Thursday, March 23, 2017

A MAN, A PLAN, A PANEL-BOTLANTA!

The breaking of the 85th seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the sound of Larry Hama playing guitar at Toylanta 2017! Yes it's the post TOY/JOE/BOT-lanta episode and it's packed with all sorts of stories about toys, joes, bots, and lantas. Join the Nostrodomatron as he realizes that after this convention, he's a lanta, she's a lanta, and you probably would like to be a lanta, too. How did my very first ever successful awesome wonderful toy robots ad panel go? Did Derek Yaniger finally bring comic pages to a convention? How much for that Zartan crotch in the window? And would I rather ride a strong donkey or hump an old unicorn? Hear these and other horrible revelations in this MAMA WE'RE ALL LANTA NOW edition of the podcastalypse!

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BUY LIKE YOU FIGHT!

The Combaterwars Combinecons popped up at military bases during the holidays. I noticed the shelf warmers at the nearby Army PX were the flying Combaticons and the shelfwarmers at the Air Force BX were the ground based Combaticons.




THE DESOLATION OF KAYCEE

No trip to Atlanta is complete without a quick swing by the old abandoned Lionel building. This visit ended up a little more exciting than the last time I was here.




REAL TOYLANTEAN HEROES
Marten Jallad (left) Toylanta organizer, Derek Yaniger (center) artist illustrator, and Rob Springer (right) Botlanta track organizer




IMPERIAL CHUTES HAVE ENTERED THE FALLING

The Saturday night parachute drop was as surreal as ever, with 12 inch Joes and other figures plummeting 14 stories to the waiting attendees, elevators, and carpet.




ROB HAS SUMMONED ME HERE FOR A PURPOSE

I got to kickoff BOTLANTA with my overhead projector, showing and telling the Toylanteans about Jetfire mockups, Lionel Playworld, red cab Ultra Magnus, and unused Micromaster card art all from old toy robots newspaper ads.




ONE PAGE IS ALL HIAXUS FOR
FINALLY, after chasing Derek Yaniger all over Florida and Georgia, finally he brought comic pages to a con. I was so happy. I got to man his table while he was in his panel, AND I bought page 27 from G2 #1. I dug it the most, to say the least!




HEARD THE NOISE/ SAW THE TOYS/ GOT SOME CROTCHES
It was a weekend of toylantastic overload that will live forever so long as freedom exists. Legends of panelanta were born, a new convention experience was forged from the united titans of Joe and robot fandoms, and I almost got arrested. Plus I got some crotches for my Snake Eyes and Zartan. What more can a man ask for than Larry Hama guitar solos and a dependable 50 year old overhead projector. We shall remember you, Toylanta 2017, we shall remember.





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Thursday, March 02, 2017

FAKE IT'S '84 'TILL YOU MAKE IT '84!



The breaking of the 84th seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the sound of the clock tick, tick, ticking down the seconds until JOELANTA 2017! Listen 'n fun as the Nostrodomatron rushes to get a bunch of broken toys in beat up boxes all dressed up like it's 1985 again! Thrill 'n anxiety as I prepare for my Joelanta panel that's more than meets the price in hopefully enough time to more than beat the clock! Will I peel the stickers off 33 year old Transformers so they'll look new again? Will I open brand new reissued Transformers so they'll look old again? How tough is it to match the photography of toy ads from 1984? Am I committing time crimes against nostalgia when my ad recolorizations show up in google search results for old store circulars? AND IS THIS THE END OF THE PODCASTALYPSE? ONLY SHIA NO-NO-NO-NO-NOs!

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THE SECRET FORMULA REVEALED



IT TAKES A LOT OF PAYING ATTENTION TO SCREW THINGS UP THIS BADLY

This paragraph was supposed to be a deeply insightful, behind-the-scenes exploration of how I take pictures of toys and turn them into pictures of toys with little prices and Hasbro logos on top of them. And also how I learned that it's pretty hard to take pictures of toy robots as halfassedly as most product photographers did back in 1984, but there's no time! I need to go finish my JoeLanta panel so you can see my naked seeker jets and hear how thirty three year old Dinobot ads confuse me! Or actually I think that's what this episode is about. So listen and find out how getting bitten by radioactive Google search results gave me the proportionate strength and speed of a time travelling K-Mart ad.


OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW!



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Eckerd 12/09/84





LOOK WHAT I DID TO THE LAST UNICORN OF DINOBOTS
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