Thank God for a good day in Toronto, Canada 7/12- 7/13 (Day 1&2)

Courtesy Jen Chao

July 12 - To AirBnB and rest:

Came during the evening around 4PM. Traffic was busy so I didn't arrive to the Yonge-Sheppard area till 6ish by Uber. I wasn't feeling too good though I walked Yonge St for a little. I ended up buying Smoke's Poutinerie traditional fries and it was good though its full of carbs so be careful. I slept by 9ish Toronto time. I didn't get a pic of the store but its @ 4716 Yonge St, North York, ON M2N 5M4, Canada. A bit pricey but good.

 

July 13- Chinatown, City Hall, Kensington St, Eaton Centre and more!

I jogged for a little bit and came across Avonshire Park.

 

Met up with my Okcupid bud- Jen Chao who showed me around. For once i didn't log my journals down so I'll try to remember what I did chronologically to the best of my knowledge. We went for some bake goods first!








Then we caught the subway and buses to Chinatown. You will see some pics of the CN tower from this point. Located in Chinatown was also

Kensington Market.

 

Sukoshi Mart

Ditto for this one.

Toronto's fascination with Poke.

Seven Lives (Courtesy Jen Chao)

(Courtesy Jen Chao)

                     

More Legends to come! A Transformers story.

Been feeling a little down lately plus working lots. Still haven't gotten to finalizing the Metroplex review. Anyhow, I decided to complete season 4 of Transformers: The headmasters. I even got Windblade who is this current gen but I decided that I need some fembots. I also got Twintwist and Topspin whose G1 toys were made but were never featured in any of the cartoons/anime.

Hopefully I can review these folks soon. Laters.

Makapu'u once more! The Makapu'u Tidepools!

Return to Makapu'u once more. Me and my bud Kev hiked the back area a little (The look-out side). We then hiked the regular trail and hiked down to the Tide pools ( we went through the whale looking section). 

The look out area- A hidden bunker

 

The Tide pools of Makapu'u

View from the Tidepools

 

 

 Quite a bit a turnout here. A few people swimming here. The tide wasn't bad at all and Dragon's Nostrils is located here as well, but due to the weak tide, it wasn't an impressive Spout. When hiking down from the Whale viewing area, remember it's not a race. Play it safe. Going back up was obviously harder.

Lunch: Gokoku Sushi; Dessert: Kokonuts Shave Ice and Snacks

Surf and Turf Donburi

Talk about recharge! Very much needed. 

Deadpool 2 later on during night

Fun movie. Got this cup but end up throwing it away. Too bad it wasn't the collectible type of cup. Anyhow, that was my day. I need more days like this.  Thank Jesus I made it out safe of the hike and for a good day. Toodles!

Regular trail pics: https://iamterenceho.blogspot.com/2017/09/return-to-makapuu-lighthouse-trail-83117.html

Toy Review: Takara Generations Metroplex w/Scamper TG-23 review part 2 of 2!

Metroplex will clean up this mess!

Aloha Folks, back with part II. I had some issues with my uploads so it took me a while to fix it. Today we look at Alt mode and city mode for Metroplex. Without delay, let's get started! Oh, don't mind my messy room. *Special autobot appearances.*

Alt mode (No stickers applied):

 

 

 

 

Twist and shoot!

What the hook is used for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very easy to transform. I was amazed by his robot mode but his alt mode is easy to transform and play around with. It's nice for Legends scale robots. Metroplex serves as a carrier and a surfboard for the bigger robots. Haha. He looks kinda naked without the stickers though it will be remedied on the next and final Metroplex review. The pictures here don't really do his size justice. He is still that darn big! He looks awesome here no doubt. Scamper can use Metroplex's head as a canon. Neat gimmick. Play around with him for maximal fun. The western release has his ramps as black and its neat as hell. The Japanese release has him all white, something fans got turned off by but once again G1 animation colors the Japanese go by. Just FYI for those who wondered why the color difference.

Toy Review: Takara Generations Metroplex w/Scamper TG-23 review part 1 of 2!

At long last! 5 years out of his cage, Metroplex heeds the call of the last prime! I figured it was time to test the waters on this guy and man was I not disappointed.... at least not yet. Today I will take a look at robot modes for both Metroplex and Scamper. Part II will deal with alt modes and such while part III will deal with add on stickers and other things I missed in the first two parts. Without delay, let's get started!

*Warning: This is the Takara Generations release from 2013 and not the re-release of the Legends figure. Hence, there is no Manga (comic). Not to mention the voice clips in this release are English. I heard the re-release is now in Japanese. *

Boxing and contents

 

 

 

 

Man, that is one huge box to encase a huge figure! I will get to this part later on. It was actually a pain to remove Metroplex from his prison box because he is twist-tied and taped heavily into all these individual black brackets. It took me some time but he was freed at last. On the side of the box was his instruction manual plus stickers that are needed to give him some more detail. Its optional though. Anyhow, next category.