So mecha and SciFi are dead, or just in the ICU?

It's probably reasonably light. They can do pretty clever things with light-weight materials like styrofoam.

You could go digital. Check out www.comixology.com, or just marvel.com. Read in your browser, or on a tablet.

Dakota to Melanie, "It's not porn, it's (almost) HBO!"

I just hope this pisses off the North American cosplayers (you know the ones) who have had expensive 'breast augmentation' surgery, and are now suffering the back pain that it causes.

Yep. Whoosh!

They're also vital to your health. I was over there one August, and it was terribly hot and humid. I wasn't feeling well after a couple of days and realized I as dehydrated. After that I made it a point to stop every hour or so to get a drink from a machine. It was never a problem to find one.

More likely transit cards, like Pasmo. A lot of stores and vending machines will let you use your transit pass to pay.

About the same as a convenience store, from what I remember.

It is. Watch the HBO series, Silicon Valley for proof.

Geez, 'Giant Robo' really needs a new name now, doesn't he?

I've found that silver metallic duct tape does a better job.

Damn. They're going to stop building these in 2015, after 67 years, due to 'legislative reasons'. And they haven't been sold in North America since 1997, because of all the nanny rules the DoT enforces to protect stupid American drivers from themselves.

Gaudy as hell, but I'd still love to have a Unit 2 version.

There's also some great cosplay at Fan Expo, Canada's largest con (and that word can be interpreted in a couple of ways ... ) and of course at DragonCon, the monster con held in Atlanta this time every year. I hope the editors manage to showcase some of the costumes from those events, too.

And ended up o-for-three.

Damn, I'd give you another star if I could.

Bah! You think she's small.

When it was first set up in Odiba in the park in 2009 you could walk all around it and between the legs. There's an amazing amount of detail on the whole thing. Lots of little labels with stuff like 'NO STEP' and replacement component serial numbers and torque values.

That's not really fair; they went through a major civil war and a NATO bombing campaign.