Talk:Plamo

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[edit] Bad Redirect

"Plamo" are plastic models, generally depicting fantasy, anime, or manga-related objects and characters. "Plamo," as a Google image search will immediately illustrate, is not limited to model robots.

There is no record I can find of any discussion of this redirect, seems it was a single editor's choice.

If there isn't room for both "plamo" and "model robot" then the latter should redirect to the former, as all model robots are "plamo." NOT the other way around. Bustter 05:23, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I was able to find the Japanese characters for "puramo" (プラモ), which in turn allowed me to see what is out there on the Japanese web...I know, this sounds like "original research," but the one link I added backs me up on my main point here -- that Plamo is NOT model robots...with プラモ and Google, anyon who wants to find further documentation is welcome to do so.

Didn't see quite how to fit this in, but a fair amount of the puramo on the web consists of eroticized anime characters. While this is only a fraction of the market, such "ero" models are probably the largest difference between US modelling hobbyists and Japanese puramo hobbyists.

Bustter 07:20, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

After the fact, thought to check Wiki jp; they have puramo redirected to "plamodel" (プラモデル) which they've confined to the usual die-cut plastic model kit.

Given the results we see for a プラモ image search, I have to conclude that this is just as wrong as saying it means "robot model."

The Japanese wiki specifically refutes the "model robot" redirect, saying that military craft were the main subject of plamo until Gerry Anderson's "Thunderbirds" inspired a series of fantasy vehicles, and that the Gundam-inspired giant robot craze then took it to the next level.