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Too big for the Big Mac? Do you enjoy both chicken AND beef? May I present for your visual consumption, the Ubermac.
Making the Ubermac is simple- and inexpensive! Just purchase a Double Cheeseburger and a McChicken at your local McDonalds (both were on the $1 menu, and are now on the $3 meal menu). Once you have exchanged money for your goods and services, proceed directly to the nearest table (or drive home if you feel shame in your excess) and unwrap your two new friends. Normally, each of these sandwiches is a pretty mundane article, but- much like jello and inflatable pools- together, they become something wonderful.
Tear apart the Double Cheeseburger between the two patties, exposing that layer of pasty cheese-ish stuff and ketchup. Slide the McChicken tenderly in between the two meat folds, and close it up. The Ubermac is born. Do not be alarmed if smaller objects are attracted by its gravitational pull.
Besides being delicious, the Ubermac is also numerically superior to the Big Mac. McDonald's nutrition webpage shows the calorie count of a Big Mac as a wimpy 540 calories, with 29 grams of fat; an Ubermac has a combined total of 800 calories and 35 grams of fat. Perfect for when you only have time or money for one meal per day. Long nap afterward is optional.
Credits to www.thisiswhyyourefat.com for the original idea. Personal reference omitted to protect the gluttonous.
Finished up the Gumoz database tonight... whew! This is one of the oldest Dream Rocket designs, so it was pretty difficult tracking down information on the original releases.
Click on the link above to check it out. Hope you find it interesting!
These databases will always be linked on the bottom right menu for easy reference.
EDIT 3/22/09: The title of this post is now ironic, because it rained really hard last night.
I was recently hooked up with some very cool CLEAR vinyls by a couple of great people...
Balbagon [バルバゴン] by Dream Rocket [ドリームロケット]! Yajima-san must like green, because there has been an abundance of clear neon green releases as of late. And that's ok with me, because I love green!
This Balbagon was released at Hobby Complex 06 in December 2008. An awesome painted version (also in clear green) was also sold at that show, and featured a new paint wash technique that really brings out the texture on this sculpt. These two toys, plus a new GID base yellow Balbagon, were sold (and sold out) on Dream Rocket's website tonight. I missed the yellow one!
And in the other corner, there is Bengal [ベンガル] by Nakayoshi [なかよし]! It seems as though Nakayoshi has been experimenting with clear vinyl because this the first clear piece that I have seen from them.
Bengal is Nakayoshi's latest original kaiju, and has been sold in elusively small quantities at various Japan toy shows. This clear version was given away as a lottery prize at a Patchi-Summit in November 2008. How did I get it? Hmmmm.. ;)
This guy is a lot smaller than I thought he would be (some of the Ultra kaiju previously sold by Nakayoshi are enormous). But that is not necessarily a bad thing.
Nakayoshi's clear vinyl is very thick and pliable- about the closest to Gargamel vinyl that I have seen yet. It also brings out some of the more interesting textures in the sculpt... check it out- just like the Hexalite inserts in Reeboks!
Keep your eyes on the bottom right menu. I am working on the next installment of the Dream Rocket database, featuring Gumoz. This is my favorite Dream Rocket kaiju, so I'll be sure to do my best.
As Japan has always been a culture of moderate consumption in my mind, I was sort of appalled to find this behemoth on the refrigerated shelves of a Family Mart on a recent visit. The item on the right is not a drink, but a 480g cup of egg pudding. That is over 1 pound of pudding.
And I ate it all. By myself. In my defense, they only gave me one spoon. Obviously not meant to be shared.
The apple water on the left is quite good- sort of tart, but refreshing.
