Hot Toys Iron Man Mark VI unboxing

First off left me say how relieved I am to finally get my hands on this truly epic collectable. Why would I be relieved? Allow me to explain:

I ordered this figure off ebay on Monday and the seller promptly sent it via EMS on Tuesday and for those familiar with international post you would be safe to assume my package would arrive at my doorstep by Friday but this was only half true. My package did indeed arrive in Australia on Thursday but there was one final obstacle - fucking Auspost. I was tracking my package all morning until I saw the unthinkable, my package status was delivered and signed. At this point I was literally going slightly ape shit but the smart thing to do was to go ape shit over the phone with Auspost. I got shafted to this constipated sounding guy who says they aren't responsible for anything sent to the wrong address and blame the sender for putting the wrong address - how fucking wrong, the address was right but I saw no point in arguing with that irate pos so I said the customary fuck you and hung up and then rang them again this time a woman picked up and they were much more cooperative she even "went out of their way" to help me locate where my package went. 2 quick mins later she realised that when it arrived at their sorting depot they inputted 2000 as the postcode and as we all know that's the fricken CBD. She assured me the fail courier would eventually realise no such address existed out there and send it back to the depot.

Fast forward to today 28/06/2011, 4 days after the expected delivery date, I was up early and camped my front door for the courier to arrive and if you guessed that they didn't show up you're right. Instead a postie zipped by on his bike to shove a "no one at home" card into my mail box without ringing my fucking doorbell. So I ran out there and confronted him asking where was my package and why the fuck would they give me that card if they don't even bother knocking on the door first. I quote "the package is at the post office you can go pick it up after 4". WTF!!! Am I paying them to do nothing? Your job is to deliver things to people and get there signature but instead we have a bunch of morons more worried about getting off work early. Mind you the more deliveries they go through the more they get paid and sticking a card into a mailbox means the same thing to them.

To summaries that wall of text? Auspost sucks. Auspost's courier contractor sucks donkey balls. The postie who works in my area - trying to remove his head out of his arse.

Now finally onto the unboxing =)

Came in a brown nondescript box which I threw away ASAP and inside was a nice layer of fun wrap

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Followed by a layer of the stuff you find inside shoe boxes

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Reason for that is because the outter slip cover is a shiny foil surface and believe me when I say that there are people out there who are willing to buy the box

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Window displaying the contents

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The production team

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The tray is fairly deep

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Comes with 2 display bases. The diorama base is nicely detailed and is very heavy

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Only 2 shots of it out of the box for now

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The figure is still very stiff but I'll spend some time fiddling around with it and then prolly throw up some more pics later.

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Continuing with Black.....

On the topic of black, came across this when I was walking to the station the other day.

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Don't know if you'd call it art or not, but I have trouble understanding whether its a picture of a black guy or white guy.

What made me even more confused was the line engraved in at the bottom. "Shock the monkey"

Heres what urban dictionary has to say about this line...

1. shock the monkey

verb, when a person (usually a law enforcement officer) uses an electronic form of non lethal force (usually a Tazer) on an African American, to subdue him or her during an arrest.

That nigger must have been high on crack; he kept fighting off the cops, so they had no choice but to shock the monkey!


2. shock the monkey

When a vibrator short circuits in an extremely hairy vagina, thus literally shocking the monkey. This is actually the inspiration behind the song shock the monkey as Peter Gabriel is an avid fan of this move.

Matt: Yo how was you're date with that chick?
Johnny: You know we were just makin out and shit then she asked me to go into the shower and shock the monkey, my bathroom still smells like burnt hair


3. shock the monkey

To Milk the prostate, utilizing a finger inserted into the rectum and the prostate physically manipulated to produce a more intense than normal ejaculation

He let his girlfriend shock the monkey last night. What a mess!

4. shock the monkey

When a redneck pees on a spark plug

Hey Billy Bob d'you hear bout Billy Joe. He done shock the monkey an nearly kill'd he'self

5. shock the monkey

(verb)
the same as shake the monkey but much much harder

Seriously girl, you really gotta shock the monkey before it drags you back to the German jungle.


