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He's the King of Uranus!

We talk about Babylon 5 hitting 20, a CDX music contest, Cup of Noodle Curry Gundams, Athena's Cloth, a tiny Normandy, Blitzwing, Scarlet Rain and Jushen Yong Ji Wang. All that and of course your feedback.

You know him as Leader-1, but in Japan he was Big Eagle Robo

Everyone loves one robot or another, so Aural Films and CollectionDX are calling on all music makers to submit new tracks for our ROBOTS independent music compilation album project.

Jushen Zhan Ji Dui (translated loosely as Giant God’s Battle Attack Team) is an original Chinese Super Sentai series which debuted in 2012. It’s not the first original Sentai series produced in China, but I believe it’s the first live action Sentai series to be made domestically.

If you don't know anything about Scarlet Rain, it's pretty accurate to just call this toy a red Drossel.

The bad boy from Choujin Sentai Jetman.

I WILL POUND YOU INTO SCRAP METAL

ThreeA's 1/6 scale Commander Carter looks like he stepped out of Halo: Reach.

Dark Horse makes a fine scale ship.

The Japanese counterpart to the toy I reviewed last week.

Why spend your Saturday morning waiting in line to get into the dealer room?  Instead, join me as I discuss the mythos of the Saint Seiya universe and stay for the giveaways at the end of the panel. Then you can leave knowing a bit more about one of Japan’s most iconic franchises and walk right into the dealer room without having to wait.

My panel for Anime Central 2013, will be on May 18th at 9am in the Gatwick room at the Hayatt Regency O’hare.

 Topics to be discussed include:

• Background on the creation of the series
• The manga series
• The anime series
• Spinoffs

• The official Saint Seiya timeline
• The future of the franchise

I hope to see you there!

This weeks show we talk S.H. Figuarts Kibaranger, Variable Action Sakura's Koubu, Thunderbirds Minis, a 3A Iron Man, Beast Hunters Lazerback, Electron +: The Man From Pluto, DX Jyudenryu 01: Zakutor, Shiranui Type-94 and Andrew joins us to talk Shiranui Type-94. Plus Josh rages about YouTube trolls.

Weapons designed to work with Masters of the Universe, constructed with the Glyos Joint System!

This is no Spinzaku, boy!

The slashing dinosaur that tries to be a raptor.

Clearly Bandai America said, “F*** that s***”. And it really, really shows.

Video review included!

The Duke Buggy is one of the iconic vehicles from Grendizer that was immortalized in diecast by Popy back in the day, and now HL Pro has made a modern version!

The Type-94 Shiranui is the last figure I needed to get in order to have one of each type in my Revoltech Tactical Surface Fighter squadron. Needless to say, it's just as great as the rest!

I’m going to get it right out in the open. I don’t like this toy. I’m sure it’s a fine toy, for those who are into beast-type transformers, but this is just not for me. I don’t like the aesthetic at all.