[Batman] BRAVE! BOLD! AIRHEADS?

I have been a collector of Japanese candy toy products for years. I have also been known to grab PEZ candy dispensers from time to time. I would need to add in here that I love the Batman Brave and the Bold t.v. show too. So when I was in a 7-Eleven and spotted Airheads sporting a Brave and the Bold theme, I had to grab them.



Being a complete sucker for anything featuring Red Tornado, I was happy to have a piece of taffy wrapped up in a Red Tornado wrapper. I was not o happy when I ate the taffy. Never having eaten Airheads, I had assumed it was similar to Laffy Taffy. I was very wrong. The Airheads candy wasn't that great, all in all it was worth the purchase just for the packaging. Now these were sold more than a year ago. I don't know that if you see them in stores you should buy them, but who knows what the lifespan of this stuff could potentially be. But, you may just want the packages like I did.

Transformers: SAYBERTRON 6 doujinshi

Finding decent Transformers doujinshi fan comics isn't so hard these days. That wasn't the case 12 years ago. I had known of a few doujinshi created by Transformers fans in Japan when I first took the trip over there. I had hopes of finding some of these and maybe get an idea of what the Japanese fan had envisioned Transformers as. Sadly, I looked and looked and found almost nothing over a 2 week stay. I say "almost nothing" cause while I found nothing in a story based format, I did find a great fan created art book.



I picked up a copy of "Saybertron 6" in a doujin shop in Akihabara. I don't know if this was the 6th in a series, or a six member team creating the art. Probably for legal reasons, details are sparse in the book about the creators. The one thing I did know then, as I do now, the art is amazing. All drawings are done in inked drawing style, sans computer assisted ease, this book shows a wide variety of Transformers from G1, Europe, Japan and even the Action Masters. Here is a very small sample of the art in the book: