Game Week

It would appear that this is GameAxis week. That being the magazine I crank out articles on occasion for. They have a bunch of stuff they want by the end of the week, including some Nintendo DS games for review (Most of which, quite honestly, are somewhat questionable in quality, but oh well…) and a trip down Otaku Memory Lane with a visit to a toy store (Again, not a regular toy store as you remember from a childhood, but a “professional” toystore with items no child could afford) and have a talk with some of the owners about that institution of anime, Gundam, and the endless variations on that theme that are now available.

So it’s off to the toystore this afternoon with the little ol’ micro-recorder to get some of the thoughts from the toy aficianados about the wild n’ whacky world of Japanese giant robot toys and modeling kits, which I have only a cursory familiarity with. I know Gundam, and am a big fan of the second installment in the “original universe” series, Zeta Gundam, but knowing Gundam does not mean knowing the toys, since I can tell you that Zeta Gundam is transformable, but I cannot tell you which edition of the “Gundam FIX series 0005 through 0072″ is the one that’ll actually do that. Let alone whether that series actually covers Zeta Gundam, or one of the other variations like Gundam Wing or Gundam Seed.

I just read that last paragraph back and realized the intimate knowledge required for made up stuff is now beginning to rival the amount of knowledge a particle physicist needs…

Oh well, off to the land of toys.