{"id":1060,"date":"2009-04-20T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/japanese-man-builds-zoid.html"},"modified":"2009-04-20T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T12:41:00","slug":"japanese-man-builds-zoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/japanese-man-builds-zoid.html","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Man Builds Zoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for my sons, who are rabid collectors and fans of all things Zoids related.  My son <a href=\"http:\/\/home.roadrunner.com\/%7Etinnickels2\/Hobbies\/Zoids\/Zhome.html\">Tyler even has a chunk of his website<\/a> devoted to his <s>sickness<\/s> passion.   (Note: It&#8217;s a good place to go if you have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about.)<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdwithswag.com\/giant-kabutom-mx-03-mech-robot-invades-japan\/\">man in Japan has devoted the last 11 years to creating a Zoid-like creature<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t really know if it is intended to be one of the actual Zoid robots, but it almost certainly has to be inspired by that.  Either way, the Beetle-bot is seriously awesome.  It&#8217;s not clear if this unit has a charged particle cannon or not.  They don&#8217;t show it in the video, but with 11 years of his life into this thing it would just be unthinkable that there wasn&#8217;t a beam weapon in there somewhere.   As I write this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tohokingdom.com\/kaiju\/images\/mechagodzilla75.htm\">Mechagodzilla<\/a> is shaking in his little tin boots.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kf7Sytl2-EE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kf7Sytl2-EE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for my sons, who are rabid collectors and fans of all things Zoids related. My son Tyler even<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/japanese-man-builds-zoid.html\" title=\"Read Japanese Man Builds Zoid\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}