The Energon Pub

Editor wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:

warwik311 wrote:Did Mom serve milk and cookies too?

seriously though, that's a lot of collectible in one room

My wife made some bitchin' lasagna and Chinese meat buns.

That menu sounds pretty sweet actually.

It was! The bo were delicious. I've been trying to find the flour locally ever since, and no luck. CP's wife is an awesome chef.

Delicon wrote:I've met Mkall in real life and he's about as harmless as they get.

In fact, he's likely to go to bed early and not even remember you the next day.

Do I know you?

Razorclaw0000 wrote:It was! The bo were delicious. I've been trying to find the flour locally ever since, and no luck. CP's wife is an awesome chef.

What kind of flour are you looking for? My mom makes all variations of bao(I'm assuming thats what is meant by "Chinese meat buns" and "bo") and she uses plain white flour.

Convotron wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:It was! The bo were delicious. I've been trying to find the flour locally ever since, and no luck. CP's wife is an awesome chef.

What kind of flour are you looking for? My mom makes all variations of bao(I'm assuming thats what is meant by "Chinese meat buns" and "bo") and she uses plain white flour.

This was some mix of white flour, leaveners, spices, etc. And yes, I did typo the "a" in "bao". Damn iPhone.

Razorclaw0000 wrote:This was some mix of white flour, leaveners, spices, etc. And yes, I did typo the "a" in "bao". Damn iPhone.

Very interesting. Was it a pre-mixed flour? If you're interested in trying to make bao, I could PM you the recipe my mom uses.

And don't worry about the typo as I've seen "bao" spelled a few different ways in English, none of which can properly convey its pronunciation, hehe.

Convotron wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:It was! The bo were delicious. I've been trying to find the flour locally ever since, and no luck. CP's wife is an awesome chef.

What kind of flour are you looking for? My mom makes all variations of bao(I'm assuming thats what is meant by "Chinese meat buns" and "bo") and she uses plain white flour.

Heh, I specifically didn't refer to it as bo because I didn't think anyone would know what the hell I was talking about.

Editor wrote:I'm sure that if we were to do something we should have something we all have that could be decent enough.
a) how many of us are in this area besides you, me, and Mkall? (yhea Blurrz is somewhat close by)
b) Do we all have City Commanders? RID Scourges? how about PowerMaster Primes?

All of the above, yes. But I would only really consider City Commander something to brag about... however, they are all awesome and very photogenic figures.

Mkall wrote:

Blurrz wrote:I reside in Victoria, but I fear getting close to Mkall because I swear he's set on re-enacting his signature on me.

Oh come on, you'll wear padding.

Delicon wrote:I've met Mkall in real life and he's about as harmless as they get.

In fact, he's likely to go to bed early and not even remember you the next day.

Hahaha, did someone have a little too much to drink at Botcon?

Man, I want some freakin' XLB. XLB being xiao long bao.

Counterpunch wrote:Heh, I specifically didn't refer to it as bo because I didn't think anyone would know what the hell I was talking about.

Hehe, well one person knows at least! For anyone who doesn't know, you should try some bao the next time you go to a Chinese restaurant that serves something aside from the standard Chinese American fare.

kirbenvost wrote:Man, I want some freakin' XLB. XLB being xiao long bao.

My mom makes those too.

kirbenvost wrote:
All of the above, yes. But I would only really consider City Commander something to brag about... however, they are all awesome and very photogenic figures.

My City Commander will be more complete sometime this week, as my update pack is on route from BBTS. Also how did I forget we have Darth Bombshell here too.

Convotron wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:Man, I want some freakin' XLB. XLB being xiao long bao.

My mom makes those too.

Awesome! They're probably my favorite chinese dish right now. My girlfriend's chinese, and although she doesn't make those herself, she knows all the good places to get them. It helps that there's a huge asian community around here, so there's tons of pretty authentic restaurants.

Editor wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:
All of the above, yes. But I would only really consider City Commander something to brag about... however, they are all awesome and very photogenic figures.

My City Commander will be more complete sometime this week, as my update pack is on route from BBTS. Also how did I forget we have Darth Bombshell here too.

ENVY! My Pile of Loot is still waiting because I've got Alternity Bumblebee ordered too. It's going to be a little while before my City Commander's at full badassery.

Yeah, we do have a few members around here... maybe we should do a meetup sometime.

kirbenvost wrote:

Editor wrote:My City Commander will be more complete sometime this week, as my update pack is on route from BBTS. Also how did I forget we have Darth Bombshell here too.

