One reason why the Japanese are WAAAAAY cooler than us...

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MONOLITHIC

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Take a good hard look at this:
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^ I know exactly what you're thinking right now,,, AND YOU ARE DEAD WRONG! ;-)

Before reading further, check out the original opening to the Gundam anime series.

When it comes to Japanese animation (and live action Japanese kid shows), I grew up watching Speed Racer, Battle Of The Planets, Ultraman, StarBlazers (called Space Battleship Yamato in Japan), Tranzor Z (called Mazinger Z in Japan), Voltron, Transformers... Admittedly, I've never heard of Gundam until I started collecting anime figures last year. Gundam's been around for a long time (30 years) so I don't know how the hell I missed it. Maybe it wasn't shown in the U.S.A. at the time of it's initial run - I don't know... :hmmm: :-/

Anyway, this is the stuff that every boy growing up watching shows like that dreams about:

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PHADE

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:jawdrop:

Never got into that Anime stuff, but that's awesome as hell. I would love to see it in person.
 
Fatdog

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I kept waiting for that thing to take off and start walking! That would have been bad-ass!!

Oh, and StarBlazers is still the best anime series to this day. (IMHO) :afro:
 
bill

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MONOLITHIC said:
Take a good hard look at this:
3613426483_9892cd56bc_o.jpg

^ I know exactly what you're thinking right now,,, AND YOU ARE DEAD WRONG! ;-)

Before reading further, check out the original opening to the Gundam anime series.

When it comes to Japanese animation (and live action Japanese kid shows), I grew up watching Speed Racer, Battle Of The Planets, Ultraman, StarBlazers (called Space Battleship Yamato in Japan), Tranzor Z (called Mazinger Z in Japan), Voltron, Transformers... Admittedly, I've never heard of Gundam until I started collecting anime figures last year. Gundam's been around for a long time (30 years) so I don't know how the hell I missed it. Maybe it wasn't shown in the U.S.A. at the time of it's initial run - I don't know... :hmmm: :-/

Anyway, this is the stuff that every boy growing up watching shows like that dreams about:
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MONOLITHIC

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PHADE said:
:jawdrop:

Never got into that Anime stuff, but that's awesome as hell. I would love to see it in person.
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You and I both. Too bad it's only gonna be up for about 2 months and then torn down! :'-(

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WOW! That thing is HUGE!!! I wonder how long it took to construct? Looks very detailed. :-D
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I'm not even sure if they've completely finished it. Read about some of it's construction here: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/06/11/li ... t-in-japan
 
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Fatdog said:
I kept waiting for that thing to take off and start walking! That would have been bad-ass!!
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I imagine that in about 200 years from now (maybe 100), the technology will exist for something like that to happen, especially if you imagine where we were 200/100 years ago. ;-)

Fatdog said:
Oh, and StarBlazers is still the best anime series to this day. (IMHO) :afro:
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:agree: 200%!!! I have seen one recently that's come close tho! :yes:
 
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bill said:
you know i can remember quite well playing with transformer like toys with the japanese friend i had about thirty five years ago.
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I had some of those, as well as the Transformers competition, The Mighty GoBots. :cool: I don't know what happened to any of my toys tho... :-/
 
PHADE

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MONOLITHIC said:
You and I both. Too bad it's only gonna be up for about 2 months and then torn down! :'-(
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That's stupid. If it's just going to be up for 2 months, why waste the money?

They should relocate it...to my backyard. :cool: But for real, they should relocate it. You know how awesome that thing would look in Tokyo?

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Fatdog

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PHADE said:
They should relocate it...to my backyard. :cool: But for real, they should relocate it. You know how awesome that thing would look in Tokyo?
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Godzilla would just come out and destroy it. :-P :lol:

What one of those Japanese guys REALLY needs to do is build a giant-sized Soundwave Decepticon from the old cartoon (not the new POS Soundwave from Transformers 2 movie). :cool:
 
Ghettoboom767

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Hi Mono-You mean it's not the Megazoid from The Might Morphin Power Rangers!!??
They must have gotten their idea from that show I bet.
It looks similar and I just love the huge shot over the city-How Japanese is that!!
Great photos and what a cool thing!!
Have a great one-GB. :-) :-D :lol: :yes:
 
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Ghettoboom767 said:
Hi Mono-You mean it's not the Megazoid from The Might Morphin Power Rangers!!??
They must have gotten their idea from that show I bet.
It looks similar and I just love the huge shot over the city-How Japanese is that!!
Great photos and what a cool thing!!
Have a great one-GB. :-) :-D :lol: :yes:
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Man, are you serious? :blink: The Power Rangers originated in 1993. Gundam's been out since 1979. ;-)

I agree with you about that shot with Tokyo in the background... I wish I was there to see that! :-O
 
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My son being a Power Rangers fan and I of Mobile Suit Gundam, G-Force, and of course Star Blazers and many others thought this was way cool.

As a matter of fact, I had a Sega Saturn and Dreamcast and used to play Gundam, Virtual ON and other games of the genre based on anime. :cool: :cool: :cool:
 
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