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[Greg]

That's funny that you think you will someday pay off Tara's college tuition.

Try a clothing line first and then you can do the cologne. Just remember, one of the Kardashians' has a very popular line of socks.

[Drunk Monk]

I like socks.

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[Drunk Monk]

Godzilla constellation recognized by NASA as King of the Monsters claims a corner of space

• Casey Baseel3 days ago
  

Mt. Fuji constellation joins the kaiju in the gamma-ray-filled heavens.

When Godzilla made his screen debut in 1954, he was, like most Japanese media of the era, designed just for Japan. But in the decades since, the King of the Monsters has expanded his dominion, appearing in theaters around the world.
That international recognition even earned the kaiju his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but now Godzilla finds himself among not just movie stars, but celestial ones as well, as NASA has announced a Godzilla constellation.

The Godzilla constellation isn’t made up of stars, though. Instead, the astronomic artwork is formed of gamma rays, as observed by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Launched in 2008, NASA is marking the satellite’s decade in service by establishing 21 gamma-ray constellations, and similar to how stargazers of yore took inspiration from ancient legends, the space agency is saluting modern mythos with constellations referencing not only Godzilla, but also Star Trek, The Little Prince, and The Incredible Hulk.


The Godzilla constellation came about when researchers noticed its gamma-ray jet, a phenomenon in which matter falling towards a black hole compresses and glows from heat as it accelerates. When mapped, the gamma-ray jet resembles the fiery flow of Godzilla’s iconic atomic breath (or “heat ray,” as NASA calls the kaiju’s signature attack).

Godzilla isn’t the only symbol of Japan getting a nod in the gamma-ray constellations either. Not so far away in the sky (at least in terms of angle of observation) from him is…

…Mt. Fuji!

We’re not sure how Godzilla’s new spot in space will affect his government-recognized status as a resident of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward, but we’re happy to know that the next time we look up at the night sky, the King of the Monsters will be looking back at us.
Source: NASA (1, 2, 3), PR Times
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NASA is awesome

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JAPAN
Japan Getting Life-Sized Godzilla Theme Park Attraction

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A life-sized Godzilla head and upper body will be unveiled at the Nijigen no More amusement park on Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture. This is the first life-sized permanent attraction of its kind at a theme park.
The entire statue will be around 120 meters long. Park visitors will take on the role of researchers and enter Godzilla’s mouth via a zip line, according to IT Media. Included in their missions is shooting Godzilla’s cells.

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Keiji Ota, Chief Godzilla Officer of Toho Co, told Kyodo News that the attraction will have a “huge presence and tremendous impact.”
Below are miniature mock-ups of the attraction, which certainly seems like a fitting way to show off something Godzilla-related!



The design is based on the Godzilla that appeared in the 2016 film Shin Godzilla. The attraction will open next summer.

Why haven't I toured Japan yet?  

Bucket list...

[Greg]

Just like seeing them at the Keystone in Palo Alto.

[Greg]

[b]Godzilla: Singular Point[/b]

THR report Netflix is developing a new, [i]Godzilla[/i] anime series featuring character designs by [i]Blue Exorcist[/i]’s Kazue Kato and a new Godzilla design from Ghibli animator Eiji Yamamori. “Though details on the plot are currently unavailable, the series will feature “a new cast and an original story unrelated to the series of animated [Godzilla] films” according to. Next year, the king returns, teased Netflix.

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[thatguy]

Ooh, our pinball arcade in Seaside is getting ultraman and Godzilla machines!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_f...e=timeline

—tg

[Drunk Monk]

Ooh, our pinball arcade in Seaside is getting ultraman and Godzilla machines!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_f...e=timeline

—tg

Impressive. I didn't know about this place. http://lynnsarcade.com/ 

Thanks for the tip. Honestly, I'm not a big pinballer or videogamer, but this does sound like fun when the pandemic subsides... if if subsides...

[thatguy]

They have a great craft beer selection

—tg

[Drunk Monk]

Sadly, I don't drink beer anymore. Too many carbs.

Meanwhile, in related news:

The massive Museum of Pinball closes, leaving around 1,700 games to be auctioned off
Updated 14th September 2021



