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Just caught the first episode of the new TRON animated series on Disney XD and I was blown away. It feels very much like the movie. The animation is top notch, the music is still there, and there are even subtle cues to the original TRON movie. (check out the effects when the guards use their staffs, and the design motifs on the bad guy gloves).

This is a must watch for me. What do you think of it?

Hosts: D'Arcy, Pockit, Jeremy, Zuey

This is about blind kids crawling in glass, stalking people in the street, and sexy laundromats.

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Dkun and I run our mouths off like a pair of Asgoles.

Some things referenced in the podcast

Reasons why women like the Avengers

Science bros

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For my birthday this year I decided I wanted to make a trip up to a flea market that I hadn’t been to in a few years. This is a great flea market because it is nothing but antique dealers and people selling their junk. There are no stalls selling bootleg purses, no Avon dealers – Just old junk.

I spy my first find just minutes into my trip. Sitting on a table is  a Styrofoam tray with a complete Gobots Puzzler set. I ask how much for the Gobots.

“$100” he says. “It’s unused”

“Woah, that’s way out of my range” I said. “Even with the outer box, that’s too much”

He says he has the box, and the instructions. Still, I feel that at $100 I would be insulting him with what I would be willing to pay. We’re just too far off. I tell him that I just got here and need to walk around.

He then asks “What’s the price you won’t walk away from?”

There’s another comic store in town that I have mixed feelings about. Technically it’s a better store, but the owner is an asshole. I’ve actually been kicked out of his store for being a regular patron of another store. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth to go in there. But the sad fact is that it’s a better-stocked store, and my kids like it more.

We were killing time one day and my youngest son asked to go to the comic store that had the “Pringles”. This shop had a little snack area by the register and he just loved the fact that he can look at comics and get Pringles. Who am I to say no?

This store has a fair amount of toys, but most of them are crap. DC and Marvel hero toys, with some Spawn toys mixed in for good measure. Typically nothing I am interested in. But today, something on the counter caught my eye.

I’ve been going to my local comic store for about 20 years. While I don’t collect comics anymore, I like to stop in and say hello from time to time. Being a comic store, they also get toys and games from time to time.

It was during one recent visit that the owner, George, called me in back to see a lot of toys he had picked up recently. They were Japanese toys.

I was a guest on the Reverse Thieves Speakeasy Podcast

Come and learn how to make a redheaded stepchild that's not Macross II.

Hosts: AK, D'Arcy, Jeremy, Mike, Pockit, Rebecca, Zuey

This is about using a laser mounted in a bomber to make popcorn, gassing your classmates, and Walter Peck from Ghostbusters.

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ShowaPop!: 80's Vintage Kimono My House Flyer

Living in Southern California I never had a chance to visit Kimono My House back in the 1980's and I didn't know they were still around until I read they were closing down a few years ago. Pony Toy was my choice of Anime stores back in the1980's and as much as I knew about Kimono My House I never could make it up there. Keep in mind I was in Jr High and High School and Emeryville was a overnight trip from Southern California.

Going through my items I came across this vintage 1980's Kimono My House ad still in one of my old model kits I bought back then. I remember picking it up at a comic book store in Monterey, Ca during the short time I was living in Watsonville. Interesting item from one the innovators of anime in the USA back in the 1980s.

Leonardo Flores