{"id":423,"date":"2004-02-09T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2020-11-10T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T02:34:34","slug":"robotech_yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"robotech yo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">[ <b>current selection<\/b> | lightning seeds \u2013 <i>life of riley<\/i> ]<br>[ <b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>fine<\/i> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">feh\u2026so while im tripping fanboy, i might as well bring this up too. one of the high points of 80\u2019s cartoon rocking-ness, alongside <i>g.i. joe<\/i>, <i>the transformers<\/i>, and damnit\u2026the <i>gummy bears<\/i> (bouncing here and there and everywhere) was the <i>robotech<\/i> series. one of the pioneers of anime during the 80\u2019s, it was actually an amalgam of three separate japanese animes, <i>macross<\/i>, <i>sd cavalry southern cross<\/i>, and <i>gc mospeada<\/i>. blah blah blah\u2026read the history elsewhere. anyhoo, it rocked. and one of the biggest selling points for the series was the rockin\u2019 toys. they were the quintessential transforming robot toys back then. and while everybody is familiar with the now classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotech.com\/store\/viewproduct.php?id=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">veritech fighter<\/a> (natch!), one of the oft overlooked toys was the fighter from the third part of the series\u2026the alpha fighter. it was like the boxy volvo big bro to the veritech. and while it wasnt the most elegant of designs, i still thought it rocked and had one as a kid (the green one actually). now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toynami.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toynami<\/a>, the same dudes who released the (new and improved) veritech last year, are bringing out their masterpiece collection series 2. and the first toy rolling out is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotech.com\/store\/viewproductpreord.php?id=197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vfa-6h alpha fighter<\/a> (scotts blue variant). ill probably wait for the green one (vfa-6i\u2026rands variant) to come out\u2026for nostalgia\u2019s sake. and hopefully theyll follow up the alpha fighter with the never-released beta fighter, another toy that was actually suppose to hook onto the back of the alpha fighter. woo\u2026crossing fingers. anyhoo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotech.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">robotech.com<\/a> is taking pre-orders yo. get your geek on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotech.com\/store\/viewproductpreord.php?id=197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scotts alpha figher (via robotech)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/alpha1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/alpha1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/alpha1-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/alpha1-250x228.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/alpha1-198x180.jpg 198w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/alpha1-329x300.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ current selection | lightning seeds \u2013 life of riley ][ feelin\u2019 | fine ] feh\u2026so while im tripping fanboy, i might as well bring this up too. one of the high points of 80\u2019s cartoon rocking-ness, alongside g.i. joe, the transformers, and damnit\u2026the gummy bears (bouncing here and there and everywhere) was the robotech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}