Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Instances, WoW Insider Show

Over 200 years ago, our forefathers put forth a document that not only declared the Independence of one of the greatest nations in the world, but also sundered the connection between the old country of Great Britain and the new United States of America. Now, all this time later, Turpster and I do the WoW Insider Show together, and basically undo all that work those smart guys did way back when. This week we’ll have an especially good one, as Adam Holisky, Alex Ziebart, and Michael “Belfaire” Sacco are all coming on the show all together. Just in case you thought they were all the same person (some sort of former Blizzard CM/blog posting/contributing editor maniac), we’ll prove you wrong.

And there’ll probably be fireworks as well: we’ll be talking about faction changes, the changes to raiding in patch 3.2 (including the extended lockouts and the new universal armor tokens), Blizzard and how they’re dealing with raiding exploits, and oh yeah, something called Cataclysm. Plus, we’ll answer your emails and chat live with you on the our Ustream page. It all starts off at July 4, 2009 3:30 PM EDTvar date_span = document.getElementById(”date”); var date = new Date(date_span.innerHTML); var monthname=new Array(”Jan”,”Feb”,”Mar”,”Apr”,”May”,”Jun”,”Jul”,”Aug”, “Sep”,”Oct”,”Nov”,”Dec”); var weekday=new Array(”Sunday”,”Monday”,”Tuesday”,”Wednesday”,”Thursday”, “Friday”,”Saturday”); var year = date.getFullYear(); var day_of_month = date.getDate(); var month = monthname[date.getMonth()]; var day = weekday[date.getDay()]; var hour = date.getHours(); if (hour > 11) { if (hour > 12) {hour -= 12} am_pm = “PM”; } else { am_pm = “AM”; } var minute = date.getMinutes(); if (minute = 0) { offset = “+”+offset; } date_string += ” in your time zone (GMT”+offset+”)”; date_span.innerHTML = (date_string); . We’ll see you there.

Oh, and next week, since both Turpster and I will be out of town (for summer vacation, of course), we’ll have another special midweek show for those of you who can’t tune in on the weekend. Thursday, July 9th at 6pm Eastern, we’ll have a live show going on, so mark that on your calendar and we’ll see you then as well. Both shows will end up on the iTunes feed as usual, but if you want to tune in and listen live, please do.

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The San Diego Comic Con 2009 runs through Thursday, July 22 to Sunday, July 26.  You will find Sideshow Collectibles at Booth # 1929.  I am somewhat close with the Sideshow Collectibles representatives and keep in contact a few times throughout the year.  During a mini-Q&A I had with Sideshow Collectibles CEO Greg Anzalone and the Production Manager Brant Bridges, the latter said:

Brant: Yes, we are hoping to do more Blizzard products.  Nothing in the immediate future, but we do have some ambitions.

A few weeks ago, when I asked Sideshow Collectibles if they were to unveil a new Diorama this year at the San Diego Comic Con, I got a very interesting response that might or not mean something is brewing in the house of ideas. (expensive ideas by the way, lol)

The answer was: ?We can

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