text: [[quoteright:283:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MobileSuitGundam.jpg]][[caption-width-right:283:''I pray to bring on the new day.'']]->''"It is [[AlternativeCalendar the year 0079 of the Universal Century]]. A half-century has passed since Earth began moving its burgeoning population into gigantic orbiting space colonies. A new home for mankind, where people are born and raised. [DramaticPause] And die."''-->-- '''OpeningNarration'''''Mobile Suit Gundam'' (''Kidou Senshi Gundam'', lit. "Mobile Soldier Gundam") is the original Franchise/{{Gundam}} show, created by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino. It started in 1979 as a planned 52-episode series, but it was cut down to 43 due to the show pulling in horrible ratings[[note]]actually cut down to 39, but the producers managed to bargain for a one-month extension to actually finish the story[[/note]]. However, the [[MerchandiseDriven merchandise]] for the show sold rather well, allowing the series to go straight into syndication, where it found its audience. A largely reanimated CompilationMovie trilogy successfully convinced the people with the money to further develop the series, and Mobile Suit Gundam eventually spawned a massive franchise.The series takes place in the year 0079[[note]]read as "double oh seventy-nine"[[/note]] of the [[AlternativeCalendar Universal Century]], during a war between the [[TheFederation Earth Federation]] that governs [[OneWorldGovernment Earth and most of the space colonies]] and the [[TheEmpire Principality of Zeon]], a group of colonies that declared independence from the Federation. Despite coexisting more-or-less peacefully for years, Zeon launched a surprise attack using their [[BiggerStick devastatingly effective]] new [[HumongousMecha enormous humanoid combat vehicles]] known as [[AMechByAnyOtherName mobile suits]], catching the Federation completely off guard, decimating the Federation's military and then proceeding to wipe out half of humanity with a combination of [[DepopulationBomb nerve gas]], [[NukeEm nuclear weapons]], and [[ColonyDrop intentionally deorbiting a space colony]] as a makeshift OrbitalBombardment. When this failed to bring the Federation to its knees, Zeon follows up by invading Earth.Months later, after the war has dragged into a stalemate, the Federation is testing a new [[CoolStarship warship]] (an [[TheBattlestar assault carrier]] named the ''White Base'') and a [[SuperPrototype highly advanced]] mobile suit known as the Gundam when they come under attack by a small Zeon force. Local resident Amuro Ray, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, ends up FallingIntoTheCockpit and piloting the Gundam to fend off the Zeon attack. With most of the Federation staff killed during the battle, Amuro and a group of surviving locals are forced to crew the ''White Base'' themselves in order to survive.From there, this unlikely group journeys across Earth and space, going up against the Zeon forces and a variety of enemy {{Ace Pilot}}s arrayed against them, in a classic series that is both a war drama and a ComingOfAgeStory, focusing simultaneously on the [[WarIsHell horrors of war]] and the gradual maturing of its teenage cast from [[ChildrenForcedToKill frightened, desperate children]] simply fighting to survive into a [[BandOfBrothers tight-knit crew]] of {{Unlikely Hero}}es who manage, through skill, luck, and determination, to change the course of the One Year War.The original RealRobot series, ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' literally [[TropeMaker created a genre]], and eventually spawned an entire franchise. Details can be found on our ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' page. ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' has a direct sequel in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', and there are also a trio of {{OVA}}s and one [[WebAnimation ONA]] set in the same time period during the One Year War: ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam The 08th MS Team]]'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket]]'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamMSIGLOO MS IGLOO]]'', and ''[[Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt Gundam Thunderbolt]]''. There is also a manga re-imagining of ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' under the name ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin''. The show's production itself was [[RuleOfFunny comically]] fictionalized in ''Manga/GundamSousei''.----!!This show provides examples of:* AlasPoorVillain: Ramba Ral, Crowley Hamon, and any Zabi other than Gihren and arguably Kycilia are played for sympathy at the last.* AchillesInHisTent: Amuro abandons the White Base twice. The first time (figuratively) he refuses to fight, causing Bright to [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan slap him back to sanity]]. The second time, Amuro physically deserts the White Base when Bright threatens to take him off the Gundam. * AdaptationDistillation: The CompilationMovie trilogy, which are often considered of higher production value than the series. They streamline the plot (albeit at the expense of crucial character and plot development), and cut out a lot of elements that Tomino didn't really want in there to start with (Like the G-Fighter/Armour and Gundam Hammer). They also improve on the animation, which was [[OffModel not great]] in the original series.** The novelization is greatly compressed when compared with the TV series, completely skipping the Earth-bound portion of the plot and cutting out a lot of the characters and mecha (Zeon only has two MS, the Zaku II and Rick Dom).* AerithAndBob: Standard names like Ryu, Kai, Matilda, etc. put alongside Kycilia, Dozel, Artesia, and, of course, Bright. In a funny twist to this, Tomino, the director and writer, decided to name the lead character Amuro because he thought it was exotic and a made up name. Turns out it is the name of a Japanese island and is in fact a real name.* AllThereInTheManual: Most of the One-Year War is backstory, only described in the novelization but still considered canon. Examples include the Battle of Loum, [[ColonyDrop Operation British]] and [[RousingSpeech General Revil's "Zeon is Exhausted" speech]].* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Twice during the series; [[WorthyOpponent Ramba Ral]]'s assault on the White Base, and the Zeon's attack on Jaburo.* AlternativeCalendar: The Universal Century.* AntiVillain: Several examples, but most famously Ramba Ral. Often overlaps with PunchClockVillain and MyCountryRightOrWrong.* AnyoneCanDie: The series was, after all, created by a man who was ''nicknamed'' KillEmAll. In this case there are only a few main character deaths, though.* ApocalypseHow: Stellar/Societal Disruption. Over half of humanity's population is killed in the One Year War, but humanity survives and is able to rebuild.* TheArtifact: The TV series still carried many SuperRobot elements. The later movie versions retconned many of them away.* BadassMoustache: Ramba Ral.* BattleChant: The Toonami opening credits (which replaced the original opening on the initial Region 1 [=DVDs=] starting with volume 4) show Gihren Zabi at Garma Zabi's funeral leading the Zeon soldiers in the chant "Hail Zeon!" * BigBrotherMentor: Ryu Jose, and to a degree, Bright.* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Zabi family; the Deikuns aren't far behind.* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Amuro fights Char to a draw, but is about to let himself die until he hears his friends' voices and is able to reunite with his adoptive family. Char survives, finishes his "revenge" by killing Kycilia and escapes, but is separated from his beloved sister Sayla forever. To add insult to injury, the CoolShip, ''Whitebase'' is destroyed, along with the Gundam, Guncannon and Guntank, leaving the protagonists without a home to go back to]].* BlackAndGrayMorality: Though it did fall to GreyAndGrayMorality when it comes to side materials and individual level. But on a whole, Zeon are portrayed as TheEmpire with PuttingOnTheReich stylings while [[TheFederation Earth Federation]] are portrayed as more benevolent but their mistreatment of space colonies had led to [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression conditions]] that would spark One Year War.* BlingOfWar: ''[[AllThereInTheManual Mobile Suit Variations]]'' reveals that several of the high-ranking Zeon officers had custom-built mobile suits, many of which had highly ornate engravings and other detailing. Of particular note are [[http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msv/ms-06f-dozle.htm Dozle Zabi's custom Zaku II]] and [[http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msv/ms-07b-mquve.htm M'Quve's downright gaudy custom Gouf]].* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The [[CoolShip White Base]] girls -- Sayla, Mirai, and Frau.* BoomHeadshot: For the most part, ''Gundam'' tends to avert this as mobile suit cockpits are actually be placed in the machine's torso. The head usually only contains sensors and cameras so destroying it tends to only blind the mobile suit. Humourously however, the final episode both reverts and re-inverts this trope. Amuro manages to destroy the torso of Char's Zeong and thinks he scored a killshot...only to then see the Zeong's now detached head fly upward and attack him, and realize that for once, Zeon's engineers put the cockpit in the head this time. In turn, Char blasts the Gundam's head off (along with its left arm) to which Amuro retorts that Char only destroyed his main camera. And during the same episode we get two examples of this performed on humans. Kycilia blasts a neat little hole in Gihren's head as revenge for the latter killing their father Degwin. Not long after that though, as she's retreating from A' Baoa Qu, Kycilia ends up on the receiving end of one from Char. [[NoKillLikeOverkill With a rocket launcher. While Char is not in any sort of MS, free-floating in zero gravity,]] [[BeyondTheImpossible blasting said rocket from a considerable distance straight through the windscreen of Kycilia's warship, straight dead center into Kycilia's head, blowing it right off.]] Wow.* BootstrappedTheme: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84SqvC43qFQ Soldiers of Sorrow]]''/''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnEowbJfZ4E Ai Senshi]]''. It's not the series' theme, yet it pretty much became the theme of the ''entire franchise'', even becoming the BGM for the 30th anniversary video. Being a perfect example of LyricalDissonance probably helped.