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April 3, 2006
Playaz purchase space robot 'Goldar' at flea market
Several of the Playaz visited a local flea market recently and discovered the former Space Giant "Goldar" standing amidst some various and sundry items being sold.
The 50 foot tall golden robot from outer space was seen "standing next to some junk, you know, old record albums, bongs, belt buckles," according to The Guv'na, and it was apparently for sale.
A young asian man going by the name "Mikko" was manning a card table of items for purchase that included the robot known as "Goldar". After a bit of haggling, Mikko agreed to let Goldar go to us for $21.
While we Playaz aren't exactly sure what we're going to do with our new possession, we feel he will come in handy when the time comes for more Comet Dust, as Goldar is able to transform himself into a rocket ship and carries with him several defense mechanisms.
His gamma-ray firing antennae seem to work okay, although he is out of torpedoes that would normally fire from his chest cavity. Other than that he works just fine. We were instructed to merely keep his joints lubricated from time to time.
The drawback is that this "Goldar" talks, which can be annoying at times, and he seems quite depressed. He keeps rambling on about his "wife" (?) who went by the name "Silvar", who according to him was much like a human in size and appearance. And, they had a kid! He didn't seem to know where he was. I guess they got divorced somewhere along the line. How this "marriage" worked I'll never know, but whatever.
He also likes to reminisce about his 'glory days' when he did battle with a fanged, afro'ed villain called "Rodak". We are forced to patronize him and his boring chatter until we can figure out if there is a switch that will turn him off.
Anyway, it is none of our concern as he is now indebted to us in eternal robot servitude.
We also saw a 1971 model "Spectreman" there, but it appeared to be in quite a state of disrepair.
Posted by Phil at April 3, 2006 8:48 AM
Comments
WHAT?!?! You passed on Spectreman??? Inconcievable!
Posted by: WOA at April 3, 2006 9:18 AM
DO you need a permit for that thing?
Posted by: Steve Skalish at April 3, 2006 1:54 PM
I wonder if you'd gone right next door to the flea market to that Ames (by the way, excellent flea marketing strategy to whomever put that together, as anyone coming out of an Ames would be sure to stop at the flea market) perhaps they would have had some torpedoes???
Posted by: Buggy at April 3, 2006 4:28 PM
We just didn't see any Buggy. Perhaps they sold out to the fellows that purchased an old "Voltron".
Posted by: Phil at April 3, 2006 5:29 PM
Good point.
Did the Guv'na pick up any belt buckles? Perhaps they could substitute as torpedoes??
Posted by: Buggy at April 3, 2006 6:16 PM
Uh....did you check his pants? He looks like he's packing a torpedo down there.
Posted by: Washington Cube at April 3, 2006 9:00 PM
Is this a foreshadowing of the Playaz on an upcoming episode of the Power Rangers?
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