiology. The Iron Kong could knuckle walk or adopt a bipedal stance. The Zoid was more dextrous and had higher land speed in comparison against most of its heavy class contemporaries. Its armour could take a lot of heavy firepower from projectile based weaponries. It had a built in void shield with EMP hardened electronics to protect it against energy weapons. The Mind Impulse Unit was retained for the Princeps to neural synchronise with the task intelligence system of the war engine. The Princep has to be a mentally strong individual or would be overwhelmed, resulting in total psychological breakdown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Many variants were manufactured throughout the war, each fitted with different weaponries and specifications in accordance to the military objectives and mode of operations. One particular variant, the MK3ZRO, was designed to be deployed as deep striker, dropped into the enemy main lines for close assault in order to neutralise any defence line before the primary units moved in. The MK3ZRO had Auspex system which allows the Princeps to scan the entire electromagnetic spectrum to flush out hidden enemies and 360 degree visual, with encrypted comm-links with others in a herd formation and self targeting sensors. It had three pairs of grind cutter on each arm. The hardened adamantium blades whirled at four times the speed of sound, powered by super vibration actuators. The deadly melee weapon could cut through even the thickest Zoid armour like knife upon a soft butter. It was standard fitted with Demolisher knuckle on each hand, allowing it to punch, smash and tear through even the toughest ferrocrete fortifications with ease. On each shoulder, there was a particle accelerator cannon which fired at the range of up to 10km. A single blast would obliterate any medium class Zoid. However the cannon lacked long range capability as well as inability to precisely lock on its target while on the move. The MK3ZRO required two Princeps to pilot due to its advance MIU. A single pilot Princep would be overwhelmed, resulting in catatonic state or even death. A rare but dangerous occurrence would be the emergence of Berserker Syndrome, which arose when the Princeps neural link was tainted by the Iron Kong basic primal instinct contained within its task intelligence system drawn down from the STC based on the ancient creature which once roamed Hephaistos. Both the Iron Kong and its pilots would digress into a nigh unstoppable rampaging war engines, blindly lashed out at anything or anyone within its reach until it was taken out by the enemies or one of its own. MK3ZRO was issued for deployment under senior and battle hardened veterans of the Imperial Army. Notable heroes of the war whom received the Medal of the Knight Iron Cross while piloting the Iron Kong include Col. Karl Liechtenstein and Maj. Erwin Schwartz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Threezero and its owner Kim Fung Wong is a pioneer in the so-called New Vinyl Movement in the toys collectible industry. He is highly associated with artists the likes of Michael Lau (whom designed the "threezero / three holes" gasmask logo), for whom Kim is highly credited for translating their art works into tangible products. This also leads to collaboration with Ashley Wood in the creation of ThreeA. Kim re-launched the Threezero brand back in '13, and has released a number of licensed products, including this one right here, the Takara Tomy Zoids 1/72th scale Iron Kong. Now Zoids and Transformers (G1) are part of my childhood memories, credit to my mom whom would pamper me with these toys of which admittedly are much more affordable in those days. I remembered excitingly going up and down each gondola in the toys department at Super Kinta (a supermarket in Ipoh, which I believe no longer exist) ogling at Zoids and Transformers. These two formed the twin pillars of my toys collection during those carefree years. If I were to recall correctly, it was my neighbour in Ipoh, who introduced me to Zoids. His Zoid is a upright smaller one, looking like a small cousin of Gojulas, called Godos. My first Zoids is a stegosaurus, called "The Great Gorgon", followed by a scorpion (l forgotten their names), a caterpillar, crocodile and finally, during a birthday, me mom bought me a "Zoidzilla" (Gojulas for JDM). I need to assemble it but no glue required. Once done, I would stick the decals. Some larger ones come with metal counterweight for balancing. The sound of the smaller Zoids mechanical dinosaurs moving as I wound up the mechanism suddenly came to me mind. Jump to the present and Zoids have succeed in re-emerging back into the popular market. So much so that Threezero released two readily built models with staggering weathering effect - the Liger and Iron Kong. Now, I am not into Liger but Iron Kong? Man, that's like one of my all time favourites (beside Red Horn, Gojulas, Mad Thunder and of course, Deathsaurer). Maybe because I like ape-like toys. I find their built and silhouette attractive and brutal. Standing at approximately 10 inches plus in height and width, this is not a large toy by a long shot but neither it is small. I am not sure about the HMM (Highend Master Model) series but I feel that the HMM Iron Kong could be slightly bigger. This version produced and distributed by Threezero is based on the Zoid Concept Art. While lacking the commonly seen shoulder mounted hyper bazooka or gatling cannon, with rocket launcher and rocket propeller on the back, this version comes with my personal favourite - buzzsaw, six of 'em. There are two slightly articulative cannons, one on each shoulder. The cockpit opens and reveals two non-removable super tiny pilots as homage to the original line which comes with either gold (Helic) or silver pilot (Zenebas). There is a light up features of course which looks nice. The overall construction is quite different from the Iron Kong I grew up with. It retains the basic structure as well as colour scheme, yet different. Now, no assembly required, except for the six pesky hoses and six cylinders of which I am not sure what it is. The middle hose could not be slotted into the connecting hole so I used a knife and trim slightly one end of the hose. But it keeps coming undone so I am forced to resort to using glue. Also during the checking of the toys at the hobby shop, one of the cylinder holder fell off. I am not sure whether it is broken and looking at the other cylinder holder, it is not suppose to come off. While it could be attached back, it would instantly fall off again once I put on the cylinders. Once again the glue come to the rescue. Finally the left hand had popped out from its ball joint during unboxing. I had to hairdryer it first before able to slot it back in. Like all Threezero products, the price range is on the higher end, reflecting the price upward creep in toydom. Again, this is my own write-up as usual and got nothing to do with the actual canonical storyline. Ideas taken from WW1 and WH40k as usual with names like Lautern and Rostock taken from Mamoru Oshii 2008 anime movie, The Sky Crawlers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Another Redmoon product, this time 'round, an iPhone 6 case. In raw leather colour. Tired of putting the phone in the pocket, especially when I'm wearin' a jeans. </span>Fat Geckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06626852455522939953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654871496316679847.post-62557497191599967882016-03-12T16:46:00.003+08:002016-03-12T16:46:58.147+08:00Casio G-Shock - GA-150-1A.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Know, oh horological elitist, that between the years when the markets shrank from Swiss watches and it's hand made mechanical wonder, and the years of the rise of Swatch, there was an age undreamed of, when ugly but affordable plastic and iron watches lay spread across the world like digital analogue interface beneath the stars - Seiko and its innovative yet economical features, Citizen and its reliability, Timex and its robustness, to name but a few. Hither came Casio with the G-Shock, durable, elements resistant, solar powered battery reserve and outlandish technologies, with gigantic square melancholies and gigantic diameter face, to thread the watch market and the industry jeweled face under its resin strap."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">OK. If any one bother to read my old and current blogs, the denim collection had stopped but I broke the rule for this Evisu Lot 2000 No. 1 Special in 17oz denim, made in Japon. I wouldn't go into details for an Evisu, it is same, if want to, go search my old blog for Evisu write up. Noticed that it used to come with a tote bag. Now it's a plastic bag. Cost cutting? Ha ha. Note also I have to sized up from usual 35'' to 36'' based on the size chart. The shrinkage is quite big. I am a 32'' to 33" waist. Happy that it comes with a Tiger aka yellow and black stiching selvedge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I have the opportunity to own a couple of G-Shocks by Casio over the past but never really cares about the functionality and the legendary durability it comes with other than it can tell me time, it is good enough. I didn't even know what the "G" stands for? Great Shock? Good Shock? So until now, upon reading up on G-Shocks in general, it is the acronym for Gravitational Shock. Wot? And the first Gees came out in '83. Legend has it that its creator, an engineer by the name of Kikuo Ibe, in a fit of frustration, thrown out a prototype known only as "DW-X" from the toilet window ten stories high on the ground below. A car ran over it, a lorry ran over it and it was over. Or so Ibe thought. On the way home, Ibe's face turned pale as the watch was there, intact in all its glorious glory. It was ten o'clock at night and Ibe was standing 10 feet away. The watch then suddenly glowed with greenish illumination from within its blocky looking, squarish encasing. Ibe picked it up and suddenly...well, to cut things short because I am running out of idea, the G-Shock is born. It is my own fictionalised story of course but Ibe-San is real and from his idea, hither comes G-Shock, a wrist watch which is targeted at a market audience with an active lifestyle. Solar panels for rechargeable battery power (although there are versions with standard battery), water resistance, shock proof, grenade proof, just kidding, and etc. Over the past three decades, G-Shock became more entrenched into fashion accessories rather than what it is meant for. Plastic and affordable but darn it, incredibly reliable and never leaves you empty and go searching for a battery replacement (although the battery itself still needs to be replaced eventually). It becomes a collectibles and become more and more exotic. Try getting an all black GX-56-1B known as "The King". I am G-Shocked by the asking price. Including the latest one I gave an arm for, the MTG-S1000V-1ADR (for international market, in Japan domestic market it is model 1AJF). MTG stands for Metal Twisted Gees. Fully made in their Yamagata factory instead of Thailand assembly. Which means premium, like their Mr. G line. And comes with various technical specs which I am too lazy to lay it on here. Go search. Anyhoo, this is the watch which caught my eyes the moment I was looking into the current Gees. It has this aged, worn out finishing, much like some of my 1/6th toys, and stealth grey-ish in colour. And it goes well with its design. Why this? Well honestly my holy grail of watch is not a Patek Phillippe nor Rolex nor Breitling nor Panerai nor IWC (Indah Water Consortium, hahaha) nor Bell & Ross. It is simply a Cabestan Nostromo watch. And it costs 150,000 Swiss Francs. And within a sea of many, many great horology brands out there from costing millions to a Petaling Street triple A grade rip off, this watch to me stands close yet far from the Cabestan Nostromo, with the balance for casual or business wear. I can't really wear a standard G-Shocks with office attire. Kind of look..funky. Until I strikes lotto, I may go for the holy grail if I could find one and the rest of the famous brands would be purchased too but as complimentary partner. Till then, this will do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">What else should I say? It's a Redmoon leather chain long wallet. This time in natural leather color for me to see the evolution of color and obtain the legendary patina as seen on most raw leather. Purchased additional brass chain, longer ones than the existing Brassman series which I had. Great stuff this product. I chose this model due to the compartments, the Red Chief logo on the primary button, and of course the Redmoon and Made in Village Works wordings. The zipper holder is also embossed with Redmoon logo (Brassman is YKK, TF...haha). </span></div>
