May the 4th Be With You! Again!

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! If you're a Star Wars fan, you'd know today is MAY THE 4TH! Star Wars Day! Yippee! And if you didn't know it, then, well... I'm sorry, but you obviously watch too much Star Trek. Anyway, I must admit that my post today isn't too special, but I'll try to make it nice. First of all, FeedBurner is stopping email subscriptions, sadly, so to my one email subscriber (that's right, I actually have one!), just know that this is going to happen and you're not going to get my lovely writing as emails anymore. On a more happy note, however, I've started filling up even more storage space on my computer with games. In fact, I've actually got a whole other external hard drive to use for other games! I've got quite a collection. Wait 'til you see my games post. There's a pretty big collection on my laptop. I've also been throwing around some ideas for a Hero Factory fan-fic thingy to seal up the show's -- let's say -- SHOCKING cliffhangers. Nah, they're actually kind of small, all things considered, but this is something I've been wanting to do for a while now, so yeah. I am going to shout out now (because I absolutely despise the sentence "Shout out to [member of family or close friend]." I... I just hate it.) to the members of the BZPower forum. They're actually really nice and I've got some really nice ideas from them. But, to keep with the theme of Star Wars, the Jedi Council Forums is also really nice and I love going on there. It has matured me as a human being, dude, and now I've experienced some of the outer layers of this dopey world, man. I just really wanted to do a hippy sentence. Sorry to the hippies. There's some really cool stuff going on there (even better, a few of these things are happening on mesa threads, and I'm happy about that. Very.), including the Hungarian Han Solo novel translations, Lostworlds discussions, and... Oh. Those are my threads. Now that's what you call shameless self-promotion, kids. Now, for some inspiration and Star Wars-y vibes, here's a picture from my favourite Star Wars video game, 1313, and of my favourite Star Wars character, Kelic:

Oh, what's that you say? The game was cancelled and the character isn't canon? And we got EA Battlefront II instead? Damn you, Disney, damn you! Anyway, my rants against Disney from... What? They're trying to copy that other franchise that they own, the MCU, and shift Star Wars in that same, cinematic, overlapping direction? Argh! Screw Star Wars! And... They own the Simpsons? And Modern Family? And... and... and National Geographic? Oh, ****** ****** ***** ******** ********* ****!!! In case you're wondering, I didn't actually swear and blank the letters out, it's just... why am I telling you this? Why? WHY? WHY?!?!?!?!  AHHHHHH! I hate Disney! I hate EA! AND I HATE STAR WARS! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Phew, well, uh, I guess that is a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I'm Finally Back

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! Yes, I am finally back after quite a while of non-posting. Yep, not even a Christmas post, but this period has been VERY busy. First of all, it's the beginning of a NEW year, or it was about 3 months ago. Next, you may be wondering what I've been doing that has caused me to not be on my blog since 12 December. To be honest, I've been so busy enjoying other things that I forgot to post anything! I've actually been planning a post since December 31, which I will hopefully post sometime soon, but as you can see, I haven't posted anything! At least I'm not like Saidgge, though, who hasn't posted on his blog since JULY 20! You heard me correctly. You did. Anyway, I have been preparing lots and lots and lots of timelines. To give at least part of the list, I've been preparing:

James Bond (Pierce Brosnan Films)
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan Video Games)

James Bond (Daniel Craig Films)

James Bond (Daniel Craig Video Games)

Quake

Spider-Man (Original Activision Games)

Spider-Man (New Activision Games)

Spider-Man Trilogy

The Amazing Spider-Man Duology

LEGO Star Wars/Indiana Jones

LEGO Marvel

LEGO DC

LEGO Hero Factory

Bullfrog Games

And that's just to name the few that I can remember! So, what else have I been doing? Well, I've been playing quite a lot of games, in fact I've finally discovered Valve Software's games which I surprisingly didn't even know about, even though I own Steam and what-have-you. I must say, I haven't played any of the Half-Life games yet, but the Portal games and their Bridge Constructor counterpart are a real bash, Garry's Mod is completely abnormal but is now one of my favourite games, and I now favour Counter-Strike over Call of Duty because guess what kids? Counter-Strike has FOUR crazy Asian spin-off, TWO or something mangas and A VIIIIISUUUUUAAAAAL NOOOOOVEL! Now, I could go on with this list, but it is basically what my next post is going to be about.

