How much is that moshling in the window?

Yes, the boy does think of things other than Kirby. Click on these two drawings and you'll see the details for a Moshling Pet store. Creatures are grouped according to type with lots of details.

Two Great Things that Go Great Together

You were thinking peanut butter and jelly? Here's what the Left For Dead characters might look like if they were Lego figurines. According to the gifted artist, Miss M...
"Daddy showed me pictures of custom mini figures made to look like the Left For Dead characters so I decided to make them myself".

More Kirby Tips

 

My son is the Kirby expert in the house, and he knows it. This is his attempt to "educate" the rest of us.

The Kirby Rollercoaster Ride

A little while ago, I wrote a post about the kids creating their own games, and I mentioned that the boy made a large amount of signs to go with what I originally called "indoor sledding". My boy had a much more marketing-savvy name for his attraction - the Kirby Roller Coaster. You actually got prizes for riding it! Here's one of the signs he made to go along with his ride.

Kirby on the brain

Can you tell my kids have Kirby on the brain? What it is about this pink vacuum that makes my children admire him so? My brother, who bought my son a fighter Kirby plush toy for Christmas, suspects he likes Kirby because he has insane amounts of power and is really hard to lose while playing. He may have a point, at least with my son - I know that he has not enjoyed Donkey Kong Country Returns as much as he thought he might because it was a lot harder than, say, a typical Kirby game. My daughter drew this for my son, to highlight several incarnations of his Royal Roundness.

Who's got the power?

I wish this was a post about the Occupy movement or an insightful commentary on how institutions or corporations try to assimilate games for their own nefarious purposes ... but we aren't talking about that kind of power. (Actually, Volume 19 Issue 3 of the magazine I edit has "power" as its theme, so maybe I can squeeze some mention of it in there.) My son is more focused on Kirby powers. I'm not sure how McDonalds fries count as a power-up, but it's m'boy's art.

Not James Bond but just as debonaire

According to my son, the master of disguise is Kirby. Here's his artistic interpretation.

And it comes in two pages as well, with a handy information sheet ...