Well, I did it. After a year or so of thinking about it, and many many late nights, I finally redesigned this damn thing. For all the work I put into it, things sure don’t look all that different, but here’s a quick tour, anyway. In list form:
There are still a few lingering things that annoy me, so I’ll get to those in, uhh, two years. Also, I changed the name to “…and Stuff” partly because I’m trying not to use so many dang cusswords on my sites, but mostly because of Ron Swanson.
Which means I took a few more things off the “never selling” and “probably never selling” lists. Which means you should buy them off me.
As soon as I remember all the php I used to know, I can stop posting this list and saying “if it doesn’t have one of these tags, go for it”:
Read the Original Fire Sale post too, since its rules still apply. Then read the last news post, as it has pertinent information about how to request stuff, as well as how not to waste my time.
Kind of. Most of my crap is still in storage, so I can only go searchin’ once a week or so. With that in mind, DON’T WASTE MY TIME! Example: Don’t ask for, like, half my collection, and then hit me with a “but I don’t have any money, herp derp” (true story). I will become so mad.
Anyway, check these tags. If it doesn’t have one of these, you can probably have it:
(Unless I change my mind and decide I still want something, in which case: SORRY)
Email offers to glidoler on the inter-nets mail system of Yahoo (dot com). Or leave a comment somewhere. Note: if you leave a comment on a post, it won’t show up immediately or at all, because I screen first—too much spam.
Read the Original Fire Sale post too, since its rules still apply.
I’m moving this summer, and there’s about a month between leaving my old place and moving into the new one, so everything is going into storage for a while. I’ll let you know when I’m all unpacked ’n shit. It’ll be sometime in August, lol.
I guess my sale didn’t suck! Anyway, I wanted to make a page that showed all the sold Zoids, and a page for the ones that aren’t for sale, but I used a custom field to display that in the original posts, and it is proving difficult to make a page that shows only certain values (or match variations of a certain value). Mainly because I am not good with computer.
So here are the fire sale tags. If a zoid doesn’t have one of these tags, go for it!
I’ll just leave this here too, for reference: Original Fire Sale post
Update to the update: Closed for summer!
Update to the update to the update: It’s back on!
This is (probably) not a drill. It’s happened to everyone else, and now it’s happening to me. The whole “moving on”/quitting Zoids thing. So, almost everything is for sale. Please make offers, because I haven’t kept up long enough to even know what they’re worth. Leave comments here, or on the posts of the wanted Zoids (I’ll screen for privacy), or send email to my yahoo dot com email address, whose name is glidoler.
Some things to consider:
Hit me up if you’re not totally discouraged by the above. (Wow, this sale sucks!)
Q: What has two biologically inaccurate opposable thumbs AND a working motor and lights?
A: THIS GUYYYYYY!
HUGE thanks to zoidmagnite, and more pics to come. Uhh, soon.
…and they keep pulling me back in.
Even though I’m so over HMMs that I didn’t even give the Dark Horn a second look, the announcement of a Rinon (aka Leena) Custom version is starting to really tempt me. At the very worst, I’ll have a ton of custom fodder. At the best, I’ll have a Gun Sniper that can barely stand under the weight of all its weapons.
Just like in the anime!
It was the basket that did it. There’s no resisting that.
Or are we? I’m going to try and upgrade WordPress soon. The new version is so new and magical and revolutionary, that I’m a bit worried some of my custom stuff will break. If it does, I don’t exactly have time to fix it.
Cross your fingers! GREAT SUCCESS! Next, add some of those sexxy new features.
So I was checking my page (this one) to make sure everything looked ok, and like half my thumbnails were missing! After checking every obscure thing possible, I noticed that AdBlock was filtering out anything with “-120×90” in its name. I guess the thumbnail size I’ve been using forever is a new ad size?
SO, inter-net, I will make a deal with you. If you check “Disable on zoido.smeat.net” in AdBlock, I will never ever ever ever ever ever run ads on this site. As a bonus, you’ll get to see image thumbnails.
(Besides, I tried the google thing once and I made about 25 cents in three months.)
Let me show you it. So, with all this free time, I may suddenly discover that I still run a Zoids site, and I may catch up (a little) on pictures.
Or not, since I probably just jinxed it!
Okay, after getting about 50235972350 “can I buy this off you” comments, I’ve updated the FAQ. Or, if you are asking about where to find certain zoids, check out the FAQ (where that one was already answered). And, just to be a dick, here’s a link to the FAQ again: A LINK TO THE FAQ
To make up for the above, I may actually catch up on pictures this… uh, year.
