AUTHOR: David DATE: 1/19/2005 03:54:00 PM ----- BODY:

I was in Japan recently and, damn!, but they have the best toy stores there! Not that I didn't already know that. I picked up a box of a dozen miniature Gundam figurines for my 6 year old and I was severely tempted to buy armfuls of Panda Z merchandise. This is one of the funkiest cartoon robots to come out in a while. I totally love the fact that inside the Z robot's head is a panda pilot. This of course throws me back to the good old days of watching "Mazinger Z" after school when I was a kid.

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