Yay, new thread, the last one was getting too ginormous, hated having to scroll all the way down.
Hopefully we can keep up the momentum until the big day, although I admit that I will miss this.
Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 12/18/2007 11:37 AM EST
well said you guys, we will miss this after it’s all over
Ghosted by tigerfan @ 12/18/2007 11:42 AM EST
To business! I like the leviathan idea for Box 18, but I’m betting my Christmas cookies on a giant dragon. Poetic justice if roasty, toasty Santa-X gets to tool around on a fire-breathing dragon, don’t you think?
Ghosted by Rhino @ 12/18/2007 11:54 AM EST
New thread! New thread! La-la-la-la!
I think we’re over due at least one more male in the Knights calendar, seeing as the Pretty Pink Princess one has had three ladies. Unless they cram them in to the last box.
And thanks for the linkage Nizz and Tres.
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 11:59 AM EST
I tried looking on the Playmobil site but everything is small and blurry. Does anyone know who is who in the Knights and Fairy Tale calendars? I know the two new Mares are from the Fairy Tale calendar, and I know that Jacob came from the Knight’s calendar.
However I don’t know how many females and how many males are in both of them.
Tres, there are two tall knights (a grey and a gold) and a squire in the Nits…sorry, Knights…calendar. In the Unicorn-but-wish-it-was-Unicron calendar there are two mammoth ladies and the GoGo Dancer.
Great piece,Drew. I see you went and ordered your own Mare and Hssxxllo, cool!
Guise, I take it that the go go dancer from the Fairy Tale character is Mare 2007, and the two ladies are the “megamares,” ho recently appeared. I also assume that the squire was Jacob, and that perhaps we are due for some knights.
Tres, yeah, Mare ‘07 (Cher) is GoGo. Squire is Jacob, as he’s the short-arse of the group. If the image is anything to go by, we’re due a unicorn and a likkle teeny-tiny pony from the Land o’ Pink, and a horse.
Yeah, Knights duel. One horse.
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 2:13 PM EST
i’m back.
did I miss anything?
I mean, other than the fake snow entry.
No?
Maybe?
*wanders over to old thread*
Ghosted by kittymao @ 12/18/2007 2:32 PM EST
Ya know, I really hate to say this but I kind of forgot what happened in the 17th.. Oh wait, no I didn’t.
We have yet to see Trudy’s potential. She hasn’t done much except eat Ding Dongs and pretend to be a mute girl with mutant hands.
It was really hard to type that without laughing. Good job, Matt!
Ben, truly she is a master of infiltration and disguise!
Mare needs to smack Trudy up a bit though, show her who is Alpha Female in the house. Heck, show Trudy that she couldn’t even fill Waiterbetty’s PVC tentacle-shoes.
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 2:53 PM EST
is it bad of me to want sweet violence?
The house b rawl last year was top notch- and Waiterbot violence doesn’t count- anyone can beat on Legos.
Ghosted by kittymao @ 12/18/2007 3:13 PM EST
Kitty, who do you want fighting and in what kind of match-up?
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 3:38 PM EST
tresjolie, yeah I found a store by me that had a gigantic wall of Playmobil. They had about 20 Advent Calendar’s between last year’s with Box and the year before that with Mare and I was tempted to get both but I passed. I picked up the only “Bunny Music Lesson” they had though haha. 6.50 after tax. Cheaper than buying off playmobil.com!
Guise, thanks man! Your page with all the hints and notes is awesome!
I don’t want the Advent calndar to end this year, this place has started to feel like my home away from home! It won’t be the same to have just one discussion thread!
Ghosted by Dan H @ 12/18/2007 4:59 PM EST
I dunno. I would LOVE to see Mare run Hare through with an Athame. Maybe some beheading. Playmobil Beheading- Lego beheading is too easy. And as much as I love that Matt destroyed a Santa by covering it in black, I’d love to see that in RED- nail polish blood massacre!
Ghosted by kittymao @ 12/18/2007 5:18 PM EST
*licks screen*
hmmmmmmmmmm…
yep, its a fresh tasty new thread
im betting its a knight mare in box 18
or, some animal, like a bunny or wolf
There is going to be such awesome violence in the next few days… and the return of the last 3 days of the 2002 Advent Calendar!
Ghosted by DocDragon @ 12/18/2007 5:26 PM EST
Mmmm, it still has that new thread smell.
on a side note, I just bought my nephew a playmobil pirates playset. little does he know what the price of their silences was…
Ghosted by Ann @ 12/18/2007 5:43 PM EST
well, Ann.. at least, not until he’s Legal.
*snickers*
Cause I know many people, you give ‘um a bottle of booze and they shut up- maybe cuase they finish it so quick they pass out.
yessssss, the sweet sound of silence.
Ghosted by kittymao @ 12/18/2007 5:49 PM EST
Drew, what store was this?
I just found out that there is a Playmobil USA store in NYC.
I will not take a trip into NYC and buy “Bunny Music Lesson, or any other Advent Calendar related set. If I do succumb, and purchase any of this, I will not stop by Forbidden Planet, and purchase figures of characters I feel it would be fun to see interacting with Hare and HW.
Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 12/18/2007 5:55 PM EST
Kitty, maybe Matt’ll put the 175-200 pictures per day and make a very clippy, blurry fight scene for dramatic emphasis?
I loved the fight in the house, “Good God…there’s blood everywhere!” I’m guessing Waiterbot’s jacket absorbed it all like a Bounty paper towel.
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 6:13 PM EST
I know! I totally wanted to SEE blood, and not have it assumed.
a HA!