* BridgeBunnies: Mirai as White Base's pilot, Sayla as Communications Officer [[spoiler:later replaced by Fraw Bow]], plus [[ThoseTwoGuys two male navigators]] who play no role in the plot outside of navigating.* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Late in the series, Char sends a briefcase full of gold to [[spoiler: his sister Sayla]] in an attempt to persuade her to leave ''White Base'' and the Federation military. She turns it over to Bright.* ButForMeItWasTuesday: The entire White Base crew knows and fears Char Aznable, the Red Comet. Conversely, for most of the series Char doesn't even know who Amuro is, and they only meet face-to-face very late in the series (Char helps Amuro pull his car out of a mud puddle). Of course, after [[spoiler:Amuro kills Lalah while aiming for Char, the whole thing becomes [[ItsPersonal very personal]] for both of them.]] * ButNotTooForeign: WordOfGod is that Amuro is half-Japanese and half-North American, but over the years they've [[FlipFlopOfGod flip-flopped]] on whether his mother was American, Canadian, or Mexican.* CharClone: The original, actually, from which all Char Clones derive.* CharacterDevelopment: What set it aside from several other HumongousMecha shows of its time, aside of the RealRobot aspect.* ColonyDrop: Operation British in the back story is the TropeNamer. Zeon [[DepopulationBomb nerve gassed]] a space colony, and then deorbited it in an attempt to destroy the Federation HQ in South America (which, being an ElaborateUndergroundBase whose exact location was secret, was effectively invulnerable to everything up to and including nukes). Unfortunately for them, the Federation intervened and inflicted enough damage on their missile that it broke up in the atmosphere, with the only major damage being to ''[[EpicFail Sydney, Australia]]''.** The effect is still pretty terrifying. The blast was 60,000 megatons, devastated southeastern Australia (killing 10 million people in Sydney alone), and left a 500 kilometer crater in the continent that leaves a massive gulf along the coastline. * CombiningMecha: The Gundam is formed from three separate parts; later in the series, even more optional parts are added.** The Guncannon and Guntank are also merely plug-and-play parts that can be attached to a Core Fighter.** The Core Fighter, a little jet with anemic firepower, can combine with the G-Fighter in the TV series and the Core Booster in the movies. * CompilationMovie: Three of them.* ConservationOfNinjutsu: ** When Ramba Ral first appears in the Gouf, Amuro can barely hold his own and is nearly taken down with it. Later, Goufs appear somewhat regularly and Amuro can destroy several of them at a time. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by Ramba Ral being an ace pilot and Amuro not being used to the Gouf's speed and weapons.** Char's Gelgoog gives Amuro some trouble, but the mass produced Gelgoogs in the final battle go down with ease. Justified when one of Kycilia's subordinates tells her that the Gelgoogs aren't as effective as they ought to be because most of the Gelgoog pilots are inexperienced.* CyberCyclops: Zeon's mobile suits. The Zaku series is probably the most famous for HumongousMecha as a whole.* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:[[ItWasHisSled Amuro is killed]]]] in Tomino's novelization. However, this wasn't due to his KillEmAll attitude but rather because he didn't anticipate any sequels, and he has said that he wouldn't have done it if he knew better.* DeathByFallingOver: Happens more than once. [[spoiler:First Garma's girlfriend Icelina slips and falls off the top of the aircraft she was chasing after the White Base on in an ill-conceived attempt to avenge his death (though this part was cut from the compilation). Later on, Amuro's dad falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his neck.]] Eerily, this is also how M'Quve's voice actor died in RealLife.* DoomedHometown: Side 7.* DownerEnding: In the novelization of the series, Amuro [[spoiler:is actually ''killed'' by a random beam bazooka blast from behind during the Battle of A Baoa Qu.]] The novelization differs in several other points (such as actual use of the G3 Gundam), but this is the most shocking change.** So much so, ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance'' actually uses the novelization Amuro's fate as part of the AlternateUniverse plot.** [[spoiler:And of all things, ''SD Gundam G Generation DS'' used ''that'' downer ending to set up its Villain Route.]]* DoubleWeapon: The Gelgoog, Zeon's answer to the Gundam, has a double-ended beam naginata, one of the earliest examples of this in speculative fiction.* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Fans of the franchise who haven't seen the original series will be surprised to find there are no mid-season upgrades, only one Gundam, several machines and weapons that aren't mobile suits and plenty of battle scenes that do not revolve around actual mobile suit battle. There's also the Guntank and Guncannon, which are reasonably far from the types of mobile suits seen in later installments. The series can have something of a rough around the edges feeling, given that Tomino was in the process of figuring things out.** In-universe, the (rather logical) explanation for all of this is that the One Year War is the very ''beginning'' of Mobile Suits, and for technological and logistical reasons it's easier to keep fighting with what they had. For example, the Guntank and Guncannon fill long- and mid-range fire-support roles that later Mobile Suits can do with better mobility, and quite a few of the Federation's land battles were won through the use of old-style tanks and tactics.* EnergyWeapons: Mostly based on Minovsky reaction-derived mega-particles, though there's lasers here and there.* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler: How [[TheMole General Elran]] gets caught - Amuro corners him with incriminating evidence whilst the general's soldiers (who Amuro had warned beforehand) monitor the cameras in his office.]]* EvilIsBigger: If the Brow Bro, Elmeth, and Big Zam are any indicator, someone at Zeon's department of design likes to build large. This is justified, however: The Brow Bro and Elmeth were designed around the use of psy-commu weapons, then in its infancy, which forced them to be larger than Mobile Suits. The Big Zam was designed to be able to take a whole ''fleet'' on by itself, and is big in order to fit everything it needs.* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Amuro, even when his dad was the one who built the Gundam itself. To a lesser extent, the entire ''White Base'' crew; at age 19, Bright was the most junior officer of the White Base's original crew until a Zeon attack left him as acting captain.* {{Fanservice}}:** The Char ShowerScene for female viewers.** Some bath scenes with the female crew members of the White Base.** In one scene Amuro trips over a puddle of water coming from Mirai's room and sees Mirai, naked, and the children struggling to fix the tap in the sink. He fixes it for them. * FascistButInefficient: Throughout the show, the efficiency of the Zeon forces is frequently hampered by several of their leaders being involved in constant political power struggles against each other, leading to problems such as officers getting backstabbed in the heat of battle or supplies being conspicuously delayed when they are needed the most. It is often suggested White Base would be facing even more insurmountable odds if Zeon could actually pull themselves together for once and stop their low-intensity in-fighting.* TheFederation: The Earth Federation, naturally.* FictionalGenevaConventions: The Antarctic Treaty sets out the laws of war for both the Federation and Zeon. It's treated more as a guideline.* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The super napalm used in the second episode; a mecha-scaled flamethrower would have been awesome and useful, if impractical in vacuum and limited in ammunition. Somewhat rectified in recent years, as newer video games included it as part of Gundam's arsenal, as well as its inclusion in the newest Gundam MG model kit.** The Gundam's learning computer. This was the early explanation for how a novice pilot like Amuro was able to kick ass the way he did. Tomino seems to have forgotten about it halfway through, because he introduced the concept of Newtypes with the sole purpose of explaining why the Gundam fought so well. Like the super napalm, this was eventually brought back in ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'', where the learning computer, left adrift for half a century after Amuro abandoned his totaled Core Fighter, was found by the Jupiter Empire and used to create an AI clone of Amuro to pilot the prototype version of one of their new mobile suits.* FullNameBasis: ''Everyone'' calls him "Ramba Ral". Nobody calls him just "Ramba". Sometimes (in the series) they call him just "Ral", but mostly it's "Ramba Ral". Also Challia Bull, and often, but not always, Fraw Bow.* FullPotentialUpgrade: The RX 78-2 needed multiple upgrades due to Amuro's growing capabilities, the best-known of which is the Magnet(ic) Coating on its joints to make them react faster. Of course, even this wasn't enough, and the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket NT-1 "Alex"]] was designed just for him.* FuroScene: Sayla got a bath scene.* GeniusBruiser: Prince Dozle Zabi is 7' feet of pure Zabi muscle and leads his troops in person heroically in the Battle of Solomon. Might be a bit of a GentleGiant, since [[PetTheDog he truly cared for his family]] (namely his little brother Garma, his wife Zenna and his daughter Mineva) and was apparently well-loved by his subordinates. Thank God Mineva didn't take after her father in appearance.* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: The infamous Bright Slap, delivered by Noah Bright to Amuro, was the original TropeNamer. We also have Sleggar and Ryu mastering this technique. Somewhat humorously, for how famous the original incident's become it actually ''didn't'' work as intended, with Amuro going AWOL within minutes.