Microman Shishioh Guy & Chirico Cuvie.
And Swan White and Utsuki Mikoto, too.

MicroBry’s MagneForce fanmodes.
Cool use of the vintage Titans and MagneCondor.

Wiz’s monstrous Mugenbine fanmode.
The thing must be two feet tall.

Yusuke’s Blade King Form pictorial.
The armour is all die-cast with the exception of the shoulder armour and helmet. Impulse-D and Geza have reviews up as well.

Takara’s Sato and Tomy’s Tomiyama interviewed.
Interesting factoid: it takes 10 million yen to produce a toy but toycos need to invest one billion yen in a show to push the merchandise in order to create a hit line. Tomiyama notes the risk of failure is high even then.

Robo rider.
Cool sculpture.

Drawn! [via]
“… a multi-author blog devoted to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. Its purpose is to inspire creativity by sharing links and resources.”

Tech specs aren’t everything.
“The company built a tricky, proprietary machine, and they knew it. The majority of the development community isn’t going to understand this new way of making games. And though Sony is disturbed by developers not taking full advantage of the hardware, the company isn’t doing much to solve the problem.” The article was about the PS2 but you have to wonder if the problem will recur with the PS3.

Ebi’s custom Kamen Rider Danki.
Based on the Souchaku Henshin Hibiki figure.

Tamabase’s custom Microman weapons and backpacks.
Based on the 500 yen Armored Core Nexus Second Series figures.

Your mother as a metaphor.
“Picture the scene: your mum falls prey to the dubious charms of an ageing businessman, who has only got eyes for her assets. He pawns your toys to pay for the wedding, halves your pocket money, moves his own kids in upstairs and then announces he’s taking her to Florida every bloody summer – for work.” Good grief. Now every Manchester United fan will have the mental image of Malcolm Glazer in flagrante delicto with their mothers.