The maybe-yearly HFSharks Happy Holidays & "did you get any cool Shark stuff?" thread, 2024 edition.
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weastern bias
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I didn't get anything hockey related, but we bought my beer league playing son-in-law some hockey tape and a butt end for his stick from Buttendz.
The Nemesis
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Nice. How is the quality? I really want a Celebrini jersey but I struggle with the fact that Fanatics has such a crappy history with how cheap it is and how terrible their QC is that I don't want to get burned on something that has a plastic crest that's misaligned or misshapen stripes or whatever.
I didn't get anything Shark-specific, but I did get a box of 24-25 Upper Deck series 1 cards. No Celebrini in this set it appears, but I could find rookies for Mukhamadullin or Graf. I actually have like 8 years of cards I haven't opened yet because I keep forgetting about them, so who knows what I'll end up finding in them. Maybe a Ryan Merkley rookie card!
Otherwise it was a pretty normal Christmas haul for me. a couple of Transformers, some reprints of classic Star Wars books (including the novelization of the original trilogy), Godzilla Minus One on blu-ray to keep my collection up to date, the new Zelda game, and an expansion for a board game I have. I'll probably have unnecessary pics tomorrow
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weastern bias
worst team in the league
I'm no jersey nerd, I could never manage to justify pulling the trigger on that big a purchase for any piece of clothing, so I'm definitely not the best resource to tap if you're looking for someone to discern quality, take my opinions very lightly, as one should on any topic
I got whatever the $130ish tier of jersey is from the Sharks pro shop, and it's definitely got heat pressed numbers, logos and name plate that lack the depth and detail of the authentic product, though all the patches do seem to be some kind of fabric and not pieces of plastic and everything seems to be aligned properly
All I really cared if that It fits comfortably without being irritating, I wore it for the whole 3 hour car ride back home from family festivities and it was like wearing any other shirt or jacket
The Nemesis
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Thanks. If the crest and shoulder patches are legit embroidered again and not just plastic patches that might be interesting. I can deal with cheap heat-pressed name/number by the fact that I'd just take it to my local pro shop and have it properly sewn on like the rest of my jerseys, but I didn't want to get something that would potentially have crooked elements or a fake, non-embroidered plastic crest like you get on stuff like replica baseball jerseys now.
weastern bias
worst team in the league
I do caution you to check with someone who knows better than I do about the patches, for all I know they are some kind of plastic, but they are soft enough to me that I think they're fabric
I know nothing about garments, lol, just love my team
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I got a comfortable Sharks zip up sweater and a T-shirt, also tickets to the 01/04 game against New Jersey.
BaileyMacTavish
Hockey lovin' wolf
Voucher for 2 Sharks tickets whooo
The Nemesis
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I have pointless images that are only here so I can be shallow and show off
The one hockey and maybe/probably Shark related thing is this set of hockey cards:
But otherwise I had this:
What does any of that have to do with the Sharks? Nothing! But it's what I got
The one hockey and maybe/probably Shark related thing is this set of hockey cards:
But otherwise I had this:
The newest Legend of Zelda game for the Switch
Godzilla Minus One
and an expansion for a board game I have:
A pair of Transformer sets depicting origin versions of several characters based on a comic storyline from about a decade ago. So it has Megatron as a disenfranchised and discriminated against miner who rises up to protest his oppression, then goes off the deep end and turns from freedom fighter into tyrannical dictator, Ratbat as a corrupt senator who ends up betrayed by those he trusts before he gets rebuilt into being just one of Soundwave's cassettes, Shockwave as an idealistic senator who is arrested on trumped-up charges and subject to a punishment/torture called "empurata" that basically lobotomizes him (stripping him of his personality and emotions, but not his intelligence) replaces his head with a featureless one that has a single optic sensor so that he can no longer show visible expression, and his hands with claws/a gun to rob him of dexterity. It was meant to teach him a lesson. instead it turned him into an amoral, logic-driven sociopath willing to do whatever it takes to secure the future he wants for Cybertron, and Orion Pax, a humble data clerk and idealist before he would be damaged in a riot and rebuilt into Optimus Prime.
