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It seems the older I get, I don’t have enough time in the day to spend hours building a Gundam snap-on plastic model kit or building a R/C car. I have ADD due to watching YouTube videos and such. The Internet, but I digress. Here’s a neat little all-one ready-to-go R/C car package by Takara Tomy, it’s their Drift Package Nano set!
“Hentai” apparel anyone? Well know street brand Supreme is teaming up erotic manga artist Toshio Maeda for a mini-capsule collection. The capsule collection features a jacket, sweatshirt, long sleeve tee, a pillow and 2 graphic tees. Look for the collection to drop in NYC and LA Supreme “physical” locations and online on February 27, 2015.
First off, we at Retrenders love providing solid content and quality video content on our YouTube channel, but we had a slight delay and like to apologize for the dark video quality. We were shooting on our Sony V1U and left the ND Filter on and that’s a “not bad” on our part. Lesson learned and that will never happen again.
Okay, got that off my chest! Here’s the jam packed episode from Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo 2015 from the LA Convention Center on Halloween weekend. Our Ramen crew explores the growing and ever expanding Comikaze Expo. The Eddie and Ramon takes around the convention floor. So sit back and grab some chocolate gummy bears and enjoy the episode.
If you’re a Takara/Tomy Masterpiece collector and like A Bathing Ape’s camo-print style, then check out this limited edition collaboration, the Transformers MP Convoy BAPE Red Camo Version.
Lunch box collectors will truly enjoy picking-up this collector’s tin lunch box from the Disney/Marvel Big Hero 6 flick. This spiffy Big Hero 6 Tin Lunch Box comes with cool artwork on the box and measures 7″5/8 x 6″.
In Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture is famous for Kutani-ware, which is a traditional porcelain style of bowls, plates, cups and chopsticks. To celebrate the 360th anniversary, the Kutani ceramic art style combines with futuristic Mobile Suit Gundam robots on sale for at Premium Bandai online and later at Gundam Cafes.
When you take a 15-minute break from your workstation today, check out this short fan-film by Rainfall Films. If you’re fan of Metroid and Nintendo in general, this will get your geeky blood pumping. This Metroid fan film is a re-imagining of what it would look like if it was a live-action film starring Jessica Chobot and directed by Sam Balcomb.
Making waves for the last couple of years from Japan and touring around the globe is Jpop trio glam-metal band Babymetal. Now the band gets Funko Pop! bobble-heads coming this December 2015. The Pop! Rocks series features: Su-metal, Yuimetal, and Moametal.
The Japanese manga series “Attack on Titan” has taken the world by storm and has made Japanese artist Hajime Isayama a star. In this exclusive BBC interview, Hajime talks about the ups and downs of becoming a manga artist and his inspirations on creating Attack on Titan.
This collab between Takara Tomy and Sanrio is just for Halloween 2015. Hello Kitty transforms into a Deception semi-truck and then into a Hello Kitty trick or treater. Sold only in Asia, this product drops this month and look around $15-20USD price tag.
Over the years, Jakks Pacific’ World of Nintendo 4″ action figure line-up has proven popular and besides making just Mario-universe characters, the Wave 3 series features fighter pilot Fox McCloud. The neat 4″ figure solid details, paint job, 12 points of articulation, and a small version of his ship. Here’s hoping for more characters an maybe vehicles from Starfox.
Hey Retrenders fans! If you missed Wizard World 2015 from San Jose a few weeks back and want to see all of our Ramen and a Half video coverage of the 3-day con, well, hit up our Wizard World SJ playlist on YouTube!
Capcom is back again with another collab with Kidrobot. This time, the video game franchise Mega Man gets “Kidrobot-ified.” with a 3″ Dunny line and keychain line-up.
The Mega Man 3″ vinyl series features 13 figures to collect and 1 chase figure. A case will have around 20 blind boxes and probably cost around $230USD and each blind box is priced at $11.99USD.
Buy it @ Kidrobot – Mega Man 3″.
Okay, not a Pikachu, a Raichu. Anyway, lets find out what Sayori Chu has to ask this Raichu?
Adult collectors familiar with the 1970s/80s era Jumbo Machinder toys and, of course Star Wars get a East meets West collaboration thanks to Super7 and Funko. This is the Super Shogun Boba Fett – Empire Version. First off, the box packaging looks awesome with the Japanese kanji and logos. The figure stands 24″ tall with rotating wheels on the feet, spring-loaded firing rocket from jetpack and wrist.
We’ve been a little behind editing many videos from various events we’ve attended this summer. Here’s a quick recap of the SF Anime Festival & Cosplay in Japantown that took place on July 18, 2015. The Ramen crew was there to see all the cosplay fun and meet-up with special cosplay guest Reika from Japan.
One of the legends of anime is Hayao Miyazaki and this fan-made anime-video tribute is pretty cool. As you watch the video montage, many of Hayao Miyazaki’s characters appear in a roll call. Sit back and enjoy.
Ramen’s newest member Sayori Chu roams the vendor floor looking for cool stuff to buy. We take a look at the Panda Hat and Tech Shop booths at Fanime.
As the Ramen crew roams the show floor at this year’s FanimeCon, newest member Sayori Chu grabs some fun interviews with various cosplayers.
I remember being a big fan when Cassandra Cain took over as the role of Batgirl and I bought every issue at the comic book store, but of course during the eventual run, it got weird and basically a bad storyline cancelled the series. Now my Batgirl interest has peaked with curiosity with new an new artist Mingjue Helen Chen coming into the DC fold. The Academy of Art graduate whose worked on projects like Wreck-It Ralp and Big Hero 6 is now bringing her own unique digital anime-cartoon style to Gotham Academy #7 and Batgirl Annual #3.
It’s about time “The Legend of Korra” gets some collectible merchandise. Zwyer Industries kicks-off “The Legend of Korra” PVC statue collection with the Chief of Police of Republic City, Lin Beifong. The detailed painted statue stands 11″ tall with base. Look for the Lin Beifong statue to drop around August 2015.
If you remember watching Ultraman or those badly dubbed Godzilla flicks from Japan back in the day, well, today’s Google Doodle is a tribute to the sci-fi monster maker Eiji Tsubaraya. The famous director passed away in the 1970s and today would be his 114th birthday. Google Doodles honors the man with neat little video on monster making.
Even though this Retrenders got the big rejection on getting press credentials for AX, that still did not stop us! Since Ramen host Ramon Angel has never been to Anime Expo, we grab some friends and a mini-van (that really helps) and took a road trip down to SoCal for AX 2015 this July 4th weekend! Since our fresh camera operators Johnny Moreno and James Navarro couldn’t make the trip, we will do a Vlog series of videos on AX 2015. We’ll give our opinions, thoughts, reflections, highlights and whatever else is on our mind, so check our AX Vlog Playlist on our Retrenders’ YouTube channel!
Wow. Just wow. Give this tattoo artist a raise or something. Jean-Pierre Saint-Tran wanted make a tribute to his favorite Studio Ghibli films and that’s what he did. He gave up his whole arm to be tattooed with Miyazaki art from Kiki’s Delivery Service, Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.
Pokemon fans will enjoy this mini-capsule hat collab collection by BEAMS and New Era. Japanese retailer BEAMS teams up with New Era to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Pokemon with cute and geeky Pikachu Fitted Hat Collection.
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