Just got this Bandai 1990 Getter Robo from Japan, minty fresh in the box. He’s about 8.5″ tall.

Speaking of Japan, do yourself a favor and read this amazing article about an American living/working in Japan.

“The adoption of some evolutionarily novel ideas makes some sense in terms of moving the species forward…It also makes perfect sense that more intelligent people — people with, sort of, more intellectual firepower — are likely to be the ones to do that.”

Quoting a story from CNN on a recent study that found “on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women.”

“For men, on the other hand, sexual exclusivity goes against the grain evolutionarily. With a goal of spreading genes, early men had multiple mates. Since women had to spend nine months being pregnant, and additional years caring for very young children, it made sense for them to want a steady mate to provide them resources.
Religion, the current theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid, Kanazawa said. Assuming that, for example, a noise in the distance is a signal of a threat helped early humans to prepare in case of danger.
“It helps life to be paranoid, and because humans are paranoid, they become more religious, and they see the hands of God everywhere,” Kanazawa said.
Participants who said they were atheists had an average IQ of 103 in adolescence, while adults who said they were religious averaged 97, the study found. Atheism “allows someone to move forward and speculate on life without any concern for the dogmatic structure of a religion,” Bailey said.”

“Vegetarianism, while not strongly associated with IQ in this study, has been shown to be related to intelligence in previous research, Kanazawa said. This also fits into Bailey’s idea that unconventional preferences appeal to people with higher intelligence, and can also be a means of showing superiority.”

Read the full article here.

I am sure you’ve seen Super7’s Jumbo Machinder Stormtrooper by now,
here is Alex manhandling the merch.
Toybot Studios has a first look, check it out!

Just picked up this Kubrick Alien based on the original 1979 Kenner 18″ toy (more 1 & 2)

Grendizer/Grandizer/Goldorak/Goldrake/UFOロボ·グレンダイザー
from around 1976-1979

…you are wearing the exact same clothes as mannequin in the
Hard Rock hotel.

REACT! SHOWCASE
April 9th and 10th

7 Seconds
Betrayed
Mindset
Get the Most
ON
Punch!
Common Cause
Keep It Clear
NAILS
True Colors
Circles
Gone But Not Forgotten
Not Sorry
Praise
Damages
Secret People

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Berkeley, CA 94701

Happy Birthday to Derrick ‘Deebo’ VanWie. Love you brother!

Stopped in at DarksideSF and saw these black & white felt/mesh Air Max 1s.
Simple but classic colorway.

Been working on collecting some Jumbo Machinder (1, 2) toys…

Picked up this modern Gaiking at the San Jose toy convention last month (with some other gems that I will post later). This thing is super fucking heavy as it is solid unlike most of the others which are hollow plastic.

Received this Garada K7 from Uni-Five for my birthday from Karen and Alex.

Also grabbed this Gaiking from the Shogun Warriors line with the box from the late ’70s. The crew over at Super7 has been working on a Stormtrooper Jumbo Machinder which should be coming in the next few months, watch this for some awesome previews and more history on Jumbos.

Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits Of Control. Amazing feeling of atmosphere, a movie about repetition and variation, a nod towards influences and inspirations.

SunnO))), Boris and Earth on the soundtrack and Greg Anderson thanked in the credits.

Screaming Hand outside the Earl in Atlanta