Giant Robot Store and GR2 News

I open an older copy of SLAM magazine and see this ad. Interesting. Characters and burgers and the line, Japanese Technology, Big American Taste. WTF? What campaign was this? How does anything tie into each other to make sense. Did Japan invent burgers? Did they shrink them down into sliders? Did Sliders exist already? WTF? Try finding information about this campaign. I found none. I'm sure it...
I open an older copy of SLAM magazine and see this ad. Interesting. Characters and burgers and the line, Japanese Technology, Big American Taste. WTF? What campaign was this? How does anything tie into each other to make sense. Did Japan invent burgers? Did they shrink them down into sliders? Did Sliders exist already? WTF? Try finding information about this campaign. I found none. I’m sure it failed. Even the characters aren’t drawn well enough to be real.
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Spotted outside of the Giant Robot webstore… a mushroom? It’s definitely fungal, but that’s all I can guess. A rare species? Is it edible? Will you hallucinate?
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Sometimes, when you get a bit apart from your childhood days, you might actually turn around and look back. I write about nostalgia for no reason once in a while, and this installment is about my one of best friends in the 2nd and 3rd and maybe 4th grade (I'm guessing). Typical as with growing up, people move in and they move out. Loren Jovicic moved out and went to Santa Monica. It's not too far,...