1) So much choice! @sundancer isn’t wrong about the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I’d be remiss not to shout out such small-screen gems as Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spartacus, but if we talk anime then the 00’s were an incredibly fertile period – Fullmetal Alchemist got 2 utterly superb adaptations at either end of the decade, Gainax returned to the mecha genre to offer an alternative reconstruction in the form of Gurren Lagann – the very antithesis to Evangelion, Gundam Seed updated the framework of the Universal Century to a more modern sensibility whilst Gundam 00 aimed for a more grounded approach, and lest I forget Ghost In The Shell set the bar for small-screen cyberpunk with Stand Alone Complex (shout out to the Appleseed cgi movies that still look absolutely stunning)

2) Valves Orange Box might still be one of the best value collections every put to retail. Certainly played a roll in pushing Steam to its place of dominance. Also Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Grand Theft Auto III (plus Vice City & San Andreas), Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3, Red Dead Revolver (yep, Revolver), Halo: Combat Evolved (still got the pc version and eagerly awaiting the Master Chief Collection now it’s officially coming home 😉 ), Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good & Evil, God of War 1 & 2, and more that I’ve forgotten. The 00’s were a very good year for videogaming. And lets not forget Good old Games beginning their mission to keep the classics of pc gaming alive and playable…

3) Oh gods now your asking for it.  BEHOLD!!!:

4) Mos Eisley space port, the Pellanor Fields.

And my pledge – to continue work on these 6 Terminators,  the Knight Preceptor and the Knight Armigers:

And I’m expecting Shadowspear to arrive tomorrow, so might start in on building the Primaris units. I have had some bits through that will allow me to build some more Tempestus Scions, so want to try and get to 2 full squads built.

Now admittedly this depends on being mobile enough to do it, as it took me the best part of an hour to be able to stand this morning, so we shall see….