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    Something thats been blowing my mind a bit recently is after watching a recent Jeremy Parish video is that the US only had two dedicated video gaming magazines for a period of about four years between 1984 and 1988, and one of those was a self-published newsletter apparently put out by two middle aged women that no-one has ever heard of. From a British perspective, thats... look, magazines were a huge part of the British computer/video gaming background of the 80s. We had "Crash", "ZZAP 64", "Your Sinclair", "Sinclair User", "Amstrad Action", "Computer and Videogames" - and thats just to name the famous ones; there also were the short-lived publications like "Big K" and even odd platforms like the Dragon 32 had their own titles. This continued well into the 16-bit and even 32-bit eras. Now, granted, many of these weren't in the strictest sense absolutely dedicated "videogame" magazines as they were largely covering personal computing and several started out as general computing titles with gaming just part of it but it wasn't too long before games were largely running the show for a lot of them (also, in those days, you needed at least a degree of familiarity with computing to be a gamer, from typing in a "LOAD" command just to start running a game to invoking the mysterious art of the "POKE" if you actually wanted to beat Jet Set F... REAKIN' Willy). The people that wrote for them were in some cases literally school kids and several have commented how they could be treated almost like rock stars when they met their magazines readers.
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    But is there an alternate build if you put it together in less than two hours though? 😅
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    In the absence of any concrete "Who" news, I present this little... er... Whugget? Doctoid? Whobit?... that is an instant way of telling approximately how old a British person is in the absence of any other information; simply say the title of the show this sketch is from and see if they immediately yell "CRACKERJACK!" [1] back: [1] "Crackerjack" was a long running BBC childrens variety/comedy/quiz show that ran, on and off, literally for decades. British people of a certain age remember with a jealous fondness winners of each episodes competition round being seemingly buried under a pile of highly desirable toys from the period, such as Kenner "Star Wars" AT-AT Walkers and the like...
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    Kind of weird how original design "Battletech" some of those mecha look. If it wasn't for the fact that manga predates it, I'd have said "Ideon" was an influence.
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    I can take or leave "Evangelion" but having played "NieR: Automata" I can't help but have some intrigue. That teaser is very the latter feeling than the former.
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    That movie sits in a really weird spot for "Doctor Who". The eighth Doctor played quite an important part, I guess, in establishing how the later series would handle things (through all the various spin-off media) but the actual movie itself seems to get even less attention than the ones with Peter Cushing!
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    "I'm a Doctor, but probably not the one you were expecting... "
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    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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