While I was away in the process of recuperating myself within the 48 hour timeframe over the weekend, on that dark Sunday morning (this is like hours before the crack of dawn!!), I couldn’t get back into sleep as the jetlags experienced on the flight heading home had a tremendous impact on my sleeping pattern that it put me out of sequence, different from everybody else in my family.

Since those jetlags have been unforgiving lately, I decided to have fun with this instead…

Then I unpacked the goods…

Reading the manuals…..

Having done halfway….

Almost there….

And finally, we have our end product.

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Not bad for 4 hours of effort into this.  Helped me to kill my time during the early morning hours and understand a lot better on how mecha models are constructed and ‘glued’ together to get some-what real-life size.

I bought this at the Anime Exhibit in Auckland back in early July this year.  The price was paid for NZD $86 (USD $59).  It’s considerably not a bad price for a 1/144 scale model of the actual gundam.  Overall it was really fun.

I can also get it from my local store as well.  The gentleman who sold this to me showed his business card, and the shop is just around the corner  of my neighbourhood.  I’ll look forward to see that store (and the gentleman) once again and see what else they have in the store that’s really cool and awesome to have.

Whilst everybody in the world (well hopefully almost everybody, if they’re into robots genre like me) are all getting hyped and excited with the upcoming Michael Bay’s/Steven Spielberg’s Transformers 2 the movie within less than 3 weeks time from now, I decidedly got onto the net, finding any interesting articles, facts people shared about our ‘friendly robots in diguise’.  And towards the middle of the night, as I was about to stop browsing after failing to find  anything within 2 hours, I stumbled upon a link that really got my eyebrows raised up a notch.

A writer by the name of Shahendra Ohneswere published his post on the ten most ridiculous things about Transformers G1 we never knew about, even for old school fans like me.  He made a number of very highly critical  yet insightful comments on how certain robot characters were introduced to the TV audience and their backgrounds were vague and less convincing when it comes to any ‘realism’.  His arguments are when Tranformers were to perform any heroic activities during the series or the way their transformation sequence goes, we never asked ourselves why on earth Transformers were to do such things in the series and they simply do not make logical sense to the ordinary viewers who would know Transformers can’t possibly do that (eg 9-foot Giant Megatron transforms into a puny 12-inch handgun???), if their intellect serves them best.

After reading his post halfway, despite they indeed bring out the important points of logic and human common sense we all normally possess, the fact is true that when Transformers G1 first came out 20+ years ago, our generation were very young and naive (come on, this is 1985 we’re talking about here!). So as a kid, we always believe everything we saw on TV.  We’re ‘entitled’ to it so rationale and lateral thinking is not expected.  In fact, we don’t even care. So why bother? Maybe now you do, as you look back and you’re thinking “Right… That was a dumb thing they do.  But nevertheless it was all the while fun :)”.

Anyway here’s the link below.  I’m sure you’ll find them enlightening to read as much as I do, especially the comment on Autobot’s Blaster was once portrayed as the African-American stereotypes in the 1980s!

http://www.streetlevel.com/2009/06/04/the-top-10-most-ridiculous-transformers-ever

Also when you get to the bottom of his post, be sure to read out a cool Transformer Ravage USB memory stick or Blaster Netbook USB Port!  They’re great!!!