Fat Geckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06626852455522939953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654871496316679847.post-79891401781249283482016-03-08T16:06:00.000+08:002016-03-10T01:27:32.572+08:00Saddleback Leather - Classic Briefcase.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Stumbled across Saddleback Leather while googling for uh, saddle leather. Had a look into the leather products they offered and read up about them, which is quite interesting, albeit in an off tangent way. I did some research into them via casting a net across the uh, Net and reviews are mixed pertaining to their leather goods. Very polarised. Either they like it or hate it. Most of the negativity comes generally from their earlier offerings which based on what I read on feedback forums, posters found the goods quality not in tandem with what was offered. This was when the company was still a one man enterprise operating out of Mexico. However, later reviews are more positive although the owner, Dave (one helluva guy from watching his videos), still courted controversy with his less than conventional approach to marketing and communicating with end customers. I would like to imagine him as the Ashley Wood (3A) of leather goods. But they are very pleasant people. When I decided to go for the Classic Briefcase in Dark Coffee Brown colour, my purchase couldn't go through. When the email wasn't responded, I called them straight from here over to Texas and they promptly replied in a very courteous manner, checked and advised me that the country I am residing in is not available for shipping. Bummer. But they suggested that I purchase via Amazon which I did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The bag arrived quite fast but held by custom due to the price and weight. So I had to drive all the way to the old Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT, which is now closed), near Sepang to the Custom Office. As I opened up the box before the custom officer as usual for inspection to ensure it is not something out of "The Anarchy Cookbook", both of us are taken aback by the beauty of this briefcase. And the size. Mary, the Mother of God...this bag is huge. The custom officer asked if this were for me and am I going for a backpack trip. Still reeling from the shock of the seeing the size, I forced a smile and said yes. I had a feeling the Custom Officer wanted to tell me that I could fit inside the briefcase. And I wanted to tell him no, this is not a backpack but a briefcase. Then off I went, paid the custom at the counter and immediately went straight home. Now here's the tricky part. How do I pass the barrier that are me Mom and wife? Like any large sized toys, I left it in the car until they are well into dreamland at night, as I went to the car and stealthily, cat-like, took the carton into the house, into the room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I had a better view of the briefcase this time 'round. Full grain leather, with suede side pigskin lining inner as reinforcement, including the flap (unlike earlier version, which I prefer more). It is ginormous and weighty. But nice. No so called "markings" (which courted Saddleback's owner a lot of debates and controversy) which they leave on the leather. Lucky me. Because honestly, regardless of what is said, if the "markings" are serious enough, and left on end products, I still believe it would inherently damaged the leather. And this would not be fair towards the end customers. There are numerous D rings, and inside could swallow up all my stuffs to work and more. Maybe I didn't really pay attention to the sizing chart (yes, they are courteous enough to have a sizing chart to generally match up the suitable size of the goods vs height). The leather used is really thick, and very rugged with that heavenly leathery smell. The only problem I have is the familiarising meself with the 3 straps enclosure. I have problem opening and closing it with one hand, particularly the middle strap. More practise I guess. Anyhoo, is this the last briefcase I ever get? You betcha. Can it outlive me and pass on to my kids? Probably would. Would it soften down and gets beautiful patina? Time shall tell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Before I forget, I also purchased it together with a set of three leather caring, maintenance products. Read line number four and five. Which is again, reminds me of a company from another industry, well, what else, 3A of course, "Armstrong loves stale muffin" or "1/sexth scale" etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">From the beginning on 1st April 1960, Dr. Martens boots are made exclusively from their Cobbs Lane factory in Wollaston, Northamptonshire after British shoe manufacturer R. Griggs Group Ltd. bought the patent rights from the boots inventor, Klaus Martens and Herbert Funck. Martens was a doctor in the Wehrmacht until a skiing accident which injured his ankle led him to create the prototype of what is to become the boots we known today. Griggs made a slight modification in the shape and added the iconic yellow stitching and trademarked the sole as AirWair. In addition, DM also licensed out manufacturing rights to several others to produce DMs on their behalf, all concentrated in Northamptonshire area. The most famous is NPS which stands for Northampton Productive Society, established in 1881 by five blokes as workers co-operative with joint ownership by local people. NPS collaborated with DM and provided the goodyear welt technology (all uppers are stitched to the welt) in order to fix the AirWair soft sole suspension onto each boot. This collaboration would last until when DM dropped them due to steady in flood of cheaper alternatives from 80s onward and their subsequent production line moved offshore to Thailand and China by early 2000s. No longer under license, NPS patented the Solovair brand, which is "sole of air" plus a help from a local businessman, Ivor Tilley to avoid the co-op from going under. Solovair is amongst the few British shoe manufacturers which survived the industry upheaval and still fully made in England. Others include Tredair, Grinders, Gripfast and Underground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Production of Solovair boots are combined with traditional craftsmanship, hand made with latest technology from full grain leather. As such I am tempted into getting a pair from their sole distributor, British Boots Company online as previously, their accessibility is almost impossible. I have heard of Solovair here and there but mostly uninterested until, ironically and a 360 degrees turn in purchasing decision, I stumbled upon the Trent Reznor Combat Boots by Nice Collective. An ultra limited boots which retails for a wallet vaporizing USD1100, I don't know why as the two are totally unrelated but it led me to decide it is time to pull the trigger on a more affordable, albeit still on the mid upper range of pricing when converted into this country's currency, version of steel toe boots. As I have just bought a MIC DM, I am curious as to how Solovair would fare. I explored the British Boots Company website and singled out the 11 eyelet cherry red called "Englander" which comes with combat boots style sole and stitched steel toe. It arrived quite on time through post, and at first I was not quite happy about the really understated, understated box. It doesn't help that the box arrived in less than desirable condition. But once I opened the box, the beauty inside it almost blown me away. I immediately laced it up and tried it on. The leather feels good and again like the MIC DM, not cardboard hard but soft and supple. Require a slight break in but not as difficult as the old 90s DM and MIE DM I owned and tried on respectively (as well as Red Wing, which required a breaking in period). The tag on the back of the boots is green font on black background as opposed to DM's yellow. The sole is standard combat boots shape with the proudly proclaimed "Made in England" stamped on it as well as inside. The only curious thing about this pair I got is that it doesn't come stamped with "Englander" as shown on the website. Hhhmm. But it doesn't matter. And the question of quality between the two? Well, only time can tell. But a quick glance is that the Solovair leather has a more "shine" finish on it. Also the almost effortless breaking in required (in my case for this particular pair), would that means the quality is compromise? Probably not. And that's that. Time to stomp. Oi! Waaargh! Ha ha ha. </span></div>
Fat Geckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06626852455522939953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654871496316679847.post-67633498965433902832016-03-08T02:23:00.002+08:002016-03-10T02:24:46.147+08:00Dr. Martens - 1919 Cherry Red Steel Toe.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">DM 1919 cherry red with 10 eyelets and steel toe which was bought from one of their nice looking boutiques in Sunway Pyramid. Without the iconic yellow stitching though. Made in China. Leather is softer and supple compare to the "Quilon" leather use for their Made in England line. The latter is like my 90s pair of black 8 eyelets 1460, very tough to break in and akin to wearing cardboard. Get a thick socks with it or be prepared to submit my feet to weeks and months of torturous ordeal. I am impartial to where a product is made so long as the brand of said product doesn't compromise quality in tandem with their asking price. Currently DM doesn't produce any 1919 models for their MIE line. Still this MIC boots is alright, readily to be worn and comfortable. Afterall it is still Goodyear welted, with air cushioned soles. The laces are the same as the 90s pair, if I were to recall correctly and from what I observed, the MIE line. That means it is still not "up there" with, say, Red Wing boots' laces. Oh, by the way, can't compare the two brands, just like apples and oranges. To each its own merit but of course, Red Wing boots are still way above in terms of leather quality, construction and "vintage creds" with longer history but strictly my own personal opinion. And something about the sole which is different from what I could recall from memory. It seems more transparent on this one. The inlay soles also seem different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Re-owning a DM brings back good memories of the "third" resurgence of the brand i.e. "alt-movement/grunge genre" of the early to mid 90s as part of the split over effect into fashion. DM stores sprouted up everywhere. Strictly made in England only, I remembered the British boots doesn't cost an arm and leg like now. Of course there are copycat brands and pirated version (the latest victim being Red Wing which sucks) but none come close to the original. Unfortunately, DM went down in flames hand in hand with the demise of alt/grunge scene by early 2000s. The brand was also being ridiculed on "hipsters" forum such as Superfuture then, shutting out the counter-cultural impact it made, either in positive or negative light, particularly amongst Britain skinhead movements as well as around the subcultures of the world. It also suffered a brief notoriety for an advertisement in '07 featuring the late artists Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer wearing DMs high up on the clouds upon the ninth heaven literally with the objective of delivering the message that DM lasted forever, which unfortunately, is not true (the sole tends to wear out). Saatchi and Saatchi subsequently lost DM as their account. Which is a dumb mistake for an advert agency as they probably didn't do enough research into the history of DM as well as lacking subtleties and respect. The choice of subjects are the most questionable. Cobain in particular, is never seen with a pair of DM. He was seen usually rocking a Converse All Stars or Jack Purcell unlike, say, members of Alice in Chains or Pearl Jam. And he's strictly anti-commercialism. Joe Strummer can be seen wearing DM until changing to motorcycle boots but again, these punk rockers are strictly against any form of commercialism. Joey Ramone was also usually seen wearing sneakers. And Sid Vicious? Dude, let's not even get there. Bummer. In summary, DM is one of punk movements choice of sole due to the fact that it started out as a working class boots and affordable in its heydays. The same principle applied to the early 90s alt/grunge scene, as an alternative substitute to army surplus combat boots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Unit type: Mass production tactical assault warbot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The third member of the Dirty Deeds finally arrives. As per its two predecessors, good QC overall, although again, due to its design, in time, I expect the paint lock to be worn away, and the ball joint becomes loose. Officially this bot is called Matthew, for reasons known only to 3A (usually it is someone whom Ashley Wood know or admire). But in my fan fiction write up, I call it based on the classic Dirty Dozen movie. As the fourth member drops on Bambaland for yesterday for the next 24 hours, each Dozen comes with standard machete, revolver, the three severed heads with additional different armaments. This one comes with an RPG. Again all fictional write up based on WH40K Wikia and Lexicanum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is the, I have lost count, Death Mask TKs and TQs of