No Mini No Mo'

First off, congratulations to all of those losers in Boston who can finally say, "We won!" The Sox haven't been in the World Series since their tragic appearance in 1986 when Bill Buckner let the ball roll through his legs to force a game seven against the Mets, who would eventually emerge victorious. Has the curse been lifted? I guess we will just have to wait until the World Series starts this weekend to find out. I think it's kind of funny how they call it the World Series, but only teams from America and Canada can actually compete in it. That doesn't really constitute the whole world. It's not like the World Cup where the entire world can actually participate in it. They should call it the North American Series instead. That would be more accurate.

Anyway, in Limited Ed. news, Takara, the company that produces Alternator and Binal-Tech Transformers, has pulled their Mini Cooper-based Transformer due to copyright problems. Instead, they will be producing this Limited Ed. Transformers Alternator and BinalTech Honda S2000:



I don't think it is nearly as cool looking as the concept sketches that I had seen for the Mini Cooper Transformer. It's too bad, because I had the Mini Cooper on pre-order at Action HQ and now I will get nothing. I haven't even gotten the money back from the pre-order yet! Those rotten bastards. Just kiddin' Action HQ, you know I love you guys! Everybody click on their banner ad above the Google ads on my site to show them how much I love them.

In other Takara news, apparently in addition to their Bow-lingual Dog Translator they are now producing a Meow-lingual Cat Translator:



Because I can't read Japanese and none of the translation websites are working on the Takara site, I'm not 100% positive that it is a cat translator, but that is what it looks like. Here's what I get when I try to translate the information about this device:

New cat ジャラシ where also the cat can enjoy also the person "you play and the ゃ are in playing this large maneuvers" appearance!

I'm not really sure what that means. If anyone out there can read Japanese, how about a little help here. I really want to know what my cat is thinking.

Update: I just found this product release information for the Meow-lingual Cat Translator which, I guess, people have known about for a while. How come I am always the last to know? I'm sure you will be seeing these in your local PETsMART in time for the holidays.