That's just the tip of the iceberg, though. I promise you, I will be getting back in to my old routine of posting regularly, hyperlinking other sites and all of that, and I will try my best to finish at least 1 fan-fic before the end of this year. :) In the meantime, however, stay tunes for my games post. Who knows, maybe there's a game on the list that you want to play? Well, that's a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

Some New Timelines

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! Today, there are two new places to explore on this blog: The Complete Timeline of Hero Factory and The Complete Timeline of Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Here are the links to the former and latter. For those of you who don't know what either of these are, you can look at these wiki articles: HF / A:EMH. For Hero Factory, I've only done episodes 1-6 and 8-10 (episode 7's not online and episode 11 doesn't make much sense in this timeline) and for Earth's Mightiest Heroes, I've only added the episodes from Volume 1 (except episode 5, which stupidly isn't on the edition of the DVD I have... *angry face*), but I'll soon add more and eventually the timelines will look something like this:

But for now, the timelines are kinda short, and they'll be updated gradually with comics, books and the works. Well, that's a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

Errr! Late Update!

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! As the title suggests... It's a late update! Very late! So, I've been doing lots of stuff recently, mainly revolving around LEGO constraction. No, that does not mean me going and making Bionicle G3 at LEGO. What I mean is I've started watching Hero Factory and becoming a huge fan. Yay! This is pretty much what I've been doing related to Hero Factory:

 

Watching 10 of the 11 produced episodes

Downloading games

Downloading comics

Downloading magazines

Downloading instructions

LDDing* heroes and villains

Talking about HF on Eurobricks

Talking about HF on BZPower

Signing up for HF01

Listening to Hero Factory FM

[*LDDing = Designing stuff in the LEGO Digital Designer] Yep, that’s what I’ve been doing recently. I’ve also been planning a fan-fic, but that’s still just a plan right now. Anyway, this means I’ll be updating my Me Across the Net page right after this, and a whole bunch of other things. However, this isn’t all I’ve been doing, even though that’s a lot of what I’ve been doing. So, if you have been reading my previous posts, you’ll know CMRO, and if you don’t, just search CMRO on Google and it should be the first thing that comes up. Otherwise I do have an old post somewhere. CMRO’s a really cool website and there’s all sorts of checklists like Marvel, MCU, DC, Star Wars, Stark Trek, Law & Order and the list could keep going on. One of the members has made a translation of the infamous Doctor Strange Episode 0 manga, which supposedly made absolute no canonical MCU sense, but now that the translation’s out it makes a whole lot more sense. I’ll see if I can share the link soon. I’ve also got my hands on two other mangas (which sadly don’t have English translations), Doctor Strange and Guardians of the Galaxy: Galaxy Rush. Doctor Strange is all sorts of manga stories including Episode 0 that tie-in with the Doctor Strange movie and GotG: GR is just, well, weird. So that’s what I’ve been doing for the past month. Yeah. Well, there’s a lot of hyperlinks in the post so please look through them, as they go to loads of amazingly awesome sites. Now I’m seriously sounding like a YouTuber. “Just a shout-out to all those people who have helped me make this video, and don’t forget to click the like button, share this video with your friends and subscribe, and you’ll stand the chance to win a PlayStation 78EDR!” I hope my impersonation is realistic enough. I’ll be making a post about some of these cool sites soon, so keep on, uh, looking... I should really try and rephrase that... Well, that’s a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

Late Birthday Gifts to Myself!

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! As I covered in a recent post, it was my birthday on the 23rd of May. Of course, COVID-19 came and then my birthday was a meh birthday. Sadly, during the COVID crisis many of my favourite places aren't doing that well, or have closed. Permanently. This includes my local DVD and games shop, so that's quite sad. Luckily, the DVD and games shop near my local comic shop is still open, so I went there and spent money on entertainment. First, I got Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season One on DVD. I have really been hoping to get this, and I finally did. I was blown away by it, and I am grasping tight to my wad of cash to spend on the next season of MAOS. Next on the list are Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. These are the last two films that I needed to complete my Phase One collection. I had already seen the Cap film (on an 8 o'clock film slot on TV) but Thor I haven't. Until about 20 minutes ago. So now my MCU Reading Order stats are fully complete for Phase One. Yay! Third are a few LEGO films. I love to collect LEGO-related things, even more than the sets themselves, i.e. comics, books, games and films. This lead me to buy LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League and LEGO Hero Factory: Rise of the Rookies. Both of these are amazing and have just as good DVD extras, the DC one including a look into the character of Bizarro, a TV special and an in-universe blooper reel to go along with the TV special, while the Hero Factory DVD includes a TV special based on LEGO's Atlantis sets. One more DVD left in my Hero Factory collection, three more in my LEGO DC collection. Finally, I also bought the DVD of Cars Toon: Mater's Tall Tales. Like LEGO, I love finding all things World of Cars. I have the DVDs for Cars, Cars 2, Planes, Planes: Fire and Rescue, and now Mater's Tall Tales. I also have recently found the LEGO Grand Prix game online (on a website called "BioMedia Project", which is dedicated to finding all things Bionicle-related. There's also a lot of LEGO stuff on there. I'll do a Fandom Favourites post on it soon.), and am trying to get the Cars comic books. Oh, I mustn't forget the other games. I have the Cars 2 game, Mater's Tall Tales game and the Planes game on PC. However, I hated Cars 3 and I always skip it. So yeah, those are my late birthday presents to myself. Well, that's a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

How to Read LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Comic Books Online

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! After yesterday's post, I decided that I'd make a more in-depth post of how to read LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Comic Books Online! If you have been looking at my blog quite frequently, you'll notice I haven't done a "How to" post since right at the beginning of this blog's history. Talking about this blog's history, in 24 days, The Sith Archives of Darth Fandom will be celebrating its first birthday! Yay! But now, to continue the post...

