Usual fun junk today. I bought some random cheap stuff at a booth that always has great prices. The guys also bought a bunch more stuff. Alex participated in a Pokemon DS tourney.
Here's Clark at the Bandai booth going for the choose-a-card game again. We all played today and did not do extremely well... but they give you free cards regardless, so it's fun for Clark. He has a HUGE stack of cards this year. Dragon Ball, Naruto, Power Rangers, even some of that castoff Doomtown stock. Megan and Alex found a booth that was handing out free Yu-Gi-Oh boosters like water, and they shared the bounty with Clark, which he thought was fantastic.
We let Clark into the foam sword bloodsport arena again.
There's Chris hanging out while the Pokemon DS tourney waited to start. Alex got through two rounds and then lost. Single elimination. If I at all kept track of having a good fighting team, I would probably have joined him, but I just don't bother with raising guys up to level 100.
Vapor's Gambit. I'm revising my generous opinion on this one. It's junk. Hence being free. Chris actually wanted this turd and since I'm too much of a choad to give him my free copy, he bought something at the booth just so he could get the free Vapor's Gambit. (He bought the Blue Moon card game, which is actually pretty good.)
Then fifteen minutes later we walked into the gaming hall and found a Vapor's Gambit alone and unwanted. So between the group we now have three copies of this awful thing.
Here's Clark going through his new Yu-Gi-Oh cards, enjoying himself immensely because that's what the bigger kids were also doing.
Yup, that's us at Origins 2009.
I finally broke down and bought a Cthulu doll. We've been seeing them for years. I'm not saying that I am now part of the hipster doofus pseudo-ironic Cthulu sub-cult, just that I found a pretty sizable toy for $9. I also picked up Scavenger Hunt for $5 (I like it), a box of Monster Tykes for $1, and two Egyptian themed card games for $5 each. Had a coupon for $5 off the total, so that was a great bit o' shopping.
Some day I'll finally get to the Arkham Horror board game and that Cthulu will be super sweet.
Ended the day back in a gaming hall, playing random stuff. We did Settlers of Catan, which was my (and Chris's) first time ever playing the legend. Seriously, everybody plays that one. I just never got around to it. It's pretty cool, and I am interested in seeing what all the myriad expansions offer.
Only one day to go. We're leaving some time tomorrow.
Haha, that's really cute :D
You should try to get into the Yugioh card game. It's a bit complicated nowadays, but it's still good fun.
At the very least, you should get the new game, so that you don't need to buy a load of cards to get going.
I've got a competetive team myself, although I don't break it out much. There's a video of a battle I fought in though, if you want to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-saOqe2h4M&feature=channel_page