Loot Crate partnered up with Nintendo to offer a series of special edition Loot Crates. These crates would feature the Nintendo Amiibo characters. Amiibo is Nintendo’s Answer to games like Skylanders and Disney Infinity. Amiibo is a little different though. The figures act differently for different games. I picked up Super Smash Bros for Wii U and the figures can be used in that game. They retain the level of the character and other power up items. I also picked up Mario Kart 8 and with that game the Amiibo grants your Mii character a special suit. Allison and I played a four race tournament together and the game is very, very fun. I haven’t played Mario Kart in a few years and I had forgotten how fun it can be.
Christmas 1984 was one of my best ever. I was ten years old and Transformers had just come out. My grandmother dragged my grandfather into every mall and Bradlees up and down the eastern seaboard to buy me and my sisters some great toys. I was a very lucky kid and I loved playing with those toys. I stayed up all Christmas Eve putting on stickers and transforming every one of my new robots over and over til I could do them all in my sleep. But even though those were some of my most favorite toys ever there are still some things that we have today that I wish were around when I was a carefree 10 year old who had much more time to play with them.
