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Post by The Doctor on Apr 25, 2008 21:58:58 GMT
This book I ordered a couple of months ago showed up todayFrom the ever-reliable Million Publishing, it's very much in a similar vein to the Transformers: Generations book. So you know the drill, lots of rather good photos of the toys from the 80's through to 2005 when the book was published. Oodles of design sketches, etc. I have some affection for the 80's Gobots, having owned some of them/played with them as a child and looked at in their own right, taking the rubbish storyline the toys had away, a lot of them are quite smart, if perhaps not as great as Transformers. This is a very nice visual record of the line. I don't have the cash/inclination/space to pick them up but the book does the job nicely for me. There is also a DVD included, Machine Robo Visual Record, which I have yet to view. But so far pretty good value for money (important for me on a student budget!) and worth sticking an order in if you enjoyed Gobots and/or like Japanese picture books in this vein. -Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 25, 2008 22:09:21 GMT
Think I may pick this one up next month then.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 25, 2008 22:18:41 GMT
It has sparked terrible fan-fic ideas in my head that I have tried to suppress!
-Ralph
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Post by karla on Apr 25, 2008 22:19:31 GMT
so can you read japanese then?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 25, 2008 22:24:52 GMT
I don't think so. Like most of us we buy these books for the pretty pictures. One day I would like to try my hand at learning the language but it's finding the time.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 25, 2008 22:34:18 GMT
Yes indeed. These types of books are mostly pictorial in nature and so can be followed easily enough in a coffee-table-book-like fashion. The Japanese do them so well and at very affordable prices too. And there are no English language book equivalents anyway.
-Ralph
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Post by karla on Apr 25, 2008 22:37:24 GMT
they are lovely pictures!
japanese and mandarin are supposed to be hard to learn...but i'm not sure, its just a bunch of noise most of the time! French I would love to learn properly though and possibly german, spanish is an easy one, yes it is that dreaded "no time to do anything" factor, it can be depressing sometimes.
the question is...
is it handbag sized ;D
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 26, 2008 6:56:02 GMT
I learnt a tiny bit of Cantonese several years ago when I had a chinese girl friend. It's a bloody horrible language to learn! Fun to speak, but it's all 'sung', it's not what you say, it's how you say it! I learnt quite a bit of French and Spanish at one point, but 'cos I don't use 'em, I forgotten most of it, esp Spanish which I learnt later in life when my synapse are all set in their ways. Mrs Shockprowl's got German relatives, so should learn a bit of that for visits and the like, but I'd rather re-learn French. What was it Frederick the Great of Prussia said? "German is for soldiers, French is for Gentleman". Words to that effect.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 26, 2008 9:02:00 GMT
Didn't James Wilson do a Japanese class some years ago ?
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 26, 2008 9:12:58 GMT
That rings a bell.
-Ralph
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Post by Jaymz on Apr 26, 2008 13:49:53 GMT
Didn't James Wilson do a Japanese class some years ago ? Yeah, I've studied Japanese and Mandarin. And my mother's from Hong Kong so knows Cantonese. Can't say I can speak/read/write/understand any of them though, languages are not my strong point. |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 27, 2008 20:20:02 GMT
The DVD turned out to be 30 mins of toy ads, some of which were extremely trippy, expecially the Rock Lords one.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 28, 2008 10:15:06 GMT
I look forward to seeing it the next time I am at Burns manor.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2008 16:22:49 GMT
To quote our very own Nick: "This will cost me a fortune on Yahoo Japan."
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Apr 28, 2008 16:49:01 GMT
Curse you Burns. I am very tempted now to invest in this book. Machine Robo was never a franchise I was more than peripherally aware of, but hearing that the book has design sketches as well as scads of photos of the toys I am rather tempted.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2008 17:13:21 GMT
Your sorrow brings me joy.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 28, 2008 19:17:33 GMT
There was even an advert for Combinators.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2008 19:34:59 GMT
Yeah! That surprised me with such intensely I briefly vanished within a black hole before being cruelly dispatched back to the couch.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 30, 2008 16:34:16 GMT
Turnbull has now been exposed to the MR/G book/DVD combo. We need to keep him off ebay, no matter the cost!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 30, 2008 20:40:33 GMT
HLJ have the book back in stock. Clickety, clickety, I am poorer.
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Post by The Doctor on May 30, 2008 20:51:04 GMT
Muh huh huh!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2008 10:57:30 GMT
And out of stock again. However I have found a similar book on the Sentai robots so we'll see what that's like.
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Post by legios on Jun 3, 2008 11:39:25 GMT
Hmm. Let me know what that is like Phil - if it goes back as far as stuff like "Jetman" it might just catch my interest.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2008 12:18:56 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 3, 2008 21:20:01 GMT
And out of stock again. However I have found a similar book on the Sentai robots so we'll see what that's like. Keep the order on. Mine floated in and out of being in stock before it finally materialised. Unless I got the last copy. That Sentai book looks nice. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2008 21:55:25 GMT
You can't beat a good Japanese robot toy book.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 4, 2008 16:43:47 GMT
Well you could, but the Violence Against Books League would be at your door.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2008 21:16:15 GMT
*both* books are being processed for shipping ! Result.
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Post by Stomski on Jun 6, 2008 10:25:19 GMT
"Rock Lords are like Transformers, but instead of turning into something awesome like a car or a jet, they turn into rocks, which can only be enjoyed by throwing them at other kids."
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2008 8:45:49 GMT
Rock Lords are awesome. I will hear nothing against them!
-Ralph
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