* HelpingHands: The Zeong mobile suit can disconnect its arms at the elbow (they're connected by wires, but very long ones) in order to attack with its beam cannon fingers from any angle. For example, it could disconnect an arm and circle around a GM in order to shoot it in the back, bypassing its shield, but this isn't very necessary given its incredible power. [[spoiler:This ability was built into the suit in order to let pilot Char Aznable make use of his telepathy to guide the arms and attack from unpredictable angles.]]* HeroicSacrifice: From both throwaway and major characters. [[spoiler: Poor Matilda, poor Ryu, poor Michelle, poor Woody, poor Lalah...]]* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: The entry for InterserviceRivalry is the big reason why Zeon lost the war: from Zabi family squabbles to wannabes and has-beens trying to one-up actual aces and trying to squash the Gundam and failing miserably means that, by the end of war, Zeon has lost so much of its might, it's pretty much down to rookies who barely know how to control their powerful new Gelgoogs.* HollywoodHomely: Invoked. Despite the Zabi family being frequently described as ugly, only Degwin and Dozle (and in ''The Origin'', Sasro) are particularly ugly. The rest of the family ranges from average to beautiful. The Zabi males, however, are considerably darker than most of the other main characters. * HotBlade: Being a step behind the Federation in EnergyWeapons science, Zeon's standard mecha melee weapons for most of the war are superheated metal blades like the Zaku's heat hawk and the Dom's heat saber. General consensus is that they're good, but not ''quite'' as good as a beam saber.* HoverSkates: The MS-09 Dom has these in the form of thermonuclear jets built into its legs. It can't use them to fly, but it can zip across the ground at a ''much'' higher speed than simply running.* HoverMecha: The MS-09 Dom. The MS-09R Rick Dom and MSN-02 Zeong ''look'' like they might count, but they're designed to fight in space (and the Zeong isn't meant to ''hover'').* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Dozle Zabi and his wife Zenna. Zenna appears normal size, but Dozle is gigantically tall at 210cm coupled with a broad muscular frame built up like a brick house. And his daughter literally fits in the palm of his hand.* HumongousMecha** RealRobot: Started the genre. Despite this, it still has many SuperRobot hangups, mainly in the TV series.* {{Hypocrite}}: Zeon claims to be liberating the colonies, even as it destroys several of them.* IHaveNoSon: Though Amuro's mother makes a show of seeing him off when he returns to the White Base at the end of the North America arc, it's clear she can't bring herself to love him anymore after watching him kill a Zeon soldier and the two of them have no further contact for the remainder of their lives.* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:Lalah, for both Amuro and Char.]]* ImageSong: Char gets his own song, "Char ga Kuru" albeit not sung by his respective voice actor.** One might argue that the first ending is actually also an image song, though in the same case as above. That, or "Eien ni Amuro" (Forever Amuro) is a tribute to Amuro.*** At least Andrew W.K.'s versions of "Tobe! Gundam" and "Eien ni Amuro" sound like tributes... only awesome.* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Thanks to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, the RX-78 is far more agile than later Gundams - it even pulls off the occasional UnnecessaryCombatRoll. You could probably {{Handwave}} it as not having the multitude of thrusters all over its body that future Mobile Suits do, but still...* InASingleBound: Thanks to its thrusters, the Gundam can jump high enough to engage enemy fighters in their own airspace.* InsultBackfire: Gihren takes it as a ''compliment'' when his father compares his world view with that of Adolf Hitler. Though he'd never heard of Hitler before Degwin made the comparison onscreen, and Gihren didn't hear very much detail about Hitler. In this sense it's almost a backfire ''of'' an Insult Backfire.* InterserviceRivalry: The Zeon forces would probably have beaten the Federation if they could resist the urge to play politics with each other. One memorable case is when M'Quve "loses" a request by Ramba Ral (who's not part of Kycilia's faction) for the new Rick Doms. ''Gihren's Greed'' suggests that if M'Quve had provided Ramba Ral with the support he needed, he'd have been able to capture White Base.** [[AllThereInTheManual Supplemental material]] also makes clear that this is part of why Zeon has so many mobile suit variations; there were several companies and design teams all pushing their own programs and diverting resources to pet projects, and many {{Ace Custom}}s (for example, M'Quve's Gyan) are just prototypes, rejected or otherwise, that some ace or Zeon bigwig liked and kept for their personal suit. Conversely, all of this tail-chasing meant that Char's preferred design, the Gelgoog, didn't go into mass production until it was too late to affect the outcome of the war.* ISurrenderSuckers: At one point, White Base sets up a ceasefire with the Zeon forces to let the civilians off the ship, and uses the ceasefire to secretly plant the Gundam behind enemy lines before the fighting restarts.* LadyAndKnight: [[LadyOfWar Kycilia Zabi]] and her [[TheDragon Dragon]] [[SmugSnake M'Quve]] have got this vibe going. Kycilia is a ManipulativeBastard and EvilGenius, who nevertheless maintains a very feminine air to her persona. M'Quve, who always addresses her as "Lady Kycilia" serves as her [[TheStrategist strategist]], enforcer, and go to whenever dirty work is required; he is obsessively loyal to her, and to top it all off, pilots a mecha (the YMS-15 Gyan) designed to resemble a knight. * LatexSpaceSuit: Pilot suits. Averted on the Federation side with the suits worn by civilians and the ship's crew, which are much bulkier.* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: The "Char custom" is probably the most iconic example.* ManlyTears: A more rare villainous example is when Masked badboy Char promises to get his revenge on the Gundam, a few tears trickle under his mask. Amuro also cries a lot.* MascotVillain: Char Anzable, who is popular enough to show up in [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam the sequel series]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack an OVA]], as well as inspire [[CharClone a slew of copycats]].* MaskPower: Char, of course. Also, Kycilia.* MeaningfulName: Zaku comes from the Japanese word for {{Mooks}}, ''zako'' (雑魚, "small/inferior fish") which, incidentally was what they were actually called in ''Anime/SDGundamForce''.** Some fans believe Zaku to be derived from the word 'Zakuzaku', which (fittingly enough) means 'cut up roughly'.** This is also played straight with the Musai-class Battlecruisers, the word 'musai' meaning 'lacking skills or abilities'.** The colossal, green-colored, Mega Particle Cannon-equipped Mobile Armor Big Zam is named after the Zam Zammah, a massive, greenish cannon built by the Durrani Empire, immortalized in Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/{{Kim}}''.* MegaCrossover: The ''VideoGame/GundamFighter'' Flash game, with over 80 gundam characters from various shows** SD Gundam G Generation World, the newest SD Gundam G Generation game, holds Mobile Weapons and Pilots from any series, up until A Wakening of the Trailblazer and Unicorn. Yup. More than 1000 Mobile Weapons and 500 Pilots in a PSP and Wii Game.* MidSeasonUpgrade: An unusual subversion for the franchise; while nearly every Gundam show since has the protagonist's mech eventually get either drastically remodeled into or replaced with a better one, in this series the Gundam's only upgrade is a magnetic coating for a better reaction time - otherwise it's exactly the same machine throughout. This can be attributed to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.** Other versions [[PlayingWithATrope downplay the trope]]. The movie version, for example, has the mid-season introduction of the Core Booster, basically a set of Core Fighters [[MechaExpansionPack with additional fire-power]].** Definitely applies to main antagonist Char Aznable, who starts the series with a basic, albeit upgraded, Zaku and ends it piloting a Zeong -- a mecha so bleeding edge it isn't even finished when Char takes it out.* MildlyMilitary: A deliberate choice on the part of the White Base officer cadre - given their desperate situation and the fact that most of their crew were green recruits and civilians, they decided that it would be easier for all concerned if they played fast-and-loose with the formalities. The mainstream Federation military is notably more rigid and disciplined.* MinovskyPhysics: TropeNamer.* MissingBackblast: Averted, as [[spoiler:Miharu]] finds out.* MerchandiseDriven: Like you would not believe. It's interesting to note that this was a necessity - since the show was pulling low viewership numbers, the only thing that kept it on air past a certain point was a strong toy line - the full story of which is chronicled in Manga/GundamSousei. ** What's impressive is that they were able to ''justify'' this to a believable extent - competition between manufacturers, a fundamental difference in the weapons designing process between the two sides, the scale of the war, etc.* MechaExpansionPack: The G-Armour, a transport/fighter-bomber/tank that is compatible with the Core Block System. Later adaptations would remove it, as Tomino felt it was "too super-robot."* ModestyTowel: In one scene Hamon is seen in a towel, having just got out of the shower. * MoodWhiplash: At one part, the kids catch Zeon troops planting time bombs to destroy a series of Gundams at Jaburo and have to find and dispose of them themselves before they explode. An otherwise tense scene is made rather odd with some more comical moments added in.* {{Mukokuseki}}: Mostly averted. Mirai Yashima, the one with more direct Asian heritage, looks noticeably more Asian than the rest. Amuro is an aversion, since he's ButNotTooForeign (his mother is either American, Canadian or Mexican, depending on the canon you follow).* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast: The Elmeth, which is (grammatically dodgy) Hebrew for "God of Death".* ANaziByAnyOtherName: SIEG ZEON! HAIL ZEON! Gihren Zabi is directly compared to Hitler by his father at one point, though if one looks more closely, they're more similar to UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's UsefulNotes/HidekiTojo.