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Showing posts with label Eraser. Show all posts

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Back-to-School Essentials for the Metal Kiddies

School. A place where learning is the endgame. These days, it seems schools have become more like kiddie prisons a la juvenile hall, instead of preparing kids for the inevitable future that is adulthood.

When you were in school, you customized your learning utensils (folders, pencils boxes, bookbags), and Metalheads were no different, except we knew how to customize our learning gear. The folders pencil boxes would be emblazoned with crudely drawn skulls, pentagrams, band logos, people we wanted to kill in stick figure detail etc. The book bag would have the usual dump truck load of patches/buttons/pins that would match the denim vest in terms of number and intensity.

This was then, when we needed to make our mark with what ever we had, as those days school utensil suppliers would make supplies very neutral and plain looking.

These days however, it seems the school supply depot has gotten a very serious infections of a virus known as "Metalus in Educatious Articlus", and today we take a look at their most Metal offering.

From Monster High we have the random but very Metal erasers for the lil ladies who need to correct the eventual errors they will encounter in mathematics.





Next are the Black Dice Pencil Sharpeners. There is a saying from a Simspons episode of yesterday that dices are evil and thus, why they are in this list. It also helps that they look like something that came out of a very Metal casino, if the players were the size of huge Scandinavian Trolls.





The obligatory dual holes of a pencil sharpener, aka the bungholes of death. A cliff note, from my days in elementary, this was always the case with 99.666% of pencil sharpeners I have come across, which is one of those elusive mysteries nobody seems keen in solving.



Next we have the semi-headliner of this post, and as aforementioned, sometimes Metalheads tend to customize their gear and this definitely helps, although that's not to stop a raging maniac from continuing the customization of their school supply. AC/DC's Back in Black notebook, for those days when you need to jot down what the teacher said in class and to help prepare for the upcoming exam and earn the grade that rings the "Hells Bells" of the principals office.



We have now come to the headliner of this post. Mind you, pencil boxes of yesterday were very simple and nothing to parade about. Every once in a while you might get a pencil box that had a Transformers or GI Joe on its cover, but nothing for Metal fans. This is where Vautlz comes into the foray and provides a pencil box that is worthy for those who need to put their pens/pencils/erasers/any other knick knack small enough to fit inside the box in question. Introducing Vaultz Pencil Box.






The details of this box is beyond amazing, it's like a guitar case (you know, the ones that can actually protect the axe from doom and destruction, or the airport luggage handlers) for pencils/pens.





The inside of the pencil box does not skip on the details and quality, and it is lockable, although that begs the questions what kind of goods a student from kindergarten to 5th grade will have in their possession to merit such a security feature?




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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Ghost Rider Eraser

Ghost Rider. As said many time before, he is one of the most Metal comic book characters to grace the pages of illustrated glory. While I would like to go into his Metalocity credentials, I will leave it up to you, the viewer of Channel 13, to re-visit a past article to delve into his credentials (and look at another Metal Trinket he inspired).

Today we look at an item that many people need when working with pencils... the eraser. When working with pencils, the occasional mistake happens, and what is needed to rectify said mistake, the aforementioned eraser to "erase" whatever error said operator of wooden and lead utensil made.

How does Ghost Rider fit into this whole picture? When you make an eraser out of Mr. Hellfire himself.


One thing that can be said about this eraser is that they definitely went into basic details. Not the most intricate, but what it lacks in the "splitting-hair-able-to-see-every-follicle" type of statue that's out in the market today, it more than makes up for it by giving the procurer of an excellent error-corrector abnormal version of Ghost Rider.




They managed to keep Ghost Riders key melee weapon, his Enchanted Hellfire Chain.



The flame job came out hellacious for the type of object this is.




Here you have his secret weapon that never made it to the comics, tv shows, or films... The corn-hole of fiery death.


As with the previous posts on Channel 13, I like to put in practice/use the trinket being covered, and this 1-2 combo will make any office/student desk more Metal than it has any right to be considering offices and student desks are not Metal.


Definitely recommended for those of us who want to enhance the experience of doing math homework, although I would advice against using this as an actual eraser since it may burn a hole in your desk.
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