New blog

Hey guys,

It's LegoGuy01. I updated the blog to reflect my new name and YouTube channel. I'm going to upload again, I've just been annoyed with my phone. It's been very stupid lately and it has no selfie mode. That means I can't film myself with the camera facing me.

Anyway, I will start uploading regularly soon, I've just been waiting until I was ready to start uploading to YouTube. My channel is awesome, please check it out, and keep watching my vids!

UP TO DATE

We found a new house on June 29. It is small but effective. We moved there on August 22 and I felt comfortable once my bedroom was painted. I like peach better than pink anyway, obviously.

Anyways, on YouTube I'm going to start a Lego series that I will begin to work on in early January. It involves my Lego creations so far, which I'll use to make a big city. I'm waiting until January because I am still in the process of building and I'm also asking for Legos on my Xmas list. For my series, I wondered what I should use to give a guide on what goes on in the city I was making. I decided to make a series called Lego News, which features a Lego minifigure news crew investigating through every part of the area like all news crews do. It will act more like a local television station than a national news company.

Also, I've ditched Minecraft for Lego itself, which the latter is the non-electronic equivalent of the former. I'm going to post my very own creation of the Chum Bucket from SpongeBob on the Lego website too.

Diamond Creeper

Quick Note

Sorry, we didn't get the house. There were a lot of problems, but we'll keep looking.

Moving On Up


Been a while.... Well, for my followers, we purchased a new house on May 20. It is bigger than the one we have now, and is a lot more conveniently located. It is in the Guilderland/Schenectady area of New York's Capital Region. I should note that we have had a LONG history with houses. I learned this from my parents:

The year was 1990. The Simpsons were invading America, the Berlin Wall had fell, and the grunge/punk genre had become the norm of the new decade. However, my parents, Lisa and Tom, got married, making 1990 a big change for our family. Mom and Dad, in their late 20s, lived in an apartment in Clifton Park, NY. They were only planning to live there for a short period, and had to find a house. With the Internet launching next year, the only way to find houses was a magazine. Dad picked one up at the Grand Union store nearby (now a Hannaford) and found a house over in the Rensselaer area. It worked for Mom and Dad because it was by Dad's workplace and they could pay for it. The offer was confirmed in December and by April of 1991 the closing had begun. In early May, our 24 years in that house began. My parents went through the 90s with quite a bunch of events - the Xmas of 1995 (Dad sick while Mom learning to use the Internet), the paint job of 1994 (colorizing the house), and several trips to Ireland as well. (We're Irish)

After the new century began, in the summer of 2000, I was being born. With my birth, I would be a big change for the family in the 2000s. I was born on March 4 at Glens Falls Hospital, and I was the only child ever since. I got to learn about the world around me, and one of the first instances of me and TV was the 9/11 attacks. Mom was watching News Channel 13 cover the attacks while I was sipping a bottle under the coffee table. Blowing through the 2000s, I saw interest in drawing, getting dirty outside, and a huge interest in the Internet.

By the 2010s, the house had started to look dated for its 90s style builds. Everything was old-looking, aside from my room getting a remodel in 2012. It was now over 20 years, and it was time to end everything. With me getting older, I started to see true friends and how to be social, and education becoming more important. We started looking at houses last June, and now we have bought one. I will be continuing life in the states with more news to come next few years.

Moving day will be in July. :)

My Opinion on Adult Cartoons

Merry...After-Christmas! For those of you that have been reading my posts, I have sent another one as an Xmas gift. This time, I am talking about adult cartoons. Aside from kids' cartoons, there are also ones made for adults. Adult cartoons are basically cartoons, but with more "mature" stuff in them. These shows are possibly for any kids from ages 12 and up, if not younger, and these are some I decided to bring up.

The Simpsons is not only the longest-running American sitcom but it helped FOX become an addition to the main networks on television. The Simpsons was an early hit for FOX, which at the time was starting to have a weekly primetime schedule. The show had a cast full of characters with plenty of humorous jokes they had to share. The show is so popular across America that The Simpsons were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 14, 2000, and Homer's catchphrase "Doh!" was included in the English Dictionary. The Simpsons made it well past the 90s, but the show's existence on television is nearly hitting the end. Critics said the show's 10th season was the point where the show declined in quality. Needless to say, The Simpsons is (and will probably stay) FOX's official mascot.

The most talked about show of the 1997 - 1998 TV season wasn't on any of the major networks at all. It was a show called "South Park", and it aired on Comedy Central. South Park was rated TV-MA for its mature content. The show centered on four foul-mouthed elementary school kids: Stan, Kyle, Eric Cartman, and Kenny, the kid who wore his hood so tight his mouth wasn't shown. South Park's adult humor and racism led to the show's success for adults, but it did lead to a few episodes being pulled, like one episode that tried to do something no show in America ever does. A common running gag (until Season 6) was Kenny always getting into brutal accidents, and Stan and Kyle saying "Oh my gosh, he/she/they killed Kenny!" The show also went from cut-out animation to computer animation.