* NonIndicativeName: Char's Newtype Corps is three people, including himself, two of which (Challia Bull, Lalah Sune) end up dead before they even get to A Baoa Qu. * NoseArt: Many of Char Aznable's AceCustom mobile suits featured his trademark red paintjob. PlayedStraight to the point of parody, where several mangas even featured "Char Aznable" custom ''[[JokeCharacter RB-79 Ball]]'' designs, painted red with horns attached.* NoSell: An interesting variation in the first episode. When Amuro is shot at point blank with a Zaku machine gun after starting up the Gundam for the first time, he starts screaming in abject terror, but the Gundam itself stands stalk still as the bullets bounce off its fancy new super alloy armor.* NicknamingTheEnemy: Some of the English localizations had this. The Federation forces were nicknamed "Feddies", while Zeon forces were nicknamed "Zekes". Some weapons received nicknames too, such as 'skirts' for Zeon's Dom fast assault suits, which used hover-jets to propel their massively-armoured frames.* NuclearNullifier: Minovsky particles don't make [=ICBMs=] and other long-range missiles that practical.* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: Averted. Nukes are used extensively in the opening battles of the war, resulting in up to a ''billion'' civilian casualties. [[SmugSnake M'Quve]] also launches an explicitly nuclear missile when it becomes clear that he's lost. Mobile suits also have nuclear reactors in them that GoCritical when hit by beam weapons; this happens several times in the series, including in [[DoomedHometown Side 7]] during the first episode.* TheOjou: Iselina Eschenbach is a very tragic version of the trope. Mirai is technically one, but she tries her best to not let her family connections interfere.* OffModel: While it ran rampant throughout the series[[note]]animation teams included Studio Z, {{Creator/Artland}}, Creator/NakamuraProductions and Anime Friend, who would later become infamous for their work on ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''[[/note]], one episode, Cucuruz Doan's Island, was taken out of circulation because of it[[note]]As was the aforementioned Anime Friend, the episode's animators[[/note]].* OvershadowedByAwesome: By the end of the One Year War, Hayato, Sayla, and Kai are all highly competent pilots who qualify as aces several times over. They just have the bad luck of serving alongside the OneManArmy that is Amuro Ray. Zeon, meanwhile, has its own examples in the MS-14 Gelgoog and MSN-02 Zeong (particularly and especially the Gelgoog), suits that equal or exceed the Gundam in performance but pale before Amuro's supreme piloting skills.** This is also {{Deconstructed}} to an extent - even as late as ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', 8 years later, Amuro lives under virtual house arrest and Bright flies a shuttle, while Hayato, Sayla, and Kai (especially) live and work in relative freedom.* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: Used multiple times, partly for dramatic effect, ''mostly'' because of the very cheap animation.* PsychicPowers: Newtypes.* PuttingOnTheReich: the Zeon flag is basically the flag of the Third Reich with a different symbol.* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The ''White Base'''s crew is partly composed of civilian volunteers, since some members of its original complement were killed in the incident at Side 7.* RammingAlwaysWorks: Averted. Ramming ''sometimes'' works (at huge expense in lives and equipment), but mostly it's just an excellent way to get killed.* RealityEnsues: Zeon's utilization of superweapons as part of the MonsterOfTheWeek format causes them to lose the war in a combination of repeated failures (including numerous deaths of their experienced pilots) and an inability to produce more standardized Mobile Suits. Also, by the end of the war, their crop of pilots are mostly young and inexperienced recruits, who are outmatched and [[WeHaveReserves outnumbered]] by the Federation's seasoned pilots with new GM mobile suits.* RealRobot: The TropeMaker.* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A healthy share of the Federation officers are like this, and whilst Zeon doesn't have as many, they're still visibly present.* RedShirtArmy: In most games, both the Zaku II, Gouf, GM and Ball qualify for this. In Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, this is increased to ''every'' One Year War-era suit except for the Gundam, Char's Zaku and Gelgoog, and the Zeong. ** In SD Gundam G Generation Wars, this is, however, not so much the case. While they can still get blown up in one attack, provided a strong enough Mobile Suit, the GM, Zaku II, Gouf and Ball can actually become some of the most lethal Mobile Weapons at Level 99, provided they get both the +3 inheritance bonus, a Level 99 pilot from the beginning and a target to kill.[[note]]The reason for needing a Level 99 pilot? The Pilot's level determines the Suit's upgrade amount (3 points, +1 to ATK, DEF or EVA at level 1, while 20 points and +10 to ATK, DEF or EVA per certain number of points).[[/note]]* RegionalRedecoration: During the One Year War, the Principality of Zeon attempted to [[ColonyDrop drop a depopulated colony]] onto [[TheFederation the Federation's]] base in South America. Unfortunately, they miscalculated and the colony fell onto Sydney, Australia. This resulted in a massive explosion that vaporized the city and much of the surrounding landscape, leaving behind a 500-kilometer-wide crater known as the Gulf of Sydney.* ReportingNames: The White Base is codenamed "the Trojan Horse" by the Zeon forces.** The Earth Federation refers to Lalah's Elmeth as the "Tricorn Hat."* RightBehindMe: At one point, Kai is praising Matilda's virtues and explaining why she's his ideal girlfriend. She promptly walks by and tells him to focus on repairing the White Base, and wishes him good luck in finding a girlfriend.* SelfMadeOrphan: ** [[spoiler:Gihren kills his father via [[WaveMotionGun Solar Flare]], and then his younger sister offs ''him''.]]** Tragically, [[spoiler:Amuro is indirectly responsible for his father's brain damage and subsequent death.]]* SeriesFranchise: But man, the staff had ''no idea'' this would turn out to be the case at the time. They knew they were making a pretty good show - they just had no idea they were ''inventing a genre'' or a ''series''.* ShaggyDogStory: "Winds of War," Episode 8, has a mother and her child leaving White Base with a group of civilians in search of her husbands home town on earth, St. Agnes. The episode plays out with Amuro and the others engaging the Zeon forces to protect her, the other refugees finding a different place for shelter, and even a Zeon pilot aiding the mother and child. At the episode's end the pilot reveals that the town was long since destroyed, not knowing she was searching for it, and encourages her to follow the other refugees to the shelter they found. As Amuro and the others leave they wonder if she ever really found that town.* ShellShockedVeteran: Amuro Ray, towards the end.* ShinyNewAustralia: Australia was one of the first victims of a ColonyDrop by Zeon.* ShoutOut:** "Sieg Zeon!" is taken directly from UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's infamous quote, "Sieg Heil!"*** Zeon is an outright reference to Nazi-Germany. Heck, their political leader, Gihren Zabi, is even ''compared to Hitler'' in-series, and takes it as a compliment!** The term "Mobile Suit" comes from the Mobile Infantry of ''Literature/StarshipTroopers''** As one would expect for a science-fiction show from the late 70s, ''StarWars''' fingerprints are everywhere, from the Gundam's beam saber to Char's Darth Vader-esque helmet. Tomino wanted the Gundam to be all-white like an Imperial Stormtrooper, but was overruled by the producers, who wanted kid-friendly primary colors.*** Similarly, it also takes many cues from ''Star Wars'''s most famous imitator, the original ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica''. The Pegasus class assault carriers function similarly to the Battlestar class ships and take their name from one of the ships in the series. The iconic Zeon [[CyberCyclops mono-eye]] is markedly similar to those of the Cylons.** Gundam's evolutionary concept of Newtypes is likely influenced from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.* ShowerScene: ** Near the beginning of the series Char got a shower scene. In [[Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin YAS' The Origin]], that scene was a lot longer and left a lot less to the imagination. ** Fraw Bow and the kiddies get a scene where she tries to keep the kids from horsing around in the shower. [[NippleAndDimed Fraw's nipples are in plain view]].* SmokingIsCool: In the original series, during Gihren's speech Char is seen in a bar, drinking. In the equivalent scene in The Origin, Char is shown drinking AND smoking. Keep in mind that he's an ace pilot who probably couldn't afford to risk his lung health. * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: {{Justified|Trope}}, in that the mobile suits that Amuro fights are all top-of-the-line at the time, and Zeon is forced to continually develop more powerful suits as they come to terms with the Gundam, and later the Federation's GM's. * SpannerInTheWorks:** The entirety of the Principality of Zeon is just one big spanner against themselves in the One Year War. Among them being:*** M'Quve refusing to give Ramba Ral the new Doms, leading to his death and later that of the Black Tri-Stars, depriving Zeon of experienced and talented soldiers.*** Sayla and Amuro spotting a Federation traitor just before Operation Odessa, managing to foil his plans.*** Zeon blowing a lot of their funding on expensive Mobile Armors or experimental, extremely limited-focus Mobile Suits.*** Ghiren firing a superweapon too early just to kill his own father, also wiping out LOTS of Zeon's troops. Then a pissed off Kycillia executes Ghiren for Patricide, leading to the powerful Delaz Fleet (that Gato is a part of) to bail. And to think, they had spent 9 months at that point in a stalemate and were really close to winning...*** And, of course, the ultimate one: three Zeon soldiers go to Side 7 to investigate goings on in there and discover the Federation building Mobile Suits there. Had they not attacked the factory... ** From the spinoff:*** [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam Ghinias Saharin]] snapping and attacking, leading to the death of his own men that his sister Aina had brokered for a cease-fire to get them out for medical attention.