*goes to photoshop*
Ghosted by kittymao @ 12/18/2007 6:39 PM EST
His figure loomed over their fallen bodies. His foes writhed and twitched, their beaten faces contorted in a mask of bloodied anguish. A snarl came from his curled lips and his tentacles rubbed gleefully against the velvet suit of his host body.
“The calendar will forev’r be stained in the blood of the non-believers,” he roared, heaving the blood stained wrench in the air.
“For I,” he boomed, and his red pupils seemed to glow in the turqoise pool of his eyes, “AM WAITERBOT!”
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 6:45 PM EST
Guise
You both entertain me and scare the hell out of me.
Ghosted by Dan H @ 12/18/2007 6:52 PM EST
Dan, flatterer!
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 6:54 PM EST
Guise
You do have a way with writing though. Do you write in your spare time or is it just a gift?
wow kitty,thats an awsome idea, go through and edit advent calendar days, that would be be so fun/ny
and guise, same, i can see it now, “Advent Calendar 2007, The Book”
I’d buy that. Especially since the only books I’ve bought recently have been textbooks. It would be nice to have something entertaining, rather than educational. Or maybe… edutaining?
Well, one last one before I go to bed, and this one is partially Dio’s fault for an inspiring picture…
As the rabbit read the words quietly to himself, Kuse fidgetted in his seat. He’d been quite proud of the collage he’d put together for the cover of his card, but was less confident on his message. He’d spent so long trying to get the right tone and find the right words, that now it felt like a heavy weight placed upon his chest.
Hssxxlllo looked down to his newfound friend, whose eyes and smile tried to display a confidence both knew wasn’t there. As the rabbit sighed, Kuse’s body sagged slightly.
“Kuse, what the hell?” Hssxxlllo asked, shaking his head softly, “Roses are red….violets are blue. If you forgive me…I’ll stop being a Jew. Are you joking? Your wife doesn’t want you to convert…she just wants to know that you care about her!”
“So you don’t think that one works?” Kuse looked despondent, and he looked to the pile of other messages, “I wrote a few others…see if you like those any better?”
He handed the pile to the rabbit, who flicked through them, again shaking his smooth, furry head at everyone until he exasperratedly reached the final one.
“Roses are red…violets are blue. I’ll switch to Catholicism…to prove I-love-you.” Kuse, this is almost exactly the same as the last one!”
Kuse looked down at his hands and then back to Hssxxlllo’s warm brown eyes, “I thought I showed a little more talent for turning a phrase in this version, though.”
Hssxxlllo smiled slightly, he felt bad for the man before him and there was a tugging at his heart that made him bond to this young man.
“I just don’t think this is the right kind of vibe you want.” Hssxxlllo said, his voice calm and soft as he tried to explain to Kuse, “She’s not looking for you to compensate by giving her things…just tell the woman you love her!”
Kuse looked at the discarded messages and to the picture of Mare in the frame he’d bought especially for her photograph, one of the few purchases he’d made with his earnings that was just for him. “I don’t know how,” Kuse said, his voice was sad and carried a tinge of hopeless desperation, “I can’t seem to rhyme and be romantic at the same time.”
Hssxxlllo looked at his friend. He knew that this was a risky bond given their seperate pasts and their likely shadowy future, but nevertheless a bond had been made. A small smile twitched on Hssxxlllo’s face, his ears sagged slightly as if in mock defeat and he gave a sigh, “Ugh, get me a damn pen. I’ll help you.”
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 7:46 PM EST
Now I would definitely buy the book. Heck, I’ll edit the thing for you (I am a bit of a grammar Nazi ). Guise, go get the rights and let’s get to work!
Tres, sure am, I think it’s obvious that Hssxxlllo is a friendly and sympathetic/empathic person, who in a short space of time developed a rather good working relation with a colleague and, despite problems with their personal goals outside of work, do have more of a kinship.
And, to bed I go…
Ghosted by Guise @ 12/18/2007 8:03 PM EST
i hope matt reads this
but still, awesome, now for a title
“Advent Calendar 5/ Waiter, Their’s a Hare in My Soup”
chapter 1 New Year, New Fear
If there’s a scene where a Mare comes out of the Knight calendar, there needs to be a “Knight Mare on Elm Street” pun.
Guise and kittymao – great work! There needs to be an illustrated book, eh?
Ghosted by Frakkyfire @ 12/18/2007 9:32 PM EST
oh my god, frakky, that would be so funny
but this book totally needs to happen
we did the same thing in class, our teacher was/is sick, so we made a giant story, and different illustrations for each chapter
i’d work on more drawings, but i don’t have much time, my school isn’t out yet, and i have a bunch of tests
Ahh. I see we have a new thread. I looked at the website that solves the clues and the Playmobil links. Well it seems that this is gonna get really wierd now. If anyone needs me to help with anything ask away.
Ghosted by Andre @ 12/18/2007 10:22 PM EST
Hey everyone, I forgot to post this, but due to the demand, I made 2 desktop wallpapers out of the “we do what we must” image. I’ve never made them before so I made a 1280×768 and a 1600×1024. I’m not sure how much artwork I will be doing over the holidays (traveling and such) but if you need a different size or want the other image, drop me an e-mail (flickr account name and add @yahoo
Goodnight all, thanks for another entertaining evening! On a side note, I sold a $200 dollar Playmobil set at work today. She lugged it up to my cash and I just went “Playmobil? HA!” and she must have thought I was nuts.
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). Guise, go get the rights and let’s get to work!
Advent-urers,
Welcome to Part IV (The Final Chapter???)
Here’s the link to Guise’s site:
http://www.rogues.1me.net/XEAdventurers/fellow_advent.htm
#23 is almost upon us!