which 3A is now enamored with (instead of quickly wrap up the 7Bones, sigh), starting with the Heavy Slicer Death Mask. This is the Death Mask version of the TK Archer and the Last TK baby. Great QC, very poseable. The headsculpt comes with neck post so I can twist and turn the head instead of the standard TK non-existence neck post. The baby's head can turn easily and pop off. I wonder why it is in a canister. Looks good, if only Death Mask TKs and TQs are made more easily accessible (most are surprise, random drops or convention exclusives). I have sold off the DM Heavy Slicer recently, so it is a matter of time before this one goes too but depends. But it really looks good as I am personally inclined toward TKs or TQs with gritty and dirty feel. The figure also reminds me of The Lone Wolf and Cub manga. But the path to complete the Death Masks line would involves napalming my wallet. Flipperheads on eBay aplenty with Death Mask TKs and TQs. The only issue I have with 3A over this is that one of the four arrows are missing an arrowhead. Facepalm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This set comprise Tommy Mission and Lil Shadow. For Tommy, there is but little, subtle difference between the first version and this, not as much in terms of improvement like Fighting JC. The guyliner is more prominent, the skin tone more thorough, though, the ham fists still remains (which reminds me of a Zomb hand). No more sneakers in the form of a Converse but boots as well as no more AK jacket but a designer looking jacket. Both are nice but in my mind, Tommy is forever that archetype emo kid, with sneaker and the classic AK jacket. There is a rocket launcher but why would Tommy needs such a weapon, hahaha. The Hand of Fate is now a flesh tone severed hand instead of the original GID version. Lil Shadow shrinks, literally. Instead of the first version height, which looks just nice, this version makes her looks like a midget or a kid. The improvement is in the headsculpt which captures the feel of Lil Shadow better. But I wish she would be in the first version size. And the lack of AK jacket also bothers me as well as the dirty, literally caked in dirt original version hahaha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The QC is OK except for Lil Shadow. Like Oliver Applehair, the arm swivels are loose, the wrist joint is without a swivel ball joint, only a stick, for the lack of better wordings. This stick like thingy is extreme fragile due to either paint lock or too much pressure apply if one were to swap the hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Affiliation: LAPD Metro Division - SWAT Platoon (former); 101st Battalion - United Imperial Americana Army (former); mercenary (former); ESWAT - Olympus Platoon (current).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Abilities: Master military strategist and tactician; weapons specialist; above average martial art combatant; peaked human physiology; master marksmanship; photographic memory; multi-linguists; expert computer hacker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Late 22nd Century. Lost Angels City. Zone 8, "Tartaros". Deunan Knute, a formidable ex-SWAT and former Imperial Americana army commander, makes her way to see Erebos, the bellicose and tyrannical gangland leader of the zone. She is a battle hardened veteran of World War Terminus and prior to that a no nonsense SWAT Platoon leader of the LAPD Metro Division. Erebos knows her by reputation and like others, the fat cyborg takes her seriously. Deunan may be a human with no cybernetic augmentation but she possesses martial skills and peaked human physiology that could take out even the most well armed cyborg. In the Minotaur class cyborg heavily guarded office, Deunan asks Erebos the mission that he has in hand for her. Like many others, after the War has left her unemployed and now works as a freelance mercenary. Erebos needs some vaccines for a buyer from the mainland across the San Andreas Gulf. The vaccines could be retrieved from Asklepios, a defunct pharmaceutical company's manufacturing plant but still being heavily guarded by Centaur class cyborgs and war drones. Deunan hates Centaur cyborgs for they are difficult to neutralise, but the reward offers by Erebos is tempting. She and her partner, the cyborg Briareos, are in need of money to make their way to Olympus City for a better life as well as to repair the Hecatonchires System of Briareos which are rapidly deteriorating after being infected with virus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Deunan is famous for her fiery personality and a tendency to sometimes break rank, yet she is still widely appreciated and respected by her partners and colleagues for her professionalism and acumen. Deunan was trained from age of nine by her late father, Carl Knute, commander of the LAPD SWAT and later a Field Marshal of the United Imperial Americana Army, to be a superlative combatant and skillful strategist. She joined LAPD SWAT Platoon where she met Marcus Johnson, whom would later become Briareos Hecatonchires. Later they fought together in the 101st Battalion where she is commander of a company. During the winter campaign at the Holy Russian Empire, her father succumbed to the environment and died. Following the supposed death of Marcus Johnson, Deunan lived a life as a private military contractor or mercenary, travelling around the Europa Union and the Balkans, eventually ended up reuniting with Marcus, now known as Briareos during the Battle of New Neu York before settling down at Lost Angels City as nations fell and city states rise. Despite the collapse of the world as she once knew, Deunan held on to her principles and often helps the survivors of the War from emerging numerous oppressors in the form of terrorist groups, warbands and other mercenaries. Her principle is zero negotiation and fight fire with fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Having spent much of life dealing with intense battles and firefights, it's no surprise that Deunan is a specialist in weapons handling, explosive device manipulations and master hand to hand combatant. Her mastery in these skills easily surpass both males and females human, and at least equal to Briareos, despite his cybernetic enhancement and ability. A cunning strategist by nature, Deunan is capable of wiping out entire warband or terrorist group of sixteen or more individuals with ease. Even if handicapped with ineffective or insufficient weapons than her enemy at first, she will nearly gain tactical supremacy within ten minutes, applying conventional techniques such as ambush or moves entirely her own such as inverted assault. She has been described as cold, aloof and antagonistic to others, apart from those closest to her, such as Briareos. Deunan is a quick learner, believes to have photographic memory, multi linguist and a perfectionist, traits which driven her to become a formidable opponent. A feminist, Deunan is incredibly independent and a survivor. The post War societal and economic collapse with moral degradation makes her a feared and well known protector and liberator of the oppressed and weak. She possesses great knowledge in computer hacking as well as all areas of information technology. Nevertheless, the effect of the War has driven Deunan to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. After the event of Dies Irae, Deunan is recruited into the ESWAT, the elite special police unit of Olympus, where implants are performed on her in order to pilot the Mars class Landmate, as well as to augment her physiology, such as immunity system to ward off diseases and poisoning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Deunan possesses a pendant of which contains the gene seeds of bioroids. The pendant is presented to her by her late father. It is not until Ares, the Aegis class cyborg informed her during the Dies Irae Incident, that she found out the content of the pendant and the potential risk (or benefit) it contains. When she tries to pull Pandora back into consciousness and severe the link to Dies Irae, she founds out that Pandora was actually in total control of the Typhon class Titan, not the other way around. The bioroid shared with her that with or without Ares action, she would still bring pain and death to the world through the Titan, as the bioroid questions the point of her existence as well as other bioroids. Deunan could not stop Pandora from the nihilistic and world annihilation view. She was about to fire a bullet into Pandora until Briareos arrived to stop her, as doing so would allow Pandora's conscious to merge with Dies Irae. Instead Briareos erased her consciousness, causing her to overload, unplugged and replaced her in the cockpit. She is devastated at the supposed sacrificial death of Briareos for the second time when the latter overloads the twelve plasma core reactors of the Titan to self destruct. Nevertheless, Briareos survives and it would be years before they are reunited back in Olympus during the Bioroids Uprising. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is an OE figure which uses the much smaller body than their standard lineup. I primarily like this particular figure because of the configurations and weaponries it comes with. As Hot Toys does not come up with a Appleseed Alpha Deunan, which I think they should like what they have done for the Ex Machina movie, I interpreted this figure as Deunan, which of course are way off the real depiction. I tried abit to see if the Ex Machina headsculpt could fit but the neck peg is different altogether. All fan fiction infos derived from WH40K, Appleseed Wikia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Affiliation: SWAT Platoon - LAPD Metro Division (former); 101st Battalion - United Imperial Americana Army (former); mercenary (current).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Abilities: Cybernetic enhanced physiology; near superhuman strength, endurance, speed, dexterity; master military strategist and tactician.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Briareos was formerly Marcus Johnson, an African American working for the LAPD SWAT Platoon. He was the wingman of Deunan. During a mission to capture a local drug lord, an all out firefight occurred. Although the gang was neutralised, Johnson suffered from mortal wounds. He would have been dead if not for the experimental cybernetic programme initiated by the mega-conglomerate, Prometheus. Before Johnson, several hundreds of candidates had undergone the programme but ended either with brain damage or dead before leaving the surgical table. The programme is called Hecatonchires, a weapon system which allows the user to control any form of machineries via the hacking of their softwares. The most impressive aspect of this system is that it allows up to several thousands simultaneous hacking into the software, allowing complete control of any hardwares independently which include deceiving targets vision and create confusion. Any sentient being connected to the cyberspace is prone to Hecatonchires attack. But the setback is that the system is too advance, with such intensity that even a human brain capacity could not cope with it, leading to complete neural breakdown on each human candidates. However, much to the Promethean scientists and engineers surprise, Johnson survived the procedure. All forms of tests and experiments were conducted of which he passed with above average score. Over time, Johnson's entire body are replaced with Hecatonchires cybernetics, to the extent that he no longer resemble a human but effectively a full fledge armoured cyborg. The only organic part is a small percentage of his brain, which is relocated and stored within the chest section. He no longer requires any feeding like a human but instead is powered by an ultra compact arc reactor core which has the lifespan of two hundred and fifty years. He doesn't have any reproductive organ, making him asexual. His memories and personality are originally erased but the designers reload the two aspects back into him as a form of control and, to cushion any extreme negative emotions and confusions, a side effect of the Hecatonchires System, effectively giving him back his humanity. His voice is changed through the polyphonic synthesiser used but with the original accents intact. Briareos body is a full fledge super hardened ceramic plasteel alloy which protects him from certain projectile and energy beam shots with heat dissipation surface and coolant system. Underneath the armour are several kilometers of nano chips, fibres and circuitries which made up the Hecatonchires System, designed to emulate the full anatomy of a human being. However, a high calibre explosive tipped armour penetrating projectile weapon or a high powered particle energy beam would still inflict severe wounds on him. Briareos is not immortal but lives as long as the arc reactor is still functional. He could also dies from mortal injuries and cybernetic viral attack. Briareos has eight eyes mounted on his head, four on his face, two at the bases of the "rabbit ears", facing backwards and another two at the tip, allowing him to have a three