*** Zeon soldiers mistakenly thinking the Gundam had been destroyed early on in the Battle of Solomon, leading a talented and seasoned pilot like [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Anaval Gato]] to break away and miss fighting Amuro.* SpikesOfVillainy: The Principality of Zeon are big fans - more so here, in fact, than at any other point in the faction's history.* [[{{StabTheSky}} Shoot The Sky]]: the Gundam's "[[{{FanNickname}} Last Shooting]]" in the final episode.* SparedByTheAdaptation: ** In the novels, [[spoiler:Degwin Zabi is just said to be dethroned. This suggests that he survived as he did not accompany the fleet that was destroyed by the Colony Laser. Amuro and Hayato, as well. In fact, of the three main pilots, only Kai survives in the novelization.]]** In the compilation trilogy, Captain Paolo is last seen being carted off to receive medical care at Luna II. While in the original anime, Paolo dies of his wounds after the Luna II fiasco, the movies never state that he died. In addition, [[spoiler:Icelina and M'Quve]] survive because the episodes featuring their deaths were not featured in the movies.* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Lots of 'em, including the Principality/Duchy/Archduchy/Grand Duchy of Zeon/Zion/Jion. Also Kycilia/Kashiria, Gihren/Ghiren/Giren, and Mineva/Minerva Zabi. Amuro's last name also frequently shows up as "Rei" instead of the official "Ray".** Fun fact : Char Aznable is what happens when [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous your translation of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aznavour Charles Aznavour]] goes horribly wrong.* StayingAlive: [[spoiler:Char is presumed to have been killed when Kycilia's Gwanzine exploded, but the final compilation movie adds a scene during the end credits showing a shadowy figure bearing a resemblance to Char on a Zeon escape ship. Zeta Gundam confirms that Char survived the One Year War.]]* StealthPun: Zako is Japanese for small fry. The Zaku Mobile Suit, with the exception of the ones that are AceCustom models that follow the LawOfChromaticSuperiority, are piloted by {{Mooks}}.* StockFootage: Mostly involving the Gundam launching or combining with its various parts.* StupidStatementDanceMix: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e8zUqP8yu4 "We're jumping onto White Base - AAAAAAAHHH!"]]* SuperPrototype: The Gundam. The Big Zam and YMS-15 Gyan later in the series, as well, and for a certain definition of 'prototype', the Elmeth and Zeong.* SuperweaponSurprise: More than one, and used by both sides.* SureLetsGoWithThat: Bright accuses Sayla of stealing the Gundam so she could prove she was as good as a man in battle. She lets him think that rather than tell him [[spoiler:she was looking for Char, to find out if he really was her brother Casval]].* SwissArmyWeapon: A very basic example - the Gundam's beam sabers can extend their handles to become short-bladed tridents.* SwordFight: With mobile suits, and between Char and Amuro in person during the final episodes!* TagalongKid: Katz, Kikka, and Letz, who are White Base's [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty Half-Pints]].* TankGoodness: Guntanks. They do one job, and they do it well. (Just, y'know, more on land than space.)* TelepathicSpacemen: Newtypes.* ThemeNaming: Several characters are named for World War II aircraft; Kai is named for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi_N1K N1K2-J Shiden Kai]], while Amuro himself is named for the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero "Zero"]].** A few postwar fighters get referenced, too. The name of M'Quve's assistant Uragang is a corruption of the Dassault Ouragan, which first saw service in the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict.* ThouShaltNotKill: The stance of Amuro's mother. Deconstructed and played for drama. See WhatTheHellHero below.* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: All three of Zeon's late-game superweapons, the Big Zam, the Colony Laser, and the Zeong. Results were decidedly mixed. To elaborate:** The Big Zam proved devastatingly effective, but they hadn't fitted in the close-ranged defences yet, letting Amuro and Sleggar eventually take it out.** The Colony Laser was fired prematurely, destroying it after it had wiped out only half the Federation fleet and letting the other half win the war.** The Zeong went into battle missing its legs. This had no real effect on its performance - they were fighting in outer space at the time, and legs aren't much use in zero gravity - other than perhaps not allowing Char to use one of his famous kicks.* {{Unobtainium}}: Played straight and subverted. Early on the Gundam is all but indestructible, much to the surprise and misfortune of Zeon troops. However by the latter half of the series, Zeon gains access to beam weaponry, and it turns out to be equally deadly to the Gundam as it is to everything else. Afterwords tactics in the entire Universal Century timeline focus on avoiding getting hit at all, as no matter how much armor you have, beam weaponry punches right through it.** Lunar Titanium isn't really Unobtanium per say, it's just a significant upgrade over the kind of armor most mobile suits of the day were using. Conventional weapons still manage to significantly damage the Gundam on several occasions, and during one encounter explosive charges small enough to be carried in one hand are shown to be capable of breaching the armor if placed in the right spot. Really, Lunar Titanium has about as much effect on the battlefield as the invention of Sloped Armor did in WWII; it is superior to any existing design, but not a game-changer in and of itself.* VillainousValor: Gadem attempting to destroy the Gundam with his aging and unarmed Zaku I to get revenge for his downed ship. [[CurbStompBattle He doesn't last long]], but it is still quite impressive.* VisualPun: During its stay in the neutral zone of Side Six, the White Base's weapons are literally tied down with red tape.* WarfareRegression: Minovsky Particles can screw up electronics and telecommunications. As a result, war in the Universal Century goes back to visual ranges. * WarriorTherapist: Char and Amuro tend to talk a lot while they're fighting. Being the first Gundam, every subsequent series following it followed suit.* WeakButSkilled: Initially the reason that Char can keep up with Amuro. [[LensmanArmsRace Later on it's the reason Amuro can keep up with Char.]]** And by the end of the show, Gundam can't keep up with Amuro's reflexes, which is fixed through an off-screen upgrade.* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: More like Amuro's ''dad'', who never actually got a death scene even though he ''did'' die at Side 6. The CompilationMovie fixes this by adding a scene where he falls down some stairs and ''apparently'' breaks his neck -- the animation doesn't make it clear. The whole thing comes off as rather arbitrary, really.** On the other hand, M'Quve disappears after Odessa in the films. The manga ''Char's Deleted Affair'' depicts him dying in a similar fashion as the TV series, only at A Baoa Qu instead of in the Texas Colony.* WhatTheHellHero: Amuro's mother denounces him for becoming a soldier and killing other soldiers who could have had children of their own in spite of Amuro's intention of protecting the refugees.* WhipItGood: The 'heat rod', WeaponOfChoice of Zeon's Gouf mobile suit, which Ramba Ral in particular uses to devastating effect.* WorstAid: After having his arm impaled by the blade of Char's fencing foil, Amuro pulls the broken piece out. This can probably be forgiven as he was in a depressurized area of A Baoa Qu, and his main motivation appears to be patching his normal suit.* WorthyOpponent: Char and Amuro eventually consider each other this. Earlier, Ramba Ral came to respect Amuro.* YouAreInCommandNow: Happens to Bright during the opening episodes; despite being 19 years old and only an ensign, he ends up in command of the ''[[CoolStarship White Base]]'' when every other officer on the ship is killed or critically wounded.* YouKeepUsingThatWord: According to the novel the "Colony Laser" is a hollowed out colony filled with a large number of mirrors with a single focal point. Therefore the Colony Laser is not, in fact, a laser.** That said, the Gryps Colony Laser that shows up in Zeta Gundam is a bona-fide laser cannon the size of a space colony, so the Novel may just be the odd one out.** Somewhat debatable, but Zeon is called a Principality, even though it's lead by a Archduke. Wiki/TheOtherWiki, however, notes that "principality" can denote any society lead by a monarch, no matter what they call themselves. This bothered Fred Schodt, though, and when he translated Tomino's novels he changed the name to "The Zeon Archduchy"; as with all his other changes (Sha for Char, Zak for Zaku, et cetera), it never caught on.*** The whole thing makes a bit more sense given the nation's backstory. Even after the Zabi family took power and declared themselves royalty, Zeon was still (at least nominally) a semi-autonomous Federation state for a while before they began to push for full independence. Degwin calling himself Archduke instead of King or Emperor was a sop to the Federation's authority. [[{{Woolseyism}} On the other hand, the official English version's more ambiguous "Sovereign" and "Principality" come off as a lot more canny]]. A principality can, like a duchy, refer to the domain of a noble in a larger empire (as in the principalities of UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire or the "princely states" of India during UsefulNotes/TheRaj) but it has ''also'' been used to refer to small, independent or semi-independent states like those that eventually unified to become Germany and Italy. It's hardly a stretch to think of Degwin, [[TheEvilPrince and especially Ghiren]], presenting themselves to the Federation as the former while plotting to become the latter.----


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I'm doing wedding cupcakes (my first) for my brother's wedding in September, and want to do small fondant butterflies for some of the toppers. I'm looking for a mold, but I've never really used molds before! I saw one for "lace butterflies," but wanted to know if this would be a nightmare of sticking and tearing
Has anyone used them?? Not sure if I can post the link
I have seen these used on youtube, and it takes the woman about 10 minutes to make 1, she even had to use toothpicks to pry the smaller pieces out. It looked like a PITA.
