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Giving this LiveStream Thing a Shot

My LiveStream Setup
Photo-A-Day #4544

Today I decided to try out some Live Streaming. I have a lot to learn to make this a much better experience for anyone watching. I a using a software called OBS. This can do a lot of things and I got it set up so that I can play video games as well as change camera sizes. I may even grab a small HD webcam to have an additional camera angle to use when showing toys. I’ve also got to make sure that if I am doing any video game livestreaming to turn off the music from the games. I immediately got a copyright ding from Nintendo for the music from ARMS.

In my livestream I unboxed my latest Smugglers’s Bounty box. This box was themed Jedi and it contained items for Jedi like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jin, Aayla Secura, Plo Koon and Yoda. There were good items in the box although I would have liked it if they included the paper inside that details how they decided on the characters and what it took to come up with the character designs for the Funko figures.

As far as Funko figures go I found some little figures for the movie Thor Ragnarok. They are actually keychains but I take the keychain part off to have small figures. I’ll be taking them with me to LA next month for the Thor Ragnarok Press trip that I am attending. I’ve got to write up a post all about it, too.

During the livestream I also played some Legend of Zelda and show a cool little robot that we got for review. So, take a look and I promise I will figure out the whole sound thing for the extra videos and video games.

My LEGO Ambitions

LEGO Master Builder Academy
Photo-A-Day #4428

This past Thursday Brian and I recorded a bunch of episodes of Built from Bricks. While we did so the idea came up for me to build part of a MOC for Brian’s larger MOC. The actual theme of the MOC is revealed on the first LEGO Haul Show. So in order to dive into creating a MOC I am going to read a couple of books, The LEGO Book and The LEGO Ideas Book and work through all of the LEGO Master Builder Academy Sets. I have all four of the sets and haven’t even completed all of them. These sets have fantastic tips on building and should help with me in creating a MOC.

As a bonus, Eva creates something at the end of this video.