Origins 2006 part 1

Okay, I'm not actually at the Origins International Gaming Expo yet. Right now I'm sitting in the lobby of a Holiday Inn Express just outside the host city of Columbus. I'll be heading into town early in the morning to collect my badge and then bone up on the rules for the two cool games that I'll be demoing at the Kenzer & Company booth on the expo floor.

Tech Support is an interesting and quick to learn little card game about exactly what the title says. You try to get help from the call center guru while doing your best to hinder other players' attempts.

The Great Space Race is a super cool board game involving racing space ships. I'll be doing a fuller review on that in a few days after I've got a couple games under my belt. It looks interesting as heck though with plenty of chain reaction destruction (I love the domino effect).

Hopefully I can get to a computer tomorrow evening to give a review of the convention itself too.

Cars

Not so much a review... more like a heap of praise and a strong suggestion.

This is getting a bit tiresome, what with the folks at Pixar forcing me to repeat myself over and over. "They did it again!" Whenever I see a teaser for a Pixar film one or two years in advance I always think "They can't make a very interesting film about (insert subject here: bugs, monsters, fish, super heroes, cars)" Then they always, much to my delight, prove me completely wrong.

"They did it again!" with Cars. I consider myself a pretty imaginative person but what they did with the world design, characters and story blows away anything I could come up with even on a good day (with or without the help of outside stimulants). My words just won't do the film justice. I would gladly pay the Japanese movie admission price of $16~$18 to see this movie. It is that stunningly good. Make sure to sit through the credits until the very end for all the gags too.

I would gladly get into a duel with the Spoony One himself over the quality of this movie if he ever gives it a negative review. Now go forth and see it immediately! This I Suggest!