The broken remote control airplanes

This is a picture of one of our remote control airplanes. If you haven't noticed already, the two wings on the back that are supposed to be pointed up, are broken. One of the propellers is broken too. This is the story. When my family and I were in Africa, (my dad was still in America.) My uncle sent two RC airplanes to our house here in America. My dad was supposed to bring one to us when he came to Africa, but he didn't. So we came back about 3 months later and The morning after we came back, I found two airplanes in boxes. one was this one, and one was a bi-plane. After I asked permission, my dad said I can open one. So I opened this one because I thought it looked cooler, and I charged it. (These planes don't have wheels so you have to throw them so that they take off.) After many attempts, I got it in the air for two whole seconds. (That's a lot for this airplane.) It was really hard because we don't have big open spaces here and it kept crashing into trees. I figured out that the other one was easier. Since it was a bi-plane, it could make sharper turns. Whenever the bi-plane crashed into something, I could keep it in the air. My top time for the bi-plane was probably at least 1 minute. After about a month, it was time to clean the house. I put the two planes and their controllers on one of our shelves. Someone was stupid enough to put a box full of things on top of that. The bi-planes wings got squashed and practically everything else too. This ones wings got broken along with the propeller.(as I told you before.) The bi-plane eventually got lost and I never heard of it again. This is basically what happens to cool toys that come to this house. The end.

The Coolest Video Game Ever

This is a picture of Star Wars Battlefront 2 A.K.A. the coolest game ever. I got it because I went to my friends house in Washington DC a few months ago and played this game. I thought it was really cool. So two days ago I bought this for PC. It was hidden from all the other games because for some reason, people don't like to put PC games with console games. When I opened it, I figured out why video game boxes are so thick. IT NEEDED FIVE DISKS JUST TO INSTALL IT! So I went home and installed it, which was annoying because it kept saying: please put in disk four so that we can install blah, blah, blah. After that, I started "Testing" it which means playing it until you get used to the controls. This was really hard because have to use THE MOUSE of all things to change the view. I've been trying to figure out how I can use my computer compatible gamepad to play. It works up until you start playing the game. This means I have to keep getting used to the controls because I'm to lazy to get used to them. I wish I could just change from using the mouse to using the gamepad. :(

My Awesome Lego Sets

This is a picture of two of my Star Wars Lego sets. One is called General Grievous Starfighter and the other one is called Naboo Starfighter and Vulture Droid. As you can see they come with three Starfighters (well one's not really a Starfighter.) and four Lego dudes. (One's not really a Lego dude) My favorite one is the Naboo Starfighter so I'll start with that. When I went to Africa I got two Lego sets. One was an awesome Star Wars one and the other was some other 10 buck Lego set both of them were worth about 30 bucks together. As I predicted while I was there, the kids there lost all the pieces for both of the sets. So my Mom promised me another Lego set worth $30 when we came back to America. I chose the Naboo Starfighter. It came with little Anikin, a Naboo Starfighter pilot, R2D2, a Vulture droid and finally, the Naboo Starfighter. It's the biggest Lego set that I've ever owned. Its features are: A shooting torpedo on the Starfighter, movable legs on the Vulture droid and a non opening cockpit which is lame because you have to take the cokpit window off if you want to put someone in. If your wondering what this comes from, it's in Star Wars episode one. Now for General Grievous. This set features a cockpit that slides open UNLIKE the Naboo Starfighter. General Grievous features 4 lightsabers, 4 arms, un-movable legs, a blaster and no cape which I don't understand because every other General Grievous set has a cape for him AND silver lightsaber hilts. This one though, has grey lightsaber hilts. I understand now, if the Lego set has an opening cockpit the company PURPOSELY doesn't put rockets that actually shoot. If the Lego set has a rocket launcher then the company PURPOSELY doesn't have an opening cockpit. I'm starting to realize that the old Star Wars Lego sets were a lot better. But I'm plenty happy with these. I'll probobly modify them anyway.

