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So shiny. So beautiful…

So sucky. But so much funk…

Legendary God Giant Patrick Macias sends this shot of Bandai’s upcoming Soul of Chogokin Ideon, snapped at the Tokyo Anime Fair. It’s due out at the end of this month at the low, low price of 23,100 yen (around $200). Lotsa other pics at Bandai’s Tamashii Web site, too.

Thanks to Nekrodave and Juan Carlos Azpurua, now we’ve got THIS burned into our sockets forever…

[Yup, it’s in the BBS…]

Well, out of “respect” for the possiblity that one of you freaks wanted to buy this, cart it, ship it from Japan, and ride it around your block, we held off on publicizing this absolutely sick and ridiculous auction. Personally, I’m disappointed in us as a community that we didn’t drive the price of this thing through the freaking roof. Thanks to SteveH for sending this in:

“Fresh as the day it was made, the Space Battleship Yamato bike! Adults need not apply.”

“Isn’t that insane? You have to figure many Japanese schoolkids were very sad there wasn’t a Yamato helmet for them to ride their bikes with. Nishizaki sure knew his stuff. If I was an 8 year old I would want that bike SO bad…” — SteveH

Here’s a bonus video for you:

Keep those bizarre auctions coming…