{"id":3491,"date":"2012-07-01T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2012-07-01T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T13:48:11","slug":"sunday-scifi-buckaroo-banzai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/science-fiction\/sunday-scifi-buckaroo-banzai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday SciFi: Buckaroo Banzai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005JKEX\/eclipsswebwarren\">Buckaroo Banzai<\/a> fan since I saw it, twice, during the opening week back in 1984. \u00a0Saw it at the old Juliet Theater in Poughkeepsie.<\/p>\n<p>Got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671540580\/eclipsswebwarren\">paperback<\/a> and the long sleeved Jet Car t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Now there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamantentertainment.com\/2011\/07\/18\/buckaroo-banzai-is-back\/\">Buckaroo Banzai RPG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not Doctor Banzai&#8217;s first\u00a0appearance\u00a0in an RPG.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarna.net\/wiki\/Team_Banzai\">Team Banzai was an official part of the Battletech universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first official RPG focused on the Banzai Institute though.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, Buckaroo Banzai was a fun movie, a good read, and it&#8217;s a damn shame a sequel was never made.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a Buckaroo Banzai fan since I saw it, twice, during the opening week back in 1984. \u00a0Saw it at the old Juliet Theater in Poughkeepsie. Got the paperback and the long sleeved Jet Car t-shirt. Now there is a Buckaroo Banzai RPG. This is not Doctor Banzai&#8217;s first\u00a0appearance\u00a0in an RPG.\u00a0Team Banzai was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[146,165,180,538,675,696,697,739],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-sunday-scifi","tag-battletech","tag-book","tag-buckaroo-banzai","tag-movie","tag-rpg","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi","tag-sunday-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Uj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}