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Brandon Hoppel
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Favourite genre of music: Videogame Music
Favourite style of art: Anything by Yoshitaka Amano
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Just a random list of my favorite tracks from the Seiken Densetsu series because why the hell not? These were some amazing games that are rather underrated in this current gaming market.

Seiken Densetsu 1 (Final Fantasy Adventure)

- Rising Sun: [link]
- Ending Battlefield: [link]
Man just hearing this tune brings back memories of wandering around the world lost and surrounded by whatever odd beasts the game threw at you and some of them were downright weird (killer snowmen).
- Dungeon 1: [link]
One of he many dungeon themes you'll be hearing throughout the game. Has a menacing feel to it, for an 8-bit tune.
- Fight 1: [link]
Boss theme of the game, something not even the first Final Fantasy game had. :D
- Jema's Realization: [link]
Definitely the more emotional track. This game had several sad and even depressing scenes which was mind blowing at the time.
- In Search for the Sacred Sword: [link]
Plays on the overworld map after your Chocobo companion gets upgraded.
- Theme of Chocobo: [link]
While first appearing in Final Fantasy 3 while not being released outside Japan, to us Americans at the time the Chocobo made its appearance in this game. Shame on the remake for leaving this fella out. :(
- Dungeon 2: [link]
Has a nice Egyptian feel, probably my favorite of the dungeon themes. First heard in Medusa's Cave.
- Dungeon 3: [link]
Damn floating eyeballs and more snowmen to contend to.
- Mana Palace: [link]
Teleporting ninjas, floating demon heads, and boulder throwing elephant giants. This place is heavily guarded indeed.

Seiken Densetsu 2 (Secret of Mana)

- Fear of the Heavens: [link]
Opening theme and an amazing one at that.
- Phantom and a Rose: [link]
Won't lie but even to this day I get a little teary-eyed whenever I listen to this particular piece.
- Into the Thick of It: [link]
The track that truly got me invested in this game. Listen to this and tell me you won't be humming it later on?
- The Color of the Summer Sky: [link]
The perfect cheery up music you need to brighten up your day.
- What the Forest Taught Me: [link]
- A Wish: [link]
First piece of music that comes into my mind whenever I see snow.
- A Bell Is Tolling: [link]
Ice Palace theme.
- Prophecy: [link]
Second flight theme for Flammie, animal companion and the best way to get from point A to point B.
- Leave Time For Love: [link]
This series had a ton of catchy melodies and this is certainly one of them.
- Still of the Night: [link]
Simply beautiful, so calm and relaxing...... until the Griffon hands get you. Yes you heard me. :D

Seiken Densetsu 3

- Little Sweet Cafe: [link]
Another cheery tune, kinda makes you wanna go shopping.
- Hope Isolation Pray: [link]
Another sad and emotional track.
- Innocent Sea: [link]
and another sad and emotional track.
- Evening Star: [link]
and yet again, seriously game stop making me feel sad. :p
- Harvest November: [link]
As the name applies.
- Different Road: [link]
A nice fun and catchy tune for killing off those annoying flying eggplant birds.
- Powell: [link]
If the Rabite had its own theme music to accompany it, them this would probably be it.
- Nuclear Fusion: [link]
One of the boss themes of the game and as what you'd expect it catchy as all heck.
- Rolling Cradle: [link]
Not sure where exactly this piece plays. Still kinda good in its own way.
- Sacrifice, Part 1: [link]
- Sacrifice, Part 2: [link]
- Sacrifice, Part 3: [link]
Yes I cheated but damn it this piece of awesome could have only come in 3 parts.
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:iconseekerblackout:
Man dude, that Sandstorm.

Hasbro is getting better and better with retools.
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:iconzigholtul88:
Yes they are and is a major step up from the typical recolor where the most you could hope for was a new head sculpt. I seriously need to grab myself both Blitzwing, Springer and whatever Beast Hunters voyagers that are out now.
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:iconseekerblackout:
Someone mentioned Bludgeon being a triple changer in Spotlight Thundercracker, so perhaps that could be Blitzving's (Misspelling intentional) retool.
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:iconzigholtul88:
I would hope that Bludgeon would get a new mold or something, if anything his ROTF version was a grand favorite of mine despite the questionable hands. Which did not bother me apparently since I bought both Banzai-tron and G2 Megatron. Speaking of which I'm gonna have to paint those up one of these days, especially Megatron as he desperately needs his purple camo deco.
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:iconseekerblackout:
I wonder what FOCswipe's gun might look like on TFP Ultra Magnus. The rifle he used in the latest episode looked a lot like it minus the massive ammo drum.
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:iconseekerblackout:
BTW what else did you get?
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:iconzigholtul88:
Well Transformers related:

