a helicopter is a contraption. no arguments on this point. it's shocking they make a sound other than "1930s toontown awooga car struggling to turn over"
- rotor held on by single, large nut and milspec thread lock
- steered by using a rigid plate to suggest where rotor blades should go
- most energy converted to noise
- piloted only by levers, dials and valves
- fragile and prone to explosions
- vehicle with the most catostrophic accidents in it's class
a helicopter is a steam locomotive
Watches (smart or otherwise) are gizmos, as are cheap knockoff portable game gizmos like you might find on Wish
A gizmo is a device of dubious quality, intent, usefulness, and statistical likelihood of explosions.
| Is large and can cause grievous bodily harm | Is tiny and intricate, possibly made by elves | |
|---|---|---|
| Works in general, could be the subject of a 1950s technical filmreel | Machine | Device |
| May fly apart at any moment, should make cartoon noises | Contraption | Gizmo |
this is a rig (the actual, formal title) and nobody would disagree that it is a contraption made of a series of devices and gizmos. these are facts
spotted this post again while browsing and now i'm thinking what if a game where you build Rigs out of Contraptions, Machines, Devices and Gizmos (all differently-sized blocks which you can tell are doing something but not what) and then.... i dunno, smash em into each other? seems like fun
My friend passed it onto me since she knows I’m nuts for this series. I’m told it didn’t even have a price sticker on it and wasn’t in the store’s system, but the store clerk let my friend have it for something like $10. Would love to know how it ended up there. Did someone else misplace it? Well, who knows, but it lives with me now. I’m still losing my mind about it haha, what an incredible find.
From what i can tell this thing was printed in 1986, and contains an assortment of stuff: stills and concept art from the TV-broadcast run of episodes and the opening and ending sequences (with each episode getting its own double-page spread of stills), several pages full of stills and concept art and other stuff related to the Affair of Nolandia special, what seem to my Japanese-illiterate eyes to be staff profiles and interviews, some gag manga strips i can't read but look very cute, a number of full-page illustrations including a couple of large fold-out ones, and on the dust jacket, some paper dolls of Kei and Yuri.
I can’t seem to find scans of this online anywhere, so i might try to remedy that if i can figure out a good way to scan this without having to damage it (if anyone with more experience with this sort of thing has any tips, I’m all ears). I want to at least get the illustrations and manga strips posted online, even if I have to resort to just photographing them.
I didn't (completely) forget about this!!!
I checked a few of my local libraries but none of them had a proper book scanner, so in the end i just went with my home office flatbed scanner. Which unfortunately required me to be a little bit rougher with the book than I would have preferred (some pages actually came unbound from the rest of the book whoops; at least this made them easier to scan), but to be loved is to be changed I suppose... But with that said, I did my best to make this as good as it could be. Enjoy!
Copies of this book can be found for sale on various auction websites, but I wasn't able to find anywhere that just had the scans available to view. Until now...
You can read and download it on the Internet Archive here: