Category: Niko’s Soap Box

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It Was A Good Day

The alarm goes off, It’s 5 in the morning and I need to get ready.

Sunday Mornings are meant for sleeping in.

Not today, we have to give the flea market another shot. Last Saturday sucked, but it could have been multiple reasons for that.

Slowly crawl out of bed, and what we need is Coffee. Plenty of it.

Then it’s time to load up the truck, and we’re off.

Wait in line, get inside, set up.

It’s cloudy but the weather says it’s not going to rain.

Plenty of foot traffic, already seeing some people I know. Making sales, I’m starting to think the flea market isn’t that bad. It’s actually going great today.

Que the Eurythmics.

“Here’s comes the rain again.”

It didn’t rain that hard, but when you have Kardboard all over your tables with nothing to cover everything, you got to move quick. Started throwing everything back in the truck. Found a giant blanket and just threw it on everything. We got to save everything.

Now we’re here standing under the hood of the trunk just people watching. The rain lasted about an hour and some of the other vendors were already leaving. I thought about it, but the weather did say no rain. So, I took my chances and set everything back up again.

It didn’t rain again which was good, and the traffic started rolling again.

90% sold was Pokemon, which is understandable. And, I got rid of somethings that I thought would never sell.

Win/Win for me.

Now it’s time to figure out where we’ll be next weekend. If we can’t find anything we’ll be back at the Swap-O-Rama in Alsip.

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Final Fantasy I P.001

Yes, it’s time I started to teach my little helpers all about the business. That means we need to start playing through the whole Final Fantasy series, and we’re starting off with the OG Final Fantasy.

I started looking for my old PSP, and the charging cables for it, and it was no where to be found. I told the kids that it would have to wait for another day. Then I started looking for some cards that I was going to start sorting, and lo and behold, there was the plug for the PSP. I tried looking for the Composite cords to hook it up to the tv, but couldn’t find those either, so we all sat together on the couch, huddled around the PSP.

-Spoilers

We started off by picking our classes, and naming the characters. We chose a Fighter, Red Mage, White Mage and a Black Mage. We named them and off we went. It took us a while to get through the King’s dialogue, because another reason we’re doing them, is to help them learn how to read. With one going into 1st grade, and the other into Kindergarten, what better way to learn then to play Final Fantasy. Sure it has words like coincidence, and prophecy but, it also has words like, the and is.

The next hour was spent walking around the town, and walking around town some more. And more. They decided to walk around in circles, as they thought that each entry to the town was going to be a different town. It was in and out of Cornelia.

Then it was off to the World Map, trying to get into the water, or crossing the bridge that wasn’t there yet.

The Monsters kept attacking us, and we kept battling them over and over.

After that it was time to buy our Weapons, Armor and Spells.

And, it was bedtime. Saved the game, and we’re getting ready to head to the Chaos Shrine.

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Purge – 90% Complete

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Well, we finally finished Hidden Hope. A little later than other times, but as things get busier around here, some things need to be held off until we can get to them. Same goes with our Youtube videos. They should start off soon again.

The Purge is almost complete. Just 2 more sets to go. From Nightmares and Dawn of Heroes. After that, we’ll just have our Sealed Boosters, Starter Sets, and Supplies on the Site, until we figure out the next step. Which should be something along the lines of getting our TCG Player store onto the website. That way we won’t have to keep listing the same cards in three different places, dividing up how many copies we have, and figuring out which site gets which cards.

We’re slowly getting ready for Hidden Trials.

This whole time I thought it was coming out at the end of June, and started wondering why we haven’t had Spoilers come out yet. I was looking to get started early on the card reviews, but we’re not getting anything any time soon, as Hidden Trials releases in August.

Haven’t really been playing anything lately. So, I started looking for a copy of Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster. I already have all the games, I just need a way of getting my kids into Final Fantasy, and what better way than to get a copy for my kids. That way we can play all together on their Switch.

Other than that, we are still in buying mode.

We’ll buy your cards be it Final Fantasy TCG, MTG … well those are the 2 that we are mostly interested in. But, we’ll take all of your cards. Flesh and Blood, Dragon Ball, Weiss Schwarz, anything you got. Trading cards that aren’t TCG related as well, from video games, movies, tv series, comics and anything else that you might have that you want to get rid of.

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It’s the Day Before, or After

Just a day away until the Anniversary Collection Set releases. There are a few more, in case you still haven’t picked one up yet. You can get one right here.

And, if you did order one, well they will be going out today.

But, that’s not what we’re here to talk about.
We’re going to talk about … hmm .. no spoiler yet.

Ah, yes. We are going to be restocking our singles soon. On TCGPlayer. And with this restock, we will be slowly phasing out the singles on our site. We’ll primarily have Boosters, Kits and Supplies on here. Over 5000 FFTCG singles will be added over the course of however long it takes us to list them. We’ll be trying to get an Opus completed each day.

And, with that I’d like to remind you that we are buying. Mostly Bulk Commons, Uncommons, Rares anything you might want to get rid of. Not just FFTCG, but any kinds of trading cards. Even Non-TCG cards. If you got it and you don’t want it, we’ll free up that space for you.

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Super Smash Bros?

We recently got my son a Switch, and as he was playing, I heard some very familiar music. I look up and I see Mario battling, Samus, Link and Pikachu, but the battle was taking place in Midgar! Now I haven’t been paying much attention to video gaming lately, due to cardb … I mean Kardboard taking over a vast amount of my time. And, I was surprised to see Midgar in Super Smash Bros.  With Ramuh, casting Lightning Bolts, and Leviathan casting a Tidal Wave, as the train keeps on rolling around Midgar.

So, of course I did what any sane person will do. I walked over and started paying closer attention. He was having fun, and so was I. Just watching him cry for joy when he did something that he thought was super cool. Yes, he is just a four year old, excited with his new toy.

Then we started playing together. I noticed there were no Final Fantasy Characters on the Character selection screen, so I picked Samus to begin with. We started doing Team Battles, and every so often after a battle, there would be a screen that pops up, and says “A New Foe Has Arrived”. Some Character named Villager.

Who?

Now, I got to battle this guy?

Well, we lost the first time, cause we still were getting used to the controls. I had to change them up a little, because I kept hitting the wrong buttons as to what I would normally be pressing. Y is to Attack, not Jump. I thought the controls would have been similar to the old Super Mario games of my time. After some tweaking, I was ready to go. And, go we went. We started grabbing new Characters left and right. Princess Peach, King K. Rool, Lil Mac, Diddy Kong, Some guy with a sword. And, then it was bedtime.

I put the kids to bed and sat at my desk to finish up packaging some orders. I took a break and looked up Super Smash Bros had Cloud in it. Can’t stop now, I still have some orders to finish.

Finished up the orders, and I grabbed my son’s Switch and I started playing. Hoping to get Cloud. This has been going on for a couple of nights and still no Cloud in sight, but we did grab some cool Characters. Sonic, Snake, and Bayonetta. I can feel it Cloud is right around the corner.