Hallelujah. New Pirates content.

I think WizKid's long-lived Pirates of the Cursed Sea (four years!) constructible strategy game has entered the For Existing Fans Only phase of its life. Which unfortunately means imminent death cannot be far behind. The newest release - Savage Shores - is showing up not in $4 boosters but in $15 boxed sets. The boxes contain the equivalent of 5 boosters, plus a mega-ship... so the value is better, although a $15 box is a lot less likely to be impulse-shopped than a $4 booster.

There are six boxes, each with a different pre-assembled mega-ship... and each contains one third of the cards needed to build one of two ten-mast huge-ass ships. I need to find out what boxes I need to buy so I can complete one of the ten-masters. And that will likely be the end of my Savage Shores purchases.

Hurm. I actually like this pricing/compiling scheme a lot better.

Got my Dragonite.

Toys R Us had another exclusive character download this past weekend, a level 50 Dragonite. Totally meh. But I haven't missed any of these free grabs yet and I'm not bloody likely to.

Do you want to hear how my Toys R Us screwed this up? It's a minor mistake but very, very important. The big sign explaining about the download and how to get it was NOT in the video games RZone but instead at the store's entrance. Every single parent/kid looking for the promised "free pokemon" marched straight past the sign and to the RZone, where they then stood confused and frustrated. Many thought they had to get in line to get the "free pokemon," which bogged down the doorbusters sale and tied up the employees. I helped who I could and then got out of there.

It's going to be a Speed Racer Christmas.

Clark is going to net so much Speed Racer stuff for Christmas. It's so much that we're concerned for what will happen should Clark put Speed Racer on the downslide sometime over the next two months. So we're making sure there's some Batman and Ben 10 and other stuff mixed in.

He's only three, and daycare doesn't carry the same peer pressure cycles as elementary and middle school, so I highly doubt that Speed Racer will become uncool by December 25th. Still, this is what good parents care about.

The one thing that he wants above all else is that Speed Racer helmet that talks and makes noises when you move your head.

Should we end up hosting a New Year's party, I'm going to have to buy a fourth Dual Shock.

For LittleBigPlanet, obviously.

Also maybe a fourth Wii Remote for Tetris Party.

Great idea from the Star Wars Pocketmodel game.

Just like my beloved, barely played Pirates, the Star Wars constructible strategy game has packs of little ships to assemble and play. This weekend I saw the Star Wars MEGA ship sets for the first time. I think they're actually built to scale with the established tiny X-Wings and TIEs and etc that you get in the normal boosters! The Star Destroyer I saw was as big as a regular 8.5x11 sheet of paper! Awesome! Totally makes me want to get into this game too.