In the wild, mouse at the ready, hunting down links
A photo of a Busou Shinki Angel Arnval figure armed with the PDW9 rifle. The set includes quite an arsenal. Aside from the rifle, there’s a handgun, two beam sabers and a humongous cannon. I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to photograph the latter as it’s ridiculously huge.
Posted in Busou Shinki, Pix, Toys.
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– Sunday, May 20, 2007
“It’s a robot. Y’know, like a super advanced robot.
It’s probably Japanese.”
That’s not only amusing on its own but it’s a clever inside joke for Transformers fans. Nice one, writers.
Posted in Transformers.
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– Saturday, May 19, 2007
Updated October 9, 2007
Being a geek, I’m shameless consumer of geeky things.
The main problems I face acquiring the objects of my geeky desires here in Malaysia are availability and cost. Stuff comes here in limited quantities (if at all) and gets sold out quickly.
It doesn’t help matters there are jackasses here who rush to the stores, buy every hot item in stock and then sell them on eBay with scalper-riffic prices.
Cost-wise, imported merchandise is generally sold locally with at least a 20 per cent mark-up. If you’re horrible at bargaining (as I am) you may end up paying much, much more.
Those then are the reasons why I prefer buy online from foreign sellers instead of supporting local retailers as I should.
However, making purchases from foreign sellers involves difficulties as well. The main one for me is remitting funds. Until recently, I would make out an international bank draft and send it to the seller via Malaysia’s EMS mail service to ensure speedy delivery. This added both time and cost to the transaction.
Clearly, I needed to go electronic to speed things up and lower costs.
Continued…
Posted in General.
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– Friday, May 18, 2007
A photo of Takara’s Action Hero Pro figure from the Ryukendo set.
The 16-cm figure could be mistaken for a scaled-up Microman figure (specifically, a Material Force figure). I haven’t read anything about the figure’s development but it wouldn’t surprise me if Takara intended the Action Hero Pro figure to be the new Henshin Cyborg-style base figure for character toys.
Regardless of the original intention, it would appear Takara Tomy has abandoned this design. Aside from the Ryukendo set and Toys ‘R’ Us-exclusive base figure sets released last year there hasn’t been anything new with this design.
It’s a shame considering what a fine action figure this is.
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– Friday, May 18, 2007
G1-coloured Masterpiece Starscream. [via]
A neat custom paintjob by sylph.
Lords of the Rings Online (Japanese version).
In case you were wondering, no, that’s not what the typical Japanese MMO player looks like in real life. Those are actually image girls promoting the game.
State of the art.
Japan is at the forefront of robot development.
Posted in Web.
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– Friday, May 18, 2007