hundred and sixty degrees view, eliminating any blind spot. The nose in the middle of his face is actually the Auspex System, a multi-spectrum scanner and autosensors which allows Briareos to see and target his enemies with efficiency and effectiveness. The system also allows him to see an enemy in stealth or wearing a cloaking device even within the most hellish and inhospitable condition. Everything from radar scanners and echo-locators to spectrographic sensors and electromagnetic detectors are used to paint an accurate picture of the surrounding terrain and location of enemy forces. Briareos can get an accurate target lock based on heat signatures, seismic activity, motor noise, communication signals, even a falling masonry knocked over by foes. His aural phones are sensitive enough to locate the distinct "wailing" made by cyborgs operating in high static environment while in a dust storm. It also contains the Signum, a communication system which allows Briareos to access a myriad of useful battlefield targeting data and pass that information on to his companions, allowing for a more accurate and coordinate fire, striking his target with deadly and inescapable coordinated precision. There is an artificial intelligence auxiliary computer within his head, which capacity and capability allows Briareos to make decisions with nano-seconds reaction time. It also makes him a capable military field commander with sound strategic and tactical abilities. It is said he could calculate an opponent reaction time and moves five steps ahead as well as performing self repair with optimum self efficiency. The greatest benefit of the auxiliary computer is that it is a self improvement and evolving system. Briareos would learn and improve from any form of experience or combat. With the cybernetic augmentation, Briareos has a near superhuman physiology in terms of strength, speed, dexterity and endurance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ares vents his anger at Erebos, orders his right hand woman, the cyborg Nyx, to shoot him with her Lapetos lasgun and the rest of his men. The gang boss survives though, and wanting vengence, unveil a Helios class super heavy tank. Akhilleus asks Briareos and Deunan to escort them out of the City of which they agree. There is only one route out of the place, which is along a mega highway litter with abandoned war engines, the dead and old pill boxes. Briareos, Deunan and Akhilleus begin to prepare and arm themselves with weapons. Pandora remains curiously quiet without uttering a single word, in a near catatonic like state. As their Humvee makes their way out along the open highway, Briareos and Deunan are on high alert. Suddenly Briareos asks Akhilleus to stop as the cyborg has picked up an immense object coming their way, effectively blocking them off. They stops and make way to hide within one of old pill boxes. Within few minutes, a super heavy tank smashes its way through a ruin. The Helios tank turns and faces the Humvee. Erebos demands Briareos and Deunan to hand over the duo. Briareos and Deunan refuse, and Erebos signals his men to fire at the Humvee. The Accelerator cannon evaporates the vehicle and destroys a portion of the highway. Deunan uses her RPG and shoots a Krak missile at the tank but it just bounces off the war machine. The tank scanners lock in onto the four hidden with the pill box as the turret moves, aiming at it when Ares and his men arrives. The Valkyrie class gunship begins firing at the tank but its metaplas alloy reinforced chassis is too strong and thick for the diamantine tipped explosive ammunition to make any considerable damage. Erebos orders his men to fire at the Valkyrie but it is protected by a void shield. However, the shield could only hold one more direct fire from the tank before complete depletion. Ares orders his men to aim at the atomantic arc reactor engine of the tank. The engine gives way and explodes. The gunship lands and Ares rips off the door hatch of the pill box. Briareos and Akhilleus lunge at Ares and engages him in a hand to hand combat. But both are no match for the Aegis cyborg whom deliver three successive blows directly at Briareos and Akhilleus vital points using the acupuncture pressure point technique, temporarily disable them. Ares then lifts up Briareos and smashes him violently onto the ground several times. Deunan shoots at Ares but the explosive tipped armour penetrating high velocity bullets just bounced off his ablative super poly alloy body. Deunan fights Ares but is defeated and captured, together with Pandora. Akhilleus grabs Ares but the latter hold onto the former's head and rips it off with one single swift motion. They then fly off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">When Briareos comes to consciousness after his system reboot itself, he find himself a captive of Erebos, who survives but his body and face are half melted. The gangland boss demands Briareos to tell him why Ares wants Pandora so desperately of which he denies any knowledge. As Erebos shouts and screams at him, Briareos simultaneously scan for Deunan and Pandora's exact location and pinpoint it fifty miles from the City near the San Andreas Gulf. Briareos shares what he learnt from Akhilleus memory database. Pandora is a bioroid sent by Olympus together with a team of engineers to destroy a Titan, war machines of mass destruction. Pandora has been designed with a neural sync software to activate the machine. However, en route, she was taken hostage by Ares who slaughtered the rest. Olympus then sent a team of their ESWAT special force to retrieve her but only Akhilleus survived and succeed in rescuing Pandora. Ares learnt about the war machine from Poseidon war archive. The reason Ares wants Pandora so badly is because of this, as the activation neural code is sync to a Typhon class Titan called Dies Irae. Ares intends to use the weapon of mass destruction to begin his so-called New World Order. He also holds Deunan captive, as Ares knows that the pendant which she wears contain the gene seeds which could produce hundreds of thousands bioroids. Her late father intends to produce an army of bioroids as backup plan during the Winter Campaign in Holy Russian Empire. Ares intends to do the same. Erebos refuses to have anything more to do with this matter and releases Briareos but banishes him from Tartaros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Nikolai Milvesky was in the Spetsnaz and ran a secret police wing for several years before the fall of the Soviet Union. Milvesky then becomes a mercenary for hire, working for a major Russian mafia group back by a powerful oligarch from behind the scene. Milvesky is a sociopath with zero empathy. He was an orphan but upon the death of his foster parents, of which the Moscow police investigators believe but without tangible proof that was perpetrated by Milvesky, he was sent to an orphanage where the constant abuse and poor living conditions forged him into currently who he is. A physical giant, Milvesky possesses a certain degree of cunningness and intellectual skills. Rumour has it that when he was recruited into the Spetsnaz, the training officer had him expelled to the icy coldness of the Siberian wilderness near the Artic Circle for a week due to an indiscipline conduct. Despite the extreme conditions, Milvesky survives and legend has it that he killed a polar bear with his sheer bare hands, which could be true as he has several severe scar tissues all over his body which matches the claws of a bear. This leads to his nickname, "The Ice Beast". He has a tattoo of a bear across his broad muscular chest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Milvesky manages the mafia's underground martial art games where participants fight to their death. He would personally participate in these games and enjoy breaking the bones of his opponents before killing them. It is in one of these games that he becomes acquainted with Alger, the only person whom could defeat Milvesky, thus earning his respect. As for Alger, he sees in Milvesky a great potential as an ally for his upcoming grand plan to destroy the Spades Family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">When Alger turns traitor and joins the Diamond Family as their Diamond 2, he seeks out Milvesky to recruit him into the group. Milvesky doesn't need much convincing as he sees Alger's plan to be perfect for him to exercise his ever unquenchable thirst for murders and mayhem. He is assigned as the 4 of Diamond. Together with Alger, and Juarez, the 3 of Diamond, they form a formidable triptych which would alter the power structures of the Four Families in the City forever. Although Alger is ranked the lowest, he would held highest authority and leadership over all of them outside the knowledge of Diamond K.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">After the severed hand of Spade 3 with a note that Spade 4 is being held hostage at a secluded cabin is sent to the Spades Family, Ada, the sister of Spade J, Ogier and herself the Spade 6, quietly discussed a plan to carry out a rescue and retaliation mission despite objection from the Spade K and the Ace of Spade. Regardless, the Q of Spade sees this as an opportunity to get rid of Ada, the daughter of Spade K and succeed in convincing Spade K to allow them to proceed with the plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The mission is led by Harry Muller, the Spade of 7, a veteran of the family. Harry, a former SAS, has a bad feeling that Spade 4 are already dead. And all this is a ruse set up by the Diamond Family to start a war against the Spades Family. What he wants to know is who the real perpetrator behind this. He selects twelve members for this mission, including Ada whom insists on proving her own self worth to the Family despite Harry's hesitation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">When they arrives at the cabin, the Spades take positions around the place. The Red Baron, Spade 5, takes up a sniping position which gives him a good overview and angle except for a second cabin. Six members lead by Harry approach the cabin. He has secretly modified the large case carrying the money. Entering the cabin, he sees Juarez, the Diamond 3 and two Diamond members. Harry puts the case on the table and unzip it, showing the Diamond 3 piles of dollar bills wrapped in plastic. Juarez signals one of the Diamond members whom whistle out to a nearby sawmill. Ada looks in horror as two badly mutilated bodies are carried out and thrown onto the muddy ground. Suddenly the Mexican draws out a knife and throws it at Harry who dodges in time. The Butcher then draws out both his machete and attempts to cut apart Harry but the Spade 7 has rigged the suitcase with a hidden shotgun of which he immediately open fire. The shot kills one of the two Diamonds in a cloud of bloods but Juarez dodges in time, the bullet only grazes his arm. The Diamond 3 engages Harry but could not match the former special force veteran of war. They parried for a split second before Spade 7 impale the Mexican with his own knife onto the table and then pushes the remaining Diamond against the wall, firing the mini uzi hanging on his waist. Juarez pulls out his injured right palm and escapes from the cabin. Members of the Diamond Family begins to emerge from their own hiding place and open fire at the Spades Family members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Suddenly a RPK machine gun is firing into the cabin. Harry sees a huge man hiding just behind the opposite cabin. He kicks the table down as cover as hail of bullets fly across the cabin. Spade 5 shoots down as many Diamond members as possible but could not get a clear shot against the hidden RPK machine gunner. Harry orders Spade 5 to cover Ada and retreats from the woods to an awaiting Land Rover. The Red Baron blood goes cold when he sees a trail of white smoke flying towards the cabin. 'RPG!!!' he yells into the intercom. Harry immediately jumps through the back window as the entire cabin explodes. He is thrown into the air by the explosion and strafed by wood splinters. One of the Spade members drag Harry behind a pile of woods. The explosion has ruptured Harry's eardrum, and bloods are pouring out from numerous wounds all over his body, arms and legs. The pile of wood begins to shatter and split apart as bullets from the RPK begins to fire non stop at it. The severely injured Harry could then see him. A dirty blonde giant carrying his RPK, pacing out from the smokes. He keeps strafing towards the woodpile, smashing it apart. The Spade member tries his best to return fire but could not get a proper aim. He empties his final clip. And so is Spade 7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Harry and the Spade crew have no choice but to raise up their arms and surrender. Although severely injured, Spade 7 struggles to stand up. He sees Milvesky. 'I'm all yours. But let him go,' says Harry to the Beast. A round of fire goes off at the Spade member's head and falls to the ground. Without a word, Milvesky throws away all his weapons and tosses a giant dagger towards Harry's feet. 