Seasons Chuffing - The 2014 Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus/Holiday Thread

[yotsuya]

Post your gift ideas - loot - holiday related stuff here!!!

[Nephasth]

Delusional, move this thread! Pronto!

[yotsuya]

Delusional, move this thread! Pronto!

Aw, crap! I thought I made this in Everything Else! Erp, reboot!

Scott, Delusionsal, H-Man, move this thing.



So, anyone building a cab/bartop/thingie for a gift this season?

[PL1]

What are you guys talking about?

The thread is right where it belongs.   


Scott

[Louis Tully]

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[jdbailey1206]

[jdbailey1206]

Nope.  Changed my mind....

[Well Fed Games]

We got the little man the TMNT Secret Sewer Lair Play Set and I'm pretty sure his eyes are going to pop out of his head when we unwraps it.

that would have blown my mind when I was a kid. So cool.

I'm 99% sure I'm slapping together a 60-in-1 upright for my sister's family. They still love the little pac bartop I made them years ago and I'd love to give them something with more games (will whittle the 60-in-1 list down to 18 games). Will be using a gutted Johnny Nero Action Hero cabinet, 27" Sony Trinitron, icade, VGA to S-video adapter, and a lot of my spare parts.

[Vigo]

And for scale, here's some dude.

I swear back in the day there was a TMNT playset exactly the same as that but not huge. I remember it had the telephone pole and sewer pipes and some manhatten alleyway.

Of course, when I was little, Castle Grayskull was the king of playsets.

[jdbailey1206]

Yeah.  That thing is larger than the original playset and Terrordrome put together.  Kids now a days.   

[sarcophagus]

Putting together my first cab (Haruman widescreen) for my daughters' Christmas present. Got a great black Friday deal on a gigabyte brix computer for 99 for the brains.
http://slickdeals.net/f/7426850

[Louis Tully]

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[jdbailey1206]

Don't get me started on Lego's.  I loved them as a kid.  They were my go to toy.  And now they have Lego's for everything. 

[yotsuya]

Had to fix the year in the title. Not thinking that far in advance (well, ChanceKJ does, but not the rest of us). 

[BadMouth]

I got my 8yo nephew an Elenco Snap Circuits kit:


He frustrates me when it comes to the Lego.  He'll only build what's on the front of the box and absolutely will not tear anything back apart once it's built.
Might as well not be made out of lego.

[yotsuya]

I got my 8yo nephew an Elenco Snap Circuits kit:

That's pretty awesome! 

[Well Fed Games]

A grabbed one of those snap circuit kits from Goodwill recently for my daughter, I'm a big fan. In fact I think I have learned a bit from it.

[pbj]

Everyone in my life is getting cheap ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- from Amazon.  They all buy whatever they want when they want it, so there's no 'need' to fill with any of them.

Of the family I see often enough to warrant buying them presents:

Wife is getting flannel pajamas and fuzzy socks.

Uncle is getting gold plated poker cards.  His tablet came back to life with a factory restore, so that's a freebie christmas miracle.

Father is getting infrared laser thermometer I'll label as an ebola detector and single barrel rum.

Stuck on mother and grandmother.  Probably high quality consumables.  I've been gathering pecans from the yard that have been fertilized with carcinogens and dog ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

 

[jdbailey1206]

He frustrates me when it comes to the Lego.  He'll only build what's on the front of the box and absolutely will not tear anything back apart once it's built.
Might as well not be made out of lego.

My niece does the same thing.  She reminds me of Will Ferrells character in the Lego movie.  I expect to visit her one day and see her super gluing all her Lego sets together with sadistic glee.

[yotsuya]

Hanging up some Christmas lights today, I forgot where I was standing and fell into my pool. The funny thing was, it felt like it was in slow motion, so I had enough time to toss my cordless nail gun before it went in with me. Thank God I didn't have my phone on me.

[Vigo]

Hanging up some Christmas lights today, I forgot where I was standing and fell into my pool. The funny thing was, it felt like it was in slow motion, so I had enough time to toss my cordless nail gun before it went in with me. Thank God I didn't have my phone on me.

Glad you are ok, man! Also glad you don't live in the part of the country where we drain our pools for winter.

[Louis Tully]

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[popsicle]

Ha, the audio for that pool jumping video is the best part (his friend can't stop laughing)

[yotsuya]

Ha! The party was a success! Always 3-10 people in the game room. An impromptu Pac-Man tournament broke out.

[eds1275]

For my wife, I got all of our wedding photos printed. She's wanted to do that forever. I don't see why... I was there. I remember. But we did get married at the X-Mansion so the castle in the background is pretty awesome.

My nephews were coming out but cancelled. I built them each big ass speaker systems for their bedrooms from old stuff (they are big into music and obnoxiously loud gaming.) So now I have these home theatres sitting in my guitar room until january. For myself I am going to order a computer to put console games on for the living room. There's a thread started in the consoles forum about it.

Going back to playsets, I remember this one transformers one I wanted. It was expensive but I got it anyways. It was made of cardboard and didn't last an afternoon.

After a quick search I actually found the cardboard poopset in question:
http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/1985/transformers_activity_center

[Generic Eric]

If someone used their 3d printerror to replicate these old things....

[Generic Eric]

I am Dangerously Elite now.  A few pc config changes and I'll have reconfigured a new pc. My mame pc will be less  HD, but that's ok.

[Nephasth]

Arcade related gift-to-self. Thanks to opt2not for the Photoshop job!

[Well Fed Games]

Making progress on my Christmas gift 60-in-1. Trying to mount the 27" TV has been a hassle, and I still need to wire and set it all up. but Christmas isn't too close... just 5 days...  here's hoping all the components work when all hooked together.

[pbj]

60 in 1 on a 27" crt should be epic.

Got this from a friend last night, it says game over when cold:

[yotsuya]

I got this as a Christmas present from my best friend, signed AND numbered by the artist...



Only 364 more days until I get my revenge...

[BadMouth]

revenge?  That's the most awesome painting ever.

Trying to decide how long until the novelty would wear off though.
For now, I can't stop looking.

[Generic Eric]

Who is the Edward Scissor hands looking dude contemplating the apples?

[yotsuya]

Who is the Edward Scissor hands looking dude contemplating the apples?

Robert Smith of The Cure

[Louis Tully]

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[yotsuya]

I got this as a Christmas present from my best friend, signed AND numbered by the artist...



Only 364 more days until I get my revenge...

That ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- is glorious.    I can only hope it's proudly displayed in your dining room.

I'm gonna go to Home Depot, find the most gaudiest, ornatiest moulding I can, paint it gold, and hang it in my game room by my desk.

Just wish I had the space to hang it next to this beauty in my game room...

[yotsuya]

And actually, I'd pay good money for just the DLR part of the painting done in like 3' x 5'.

[Le Chuck]

Got the wife a CriCut Explore. Will use it for arcade vinyl awesomeness I'm sure.

[Louis Tully]

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[yotsuya]

'Scuse me, gents. Do you know where I might find BYOFAF?*




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