Hola Top Men and Top Women! Thanks for checking out this week’s blog.
There’s one week of Masters of the Universe mash-ups left. I had to check, but I finished the set way back in October. Not wanting to get too far ahead, I took a break from drawing mash-ups and only started up again this month. We’ll be revisiting Firefly next. I have three pieces all ready to go, another that just needs shading and I just inked a fifth. This set is looking so much sharper than the original (which is the point).
I got Disney Infinity 3.0 and the Classic Star Wars adventure pack for Christmas. A friend told me that Toys R Us had all the figures on sale. I thought I’d try checking out Wal-Mart last week and in one of those really neat coincidences, I happened on the Infinity aisle as an employee was changing out some figure prices to about 75% off. She was having a hard time matching the names to the correct figures so I helped her out. In helping her, I could more quickly see which of the Star Wars figures were on sale (turns out they all were). So I’m now only missing four solo-pack figures and the Force Awakens adventure pack. Not coincidentally, I spent a good chunk of time playing Disney Infinity over the weekend.
I got to play one of the classics of modern board gaming last week. Seven Wonders is a card drafting game with an ancient civilizations theme. We played with a full complement of seven players and I can easily say I would never want to play with that many players again. The game felt really long, especially the second time around. Seven Wonders is quite robust, but I would suggest people try out a much speedier card drafting game, like Sushi Go first. It’ll give you a good idea of whether you’d like Seven Wonders or not.
On Saturday I finally got to try one of the most popular games of 2016, Blood Rage. It’s an area control game with some card drafting thrown in to add some spice to the proceedings. It’s played in three rounds, but we stopped after the second because it was getting late and one player had to work early on Sunday. This worked well as an introduction and I have a much clearer idea of what to do for next time. That said, it’s not a game I was really clamoring to try, and having played it, my opinion is largely unchanged. It’s a solid game, and I won’t turn it down if my friends ask to play, but it wouldn’t be a game I’d ask for myself.
That about covers it for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.