'If you were to die, die as a fighter, <i>deduskha</i>.' Harry picks up the dagger and lunges at Milvesky. The Russian dodges the stabbing stance, grabs Harry and slams him onto the ground. He then breaks Spade 7's right arm and snaps the wrist. 'Get up. I know you got more in you than this. Despite the injuries,' Milvesky mocks Spade 7. Trembling with blurry vision, Spade 7 grips his dagger tightly with his left hand, calm and with a hint of smile, dashes toward Milvesky. The Beast dodges, but Harry delivers two deep cut onto the Russian's chest. But Milvesky is fully cladded in motorcycle armour suit. Spade 7 tries to stab Diamond 4 once more but the latter blocks it, slapped away the dagger and breaks Harry's left arm. Milvesky then delivers three successive punches across Harry's face. As Harry lies on the ground, Milvesky stomps onto his stomach, causing Spade 7 to vomit blood. He then hauls up Spade 7 and brings him down with all his strength, breaking Harry's spine with his knee. 'You disappoints me,<i> deduskha</i>. Now, you've my permission to die,' says Milvesky as he wraps his massive hands around Harry's throat, lifts him up and squeeze. The sound of neck breaking is heard. From afar, Ada's tears stream down her eyes as Spade 5 frantically pulls her away into the Land Rover as members of the Diamond Family close in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is the third Diamond members I got recently under DAM Toys Gangsters Kingdom series. It is caricature version of Dolph Lundgren, and most likely based on his role from The Expendables movies. He is wearing a motor cycle safety jacket, motorcyle pants and boots, and various weapons. The mis-interpretation is based on the write up on the box as well as a hint of the bad ass guy from The Equalizer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>I find your lack of faith in the Force disturbing.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>- Darth Vader.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>No, I am your father.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>- Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The blackest brother in the galaxy.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Name: Anakin Skywalker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Alias: Darth Vader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Affiliation: Padawan Apprentice (former), Jedi Knight (former), Jedi Master (former) - The Jedi Order; General - 3rd Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, Galactic Republic (former); Sith Apprentice (former); Sith Lord (current); Lord Commander - 501st Legion "Vader's Fist", Galactic Empire (current).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Abilities: Master force wielder; master lightsaber combatant; master military strategist and tactician; leadership; near superhuman physiology; genius level mechanic and engineering skills; multi-lingual. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Darth Vader is a very much feared Sith Lord of the Galactic Empire. He is believed to one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, Force wielder ever in existence. Vader's power of the Force is considerably stronger than even the Jedi Grandmaster Yoda and the Sith Overlord Darth Sidious or Emperor Palpatine combined. Physically imposing at nearly seven feet tall with cybernetic enhanced body, Darth Vader possesses a aura of fear and death to those in his presence. As a master Force wielder, Vader could bend steel or destroy an entire company strength Resistance force single handedly without lifting a finger. At one point he had been observed of bringing down a Resistance battlecruiser with his thought alone and tears it apart like paper. Several blaster shots could be stopped in mid air by him simultaneously and even deflect a particle cannon blast from a battlecruiser with his palm. Vader could read the mind of any sentient beings as well as control such individual thought and action. This ability extends to his capability of technopathy, of which Vader could control machineries, its functions or retrieve data stacks and softwares completely. He also possesses precognitive ability to foresee the path of a near future. Vader carried a master crafted custom lightsaber which he forged personally with blood red light. His martial art skills and swordsmanship are incomparable. Vader could kill or subdue an opponent within single move. He could control his lightsaber via the Force, throwing it at his enemy and guiding it with deadly precision. With his cybernetic enhanced physiology, Vader has a near superhuman physical strength, endurance, speed and agility in addition to his already impressive Force induced abilities. The armour and suit which he wears are essentially a customised non-removable life support system called Armour of Despair. It is composed of ceramic reinforced plasteel alloy over nano carbon weaved uniform and cape. He wears a master crafted helmet known as The Despoiler which are made from the same material as his armour over a mask, The Death Mask. The mask is incorporated with breathing apparatus, auspex and signum systems. He could even survive in the vacuum of space for an unspecified period and protection from harmful cosmic rays or extremely adverse environments. Vader is a skilled fighter pilot at a very young age, capable of executing extraordinary moves and maneuvering paths within his custom TIE Fighter. He holds the highest kill records as a pilot in the entire Empire. As a young child, Vader also demonstrates a genius level aptitude for mechanics and engineering. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Within the Galactic Empire hierarchy, Darth Vader is one of the highest ranking and senior military officers, directly answerable only to Emperor Palpatine or the Sith Overlord Darth Sidous, who also serves as his master. He is the Lord Commander of the 501st Legion, infamously known as "Vader's Fist". The Legion itself has a terrible reputation for effectively carrying out mass genocide on planetary scale against nations which do not comply with the rules of the Empire. Unlike other lmperial Legions which recruits orphans, the 501st comprises entirely of clone Stormtroopers, whom in themselves are incredibly effective and efficient with absolute loyalty to Darth Vader. Within the Legion there is the Inquisitorius, a secret paramilitary wing tasks with hunting down and executing rebels with extreme prejudice. The Legion is one of the most well equipped army group within the Empire, with its own navy fleet, which include the elite Death's Head Squadron and military ground divisions. Vader's military strategy and insightful tactical knowledges are impressive, leading the 501st to spearhead important military campaigns across the galaxy on behalf of the Empire to bring rogue nations into compliance with success. He is a natural leader, usually leads from the front line, inspiring to his troops but dreaded by his enemies. Otherwise he would coordinates the 501st Legion from his capital ship, The Emperor's Will, from within his command room. The Emperor's Will is a massive ship. It has seven hangars to dock Star Destroyer class ships, bays for TIE Fighters, troop drop pods and carriers for giant war machines such as the AT-AT. It is also equipped with a mega lance cannon, which is capable of destroying a planetoid size object with a single shot and powerful void shield as defence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Before he is Darth Vader, he was known as Anakin Skywalker, born to Shmi Skywalker on the desert planet Tattooine located at the remote Outer Rim Territories. His tale is one of tragedy, ambition and betrayal. According to the late Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi informed him that Anakin was of virgin birth. As a slave, she didn't have any physical intimacy with anyone but discovered her pregnancy unexpectedly. Initially Shmi feared she was suffering from some form of disease as her stomach grew bigger, only to realise she was carrying a baby when her owner forced Shmi to take a scan because she couldn't work in the scrapyard at Mos Espa. This was the time when the Separatist Force comprising the Trade Federation and Secessionist Movement were about to openly wage war against the Republic. Through a series of incidences, Qui-Gon and his Padawan apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, together with a young aristocrat, Queen Padme Amidala, were forced to land on the planet to replace the hyperdrive of a royal spacecraft after being attacked by a Sith Apprentice. The Siths were thought to have been extinct for ages. At the scrap dealer yard, Qui-Gon senses the strong presence of the Force within Anakin, then a nine year old boy. Measuring his midichlorians, the readings went off-scale. Qui-Gon immediately informed the Jedi High Council and spoke to Grandmaster Yoda and Jedi Master Mace Windu about his discovery. Grandmaster Yoda concluded that Anakin was a being comprised of midichlorians, born out of the Force. Qui-Gon believed Anakin could be the Chosen One as prophesied in the Jedi ancient texts and scrolls despite Yoda and Windu reservations upon meeting the young boy. The Chosen One's role is to restore balance to the Force, between light and dark. Upon the death of Qui-Gon at the hands of Darth Maul, the Sith Apprentice, whom in turn was killed by Obi-Wan, Anakin was recruited into the Order at Coruscant, the capital of the Republic. He became the Padawan Apprentice of Obi-Wan, who ascended to a Jedi Knight. It was later become more evident that Anakin possessed exceptional learning skill. His mastery of the Force and ways of the Jedi were exponential beyond anyone before. At the age of fourteen, Anakin had built his own first lightsaber said to be master crafted quality. He achieved Form V or Djem So lightsaber martial art technique at this stage as well as Jar' Kai, a method of utilising two lightsabers at once. These abilities and skills made Anakin overconfident, reckless, impatient and willful which later turned into ambition to seek greater power, despite Obi-Wan's efforts to train him as best as he could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ten years later, Anakin participated in the Battle of Geonosis against the Separatist Force led by a Sith Lord called Darth Tyrannus or Count Dooku where he proved himself to be an exceptional Jedi warrior. After the victorious battle Anakin professed his love for Amidala and later engaged in a secret relationship. Due to his actions in Geonosis, Anakin ascended to the rank of Jedi Knight while Obi-Wan became a Jedi Master. Later Anakin begins to suffer from visions of his mother's death. He travelled to Tatooine only to be informed that Shmi had been abducted by the Sand People. Anakin went to search for his mother only to find her dead body. In anger, he killed every single Sand People in the area, a massacre. The killings were felt by Yoda. The Grandmaster also began to feel a great disturbance in the Force. Due to the Separatist Force increased military incursions, newly appointed Chancellor Sheev Palpatine petitioned in the Senate for the formation of the Galactic Grand Army of the Republic with clone troopers. Shortly after the Clone Wars began, a terrible galaxy wide war. The Grand Army was led by the Jedi Order. Anakin was conferred the rank of a General, the youngest person to do so, commanding the 3rd Legion. He proven himself to be an able commander with charismatic tactical skills, winning many accolades and commendations. The two years war culminated in the Outer Rim Sieges and the Battle of Coruscant, where Anakin personally confronted and killed Darth Tyrannus and later, Supreme Commander General Grievous, leading to the defeat of the Separatist Force. Anakin ascended to the rank of Jedi Master. He received news from Amidala that she was pregnant. Anakin decided to inform the Jedi High Council about their relationship and decision to withdraw from the Order when he began to be plagued by a series of nightmares involving the death of Amidala during birth. Fearing the same thing could happen to Amidala as his late mother, Anakin became anxious with suspected borderline personality disorder. He found solace in Chancellor Palpatine, who advised him on a method of which one could avert even death. Anakin then realised that Palpatine was the real instigator behind the Clone Wars and a Sith Overlord. But Palpatine succeed in manipulating Anakin's ambition in pursuit of power and latent fear, particular Amidala's safety. He slowly corrupted Anakin, whom later fully succumbed to the dark side. As part of Palpatine's plan, Anakin informed the Council the true nature of the Chancellor. When Windu and three Jedi Masters arrived at Palpatine's office to apprehend him, the Sith Overlord killed all but Windu. The Jedi Champion prevailed over Palpatine and about to deliver the killing blow when he was stabbed from behind by Anakin. Palpatine then unleashed the deadly Doombolt upon Windu, throwing him out from the building to his death. Palpatine then initiated Anakin as his Sith Apprentice, for there can only be two. Darth Maul and Darth Tyrannus were