Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window

[porphyry]

These are Andrew's latest toys, which, I am pleased to be able to say, he actually likes. Who knew that one would be able to get such nice things anymore?



The large one is a de Haviland Mosquito Mark VI. I was compeletely flabbergasted when I saw this one on offer on the web.

The Blue one is an F-18 Hornet painted in air-show colors, which Andrew thinks is Big Jet from the Little Eisnteins (if you don't know what that means count yourself fortunate). Big Jet is really an F-15, but since its painted blue, Andrew more easily accepts this as him than he would have the actual F-15 in the series which was painted in desert camoflage. The next one a German Comet from the War (really a rocket rather than a true aeroplane), and finally an A-10 Warthog; this he knows from a video I showed him on you-tube of an A-10 shooting up tanks on a fireing range with its gattling gun after he enquired about Big-0's gattling gun.

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Re: You know bots

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Actually, though Mme. Malkhos couldn't stop laughing when I revealed all this to her, that figurine is quite easy to identify.

One of the first anime type series in Japan was called [I]Tetsujin 28 (Iron Man 28)[/I] which concerned a giant fighting robot created by a 10 year old boy genius (he was operated by a joystick remote control the boy constantly fiddled with in a highly suggestive manner). This was in 1964. The series was released in the US under the name [I]Gigantor[/I] (I suppose because the name Iron Man was already copyrighted here by Marvel comics for another character who is due to have his own film come out this summer, incidentally). The series, as is common in Japan, was remade in the 1980s and again in the 1990s. While the whole genre of giant fighting robot anime derives from this character, with Iron Man 28 having numerous nearly identical copies, the identity of the doll in question is quite certain owing to the no. 28 inscribed on its wrists. The style of the figure corresponds to the 1980s incarnation. You can read a bit more about it here:

http://www.gigantor.org/

and at Wikipedia sv. Gigantor. As it happens the first DVD of the original series is about 5 down on Andrew's Netflix queue.

I notice the author of the BBC piece asks for readers to help idenitify the figurine, but I didn't see any link that would permit one to do so.

Re: You know bots

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

Try using this comment form here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3990000/newsid_3993900/3993909.stm

Re: You know bots

[benicek.livejournal.com]

So does that mean that the toy found on Midway Island might be around 20 to 25 years old?

Re: You know bots

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I imagine, but that doens't necessarily mean it was in thewater that long.