Above: Front (right) and back (left) covers of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes #1

1. In your browser, type lego.com/biassets/bi/.

2. Go to this link on BrickLink.

3. Note down all 7-digit codes associated with any LEGO Marvel Super Heroes comic books.

4. In your browser, add a code next to the lego.com link.

5. Hit enter.

From here, you can read any LEGO Marvel Super Heroes comics available with sets. You're even luckier if you have any of the sets associated with the comics. That way, you can continue the story. For ease of access, I will make a list of codes for the comics, but that's still underway. In the meantime, enjoy the comics, and remember, you can't get into legal trouble for reading pirated material, as it's ALL on LEGO's official website! Well, that's a wap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

Birthdays, Books and [Can't Think of Anything Relevant Beginning With B]

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! Okay, so I've been doing quite a bit lately. A lot of this has been towards my original work, i.e. writing up chapters of the Starport stories, but I've also been doing Star Wars (and other cool)-related stuff. First off, Fandom is on Fandom! Yay! You can find my Fandom profile on the Fandom Community Central here. The funny thing is, just after I joined, Tython Awakening asked if I'm affiliated with Fandom. I'm not surprised, because, um, well, Fandom's in the name. And yes. Darth Fandom is on the Star Wars Fanon Wiki! Go here to see what I've done so far. Right now, it's just a small page because I don't want to reveal too much until Chronicles of Telian Aieler comes out. Next off, I've been doing some LEGO stuff. I'm thinking of buying LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, so I thought I could get some material before I [might] get it. So, first thing that came to mind was the LEGO sets. Uh, yeah, sorry me but IT'S COVID, so no sets, but before I continue, guess what? I forgot to put a post on here on my birthday! My birthday! Well, my birthday was on the 23rd of May, like last year, and the year before, and the year before, and, well, all the times before. I'll try not to forget next year. So, I got a few pressies, so that's nice. To be precise, Star Wars: Legacy Volume II - Book 1-3, a small little Hot Wheels car, a very cool LEGO Iron Man Mech and a limited edition chocolate bar, because why not.

Anyway, back to LEGO, because my birthday is not as important. Maybe. Well, I couldn't get sets, so the next thing I thought was LEGO comics. I actually had three (you could say four, because one of them had two comics inside) in physical form, but it seems that I'm cursed, as after I bought them, LEGO Marvel comics ceased to exist. So, I began my quest the other day to find them online. So here's a little trick I found, which you can do too to get digital editions of the comics. Don't worry, it's legal since it goes through LEGO's official website. No piracy included. First, go to this link on BrickLink. Whenever there's a Marvel comic that appears and has a code beginning with the number 6 somewhere in brackets, make a not of it. Next, go onto your browser and type in "lego.com/biassets/bi/". Once you've typed this in, type in a code with ".pdf" after it and hit enter. Then, a PDF file of the comic you want to read will appear. From doing this, I've managed to get every LEGO Marvel comic that's appeared in a set (I say in a set because I haven't found any LEGO Club issues but two or any SDCC Exclusives), and I'm happy about that. I personally like comic #6037284 as it ends on a cliffhanger where ol' JJJ is covered in the Venom symbiote. What will happen exit? Ah, I dunno. I'm currently also trying the same with the DC Comic ones, but I haven't been too successful. Some comics aren't online. But I'll still keep trying.

So, I've covered quite a bit in this post. I'm quite happy about that. Now, before I go, are you a fan of Marvel Comics? Okay, well, are you also a fan of Deadpool? If so, I recommend reading the Deadpool #SecretComic. It's pretty cool. It covers all sorts of things, from Clea's affair with Benjamin Franklin to Deadpool massacring the Time Variance Authority to The Divorce of Deadpool #798, Marvel's first $99 comic book. Amazing. To read it go onto the Marvel Wiki and look at all variant covers from Deadpool (Vol.4) #1 up until Despicable Deadpool #296. Some issues don't have "Secret Comic Variant Cover"s but if they don't just go to the next issue. Another thing I just feel like saying is that Marvel's The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! is a pretty cool animated series. Sadly it was canned. Which means that there won't be a Season 3. Or a bigger plot around Galactus. Or him eating Hala. [Crying sounds] Well, sob, that's a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!