his former apprentices respectively and now Anakin would take their position. Palpatine, who calls himself Darth Sidious, named Anakin as Darth Vader. Palpatine ordered Darth Vader and the 501st Legion to the Jedi Temple where they fought and slaughtered every single Jedi there. Simultaneously, Palpatine executed Order 66 of which the clone troopers turned against their Jedi generals and executed them on the spot. The Jedi Order effectively ceased to exist.The only survivors from The Great Purge were Obi-Wan and Yoda. After the massacre, Darth Vader was sent to Mustafar, the volcanic mining planet where the remaining Separatist Force leaders were killed. Palpatine then announced the New Order, declaring the Jedi Knights as traitors to the Republic, dissolved the Senate and installed himself as the Emperor of the newly found Empire. The Grand Army came under his control, effectively ending the Clone Wars. A heavily pregnant Amidala was determined to find out the truth about Anakin's betrayal and traitorous act. She flew to Mustafar and personally confronted Anakin who offered a twisted reason for his action. When Amidala pleaded Anakin to return back, Anakin attempted to choke her to death in his anger but was stopped in time by Obi-Wan. The Jedi Master and his former Padawan then dueled fiercely to a standstill but Anakin was defeated due to his overconfidence. His limbs were cut off in the ensuing battle by Obi-Wan and as he struggled in his anger to reach out to the Jedi Master, Anakin slid too near the lava and was burnt with fire. He screamed in agonising pain while cursing Obi-Wan in anger and hatred. The Jedi Master was devastated and left the planet as a demoralised man with an unconscious Amidala whom later died while giving birth to a pair of twins. Darth Sidious immediately went to Mustafar to retrieve Anakin who clung to life through sheer force of will, despite being reduced to a near unrecognisable heap of charred flesh and missing his limbs. The Apothecaries droids laboured over the remains of Anakin through seven nights and days. His entire scarred body was encased within a life support body suit and armour while his missing limbs were replaced with cybernetic arms and legs. When he regained conscious on eighth day, the first question he asked Palpatine was Amidala's condition, of which the vile Sith Overlord replied that she was killed by Anakin himself in anger. Darth Vader then screamed out in antagonising anguish, his power crushed every objects in the room while Darth Sidious retreats from harm's way, smiling. Bound to the machine, scarred and perpetually in pain, Anakin became a creature of hate. Yoda and Obi-Wan were the sole remaining Jedi left. Both decided to temporarily retreats into exile with Yoda going to the remote reaches of the Dagobah system and Obi-Wan at Tatooine, watching over the son of Anakin, Luke under the care of his uncle, Owen Lars and his wife, Beru. His daughter, Leia, was handed over to royal house of Alderaan, Bail Organa and his wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">For the next nineteen years, Darth Vader became the right hand man to the Emperor and primary enforcer. All memories of him as Anakin had all but deeply suppressed and forgotten. Vader gained infamy and reputation as a cold brutal lord commander with zero empathy yet incredibly effective in carrying out any military campaigns on behalf of the Empire. He effectively flushed out many Resistance whom the Empire called Rebels and destroyed them. Millions had died as a result of Vader's genocidal campaign. Together with Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, he overseen the building of the Emperor's Wrath, essentially a planet turned into a weapon of mass destruction. The first victim of the monstrous weapon was Alderaan, which was destroyed in a single blast from the particle cannon which draws its power from a nearby star, in the process killing its entire population of five billion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Princess Leia Organa, the sole survivor of Alderaan, escaped on a star frigate when she was intercepted by the Imperial Navy in pursuit. The Inquisitorius interrogated her, breaking her mentally and found out that the Resistance had the technical plan which could destroy the Emperor's Wrath, hidden within the droid R2-D2 of which escape pod had crash landed together with another droid, 3-CPO on Tatooine. The 501st Legion was sent to the planet to retrieve the droids. Luke, a young adult by then, obtained the two droids when they are sold to his uncle by the Jawas, He chanced upon a holographic message to Obi-Wan Kenobi, whom he knows as Ben Kenobi the Hermit. When he seeks out Obi-Wan, the latter shared with Luke what happened but withheld the information that Darth Vader is his father, fearing the same fate might fall upon Luke. The 501st Legion located the Jawas, interrogated them before killing them all. At the moisture farm, they killed Owen and Beru before burning down the moisture farm. An anguished Luke cries and screams. Obi-Wan observed that the surrounding sands alleviates. He then trains Luke in the ways of Jedi. During an attempt to rescue Leia by Luke and intergalactic smuggler Hans Solo together with his first mate Chewbacca, Darth Vader confronted Obi-Wan Kenobi once more. His former master held him off to allow the others to escape. Obi-Wan pleaded to Vader to go back to the path of light. Vader laughed sarcastically and engaged Obi-Wan once more but the Sith Lord easily overwhelmed the aging Jedi Master and killed him, thus vindicating his ordeal suffered on Mustafar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The 501st Legion tracked the Rebels to the planet Yavin 4. Grand Moff Tarkin intended to use the Emperor's Wrath to destroy the planet, vanquishing the Rebel Force once and for all. This resulted in the Battle of Yavin 4 of which the Resistance mounted an all out assault on the Emperor's Wrath with Darth Vader personally led the Death's Head Squadron to defend the superweapon from the Resistance fighters. The Imperial Navy initially prevailed, and the Resistance fighters were unable to fly pass the tight defensive weapons on the surface of the planet when an unknown Resistance pilot succeed in destroying the defence shield. Vader engaged the pilot, whom turned out to be Luke, and was about to shoot him down when a sudden disturbance in the Force distracted him temporarily, allowing Hans Solo to shoot his TIE Fighter, giving Luke a split second moment to shoot the vital core arc-reactor which destroyed the Emperor's Wrath and all its crew, including Tarkin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">When Darth Vader and the Inquisitorius located the Resistance primary base on the ice planet Hoth, he personally sensed the presence of the pilot whom had by then brought down two AT-AT during the assault on the Resistance base by the Imperial Army. Though Luke escaped after the capture of the Resistance base, Vader began to hatch a plan to capture him and his acquaintances at the Cloud City, a Tibanna gas mining colony on the planet Bespin. It was there that he personally confronted Luke. His latent memories begin to emerge but vague. Vader severely injured Luke, whom had not become a full fledge Jedi yet, and cut off his lightsaber holding hand in a one sided combat. The Sith Lord was briefly overwhelmed by disturbance of the Force once more upon seeing the blue sheath lightsaber which once belonged to him when he was still Anakin. Through sheer luck, Luke escaped through an air vent before Vader could strike him down. But when he reflected back on the event, the dark lord could sense that it was him who was hesitant to deliver the killing blow. The Emperor could sense in Darth Vader the emerging conflicting feeling and in a holographic message, reminded him not to show any remorse or mercy for such ways are nothing but weakness. Quietly, Darth Sidious began to feel fear of the coming of the son and daughter of Skywalker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Two years later, a second superweapon was built by the Empire, called the Imperial Death Star. Unlike the Emperor's Wrath, the Death Star was essentially a planetoid sized mobile space station with a self contained particle cannon. The Resistance, emboldened by their victory during the Battle of Yavin 4, began to make preparations to destroy this new superweapon. Meanwhile Luke, under the instruction of Obi-Wan before his death, had seek out Yoda on Dagobah. Under the Jedi Grandmaster tutelage, Luke became a Jedi Knight. Yoda died shortly from natural causes upon Luke completion of training. Luke became the last Jedi in existence. During the Resistance assault on the Death Star, Luke, Leia, Solo and a contingent of troops made their way to the moon of Endor to disable the void shield station defending the Death Star. At the station, Vader confronted Luke and engaged him in a fierce combat but was confused by the same conflicting feeling he experienced at Bespin and Yavin 4. The young Jedi experience the same feeling and opted to surrender. He sensed in Vader the presence of an unexplainable paternal relationship as well as the existence of light within the mass murdering Sith Lord, believing he could be redeemed. Vader captured and brought Luke before the Emperor himself at the Death Star. Emperor Palpatine was disturbed by Luke's presence. He then revealed to Vader the truth on the fate of Amidala and his twin children. The revelation perplexes both Darth Vader as well as Luke. Darth Sidious said that this would be the final stage to become a full fledge Sith, via the killing of Luke, his own son as well as offering Vader to take the throne with Palpatine as advisor. Vader shown a split second of hesitancy before drawing out his blood red lightsaber. Vader declared that he has no offspring and will tear the Jedi limb to limb in his master's honour. He seek permission from his master to release Luke for a lightsaber duel instead, of which the Emperor agreed. Vader revealed to Luke that the Battle of Endor was actually a ruse to lure out the Rebels in order to annihilate them once and for all. He wanted Luke to see with his own eyes the death of his comrades, friends and sister. Luke could feel a slight degree of redemption within the dark lord subconscious and pleaded with Vader to return back to the path of light. Vader became furious and lashed out at Luke with a mighty Force induced power which could easily flay a normal being and obliterate an object but Luke negated with all his strength. His nose however starts bleeding. Vader then engaged Luke in a brutal lightsaber combat and initially prevailed, toying with the inexperienced young Jedi, inflicting several non-mortal injuries on Luke. However he found himself increasingly being pushed to the fullest extent of his power by Luke. Both eventually fought to a standstill with everything near them being cut and slashed apart. They fought at a speed which normal human eyes would see as blurry, with application of both Force induced powers and lightsaber swords play. Anyone near them would be evaporated by the unleashing of the Force powers. At one point, Luke nearly slash apart Vader's chest but the Sith Lord blocked the lightsaber with his palm merely a few millimeters away as Luke pressed on with all his might. Vader easily pushed, bend and deflected the attack with such strength that Luke was hurled several meters away before landing safely. Luke then used his Force power to direct thousands of debris as shrapnels at Vader whom blocked it with Force shield. The shrapnels punched precisely at Vader with such intensity that sparks crackle with white heated light. With a mighty growl, Vader deflected all shrapnels away but Luke maneuver his lightsaber directly at Vader in split seconds. Vader stopped it mid air but Luke pressed on with all his might. The blue lightsaber inched on slowly with intense pressing pressure until it was about to stab Vader in the stomach when the Sith Lord repulsed it away. Luke succeed in grabbing his lightsaber but the shock wave hit him, causing him internal bleeding, coughing out blood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Emperor observed a subtle difference in the young Jedi's combat skills and usage of Force. He came to a realisation that Luke had been trained in the way of the Vaapad or Form VII, an extremely rare form of lightsaber martial art which involved the user skirting dangerously in-between light and dark. Also known as "The Ferocious Form", the only other user of this form was the late Mace Windu and Grandmaster Yoda. It involves unconventional methods and unpredictable styles of combat. Meanwhile the paternal instinct of Vader began to emerge uncontrollably. Luke sensed this and tried to reach out to his father once more but Vader continued the combat with greater intensity than before yet began to suffer from exhaustion having stretched his power to the limit. Vader then said that once he killed Luke, he will seek out Leia and turn her to the dark side. Luke, overwhelmed by sudden anger, unleashed a powerful Force blast so strong that the entire level of