Out and about: Japan: Kingdom of Characters

In the paper this little erm, expo I guess of sorts was advertised and it was about anime and manga characters from just after the end of the war until now.  So being a fan of many of the characters from those times, I headed off to have a look see.

 

It is held  at the  Gallery Central, Central Institute of Technology which is on 12 Aberdeen St Perth.  It’s open from 10-4.45pm on weekdays, 2pm-4.45pm on Saturdays.  Closed on Anzac day and Sundays.  It’s on now and finishes on the 3rd of May 2011.  Entry is free, so get over there to have a look!

 

It has a good coverage of major characters from the 1950s until the 2000s.  The cool thing is they have some wall pieces to read, and although not all-inclusive it manages a to cover a broad selection.  They also have some free standing statues kicking around the place.  A ‘life’ sized Ultraman ( !! ), Hello Kitty, Rei Ayanami (which is freaky when you see her proportions…) and a large but not life sized Gundam.

 

Pocket Power Rapid Fire Machine gun review

Carrying on with the Pocket Power festival I am going through right now, I have thusly completed a review of the Rapid Fire Machine gun that they made.  A nice piece of work this one, and indeed terrifying in the ability for loss of little yellow pellets.

Enjoy.

Pocket Power Survival Kit review, By Sega

A quick review of the Pocket Power toy which was made by Sega/Tyco toys in the late 1980s, which has a handy dandy little survival kit utility as one of the toys they brought out.

The concept was that all the toys came on a base and were small enough to fit into a pocket.  I kid's pocket I assume.  There is a wide variety of toys and some of them are quite clever, this is the first in a series that I will be looking at.



For other pocket power information, I suggest going to www.pocketpowertoys.com  Although currently a work in progress, it will be a cracker!!

Classic Sonic the Hedgehog

Wa ha ha ha!  Lazy time.  Here I have a video review of the Classic Sonic the Hedgehog from those good people from Jazwares.  It’s big and pretty damn cool!  So I will cut the rubbish and just say this “Get right into that video.”    More pics after the jump.  Enjoy!



More pics after the "see more" thingamajigger

Mmmm! hobby Nom NOMs!

I was trying to avoid putting up my gets post coz it could be boring.  But here is something that I am too excited about.  Transformers awesomeness and Masters of the Universe greatness!

Firstly the good one!

 

After my Transmetal Megatron broke while I was preparing him for photos, I found out he is prone to the dreaded GPS (Gold Plastic Syndrome), which means crumbly weak plastic.  What I didn’t realise is that it’s not only metallic colours that are prone to GPS, so I was thinking the metallic plates that form the Dinosaur were fragile.

 

No, it turns out the GPS plastic is the BROWN plastic that only happens to consist of, oh I don’t know, about 80% OF HIS ROBOT BODY!!!!!  So the Japanese one doesn’t suffer this, to get one cheap, I had to go onto Yahoo auctions Japan for a nice cheap one.  Which, as anyone new to eBay will know, auction sites are deadly, but I’ll get into that later.

 

I ended up finding a lovely “Kettou Beast Wars”  for the GBA and more importantly, a MISB Headmasters for the Nintendo Famidisk system.  From 1987.  Yes, MISB!  I thought the auction was telling me furfies, but blow me down, it i, with original seal and all. 

 

More on them in greater detail later.

 

Next up, MOTUC joys.

 

Panthor for my Skeletor to ride against He-Man and Battlecat.  It’s HUGE!  and Fearless Photog!  Being a projectionist, I couldn’t resist this guy.  Love it!  The best part is, the story behind the character creation and he is silly enough to fit into the MOTU universe quite happily!

 

One Happy chappy I be!

Mortal Kombat 6 inch Raiden

So after messing about and finally getting around to posting about the Lightning Fury Raiden, I have recently gotten my act together and have the normal version of Raiden photographed and ready to rock and roll.  Now, if I were slightly organised at times, I would have a video review ready to rock and roll, but until later I won’t.  So as a result, I am going to type up what I think and do a video review at a later date.

And here the video review be.  I still have a load of pics and blurb after the jump, so I thoroughly recommend having a look.



And thus we move forever forward towards the mighty 15cm of plastic that has formed a shape resembling Raidn from Mortal Kombat 9, I guess.  I am not entirely up on my costume advancement of the MK universe…

Lightning Fury Raiden!

The San Diego Comic-con, not only produced a furry Sonic the Hedgehog, it also produced a glow in the dark Raiden figure.  Ever since Scareglow, I have made it a little mission of mine to get my dirty little hands on any Glow in the dark action figures I can find.  And now I have Raiden from Mortal Kombat in a 6 inch sizing and made by Jazwares, who also do Sonic the Hedgehog figures.  So, beware, for I have now finished the introduction for

 

LIGHTNING FURY RAIDEN!!!