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Something wonderful is about to happy surprise!
Will you except Ultraman challenge?!
Deny that, Baltan!
A-ha, Behold too much pee-pee!
I am invincible to fly! A-ha!
I’m like too much Big In Japan!
We will sincerely wait for coming to Brothers Brick.
A-Ha BrickCon Happy wish!
Alien Baltan (バルタン星人 Barutan Seijin Baltan Star-people) are arthropod-like aliens from the planet Baltan. They are one of the Ultraman franchise's most popular antagonists and are noted to have tried to attack Planet Earth and the Ultras themselves several times.
This is the full set of Ultraman figures from the Jia Li Bo (JLB) toymaker in China. They are modeled after LEGO minifigures and are fully compatible with all minifigure parts.
The helmets are extremely nice sculpts, good paint job, and good molds. The printing on torso and legs are also very nice including the white-over-color which is surprisingly vivid for a brand like this. There were no issues with any of the joints and everything seems to be well constructed. Each figure came with the printed yellow plate tile as well (seen here in the backdrop).
The downside to the parts are the overall fitting of pieces to studs was not always excellent, the legs are hard to get on studs most of the time and don't sit perfectly flat. The seams on the arms and legs are very visible and overall the legs have a fairly brittle feel to them.
I really liked Ultraman when I was a kid...still do! I love the monsters the best though. I did a handful of Ultraman Monster portraits at one point. This is one of them. Those monsters were often goofy, but sometimes the designs were pretty cool....
Today MisterMan has ma po tofu, but with the chili paste omitted due to sensitive taste buds (as for the rest of us, we piled it on because we love the hot 'n spicy!), brown/white rice with sesame seeds and shredded nori, green/red leaf salad with cucumbers, olives and tomatoes, vinaigrette in container, carrot sticks underneath and some tamagoyaki with chopped spinach inside. Separate fruit box has apple, clementine, kiwi and plum.
atelier ying, nyc.
Ultraman battles recall the classic combination of watching sumo bouts, drinking whiskey and smoking cigars, a fine evening alone or with friends.
I used Norman Foster's stupendous American Air museum as an inspiration for this design as flight is a significant theme in Ultraman (the flying Ultraman, the VTOL crafts and the jet age of that time era). Naturally, all the Space Patrol vehicles are on display in miniature here outside along the main entrance instead of inside.
A human scale element is the long, luxurious, marbled white onyx which is complementary to imparting soft glow along with the natural lighting scheme and provides further contrast of materials.
Hejduk's Bovisa provides the inspiration for sleek tools in black metal and dark wood to use and display on the white onyx. From top left going clockwise:
1. cocktail strainer with a cigar cutting attachment
2. star shape with extra long cedar matches
3. Ultraman Osaka tower building whiskey decanter
4. tiny ice bucket ice mold
5. maze dish for grilled cuttlefish skin
6&7. two sets of cups
8. flip flop lighters
9. cigar cutter V-cut
10. cigar cutter flat cut
11. whiskey flask
12. kaiju ceremonial cup with legs
Bovisa items nos.4 and 8 are very adaptable camera designs. No. 4 will take quick sketchy shots of sumo bouts as well as Ultraman episodes' screenshots.
A two drawers of Cubans representing the inner galleries pull out from either side of the main entrance.
This bar-humidor is an excellent companion on a table near the television and should be kept inside the tv stand, in the decorative style of the 1960's, a complete bar cabinet.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo