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Anybody taking advantage of Amazon Prime Day deals?

Calling all consumers, Amazon Prime Day is underway.

A pile of cardoard boxes opening up endlessly and stacking on top of each other, a little bit like Russian dolls. Finally, a cardboard box person pops out of the top of the stack and then their head opens up and the video seamlessly transitions to the beginning where the boxes start to endlessly stack up again.

I'm such a sucker for a good bargain. ๐Ÿ˜…

Anybody else taking advantage of any Prime Day deals? If so, what are you picking up?

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Michael Tharrington

Personally, the electric lawn mowers have been calling my name.

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Monty Harper

I own an electric lawn mower - love it!

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Michael Tharrington

Ooo nice! What kind did you get?

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Michael Tharrington

Good stuff! Well, unfortunately we didn't pull the trigger quick enough and the ones we were looking at sold before we could get'em. Might have to look into this one!

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

Hmmm I hesitate to take Stanmore II by Marshall..

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Michael Tharrington

And now, I want one of those too! ๐Ÿ˜…

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Soumyadeep Dey โ˜‘๏ธ

Convert To Indian Currency I Will Be Instant Poor !!!

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Ben Halpern

There should be an Amazon Prime day for getting rid of all the crap I already own ๐Ÿ˜„

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Michael Tharrington

Hahaha! Hey, every day is Craigslist Day as far as I'm concerned.

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Joe Mainwaring

Spent a lot of money on legos, this was my favorite of the lot though
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Michael Tharrington • Edited

I love me some LEGOs and that Hulkbuster looks dope. 4049 pieces is no joke either!

My last LEGO purchase was the Batmobile Tumbler from the Dark Knight series... built it during COVID over the course of a couple months and it's chilling on my music desk now.

close up photo of the LEGO Batmobile on a wooden desk

zoomed out photo of the LEGO Batmobile on my desk... you can see my various synthesizers and other music gear surrounding it

I hope ya enjoy your build!

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Andy Piper

I stocked up on 3D printer filament... ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๏ธ

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Michael Tharrington

Haha! Very nice. ๐Ÿ™Œ

And ooooo this reminds me... I've been meaning to ask you if you've heard anything about 3D printed homes?

There's a company out there called ICON that has a really interesting process and is creating some super cool looking houses. I think this was the first video I saw on it all but here's another one where their founder talks through a show house they created and some of their building ethos.

If you just wanna see a quick view of their printing tech in action though, check out this video:

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Andy Piper

oh yeah, definitely. I think we have covered this sort of thing on our podcast (Games at Work dot biz) over the years, along with all kinds of other fields that 3D printing is being applied. Super interesting stuff.

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Gyรถrgy Mรกrk Varga

No... Because I live in Hungary. No Amazon here. :D

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Michael Tharrington

Ah dang, haha! Do y'all have anything Amazon-like? Just curious. :-)

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Gyรถrgy Mรกrk Varga

Yes. For example Emag.hu and Alza.hu

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JC Smiley

Pick up a Amazon Fire Kids tablet for my grandson. Thinking about grabbing some cycling supplies.

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo nice! You're gonna score a lot of points for that one.๐Ÿ”ฅ Other granddad better watch out, haha!

Cycling supplies reminds me I need a new bike pump... that's going on the list!

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Alex Hyett

I couldnโ€™t find anything I wanted this year. Not sure if the deals arenโ€™t as good or it is just me.

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Soumyadeep Dey โ˜‘๏ธ

No Maybe Deals Are Not Good!

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Ron Sheridan

nah

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, good on ya. The lawnmower I wanted sold so aside from a cheap pair of sunglasses (cue the ZZ Top) I basically skipped on it as well. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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Dan Bailey

Mostly I bought a bunch of stuff for organizing my kids' bedrooms. And I finally got around to buying the D&D 5th edition Dragonlance book ($21 instead of $50).