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Submarines and their men, you know, that staffed them, were expensive and much better put to use attacking

shipping lanes, countering the growing threat of the American sea power, or transporting

men and supplies to various remote island holdings, which of course would eventually be island

hopped by piles of Marines. So they would need to come up with something to attack the American

homeland, but, you know,

not spend a bunch of money on it.

I just do it on the cheap.

It was like, look, guys, we don't know if this is going to work.

So you've got to keep the budget down.

What my dad used to call Christmas.

Listen, Daddy's got to go fight on the Western front.

You don't get Lego this year.

Yeah.

You're not getting any of those sweet, seculent catalytic converters I've stolen over the weekend.

Stacking them on top feature like, Duplo.

Enter the Norobito Research Institute.

They were a secret military laboratory charged with developing experimental weapons

and tools used in Japanese operations throughout the second Sino-Japanese War and then World War II, dating back to the 30s.

And when you hear me say secret Japanese military lab in the 30s, you kind of already

know what's going on here.

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