Graham

That Minmay pic of Solscud's is starting to give me indecent thoughts about my plastic figures. Is that wrong? Graham

Heh and the laser pistols that looked like staple guns. Graham

Holy Grail is in my top 10 movie list. Graham

Great show if you can ignore the extremely bad science of the moon being blown out of orbit and then encountering a new planet or new alien race each week. Didn't bother me as a kid, but now it's a bit too much suspension of disbelief. Graham

1/48 Scale Eagle Replica. Nice, but way too expensive IMO. And some cheaper 12" Eagles. Graham

Just received my copy of The Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire from amazon. Pretty cool book. Graham

At least 4 people to play huh . I'd love to be able to try this game, but these days, when everyone's busy with either their work or kids, it's extremely difficult getting a group of friends together for several hours to play a board game or tabletop RPG. Graham

Great art of the Eagle from Space 1999. Graham

The only good thing about TF - The Movie, was that some Transformers actually died. And yes I cheered when they died. Graham

Any Dirty Harry movie (except The Dead Pool), beats all other cop movies. Clint (well, early Eastwood) is to me what Arnie is to A1. Graham

Would love some Octos and Cheyenne. Can't see it happening though.

I hear ya . Except gotta save the cast of Serenity. I was gonna say save Arnie as well, but he's not American anyway, so no need. Graham

Looking very nice, I may have to get one. Graham

Isn't Renato in Tokyo as well? Graham

In the PS2 DYRL game, the GBP is used for a ground mission on Mars with great effect. Graham

Peter Sellers was a comic genius. So-called modern day comedic actors like Chris Rock & Adam Sandler are not in the least funny, just plain annoying IMO. Graham

Welcome aboard stuffparties. What Yamato will relase next after the 1/60 scale VF-0S is released this April is a subject of much debate and interest to everybody here. Obviously, they will milk the 1/60 VF-0 molds as much as possible to recoup their tooling costs and release several VF-0 variants such as the VF-0D in hopefully both Shin (blue) and normal (grey) versions, VF-0A in both hopefully cannon-fodder and Shin colors, possibly even a VF-0B even though it doesn't appear in the anime, only as a Hasegawa model kit so far. A Reactive Armor set for the VF-0S would also be most welcome, as would the Ghost Booster. Personally, I think the next new type of Yamato Macross mecha after the VF-0 will be a 1/60 SV-51 in hopefully Nora, Ivanov and cannon-fodder colors. In the past Yamato have always stated that they would never make any 2-seater 1/48 VF-1 toys. But the toy industry is a highly changeable business and one should 'never say never'. While I've no evidence to back this up, I do have a hunch we will eventually see 1/48 2-seater VF-1D, VT-1 & VE-1 in the not too distant future (perhaps the first one by the end of this year)? Of course, the holy grail of many-long time Yamato Macross toy collectors is a completely resculpted and larger scale YF-19 from Yamato. Graham

Can't argue with that. Some of the best TV ever made IMO. Graham

IMO Dr.Strangelove is one of the funniest movies ever made. Different strokes for different folks I suppose. Graham

So what is the cutoff year we should use to define classic? Or is there another criteria rather than just age? Graham

hobbykits, you seem to be missing the points I'm trying to make, which are : - Bandai's designs their MG, PG & HGUC kits so that they will appeal to BOTH the non-professional & professional builder, i.e. the non-professional can just quickly snap the Bandai kits together with no paint or glue and still have something that looks reasonably good. The professional can take his time and use sand, putty, paint and scratch-build or optional resin parts to make the kit look even better. Using this approach Bandai captures a larger share of the hobby market. Hasegawa kits are more traditional model kits in that they require paint and glue to build and thus are more suitable for the professional builder. Bandai MG, PG & HGUC Gundam kits have much less surface detail (fewer panel lines) than Hasegawa's Macross kits. Transforming model kits in general are more fragile than transforming toys. If you want a mecha that you can frequently transform it is better to stick with a toy rather than a model. Transforming toys can be durable, whereas transforming mecha kits like the MG Zeta and Z-Plus and PG Zeta are less durable and often have balance problems (lack of ratchet joints), sagging parts and insufficiently stong locking. Going by the present level of detail on Bandai's PG kits, a PG VF-1 would not necessarily be more detailed than a Yamato 1/48 VF-1 toy, although of course a professional model builder could make a PG kit much more detailed. Graham

I think Michael Mann's 'Heat' is way overated. The only good part of the movie was the big gunfight when they robbed the bank. I thought the rest of the movie was terrible, with De Niro and Pacino being completely unsuitable for their roles. I love's Mann's work on the TV shows Miami Vice & Crime Story, but to be honest have been less than impressed with his movies to date. Graham

Heh, I remember my mothing telling me that my father wanted to take her to see Rosemary's Baby when she was pregnant with me, but she was too scared to go see it. I actually quite like the movie. IMO it had good acting, good story, lots of suspense and was quite scary without having to rely on in-your-face shocks and scary monsters. But then again, I'm mostly into older movies from the '60s, '70s and '80s. And I thought Mia Farrow was quite cute in the movie in a sort of waifish way (I like waifish women). Graham

Very nice. Yours is the first 1/60 GBP custom that I have seen so far. Graham

Thought the first movie was crap, so won't be seeing the sequel. Graham