Danny you are the only other person I know (other than myself) who admits to not being able to stand the movie all the way to the end. I remember being too disturbed to complete the movie too.
I'll take #1, 4, 7, and a little bit of #8. It takes me a lot to get moving on a new kit, I don't know why that is. I will open the box and look at the sprues and then just close the box and set it aside. Often for figures (and not just kits), I will...
Canada's problem is that we're so tightly knit with the USA in culture and trade that it's hard to distinquish ourselves (and yes, we get movies the same time as the US release, and we share DVD "region"). It's gotten such that the government has a p...
I always assumed Ulysses 31 was an anime dubbed into English. But Thundercats was definitely American - possibly sourced to off-shore studios for the animation work, but it was most definitely western-produced. Danny, it's interesting that the Thunde...
Got to show my age to say this, but I love this Destroid design and have loved it ever since FASA stole it. @_@;;; There's something real about the utilitarian look: every thing is just sensible. The only thing non-nonsensical about this toy is the p...
Assuming she's not in an arranged marriage to someone else, I second Aoi!! Besides being really cute, she's loyal and will stand by her man (hopefully me included!). :P
Pocari Sweat is available at the local Asain ethnic grocer. But I think it might be an import by way of Thailand or somewhere else because there isn't much Japanese kana but some other writing I don't recognize on the bottles. Weird. I much prefer th...
Heh, as I was saying in another comment above, pretty much the entire country of Canada agrees with you. Krispy Kreme tried to open shops here and failed... people just felt it was too radically different from the kind of donuts we like here.
Heh, I live in the south end (near the airport) and I've also got 2 Tim Horton's within 5 minutes drive! Anyway, Krispy Kreme tried to break into Canada but just didn't seem to last. Canadians are fiercely loyal to their Tim's! I went to Krispy Kreme...
I'm a techie too. But lately I've also come to the conclusion that I just don't need to be tooling around inside my desktop and am currently considering making the leap to life with a laptop instead of upgrade the PC I have here.
Yes, but only in pubs where space is at a premium and you're expected only to have a drink and not a full meal (which is a problem when the pub decides to serve breakfasts). The smallest tables I've seen in a non-pub restaurant would be in fast-food...
Love it. I think B1 is (formerly?) Hello!Project's Goto Maki... not known for wearing glasses but I recall her profile on the H!P's site looked something like that. I'm biased toward B5 - Sailor Mercury from the live-action adaptation of Sailor-Moon....
Like Tami said, the mecha animals are from "Robonimal" featuring Panda-Z - a series of 5-minute episode anime. Look for them on Youtube! Megahouse had the license for vinyl toys but I'm not sure if they still do.
But a fellow commenter on Japan Probe makes a good point: Japanese culture is just so into "prepackaged goods" that DIY is simply not in their mentality. It's entirely possible this old man never owned more than one size screwdriver in his whole life...
Curious, what do native Japanese think of the acting in this type of show? I think the failing of American-adapted tokusatsu series is that they cast unknown actors who deliver very child-like dialog and are generally unconvincing to adults' ears (th...
I wonder if it's because of the goods offered that makes one place more likely to have people spend more. I know for sure if I buy X-number of items in a gaming store, then the total cash spent will very likely be much more than X-number of items pur...
OP and ED themes are a lost art in American series. It used to be different. Just ask anybody over the age of 30 what their favourite theme was and they'll be able to sing it ...but the show they're talking about will be from early 90's at least. The...
"in case" we fell asleep? Danny, you know us too well! :) There was a cherry tree in the courtyard of my university. It was beautiful but also stuck out like a sore thumb... I would love to visit Japan in the spring time. I'm sure it would be very di...
Not counting my very early years when North American distributors didn't want viewers to know they were watching Japanese material (I'm looking at YOU, Battle of the Planets), I think I started watching "anime" around the mid-90's when suddenly North...
One of Canada's largest ISP (Bell Sympatico) recently admitted to throttling speeds after many years of denial. While Canada's laws a little more vague than in the US, Canadian ISPs will indeed comply with warnings from US IP owners when abuse is rep...
I've seen that Char helmet before - cool idea to paint it in a Zaku scheme. But they allowed you to wear your Stormtrooper helmet? Is it really a safety-helmet? Or was that lap filmed for fun and you were going a lot slower than it looked? Around the...
Left a physics text book as well in my freshman year of CEGEP (pre-university in Quebec) on a bus. Never saw it again. The worst was that it was the beginning of the year so I had just bought it (just over a hundred bucks!) and it would cover materia...
I absolutely LURVE ME Revoltech figures. So addictive to buy because they are each so affordable (unlike gokin mecha figures or PVC). Some of those upcoming designs are amazing!
can't speak for the rest of Canada, but around these parts, two major chains are "Dollarama" and "A Buck or Two." They typically stock small kitchenware,random hardware, cheap toys for the little kids, misc homewares (stationary, picture frames, etc)...
at first I was going to say, "that's wrong; she looks cold." But then I realized... this is a gift. we should just appreciate that we can see this sort of thing. she suffers for us all and we thank her for that.
I'm not huge on post-x'mas shopping but I do like to keep my eyes peels on-line for deals on stuff I've been too distracted to get during the year. Also, my brother and I usually meet back at my parents house and we'll hit the local gaming shop who h...
We have recycling services in Canada but I've learned that it's different province to province and more often city to city. Back home (Sherbrooke, Quebec) we could throw just about anything into the recycling bin and they'd take it and sort it for yo...
I got another question (take this as retorical or not): would a statue of sonsaku be any more acceptable if it were also sculpted in iron (or whatever non-flesh colour material) and posted in a plainly non-sexual pose? I think context plays a lot in...