Family Guy was FOX's hit for the new century. This show, claimed to be "a Simpsons rip-off", was possibly the first FOX show to have more adult humor and profanity than The Simpsons did. Family Guy was ended twice until it remained on FOX since its fourth season in 2005. Family Guy was the vehicle to making Seth MacFarlane the king of adult animation. Family Guy, according to some critics, said that basically each episode does whatever it wants, and sometimes, it could get kind of boring. An example was how "sadly" they killed of Brian for a small period on the show's 12th season. The show also carries "cutaway" gags, where a character says something and it shows what the character is talking about.

I think adult cartoons are great in their own kind, and the more produced, the more there will be. I also want to bring up another one, but I'll save that next time.

YouTube Plans

I have a YouTube channel. It is in the making, and is on YouTube right now. I started YouTube Video Editor on my first try today, and just did a bit of practice.

I joined on October 25, 2014, and will not post an actual video probably until January 2015. Until then, I have watched a lot of videos on YouTube to get my ideas.

One idea I made was to make fake VHS openings and closings on my channel. The idea was inspired by the recently retired TheMrJohnnyBoy1998, who is well-known for his fake VHS openings via GoAnimate. He briefly had a second channel until he left YouTube, and I will gladly take over his fake VHS openings. The videos are only VHS openings and closings separately, as I don't want to upload full movie content and it will also lead to copyright issues. If he still is answering YouTube comments, I want to ask him how he gets his videos from YouTube and puts them on YouTube Video Editor. That is my question.

My second idea was to do a Minecraft PE Survival Series. I like Minecraft (as seen from my name and my first blogpost) and have recently heard the new Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet has a camera and recording system. I hopefully will get something like that for Christmas. I have had a large history with the game since February 2014, and if you see my first post, you'll hear more about it.

My third idea was to become an animation critic like YouTubers Pieguyrulz and TheMysteriousMrEnter. I will do a new series soon called "Animation Abomination", which talks about me criticizing animated cartoon episodes, similar to MrEnter's "Animated Atrocities" series. One idea I had in that same category was to review the Ren & Stimpy episode "Man's Best Friend", which was a banned episode of the show due to its violent content. It may not be a bad episode, but violence will do the trick.

These are all my ideas for my future YouTube channel, coming in January (hopefully).

My Opinion on Cartoons

I have an interest in animation and filmmaking. I like to draw comics and learn more about how TV shows were made. I mean, if you want a TV channel to show cartoons on, you have Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and others. The first is awful, but the other two channels are very good at TV shows.

Nickelodeon, according to YouTuber Pieguyrulz, needs to die. It has SpongeBob and Fairly Odd Parents on their last legs (although I heard the former's original creator is returning, so we won't get crap like A Pal for Gary or One Coarse Meal), the ugly Adobe Flash animated cartoon Breadwinners, the disgusting Sanjay and Craig, awful "sitcoms" like The Thundermans and Henry Danger, and the Kid's Choice Awards. There is only one good show on there according to some animation critics: The Legend of Korra. And I hope M. Night Shymalan won't make a movie out of Korra, because his Last Airbender movie was bad. I'm glad I never saw that movie. Instead, I got a Nostalgia Critic review of it. And it was WAY better than the movie, that's for sure.

Cartoon Network had a rough spot, but is back to its normal awesomeness. I mean, you can't say Adventure Time and Regular Show are awful shows. I like both shows. They are able to tell stories very well, and I'd highly recommend it to kids my age, because younger kids wouldn't want to be taught how to slay things with swords or say words like "sucks" or "freaking". CN also has Gumball, which is possibly a better (and reverse if you think about it) version of Breadwinners, Steven Universe (which is good at general humor), and its possibly only dud, Teen Titans Go!, which made its way onto a second season. I never watch Teen Titans Go! because it just rips off the original Teen Titans in many different ways, and it also fails at humor (like saying "Waffles" for 11 minutes straight).

Disney Channel, owned by the ever popular Disney, is also great. It is basically Nickelodeon in its better form. You have shows like Phineas & Ferb (a former favorite) and Gravity Falls for cartoons, and Austin & Ally and Jessie for sitcoms. They also dub over original Disney cartoons with the current voices for the characters. Disney only had one bad show, and it just aired cartoons that would hopefully become a series. Only one survived, and that was on a different network.

Well, that's my opinion on cartoons. I'll be talking about adult cartoons next time.