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Posted: 27 Jun 2020, 14:11 

I saw that thing in a Jackie Cha movie from the end of the 90s. It was a virtual fish tank so I am sure it must have been this very product. I will get a disc myself. I thought there were only a couple of them
but there were 50 in total ? So a lot of them are not on the database ?

@museld: I found the movie !!!

It is Under Control released in 1999.

Just have a look here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afKp2kRFPyU

Go to 1:55 minutes !

Maybe I am wrong but it looks like one of those NEC Fish Club devices.




NEC Fish Club - Hi-Vision - Jackie Chan - Under Control 1999 (1).jpg

NEC Fish Club - Hi-Vision - Jackie Chan - Under Control 1999 (2).jpg

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 Post subject: Re: Mannequin (1987)
Posted: 09 Jul 2020, 14:30 

A movie is a story. It can portray anything it wants to.
To say it's "dated" is attaching negative vibes to something because the characters in the movie aren't acting like what the media tells us a "woke" person in 2020 is supposed to act like.
But they aren't "good woke people" in 2020, they're characters in a 1987 movie. The sexual harrassment didn't really happen.


:thumbup: A- effin' -MEN , man :thumbup:

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Posted: 10 Jul 2020, 15:34 

CYBER CITY OEDO and VIDEO GIRL Ai on DVD were my most recent acquisitions,
and at least they did an admirable job of washing the bad taste out of my mouth,
left behind by the cavalcade of crap Anime i've endured over the last couple years...

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Posted: 20 Jul 2020, 14:07 

just sat through ALTERED STATES, one of the 4 or 5 discs included with my first CLD-3030 back around 2007.
what a trippy, goofy film. quite the Debut for William Hurt.

looked quite good for such an early release, and played back flawlessly...

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/20366/11076-LV/Altered-States

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Posted: 08 Aug 2020, 14:20 

just saw my childhood favorite THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (1971) on Blu-Ray for the first time.

good sound, though not really all that appreciably different from the LD i have, just cleaned up and perhaps emphasized a bit.

where things shine is the Video quality. everything's as sharp and detailed as i imagine it could ever be,
allowing me to see a great many fine details in sharp relief, that neither my VHS or LD editions ever quite could...

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Posted: 11 Aug 2020, 14:44 

well, i guess it gives us all another hobby around here, if nothing else?!? :)

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Posted: 23 Aug 2020, 14:26 

admin wrote:
He also seems to hate Jar Jar now, but that I can understand.


YOU HAATA MEESA INTA FEELS, MON!!! Meesa jus' trya be everybum mucha lovva Rasta Mon, mon...

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 Post subject: Re: Tasuke's Dolls (merged)
Posted: 19 Sep 2020, 14:43 

i was trying a new photo hosting service out, but it looks like i was having issue with PHOTOBUCKET for a good reason,
since they were in the midst of a major design update. well, their finished now, and it works great!!!

speaking of design updates, i made some much needed improvements to both of my "To Heart" girls, Konomi and Multi;

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/Konomi_and_Multi_9_19_20_RESIZE_30.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

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Posted: 08 Nov 2020, 15:50 

as a 14/15-year-old boy around 1996, this was my favorite TREK film at that time.

today, however, i greatly prefer the first film, THE MOTION PICTURE.
i appreciate it's imagination, it's model work, it's deliberate pacing, and it's overall very late-70's sense of style.

all of that makes it easily the very finest ST film of them all, at least in my admittedly screwed-up eyes...

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Posted: 12 Dec 2020, 14:56 

for one, it's all-but-guaranteed that Home Video playback devices anything remotely at all like these
will never be made again, for good, for bad, or for otherwise;


https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/HR_S8000U_JOHN_5_4_11_RESIZE_20.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

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Posted: 29 Dec 2020, 15:44 

GOOD SMILE "Nendoroid Doll" series Hatsune Miku on her way to me C/O AmiAmi, a wonderful little late X-Mas present;


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Posted: 01 Jan 2021, 14:28 

someone had one of these available for around $50 shipped on the BAY, and i pounced.

a major hole in my MACROSS/ROBOTECH collection, now plugged. it is missing the Obi strip and poster it originally included,
but at about half-price of what everyone else seems to be asking these days, i'm most comfortable with the sacrifices...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/MACROSS_Perfect_Memory_12-31-20_(2).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

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Posted: 01 Jan 2021, 14:37 

finally broke down and picked up NIS America's standard Blu-Ray edition of CLAMP's Card Captor Sakura.

been waiting for over a decade now in the hopes of somehow finding the whole series on the cheap.
however, with the way pricing/availability trends on this series are clearly heading, that simply does not seem likely to ever happen,
and, to be honest, i'm really quite fed-up with waiting in any case.

