BotCon: Another Year, Another Underestimate

It's truly insane that, a mere six or so days after registration opened, the boxed sets and loose sets allocated to non-attendees have sold out.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but limiting the number of sets per registration to one is unprecedented.

This year's production run is higher than last year's? Really? And it's selling out quicker (only two figure previews are officially available so far, with a couple of others knocking about if you know where to look)? What on earth was the production run? Can't have been that much higher, as the folks behind BotCon are well known for slow processing of (faxed!) registration forms.

It's also amusing that many 'fans' are complaining that molds from the Unicron Trilogy are being revisited again, despite better being available... So who's buying these sets?

I'd have to agree that Kup (based on Cybertron Red Alert) looks terrible and doesn't suit the character at all (plus, let's face it, the recolour of Brakedown was basically a homage to Kup)... but Scourge from Cybertron Sideways is genius. Sure, they've used the mold with its original head as a Universe Ratbat (before he became one of Soundwave's cassettes, I presume), but it's a cool mold and not desperately overused like Cybertron Hot Shot, or Clocker.

I may well try to obtain Scourge from eBay (if no other source presents itself)... As for the rest, we shall have to wait and see.

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Let's just call it done

The kitchen, I mean.

I've painted all the fiddly bits that have been bugging me since I completed the bulk of the painting. It's not perfect. Some of it isn't very elegant... but it's my kitchen and, frankly, considering it's my first room-painting project, I think it looks pretty good.

Work wasn't great. Had a couple more emails come through about web stuff that wasn't done by the web guy before he left (yet again I applaud the genius who let him go two and a half months before the end of his notice period). One was from the MD, who wanted to "set the alarm bells ringing" over ads that haven't been uploaded. Considering web guy got paid more than my boss, and I'm being paid an extra £250pm for this gig, without any training thusfar, I think they can all go stuff themselves.

Once I know how the systems work (assuming there are systems), it should be reasonably easy to pull it off...

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Briefly...

Because I'd like a reasonably early night before work tomorrow...

Being Human finished tonight, but I'm fairly confident it'll be back for series two later in the year (or maybe next year... who knows?) suitably climactic, but unfortunately employed perhaps a little too much deus ex machina: the ghost of one of the people kept in the 'larder' at the vampires' stronghold suddenly turns up at the house and transports Annie back there... only outside, so she gets the opportunity to use her newfound poltergeist powers (suddenly completely under her control). One bad guy out of the way for good, but hints of more to come. Last, but not least, strong indications of a new member to the 'family'... whether she likes it or not. For all its flaws (more in this episode than the rest of the series?), it's still brilliant television, and superlative genre television, without anything like the strained efforts shown in the likes of Demons.

Didn't get everything I wanted done at the flat. That final bit of kitchen painting is really turning into a millstone. Figure I'd better pop over there after work one night this week (shouldn't be too tricky a week, to be honest), rather than let it drag on... as I just have this weekend.

Coffee table was a trial. Kept putting the wrong parts together, and was only rescued from utter failure by the wire coathanger my folks have been using for various things. Of course, having filled the drawers with DVDs, I realised that it'd be a better home for the Saturn, so it's always in the lounge.

Spent the rest of the weekend lazing around, watching videogame walkthroughs on YouTube. Some are very entertaining... Look out for "Let's Play..." playlists.

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