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I put this in a comment, then realized I should probably have it in my own journal as well.

When I lived is Charleston, South Carolina in 1971 they would play Gamera the turtle movies and Ultraman shows on Saturday morning television. Then my best friend at the time and I would play all afternoon pretending to be Ultraman (we were *both* Ultraman). Gamera was our sidekick we'd call to protect the city (our neighborhood) while went off into outer space (the forest with a marsh behind it).

I tried to be him for Halloween, but I was too young to make it myself, it was too obscure for regular drugstores near us to have the manufactured costumes, and my mom had no idea what I was talking about (my drawing was nowhere near accurate. Hey, I was only six at the time) to make one for me. So I was a tiger instead. My brother was a robot made out of cardboard boxes and tinfoil.

I don't really remember if the show was any good, but our playtime stories were great!