I don't have the figures out of the box yet, so I may not have pictures of those until later.
and a set of Star Wars books encompassing highlights of the like 30-40 years of books that were published before the Disney buyout struck them all from even being canon-adjacent and overwrote them with the modern sequel trilogy of films (me wanting to collect these books is mostly driven by how disappointing the second and third movies in the sequel trilogy were and realizing that I preferred the sprawling, uneven, but still creative/inventive version of events that the books played out.) So I got:
The novelization of the original trilogy of movies written by 3 different authors (including the ESB novel written by Don Glut, who later wrote a ton of cartoon scripts including all the Transformers episodes about the Dinobots), which features some expansions on the film and some differences from what went into the finalized movie scripts (most notably at the end of the first book Leia gives Chewie a medal instead of just Luke and Han like in the movie)
Two books collecting trilogies of some of the earliest non-adaptation stories published, adventures of Lando and Han prior to the movies. The Han trilogy was also written by the author who wrote the NPR radio play adaptations that I've linked to on here in my classic radio downloads.
-"I, Jedi" which tells a story that runs concurrently with the trilogy of books I have from when I was a kid, the "Jedi Academy Trilogy" (Jedi Search, Dark Apprentice, and Champions of the Force) so it'll be fun to read that and then revisit the other books which I only barely remember.
-Survivor's Quest a bit of a pseudo-sequel to the books that I got last year.
Godzilla Minus One
and an expansion for a board game I have:
A pair of Transformer sets depicting origin versions of several characters based on a comic storyline from about a decade ago. So it has Megatron as a disenfranchised and discriminated against miner who rises up to protest his oppression, then goes off the deep end and turns from freedom fighter into tyrannical dictator, Ratbat as a corrupt senator who ends up betrayed by those he trusts before he gets rebuilt into being just one of Soundwave's cassettes, Shockwave as an idealistic senator who is arrested on trumped-up charges and subject to a punishment/torture called "empurata" that basically lobotomizes him (stripping him of his personality and emotions, but not his intelligence) replaces his head with a featureless one that has a single optic sensor so that he can no longer show visible expression, and his hands with claws/a gun to rob him of dexterity. It was meant to teach him a lesson. instead it turned him into an amoral, logic-driven sociopath willing to do whatever it takes to secure the future he wants for Cybertron, and Orion Pax, a humble data clerk and idealist before he would be damaged in a riot and rebuilt into Optimus Prime.
I don't have the figures out of the box yet, so I may not have pictures of those until later.
and a set of Star Wars books encompassing highlights of the like 30-40 years of books that were published before the Disney buyout struck them all from even being canon-adjacent and overwrote them with the modern sequel trilogy of films (me wanting to collect these books is mostly driven by how disappointing the second and third movies in the sequel trilogy were and realizing that I preferred the sprawling, uneven, but still creative/inventive version of events that the books played out.) So I got:
The novelization of the original trilogy of movies written by 3 different authors (including the ESB novel written by Don Glut, who later wrote a ton of cartoon scripts including all the Transformers episodes about the Dinobots), which features some expansions on the film and some differences from what went into the finalized movie scripts (most notably at the end of the first book Leia gives Chewie a medal instead of just Luke and Han like in the movie
)Two books collecting trilogies of some of the earliest non-adaptation stories published, adventures of Lando and Han prior to the movies. The Han trilogy was also written by the author who wrote the NPR radio play adaptations that I've linked to on here in my classic radio downloads.
-"I, Jedi" which tells a story that runs concurrently with the trilogy of books I have from when I was a kid, the "Jedi Academy Trilogy" (Jedi Search, Dark Apprentice, and Champions of the Force) so it'll be fun to read that and then revisit the other books which I only barely remember.
-Survivor's Quest a bit of a pseudo-sequel to the books that I got last year.
What does any of that have to do with the Sharks? Nothing! But it's what I got
