BowserBasher

Wow. I think that’s one of the closest nights in a long time. I know the scores are recalculated but GP 2 was amazingly close at he end with a point between each position. Also my best night in a while too. Pleased with that. I think I stole GP3 literally on the line of the last race. Highlights should show it. That last race had it all on the line. I think there was one point between the top three. I’d fallen behind so I thought I was done for. But what a finish.

Thanks. Lol. You’ve been watching that fan made video didn’t you? Nope, this is Nintendo you need to,be on the game when your gate is open. You can leave it on and just have your character sit but you need to be in the game.

I don’t see an island open. What’s your island name?

I want in. Are your gates open?

Are these Nanoblock Pokèmon worth picking up? Ive seen some around but never bothered looking into them more.

I’m due a small spike too so I’ll hold out.

Dang. No,worries. Next time maybe.

Probably too late for,you now @Tales was busy and only just saw this. Sorry.

Got a real Serene Painting at Redds. Anyone want it as I already have it. Two fakes of the academic painting and Moving Painting going.

Thought this the best place to post these. Bought Lego City Undercover on Switch eshop as it was only £15 a few weeks ago and just finished 100%. I did this on WiiU and still enjoyed doing it all again. I’m sure I even found new things I missed first play through. Always loved that you could “drive” the train, just wished it wasn’t only half the map.

I’m so funny

Different race this week, lots of action mid pack. Belgian prediction Pole: Hamilton 1st: Hamilton 2nd: Verstappen 3rd: Bottas 4th: Stroll 5th: Perez FL: Bottas Going very similar to this weekend for Spa.

First I do enjoy these. Some of the stuff in them would be nice to have but then some of the ideas seem redundant or not feasible. One I know is silly was the changing airport colour as this is set on what your island is. It determines the colour of your nook miles items and things like that. So I don’t see that ever happening. The transitions from room to room would be nice but again I’m sure if Nintendo could make them faster they would, there must be a reason it’s how it is. Not sure I like the whole terraforming and placing of items when people are over, I can see that just becoming messy. it seemed with the shop they were suggesting you could open your gates then close your game, it’s a nice idea but the way the game works it wouldn’t happen. Same with the visitors entering and the whole cutscene. It’s how the game works. Picking up items whilst holding Y. Well how is that quicker then what we do now? Just seems redundant. I know I’m nitpicking and I do love the detail they put in the videos but some of the ideas just don’t seem needed to me.

Got the chance to play around with the starter set. I have to say it’s very well done and I’m happy Lego went this route for these. Mario seems like a very technical piece of kit. It seems to have an accelerometer in there too as it can differentiate between just “walking” and “jumping” higher. It even knows when it’s “laying down”. Just tested by laying it down and after about 10 seconds he goes to sleep, I then just stood it and left it and it didn’t, it just dims the lights, as in the screens, which are really nice. Marios eyes move and have different states his mouth does the same and the main screen in his body shows all that’s going on with the interaction to the sets. Fun thing to do, drop him from a bit of a height and he reacts as he would in game. Not a death but I got like an ow ow ow ow ow sound bite. Very nice detail. Instead of the normal booklets you do have to download an app, but the app looks very slick and seems to be an all in one thing for building, sharing and keeping track of your sets. You can browse the app but the first thing you will want to do is link Mario to the app, how? Bluetooth. And it’s as simple as pressing a button on the back of Mario. I believe this will then sync your course runs to the app including the amount of coins you collected. The building instructions are the same as normal booklets but have the added advantage that you can spin and move the image around, handy to know you have the pieces in the right spots (not like its completely needed on these as they are all small builds) but does help you if needed. I kinda wish that they did this with other sets too as sometime when I’m building I’d like the interactive bit to move the set and see if I have a certain piece in the right place. You can also it seems, add your creation to the app by taking a photo and adding it to “my creations” section. These seems to be shared with the world. I haven’t tried this yet. The builds from the starter set are very basic and easily finished within a very short time. They are divided into the bases of each element. It’s hard to explain that. Basically you’ll have a small tower, the ? Block, Bowser Jr, the flagpole, etc. And they are all nicely built on a baseplate that is easily attached to the next via a number of provided 2x4, 6 or 8 pieces. They seem quite generous with what they give you. These are definitely meant to be played with. Mario reacts the the three different coloured bases and the special marked pieces. It all works so well. You pop him in the pipe to start your level and move him over your course. At the end jump on the flagpole. Just like in the games. And of course as you get more expansion sets, you’ll be able to add more to your course. I made a very simple one from the starter set. All in all I think Lego and Nintendo have done the best thing they could have with bringing Mario to Lego. These sets are what is fun about Lego, the playing and creativity that comes with them. If these aren’t your cup of tea, then we also have the NES Lego set which I hope to be able to pick up soon too.

@Sméagol

Yup. Snake, Game and Watch, that little run with them.

Fun times. Had a horrible run with characters I just can’t use well towards the end there but pulled off a nice win with Dark Samus in the end.

Those were some close races. Well apart from me getting screwed over more than a woman in a brothel tonight. Nearly every race I got taken out by multiple items in the space of a few seconds. I don’t know how I got the amount of points I got. Only got the two highlights as I was a bit frustrated.

I may take that price. Can get over before MK

I’m assuming that was to me. I bought the flowery painting from Redd on my island.

Redd is here and I have three fakes up for grabs. Mystic statue, girl with earring and girl with weird animal. Can open this evening before Mario Kart for anyone that wants to come take a look.

Anyone with a potential spike? I’m on a rollercoaster week with a best of 140

Thanks. Didn’t get either one I wanted but Celeste gave me the Rocket DIY so bonus. I fear these two bugs may elude me unless I can find someone in a time zone that allows me to visit for a good few hours.

ITs not my fault. I agree. It’s just everyone wants Pikachu. Lol

Even better then. I’ll try to get round in a bit then to max the time I have.