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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 9d

Through the month of October 2025, use the code VANJACKOLANTERN at checkout on toyhax.com to get 15% off and support my media endeavours!

Through the month of October 2025, use the code VANJACKOLANTERN at checkout on https://toyhax.com to get 15% off and support my media endeavours!

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 8h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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RoryDropkick @rorydropkick.bsky.social · 9h

www.blu-ray.com/movies/Shaws...

SUPER INFRAMAN IS FINALLY INCLUDED THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Shawscope Volume Four Blu-ray (Limited Edition | Super Inframan / Oily Maniac / Battle Wizard / Black Magic / Black Magic Part 2 / Bewitched / Hex / Hex Vs. Witchcraft / Hex After Hex / Bat Without Wi...

Shawscope Volume Four Blu-ray Release Date December 9, 2025 (Limited Edition | Super Inframan, Oily Maniac, Battle Wizard, Black Magic, Black Magic Part 2, Bewitched, Hex, Hex Vs. Witchcraft, Hex Afte...

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 8h

more @quivertime.com gear shots (including with/without an umbrella hanging off everything on the walk home) and the robotted playmat I was rockin for the event @transformerstcgorg.bsky.social

a Quiver Bolt case and Orion playmat case hooked together with a shoulder strap, and then an umbrella hanging off the assembly

a Quiver Bolt case and Orion playmat case hooked together with a shoulder strap

a Quiver Bolt case and Orion playmat case hooked together with a shoulder strap, sitting on a table

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 22h

Apropos of nothing, just been reminded of this and now it hurts to breathe. You're welcome.
#StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #Science

Six panels, in the first a shuttlecraft from Star Trek Next generation is *awfully close* to a star of some kind. Let's call it an F-type, it'll either get the Trekkers nodding in approval or absolutely enraged. But then what doesn't.

Second panel, Beverley Crusher is at the controls of the shuttle, saying "Computer, notify me if external temperature gets too hot"

Third panel, computer text goes " *BEEP BEEP* PLEASE DEFINE "HOT" "

Fourth panel, Beverley Crusher responds "Let's say, 1.9 million Kelvins."

Fifth panel, titled Later: Picard is stood at his replicator, saying "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."
The computer responds, as it always does, "*BEEP BEEP*"

Sixth panel, SCREENSHOT FROM TERMINATOR TWO OF PEOPLE BLOWN AWAY BY NUCLEAR BLAST. IT'S JUST A SKELETON AND FLAMES, UNBELIEVABLE HEAT, BURNING, INCANDESCENCE, EVERYTHING IS YELLOW AND ORANGE AND BURNING AND PICARD'S FAVOURITE MUG IS NOW PLASMA. BUT THAT'S PROBABLY NOT ON HIS MIND RIGHT NOW, AS HIS BRAIN IS NOW AEROSOL FORM, AT BEST.
It's all a bit toasty, basically.

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 15h

finished in 12th place with a 2-3 record, I am ecstatic 🥹 I'm not neck-deep in competitive cardsgaming & was not at all sure how things would go

#fabtcg

me typing "I won against a meta deck in round 1 l am ecstatic internally but keeping my shit together outwardly" on discord followed by a wall of emojis, after my round 1 win

a lovely cupcake that one player brought many of, to feed fellow cardists

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 20h

doing a pro quest flesh and blood event today, +1 team Dorinthea, powered by @quivertime.com #fabtcg

(the first in-person fully competitive cardsgame event I have done since the transformers tcg energon invitational in 2019 🥹)

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/we1q-unjRq0

The Witch From Mercury

YouTube video by Takashi Ohmama - Topic

youtu.be

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

the list of publishers closing shop keeps growing. smaller ones you might not have noticed. for example, Ludonaute, who publish Colt Express are closing shop after Essen. it's just grim grim grim.

BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes: Trump threatens an extra 100% tariff on China, starting November 1, “over and above any tariff that they are currently paying”

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Global stocks pummeled on Trump China tariff announcement on.ft.com/3KGbyZr

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 2d

Imgur blocked in the UK, after our shift to draonian online privacy practices to "save the children".

