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  1. F-ZeroOne
    I can has X-Bomber toys again? 😅
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    Yeah, its not a completely insurmountable problem, though considering they've just released a ginger version of their cat from a little while back, and we're going to get goodness how many different colour upscaled Spacemen in all probability, I think I know the approach they'd be likely to take... 😅
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    It'll probably never happen - the US/Europe-Japan differences would be one challenge (though now I think of it you'd have the same issue with the SNES) - but as someone who was on the other side of the Console Wars, I'd love them to do a Mega Drive.
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    Hi, not sure if this is exactly related to what you're looking for, but the website Zimmerit, which covers a number of 80s era anime (as well as the general scene around manga and anime in Japan at the time) has the following article: https://www.zimmerit.moe/macross-design-shoji-kawamori-kazutaka-miyatake/
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    With that title, I was half expecting Tom Hanks to show up to teach kids about the dangers of tabletop role-playing games!
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    The biggest missed opportunity is the chance for a "Judge Dredd/Matchbox" crossover movie. (during the "2000AD" "Dredd" epic "The Cursed Earth" Dredd used a vehicle, a futuristic AFV, that was based on one of Matchboxs "Raider Command" vehicles. And when I say "based on", I mean directly copied from. You could even win one in a "2000AD" competition at the time!).
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    Blast it, you beat me to it! It was right there, Sunrise!
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    Supposedly theres a "rocket" hidden inside the Spacemans helmet (as per the description on the US Lego store) but I haven't seen any evidence of that in the released photos so far.
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    I got the Lego "Time Machine" the other day and built it today - in fact, I built it twice as I got two of them knowing having to choose between one configuration or the other would bug me a lot! I'm not really a car person but I've been thinking of getting a "Back to the Future" DeLorean in some form for a while so this scratched a couple of itches at the same time. Its a nice build, just complicated enough to be interesting but not complicated enough to make you go "Oh, spirit of the Brick, why hast thou forsaken me?!" and not overly time consuming either, I think the two of them in total took me just under four hours. I've made a couple minor modifications - for the "Part II" version, I've made a quick "flying stand" using a couple of base plates and a girder/vertical support piece I had lying around. Although the vehicles underside base section isn't suitable for studs, if you have a long enough base plate you can fit it on the cross-bars at either end easily enough. Its not the most stable - as I type this I can see it wobbling out the corner of my eye but you could easily fix that with enough standard bricks or the like for example. The second, even smaller mod, was giving one of the Marty figures a classic Lego camera (the type you used to get with the Space sets) and putting a two-stud wide red piece on the side, to re-enact his JVC camcorder as it appeared in the first film.
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    Hah! Just for context, for those who may be unaware, the original Western release of the "Ghost in the Shell" manga was edited, in at least one scene, for... stuff. Don't try and look it up at work! (also, my apologies if you've heard the "Intron Depot" story before, I'm reaching the "Grandpa Simpson" stage of my personal geekdom). "Fashion" is an interesting one because it can apply to mechanical things as much as clothes etc. You can see it with 80s mecha designs, where the somewhat slimmer early to mid 80s mecha designs kinda give way to the "muscle car" mecha designs of things like "Gundam ZZ". And as has been said, some things are almost eternal; the original AV-98 Ingram from "Patlabor" still mostly holds up today and probably still will twenty years from now. After all, in the future... who knows? On the subject of BGCs "Linna", having recently rewatched the series (again!) one thing I was surprised by is despite all Priss grabbing all the attention, its actually Linna who probably kicks the most ars... posterior!
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    Yeah, I've got the impression ever since being revealed these are clearly aimed at kids. While Lego has increasingly earned a reputation for being aimed at adults, its not the only demographic they serve and flashy lights and sounds appeal to children, even though part of me is a little sad they'll be less inclined to provide their own whooshy sounds. Another thing thats been pointed out about the chargers is that I understand one is included with each set so over time theres potential for households to be stuck with a lot of these very specific use items.
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    Yeah, I always loved the background engineering in "Appleseed", its where I first encountered the term "Arcology". Funny story, I bought "Intron Depot" because I loved his mechanical work and being a rather young and naive person at the time didn't realise that the volume contained certain unedited scenes from the "Ghost in the Shell" manga. I was waiting for a train with a friend and opened the book up to browse the contents, and I swear when I got a certain page I heard my friends eyes pop out their head... (along with mine!). 😅
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    Another ghost from the British toybox, Matchboxs "Adventure 2000" line of die-cast future vehicles: https://mikepigottsdiecasttoysandmodels.wordpress.com/2022/02/08/adventure-2000-by-matchbox/ The "Raider Command" vehicle actually made it into the pages of "2000AD" when it was used as the basis for Judge Dredds main ride in the classic saga "The Cursed Earth" (not the first time that particular storyline would dance on the edge of copyright/trademark hell either!).
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    I think you had this in the US, a design that haunted the "Toys & Games" pages of British mail-order catalogues for what seemed like years, the Milton Bradley "Starbird Avenger" (and its evil cousin, the "Starbird Intruder"): https://flashbak.com/fastest-ship-galaxy-remembering-milton-bradleys-star-bird-1978-58502/ I always used to stare longingly at it but somehow it never made my "want" lists as a child. Also, speaking of a "Space Raider", something I've been thinking about for a while and this thread seems a fitting thread to mention it, there was a line of UK snack foods called "Space Raiders" (still is, actually, not to be confused with a MacDonalds promotion from the late 70s); the original release featured art on the packets by no less a "2000AD" illuminary as Brett Ewins ("Judge Dredd", "Bad Company"). The reason I mention it is at one time they did an offer where if you sent in so many packets plus postage they would send you a little spaceship toy. I had hours of fun with that cheap little thing (I did at one time actually find out who made them but have since forgotten); I also recall some little toys a saw in a shop in a holiday camp once (yes, a lot of my childhood holidays were spent in these, for want of a better word, institutions) that had little "Zoids"-like pilots in but weren't related to them in any way (they weren't "R.A.T.S" or "Starriors" either, these were way smaller and sold in a box assortment). The reason I bring these up is that these sorts of cheap, throwaway and probably often bootlegged toys (or picture books, comics, etc) weren't famous, little information generally exists about them online and possibly are only recalled in the memories of those who actually encountered them but nevertheless could have an effect on the imagination at least equal to the much better known big names that get the coverage today. Edit: the "holiday camp" toys I mention above, I may be misremembering them having "Zoids" pilots; I think it was actually "Zoids" like small guns and external weapons/fittings.
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    I mean, look at all those Skystrikers on the deck! 😅
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