the mobile station vibrate. Although Vader negated it, the blast went through his body, cracking his armour and caused internal hemorrhage and cybernetic damages. Yet he stands. Both Vader and Luke begins a battle within the mind. In real world it is only mere seconds but in their minds, both engaged each other in a brutal combat, analysing each others weaknesses, if any. Then with a blinding speed, Vader strikes out at Luke who blocked the first lightsaber strike but as Vader raised his lightsaber aiming at Luke's neck, the young Jedi, eyes closed, blocked it for the second time. He countered attack and cut off Vader's lightsaber holding right hand. He was about to decapitate the Sith Lord but withheld himself under control once more. Luke also could not bring himself to kill his own father. The Emperor laughed sarcastically and lashed out Doombolt upon Luke whom blocked it with his hands but was overwhelmed, writhing out in pain and then subconsciously calling out to his father. Vader, wheezing with injuries suffered, began to be flooded with past memories of his former self as a once promising Jedi whom had embraced the dark side, allowing his own ambition and craving for power to corrupt him. Vader used every last ounce of his remaining strength to reach out at Darth Sidious, wrapping his left hand on the Sith Overlord's throat and lifted him up. The Emperor tried to scream but no sound came out from his mouth as the Doombolt lashed uncontrollably around them. Vader's cybernetic body began to crackle with sparks and burnt. He snapped Palpatine's neck and threw him out from the window of the throne room into the vacuum of space where the body of Darth Sidious shattered into pieces before the emergency blast shield shutdown and stabilised the escaping air and pressure. After destroying the Emperor's Will capital ship, the Corellian YT-1300 light freighter, the Millennium Falcon piloted by Solo, Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian led the remaining Resistance fighters deep into the Death Star's arc reactor core and destroyed it. As the space station superweapon began to disintegrate, Luke struggled to carry Vader to safety. At the escape pod bay, Vader coughed out bloods and asked Luke to put him down, requesting him to take off the helm and mask. Luke initially refused as doing so would kill Vader but finally relented, having felt that the injuries sustained by Vader were too severe for him to survive. In a temporary moment of calm, Vader saw his own son with his eyes, not through the lenses. He also looked into Luke's memory and seen Leia, his daughter. With tears welling and streaming down his eyes, Vader was no more and the persona of Anakin returned. Through his thought, he reached out to Luke and felt a great burden had been lifted as well as griefed with guilt. And with that, Anakin passed on and his spirit merged into the Force. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Undoubtedly, one of the most iconic and recognisable villains in cinematic history, this is the Hot Toys version of the Sith Lord whom first appeared in 1977, a long, long time ago, at a period far far away, based on the first movie but chronologically the fourth story or Episode 4 called A New Hype, I mean A New Hope in the epic space opera epic, Star Wars (which the third arc has begun, starting with Episode 7, The Force Awakens which frankly, mirrors the second arc storyline but then again no conclusion until Episode 9, which is still far, far away, long long time to go). The figure itself is great, taller than usual 1/6th scale figures, without any assembly unless of course if I wanted to light up the lightsaber of which I need to remove the right arm and replace it with another arm which can slot the batteries, or to activate the voice of Vader, and finally if I want the Interrogator Droid to be beside Vader. The droid is not necessary in my own personal view but it is a bonus. I ain't a diehard Star Wars fan and really dreaded the prequel first three episodes/movies. But how could one ignore Star Wars when everybody was talking about it, regardless whether they are truecore fan or just riding on the popularity bandwagon, so to speak. Star Wars, like Dune, are to me perplexing because I don't understand what the fuss is all about. Yes, admittedly it was a culturally significant movie in terms of special effects and what not but to me, that's about it. I would prefer Bladerunner over it anytime. Anyhoo, I do like the designs and I just couldn't pass on Vader. The mis (interpretation) is based on Wookiepedia and WH40K. </span></div>
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Fat Geckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06626852455522939953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654871496316679847.post-52768243142108198352015-12-16T00:40:00.001+08:002015-12-16T00:40:35.974+08:00ThreeA - Tomorrow Kings Noname Red Grenades.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">As mentioned in previous post, Noname TK did not come with the 4 grenades as mentioned in ThreeA product description. After contacting ThreeA CS, the 'nades finally arrives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Model type: The Tomorrow Kings GEN 3.5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Std. armaments: "Kenobi" - monomolecular edged katana x 1; krak grenade x 3; frag grenade x 3; laspistol x 1; lasrifle x 1; helmet x 1; auspex - multi spectrum and scanner x 1; signum - communication device x 1; Ion Cyclotron glove x 2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Stormtrooper Tomorrow Kings and Queens are a unique series of replicants. They are specifically engineered for Lady Sham in the Battle of Manchester. The ICG (Independent Countries Group) has agreed to the fee requested by Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation. Unlike the standard TKs or TQs, they are additionally programmed with military knowledge as well strategic and tactical skills. They are organised in accordance to the traditional military hierarchical structure. They take their combat to the heart of the Civic Defence Force and EMGY TRG with blinding speed and deadly precision. The Stormtrooper TKs and TQs are additionally armed with lasrifle, an energy based laser weapon widely used by the Frateris Militia and Frateris Templar of MARSA (Mars Advocate). The lasrifle is easy to produce and maintain. It is extremely reliable when used even in the toughest battlefield environmental conditions and very robust. It emits a high concentration of energy which could hit its target and vapourise it instantaneously in an explosion. It easily shear through armour platings and flesh. The lasrifle could be adjusted for a single burst or multi burst. They are good for up to 100 shots before power packs depletion and replacement. They also have lethality setting that adjust the damage of each shot to conserve energy. The lasrifle could be set to "overcharged", turning it into a explosive device. The resultant explosion could crack open the armour of a Large Martin or Heavy Bramble warbot. However, this tactic is used as a last ditch situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is 3A tribute to Star Bores of which the seventh movie by JJ Abrams would be coming soon (of which I am excited cos JJ Abrams did a great job on the reboot first two Star Trek movies). Under the Popbot TK banner line, it initially offered as exclusive in a convention (I forgot), the all white ones. Then for online Bambaland, four variants, two blacks and two whites with orange colourway. Options for "dirty version" or "clean version". I go for the former and white of course. Opinions are divided on the orange colourway but I like it. Comes with a number of weaponries. The figure is OK in terms of QC except for the moveable fingers like EDO. It is weak and pop out frequently while posing. I am so worried it might break at the joint one day if I fiddle with it too much. Otherwise no complain about this one. Fan fiction story taken from WH40K and Star Wars Wiki. Now onto the female TQ version of a certain infamous Sith Lord.</span></div>
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Fat Geckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06626852455522939953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654871496316679847.post-57537610866055945722015-11-30T00:20:00.003+08:002015-12-08T13:30:20.813+08:00ThreeA - Hex : Pumpkin Pi by Crystal Jade Vaughn.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Dark Elves or <i>Dokkalfar</i> are a race of harsh, warlike and vicious elves. They are the mortal enemy of their own kin, the Light Elves or <i>Ljosalfar</i>. In ages past, the Elves are once a united race comprising various clans and tribes. They are amongst the first sentient beings which come into existence when the world is still young. The Elves are similar to humans but with greater intellect, heightened sense of perception, physiology and closer empathy with nature itself. Physically, they are tall and lean, fair skinned with pointed ears and larger eyes. They have been described as one of the most enchanted looking race in existence. The Elves are immortal although they can be slaine or die of grief and weariness. They are immune to any form of diseases and heal rapidly from even the most grievous wounds as well as capable of surviving in harsh environments. The Elves built many great kingdoms on the young world which they eventually consolidated into a mighty empire, ruling over the other emerging races. They are also immune to any forms of magic attacks. But due to their heightened senses and keen sensitive mind, the Elves are successible to psychic attack and corruption from the Immaterium. Although Elves are way beyond a human in terms of speed, dexterity and strength, they are physically fragile. Famous adventurer and master of magic, William "Bleak" Mission once remarks that in theory, a strong punch could knock an Elf out cold, provided of course that individual could reach the Elf in the first place. When the forces of Chaos rampage across the world, lead by the mighty champion Belial from the Realm of the Ruinous Powers after the Chaos worshipping Fomorians summon a warp portal to open, it is the Elves that successfully defend the world and launch a counter attack against the foul beings, casting them back into the Immaterium through the warp portal, which is known as The Vortex of Ulthuan. They sealed it off with wards and enchanted spells. For millennia, the Elves rule over the other races, including the dwarves, the faeries and the firstborn humankind, the Hyborians. Eventually it is through their own hands that cause the collapse of their civilisation. Without any serious threats to their rule, the Elves become complacent, and through subtle corruption from secretive Chaos cultists of Ishtar, the goddess of pleasure and pain, lead them to indulge in extreme pleasure seeking acts of depravity and debauchery. These acts soon degenerate into excessive sadism through infliction of torture as well as murder. The boundless decadency of the Elves begin to empower further the influence of Ishtar within the Immaterium. Nevertheless a handful of Elves come to self realisation the degree of degenerative acts their own kins have fallen, and begin to distance themselves from the perverse practise. This group calls themselves The Eldar or The People of the Stars. They are soon joined by greater number of Elves. The Council of Phoenix, the ruling body of the Elves, having corrupted by the cultists of pleasures and pains, decrees the Eldar to be heretic under the influence of Chaos. They are captured, extensively tortured and executed. The Council also takes the opportunity to eliminate their political enemies through false accusations and executions without trials. These series of acts anger many Elves and soon the ranks of the Eldars begin to increase exponentially. Calling themselves the Light Elves, they begin to secretly make preparations to take on the Council and their armies. Three years later, the Elves Civil War breaks out, known as The Kinslayings or The Kin Strife. The war lasts seven standard years with victories achieve and defeats suffer by both sides. Finally on the seventh year, the Light Elves successfully break the back of the Council armies and utterly defeat them. The survivors scatter around the world but are hunted down. Without choice, they hide themselves deep beneath the mountains. Within the labyrinths of caverns, they carves out crude fortresses and buildings, establishing a city call Naggaroth. They comes across orcs and trolls whom they eventually enslave as well as forging an alliance with the lizard men. They face threats from the dwarves of Moria and skirmishes with them. Over the millennia, their skin turns purplish or bluish hue, and call themselves the Dark Elves. Then a Phoenix Overseer, Morrigan, is determined to exact revenge upon the Light Elves. She and her armies march out into the open, with hordes of orcs, trolls and lizard men. She also convinces the giant Fomorians, the Jotnar of Jotunheim and the Titans into an alliance with her. Under her banner of the crescent moon, for