Le Stade Olympique de Montreal (Montreal Olympic Stadium) was built as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, and subsequently became the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos from 1977 until the franchise was moved to Washington, D.C. after the 2004 season, and Canadian Football League teams. The stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, track and field, soccer finals and some equestrian events for the 1976 Games. The Olympic swimming pool was located under the tower, and the Olympic Velodrome (since converted to the Biodome) were situated at the base of the tower. Olympic Stadium has served as a home to the CFL's Montreal Alouettes, NASL's Montreal Manic, WLAF's Montreal Machine, and has hosted the CFL's Grey Cup. "The Big O", designed by French architect Roger Tailibert, was to feature a retractable roof, which would be opened and closed by La tour de Montreal (Montreal Tower), the tallest inclined structure in the world at 175-metres, on a 45-degree angle. The tower, a member of the World Federation of Great Towers, offers visitors a 360-degree panaroma at the Observatoire de la Tour de Montreal (Montreal Tower Observatory), accessible via a 2-minute funicular-ride. The bi-level funicular, which travels 2.8 metres per second, accommodates up to 76 people per ride. The stadium was not completed in time for the games. Cost and construction overruns resulting from the unusual design, coupled with labor strikes, left the stadium without a tower or roof for the opening ceremonies. The 65-ton roof languished in a warehouse in France until 1982. It wasn't until 1987 that both the tower and the roof, made of over 5,574 square-metres of Kevlar, were completed, and until 1988 that the roof could be retracted. And even then, the roof could not be used in winds greater than 40 km/hr. Initial projections estimated the cost of the stadium at C$134 million, but costs reached C$264 million when the unfinished stadium opened. The City of Montreal did not finish paying off the stadium until 2006, when total costs of the "Big Owe" were estimated to have reached C$2.4 billion.

Zoids is a multi-media model-kit-based franchise originating from Japanese toy company Tomy (now Takara-Tomy); though now produced by various companies through licenses. The majority of the franchise is built around and focused on the various model kit series released, traditionally mechanically driven 1/72th scale mecha model kits that resemble a wide range of animals and creatures. In recent years, the franchise has expanded from strictly motorised model kits to highly detailed and poseable model kits, action figures and even PVC figurines. The various anime series, comics, manga books and video games all serve as tie-in media products for the franchise, to expand both consumer base and franchise recognition. Zoids 2 (this model): TOMY released another line of Zoids in the UK and Europe (with a re-release in Australia and South-East Asia) in 1996. The Zoids 2 line featured very bright colour schemes, with all the Zoids having at least some chromed parts. The Zoids also had unique stickers with odd swirling designs. The Zoids 2 line did not feature distinctive factions for the Zoids, but did have a backstory loosely based on (but not a continuation of) the UK Zoid comic, with the Zoids invading Earth and humanity's last hope being to turn the Zoids against each other. Like Technozoids, Zoids 2 was quickly discontinued. A fire was reported to have broken out at the production plant around this time which may have had something to do with it. Zoids 2 is commonly abbreviated as Z2