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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 21:04:29 GMT -5
I didn't know they made a playset based on the movie The Guns Of NavaroneAnd I still can't believe Rob Petrie slept thru that film in the theater Is the movie based on the Alistair MacLean novel? I tried reading the novel when I was 10 and had the playset, but could never get through it. -M
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 3, 2014 21:24:22 GMT -5
In other geeky news today, Wizards of the Coast launched the Basic version of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
The price for it is free and you can download a PDF of it from their website.
The new starter set came out in some hobby stores today and should be out everywhere by July 15th.
The traditional Player's Handbook/ Dungeon Masters Guide/ Monster Manual hardbacks will be published in upcoming months.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 21:30:12 GMT -5
In other geeky news today, Wizards of the Coast launched the Basic version of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons. The price for it is free and you can download a PDF of it from their website. The new starter set came out in some hobby stores today and should be out everywhere by July 15th. The traditional Player's Handbook/ Dungeon Masters Guide/ Monster Manual hardbacks will be published in upcoming months. Cool, I knew it was coming just not when. I played the initial playtest they debuted at D&D Experience a couple years back, but then it started moving forward and the design team got changed midstream and it started to take on the aspects of later editions I didn't like, so I dropped out of the playtest. I will be interested to see what the final form is though, just not sure if I am willing to plunk down the $$ for the 3 books to find out, so I hope the PDF is illuminating. -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 22:10:22 GMT -5
Remember that 1986 Aquaman mini-series where he had the blue undersea camaflogue suit instead of the orange and gold costume....? Well.... it's here...-M
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Post by berkley on Jul 3, 2014 22:21:39 GMT -5
I didn't know they made a playset based on the movie The Guns Of NavaroneAnd I still can't believe Rob Petrie slept thru that film in the theater Is the movie based on the Alistair MacLean novel? I tried reading the novel when I was 10 and had the playset, but could never get through it. -M Yes it was - good book. I think the movie wasn't bad either, but don't really remember it very well. And the Harrison Ford movie, Force 10 from Navarone, was based on the follow-up novel to Guns. I read a lot of those Alistair MacLean thrillers when I was a kid and remember them fondly.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 3, 2014 22:33:13 GMT -5
The Guns of Navarone is an incredibly fun action film. I haven't read the book, but David Niven alone makes the film worth watching. The less said about Force Ten From Navarone the better.
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Post by berkley on Jul 3, 2014 22:34:00 GMT -5
Bringing to mind Mine came from the clearance table at the U. of Arizona bookstore back in the summer of '83, when I was interning at the university press. hah! First I ever heard of that one. I don't think I recognise any of those Marx toy sets from my own childhood, with the possible exception of the Fort Apache one. That looks familiar - I think I might have seen it or something like it in the Christmas catalogue one year. We had a few individual soldier toys - a bendy rubber cowboy or sort 19th century US Army soldier with a blue uniform; and a GI Joe knock-off with a plastic body and rubber arms that could only move in one plane and tended to fall off easily.
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Post by berkley on Jul 3, 2014 22:35:49 GMT -5
The Force 10 from Navarone novel wasn't nearly as good as Guns of Navarone either.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 3, 2014 22:49:07 GMT -5
Just watched Doc of the Dead on Netflix. There is a cap on taking one's hobby or a fictional concept entirely too seriously. I just watched a lot of people hit that cap and few blow the cap 100 feet into the air.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 3, 2014 22:49:59 GMT -5
Never had a Spirograph, either "Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it." I will.
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Post by berkley on Jul 3, 2014 23:47:47 GMT -5
We had Spirograph and Etch-a-sketch, I remember liking both of those when I was small. A lot depends on how old you were when you encountered them, I suppose.
The board games I remember being most popular in our house were Monopoly, Masterpiece, and the car one, can't recall the name of it. We had a chess board but I never played it much and certainly never showed any aptitude for it.
The most popular card games were cribbage and "hundred & twenties" - the latter I've never heard of outside Nfld. The top ranking cards were the 5 & jack of whatever suit were trumps, and the ace of hearts. I read somewhere that it's a debased form of Bridge, which I've never played myself.
I'm the world's most useless card player, though. I have no head for strategy or knowing when its best to play which card or anything like that, no matter what the game is. Actually that probably extends to any kind of game, not just cards, now I think of it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 23:50:22 GMT -5
I love cribbage I just can't find anyone here to play. I used to play all the time with friends in CT. Playing online isn't the same, especially when the computer does the counting for you.
-M
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 4, 2014 0:12:07 GMT -5
I'm a surprisingly good cribbage player, considering my numeric dyslexia, but I haven't played in years. For some reason I can only retain the rules to a handful of card games at one time so crib and two or three poker variants are all I know. Never could get the hang of bridge or pinochle. I also used to be a fair backgammon player and a mediocre dominoes man (my dad and I played a lot when I was a kid) but I'm so rusty at both I flake.
Cei-U! Hasn't thought about these games in what feels like a lifetime!
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Post by the4thpip on Jul 4, 2014 0:53:33 GMT -5
Remember that 1986 Aquaman mini-series where he had the blue undersea camaflogue suit instead of the orange and gold costume....? Well.... it's here...-M I approve because it's sexy, but I disapprove because it will make Bat-shark-repellent spray obsolete.
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Post by Jasoomian on Jul 4, 2014 1:02:53 GMT -5
My cousins had thousands of those ERTL 1/72 little army men. You could get them from just about any war you could think of. Paint 'em or not, glue them into a diorama thing or just play war with them.... I only ever had a few sets of my own, but I played with theirs a lot.
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