So, $120 direct for a Blu-Ray set from NISA's storefront it was;

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/Cardcaptor_Sakura_BRD_Complete.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/Multi_and_Sakura_12_23_20.JPG?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

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Posted: 13 Jan 2021, 15:01 

here's something;

http://0024.movie.coocan.jp/video/mahou ... umeru.html

http://0024.movie.coocan.jp/video/mahou/magic.html

https://twitter.com/artrek1998/status/8 ... 44?lang=cs

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Posted: 17 Jan 2021, 16:00 

Cardcaptor Sakura is a perfectly fine show if you are a 10 year old girl. I don't know what anyone else is doing with it.
Dudes in their 40s watching it doesn't make me comfortable, like office ladies reading Harry Potter as if it were a real book...too many flags there...


some of us, regardless of age, simply enjoy watching well-animated series about cute girls going about their day,
most especially when there is actual heart and soul put into it, for a change.

it's happy, charming, pleasant and ultimately comforting, all the more so within an especially dark period in life such as the one we are all currently enduring.

not to worry; taking enjoyment in such wholesome innocence is indeed an unpardonable sin to those of us who are getting up there in years,
and somehow managed to miss the memo that is well and high time to grow right the hell up and put our edgy mature pants on already.

indeed, i suspect there is a special circle of hell reserved for us outsize man-children,
so take all due heart, ZETA, for swift and righteous reckoning will inevitably come...

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Posted: 18 Jan 2021, 17:05 

Personally I do not see how CCS is that much better than most anime, it was a solid Magical Girl anime.
I learned long ago that people have different reasons to watch and it looks like it is tasuke's personal perfect anime.
Nothing wrong with that at all. I'd probably put it third in its genre behind Nanoha and Madoka.
However it is very different from those two despite being in the same genre.


CCS ain't perfect, not by any means, but even so it's got honest heart and charm,
which is far more that i can say for a great deal of Anime i've sat through,
so it get's high billing in my book, warts and all...

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Posted: 20 Jan 2021, 16:10 

Here's some junk I got in the same lot as the laserdiscs.

https://i.imgur.com/56iRe8z.jpg

I hope I still have my Star Trek ships. I love those things. I can't remember what the orbital space station is in the lower left of the pic. Is that from one of the movies?

that's EARTH SPACEDOCK, -NC-7011S- as seen on STAR TREK III, IV, and at least a couple episodes of THE NEXT GENERATION...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/EARTH_STARBASE_2.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/EARTH_STARBASE_1.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/STAR%20TREK/.highres/92009-004-7abda711.jpg

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/STAR%20TREK/.highres/USS_Excelsior_stalls_outside_Spacedock.jpg

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/STAR%20TREK/.highres/USS_Enterprise_and_USS_Excelsior_in_Spacedock_zpsf86d3c67.jpgoriginal%20CROP%20200_zpstpma6iou.png

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Posted: 01 Feb 2021, 16:34 

i just found Gerry Anderson's SPACE;1999 on remastered SHOUT FACTORY DVD, and decided to give it a spin.

WOW; the 70's wonkiness is R.E.A.L. it is hilarious!!!

as it happens, Episode 4, "Ring Around the Moon" is very special indeed, as i remember seeing it as a boy,
somewhere from the late-80's/early/mid-90's-ish, thereabouts, i believe.

all of my adult life, i occasionally recalled some sort of oddball Sci-Fi show i saw as a kid
where some manner of alien brain was continually whispering "WE HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE"
in response to some guy's persistent string of questions about the universe, and then up and exploding and dying over it all.

well, i had long assumed that that had to have been DOCTOR WHO or something,
but it so turns out that SPACE;1999's "Ring Around the Moon" was my culprit all along!!

indeed, while i remembered the gist of it well enough, the eyeball space-brain thing was actually repeatedly intoning "WE ACKNOWLEDGE"
in response to our hero Captain's series of facts about the brain alien's long-gone race.

Essentially, i remembered it well, considering, and it was worth the price of this silly, silly vintage series alone
to finally, FINALLY complete the circle on this personal childhood memory...

