Lone Ranger Legos

I have just finished putting together the last set that I received as a Christmas gift.
The set that are shown are all I have been able to buy.
The Stagecoach 79108.
Colby City Showdown 79109.
Constitution Train Chase 79111.

 

The following pictures are of those I arranged as Christmas decorations. I like Lego trains so I added one to the scene. I also like The Walking Dead TV show. See if you can locate any Zombies here.

 

There are so many sets that I am behind on buying.

 

Once I have the cats gone from my Lego area I can more sets back together. They like to play with them and move the figures around the house while we are a sleep.

Plants Vs Zombies

If you have not yet played “Plants Vs Zombies” by PopCap games, you are missing a lot of fun. It is only .99 for the app through the app store. You can also download it for android. It starts out easy on lower levels and build up to harder levels. As long as I’ve playing both 1 and 2, they don’t seem to be patterned like the 80s video games. After a while you get frustrated because zombies will hit you sooner or later. You can play these are much as you want without having to worry about too many lives lost where you have to go to Facebook to get your friends to help you out. Give both versions a try you will be glad you did. I don’t know why it took me so long to start playing.

Halloween Haunted House

I didn’t get to post as much as I wanted to this past (2013) Halloween because I spent every extra minute and lots of other hours work at a Haunted House that did a review on last year. The part I played was “Leatherface” from the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” franchise. It had been something that I had always wanted to do. The first half of the season was the hardest because it was still hot. I was not use to the weight of the chainsaw and having to crank it up every 5 minutes for 5 hours a night. It was extremely hot due to it always hot in SC. But I lived. Right now with it being at the end of the year, I am planning on a redesign of the “Texas” house in order for it to have a different layout and different “scream” areas. It will be much more gorier than ever before. I love horror movies and I love to create areas that make you scared before the scare happens. It’s all about the buildup before the big scare. I will post updates here as well as Lego creations. I will post pictures of the process while we are working it. I have tons of ideas and sketches that I need to upload. The tear down of the old will start in Febuary. Thats is not soon enough for me by I don't own the place. So I wait and design.

Z Day live game play

The following is from a kickstarter like site called pozible that is requesting money to start a zombie war zone.

Z DAY to view videos and to give money. We also need to have this done over here in the US. To me it looks like a great idea.

Z DAY CONCEPT & GAMEPLAY


Z DAY is a Live Action Role Playing Event that will be held in Sydney in 2013. If you've played video games like ‘Left 4 Dead’ and ‘DAYZ’, been addicted to TV Shows like ‘The Walking Dead’ and can't wait to see movies like ‘World War Z’ then you are going to love Z DAY!

This is a physical outdoor open world experience played on a 70 acre property in Sydney. Once you drive through our gates you will be immersed into a post apocalyptic landscape. It'll be like playing a 3D video game but everything that happens will be real and not virtual! The action and events will be unscripted. We will set up some parameters and missions but the rest will be up to you and your fellow players and every session has the potential to be different.

The setting is a world ravaged by a previously unknown virus. Once the virus broke out into the general population it quickly spread to create a global pandemic. Although vast areas and huge numbers of population have been lost to the infection, governments have been able to establish small containment lines known as Safe Havens. These last bastions are strongly guarded and remain the last hope of humanity. Outside the Safe Havens lie the Quarantine Zones and it is here that you will pick up the plot and play your role in Z DAY.

World War Z movie review

Well it's been a couple of weeks since I was able to get on the computer to give my thoughts on the latest Brad Pitt movie "World War Z". I'm going to review without giving too much information to spoil the movie for you. I've read other reviews that compare this movie to other "Zombie" style movie and they don't give it a chance on it's own. If you have read the book you know it's a different style all together. This movie does not go in to the gore zone with Zombie slashing and heads rolling like scenes from AMCs The Walking Dead. But the movie does keep you on the edge of your seat waiting for what around the corner. There is a lot of action that takes place so watch each character you encounter. The money numbers are not as strong on the first weekend of release, but I'm sure Blu-Ray and DVD sales will exceed expectations. This is a movie that needs to be seen more than once and talked about for some time. This is a movie that involves the skill of thinking. trying to solve the problem before and seeing the connections that Brad's character. It will also make you read the book to get more information. It is a different type of "Zombie" for new fans.

Well worth the time and money to see it.

World War Z (movie)

As some of you may have noticed based on earlier post that I like all things Zombie. There is an upcoming movie staring Brad Pitt that everyone already knows and Mireille Enos who plays his wife. For those who don't know who Mireille, she portrays Sarah Linden the lead detective. The story of the movie is based on the novel by Max Brooks that takes Brad Pitt's character around the world looking for a solution for the possible zombie pandemic. I have high hopes for the movie that I hope that has not been over hyped.
The movie will be out in theaters on June 21st.
The book on the other hand was out in 2006.
There is an audiobook that was released in 2007. It can be bought through iTunes and Amazon.
Here is a link to thier website. World War Z
There is also a video game app you can download for $4.99. There is a nice video showing the game in action and looks great. Please read the warning before buying.
Mountain Man Blog

10228 Lego Haunted House

The Lego set 10228 is over 2,000 pieces. The suggested age is 14 and up. It is the biggest set that I have gotten in the past 12 years. The house is designed to be really sturdy. I have carried it around my house to see the durability. Some sets would just fall apart or become loose. Not this set. After building this one, I plan to buy several more buildings like this. I was very impressed with this set. I give it 5 out of 5 bricks. The mini figs that come with this set are extremely interesting. There are 2 glow in the dark ghost, a Dracula, a Frankenstein's monster, a Mrs. Dracula, and my favorite a Zombie chief. There are a few items that are scattered around the attic. I have included a few pictures.

