Amiami got some Mythra stock in (the 1/7 scale figure), and I managed to get an order in. Wanted her for a long time, so I'm happy. Wanted Pyra too, but she was out of stock.
For those that don't know, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 characters.
EDIT: Finally arrived! Hopefully I'll be able to get Pyra someday too.
Finally made space for my reclining Buddah, and opened up my sealed Ken amiibo 😬 to make this scene possible:
I also went through a bunch of street fighter games to find the correct colour Buddah to take a screenshot of (to show why I am trying to make this scene 😅), it was the last one I tried. Good job I have all these street fighter games on switch! Also, sending pics from switch to smart device is a total ballache:
I've also put most of my amiibos and other trinkets in a display case that I bought recently. (I actually opened up a sealed Snake amiibo 😬 to take this photo). I don't even neccesarily want this lot on display but I have to put it somewhere. These are the ones I don't want to get rid of, everything else has been sold or is currently listed on ebay.
These are my remaining sealed amiibo that aren't being sold. Yes I did buy two Snakes, one to open and one to keep sealed 😅. Just took me a few years to actually open one of them!
@RogerRoger you always ask me questions that have long answers that you probably don't expect! 😅😂
So the story of the Buddha.
It begins many years ago with the game Breath of the Wild. I loved the game and obsessed over it for many months, 100%ing the base game. You can scan amiibos into the game for goodies but each amiibo is only scannable once a day. During that time, I bought tons of discount amiibos from shops, anywhere between £3-10. Most of them are up for sale on eBay now though! My cabinet above is basically what's left. Anyway, Ryu was one such amiibo.
Fast forward some time to a family event at my uncles. I see he has this reclining Buddha on a shelf. My immediate thought is the Thailand stage from SF2 so I take a photo and Photoshop Ryu and possibly Sagat into it. I begin to desire this Buddha, wanting one day to make a diorama using my Ryu amiibo with it. But surely I can't ask my uncle for to hand over a decorative piece from his house. Where would I even put it?
Some more time later, the Ken Amiibo gets announced and I buy it because I still have this idea for a decorative scene in the back of my head. Ken isn't Sagat but he will do. It's nice to keep them both as amiibos right?
But I'm still too shy to ask my uncle for his Buddha. I start dropping hints to my mum that maybe she should ask for it for me. (She loves asking for junk and trying to give away her junk to other people)
So I moved in Dec 2021, maybe I'll have some space to make this scene possible? I find out during early 2022 that my uncle is refitting his kitchen to make it open plan with a dining area. The area knocked through is where the Buddha was displayed. I ask my mum to kick it up a notch, make a formal request for the Buddha itself. I received lots of pictures of Buddha's that my uncle had but none were the one I remembered. Lots of sitting buddhas but no reclining/sleeping buddas. I despair, perhaps the Buddha has been put in a skip during the refit!
I visit my uncles at some point still in early 2022. As I'm sitting down, I spot the reclining Buddha from afar, tucked into the back of an old TV unit. I don't say anything but later I tell my mum where it is and at some point my uncle drops it round to my mum's house. I go home to pick it up and it looks massive! Omg, where am I going to display this thing?!
With my dream so close, I start looking for other reclining buddhas but they are surprisingly hard to find. I've seen tiny ones for sale online, I checked in random stores whenever I'm in a new place, not a lot of luck.
Then I decide to rearrange some furniture and buy some new furniture. A space emerges. I go back to my mums, pick up the Buddha, open the Ken Amiibo, arrange it all and the picture above is the outcome!
It actually all worked out well to be honest because it looks like the Buddha is the exact correct proportions for the size of the amiibo!
Wow what an adventure you went on to acquire that buddha @ralphdibny!
Found that line of "desiring the Buddha" quite ironic considering what he's supposed to represent and Buddhist beliefs in general but either way it was a great read and gave me a good chuckle this dreary Wednesday afternoon 😃
Left this little beauty in the basket on Insert Coin and randomly returned to it a few days later to find it had been reduced to £2 in a Kojima Flash sale! My jacket is very happy 👍
@AgentCooper Noice! I keeping meaning to get some, but it always skips my mind. I do want to get a few though, as I may be going to an event later in year and it could be cool to have them on something like a baseball cap or rucksack.
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@JohnnyShoulder I’d advise jumping on it sooner rather than later, Insert Coin always seem to have built in scarcity on pretty much everything except N7 flip flops 😂 love the build quality of their products though, I’ve had a peace walker cap for over 10 years and despite bit of general wear to the colour in places and wearing it practically everyday still looks and functions great.
I got that recently, for a knock-down price on ebay. Witcher 3 figure in the post now too, bearing in mind it may get lost in transit, rare I know, but does happen.
Soul Hackers 2 arrived last night and it came with the art cards which was nice.
Not sure if they were a limited print/first edition run sorta thing but... Soul Hackers 2 didn't exactly sell all that well so... You can probably still get them.
Some tat is better then no tat right?
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Not in the slightest @RogerRoger. Well tell a lie I was interested back when it was first introduced as Project Athia or whatever it was called.
And then it got revealed with the whole other world aspect and... I unfortunately can't get over the character dialogue. Gameplay doesn't look all exciting either sadly.
I hope you enjoy it though!
Woof that sounds way too expensive for what it has. If there was/is a steelbook only option that might be nice. If you like those of course!
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
I don’t really collect stuff related to games because of money and space, but I still have this D.va Funko pop from a few years ago when I used to go crazy about Overwatch, but if I am being honest, I really am not a fan of the way Funkos look. Me and my siblings also have a couple of amiibos. If books and comics count, I used to have the first volume of the Splatoon manga but gave it to my cousin so she could complete her manga collection.
As for things I’d like to have, I do want to get a few plushies, though maybe only two since some places just make them pricey. I really want to get plushes of Banjo & Kazooie and Conker and saw that Fangamer has cute and high-quality plushes of them, but I’m sure I would get sent into debt if I bought them lol, so I need to either wait or find alternatives on Amazon that are inexpensive and good quality, so I’ll save up a little before looking for some. I also possibly want a Banjo & Kazooie amiibo, but I also need to find inexpensive listings online.
@Malaise what came with the Witcher 3 CE that you missed out on?
A lot of games I've ended up really liking I've played way after release, so collector's editions have never been on my radar, and I don't particularly like a lot of clutter anyway. I always appreciated when games had a well made map and manual included though, and part of why I found it easy to move away from physical games is because barely anyone bothers to add anything to regular releases any more, just a piece of paper with a website printed on it and an empty box these days.
I'm going to copy this across here for anyone interested.
This is the KCD larping sword, It does look pretty good quality for a bit of moulded fibreglass and foam 😛
I am a little tempted to go for it, but real 15th and 16th century sword replicas can be forged from steel for not overly excessive money too, and they look so goooood
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