Morrigan worships Mani the moon goddess, she leads her hosts into six major battles against the<i> Ljosalfar</i>. A mighty warrior priestess, Morrigan slay twenty Light Elves champions and six Princes. During the sixth battle, known as<i> Dagor Nimaeth Amoediad</i> or The Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Morrigan decides on a final gamble. She gathers her sorceresses and attempts to unravel the Vortex of Ulthuan. As Morrigan and her coven begin the dark ritual, the mages of the Light Elves intervene, weaving a powerful counter spells. The resulting magical backlash causes the terrible cataclysm known as The Sundering, of which massive tidal waves several thousands meters high strike major Elven kingdoms, drowning millions of Elves and other races, submerging great parts of the continents beneath the sea, forever changing the facet of the land. It effectively ends the Light Elves as a race, with only a handful of survivors. Seeing the destruction, the Nine Sisters unite together and lead the other great Houses, including The Dagda of the Tuatha De Danann, Woutan of the Aesirs, Dyaus of the Olympians and Gilgamesh of the Hyborians to form the Last Alliance and wage The War of Wrath against Morrigan. She doesn't flinch. Instead she orders the Formorians to ambush the Tuatha De Danann amongst the green fields of<i> </i>Bru na Boinne<i>, </i>while the Jotnar engages the Aesirs at Asgard and the Titans assault Mount Olympus. The battle is so terrible that the world is thrown in utter destruction. Nevertheless, the Nine Sisters use all their might and Morrigan's defeat is so great that the Dark Elves and those under her banner are utterly annihilated. Morrigan and few survivors retreat back into the underworld of Naggaroth of which is protected by a powerful spell weaves by Morrigan herself. For the next few millennia, the Dark Elves are not seen nor heard of. They are a dwindling species, even though there are new born, the Dark Elves could never again regain back their former powers and glories. Their civilisation fall into despair, a primal like state. Morrigan becomes the Phantom Queen of Naggaroth. Having learnt of the Great Change, of which many of the first races which used to inhabits the land are no longer in existence or have gone to other worlds or dimensions, Morrigan focuses on exacting revenge on the descendents of the Hyborians, the current humankind. She has become mentally unstable by then, and her followers are extremely cautious of her fickleness and taste for sadistic, murderous inclination. This is partly due to her immortality as she has been in existence since the awakening of the Elves at the dawn of time. Her accumulated experience and knowledge are unparalleled, highly intelligent and outright devious with mighty combat skills. Morrigan makes Ishtar and Mani the primary goddesses to be worshipped by the Dark Elves, carrying out perverse rituals in their names. She is also an avatar of Khaine, the war god of the Elves. As such Morrigan is gifted with The Sword of Khaine, a master crafted Bleaksword made of nanocrystalline adamastos hyper alloy and contains the essence of the bloodlust god of war himself. It is an incomparably sharp and strong weapon, capable of cutting and slashing apart any physical object. She has also become a mistress of the dark arts of sorcery, capable of conjuring any forms of magic. Morrigan is extremely beautiful and she uses this to her advantage, manipulating and enchanting her targets, subjugate them to carry out her commands until she is bored of them, of which she would personally torture them alive, deriving pleasures from the sounds of their screams. When a herald of Crom Cruach and his entourage come uninvited into Naggaroth to seek her audience in her throne hall, Morrigan becomes agitated and simply cut apart the herald's head, severing it into half with a single swing of her sword. The entourage are killed on spot by Morrigan's own retinues. She then strips off her garbs and bath herself in the blood of the giant pumpkin head.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Anastasia Worthington is one of the foremost erotic practitioner in the world. She is an on and off again lover and sometime rival to Isobelle Pascha. A fellow nymph, she is a semi-immortal, capable of manipulating lust and pleasure upon a human. Also known as Red Bambi because of her natural fiery red hair, Anastasia is a dangerous individual. She would know no restrain when it comes to pleasure inducement. Contact with her would often results in the customers wasting away physically and emotionally. A mistress in the art of BDSM encompassing bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism, she is one of the most sought after ladies in The SXCLB, New Andria District 9 pleasure zone and the Kalifornication District in Pan Am City Two, United Americana. Anastasia favourite play thing she uses upon her customers are the "Lash of Torment". A normal looking whip which is bound with the essence of a Chaos daemonette she entrapped eons ago. The whip would induced unprecedented pain, follows by pleasure. It thrives on the pain and fear of the submissive, as well as projecting it around other individuals whom are within the vicinity. She also possesses the OMG, a magical anal plug/g-spot stimulator which is said to have been crafted by Aphrodite herself. It gives both her and Anastasia's customer unprecedented level of pleasure. Her customer would often ends up suffering from total physical and emotional breakdown. Anastasia would engage in debase, debauch and perverse rituals to appease Ishtar, the goddess of sexual love and pleasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">As the herald of the goddess, Anastasia is sometimes at odds with Isobelle Pascha, the famous herald of the rival goddess, Aphrodite. Yet, Isobelle does not disapprove of her methods, for nothing is deemed too excessive even for her, but Isobelle isn't too keen regarding Anastasia's ambition, particularly her fondness to entrap and enslave the rogue sexroid, The Nablers under her command. Nevertheless, they would join forces to ward off the Satyrs. They are rivals in the SXCLB, each competing with another much to the chagrin of the owner, the dhampir Elaine von Sydow, eldest daughter of Baron Seth von Sydow, governor general of New Andria. Elaine eventually resolves not to get involved as long as the profits keep rolling in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Model type: The Tomorrow Queens - GEN 3.0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ID: Irimi Natsu (<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">入り身夏)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Rank<em>: Nee-san.</em></span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Manufacturer: The Luthor Beans Jr. Corporation.</span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Incept date: 24th October 1994.</span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Longevity: 4 years.</span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Function: Close assault.</span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Physical level: A.</span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Leviathan 1. A planetoid sized, Craftworld class interstellar space ship originally meant for migratory purpose, is permanently docked at Site L7. The only one of its kind, seven was originally planned to be constructed. Its construction is never completed. Over decades, it becomes populated with humans, cyborg outlaws and rogue traders with a thriving black market. It experiences a population boom during the outbreak of The Great War. Having consumed so much budget to construct it, the Terra High Lords Council of Seven Nations decide to abandon the project and channel the budgets to the war effort instead. It becomes a derelict over the decades. But Leviathan 1 becomes an independent, self declared sovereign entity. The population there ensure maintenance of the life support eco-system within. </span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">In the mid-eighties, Queen Mortis awakens, a sexroid formerly known as Morgan le Fay, which is corrupted by a former Nine Sister, Morgause leading to the formation and threat of the Underverse, a real space-immaterium warp rift overlay situated on within part of the mainframe known as Camelot, signalling the beginning of a life and death battle between the human populations and machines, signalling the beginning of the Underverse War. A member of the Cognate Society, the <em>dhampir</em> lord, Luthor Beans Jr., through his company, begins to mass produced a form of superhuman replicants started by his late father, and bring it to the next level of biorobotic engineering, known as The Tomorrow Kings and Tomorrow Queens. By 1986, the first generation of the replicants begin their assault against the Mortis Legion machines. Terra mega conglomerates commercialise the War for profit, by calling it the Underverse Tournament. It also serves to placate Terra and surrounding colonies populations as well as to distract them from the reality of the economic and societal decay due to the ongoing proxy wars after The Great War. The government later agreed to the proposal that whomever wins would claim Leviathan 1 and recognise officially as a sovereign nation. It proves to be immensely popular amongst the population of Terra and even Mars which officially ban the broadcasting of the War, leading to many sponsors for the Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation and its affiliates for product placements, usually in the form of clothing and accessories which serves as the primary funds for the corporation. The Tomorrow Kings and Queens replicants initially gained much victory over the Mortis Legion, pushing them back and striking deep into the Underverse along the Rust Belt within the Great Waste just 100 miles from <em>Byssos</em>, the eye of the warp rift. </span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">But in 1994, Queen Mortis raised a new Legion which defeated many of the superhuman replicants, ushering in the Ten Years of Darkness period. The primary device which replicate the TKs and TQs known as the DNA Organ via gene seeding within the Hatcheries also begin to suffer from irreversible deterioration and repair which requires the Standard Template Construct (STC) datastacks scattered along the Waste. The deterioration also causes rampant mutation within the DNA gene sequencing of the replicants, causing the Interloper Effect. </span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Irimi Natsu is a third generation TQ. A <em>nee-san</em>, she is a leading navigator with close assault abilities, responsible for spearheading the Undernaut TKs and TQs together with another TQ <em>nee-san</em>, Irimi Fuyu, striking deep into the heart of the Underverse Warp rift to destroy the Mortis Legion's manufactorums as well as retrieving long forgotten STC datastacks. Both Irimi series are psychologically and physically modified to withstand the effect of the Warp without the need for the Undernaut<em> noh</em> gas mask. They are issued with teleportation homer beacon which sync with the Undernaut TKs and TQs when carrying out a mission. One of their greatest achievement is laying devastation upon a major manufactorum, Xena II and secure several key STCs near <em>Byssos.</em></span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">During a mission into the overlay, some of the Irimi series TQs were captured by the Mortis Legion, leading to the Queen Mortis corrupted version known as Irimi Hoaxers. They are easily recognisable with their Underverse mask but equally deadly and as dangerous as their corrupt free counterparts. </span></div>
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<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;" xml:lang="ja">Irimi Natsu is a deadly close assault TQ. Apart from being a master Panzer Kunstler, she possesses a unique sword technique known as the Swordfish or <em>Mekajiki</em>. Its basic is based on one of the six principles of an ancient Terra Eastasian martial art. It involves entering deeply around or behind an attack to defuse or neutralize the attack. Irimi would blend with or enter into an opponent’s attack to become one with the opponent’s movement and leaving the opponent with nowhere to strike.<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></sup>This movement is utilized during the moment of the opponent’s attack. To complete the movement, she moves out of the opponent's line of attack to the opponent’s blind spot. Executed with precision, Irimi can strike her opponent with great force, combining her attacking momentum and one's forward movement within split nano seconds through her dual <em>wakizashi.</em> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And here's another TQ from ThreeA. Never have had enough of them though. My only gripe is the "old school" box design so favoured by ThreeA. It is completely sealed with a single large piece of sticker wrapping around the box. To open it I have no choice but to cut it open.</span></div>
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