Prime First Edition Optimus Prime
Prime First Edition Bulkhead - hurray for needing to fix his forearms, damn stress marks and potential breakage
Beast Hunters Smokescreen
Beast Hunters Starscream x3 - gonna keep one as Starscream
Generations Soundblaster
Generations Grimlock
Generations Ultra Magnus

..... and a bunch of Megabloks stuff plus the second volume of Digimon season one. Yay for late 90s dubbing. :D
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:iconseekerblackout:
Can't wait to see you paint up Smokescreen. He needs it bad.

I mean, it's not that his underpainted, it's that the paint was way misplaced. (Like Knockout's maroon)
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:iconzigholtul88:
I'll eventually get to him. I still have a good amount of figures I should probably do more work before I start on anything else. Which I would have said earlier had I not started on Grimlock. That figure is a ton of fun and really the plastic isn't as cheap as I thought it would be. People whom complain that newer figures are akin to knockoff quality have never actually handled a true knock off.
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:iconseekerblackout:
Hey, I noticed from my messages that it's your birthday!

Assuming I'm not wrong, Happy Birthday!
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:iconzigholtul88:
Yeah I got some nice goodies with the exception of FOC Sideswipe. I was not expecting such a broken excuse of a figure.
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:iconseekerblackout:
I assume the Jazz mold is pretty bad if you like Onslaught but hate him.

Ah well, you could always give the gun to someone else. It reminds me of Prime Optimus' gun.
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:iconseekerblackout:
Hey, have you ever thought of buying another Bumblebee and doing a custom based on his new Season three deco?
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:iconzigholtul88:
If I can ever find one on clearance (local Wal-mart has him plus a lone Vehicon for $19.99 a piece) then sure I can definitely go about doing it. I wish they went with his spiky look though.
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:iconseekerblackout:
I like the new colors because he looks closer to a real bumblebee's look now.

I've been working on my own for a while now. Just used my FE 'Bee, if I find another for cheap I'll get another yellow 'Bee.
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:iconzigholtul88:
Speaking of FE Bee I still have the Comic-con version alongside pink Arcee that I still need to finish painting up. I should probably get back to it whenever possible.
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:iconseekerblackout:
Good news my friend, looks like Hasbro is stepping up their game a bit. The figures at Toy Fair looked quite well painted, and Toy Fair normally doesn't have hand painted samples IIRC.

So yeah, I think the prices might stay the same, but we may be getting more for our buck again. :)
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:iconzigholtul88:
Now if only distribution wasn't such a pain. Where I'm at you have to buy the dang figures when they first come out (at least the short packed ones) or else forget about getting them at retail because they restock like virtually never, except during store resets.
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:iconseekerblackout:
Well that's hardly Hasbro's fault. Just the retailers being dicks.
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:iconzigholtul88:
Still bad for business. I can understand raising the prices a bit (still sucks though) yet not finding the figures can get a little annoying at times. Oh well there's always plenty of movie figures I still need to paint up so that outta be fun for awhile, though I did pick up a Beast Hunters Bumblebee via a Toys R' Us bogo sale alongside Lazerback and he's a surprisingly more fun than his RID counterpart. I've been prepping him for several days now and its looking better than ever. :D

Soon enough he'll be finished and speaking of which I have Knockout already finished. I just need to upload the damn photos and stop being lazy. :P
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:iconseekerblackout:
I was stalking TFW again and found your Knockout custom.

Just a little criticism, but do you think you might do more to him sometime? The alt mode still looks kinda unpainted. Maybe some more red, a silver grill, or his gold door handles could help make it pop more?
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:iconzigholtul88:
I'll take that into consideration mate.
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:iconseekerblackout:
And maybe make him less subtle?

I mean, it IS Knockout, silver instead of gray might help him look more in character. :)
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:iconseekerblackout:
Do you have Prime Knockout? I'd love to see how you'd paint up that figure.
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