Archive for October, 2005

FUNimation Channel Coming

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Watch out Cartoon Network, Adult Swim will soon have serious competition. FUNimation Entertainment, distributor of such hits as Dragonball Z and FullMetal Alchemist, plans to create a 24-hour digital network showing top-rated anime. Sometime next year it should be available in basic and extended digital packages.
However, FUNimation Channel is not the first of its kind. […]

I got my new Star Trek TOS Communicator today!

Friday, October 14th, 2005

It took about 2.5 weeks to arrive, but I think it was worth the wait. Open it and you get the chirping sound, a spinning moire and a green light. Press a button and you hear subspace static. A button on the back generates a starship hail sound. A few months ago I built a […]

Is that Lois Lane? And why is she dressed like a superhero?

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

The Silver Age of Superman figures are based on the comics written between 1950 and 1960 and illustrated by Kurt Schaffenberger. In Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane, #21, Lois Lane and Lana Lang develop superpowers. Do they go and save the world? No, they spend their time fighting over who gets to marry Superman and […]