The model -
news of this model was announced on 31st December 2010 and it was
released
on 2nd January 2011. It features 'Astro Boy' all advertising.
The following is extracted
from Wikipedia.
Astro Boy is a Japanese
manga series first published in 1952 and television program first
broadcast
in Japan in 1963. The story follows the adventures of a robot named
Astro
Boy and a selection of other characters along the way.
Astro Boy is the first
Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later
became
familiar worldwide as anime. It originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu
Tezuka, revered in Japan as the "God of Manga." After enjoying success
abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known
as Astroboy in other countries, and again in 2003. In November 2007, he
was named Japan's envoy for overseas safety. An American
computer-animated
3-D film based on the original manga series by Tezuka was released on
October
23, 2009.
The bus
- ATR172 is one of almost four-hundred 12 metre Dennis Tridents that
entered
service with KMB between 1998 and 2003. The ATR class included both
Alexander
and Duple Metsec bodied examples. ATR172 was first registered on 12th
August 1999.
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