Thanks to the gusts of wind, which got me to putting back this morning’s newspaper together again, I noticed that TheStar have covered Malcom 2026’s event which happened over the Weekend at the Setia SPICE Convention Centre in Penang.
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20260615 Malcom 2026: The Aftermath
Let me take a deep breath… a lot had happened. This is the 11th Year for Malcom which is the brainchild of WH Ming of World Hobby Miniatures of Penang. There are a lot of stories on how he formed it but this is not the post. What this post does is to highlight the […]
20260129 Spinner Accuracy
The number of Spinners So, how accurate is the Master Replicas aka Sideshow Collectibles aka Insight Editions 2049 Spinner? For the past two decades, the larger Spinner models came out from various sources such as Randy Cooper (1/12th), Medicom (1/18th), and Fujimi (1/24th). And just recently, it was the heft ~1/22 from MR/ SC/ IE. […]
20260122 ThreeZero 3.75″ Spinner Update 001
While moving the ThreeZero Spinner away to clear some space (take some photos of the PKD Blaster electronics), I noticed the Spinner’s body behaved differently when under the white light. If you look at the image below, you will notice the area where the yellow arrows points to, are light blue, as if they’re translucent! […]
20260120 ThreeZero 3.75″ Spinner
XL-Shop I only knew about this company in the very early 2000’s. Their main products was usually Figures, Gashapons and various Japanese Collectibles, with a small mix of scale model kits. I was quite happy when they opened in Mid-Valley. XL-Shop was, I think, the first such pioneers which offers on-line shopping and at one […]