I really do want to catch up on all the pics I need to take, but it’s been uniformly grey inside and out. I need to work on an indoor setup for sure, before I forget how to camera.
In other news, it’s about that time of year where I try to undo the ham-fisted panel lining job I gave Iron Kong Yeti so long ago. Since it was black, it’s historically taken about an hour to get one piece of armor halfway clean, before I give up. This was with either the Gundam Marker remover, or nail polish remover. THIS time, though, I found some model paint solvent, and that’s doing the trick. It’s down to ten minutes per piece. I should be done by 2025.
That’s how many corner graphics there are now. I think most categories are well-represented. If not, maybe someday?
In other news, HMM Red Horn will soon be a real thing (pics, Kotobukiya page)!
The “random corner image” thingie will be back soon. I got tired of all the old images, and am busy making new ones. LOTS of new ones! Category-specific ones! But it’s taking a while, because I hate Photoshop and also my mouse is a piece of junk.
Update 10/2: About half of the new pics are up. Some categories have more than others right now, but I’m working on it!
I finally finished the TS motor post! I’ve tried or looked into every windup there is, and got pictures of the ones that worked. Maybe now I can do all the other pictures I need to do…
In case you haven’t seen this on every other zoids site: HMM Iron Kong is coming (pics, Kotobukiya page)!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In other news, I have one slightly used kidney that I am selling (for the inevitable Kong variants that will follow).
Check out this amazing 3D animation of a Gore (in Iron Kong Yeti colors)! A-and if you go to Andy Whiteley’s site, you can find high-def video, in-progress renders, and a “making-of” page.
I got a new camera this month, which means two things:
Woot? The camera’s hella sweet, though.
Yeah, so I kind of went on a buying/building spree, and now I have a ton of kits that need pictures. I also started a new section for those other Zoid-like toys Tomy made (since I finally got some Z-Knights).
New year, new to-do:
Leftover from my last to-do:
I did all these!
So here’s a new homepage, kind of. I wanted something that loaded faster and had a crapload more info on it, so’s your brain would explode. In case you totally hate it, there’s always the old one (I guess the preview only works for ME when I’m logged in)…
I finally figured out how to get captions to show up in my galleries, thanks to this handy post. Hooray for the return of informative text!
My camera’s still on vacation for another week, so hold your horses.
…some time after 9/26 (when I get back from vacation), that is, since I doubt I’ll get anything done this week. Also when I get back, I hope to have figured out some way to do box pics without them looking like crap (crap = lens distortion).
The weather has been so mild lately I’ve had to check and make sure I didn’t accidentally sleep for two months. As such, I was able to take some pics without fear of melting plastic! HMM Shieldy II has more pics now, for maximum enjoyment. Also, the Panda Fighter is up.
Um, wait that didn’t come out right. Starting over, OK… I made a new category, Temporary dump, for all those leftover toy/bootleg/weirdstuff entries (from the old Etc section) that defy easy categorization. I also changed my permalink style, so when I move stuff around, the links won’t keep breaking. Hooray?
…except my brain. The problem seemed to be that I don’t know php, but why that only affected two category pages is still a mystery. Anyway, all is once again well in the universe and last night I finished stickering the HMM Shield Liger Mk-II and Guylos Molga. So there you go.
All that redoing of everything, and the same two categories are still busted: 2000s misc, 3rd gen. All the others do the right thing, so I am cornfused. Anyone who can offer some php/wordpress skillz, lemme know. Otherwise it’s time to charge up the lazer…
That’s what I get for… uh, doing something. Anyway, my category pages stopped working (but only some of them), so I had to redo them all. Now I have to reassign everything to the NEW categories (same as the old ones). UGH. I am still a n00b at blogging, lol omg jk aggro wtf
These sections are up-to-date: OJR, OAR, Robo Strux, OER, Zoids2, Techno Zoids, Fuzors, Neo/Legend Blox, NJR Limited (only one entry, but still), Genesis Limited. Can I get a w00t?
Here’s a links page! And an about page, which I’ll fill in someday, REALLY…
OK so I switched the site over to using wordpress. This’ll make things much easier for me to update, and give you—dear reader—some handier features (tags, comments, single pages) that I couldn’t do before. Now I just need to enter everything all over again, so if your favorite Zoid isn’t here… hang tight!
PS I know I still need to get links and intros and about pages up in here.
