{"id":36851,"date":"2018-09-04T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=36851"},"modified":"2018-09-04T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:40:54","slug":"johns-oddities-gunpla-builder-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/johns-oddities-gunpla-builder-model\/","title":{"rendered":"John\u2019s Oddities: Gunpla Builder Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be the first person to admit that my collection of anime merchandise &#038; memorabilia is neither the largest nor the most valuable. I collect what I like (when I can afford to) and have a particular fondness for unusual and novel items. These items aren\u2019t necessarily rare or valuable; they\u2019re just odd and unexpected, from a non-Japanese perspective. I\u2019ll share some of them, one per day, in case anyone else finds these collectors\u2019 items fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>This may be the most novel item in my collection, a Bandai plastic model of the injection molding machine that Bandai uses to manufacture Gundam plastic models.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/model.bandai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/model.bandai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/model.bandai.jpg 1419w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/model.bandai-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/model.bandai-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/model.bandai-450x287.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be the first person to admit that my collection of anime merchandise &#038; memorabilia is neither the largest nor the most valuable. I collect what I like (when I can afford to) and have a particular fondness for unusual and novel items. These items aren\u2019t necessarily rare or valuable; they\u2019re just odd and unexpected, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-omake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/model.bandai.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36855,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36851\/revisions\/36855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}