MADWORLD Haunted Attracrtion & Zombie Shoot

  Last night we were part of the first victims to go through a frightening display of human carnage.



My head hurts

I see ou have been thinking of food.
Me too

 

As we walk to the ticket counter, walking down the roped area there were two corpses hanging on the fence of the main entrance. After the main entrance to the left is where you buy tickets to one or the other on cheaper to buy both tickets to the walk through Haunted attraction and/or Zombie shoot. One of the oddest things about it, is they give you an electronic beeper like given out at area restaurants. That way you can wonder the area sit by the bonfire. They have hot dogs, BBQ, and boiled peanuts. This area is where you can meet a few of the creatures that are there to get into your brain. I have been to many haunts in my life and this one has to be one of the best.


Problem?

Look at the brain on this guy...

The kid on the left looks a little scared.

  The Zombie Shoot is a great idea and these guys know how to do it right. The video gives you an idea of why you are there and what you have to do in order to get out alive. It is a must do.
Mad World website

Madworld Hauted Attraction and Zombie Shoot

  In the coming season of Halloween, there are plenty a places that you a chance to be chased in, around, and through structures, houses, woods, and corn fields. but there is one unique place called "Madworld haunted Attraction ans Zombie Shoot". That's right a zombie shoot. They are keeping the process of splattering zombie a secrete until you get there and shoot them for yourself. I hope to be able to get there over the next few days and take some pictures and share them with you.
But I have to get their permission before doing so.


Here is a link to their website for more information and directions.

http://www.madworldhaunt.com/MADWORLD_HAUNTED_ATTRACTION/Home.html

Tread of the Dead

This is a game I just downloaded for the iPad for free. I try not to pay for a game. I found an app called "Apps Gone Free". They list about 5 to 10 apps that have gone free temporary for a few hours, days, or just for about a hundred or so downloads. The app post them everyday about noon eastern time zone.
The next app I downloaded is called "Tread Dead". You are someone at the end of the street that must stay safe. You start off with 3 chainsaws and you throw them at Zombies before they attack you and make you their own. What makes this game better than some is that you have to tilt the iPad to move your weapon. At one level you start throwing ninja throwing stars. Here are a few screen shots.

 

People in our small town

Just last year I had the chance to visit Jackson Hospital in Miami Fl. I was there with my wife and her mother due to an accident that was caused by lazy cruise members on a cruise ship that we had been on a few hours earlier. Without waiting for the long drug out part of this story, there were people dieing all over the ER. We did see a body moved to another room and dumped there like a sack of unwanted potatoes. There was a county detainee in there being watched by 2 over weight under height women that only looked at him every hour. He needs wasn't being meet and he need to use the restroom. So he pulls it out and pees all over the place. Jackson Hospital just got another free indoor fountain. People were numbered and pushed to the edge of the room. If you were bleeding they put your finger in the hole to keep it the blood flow down. My niece and I went to the McDonald's there and that place was full of people that ran out of the hospital to eat real food as if McD's is real. people rolling in with their IV drips. people getting into fist fights with themselves. Just crazy nuts.
I tell you this because I sit here in Subways eating a descent sub and I see another "crazy" person sitting in one of the booths rocking back and forth talking to himself with that cray look in his eyes. I would tell more of how I can identify the look of a crazy person but my family will hurt me with big sticks for giving away secrets.
Please read more later

Wife in the hospital

My wife complained about the coating in her mouth. She had a headache as well. This morning she says the side of her face is numb. She called her doctor and he said to go to the emergence room. This is the first place you want to be if you want to see Zombies. So she checks in and we move to room number 9. That just sounds bad to me. I don't like the number 9. So while we sit there dying, you hear a few screens in the background and with all the Zombie movies books and blogs I have seen, you start thinking of what could happen.
I hear my wife breathing, a good sign at this point, I look around the room for objects that will sever off the head of an infected person or by a Zombie. In the hospital most proletariat you are infected. Infected people out number staff four to one. So as I look I see the IV pole that is attached to the side of the bed. I did wiggle it around just to make sure I could get it off when I needed it. I could at least cut em with the hook with a good hard swing. Then there are the rubber gloves. Three sizes, small medium and large. I would request a box of extra large if I had to be in here any longer then I would wanted to.
There is the bag for the dirty sheets. I'm thinking I could throw it over the head and arms so they could see us while I roll the big bed out of the room.
The nurse came in and I have the sheet pulled over my wife's head. Just in case the powers that be were looking for fresh live body to feed the caught Zombies. I want my wife to stay with me.