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Posted: 08 Mar 2021, 15:43 

my ancient 1975 PIONEER PL-112D sounds decent enough;

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/HOUSE%20IRRIGON%202-2-15/.highres/PL-112D%203-14-15%202_zpsaioiq0sf.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/HOUSE%20IRRIGON%202-2-15/.highres/PL-112D%203-14-15%201_zps2s3epcoq.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

yet, it still doesn't hold a candle to my semi-ancient 1988 PIONEER PD-91;

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/PIONEER%20PD-91/.highres/PD-91%20PD-M90X%207-24-19%2050%20PERCENT.jpg

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/PIONEER%20PD-91/.highres/PD-91%20Int.%209-3-19.png

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 Post subject: Re: Sega Saturn
Posted: 27 Mar 2021, 14:27 

Thunderforce V (or indeed anything by TecnoSoft) is superb.


the THUNDER FORCE series goes ALL the way back with me.

my parents bought me what was surely among the first run of the SEGA GENESIS available in the U.S. at TOYS-R-US for X-Mas of 1989.

it came with the ALTERED BEAST pack-in, and they also grabbed THUNDER FORCE II at the same time.

my earliest memories of video gaming at my own home involve eating danish butter cookies for christmas,
whilst crashing my space fighter into airborne girders on the first stage of TF II.

indeed, i am a complete TECNOSOFT nerd, and, one of my main regrets
was not grabbing a JPN copy of TF IV for my working collection back when they were affordable...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/TECNOSOFT_Collaection_3-27-21.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds


The Macross game is pretty good too and well worth playing.

It’s a better Macross collectible than a shooter. It does a great job of representing the movie but it’s so easy it’s not any fun.

indeed, it isn't a great space shooter by any means. however, it does manage to be quite decent for an Anime tie-in game.
oh, how i lusted after a copy, since reading about the game in a 1997 issue of GAME FAN magazine.

owning all of this, back then, would have indeed been a wild, WILD wet dream
that would have totally blown my mind straight the hell to Mars...


https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/MACROSS_DYRL_SEGA_SATURN_3-27-21_RESIZE_30.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

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Posted: 31 Mar 2021, 13:43 

i found the bulk of my collection of Anime LDs via someone on CRAIGSLIST offering them along with a CLD-S104 for, -what was it?- like $80 or so.

i already had my CLD-3030, and -to me- the S104 fell drastically short on video quality, physical build and overall cosmetics, so off it went.

in hindsight, i probably should have retained it as a spare player, but that was back around -what?- 2009 i believe,
so it's all water very much under the bridge...

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 Post subject: Re: Macross News
Posted: 09 Apr 2021, 14:47 

i'm crossing my fingers. it would be awfully nice to see honest-to-god MACROSS video and merchandising freely available worldwide once and for all.

imagine seeing these, for instance, openly available at your local specialty shop, -if not your local BARNES AND NOBLE or the like- and tell me that it wouldn't be a big deal;

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/VF-1J_-VF-1S_Ichijo_BANDAI_DX_1-48_4-3-21_RESIZE_40.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

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Posted: 10 Apr 2021, 14:22 

i found an avenue to acquire the 2019 reissue of this vintage 1985 HASEGAWA kit for a reasonable price, so i jumped right on one.

as a kid in the 80's, i saw ads for the YOUNG ASTRONAUTS U.S. market reboxing of this kit in the paperwork included with the MONOGRAM YA kits
my mom was having my dad build up to decorate my room with.

30+ years on, -feeling quite nostalgic indeed these days for my space-case childhood-
i feel i need my very own crack at this unusual, semi-Sci-Fi-themed model;

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/OPERATION_OMEGA_STX_HASEGAWA_1985_(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/A4_-_YOUNG_ASTRONAUTS_EAGLE_LUNAR_EXPLORER_1986_(7).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/OPERATION_OMEGA_STX_HASEGAWA_1985_(3).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ll310/shaorin-chan/OPERATION_OMEGA_STX_HASEGAWA_1985_(2).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

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Posted: 11 Apr 2021, 15:25 

xtempo wrote:
Marriage I've bought countless times (not even sure if this was ever on a US Laserdisc) hopefully I keep it.


if you ever decide you don't want it, i might be interested...

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Posted: 28 Apr 2021, 14:16 

just sat once more through one of my lesser childhood staples; "EARTH II" (1971) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_II

my mom made a concentrated effort to make me into a total NASA space cadet when i was a boy back in the mid/late-80's,
and this was but one of the multitude of NASA space program-themed films and documentaries she taped off of CATV for me back then.

anyhow, a pretty vanilla Pilot for seemed to be shaping up to be a rather bland Soap-opera-grade T.V. series that never happened.

still, i did watch it multiple times back in my childhood, so the personal nostalgia is quite certainly there to be readily had...
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