Hello Zone Base readers and thank you for returning for another week of robots, monsters, and misadventure! I hope you all had a great weekend... mine was over much too fast! Thanks for nothing Daylight Savings Time. We have to adjust our schedules and loose an hour to save electricity all while the lights are on in our workplace regardless! I enjoyed weekly shopping with the Mrs where we made plans for various things to purchase for the house. Sunday was a rainy day filled with cleaning and laundry in between cursing daylight savings time (I seriously hate it).
I played some video games and watched a lot of paranormal tv and Mystery Science Theater 3000. Speaking of video games, the new Evercade update includes a neat game of the month feature. Each month they'll highlight a game from one of their releases that's free to play for the month without needing the cartridge. That's pretty great, the first is Midnight Resistance! It's the Genesis version, which is great as it's much more playable on a console that emulation of the arcade version. I actually have the arcade version on a micro console. The original arcade game usues a rotating joy stick to aim which just doesn't translate well. You either push one button or another to rotate your aim all while getting slaughtered by enemies. The console version resolves this issue with an auto fire that can be locked in a direction. That works so much better!
As for toys, well I didn't get much this weekend. Stores are still a little barren around here and with my birthday and Toylanta around the corner. I just didn't feel like buying anything. I picked up another Hot Wheel Transformer, this one obviously intended to be a dune buggy variation of Bumblebee and the Voltron Bitty Bop. It comes with a cool Shiro Bitty Pop to pilot it. Such a neat little gimmick. There's a Hulkbuster one out that I'm not interested in, so I may be done with them for the time being. I think there's a Baymax out, that's a must get.
You know something Zone Base readers, I'm watching the 2007 Transformers movie while writing this. It's randomly on the Miramax Channel on Prime Video and... dang. It's pretty fun. I know the live action movies (especially the Michael Bay ones) get a lot of derision... but they were huge and changed everything ever since. I still remember attending the BotCon 2007 early showing and watching it for the first time with some friends. While my opinions vary with the various sequels, I still like the movie universe setting. One thing that's sticking out in my mind is all the criticism that there's hardly any Transformers in the movie, yet here I am watching it and they're all over this thing. It's a lot of fun.
Well, I've got a busy week ahead of me. I'm enjoying a brief break between the medical procedures I've been driving My Mom to the past few weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to get a new Transform Squadron recorded and out soon. In the meantime I've got some toys to take pictures of for upcoming posts. I plan on getting back to the Beast Alliance Transformers from Rise of the Beasts and finishing my look at that series. The upcoming Transformers Wild King has my interest and it feels like the perfect time to finish those toys on the site. I also want to cover more BeastBox and vintage Gobots. There's a good 2 week lead time on posts, so stay tuned to see what's next. Thank you all for reading. Zone Base is just some small silly site, but seeing all of you come out each week is really amazing. Thank you all. Please share the site with your friends and Mutual High Fives everyone!