Got mine today, finally! I'd post a pic but I have an awful headache and am tired as all hell. Just not feeling up to it right now. It's a blank Mecha Zag + TO Garudan bag. A little bummed they didn't put red wings on the guy, but I'll live.
Weird that they didn't add red to the wings like the TO Deathra GID Garudan doesn't look like it has a clear body like the 2013 LB Deathra Seemingly no third party (for lack of a better word) sculpts Maybe trimming corners to keep the price at $300? Was it Flynn who started the Deathra rumors?
I believe FOE Gallery out of Massachusetts put their allotment of bags up today. In case anyone was still looking to get in on the fun.
Got my bag in from DDR this morning.. From the looks of it, nothing new for me to show. But, I am very happy with everything! Light blue Mecha Zag is beautiful, and I love TO Garudan. Not to mention I am thrilled with both Vendor Bots, little GID pilot is just wonderful. View this post on Instagram
Anybody know when the birth of gunfingers was? My first and WAYmost indelible exposure was Johnny's giant robot.
I'm pretty sure that the second rockets were invented, people started to pretend to shoot them from their fingertips
On March 17, 1845, Stephen Perry of the rubber manufacturing company Messers Perry and Co, Rubber Co Manuf London patented the fist rubber bands made of vulcanized rubber. Perry invented the rubber band to hold papers or envelopes together. So probably March 18th, 1845.
I think Giant Robot predates it, but the new Mecha-Z hands are probably based on the vintage Bullmark Cyborg MG2 missile-firing toy as well (given the matching color scheme on this year's LB painted Mecha-Z). There were a lot of toys with that feature in that time period, e.g., Jumbo Machinders. I am also curious to know who originated the concept. Another famous gun-hand design was the Gouf from the original Gundam series. But that was a few years later.
I think BIG LOO was made before the Jumbo Machinders. It was early 60's I believe. BIG LOO retailed for $9.99. Made of injection molded hi-impact polystyrene parts, stood three-feet tall (37-inches), a foot wide, and nine inches deep. Its key features included a sight scope with cross-hairs, two flashing battery-powered red eyes with an on-off switch, a hand-cranked mechanical voice box that played ten messages, two rubber-tipped darts that were fired from triggers on the back, a left arm that held four red balls which were fired from a spring in the left elbow, and a right arm that had a grasping claw able to pick up objects. One foot was equipped with a spring-powered rocket. It could also squirt water from its navel and was equipped with a compass, whistle, bell, a Morse code clicker with chart, and could bend over at the waist .