ENVY! My Pile of Loot is still waiting because I've got Alternity Bumblebee ordered too. It's going to be a little while before my City Commander's at full badassery.

Yeah, we do have a few members around here... maybe we should do a meetup sometime.

I got antsy and seeing the only other thing on pre-order has been pushed back (Disney Label Donald) and seeing Device Ravage was in my loot pile, I decided not to wait. Between waiting for those and my order from Cobrastickers to Cobra-up my Dragonhawk chopper. It could be a fun week.

We do have enough here for a meet-up it's just a question of when and where really. I know for work and Convention planning that I'm a bit busy the next few weeks. So there is time if you want to hit that ship my order button, your Magnus can be in full "Deal with that now" mode in time.

Yeah this time of year's usually busy for most people. So yeah, I'm sure my City Commander will have plenty of time to "Deal with this" later.

Man, I've got Device Label Ravage waiting too, and a few other figures I've been waiting a long time to add to my collection. Well, hopefully soon, unless Alternity Bee gets delayed. Then I'm hittin' that ship button ASAP.

kirbenvost wrote:Delicon wrote:
I've met Mkall in real life and he's about as harmless as they get.

In fact, he's likely to go to bed early and not even remember you the next day.

Hahaha, did someone have a little too much to drink at Botcon?

Mkall and I hung out a lot at Botcon 08, we laughed, we cried, we made fun of a rival website during Board Wars...

And then he permanently deleted me from his memory.

JERK!

Delicon wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:Delicon wrote:
I've met Mkall in real life and he's about as harmless as they get.

In fact, he's likely to go to bed early and not even remember you the next day.

Hahaha, did someone have a little too much to drink at Botcon?

Mkall and I hung out a lot at Botcon 08, we laughed, we cried, we made fun of a rival website during Board Wars...

And then he permanently deleted me from his memory.

JERK!

I swear, I forget to mention you once and you'll never let me forget it. You're like a bad one night stand.

Mkall wrote:I swear, I forget to mention you once and you'll never let me forget it. You're like a bad one night stand.

Okay, so we didn't get THAT close!

Ok...back to the discussion of either army building or crazy rare figures.

Else my awesome picture topic is getting locked by me.

Counterpunch wrote:Ok...back to the discussion of either army building or crazy rare figures.

Else my awesome picture topic is getting locked by me.

I finally managed to grab a full set of Wave 4 Cybertron Versus Minicons. For $75. Which was a great price. All the rest I've seen have went for $90-$120 MOSC.

I also got a Nemesis Breaker, which was one the harder Voyagers to find from Cybertron, for $41 MISB.

I'm now only a handful of legends, and one Galaxy Force Vector Prime away from a full US run.

I don't have any crazy rare figures. Can you believe I used to be proud about owning Masterpiece figures? Oh, how times have changed.

...Unless you count Henkei Thundercracker & Skywarp. But no one wants them anyway, judging by the stock levels remaining in stores, thus preventing me from unloading my extra Skywarp..

kirbenvost wrote:...Unless you count Henkei Thundercracker & Skywarp. But no one wants them anyway, judging by the stock levels remaining in stores, thus preventing me from unloading my extra Skywarp..

That actually makes me so mad. All the whining and crying and flame wars about them, and then they're mass released and they're still available after all this time.

It always sucks when some of the cooler things to army build are exclusives or hard to get.

If Down_Shift has a couple left over, I may army-build with Swerves.

I really don't see the hype for this figure. I got one when it first came out cost me 85 dollars shipped. I sold it off about 6-9 months later for about 150 and was happy and suprized to get that. Just goes to show that a figure is only lworth what you will pay for it. Personally I would never pay 350 for one of them.

Geekee1 wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:...Unless you count Henkei Thundercracker & Skywarp. But no one wants them anyway, judging by the stock levels remaining in stores, thus preventing me from unloading my extra Skywarp..

That actually makes me so mad. All the whining and crying and flame wars about them, and then they're mass released and they're still available after all this time.

I guess everyone figured they'd be more limited edition than they actually were. Too bad they still costed so much...

I wish I lived close enough to attend these hangouts. Getting to hang out and alternately brag about what we've gotten once a year @ Botcon simply doesn't cut it! For serious.

Aww those three are so cute!

They would look just adorable beside the TEN I own

(I may live in Canada, but if you can't smell that bullshit, you may have had a bottle rocket explode up your nose)