Weekly Wrap Up (2026.08.22)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.08.22)

I made myself no promises for Blaugust and I still feel like I am failing at it. I started kind of ok, couple of reviews each week, a post on a random topic, this weekly post. But I already "missed" a couple. There was a time when I had dumb high hopes, maybe I still do. I am a big fan of themey days, even if they are not explicit. In an ideal world each day would have like two posts minimum. Monday - Movie, Marvel LegendsTuesday - TransformersWednesday - Video GameThursday - Non Marvel/Transformers ToysFriday - Music, Star Wars…
Transformers – Swapticons
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Transformers – Swapticons

These are all very samey and I am unlikely to ever get anymore so I am just lumping these all into one ball of commentary. Transformers often has these sort of weird sublines going where the characters have some sort of gimmicky style. This one in particular is pretty odd, and way less interesting in any combination with anything mainline. I feel like its part of why it didn't seem to do great on sales. Basically, these are very, "you've seen one you have seen them all.". It doesn't help that this particular gimmicky style is kind of ugly. Initially…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.08.16)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.08.16)

Its the third week of Blaugust. I think. I have not really been keeping track honestly, I don't really care about "theme weeks" this year. I got a new car… for work. Its not, my car, but its my car to use. Its nothing fancy but it has some "fancy stuff" I have never really used before like lane assist and Android Auto. Too bad the bass sucks on the stereo. My music sounds so weak ass. Its not the EQ either, I checked that. Its convenient, but also it has all these work rules and monitoring, which is a…
Mini Brands Vinyl Player
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Mini Brands Vinyl Player

So it seems both of the major mini items companies have put out similar record player style minis essentially at the same time. Each has pluses and minuses, based on what I have read. I only have the Mini Brands one here, though I might consider the Miniverse one as well. Based on my research though, the Mini Brands one has a wider selection of mini records available, the records are slightly nicer, and it doesn't need batteries, instead it recharges via USB. I believe its slightly larger overall, so the Miniverse would probably scale better with 1/12th figures. Speaking…
Transformers – Red – G1 Megatron
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Transformers – Red – G1 Megatron

File under, lines I forgot existed. For a brief bit, Transformers had a line called Transformers Red, they were basically, action figure versions of characters. Without an alt mode, this allowed them to be more accurate to the cartoons. They looked alright, especially for some of the designs like Prime Knockout that don't translate super well to actually transforming toys. But I like Transformers because they… transform. I'm honestly not SUPER into any of the specific shows, more the engineering to transformation. So I forgot about these even existing, I think a lot of people did. I was in Ross…
Building a PiGrrl 2
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Building a PiGrrl 2

Back in the earlier days of the Raspberry Pi, there was a project going around called PiGrrl. It's of course, a play on the name "Game Boy". It's essentially just a Raspberry Pi in a GameBoy like housing. I built one back in 2021. I don't think I ever really posted about it because beyond building it, I never really used it much. If anything this is a bit of a discouragement to anyone else looking at a similar project. It never worked real great, and shortly after I just, bought a Retroid Pocket 3 which does, basically the same…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.08.08)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.08.08)

Welcome to Blaugust week 2, which conveniently just lands on these Saturday Weekly things. This one is much more akin to "normal activities" for these posts. I've pretty much recovered from last week's illness issues, the worst part of all that is not feeling like, sick sick, but still feeling lethargic and tired. Because then it's all just, being super aware of everything you're not doing. Other than that not a lot of excitement. We got some quotes for replacing the roof, they were in the expected price range. I also have been contemplating some work related changes that I'm…