The Sidewinder

This is a joystick as you can see. And it's the coolest one I've ever seen because this is the only game controller I have except for the keyboard. (I don't have any consoles.) A long time ago in a galaxy not very far away, I was looking in my junk closet (None of the stuff in it was my stuff and I was curious.) and I found an old, unopened paintball gun and I found a big huge box with the picture of a joystick on it. So I bring it down to my Dad and ask him if I can open it because I realized all the stuff in the closet was his anyway. He said yes and I asked him why in the world would he own a joystick and he said because he got this simulation game thing called Flight simulator. So I went and looked back in my room and eventually, I found the game and I brought it downstairs to him. Then I found out that the joystick came with a game called Mechwarriors. So I installed Flight simulator, Mechwarriors and the Sidewinder joystick immidiately and learned how to really fly and airplane with the joystick which was really exiting but I don't know about Mechwarriors. Your a dude in a big robot called a Mechwarrior with guns and rockets and stuff and you have to kill the other Mechwarriors. About a month later, my mom was getting a whole bunch of educational disks before we went to Africa. One of them happened to be a game called Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX. It was this game where you could be a famous trick biker and you try to get as many points as possible by driving the bike. A few days after I installed it I realized that you could drive the bike with the joystick instead of the keyboard. Months later it was time to go to Africa so we left (Without the joystick or the games) for a year and when we came back the computer (THE JOYSTICK COMPUTER!) didn't work because it was old so I tried installing the joystick in other computers but only my Mom's had the right plug because they don't put the kind of plug in computers anymore. So I tried installing it and it didn't work. No point of the Sidewinder any more. I tried installing the trick bike game no point of my favorite game any more. The only game that worked was Mechwarriors. I'm not installing Flight simulator on the computer because there isn't any point of it without the joystick because it's got like fifty keys on the keyboard that I don't understand. This ends the sad sad story of my joystick. :(

Genesis 3D

Sorry this isn't a good picture but I didn't have a stand for the camera or a camera for the computer. Well, this is the game designing download. It's called Genesis 3D. I haven't learned how to use all the tools yet but I know most of them. Basically all this is right now is a rectangular prism with no textures. The three blue boxes represent each of the sides of the box. The one next to the black square is the shape of the top and the bottom of it. The one below the black square is the front and back of it (what you're facing and the wall behind that) and the last square is the other two sides. Now you're wondering what the black square is. all it is is the cube but right now it's just focused on one side. If you change the view you can see that it's a room and not a square. Right now, since it doesn't have any textures, the walls are black. You can add different textures but I don't know if you can add your own. So far I only know how to make a cool room and how to put two rooms together and how to put an already programed game into your room. The game I want to make is with Lego people. I want to use another program to make a virtual image of Lego people and put them into this program using bluetooth or something. But I also need to learn how to add my own textures with this so that I can take a picture of a big Lego wall and put it on here for a texture. I'm going to try to learn the rest of the tutorial asap so that I can try to do this. The website for the tutorial and the download is: http://www.stormthecastle.com/mainpages/videogametutorial/tutorial_videogame2.htm
PS:there is an underscore between tutorial and videogame2, not a space.

Lego minifigs also known (from me) as Lego dudes

As you read in the title, this post is about Lego dudes. This is the box that I put the pieces for my Lego people in which is about an 100th of all my Lego stuff. (honest) Well anyway, the pieces weren't sorted out like they are now when I took the picture so I'll try to give a writers image about it when its sorted. (this won't be good) The middle space in the box shaped like a circle a.k.a. the smallest space about three inches on each side, not very full....(very descriptive huh?).... is where I put the headgear for the Lego dudes meaning hair, hats, helmets you get the point. Okay, one of the spaces that are around the circle space is where I put the legs for the Lego dudes, one is to put their heads in, one is to put their bodies, arms and hands in (since they weren't connected like they're supposed to be.) One is to put the stuff they can hold like shields, bows, crossbows, swords, bazookas, pistols and stuff like that. One is to put stuff they can wear on their bodies like oxygen tanks, life vests and knights armor. The last and final one is where I put extra stuff that might come in handy like skis and that pizza that the chef is holding if you look close enough. This box is very useful because if I'm building a big model and I need Lego people for it, then I don't need to look for two hours (like I did when I was 8 years old and I built a ship) and only find about 5 people. But I don't like this case (and this is why the pieces are all mixed up) because the lid doesn't slant down like the walls separating the spaces do so if you turn it upside down or on it's side, all the pieces will go to another space because there's an empty space letting them get access to all the other spaces. Okay, I wasted all my energy trying to explain this to you. Now let me get back to making my video game (tomorrows issue).

My remote control car

This is my remote control car and its controller that I got a couple of weeks ago for a holiday. I originally wanted a smaller off road type of car but I like this one better. The only reasons I don't like this one is because it can only be driven on flat and hard surfaces and you need to charge the batteries for at least four hours which gives you half an hour of playtime. But this car is cool because It has lights in the front and in the back so you can drive it when it's really dark and that's about the only reason. The other car is $10 less but is a third as big as this and it doesn't have lights. But the reason I wanted it is because it can go off road and if you get the right add-on parts to it, it can go over 200 mph. (Remote control car mph not real mph.) But that's if you get the right gear which is about $20 more. I kept the box to this car because my mom told me if I don't like this car I can trade it in but I don't know whether to keep it or not.