I am writing my first The Big Bang Theory fanfiction, so of course I need to reference Gatchaman. I am writing a scene in which Sheldon's Godphoenix model plays a part. Anyone have a good tabletop model description with lots of nitpicky details that I could draw from to write Sheldon's part? Thanks a bunch!

sorry, I can't help much with your inquiry, jublke, I wouldn't know the first place to start to describe the God Phoenix Sheldon style, but I want to wish you luck with the fic, and hope we get a link to it once it's been posted.

Nothing comes to mind, BUT if you go to ebay and search on: gatchaman model or gatchaman phoenix or something like that, you'll see a number of actual models for listing. Scroll down into the item's description and you might find something useful. Adding that you could also search on: battle of the planets model battle of the planets phoenix

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I found some detailed drawings and things. I am trying to post them now but I might need to upload to photo bucket first though. I think these were the drawing I remember James posting once before: And I have a copy of this poster somewhere: Something else I found in my folder on the Phoenix: I hope these work ... and that you might be able to use them.

CD: That model sheet poster is awesome! I may reference that if I can't come up with a real-life model. Thanks for the encouragement, gals. My husband and I watch TBBT together (we have almost no other complementary viewing habits) so I'm having him beta. And he is a big fan, so it may take awhile to get my piece approved by my beta reader!!

BTW, maximum passengers 200! That's a mighty large number.

The model sheet poster (in English) is Jason's. He made some of those up for us one year at Comic Con. He did an awesome job! My daughter stole mine and had me frame it and put it up in her room.

TJ - that's awesome! I was just thinking how nice it would look framed. Great minds think alike, I guess.

Originally posted by Transmute Jun The model sheet poster (in English) is Jason's. He made some of those up for us one year at Comic Con. He did an awesome job! My daughter stole mine and had me frame it and put it up in her room.

I couldn't remember if Jason had created it, or if he had translated it. Thank you TJ for putting the correct information with the poster.

Originally posted by jublke BTW, maximum passengers 200! That's a mighty large number.

Was there not an episode where the team takes in a bunch of passengers? Or am I remembering a fanfic, as well as a storyline I have where they rescue a planet/comet of displaced Rigans (turned into slaves to build Spectran weapons) and then return them to Riga.

200 passengers comes in handy for another fix that I am writing.

I think the 200 was mentioned in either a recent fic or a BJ entry. The only suggestion I was going to make was Jason's site.

I believe the God Phoenix had a bunch of passengers in the episode with the sea lions?

I do recall, somewhere at the very back of my mind, that there had been an episode with quite a number of passengers on the God Phoenix ... exactly which one I don't know! *scratching head* Julie ... the best of luck for this endeavour of yours! I'm sure you'll do a great job, especially when backed up by your DH!

The episode where Ryu/Tiny was taken in as a prisioner and Galactor/Spectra was recruiting the entire complement of prisioners... And Ken/Mark impersonated a Galactor/Spectra officer [Zoltar]... And the team stuffed the God Phoenix full of passengers to take them to the base... only to dump them back in the prison! Ep 42: The Great Escape Trick Operation

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For those of you who are curious, I put up the first chapter of my The Big Bang Theory fic: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10063205/1/The-Optical-Insufficiency-Conundrum After writing so much BotP, it is very strange to have lots of people reading something I posted!

Congrats, Julie!

I'm glad you're making progress on this! Looking forward to reading it!

Okay, here's the model I went with because, heck, I could see buying one of these! Of course, Sheldon would want a God Phoenix that was properly to scale and had internal space for the other four vehicles: http://www.toynerd.com/index.php/2010/09/13/the-die-is-cast-phoenix-style/ Thanks again for all of the help, encouragement, and suggestions. Mention of the Phoenix is coming in chapter 2.

Hi all! The God Phoenix you have chosen isn't a model kit, it's a die-cast metal toy. A nice one, to be sure, but a toy nonetheless. If you're truly after a model kit, there are plenty to choose from. There's the Banso model kit, which was subsequently reissued by Tatsunokoland, Seahorse, Eidai, Sani, and even released in the U.S. by Entex and in Korea by Academy. There's also the Mini G-5 released by Imai, the Modelock God Phoenix by Tatsunokoland, and several other various sized kits released by different manufacturers in Korea. When the series was first airing, there were even a couple different papercraft kits of the God Phoenix included as bonus goodies inside kids magazines. Getting into the realm of resin garage kits, there have been a number of short-run kits of varying detail and quality by a number of home manufacturers, including both the original and the OAV God Phoenix. There have been two professional resin kits released as well. The most common one is by Imai. Much harder to find is the Club M God Phoenix. If what you're after for your story is a highly detailed kit (Ignoring the difficulty in locating one and the expense if you do), this is probably the one you'd want to focus on. Here are some photos of the completed kit taken from Club M's website: And here are some pictures of the box and the pieces of the kit from the Japanese Gatchakan fan website: I hope this helps! James

Thanks, James! I'm not sure which one I'll use, but at least I'll have the correct terms now. On a side note, I was surprised at the number of beautiful paper craft models of the Phoenix for sale out there.

The die cast toy version is currently on ebay for $232 US: Die-cast Phoenix toy

EW stares at the pictures and lets out a wistful sigh. I never get the cool stuff...

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Well, it's still there.

Originally posted by ChrisW Well, it's still there.

Pero, no tengo dinero.

What, you don't have a money tree????? Obviously I don't either or I'd have bought the thing already. I didn't even have it marked as a watch since I know I can't afford it, but I remembered the box when I saw the pictures James put up.

We should all chip in $20 and rotate it amongst ourselves. It could fly to missions at each of our homes ... sigh I decided to put the diecast one in my story. I think Sheldon and Leonard need one and they have way too much disposable income for their own good.