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Review: 08th MS Team Zaku II
By Loran Over the years, I’ve built a lot of robot kits. I’ve never really stopped and counted, but the total might be somewhere in the hundreds. Now, sure, a lot have broken and been […]
Movies and TV
Anime
Gelgoog Week Part 2: Gelgoog Jaeger
By Loran Time for part 2 of 3 of Gelgoog week! This time, we’re going to take a look at the HGUC incarnation of the Gelgoog Jaeger from Gundam 0080. This kit got hardly any […]
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Gelgoog Week Part 1: Gelgoog Marine Double Feature!
By Loran Loran here again, back on my “week” schedule again, but this time with a bonus-three articles instead of two! This time around, I’m covering more Zeon stuff, since I’ve kinda neglected them outside […]
Comic Book Movies
2nd Scott Pilgrim Trailer!
“Tomorrow, a new movie starring Liza Minnelli and Mickey Rourke will open. Will it be as successful? Only time will tell.”
Anime
Review:HGUC Rick Dom II
Continuing my semi unexpected “break” from the review “weeks”, I’m gonna be covering another kit from the HGUC 0080 series. In addition to the few new kits made for the HGUC line, all of the kits from the original line were redone. The Rick Dom II here was the fourth 0080 HGUC, coming out right before the Mass Produced Guncannon. This kit came in two flavors-the well-known classic Rick Dom colors that the original 0080 kit came in, and was later released in the “colony attack colors” which it donned in its first appearance in the OVA. Aside from the colors, both kits are identical. […]
Anime
Now and Then: Custom Zakus part 2
Since the first part of this series examined one of the “newer” Custom Zakus, it’s only fair that the “Then” portion examines the O.G. of Custom Zakus-The MS-06S “Zakue II”:Principality of Zeon Char’s Customize Mobile Suit from the Original Mobile Suit Gundam series. Of course we won’t be looking at the first release of this kit, but we’ll be dealing with 1/144th scale HGUC “remake” released back in 2002. […]
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A Guide to Scales and Grades
I’m taking a little break from my two-review weeks and talking about a much more general subject-scale and grades. I’m sure a lot of first-time buyers look at the kits they want online and wonder, “How big is it? How hard is this to build? How nice will the finished product be?” Well, I’m hoping this guide here will help you decide what you want and what to expect. […]
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Now and then: Custom Zakus part 1
By Christopher Troy C-C-C-C-C-C-C-combo Breaker! As I said last week, the 4th Meister’s gunpla should be in my hand in a few weeks, so we’re gonna take a break and focus on something not particularly […]
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Titans Week part 2: HGUC GM Quel
By Loran Welcome to part two of two of Titans week! I’d like to make this “event” go on longer but I don’t have enough stuff to continue this much longer. For the second part […]
Anime
Titans Week part 1: The HGUC Gundam Mark II
Welcome to part one of two of Titans week! I’m going to start doing reviews with themes for the next few weeks, so you’ll see two reviews from me each week with something connecting the two together. This week I’m going to cover two mobile suits from everyone’s favorite fascist Federation police force with a really snazzy custom color scheme-the Titans! […]
Anime
Saturn Provocateur & Other New Manga for May
So this week is a small release week in quantity, barely even ten things are coming out, but the good news is, this week belongs t Dark Horse who is releasing a few choice titles for you guys. First on the list is the amazingly belated Hellsing Volume 10 by Kohta Hirano. Now this is supposed to be the final volume, and from what has been happening since Volume 9, it damn well better be. Aside from the fact that I don’t think the fan base can wait another however many years for an 11th Volume, let’s face it, I’ve been into the series since high school, it has been about 10 years, it’s time for it to end. Just as long Alucard…and therefor Allegra, ends up on top. […]
Cartoons
Futurama to Return With New Episodes
Good news, Gang! A new season of Futurama is on its way, set to premiere in a few short days on Comedy Central. “Futurama” is back! Everybody’s favorite zany group from the future has returned […]
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Gundam Double-OH YEAH!: The 4 meisters Gundam review part 3
Welcome back to Part 3 of my look at the Gundam 00 Mesiter Gundams. Head’s up for the two of you who care; we’re currently out of stock of any of pilot Allelujah Haptism’s Gundams on the 1/144th scale, so they will probably be a delay of some sort between parts 3 and 4. I apologize, but the 00 kits are some of the hottest Gunplas selling at Forbidden Planet, and we all prefer the customer getting first dibs on our stock than Loran and I. Worse cause scnario, we’ll concluded this in 2 weeks with a 1/100th scale kit for Allelujah. […]
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HGUC Mass Production Guncannon Review
When the original Gundam 0080 model kit line came out in 1989, it really changed things for Gunpla. While they may seem really outdated by today’s standards, they were the first fully-snap together Gundam kits, not needing any glue like the Sentinel kits, or screws like the Char’s Counterattack kits. While they may have had issues like hip joints that popped out easily or ugly yellow polycaps like on the Zaku FZ, they were actually released as a part of the High Grade line when Bandai America released Gundam kits in the early 2000’s. […]
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Gundam Double-OH YEAH!: The 4 meisters Gundam review part 2
By Christopher Troy Running a little late, what with the Iron Man 2 release and Mother’s Day (don’t even ask me about my progress in Final Fantasy 13) , but here’s the 2nd installment of […]
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Gundam Astray Review
By Loran When Gundam SEED came out in 2002, one hell of a merchandising push came with it. Several new model kit lines were introduced like the new and unposeable take on the No Grade […]
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HGUC Rick Dias Review
by Loran When the HGUC line first started back in the summer of 1999, it kept things rather simple. Instead of covering all the main character units, fancy new OVAs, and stuff outside of the […]
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The Arche Gundam: Finale
by Keith GENTLEMEN, BEHOLD! ANOTHER ARTICLE! It’s been kind of a long road working on the Arche so far, and progress to this point has been relatively slow. Thankfully, that won’t be the case this […]
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HGUC Full Armor Gundam 7th Review
By Loran Boy, Bandai sure loves our money, don’t they? In the past few years, mostly through video games, Bandai has been having totally-awesome mecha designer Hajime Katoki redesign some of Kunio Ookawara’s M-MSV designs. […]
Comic Book Movies
1st Pic of Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Iron Man 2 hits theaters this coming Friday and while that flick is predicted to be among 2010’s biggest box office draws (okay, it’s going to be one of THE biggest of all time) one […]