This is just a suggestion, make yourself up some royal icing, and place in a bag with a very little hole, find a really nice filigree butterfly on the internet and use it as a stencil under wax paper, and lay the completed butterflies in a way to raise their wings. They look beautiful, and there are members who have made them on this forum. I am enclosing a pic I found on the internet to give you an idea.
I have used the Butterfly & Insect Brooch Mold by Karen Davies. I found them easy to use and very elegant looking. (Cornstarch is a really good friend with silicone molds)
I did not buy the lace butterfly molds by FPC because they seemed too intricate to easily mold in fondant. And I have to admit, I loved the brooch look as I really don't like live looking insects on a cake. I do love the look of the brooch ones.
what mold was used. Those are really pretty
It's not a mold, basically it's a photo off the internet that someone put under wax paper then using royal icing in a bag, piped over the design, and then they dried them at angles, to create the flying butterfly look. It's actually really easy, if you do searches on youtube for filigree butterflies with royal icing, there are a couple cideo tuts about them. They are beautiful, but I CAN'T take credit, they are someone elses work, hence the "SAMPLE" over the pic. Glad you like them. Go to this site, scroll down, she shows a pic of what she did.
Or how about these... gorgeous!!
This is the set that I purchased. I used gumpaste but a 50/50 of gumpaste and fondant would probably work fine. Just make sure you lightly grease the cutters with shortening. I saw them on this cake and fell in love with the cutter set. http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2339424/lily-and-butterfly-wedding-cake The Jem butterfly cutter set was used for this cake. You have to draw on the lines of the butterfly. The Patchwork cutter set imprints them for you. I use an extra fine non toxic black sharpy and color within the lines and use petal dusts and luster dust to add color. http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2157114/traditional-elegance-flowers-and-butterflies I found the patchwork cutter set on Ebay. It was less expensive to order from the UK including shipping. I was surprised how fast the shipping was from England.
Wow, those RI butterflies are beautiful! But I haven't had any luck with using RI this way. I tried the technique with snowflakes last Winter and 75% of them broke, and if I made them thicker, they weren't very pretty or delicate! I researched how to make RI more sturdy for that purpose, but couldn't find anything.
I will have to research the molds you've each recommended. I like the look of the PME plunger type ones, as I like that style for doing flowers. Anyone used that type of mold/cutout for butterflies?
I wonder if I filled a hollow type butterfly mold with royal icing, if it would dry and pop out with the butterfly impression? Anyone ever do that??
What about this butterfly cutter? You could use gumpaste they look dainty. http://www.ebay.com/itm/JEM-Lacy-Butterfly-Cutters-Set-of-4-Sugarcraft-Cupcake-Toppers-Cake-Craft-/271009775125?pt=Uk_Crafts_Cake_Decorating_MJ&hash=item3f1970fe15 I have purchased from this seller before and I was surprised on how fast I received my package.
Same cutter set different price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-JEM-Lacy-Butterfly-Cupcake-Cutters-/221047720969?pt=Uk_Crafts_Cake_Decorating_MJ&hash=item3377788c09
I wonder if I filled a hollow type butterfly mold with royal icing, if it would dry and pop out with the butterfly impression? Anyone ever do that??
I have the butterfly cutters pictured below, I got them from ebay for $3.00 with free shipping, they took about 2-3 weeks to get to me. Everywhere else they are $8-10 per set, plus shipping. I also have alot of the other plunger cutters all bought from oversea, 95% with free shipping. They work great, they give vein detail, and work great with chocolate clay. I have read several posts on here about the JEM cutters and how tedious they are to cut. Yes, they are lacey when done, but I don't feel like using a toothpick on each one. There is a really good tut on youtube about piped RI that is a great recipe. The girl even explains the difference between regular RI and her recipe. I use a squeeze bottle that I bought at HL for .99 and I fill it up, it has a pinhole, but I just cut it a little to make the hole bigger. I marked the bottle RI Piping so that I don't make mistakes with my white candy melts. Just FYI
sfandm: those are the ones I was looking at Thanks everyone!
Not sure if you're still looking. But there's also a seller on eBay who sells pre cut edible wafer glittery butterflies. She's in the uk 'sugartop' is the seller. They're really cheap, got here quickly and looked really pretty on some cupcakes I did. But I do loooove those royal icing ones... Will b trying those myself!


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When an award show's guest list includes the music industry's most outrageous artists, it's pretty much guaranteed that the red carpet looks will be more flamboyant than fashionable.
Such was the case with Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards in Vegas, where three stars showed up in outfits that would make any stylist weep.
Okay, so it's not like we expected Ke$ha, 24, to wear an elegant gown or anything, but the pop star outdid herself in a futuristic Jad Ghanour dress, which featured sexy cutouts and a tulle train.
What goes with a sheer pastel blue body suit? If you're Nicki Minaj the answer is cotton candy-colored hair. The 26-year-old singer turned heads in a skintight studded Mark Fast onesie, white Versace heels, and yes, pink curls.
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Elop says Nokia doesn't want fragmentation in Windows Phone, because Android has problems with it. Quad-core phones don't impress him
About a year ago, Nokia has bet its future on Microsoft's Windows Phone, after understating that neither Symbian, nor MeeGo was enough to keep the company truly competitive on the smartphone market.
Right now, the Windows Phone bet isn't a winning one. Not yet. And how could it be, since Nokia has launched only two WP handsets (Lumia 800 and Lumia 710), and announced a third one (Lumia 900) that doesn't really bring anything new?
In any case, Nokia repeatedly said that it plans to introduce numerous Windows Phone handsets this year, some of them aimed at budget users.
Until we'll see new Nokia WP devices, we've found out that Stephen Elop, the company's CEO (as of September 2010), recently talked about the current situation at Nokia, and about competition. More exactly, in an interview with Pocket-lint, Elop declared:
"We don't want fragmentation being introduced into Windows Phone because we are beginning to see how in a certain other eco-system that fragmentation becomes a problem."
That "other" ecosystem is, of course, Android. Yes, Android fragmentation can be bothersome, although not really for the OS itself (or for Google), but for end users. And still, this doesn't stop users from activating more than 700,000 Android devices each day.
I bet Nokia wouldn't give a f*** about fragmentation if it would manage to activate even half of the number of devices that are currently activated with Android.
Elop also said that the "first priority, always, always, is to differentiate our experience from Android and iPhone. That is job one, two and three quite frankly." Ok, good for you. But remember: different doesn't necessarily mean better. In fact, until now, if we look at how well the Lumia 800 has performed sales-wise, it clearly doesn't mean better. For the moment, Nokia's Windows Phone handsets are just that: different, but without the power to attract the broad mass of consumers (who generally want either Android, or iOS on their next smartphone).
In another interview, this time with TechRadar, Stephen Elop defends the lack of multi-core processors from the first three Nokia WP handsets (they all use a 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm CPU).
According to Elop:
"You don't need a quad-core phone unless you want to keep your hands warm in your pocket. We're believers in the experience so, fine you have this camera density and you have that camera density. Let's put the pictures side-by-side and we'll show which ones are better."
HTC, Samsung and Apple are all working on quad-core smartphones that should be unveiled later this year. And I'm pretty sure that most users will always choose a quad-core smartphone over a single or dual core one (assuming these are all high-end devices priced similarly). That's because, regardless of what Elop believes, selling products is not just about the experience, but also (and maybe more importantly) about the marketing hype.
Next week, Nokia will announce its Q4 and full year 2011 financial results. I'm eagerly waiting to see if it's going to unveil the exact number of Windows Phone handsets sold. If not, this would be a confirmation of the fact that they simply didn't sell well. But Nokia could have better luck this year, right? We'll see.


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS/AP) George Huguely, the University of Virginia senior charged with murdering fellow UVA lacrosse player Yeardley Love, had two known alcohol-related encounters with authorities in Florida, apart from another arrest previously reported in Virginia.
The Florida episodes, according to the The Washington Examiner, include being charged with possession of alcohol by a minor, while at his family's home in Manalapan.
One year later, in December 2008, Huguely, of Chevy Chase, Md., was again with family in Manalapan when, the newspaper reports, he got into a "heated argument" with his father on a 40-foot fishing boat. Huguely apparently wanted to return to the beach, and was upset when his father refused, saying he would only bring his son back to the house. There were no blows, but "lots of yelling and screaming," deputies told The Washington Examiner.
According to the paper, an inebriated Huguely decided to take matters into his own hands, and dove off the boat into the Atlantic Ocean. The quarter-mile swim to shore was more than he could handle, and he had to be rescued by a passing vessel. Police found no evidence of physical violence, and no arrests were made.
