| Oh, Japan |
[07 Jun 2009|08:33am] |
So, who wants to tell me what sort of cultural misunderstanding may have lead to, uh, these?
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| Reading Watching the Watchmen |
[11 Mar 2009|03:52am] |
"Watching the Watchmen" is a book by Dave Gibbons about his experiences on the Watchmen series. It's kind of interesting, but way not worth the $40 pricetag; I got mine 40% off at Borders, and I'm still not sure I got my money's worth.
These are, unobjectively, the two best things in it.
Kirby-Style Watchmen (not by Kirby, click on the thumbnail to enlarge):
And this, which was the work of some assist editor at DC of the time (or something, I'd have to check the book again).
It'd be perfect without the comma, but it's what they did, so ehn. Easy enough to photoshop out later.
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[28 Feb 2009|09:18am] |
And now, from the depths of the 1980s:
Witness the heroic Commander... Jeffron... and the Star Legion as they battle the forces of the evil Commander... Wartech... and the Tech Dynasty.
Full story here: http://obscuretf.com/legions/
(As you can see, I am sort of dumbstuck by the ridiculousness of the character names in this series. Though, I guess if one of the most popular toylines of the 1980s starred a guy named He-Man, there's only so much of a drop to Rob-bart.)
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| Giga Pudding |
[18 Feb 2009|08:31am] |
Ever wanted an easy way to make two liters of flan? TakaraTomy provides the way.
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| Trivial Pursuit |
[28 Sep 2008|06:06am] |
First, I found JEM characters in Transformers. Now?
Dungeons and Dragons! Well, more-or-less.
And, in case you haven't seen it: Megatron hugging a robot unicorn.
Oh, decade-old BotCon fanart...
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[20 Sep 2008|09:37am] |
And now, for something no one will remember: Shadow Strikers.
Shadow Strikers was a toyline by Kenner in the same scale as M.A.S.K. Instead of having neat transforming vehicles, it had mostly transparent vehicles that you could see the "internals workings" of, and also the figures became transparent when you dipped them in water (I forget if it was hot or cold). It didn't last beyond one wave of product, and only had one direct-to-video episode (which I didn't even know about until a year or two ago).
The concept is played entirely straight, and has an odd mishmash of 1980s and 1990s styles, clocking in from 1990. It's most noteworthy to me because the lead villain, Dr. Viper, is clearly played by Alan Oppenheimer using his "Skeletor" voice, but with a goofy German accent. (I guess it may be legitimately noteworthy that the series features a heroic Arab in its cast, even though he's evidently a former terrorist and says his dunebuggy "drives like a camel".)
Here's a segment featuring all the non-Dr. Viper villains. I am fascinated by Chameleon Man, who I actually own. If the intro is to be believed, this is kind of a shoddy "kamikaze army".
And here's the special all in one go.
Online Videos by Veoh.com
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| Score! |
[17 Sep 2008|05:33am] |
I have achieved the technological development of transferring from VHS to PC.
For my first act: Defenders of Dynatron City, a one-shot animated superhero special by DIC based on a failed LucasArts property (!), written by Bob Forward (!!), and starring... Whoopi Goldberg (?!, also, Tim Curry in a minor role). Don't worry, you can't recognize her voice at all.
Intro - narrated by Gary Owns!
And all of it in one go:
Online Videos by Veoh.com
The humor falls kind of flat, but it has surprisingly nice art. The same animation studio that did Batman: The Animated Series' "Heart of Ice" worked on it.
Now, to plan my next DIGITIZATION.
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| DESPOTISM |
[09 Sep 2008|03:15am] |
How does your community rate on the Despotism Scale?
This is actually rather fascinating overall, but I can't help but smile at the mob boss who is clearly Lou Costello.
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| Request |
[20 Aug 2008|01:20pm] |
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So there's a project I'd like to do, but I need people bilingual in either Spanish or Portuguese. Anyone on the ole' friends list fit the bill?
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[15 Aug 2008|08:00pm] |
I recently bought a pile of Hasbro Toy Fair catalogs (~1996-2001) and assorted suchlike from a German seller on eBay. Initially, not as much interesting TF stuff as I'd hoped for, but I'm still going through it.
However, the lot inexplicably included... an autographed photo of Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian.
I am baffled.
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[04 Jul 2008|08:56am] |
So yesterday I watched the commercial release of the Computer Warriors pilot. It included a five-minute "Making Of" featurette that the VHS included with the toys did not have. This featurette was, unbeknownst to me until I watched the tape, done in rap form, presumably because it was made in 1990 and they were trying to be modern.
And - of course - it turns out this be-rapped featurette is online.
It is rapped by Barbara Goodson, AKA Rita Repulsa (although she uses her "young kid" voice here), and her rap partner seems to be Jerry Houser, because he sounds exactly like G1 Sandstorm. Oh, and it features "Carl Macek" in the lyrics! (Did you know it rhymed with "basic"?)
Enjoy!
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| Everything is better with gorillas! |
[01 Jun 2008|03:23am] |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West
A few years earlier, one of the oddest of all western characters, Six-Gun Gorilla, appeared. This was an actual gorilla who strapped on a pair of Colts to avenge the death of the kindly prospector who had raised it. His adventures appeared in the pulps Adventure and Wizard.
http://www.geocities.com/jjnevins/pulpss.html
Six-Gun Gorilla. Perhaps my favorite entry in this site, the Six-Gun Gorilla appeared in Adventure and Wizard in 1926 (I think). I do not know who created him. O'Neil was an actual gorilla, who had been trapped as a baby, brought to the States, and sold to Johnson, a Colorado prospector.
Johnson, a kind man, treated O'Neil very well. He also taught O'Neil how to dig, fetch firewood, haul up buckets of water, cook, clean, and (oh dear) load and fire a revolver. Naturally, when Johnson is murdered for what he knows about "the great motherlode," O'Neil ooks revenge.
He straps on a bandolier and two six-shooters and begins tracking the thieves across a hundred miles of Colorado mountains and badlands. He picks them off one by one, meanwhile discovering a talent for holding up stagecoaches and using them to chase fleeing gunmen. It's all great fun, really.
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[28 Feb 2008|10:10pm] |
Japan, this is the 80s-est outfit to ever come out of 1992. You should be ashamed. Or maybe proud?
(One of those guys is wearing elf shoes.)
(I seem to be doing nothing but posting random youtube videos to LJ of late. Oh well.)
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