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[Kuraudo]

Interesting new PSP game called "the Little Battlers," is being developed by Level 5 (Dark Cloud 2, Rogue Galaxy, White Knight Chronicles) will be packaged with a model kit. You can't make this stuff up:

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/04/10/th ... model-kit/

Apparently it's a mixed media project which will have an Anime, Manga, and plastic model kits (presumably beyond what is being packaged with the game).

I wonder if the game will retail at the same (absurd) price point of a regular japanese psp game or cost more because of the included model kit? Either way, the question naturally becomes: if they did this with a Gundam game, would the inclusion of a Zakerello kit make it the best selling game of all time?

[Mr Bushido]

Gundam UC is number 1 for most Burays sold again. This is the first time an OAV have it's volumes rank #1 consecutively overall. Sold 87,000 copies since April 7th.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... s-in-a-row

[Kuraudo]

This is almost as good as that time Evil Soul Bro stripped naked and gunned down that poor SWAT Tachikoma -

Some Star Wars fans, perhaps jealous over the Japanese Gundam statue, have started a fund raising drive to build a life sized, "fully functional," replica of an AT-AT (the Imperial Walkers featured in The Empire Strikes Back):

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... Size-AT-AT

Their official site here: http://atatforamerica.tumblr.com/

A choice quote from his "the Dream," explanatory page:

"The AT-AT would become an instant monument of America’s obsession with popular culture and our ability to be awesome."

Well, if their plans to make it fully operational come to fruition, I'd say we'd certainly one up that meager Gundam statue, that's for sure.

Apparently, donations will be accepted "soon," via funding site kickstarter. Kickstarter is actually pretty legitimate; what were they thinking?

No word yet on whether the completed Imperial Walker will be able to shrug off high-powered Rebel blaster cannons whilst unleashing micro-nuke levels of firepower on enemy shield generators.

[Arbiter GUNDAM]

Aren't they forgetting that even a GM would probably be able to tear an AT-AT apart with it's bare hands?

In any case, I doubt it will happen because from what I've seen, the Japanese are WAY more obsessed with their pop culture than we are.

[Furious Rodimus]

Transformers Headmasters is getting its first US release. Picks up after Season 3 and replaces the Rebirth arc from the US run.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... set-listed

[wielder]

Kinda "meh" about this one, but someone might find it amusing.

Kanye West's Custom Akira Motorcycle Listed for Sale

American television channel MTV's Geek News blog reports that a life-size display motorcycle based on the one driven by Kaneda in Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira anime film was put on sale on the Los Angeles site of the classifieds site Craigslist. The April 4 ad is now expired, although search engine Google provides the posted image (below, left) as a cached version of the page, confirming the bike's asking price of US$4,000.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... d-for-sale

[TheGoose]

Tokyopop is closing North American publishing divison: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... g-division

[kayone73]

Transformers Headmasters is getting its first US release. Picks up after Season 3 and replaces the Rebirth arc from the US run.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... set-listed

thats cool...and suprising, it was prob my fave among the jp transformers series still very close in look to the original and the peak of the G1 cast

[Mu La Flaga]

This is almost as good as that time Evil Soul Bro stripped naked and gunned down that poor SWAT Tachikoma -

Some Star Wars fans, perhaps jealous over the Japanese Gundam statue, have started a fund raising drive to build a life sized, "fully functional," replica of an AT-AT (the Imperial Walkers featured in The Empire Strikes Back):

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... Size-AT-AT

Their official site here: http://atatforamerica.tumblr.com/

A choice quote from his "the Dream," explanatory page:

"The AT-AT would become an instant monument of America’s obsession with popular culture and our ability to be awesome."

Well, if their plans to make it fully operational come to fruition, I'd say we'd certainly one up that meager Gundam statue, that's for sure.

Apparently, donations will be accepted "soon," via funding site kickstarter. Kickstarter is actually pretty legitimate; what were they thinking?

No word yet on whether the completed Imperial Walker will be able to shrug off high-powered Rebel blaster cannons whilst unleashing micro-nuke levels of firepower on enemy shield generators.

That would be pretty damn awesome if they built it with walking ability.

[anubis]

Gunpla ranks sixth on a Japanese poll of the top ten most manly hobbies.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/04/0 ... t-hobbies/

I never associated gunpla with being a bad-ass.

[Mu La Flaga]

Anime Director Osamu Dezaki Passes on

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/news ... asses-away.

Some of his works were like Space Adventure Cobra and Mighty Orbots.

[awesome78]

George Takei trying to get Warner Brothers not to "whitewash" live action Akira adaptation.
http://www.advocate.com/News/News_Featu ... ght_Thing/

[gundamtype0]

Man arrested in Japan for uploading an episode of Turn A Gundam

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... re-program

Almost a Tachikoma in today's world

http://en.akihabaranews.com/90694/robot ... f-the-poor

[Kuraudo]

My dreams for an MD Geist DLC package for a Japanese SRPG are dashed yet again -

Gundam rip-off/homage being marketed as dlc in Disgaea 4:

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/04/20/la ... -4-as-dlc/

I'll go with 'homage,' but supposedly Laharl, the protagonist of the first Disgaea, is a huge "Kaiser 4" (ie RX-78) fan - he uses it as a pirate ship for some reason - it travels flat on its back apparently after a slightly funny transformation sequence, complete with core fighter.

The Blonde Ace might be interested to know that there's a Harlock-esque looking ship used as part of Asagi's (the perennial NIS joke character ever since her game was canceled) special attack - as more dlc of course $$

Who am I kidding? None of you will play this game anyway.

[jabman025]

Gundam 00 Movie picked up by bandai, will be released on DVD and Blu Ray in Summer of 2011.

http://twitter.com/#!/bandaient

[Mu La Flaga]

Madman Entertainment accquisitions inlcude Digimon Season 1(woo!), Space Battleship Yamato(Live Action) among other titles.

http://www.madman.com.au/news/new-acqui ... ouncement/

[gundamtype0]

Star Driver licensed by Bandai. Fabulous!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... kuto-anime

[shishio74]

Gunpla Builders will be continued as manga in 2 series. Gunpla Builders D and J. It looks like the "D" would stand for Dengeki and would probably be Dengeki Hobby magazine or one of it's many off shoot mags. The "J" version, not so sure of....perhaps one of the Jump mags.

EDIT: Maybe the other version is Hobby Japan. Just going from the scanned page.

Source:
http://www.gunjap.net/site/?p=7983

[Mr Bushido]

Adding to jabman's post on the 00 movie being released in summer 2011, the original Mobile Suit Gundam will also be released summer 2011 as well.

http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2011/04/g ... lease.html

[gundamtype0]

New Z Gundam manga adaptation in June Gundam Ace

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... a-revealed