This translates to a load of TTS mods that I like being completely bricked.

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Transmetal TK @transmetaltk.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking the same thing with regard to Oni Megatron, but for whatever reason I'm imagining Bumblebee as one of those golden fish statues. Maybe it could even connect to the roof of Optimus' cart kinda like this

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

yup! basically Timeline Chapter 2, the same two 2-packs but this time they woke up in feudal japan

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not usually that interested in staking claim on speculations but since it'll reveal later this month anyway, I am thinking feudal japan megatron has a big ol fusion-kanabo oni club

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, pulse put up a video they shot earlier to go alongside the live panel they did today at NYCC

mostly some good evan design lore (that I kind of assume many will never hear lol) and the reveal on this twopack

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

I gotta cover my butt for my editorializing and paraphrasing, also I dunno maybe the toy did wobble and I didn't notice 😅

Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

-like both starscreams, just *plunk* and they're standing there each on one leg, at least smirk at the camera, why are you being this cool about it,

Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

-evan just put starscream down on one foot in that pose and never said a thing, not a single thing, he barely even had to hold it in place to balance or whatever, not a single word about that, wtf kind of flex,

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

-starscream was originally a crane, but a lot of statues of feudal lords involved hawks and falcons, the falconry pet came off like a second in command, so they went like "oh hey starscream" and pivoted
-I am summarizing a scant few minutes of a video you could also go watch to hear the actual words

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

from the evan and nate discussion on the youtube video

-starscream is a yamabushi, and the botmode vibes are decepticon yokai vs autobot samurai
-evan did initial sketches, takaratomy glommed in eagerly on the feudal japan concept
-bumblebee/megatron will be shown at mcm

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

this bot mode pose is so much better than the packaging renders

Transformers Timelines Feudal Japan Starscream

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

well FoF + legendaries + WISHBOARD I should say

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

mostly FoF + legendaries, it feels like something I'd do to irritate somebody moreso than advance a gamestate lol

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

GREAT MINDS

Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

it's like utter whiplash to my tastes to go from the neato joy of "a five colour legendary that represents all four of them" to "Fact or Fiction Legendary Wishboard that seems mechanically tiring to deal with" lol

Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 1d

"They're the world's most fearsome fighting team!" #MTGxTMNT

This image depicts the card "Heroes in a Half Shell". One white, one blue, one black, one red, one green. Legendary Creature - Mutant Ninja Turtle. Mythic Rarity.

Card Art: This illustration shows four humanoid turtle ninja warriors leaping towards the viewer. Each has his own specific weapon and style. From left to right: A bulky turtle weilding twin sai and yelling, a turtle with goggles on his forehead winding a bo staff to swing, a turtle with a confident smirk wields twin katana at the viewer and a seemingly carefree turtle leaps backwards with nun-chucks swirling in his hands and a wide smile on his face.

Rules text: Vigilance, menace, trample, haste.
Whenever one or more Mutants, Ninjas and/or Turtles you control deal combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and draw a card.

Flavor text: "They're the world's mostfearsom fighting team!"

This image depicts the card "Turtles Forever". Three mana, one white. Instant. Rare rarity.

Card art: This illustration shows four humanoid turtles drawn in different art styles engaging and interacting with one another. Behind them, the painterly skyline of a city.

Rules text: Search your library and/or outside the game for exactly four legendary creature cards you own with different names, then reveal those cards. An opponent chooses two of them. Put the chosedn cards into your hand and shuffle the rest into your library.

Flavor text: "See you around the multiverse, bros."
- One Leonardo to another

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 1d

feeling sheepish that my main reaction to oxcart optimus is wondering if the lil ox would have turned into a lil oriox pax, had the toy been standalone and not in a two pack

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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social · 2d

I think it came up during the west coast streams and I simply forgot in between til I looked into it last night, but romanizing ルブリス into Lfrith is an escalation of Tajadolling that goes beyond Klilyn

(please let me know if you understood what I just said there, I need to know I am not alone,)

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