I emailed V.R. Tech to ask them if they had anything to do with the Samuri or ZDog or any other Hummer Technology/Zechess stuff. (They probably did, because on their website they have that "VDog" thing)
They probably aren't going to respond though, because their website says (c)2009 on it.
I didn't get a "the email failed to send" message, so maybe it went through?
I was going to try to email some other companies involved but I can't find emails for them. I know there's like a 99% chance it won't turn up anything, but I figured it's worth a shot.
Plus, since the Samuri had the (R) registered trademark symbol next to the word Samuri, I did a trademark search for Samuri and found this trademark filed in December 2005. It probably doesn't actually have anything to do with Hummer Team though.
http://tmsearch.tipo.gov.tw/TIPO_DRE/servlet/InitLogoPictureWordDetail?sKeyNO=094016963Also, is there anywhere you can still buy Samuri/ZDogs?? It looks like I'm too late to get either of them on taobao.