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by Drew_Sutton
Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:38 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Con t-shirt archive? (Also, when did con t-shirts become a thing?)
Replies: 4
Views: 3070

Re: Con t-shirt archive? (Also, when did con t-shirts become a thing?)

Convention T-shirts have been a thing for about as long as I can remember for multi-day types of events. And not just anime conventions, or even sci-fi conventions - I remember a few of my coworkers or bosses that would have shirts from tech shows and conferences from the 90s (I've had a few myself ...
by Drew_Sutton
Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:32 pm
Forum: Anime
Topic: What are you Watching?
Replies: 1489
Views: 512069

Re: What are you Watching?

I dig Iria, but mostly for being just a good action anime, the action scenes really are well executed. Explosions, smoke, gunplay, hand to hand combat are crisp and mostly all on point. The story and plotting is OK, but mostly serves to move the action along. Just finished Iria tonight and I would ...
by Drew_Sutton
Thu Sep 15, 2022 7:15 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Where Are They Now: Todd Allis of Japanimation USA
Replies: 1
Views: 3956

Re: Where Are They Now: Todd Allis of Japanimation USA

Remind me again - was Japanimation USA a convention? A club? A store?

I read through Todd's old website - I wonder if that Google Anime Club still meets?
by Drew_Sutton
Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:56 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, & Trade
Topic: WTB/WTT: VHS Fansubs
Replies: 8
Views: 6260

Re: WTB/WTT: VHS Fansubs

Well, nostalgia is certainly a factor for me, I always wanted more fansubs growing up but alas was too poor, so now I'm kind of reliving those days. But also yes to digitally preserve titles as well. I'm in contact with a 74 year old man who has Dr. Slump recordings from the Hawaii channel Pearl an...
by Drew_Sutton
Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:16 pm
Forum: The Discuss (or, "Show Off/Plug") Your Work Section!
Topic: annoying tales of anime fandom
Replies: 3
Views: 3554

Re: annoying tales of anime fandom

Haha, I've watched bits and pieces of those VCDs but I'm sure I've never watched all of them completely. But yeah, it's easily over 200 VCDs. Guess it's better than having everything on tape as far as space is concerned though. There was a point in time where yeah, hauling a VCR and some tapes for a...
by Drew_Sutton
Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:05 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: The "Check this item out on eBay" Thread
Replies: 54
Views: 26367

Re: The "Check this item out on eBay" Thread

YEAH the anime VHS market is kinda nuts right now. Even more nuts is the vintage anime T-shirt market--I've seen some people trying to sell old anime shirts for $1,000?!? If people are actually paying that much for them, I regret getting rid of some of my old t-shirts back in the day, lmao. Yeah, I...
by Drew_Sutton
Sat Sep 10, 2022 10:58 am
Forum: The Discuss (or, "Show Off/Plug") Your Work Section!
Topic: annoying tales of anime fandom
Replies: 3
Views: 3554

Re: annoying tales of anime fandom

This was a ton of fun to read through. Distributing tapes only on the Internet in the late 90s, I spared my parents the grief of random collect calls or myself getting tons of random letters from strangers in the post. Of course, I also missed out on having physical copies of others' tape lists. Sti...
by Drew_Sutton
Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:15 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Prominance of Beta in Anime Tape Trading
Replies: 8
Views: 4186

Re: Prominance of Beta in Anime Tape Trading

I know anecdote doesn't equal data, but my experience was when video rentals became a thing, for whatever reason VHS outnumbered Beta like, 10 to 1. If a video rental shop happened to have Beta tapes, they would be all on one shelf tucked way over to the side, while the vast majority of rentals wer...
by Drew_Sutton
Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:09 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, & Trade
Topic: WTB/WTT: VHS Fansubs
Replies: 8
Views: 6260

Re: WTB/WTT: VHS Fansubs

I'm curious, as I have seen quite a few people interested in just collecting old fansub tapes, what's the appeal? What do you do with them? I get maybe trying to preserve or cataloging them for history, or hunting down very rare properties, but just buying them to keep them on a shelf?
by Drew_Sutton
Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:05 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: The "Check this item out on eBay" Thread
Replies: 54
Views: 26367

Re: The "Check this item out on eBay" Thread

Hmmm, imgur link doesn't work... let me try attaching it.