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Tasting Britain were invited down to the launch of Doubletree by Hillton's latest popup - Nantucket Beach Club, down in lovely Tower Bridge - presumably because of our well/not well publicised propensity for saying yes to pretty much anything that involves a bar on the rooftop of a building.
As usual, I didn't really read the press release, preferring instead to be ambushed by the kind of serendipity and wonderment that you get from a cocktail bar on top of building ;D Heading along with my buddy Dom, we got the chance to get balls deep in a ballsy selection of their ballsy cocktails (which are on the whole pretty great, whilst also being pretty expensive).
Also available was food. Said food was seaside themed - think lobsters, mussels, scallops, crabs (with spiky carapaces that cause small scale hand injuries). Dom's Cornish so his standards for seafood are particularly high - however, we managed to find something for everyone (and by everyone I mean me). The best was probably some kind of fried squid thing that was moorish YET elusive. Unlike lobsters, which were quite easy to come by.
We stayed near til the end, making the most of the sunset (which was glorious) and the free blankets (which is why there are photos of me looking a bit like a guy in a cloak but who doesn't quite understand what material a cloak should be made of).
IVE Group | Haargen-Dazs, LaManna, Essendon Fields VIC | August 30, 2024 | © Mark Avellino Photography
Ich habe eifrig Fenster um Fenster ausgeschnitten und gefaltet - und dann die Katastrophe: Ich habe es spiegelverkehrt gefaltet! Also das ganze noch mal von vorne...
Bert about to make a catch on an infield popup.
In the game against Norwood Nazarene.
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Nazarene Nationals softball tournament at Cincinnati
My first Popup Parade statue. The series, by Max Factory, has been around for at least a year now - I just tend to avoid most scale statues under $100 because those generally are prize figures.
Well, somewhere along the line a market for those looking for something between a Prize and a Scale has arisen, and as such this product was born. There's no real... logic, for lack of better terms that will indicate what will show up. It's pretty much a free for all, though some of my perennial favourites like Fate have show up.
I believe Chun Li is the first Street Fighter entry into the series.
The statues are 1/10 scale, and for the $40 CAD MSRP, offer some pretty good detailing.
Clearly, they're not going to be as nicely detailed/finished as true scale statues, but the amount of effort and resources put into the sculpting/finishing are definitely greater than that of your typical Prize Figure. At the very least, Chun Li doesn't have that low grade plastic sheen that typically accompanies lower priced statues.