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The massive Museum of Pinball closes, leaving around 1,700 games to be auctioned off
Written by Scottie Andrew, CNN
The Museum of Pinball was only open for nine days a year in pre-Covid times, but when it [i]was[/i] open, it glowed like -- well, like an arcade in its neon-lit heyday.
Pinball machines may be relegated now to bars or bowling alleys, but for museum owner John Weeks, they had a lifelong appeal. That's why he opened the Museum of Pinball -- to take guests back to their youth, or to introduce young people to games they couldn't find on an Xbox or PlayStation.
And for a few years, the museum was a monument to nostalgia. Weeks' museum was an arcade with so many games that they'd only fit in a windowless warehouse in Banning, California. From 2013 to earlier this month, the museum was a tourist destination for pinball fans, who could pay to play on any of its hundreds of machines. It billed itself as the world's largest collection of pinball machines, and a Guinness World Record was even set there for most people playing pinball at once (the record, thanks to the museum and its patrons, is now 331 players).
But nostalgia couldn't sustain the museum forever. The Museum of Pinball shuttered for good this month, leaving its illustrious collection of rare or unusual pinball machines and arcade games -- around 1,700 machines total, Weeks estimates -- to be auctioned off. More than 750 of them have already been sold -- the rest will be available at a weekend-long auction later this month.
"It's like a funeral," Weeks told CNN of the museum's closure. "There's no place like this place. There probably never will be."
The museum had an enviable collection of pinball and arcade games
Weeks' obsession with pinball has gone through phases, but it first peaked when he was in middle school, he said.
"When I saw my first pinball machine, I was just 13 or 14 years old, at a motel my dad stayed at in San Diego," he said.
At the time, he said, he imagined it was the only machine of its kind in the world. So when he returned home and found out how many more pinball machines there were, he looked for ways to make his hobby into a business.
In the 1970s, as a teenager, he opened up an arcade in his parents' garage. At 18, he traded in his home location for a real storefront. That arcade closed a few years later, and Weeks abandoned his obsession with pinball for a few years ... until the mid-2000s, when he noticed a classic pinball machine in the corner of a bar where he was attending a concert, and all those teenage dreams of an arcade business returned, he said.
He approached a friend about opening a "barcade," but by the time those plans fell through, Weeks had already started amassing a sizable collection of pinball machines. They'd need a facility large enough to store them all -- and Weeks found the warehouse in Banning, a small city around 80 miles east of Los Angeles.


The Museum of Pinball also had an enviable assortment of old-school arcade games, which will be auctioned off. Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
The museum, housed in a 44,000-square-foot warehouse flanked by mountains, had housed around 800 pinball machines and just under 1,000 arcade games, Weeks said. They were all playable, and "people used to visit this place from all over the world" to spend all day playing retro arcade games.
The museum ultimately wasn't profitable, though, due to its very limited schedule. Weeks tried to offset the cost of running the place by renting space to marijuana growers, he said, but it wasn't enough to keep the pinball paradise open.
Pinball great Bob Matthews, who runs the INDISC Pinball Tournament, which was held at the Museum of Pinball for five years, said fans of the game would dearly miss Weeks' museum.
"The greatest thing about the museum was really not just the fact that they had so many games but that they had such a broad variety of games," Matthews said in an appearance this month on the Pinball Profile podcast.


The neatly organized Museum of Pinball is closing, and its entire inventory of pinball machines will be sold to individual buyers. Credit: Lucas Esposito/The Desert Sun/USA TODAY NETWORK
There was hope, briefly, that Weeks could relocate the museum to a new location in Palm Springs. Ultimately, the process of moving 1,700 oversized gaming consoles would've been too expensive, Weeks said.
The first weekend of the auction was successful, earning more than $3 million, according to the outlet Pinball News, which recorded the results. Among the most expensive machines was a "Back to the Future"-themed machine that sold for $14,000 and a limited-edition Addams Family machine that fetched $22,500.
If you can name a hyper-specific piece of pop culture, chances are that Weeks' museum had it in pinball form. From Dolly Parton, to "Lethal Weapon 3" and "Star Wars" to the the Pinball Wizard of The Who's "Tommy," there was a branded pinball machine (or, in the case of "Star Wars," at least seven) for that.


The Museum of Pinball had an eclectic collection of machines, all of which will be sold at auction. Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
"Each one's kind of a work or art," he said.
There are similar shrines to the arcade centerpiece on the West Coast, including the Pacific Pinball Museum, Weeks noted. But their collections often are not as large or expansive as the Museum of Pinball's once was.
"There's other pinball museums popping up -- just nothing like this," he said. "This is like the Disneyland of pinball museums."
The final auctions of the Museum of Pinball's collection will take place virtually from September 24 to 26 through Captain's Auction Warehouse.

[thatguy]

Bummer…I wanted to check that out sometime. It’s near Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge in Alameda (isn’t everything in alameda near everything in alameda)?

—tg

[Greg]

Back on thread. Godzilla TV coming to Apple+

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Godzilla has got his very own Apple streaming show.Image: Toho

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First [url=https://gizmodo.com/godzilla-vs-kong-cant-be-saved-not-even-by-good-dumb-1846531851]Godzilla defeated Kong, and now he’s going to Apple TV+. The streamer just announced it has ordered a series centered on everyone’s favorite King of the Monsters; it will be created by Chris Black and Matt Fraction and be set after the events of the 2014 Garth Edwards film. Here’s the logline: 
“Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the series explores one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch.”
Black, best known for his work on [i]Star Trek: Enterprise[/i], will showrun. He’s joined as executive producer by [i]Hawkeye[/i] writer Fraction, as well as Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell, plus Hiro Matsuoka and Takemasa Arita of Toho, which owns Godzilla.



The biggest surprise here has to be setting this show in the previously established Warner Bros. Monsterverse. Maybe it was a mandate by Toho to keep building out the universe created by the 2014 [i]Godzilla[/i] film, its 2019 sequel [i]Godzilla: King of the Monsters[/i], 2017's [i]Kong: Skull Island[/i],[i] [/i]and 2020's monster hit [i]Godzilla vs. Kong. [/i]But now this show, however it fits into this mythology, will live on one streamer while all the other films will be on another.