What I noticed when watching a Car Robot episode today....

[doublespy]

It appears on Ai's member selection screen from EP 4 Enter the Spychangers.
Seems like it's a management review or academic paper about Ikea:D

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6694/crscreen1.jpg

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/549/crscreen2jpg.jpg

[GoktimusPrime]

I need a workable NTSC VHS player to watch my Car Robot eps. I tried using my old Japanese VHS player today, but for some reason after a few seconds the machine shuts down. Not sure if I need a new step-down transformer or if there's something wrong with the machine.

Anyone know where I can find a step-down transformer at a decent price? I've asked around places like Dick Smiths and they don't seem to stock them. :(

I know I could buy a new multi-system VHS player, but the problem is that all the VHS players in Australia seem to only play NTSC SP (Standard Play) and not EP (Extended Play), and a lot of my anime stuff is recorded in EP. I think most if not all of my Transformers stuff is in SP though...

*sigh* I wish they'd release stuff like Car Robot and Beast Wars Neo on DVD here (Japanese DVDs are prohibitively expensive to collect :().

Btw doublespy, if you watch the original Macross series, a lot of the text and images that appear on the Macross' (SDF-1's) monitors are references to Star Trek. :) Also if you look at #1 of the Armada comic books, in the first panel that reveals Optimus Prime sitting on a chair with monitors in the background, there's one monitor that has the words "All Your Base Belong To Us" repeating itself over and over again. There's a smaller monitor that has repeats the words "if you can read this you are obsessed." If you look at the OzFormers 2003 comic (On Devil's Ground) there's various Easter Eggs background monitors too, like one monitor behind Soundwave has a map showing the location of King Street Wharf (where Sydney SupaNova 2003 was held). :D

[Tabias Prime]

Accurately this reminds me of something random I saw a while ago, I was watching Beyblades and in one of the episodes they where in Melbourne or Sydney for one of the battles, the main characters were making a phone call on a pay phone, On the backboard of the phone there were phone numbers for several amenities, i.e. power, gas and water but the really funny thing was, they where numbers I recognised because they where all the numbers for the Perth power, gas and water companies...Obversely somebody had done their research but got the wrong state...:p:p:p