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Aww, I hope so!
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
An offering to the princess as a gunpla appreciator!
While doing some late-night trawling of the Internet Archive, I discovered the Namco Museum of Gunpla: Gundam Shop Volume 1 from 1996.

This multimedia CD (Macintosh) is a wonderful virtual Gunpla store and museum with photos of model kits, boxes, and info.

Will drop a vid of it in action below.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It isss <3 One of my favourite covers.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Same, same. <3 One of the first series I gunned for when building the anime-on-DVD collection I have now.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I would love Turn A to escape it, yeah.
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Nice! Is it one you're enjoying?
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yeah! Seems the French one was too as a little Master System TV face and the Sega jingle kicks in as the show starts.

No such prizes on the UK version, though you did get a nice trophy and participation scroll.
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Yeah! Knightmare was the original version of the concept.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Same, same <3
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
One of my fondest, albeit increasingly hazy, memories is auditioning to go on Knightmare with a few school friends, either season 4 or 5. We didn't get picked in the end, but after watching the show for a few years, waiting until I was old enough to give it a bash? A lil dream come true.
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Aww, yeah, that was such a sweet little tribute.
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
To keep the illusion, the dungeoneer would wear a bucket of a helmet with no visor on their head, rendering them effectively blind, hence the giving directions from the team watching with the dungeon graphics overlaid on their screens.

For fans of D&D and CRPGs, this was a real treat.
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There was more to Knightmare than amusing team deaths, though. Each episode would take you through a medieval fantasy dungeon of digitized paintings and computer graphics, which grew larger in scope in season four with the addition of the eye-shield and on-location filming.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Oof, yeah, I can see they would be.
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ohh neat! Thanks for sharing, fascinating stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM