Wednesday, December 22, 2021

So Much Stuff: Nearly Christmas Update

A holiday update where it is time to complain and explain?
Skip the start to get to the site news faster. 

Aaaas you can see, the timely updates didn't stay that timely.
Hopefully maybe that stays fixed now that the holidays are kind of right around the corner. With the 'boom ban' seriously far behind now, it also suffered from some overwhelm where there's just like..floods of stuff coming in, tons of emails that just like...point to a site but then it has like 20 things on it and then "oh heres this item" and then.........it doesn't say where it's from so I have no idea where to put it and it starts the back-and-forth with whoever sent it and drags out everything even longer. Stuff gets lost in the image bins because it's under heaps of everything that came in faster and there's no time to put it all up. 

*You DO have to go and grab images off of sites like...right as soon as you learn about them because too often stuff gets taken down/just disappears so using the time to go grab it all has to be done asap/supersede actually doing the site or it'll just get lost. (A TON of Australia stuff was lost that way) What's worse is those sites where the image has like some kind of stupid 'zoomer' on it that activates when you hover the mouse so you can't click n' save the image you have to prnt scrn then paste, then flatten, then crop, then resize, then save for web/save. Faaabulous process. 

To help with all this, it's 'tee time'.
With companies like Jumping Beans jumping in, as well as Bio World reactivating tees are never in short supply, so for the holidays (at least the start) a whole extra update worth is JUST tees to help clear them out and get them posted while they're still relevant. 
If home decor continues on the trend, I'll end up doing it again with that. I'm trying to wrestle the site back into good condition/update as well as not be terrible. 

Site Email:
It's not kept up with well enough either so if you sent something...it'll get done but the email is also super behind on responding and doing. I also aim to fix that and then clear out the oldest stuff from like months ago that keeps getting buried under like (somehow) 4 new pajama sets every week. 

Item of the Week:
E 123Omega Figure
Gotta be this one! Sure the apron is a 'first thing', but actually getting a good looking figure for another game character beats almost anything. He's an odd choice for them to select after having done Amy because Rouge is arguably more popular than he is, but also Rouge is a girl and "Girls are bad" is what action figure makers always say while somehow never discovering that that is total lies. So then what about Espio or Vector or somebody? They're probably about equal to E Omega, or maybe a little more-so. (Blaze is more popular too but again...girl) I still don't see how in 2021 the 'girls curse' is still a real thing AT ALL.
E Omega is going to be a must-have. Expect him to be hard to get on store shelves and expect the scalpers to come out of the woodwork like clockwork on this guy. Absolutely grab if you see material here. Looks good, first time character, reasonable price...he's got it all. 

Next week:
More than usual of stuff will appear to continue to help try and clear it out

Sonic Movie 2 Ugly Gremlins Boogaloo
There I said it.
Seen the trailer and read a few things that give it a little bit of hope* that it's not "Generic white guy and Sonic is his sidekick vs. Jim Carrey as the Mask but with a mustache instead of greenface". Now that they're adding Tails and Knuckles they're exposing their lazyness which is "Add generic ugly prickly hair to EVERY PART OF EVERY CHARACTER because THAT IS REALISTIC" and then like...no it's not? What are those things on Knuckles' head? They're supposed to be Echidna Quills because that's what he uhhhhhhhhhh is.......yet they're hair covered flesh tentacles because they are lazy. Tails is the same texture as Sonic as Knuckles too. Like? Different animals have different fur?
Idris Elba VA: 
A choice too good for its seat, I think. How they netted that professional guy I will never know. No matter what he's gonna say, it's gonna sound good because that is the nature of that actor. 

What needs to not happen:
Everything doesn't need another stupid "boom ban but this time its movie" where either modern/classic is DISALLOWED from existing or all the merchandise turns to movie-gremlin-crap with their ugly designs and generic no-effort merch. The movie needs to stay isolated to its own whacko self and stop/don't influence normal Sonic things or limit the merchandise/fandom like Boom did.

*Hope- Stuff like they're minimizing the humans/Earth bs more and that actual Sonic characters can appear in the Sonic movie. Now if only they'd think about the designs more. I might yell about this on a later post.