Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:39 am**

OMG, it's been announced that Akira Toriyama—the creator of Dragon Ball and the character designer for Chrono Trigger and every Dragon Quest / Dragon Warrior game—died of a hemorrhagic stroke on March 1 at age 68.

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:47 pm**

OMG, it's been announced that Akira Toriyama—the creator of Dragon Ball and the character designer for Chrono Trigger and every Dragon Quest / Dragon Warrior game—died of a hemorrhagic stroke on March 1 at age 68.

Chrono Trigger is probably my favorite RPG of all time. Those Dragon Warrior games for NES were brutally difficult lol.

Posted: **Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:03 pm**

No love for Steve Lawrence? Died three days ago at the age of 88.

Guess I’m just too old.

Posted: **Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:05 pm**

Steve and Eydie rings a bell.

Posted: **Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:08 pm**

I've seen them over the years and never had any interest. Bad Vegas act.

Posted: **Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:29 pm**

I only remember him as Maury Sline in Blues Brothers

Posted: **Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:39 pm**

RIP Karl Wallinger, leader of World Party, at age 66 of unreported causes.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/kar ... 38501/amp/

This one is still most relevant today.

Posted: **Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:12 pm**

Eric Carmen singer of “Hungry Eyes”

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:19 am**

He's all by himself now.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:28 pm**

RIP auto designer Marcello Gandini, who worked for the Bertone design studio, at age 85. Gandini designed a wide variety of cars for companies including BMW, Alfa Romeo, Citroën, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Renault, and WV, but he will likely be remembered most for his work for Lamborghini, for which he designed the Miura, Urraco, Espada, and Countach.

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:05 pm**

The Miura is one of the prettiest/sexiest cars ever.

There was a Countach kit car in traffic the other day, and it was rather less so.

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:19 pm**

Well, he also designed the Iso Lele.

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:21 pm**

That sounds like a car that's only available on a Top Gear challenge.

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:07 am**

After an image search, I actually don't dislike the way the Iso Lele looks at all, although it does remind one more than a little of a Ford Pinto, especially from the rear. I'd say the Lele looks better than the Espada, although I'd rather have the Lamborghini's V12 than the Lele's Cleveland V8. Although that Ford V8 would be waaaay less expensive to repair/maintain (and cheap and easy to modify for more power). Hmmm...

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:08 am**

The Lele is like a hatchback version of a Mazda MX-500 breadvan.

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:13 am**

Yeah, kinda. But remember I like hatchbacks. And I drove one of these for 10+ years:

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:23 am**

Yeah. My Volt is a hatchback. Corvette's are hatchbacks. Very practical form factor.

My other car is a station wagon. I'm old.

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:24 am**

That Mazda is so close.

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:33 am**

hatchbacks are so ugly

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:34 am**

also I disagree with the assertion that “corvettes are hatchbacks”. They might technically be but they don’t share the typical hatchback aesthetic at all

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:38 am**

hatchbacks are so ugly

So are you.

Signed,
A hatchback guy

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:59 am**

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Posted: **Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:03 pm**

OG Dickie Dunn

Posted: **Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:10 pm**

oooooh, stupid me