6. shock the monkey

To have sex with an extremely ugly girl.

Speaker 1: I can't believe Nico is hanging with that girl, she's gross.
Speaker 2: haha, he's gonna shock the monkey.


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In other news, finally received employee id card, and attached to that, was this card as well.

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Promoting you're environmental policy by printing it on a plastic card. Great!
Its like printing "Stop using plastic bags" on a plastic bag, and handing it out to people.
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Now on the topic of green, feast your eyes on this

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Just a little prep work for the MG 00 raiser.

As some of you may remember, I covered a bit about the HG 00 raiser in a previous post

Today, we'll have a look at the MG.
So far, we'll be looking at the inner frame of the kit.
Next to MG exia

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Compared to the exia frame, which was quite sloppy and loose even oob, the 00 frame is nice and sturdy.

Theres also a lot of improvement with articulation.
For starters, we'll have a look at the torso.
Exia torso has very limited amount of roll for either side.

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The 00 frame almost doubles the range of roll movement

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One of the strangest parts of the exia was also an incomplete frame.
Being one of the more modern bandai MG's, the exia's legs had a few problems.
As you can see from the following picture, the parts which are separated aren't actually attached together properly, and can fall apart without armor holding it together.

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Given that we know bandai can make full inner frame kits, eg Zaku 2.0

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there shouldnt have been any reason as to why they couldnt make the same for a newer kit.

Thankfully, the MG 00 has it all.

Range of leg movement for MG exia

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Range of leg movement for 00

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Arm movement also excellent

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Now back when I did a quick review of the HG 00, Sum was complaining how robot yoga looked weird. So heres a bit more, with the MG instead. ^^

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Oddly enough, the MG cant strike the God gundam pose with legs crossed while standing.

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But then again, REAL men stand with their legs apart.

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Inner frame of the O raiser

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Full frame of 00 raiser

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Well, thats the review of the 00 frame out of the way, next post would be with the armor attached.

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Black?? That's racist!

New car arrived this morning, and I've taken a couple of pics. Won't say much else since they're self explanatory.

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Chinese food

Well, it has been a while since the last post.
Today's topic. Oddly enough its something that we dont often talk about at 4PAK.

Chinese food.

I dont know whether its because most of us are Chinese and we often overlook our own culture, or whether we just dont find it interesting enough to talk about.
Either way, heres a post of a typical Hong Kong style dinner.

When you first sit down at the table, they often put a little plate of deep fried peanuts, or pickled vegetables. This small refreshment, or as the Sweds like to call it "Pre Dinner Snack", is useful for white people such as Cameron to practice their chopsticks stills.

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What also comes as standard with a Cantonese meal is the soup. Soup of the day happens to be water spinach, pork bone and carrot.

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Unlike eating at a Western restaurant, you dont really get to pick the soup, since 1- its doesnt come from a can, and 2 its free....now cant really complain about free food can we?

Now moving onto the main part of the meal. Because we had a white guy, and a Filipino who didnt know how to hold chopsticks, we kinda stuck to a pretty standard chinese dishes catered for white people.

Entree. Deep fried pigeon. Funny how people are more willing to eat the arse of the pigeon but not the head or the neck. Is it because of looks i wonder???

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Mongolian Beef. Served on a hot sizzling plate. Again, another dish which was designed to impress white guys.

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Another dish that would us asians roll our eyes. Sweet and sour pork.
Just about any white guy is guaranteed to order this dish at a chinese restaurant.

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Now to balance out all the meat, one would need some vegetables in their diet. So we got a tofu pot, which was supposed to have veggies in it.
Turned out that the greens were all the way at the bottom, and there was still more meat than veg......at least the flavour was ok.

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And to top off the traditional white person's chinese dinner, fried rice...
To make things a bit different, we ordered the Fujian fried rice aka Fukin Fried rice (written on the restaurant menu)

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Now to wrap up this post, lets play a little game.
Cameron's new car has the following numberplate. BFA- __M.
How many 3/4 letter acronyms can you guys come up with?
I'll start off with a 3 letter one. Boy Farting Air

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