One month before the boating incident, Huguely was arrested in Lexington, Va. by a female police officer who said she had to use a taser on him to subdue him, because he was belligerent. In that incident, George Huguely pleaded guilty to resisting arrest and public swearing and intoxication.
Huguely was arrested Monday, May 3 and is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Yeardley Love. Some students have claimed the pair had a prior altercation a month ago, but the Washington Examiner said that could not be confirmed.
Police say Huguely admitted that in their fatal encounter he and Love had an altercation where he shook the co-ed, and her head repeatedly hit a wall.
Huguely's lawyer has called Love's death a tragic accident.MEDIA
PICTURES: Yeardley Love Murdered; George Huguely Charged
May 6, 2010 - UVA Lacrosse Death: Police Find Bloody T-Shirt and Letter to Yeardley Love in Huguely's Apartment, Says Report
May 6, 2010 - Lacrosse Death: Candlelight Vigil for Yeardley Love Brings Thousands Together
May 5, 2010 - UVA Lacrosse Death: George Huguely's Neighbor Describes Suspect in Murder of Yeardley Love
May 5, 2010 - UVA Lacrosse Death: Campus Vigil to be Held for Yeardley Love
May 5, 2010 - UVA Lacrosse Death: George Huguely Tasered During 2008 Arrest, Say Police
May 4, 2010 - UVA Lacrosse Death: Huguely Admits He "Shook Love and Her Head Repeatedly Hit a Wall," Says Court Document
May 4, 2010 - Yeardley Love's Death Was "Accident," Says UVA Lacrosse Player George Huguely's Lawyer
May 3, 2010 - UVA Lacrosse Death: Community Reacts to Death of Yeardley Love
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CuteThis set is really super cute and makes a great gift. Some years you can make your own with any fragrances you want by just purchasing the tube and the plush topper. Other years, however, this product comes with a predetermined set of fragrances. This doesn't bother me because they are always great holiday scents – sometimes including both new releases and old. As far as the plush topper, I'...read morem not really sure what to do with it – maybe give it to a child or use it as a small decoration. I wish it was an ornament instead as it would be more useful. As far as value, it works out to be about the same price as if you bought the votives on your own for full price. If you are looking for a quick and easy gift, this is really cute, but value wise you are better off buying the individual votives when they go on sale for a dollar and then making your own mini gift basket. — 5 years, 7 months agoTheLacqueredLady | 751 reviews
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Unsalted Cashews
Unsalted cashews have a really unique nutty and buttery flavor with a supple brittle texture. Unsalted cashews that haven't been dry roasted have significantly less calories compared to salted cashews, though cashews have fat content that's significantly lower than other nuts such as peanuts and almonds. Most of the fat content in unsalted cashews comes in an unsaturated fatty acids form that is truly beneficial for your heart's health.
Also, unsalted cashews don't contain cholesterol and low in sugar as well as sodium. One raw cashew nut contains approximately 8 calories. Though one cup of cashews has a fat content of 47.77 grams, approximately 25.9 grams of it is monounsaturated fat which can lower bad cholesterol or LDL and raise good cholesterol or HDL.
Health Benefits
Unsalted cashews are a good source of fiber and protein. They are rich in foliate, B vitamins and potassium. They also have valuable amounts of phosphorous, magnesium, copper and selenium.
Salted cashew nuts have additional sodium content that can contribute to high blood pressure. Thus, purchasing unsalted cashews is much more preferable. Not convinced yet? Here are more of the health benefits of unsalted cashews:
- Unsalted cashews are excellent body builders.
- Unsalted cashews contain no cholesterol.
- Unsalted cashews can help in maintaining healthy teeth and gums.
- Unsalted cashews are considered an energizing snack.
- Unsalted cashews are abundant in antioxidants that can help in eliminating free radicals which may cause a few types of cancer.
- Unsalted cashews are a good magnesium source. Magnesium works together with calcium to maintain healthy bones and muscles in your body. In addition, this helps in promoting regular sleep patterns particularly for menopausal women.
- Unsalted cashews contain a high energy density as well as increased amount of dietary fiber. Both have beneficial effect when it comes to managing weight, but only if they are eaten moderately.
- Unsalted cashews have increased copper content which is indeed important in producing energy, more elasticity in joints, bones and blood vessels.
- Unsalted cashews consumption can help the body in utilizing iron, eliminating free radicals, developing bone and connective tissue, and producing the skin as well as hair pigment melanin.
Frequent consumption of unsalted cashews may also decrease the risk of acquiring Type 2 Diabetes, which is the most common form of diabetes in the US at present.
Storing Unsalted Cashews
At room temperature, unsalted cashews can spoil faster and needs to be refrigerated. If kept in an airtight container inside a refrigerator, they will last for 6 months or if frozen, even up to 1 year.
If you store unsalted cashews for a long time, they tend to go stale. Thus, ideally, unsalted cashews must be stored in a sealed container and must be consumed after as a short time.
Indeed, unsalted cashews which are a well-known treat found on groceries and health food stores across the globe, is heaving with nutritional content. With all these, no wonder unsalted cashews are used in healthy diets and holistic health solutions.


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Fairfield, Ohio: Jungle Jim's International Market
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- 5440 Dixie Hwy, Fairfield, OH
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- North of Cincinnati. Ohio Route 4 then west on Dixie Hwy -- after Holden Blvd at Jungle Jim Drive.
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Jungle Jim's International Market
Playful brainchild of store owner Jim Bonaminio, the elaborate, animated displays distract children long enough for parents to complete shopping. Roadsideamerica.com Report... [03/04/2012]
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Jungle Jim's Grocery Store
Who knew grocery shopping could be so much fun! It is whimsical and clever, with something new to discover on every aisle; the life-size fire truck on top of a display of hot sauces and the authentic Indian cab in the Indian food section are just two examples. We took tons of pictures and no one objected.[Gordon Family, 08/30/2011]
Jungle Jim's Unusual Grocery Store
My wife and I decided to check this place out on a whim, and it was SO WORTH the extra gas! It's so hard to describe the sheer amount of things to see at Jungle Jim's. The kicker for my wife was the realization that they had moved the entire old monorail system that used to be at King's Island, and installed it in the parking lot! They seem to be okay with pictures now. Nobody stopped me, anyway.[Steve, 05/19/2011]
Jungle Jim's Wacky Grocery Store
Seeking out Jungle Jim's wacky grocery store was well worth the detour. I have to say, it's the coolest grocery store ever! Any kid would beg to go shopping with mom! When we first walked in, it seemed like any other big grocers....until we saw the singing Cambells soup can up on his swing. A simple trip to the restrooms was a pleasant surprise as well (I won't give the surprise away - sorry!). There were delights to see all over the store as well as an amazingly large selection of product to choose from. We left the store with smiles on our faces and a cart full of stuff to take back to Canada and show off.[T.Devonshire, 11/10/2006]
January 2007: Unofficial word is that Jungle Jim's will be lifting its ban on visitor photography. Here's the store's Robin Hood scene...
Jungle Jim's Unusual Grocery Store
Went and enjoyed browsing around but wanted to pass on one important note - Jungle Jim's does not allow photographs inside the store! I was very disappointed in that. They say on their sign that you can buy their postcards (since you can't take pictures) but when we finally found the postcards they were pretty lacking. I wanted cards of the main attractions (singing animals, Aisle of Inferno...) and they didn't have them. Mostly cards of Jungle Jim himself.[thj, 08/24/2006]
Another tipster sent in this photo taken in an unnamed location of an unidentified soup can man swinging near the bread aisle. Perhaps Jungle Jim's attractions look something like this!
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Parkston's Van Laecken to receive NIAAA State Award of Merit
PARKSTON -- Rob Van Laecken may be retiring but he is not going out without a bang.
The outgoing Trojan athletic director was awarded the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association State Award of Merit.
"It comes from your peers and other ADs. It's pretty special when it comes from them," Van Laecken said Friday. "I never thought I would get something like that. It's a very nice honor."
Van Laecken will be presented the award by the South Dakota Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association during the state conference for athletic administrators Wednesday at The Lodge in Deadwood. This award is provided annually for recognition of meritorious dedication to high school and middle school athletics.
From 1977 to 2014, Van Laecken coached Parkston basketball, where he accrued 593 wins and became the winningest high school girls basketball coach in the state. Van Laecken serves on the basketball advisory board and was honored as the Athletic Director of the Year in 1996 and 1997.
"I've enjoyed all of the student athletes who've gone through here," Van Laecken. "I've enjoyed the coaches we've had here. We've been fortunate to have really good student athletes. They're not only special on the field or court but in the classroom. It's been a lot of good times and memories."


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The native Tagalog word for 'president' is pangulo, and the Spanish-derived Filipino word is presidente.
