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This was not how I wanted to do my milestone 50th post but here goes.... Three things happened that have kept me away for the past week or so 1) My job had work for me in the middle of no-where with not much, if any, computer access. Some of you might know that I work construction and quiet honestly there is not a whole lot of internet access on a lot of these construction sites. 2)I noticed the more I talk about Gatchaman-type collectibles on this site, the more prices started to vary on the items I was referring to. Some prices went down but many more started to go up. I would hate to think that "my words of wisdom" started to affect the 'Global Gatchaman Economy'. I am still looking to add a lot of items to my collection and I already throw enough money towards my collection that I do not need to make it worse. Coincidence maybe??? But keeping my mouth shut probably wouldn't hurt. 3)Now this is what really FREAKED me OUT!!! I do not expect any of you to believe me, in fact I would probably prefer that you all call me crazy and just lock me up and throw away the key.... Before leaving for the work I had to go do on the road, I was over at the girlfriend's house fixing her car. She ends up getting a strange phone call from a young lady who has just pulled into her neighborhood and is on her way to visit my girlfriend's 12 year old son. Needless to say, my girlfriend gets very confused by this quick conversation and asks me to keep my eyes and ears open and to make sure we know where her son is. I check to make sure I know where the boy is at and head back to the garage. I continue to work on the car trying to keep myself somewhat concealed but in a position where I am aware of my total surroundings. The young lady pulls up in a her car with out-of-state plates on it (Yes, I did write down the license plate number). She gets out of her car. This girl has green hair!!! Not only that but she is wearing a pink ringer-style t-shirt with green trim with a big number 3 right in the middle of it. White pajama bottoms with sandles completed her outfit. This girl could not have been more than 20 years old. She looked extremely "dazed and confused" with her blood-shot eyes that could barely open. I am in total shock at what I am seeing. The young lady approaches my girlfriend asking to see the boy. My girlfriend does not watch Gatchaman with me and has no idea of the significance of this young lady's outfit. My girlfriend keeps asking this young lady how she knows us, her son, how did she get her phone number, address??? The young lady in all her 'confusion' can not answer anything, just that she is here to see my girlfriend's son and wants to take him for a ride, tears start rolling from her eyes. My girlfriend then asks me to talk to her. I explain to young lady that in our 'neck of the woods' that we have had many missing children throughout the years, and as a parent it is our job to protect our children from any known or unknown dangers, and with her showing up like this makes her look very suspicious. The young lady seems to finally understand why she is not going to allowed to see my girlfriend's son. As she is about to get ready to leave, I comment that I really like her outfit. I tell her that there once was this cartoon I used to watch where one of the characters would wear the same clothes (I did not mention the green hair) and asked her if she was a fan of the show. She turns to me with a sad face and says that she did not have any television growing up and did not know what I was referring too. She gets in her car and drives off. Oh, almost forgot one piece of the 'story' when I went to ask her name, I swear by all that is good she said her name was "Jun" so I said, sorry I missed that, and this time she said "Jen, you know as in Jennifer." If this was some sort of practical joke, it MIGHT have been funny if you didn't get a child involved. That makes this whole situation SICK and TWISTED to me. It's been a week later and I still do not know how to take all this. Coincidence??? The way I see it... this was all someone's idea of a joke or there is a some girl out there named Jen, dressing as Jun taking young boys who knows where. Either way, I am not sure how much more I want to be a part of this site. I still need to calm down. I would rather think I am crazy than to believe that all happened... but it did, it wasn't my child she was after, other people were involved that can verify my 'story.' Be careful out there people. So much for my glorious 50th post :loopy:

