I Feel Like A Spy Today (& Animated Openings From Classic Spy TV Shows)

I feel like a covert "spy" today. I have a blood-pressure monitoring device strapped to my person for a duration of 24-hours (due to my spiked high-blood pressure issues in recent days :p) and I feel like I've some semblance of a Spy-kit recording equipment fitted on, ready to engage in some espionage-work (you can argue it sounds like a microphone for an "informant", but I'd rather engage in my

Captain Power Makes A Return in 2012?

"Captain-Who?" you may ask? Peter K. of Twitchfilm schools you youn'guns about the lore of "Captain Power And The Soldiers Of Future": "Captain Power is probably most famously remembered as that 80s television series where you could buy a toy light-gun, shoot at the screen during episodes and both receive points and register hits, with the gun going so far as to eject an action-figure when you

Akihabara Majokko Princess

[Warning: Video NSFW]"Akihabara Majokko Princess" features a lollisque-"princess"-cosplaying Kirsten Dunst singing/covering The Vapors' classic-80's pop-tune "Turning Japanese", with video directed by McG ("Terminator Salvation", "Charlie's Angels") and produced by Takashi Murakami. Funny, I had the impression that it was Scarlet Johansson for some weird reason (and no, tis not because of "Lost

About That Leaked A-Team Movie Trailer

What was it that I liked about The A-Team? An eclectic grouping of mercenary rouges with different skill-sets, banding together for profit and to overcome (sometimes) insurmountable odds om missions? The Van? Yep, that's about it, really. A waterfall of bullets and explosions cascading across the television screens, was truly inspirational to a young impressionable teen like myself (who enjoys

Ganmetall Celsius Tribute Series 3: Casshern by Rotobox

And the second character after Ninja Gaiden's Ryu Hayabusa from Rotobox Vinyl Anatomica for their Ganmetall Celsius Tribute Series 3: is CASSHERN! Made in an edition of 5 and is currently available for sale at US$260 each (including shipping and paypal fee) via the Rotobox-store here! CLICK THRU for more peeks at Casshern based on the classic character created by animation studio Tatsunoko

Barbie Ladies Of The 80s

Now, this blog has not seen a Barbie-post for a while, but this was too irresistible for my Retro-80s-lurvin' heart to not post about ~ presenting Barbie Ladies Of The 80s! Can you guess who they are? Go click on Entertainment Earth's blog to pre-order yours today (SRP US$55.79 for a December-release), and CLICK THRU for embedded music videos to get reacquainted with the ladies from the 'good ol

Real Robot Series One by Rotobox (Teaser Ad)

Rotobox REAL ROBOT Series One Teaser for June 2009: Do You Remember Love? = Does that mean Spencer & Stephen (the dynamic customizing duo behind Rotobox) are done with Mecha-robot customs now? What with 4 Series of SUPAROBO Project custom-Qees under their belt (excluding the upcoming Taipei Toy Festival-exclusive with Toy2R?)TRE-SPECULATION: If you remember your classic anime-history, "Do You

Mazinger-Z & Baron Ashura custom-Qee for Suparobo Series 4 by Rotobox

Here's a TRE-first-look at Rotobox completed custom-Qees for their Suparobo Project Series 4 - presenting Shin MAZINGER-Z and BARON ASHURA! Each custom is a 1-of-1 Edition and folks interested in procuring these customs are advised to email Spencer and Stephen at rotobox@live.com . [CLICK THRU for more pics!]Rotobox shares with us: "We used metallic colors for Mazinger to have that super