GEEK FLICKS: READY PLAYER ONE REVIEW (Spoiler-free)

Ready Player One was not exactly the movie I was expecting. 

As a thirty-something geek who has read Ernest Cline’s highly-immersive novel, I was looking forward to an epic mash-up of all the stuff and characters that made my childhood great.  I was looking forward to seeing Japanese mecha fighting alongside the heroes of the of my favourite Saturday morning cartoons flying in vehicles from my favourite 80s movies.

RETRO GEEK: Vintage Voltes V Toy Commercials

From the murky depths of the internet, the Lab has unearthed these 70s era Voltes V Toy  Commercials for your viewing pleasure. 



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First Look- Power Rangers 2017 Teaser Trailer

Most of us who grew up in the 90s have mixed emotions about the upcoming Power Rangers reboot movie. Some were ecstatic, some, apprehensive because of the new costumes and character actor choices.  After going through this first look trailer, I'm still haven't made up my mind whether I'm gonna be excited or not.

Here's a first look at the upcoming movie.  What do you guys think?

Toy Review: Chogokin Popynica (CPA-20) Great Mazinger Queenstar Gashapon

As a follow up to the Great Mazinger Mini Headbust review, I will now be reviewing the
2002 Bandai Chogokin Popynica (CPA-20) Queenstar.

The Queenstar is the cockpit and flying head unit of Great Mazinger's partner, Venus A.

The Chogokin Popynica Series is a set of vending machine or capsule toys released by Bandai in 2002. The toys were miniature versions of their vintage Popy line of toys. Among the notables in the set are miniature versions of the Voltes V team, the Combattler V team, and the Getter Team.

This toy in particular is a miniature version of the Vintage Popy Queenstar toy as seen below.

What's fantastic about this Gashapon is that even the packaging mimics the look and feel of the original Popy toy.

The toy is made out of high-grade plastic of the same quality of its bigger counterparts.

The toy features an opening cockpit, and a swiveling landing gear. It even includes a miniature 

Jun Hono pilot figure.

Over-all, this is a fantastic miniature of the Popy Queenstar toy, considering the toy is less than an inch long.  

To wrap up this review, I leave you with a shot of the Queenstar with the Brain Condor.

Toy Review: Takara-Tomy Arts Great Mazinger Mini Head Bust

This is my first review for the Takara-Tomy Arts Super Figure Collection (SFC) Capsule Gashapon series. I've recently acquired a couple of the figures from this fantastic Gashapon set, and I will be writing about the whole series once I get my hands on the rest of the figures from the collection.

The toy comes  in a generic plastic capsule. The package includes a mini leaflet, and the separate plastic parts of the gashapon.

I now present you with the Great Mazinger Mini Bust. The toy is about 2 inches tall and made of high-grade PVC plastic.  

Great Mazinger is the successor of Mazinger Z. This robot  was created by Kenzo Kabuto, the long-thought deceased father of Mazinger Z pilot Kouji Kabuto.  Great Mazinger is piloted by Tetsuya Tsurugi, an orphan raised by Kenzo Kabuto.

The main feature of this bust is that Great Mazinger's cockpit, the Brain Condor, can be separated from the head.

The Brain Condor is a flying aircraft that serves as Great Mazinger's cockpit. It is reminiscent of the Hover Pilder, Mazinger Z's own removable flying aircraft/cockpit.

There's not much play value it this figure, it being a head bust. The details on this figure however is excellent for its size, and would look real nice displayed in your shelf or on your office desk.

Here's a few more shots of the Great Mazinger mini head bust as we end this review.

PinoyGeekLab Unboxing 1: Magic the Gathering- Conspiracy Booster Box pt. 1

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Welcome to the first Pinoy Geek Lab Unboxing video.  We are featuring the unboxing of a booster box of the Magic the Gathering set Conspiracy.  The set 210 cards.  It features old favorites such as Swords to Plowshares, Stifle, Misdirection, Exploration, Pernicious Deed and other notables, powerful new cards such as Council's Judgement and Plea for Power, great commander cards such as Marchesa the Black Rose and Brago the King Eternal, and the hallmark of the set- Conspiracy Cards that give fantastic new twists to your draft games.  The set also heralds the first appearance in card form of Planeswalker Dack Fayden- the main protagonist of IDW publishing's Magic the Gathering comic.

This box has been graciously provided at a discount by Titan Hobbyshop Libis.

The video, due to its length has been divided into 3 parts, I'll be posting the first part now with the rest to follow. (Update: Part 2 and 3 has been uploaded)

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U2'S LATEST ALBUM IS PROBABLY SITTING IN YOUR IPAD/IPHONE

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I just checked the Music App on my iPad and Lo and Behold, U2's latest album Songs of Innocence is sitting there for my listening pleasure.  Talk about a sweet gift from Apple and U2.

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