Archive for November, 2007

Make: Magazine

Well I hit the bookstore the other day and pick up an issue of Make: magaizine. (yes the colon is part of the title) Make: comes pretty close to the untimate Geek magazine. Each quarterly 200page issue has several articles on new tech as well as how it works type articles, and surprisingly few [...]

Claymore: Clare Figure Delayed??

Well I am not real sure what is going on but Clare is not going to be in my November shipment from HLJ. HLJ still lists her as November release and so does the Official Claymore site. Kid Nemo and Play-Asia both has her listed for the end of December, but I think that they [...]

Futurama: Bender’s Big Score

Man I totally forgot that this was coming out. The first new Futurama since the TV show was canceled, is a direct to DVD release. Reportedly the first of 4 feature length stories that will later be broken down into individual episodes for TV.
Buy the looks of things they went all out on this [...]

Appleseed: Ex Machina

Warner Home Video has announced that they will be releasing the new Appleseed movie on DVD in 2008, the official site is here. Appleseed is one of the first translated manga titles that I read way back when. I have always thought that is one of Shirow’s best works, and alway been on of my [...]

Renkin 3-kyuu Magical? Poka~n (Magipoka) Pachira Figure Review

When I first found out bout this nice little figure she was already sold out at every online store I could find. The only way one could get her was a Yahoo Japan auctions at a hefty price, plus I would have to deal with a proxy service as most Japan auction won’t ship [...]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Cronicles

Fox has been running commercials for their up coming series “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” The series is to take place after the second movie and will follow Sarah and John who are still on the run from Skynet. While it is being produced by the same people who did the Terminator 3 movie [...]

Beowulf

I went and saw Beowulf a couple of weeks ago. I had only seen a couple of quick TV ads and didn’t realize until a couple of minutes into it that it was CG, it was that good. Now there were points where the realism broke down but I would have to say it [...]

Best Laid Plans

Well my plan for tonights post was going to be the photo shoot and review of Pachira from Magipoka figure that I just got from Hobby Search, but I ran into a slight problem. It seem that the manufactures of the poster board multi pack that I bought for the background have a slight [...]

Happy Turkey Day

Well just want to wish everyone out there and Happy Thanksgiving, special warm wishing to out to our men and women in uniform who can’t be with their families this year. The fun part is of course the day after Thanksgiving aka Black Friday when all craziness happen at your local retail outlets. People [...]

Gun x Sword’s Fasalina Figure Review

Got Fasalina here in the same shipment as Clalaclan, saves on shipping cost from HLJ to have them ship SAL in batches then one at a time. Thats one of the reasons I have never ordered from Amazon Japan. While I have found several book and other things I would love to have they [...]

Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Maids

Well looks like March will be a budget breaking month for Fate/Stay Night , Fate/Hollow Ataraxia fans, as Goodsmile releases not one, not two, but three fantasy maid figures. The three girls Saber, Rin, and Rider each get the Maid makeover with Saber getting the French Maid outfit while Rin and Rider get the [...]

Guilty Gear Bridget

Out next March is this figure of everybody’s favorite gender bender Bridget from Guilty Gear. S/he will be coming from Maxfactory at 1/7 scale and 6,800 yen already up for preorder at HobbyStock, Hobby Search, Play-Asia, and J-List.

More pics after the cut.