Had to do a little more digging on this subject before inserting my foot deeper in my mouth. I am normally one of those too, who if someone comes up with an neat idea, usually the first thing that comes to my mind is all the obstacles that must be faced. It's nice to sit on the other side of the fence for a change. Even thou I don't know how long I can stay there. In my recent quest for knowledge I discovered I skipped over some important information concerning ADV and their attempts to translate. Referring to the Extras on ADV Vol. 8 the interview with the Senior Translator, Sarah Alys Lindholm. Here is a few items of interest from the interview that I was quickly able to write down.... - The translation of Japanese from Gatchaman is fairly simple because it was intended children -The translation of Gatchaman's scientific concepts is extremely hard because it is so old and outdated that finding ways to describe the science of Gatchaman can be the biggest challenge. One must figure out 1) What did they say? 2) What did they think they said? 3) Is there any science they are trying to base this on? -The translation "team" also had problems because Gatchaman likes to use Real World Locations. She gave the example of the 'moving lake' (Red Sand episode). There is a place in the world called the 'Moving Lake' but the way the Japanese say it, it can not be translated easily. -The Japanese language in Gatchaman is also very Tongue-and-Cheek (as Lindholm puts it) and can also make for lots of translation problems. Also Gatchaman is filled with a lot of trajedy and drama which you have to worry about context (believe that was already mentioned here) -She mentions her translation team but fails to tell how many people were part of this team but Lindholm makes it sound like there was a small room of them. The translation department's favorite character was Berg K. Lindholm did the translations by herself for the first 15 ADV episodes before given the team to work with. By herself, she was able to translate 3 to 4 episodes a week which she felt was longer then the other translating she has done for similiar projects. -Lindholm also very briefly mentions Sandy Frank and his group. It's weird because when she starts talking about him, there is a definite 'fear factor' kicking in. She sounds very nervous and worried when bringing up Frank's name. She goes out of her way twice to be extremely respectful to Frank. (I need to learn more about this man). Lindholm continues on how Sandy Frank had some input with the ADV translation and the spelling of the monster's names. What I kind of got from it was, whatever Frank wanted... Frank got. That's all I wrote down and I know I missed some stuff there. Good interview, reccommend anyone interested in this subject to check it out. Lindholm also had some interesting opinions concerning the Ken/Jun relationship or lack of one. The more I learn about the translation side of original Japanese Gatchaman series, the more of an arguement I can make for.... Any translation of Gatchaman is false and incorrect. Unless you can watch and understand Gatchaman in it's original format, you will always be watching someone else's interpretation of the show, it does not matter if it's ADV, BotP, G-Force or Eagle Riders as close as 'some' of these may be, it is not true/pure Gatchaman. Every time I turn on one of those ADV Extras with the Director, he is always mentioning how they changed this, added that, or add-libbed this. I guess what I am trying to say is, any translation is good enough for me as long as it fits within the story's context. That's the way I have to watch it any how. So keep it coming. My next baby-step here is looking more into the whole copyright side of things, especially those concerning fans. I'm also curious why fan-fiction stories are/are not some type of copyright infrigment. Not that I am trying to cause trouble for you all, but simply to understand why some methods are allowed while others are not. Happy Easter everyone. And if Easter isn't your thing, have a wonderful day, full of good spirit none the less.

I got all the small pieces and vechiles in a plastic zip-loc bag. You take it out. You better put it back or there will be words. And then everything sits in a box next to the TV and Gatchaman DVDs so we are all ready to go watch and play. Been seeing some of those BotP lunch boxes on eBay ( 1 mint condition with Thermos over $250 but there's like 2 or 3 scratched up ones for a 1/5 of the price) was thinking about keeping everything in there. We do have a nice display case but it is already full with many other action figures and memories. Need to re-organize once I get all this silliness out of my system. Thanks all. I have this friend who always asks me to come over. He likes to buy comics and other collectables but he never enjoys them. He buys stuff because it looks 'popular'. He basically has a basement full of stuff that he has simply done the 3 B's to... Buys, Bags, and than throws in a Box. Never to be seen, read, enjoyed. I guess I could understand if he ever would have any interest in selling some of his stuff.... but he doesn't. He doesn't want to sell it. He doesn't want to enjoy it. He just wants to have stuff but then refuses to learn anything about any of the items he picks up. So he always asks me to come over so he can show me his new additions, especially the comics.... I love a good comic book series. And EVERYTIME he will take the comic and put it in my hands. He will then ask me, "Have you read this one yet?" Which to me, is an invitation for me to read his copy. And EVERYTIME he freaks out as I go to open the cover.... "That's a never-been-read issue (and this and that), what do you think you are doing?!?!" You would think by now he would stop handing me the books. Like I am going to pass up on a good story..... plus it's fun to watch him freak out like that.

Yes, there is that type of collecting but, For me collecting Gatchaman is all about my happiness. This one is for me to enjoy. I had waited years to find this kind of stuff and until recently had given up hope. So forgive me for having a little fun. Yes... very surprisingly the first wave of G-Force figures especially the Princess and Keyop have a very hard time with arm movement. Actually I thought it would have been Princess's arms that would have broken first... very tight arm joint. Keyops (I found out) have an extremely thin arm joint. The second wave of Joe/Tiny/Zoltar are actually a lot more sturdy and really built to play with (good news cuz Joe/Tiny are not cheep). And yes, I'm debating which Zoltar (2 heads or turtle king mecha) I want to still get. Boys and their toys!!! Told you I could do it Welcome home Keyop!!!

Resale??? I already told my daughter that I want to be buried with my G-Force edition God Phoenix. And if she doesn't I will haunt her until it is where it should be :ghost2: