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!
@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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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
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.
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
When it seems you're out of luck.
There's just one man who gives a f*************ck
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@Malaise@Ravix The one and only super expensive collectors edition I got was for Elden Ring. It would need to be something really special for me to fork out that much again.
I got a few smaller editions previously, the ones I remember is the first DLC for The Witcher 3 which game with physical gwent cards and board. The other one was for Life is Strange with game with stuff like the soundtrack on cd and Max's diary. I don't think I have any of it anymore though.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@JohnnyShoulder yeah, I'm only going for the KCDII one because KCD is a game that resonated with me, and the collector's edition isn't too gamey.
The witcher one does look nice, part of my recemt sword swooning has been looking at actual steel witcher swords too 😅😅 Totally justifiable, right? Right?! I think some of the only game merch I own is a giant Witcher bound comic collection tbh. And it's too heavy to read that often 😂
When it seems you're out of luck.
There's just one man who gives a f*************ck
⚔️🛡🐎
I got a some design works books for Dark Souls 1, 2 and Sekiro. They are really cool and I would like to complete the set, but they can be hard to come by these days.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@Ravix are you posting about getting or did you not get it yet? Either way this is pretty cool 😂 😂 not a Witcher watcher myself but I have to acknowledge a gorgeous tat when I see one 😍
Like it says in the book, we are blessed… and we are cursed.
What ******* book?
@Yousef- in this thread: tat is UK slang for memorabilia (a direct translation would be "rubbish" "stuff you buy but might regret" that kind of thing, but in a non derogitory, but slightly self depricating way) and I'm thinking you thought I meant tattoo by your response? 🫨🫨🫨 or have I misunderstood 😅
Although people do have some good Witcher tattoos, but in this case, just the bag will do for me 😛
@Ravix ah ok ok then it’s my dumb a$$ that misunderstood the slang, 😅 my bad my bad I thought it was a word for merch but everything’s crystal now so it’s aight 😂
No I didn’t say anything about tattoos at all I just thought this was a really cool bag thas all 😂 😂
Like it says in the book, we are blessed… and we are cursed.
What ******* book?
@Yousef- never mind, I misunderstood you 😅 "a gorgeous tat" confused me, as we say tat, but not "a tat" for merch/crappy gimmicky stuff, but "a tat" is very much a tattoo 😂 And then I thought, maybe the pics didn't load. I'm not on the best form today, and I feel our wires have gotten crossed a few times already, and i'm misunderstanding you haha.
You love language, though, right? and I'd just been thinking how weird English is anyway, mostly because of this and me thinking i had to explain what I meant when it was me that wasnt sure. English is just full of slang and idioms and spoken by idiots, and sometimes i'm not certain whether i've over done it 😛
Just ignore 90% of all that then. And yes, I got the bag, and i'm pondering what else I "need" now
@Ravix so you’re saying i not only goofed up linguistically, but c*caked up grammatically to boot, I really losing it today 😂
Thx 4 further clarifying it thoug, I can see how that extra c0ck up made everything worse 😂 😅should really do my homework next time but i always say hw is for losers and that real world experience is preferreebut maybe I’m wrong 🫨🫨 😅
Course i do! Languages do be silly, and I like silly, I’m silly, idioms are silly I love them 😂 and this convo so far has been nothing but pleasantries for this silly bloke 😂 😂didn’t think you over did mate
Glad you actually got that bag tho it’s cool as hell!
Well, hell isn’t “cool”, but Y’know 😛
Like it says in the book, we are blessed… and we are cursed.
What ******* book?
well, I hope it is, unless you're also just hammering away at a phone while not really concentrating fully on the forum and what you're saying, like me, and hoping the spell check does it's thing by the time you're done, and thus some semblance of logical words, or even full sentences, come out by the end 🙃🙃
This is me mocking me, btw. I'm genuinely not following anything well today and can't write for shiiiiiit most of the time 💀
Back to tat, that's where it's at 🤪
Anyone know the best place to buy film and game inspired swords? 😂
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