Emilio Aguinaldo (1869 – 1964)
The president of the first Philippine republic (1899). He started as a member of the Magdalo Chapter of the Katipunan in Cavite, then was elected president of the revolutionary government at the Tejeros Convention on March 22,1897, and, later, Biak-na-Bato Republic. He proclaimed Philippine independence at Kawit on June 12, 1898. His capture foreshadowed the end of large-scale armed resistance to American rule.
Manuel L. Quezon (1878-1944)
The first Filipino president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under American rule. He was president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. For advocating Filipino-language amendments to the 1935 Constitution, he is known as the "Father of the National Language."
Jose P. Laurel (1891 – 1939)
President of the Second Republic from 1943 to 1945. He had been secretary of the interior (1923), senator (1925 – 1931), delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1934), and chief justice during the commonwealth. When World War II broke out, he was instructed by Quezon to stay in Manila and deal with the Japanese to soften the blow of enemy occupation. As president, he defended Filipino interests and resisted Japanese efforts to draft Filipinos into the Japanese military service. Upon return of the American forces, Laurel was imprisoned in Japan when Douglas Macarthur occupied that country He was returned to the Philippines to face charges of treason, but these were dropped when President Roxas issued an amnesty proclamation. In the Third Republic, he was elected senator and negotiated the Laurel-Langley Agreement.
Sergio Osmeña, Sr. (1878 – 1961)
The first Filipino national leader under the American regime as speaker of the Philippine assembly and the second president of the Philippines (1944-1946).
Manuel Roxas (1892 – 1948)
The last president of the Philippine Commonwealth and the first president of the republic (1946 – 1948).
Elpidio Quirino (1890—1956)
President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953. As vice president during Manuel Roxas's term, he was also secretary of foreign affairs. He became president when Roxas died in 1948. He was elected president in his own right in 1949.
Ramon Magsaysay (1907 – 1957)
President of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957. He had been President Quirino's secretary of defense who was instrumental is suppressing the HUK rebellion. As president, he persuaded Congress to pass the Agricultural Tenancy Act (1954). It was during his term that the Retail Trade Nationalization Act was passed. He secured revisions in the Bell Trade Act and was the first president to revise the US Military Bases agreement to bring it more in line with Philippine interests.
Carlos P. Garcia (1896 – 1971)
President of the Philippines from 1957 to 1961. Remembered for his Filipino First Policy. He was among the founders of the Association for Southeast Asia (1963), the precursor of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Diosdado Macapagal (1910 – 1997)
President of the Republic of the Philippines from 1961 to 1965. He asked Congress to pass the Agricultural Land Reform Code, which abolished share tenancy and installed a leasehold system in its place; it finally passed on August 8, 1963. This was a significant step toward resolving the agrarian problem. It was during his presidency that Independence Day was moved from July 4 to June 12, the date when General Aguinaldo proclaimed Philippine independence in Cavite.
Ferdinand Marcos (1917 – 1989)
President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. Declared martial law on September 21, 1972. After the People Power revolution in February 1986, he was ousted from power and lived in exile in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (1933 – )
President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. With Salvador Laurel as running mate, she led the opposition that overthrew the authoritarian government of Marcos, who went into exile after the successful People's Power revolution of 1986. She first established a revolutionary government under the Freedom Constitution, later replaced by the Constitution of 1987, which served as the basis for reestablishing democracy
Fidel V. Ramos (1928 – )
President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1997. As head of the Constabulary under President Marcos, he was instrumental in helping to design and implement martial law. Together with General Ponce Enrile and the RAM, he defected from the government in 1986 and joined the People's Power revolution that ousted Marcos from power. His presidency is remembered for better integrating the national economy in the global scheme.
Joseph Estrada (1937 – )
President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001. During his term in office, he was arrested and stood trial at a congressional impeachment hearing on charges of accepting bribes and corruption. While this trial was aborted when the senators voted 11 to 10 not to open incriminating evidence against him, he was ousted from power anyway as a peaceful People's Power II revolution arose and called for his resignation
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (1947 – )
President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2004. She served as vice president under President Estrada and became president when he was forced to step down for malfeasance, through the People's Power II revolution. PGMA has confronted some of the same obstacles as did her father, President Diosdado Macapagal, when he tried to clean up corruption in government. Her government continues enjoy political legitimacy in the face of opposition.
Benigno Aquino III (1960 – )
President of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. Was elected to a six-year term in May 2010.
Rodrigo Duterte (1945 – )
Current president of the Philippines. Was elected to a six-year term in May 2016. Took office on June 30. Known by the nickname Digong. A lawyer and politician of Visayan descent from the southern island of Mindanao.
In the first four months of his term, President Duterte has made impressive progress in asserting Philippine sovereignty and dignity in the international arena, in aligning the country with Asian values instead of Hollywood-manufactured cultural norms, in the fight against drugs, in uplifting the status of indigenous peoples and of our Muslim brothers in the south, in putting an end to endo, in putting on notice corrupt government officials, and in securing fishing privileges for Filipinos in waters that China has been claiming as its own. He has also secured financial support from Japan and promises from Russia.


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Indian Commandos Battle Assailants
Friday, November 28, 2008
MUMBAI, Nov. 28 -- Indian army commandos struggled all day Thursday and into the early hours of Friday to regain control of two luxury hotels and a Jewish center in India's commercial capital, battling armed assailants who were part of a group that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said was "based outside the country."
The coordinated attacks against well-known symbols of India's prosperity and places where Westerners and Israelis gather left at least 125 people dead and more than 320 wounded, authorities said, and transformed parts of Mumbai into a smoldering war zone. Dozens of people remained trapped in the vast hotels, although it was unclear how many gunmen were still inside.
Indian police and terrorism experts said they were uncertain who had carried out the attack, but Singh, in a nationally televised address, used phrases usually taken here to mean Pakistan, raising fears that the violence in Mumbai could raise tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals.
"The group which carried out these attacks, based outside the country, had come with single-minded determination to create havoc in the commercial capital of the country," Singh said. "We will take up strongly with our neighbors that the use of their territory for launching attacks on us will not be tolerated, and that there would be a cost if suitable measures are not taken by them."
Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, said his government condemned the attacks in Mumbai. "It is unfair to blame Pakistan or Pakistanis for these acts of terrorism even before an investigation is undertaken," Haqqani said in a statement. "Instead of scoring political points at the expense of a neighboring country that is itself a victim of terrorism, it is time for India's leaders to work together with Pakistan's elected leaders in putting up a joint front against terrorism."
Arriving ashore in what police said were at least two rubber dinghies, groups of college-age men on Wednesday roamed the streets of Mumbai with automatic assault rifles and backpacks filled with ammunition and explosives, shooting up crowded places and taking hostages in hotels. One video shown again and again on television depicted the almost giddy face of a young gunman walking down the street with an AK-47 assault rifle.
The attackers struck targets in addition to the hotels and the Jewish center, including a movie theater, a hospital, a railway station, a cafe popular with foreigners and several other sites in the heart of Mumbai.
A British businessman, Rakesh Patel, who escaped the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel, told television stations that two young men with a machine gun forced 15 hostages onto the hotel roof and told them that "they wanted anyone with British or American passports."
In Washington, State Department spokesman Robert McInturff said three Americans were among those injured in the Mumbai attacks, the Associated Press reported. He said there was no indication that any U.S. citizens had been killed. The Web site of the Synchronicity Foundation, a Faber, Va.-based spiritual organization whose members were staying at one of the hotels, said two Americans in the group were feared dead and two Americans and two Canadians had been wounded by gunfire.
Five non-Indians -- an Australian, a Briton, a German, an Italian and a Japanese -- were reported killed.
"All we can say now is this is the worst, most brazen, audacious attacks in Indian history because people were shooting openly on the street," police official A.K. Sharma said. He spoke Thursday at the funeral of a police inspector who was killed while trying to stop gunmen at the train station. "It's a violent situation that's still ongoing. Mumbai remains at war."
As the sun set Thursday, some hostages unfurled "Save Us" banners from the windows of the Taj, across from the Gateway of India monument and Mumbai's waterfront. Others emerged from upper-story windows using bedsheets tied together as ladders. Earlier in the day, at least four bodies and dozens of freed hostages were taken out of the hotel -- a castlelike, 1903 landmark that was set on fire during the attacks.


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Just in time for holiday shopping!
J-List has been good to plush collectors lately but they hit the mother load with their latest batch of Studio Ghibli-licensed plushes which were recently added to the site. The four new additions are from the movies, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, and Princess Mononoke, and are a Snoozing Totoro plush, a Kitsunerisu (or fox squirrel, if you prefer) beanie plush, and two Yakkuru plushes (one standard and one beanie variety).
I personally prefer Yakkuru, Prince Ashitaka's noble steed, in his standard 17 centimeter tall form (US$35). His saddle and red reins add to the plush and make him more recognizable. The snoozing Totoro (US$48) with little Mei perched on his stomach comes in a very close second. He actually snores, with his big belly moving up and down in sync with the sounds. The two beanie plushes are cute as well (US$19.50 each) and look like they are a good size for displaying on your desk.
All of these plushes are available now. Any Miyazaki fans out there excited about this update?
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