Golden Portable

It’s a reprint (most original issues are decrepit at this point), but otherwise it’s an exact replica of the very first issue.

Guess what I got?

Also at 6th place in Beckett’s July 2002 “Top 10 Dragon Ball Toys” list is Broly with a semiautomatic

Here are some 2002 toy catalog listings from Beckett’s Dragon Ball Collectors Magazine featuring everyone’s favorite gun touting Krillin and Vegeta 😎

Added on to my list of shit I don’t pronounce right:

The “Hakusho” in Yu Yu Hakusho 🧐

It was a real one last night.

It’s hard because DBZ has a long history across the world of crazy bootlegs so something absurd like that seems like it’d have to be a bootleg

I’m having a hard time explaining to people that legitimately licensed Dragon Ball toys that came with gun accessories were actually sold in North America by Irwin Toy back in the day.

Like shit you could pick up at Toys R Us.

I feel like most anything nowadays that releases on vinyl also has a digital counterpart which makes it pretty easy to pirate either way.

I personally think it really comes to:

1. If a person is buying physical, they’re probably a big fan (or old)

2. Vinyl feels more like premium merch than CD

I'm getting overwhelmed a bit with YouTube ngl 😞

Okay I don't think Kaiba stealing Blue Eyes was worth Yugi turning Kaiba into a fucking vegetable

Half of the Yugioh cast are like peak superhuman freaks of nature who can jump out of a mach speed jets, but instead of standing on some Dragon Ball Z shit they decide to settle beef with card games for some reason.

They kinda imply that Yugi cheats like hell throughout this tournament

Like that ain't the power of friendship bro you literally helped him pull that card

Jonouchi, you literally watched Yugi's grandpa get his soul cast into eternal purgatory, why is a practical card trick getting you flustered?

This is a cool party trick I guess, but does being able to know the cards in your hand while face down have literally any benefits from a game perspective?

This is some A+ aura farming

Checking in on your BlueSky mutuals kinda feels like visiting that part of your family that made it out and lives in the suburbs

Alright my collection is growing I might have a problem

I ordered some cheapo knockoff One Piece cards off AliExpress and ngl they’re not half bad

YouTube video by Golden Portable The Very First Smash Clone - One Piece Grand Battle PS1

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After the success of Smash 64, Bandai saw $$$ and knew they had to quickly cash in!

Digimon Rumble Arena often gets credit, but One Piece: Grand Battle on the PS1 was released as likely the FIRST Smash Bros clone ever!

Let’s take a look into the often overlooked debut of the Grand Battle series!

As primarily a manga reader I get hit with the “why did you pronounce it like that” comment all the time

I do wish big budget black focused science fiction and fantasy cinema wasn’t primarily in the hands of Disney.

Ironheart was alright. It’s definitely held down by virtue of being a Disney MCU project that has to go down the checklist of formulaic elements before it can try something new.

Thanks for everyone that showed up to watch me ramble lol.

I've been programming my animated lip-synced avatar software for a while so glad it was able to work.

Testing my Live streaming setup on Youtube if y'all want to check it out!

Honestly while I know black-and-white pages are a staple of Japanese manga, I fuck with colored manga heavy.

Probably my preferred way to read a lot of series in my opinion.

Feels like a "3D Model rips from Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butoden on the Nintendo DS" type of day

Finally finished the Marine Ford Arc.

I can't understate how much the arc improves once they finally make it to the fucking plaza.

Felt like they were running towards that shit forever 😂