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I disagree. In regards to the cartoon, the fact that it's pulling in good ratings speaks to the quality of the show and the fanbase, since Cartoon Network certainly have NOT gone out of their way to promote it - instead putting it in a Friday 1am timeslot, correct? (we don't get CN up here, but that's what i've been told). This is in contrast to the daily airings Wing had. The handling of the Gundam product is what my ass-tastic comment focuses on though and i'm speaking primarily about MSIA's and not the models - go to any of your major toy distributors and take a look at the shelves. For a show which has already aired 2/3rds of the way through, with supposedly good ratings, there is not a SINGLE Gundam toy out there - and what IS on the shelves has been heavily discounted. Instead of following what looked like a winning formula with Wing Gundam, Bandai screwed the pooch with G Gundam, and likewise with its Seed Gundam products. Their distribution system was horrible - G Gundam and all the Mandor and Toro MSIA's flooding the shelves (not to mention the endless Burning BS figures) killed any minute momentum the product had from the lethargic UC line, and Bandai's release of 3 different versions of the Strike Gundam MSIA, not to mention the Astray's (which were cool but which did not figure into the show at all) in the first wave, while the iron was hot (so to speak) pretty much were the final nails in the Gundam merchandising coffin from an action figure standpoint. Why Bandai didn't release all 5 of the prominent 'hero' Gundam figures in the first wave is still beyond me. Regardless though, they were able to take a franchise which had excellent toy sales with Wing and run it UTTERLY into the ground - there have been NO new US Gundam action figures for nearly a year now on the shelves. Hell, even He-Man lasted longer than Seed. I loved being able to find Gundams on local store shelves and buying them without the inflated prices. But it's become apparent that Bandai USA do not know what they are doing, and that their actions have hurt the Gundam franchise as a whole. Thank god that the japanese market is still going strong, otherwise we wouldn't be getting any MSIA's at all.

There will always be some group out there who will ignore the license and continue subbing. When you have a raving fanbase and literally thousands of downloads per ep of your product (generating huge profile), then you'll have someone providing it. Honestly, now that i've heard Destiny has been licensed i'm sort of disappointed. Why? Because of the completely ass-tastic way that Bandai America handled the Seed license, including the products. I honestly don't expect much better from them, and would rather that Bandai as a whole keeps Gundam in Japan instead of taking massive losses in the US

The answer? WHEN THEY DON'T GO TO THE STARS!!!! ARGH http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=19608 WHAT THE F**K?? Ok, this franchise REALLY needs to die right now. As exciting as it would be watching a drunk fly around in a rocket with warp engines on it in our solar system, thanks i'll bloody pass. Enterprise has a hard enough time navigating around the galaxy. With a ship that's set so far BEFORE Enterprise, we'll probably have a rip-off of Apollo 13 or something, with no anti-gravity, no phazers, no shields, no transporters....guns with bullets, large spacesuits.....if I want to watch that, i'll catch the next shuttle launch Jesus CHRIST, what the HELL is wrong with Paramount? I just don't understand it!

Woah! Kinda makes you wonder if Stellar is even capable of drowing

Those crazy guys at millenniumfalcon.com are reporting that the live-action Star Wars tv series will be set to bridge the gap between Ep 3 and Ep 4. They're usually pretty accurate with their forecasting, so i'm gonna go out on a limb and believe it to be true: http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3251 This, IMO, blows salty monkey nads. We've had to put up with this bloody prequel trend for, what, 7 years now?? Star Wars set the ball rolling, and others picked it up like Star Trek, Macross, Smallville etc... Even Robert Jordan wrote a bloody prequel book! Enough is enough! If there's one thing I CANNOT stand it's knowing how everything turns out in the end - it honestly detracts SO much from whatever it is i'm watching. While I understand there's something to be said for knowing how things came about, I'm constantly hampered with the knowledge that "Yes, Anakin turns into Vader" "No, Roy doesn't die in Mzero" "Clark will end up with Lois, so the whole Lana love thing is pointless" whenever I watch any of those shows/movies. I was really hoping that Star Wars would set the ball rolling again by not focusing on the past but instead forging ahead into an untapped future (and while the Expanded Universe is nice, I don't give two craps if it's over-written by a TV series). Those rumours i'd heard of Mark Hamill returning to play an older Luke in a post Ep-6 tv series made it sound incredible! Just think how cool that would be to see the restoration of a new Jedi Order on screen, following the exploits of some NEW, original characters, who we don't already know how/when they die. Instead, we'll probably see Vader wipe out MORE Jedi (how sunny! ), or follow Boba Fett around until he trips and falls into the Sarlaac. If it's the adventures of Young Han and Chewie, I will murder someone.

It's like the Strike, V2, and God Gundam mooshed together. I was wondering when Kunio would whip out the G Gundam designs and incorporate them into Seed....hell, he's tapped pretty much every other series (except for Turn A, thank god) Still, as Blender Gundams go, it looks damn cool, and I can't wait to see it in action and buy its MSIA. Destinyyy....FINGAH! *touch*

It started off great, but slid into mediocrity and nonsense by the end. I was pretty disappointed. There were a LOT of dangling threads left open, not to mention contradictions (shouldn't the main character have died when Kreia was killed, due to that whole Force bond thing?) Ah well

I like it! It'll make a nice counter to the Freedom. What are those things on its fists though?

Retain your own identity next time and don't play the part that someone else labels you with. Don't give into peer pressure, it's not worth it. I think you need to take a swim in "Lake You"!

Goddammit Jemstone, the hell is wrong with you? Do you not know how to disagree but be civil about it at the same time? Way to nuke my thread.

Oooh, those transparent MSIA's look nice! They're exclusives though right?

Wow, check this out: http://www.trekunited.com/news.php?id=13 Some anonymous donors pledged 3 MILLION to help get Enterprise renewed! Crazyness! Although I have to admit, ever since Coto came onboard, the show's actually been pretty damn good

Rey is also his love monkey

Yeah, i collected them all, thinking that that was the end of the story. Then my girlfriend at the time came back from a trip to italy with an italian version of the book, which featured the Gigantics and some weird elf guy, and it threw me for a loop. I'd love to hear more about what the story is behind them.

I actually liked the way the story progressed in this episode. I thought the idea of a group creating war for profit (while not a new one), was a good point to include in the Gundam universe. Dullindal might be a good guy, but damn does he ever have sinister and evil looks. I think his is the most fascinating character in the show - what's he up to? It'll be great to discover. You know, if it wasn't for the scene showing the Minerva Captain and Dullindal in a post-coital setting, i'd almost believe that "Gil" had Rey grown to be his personal boy-toy. If you guys think that Rey's hug was a normal guy's reaction to a 'father-figure', then I think you should probably go into therapy and get some advice on your own family situations If it wasn't the cry of "Gil!" then it was most definetely the blush while hugging. But at least it was offset by all the bouncing boobies! Sweet, sweet fake-Lacus boobies....

Bail's on the way to save the day! Or else he's just cruising Twi'lek hookers

They look like Pokemon gone bad Jesus, maybe all this Anime influence on Western culture ISN'T a good thing after all....

The guy with the long hair in the Anakin pic is Nick Gillard, the guy in charge of coming up with all the lightsaber combat for the prequel pics. The girl looks like Mousy McCallum, Rick McCallum's daughter, getting killed. SPOILERS (do I have to still say this?) And yes, Anakin does kill the younglings END SPOILERS

Hahaha, that's AWESOME!

Damn! At first I thought that that Aegis was an MSIA, but then looking at the joints realized it wasn't Hopes high, then dashed. Curse you bandai!

Oh nice one - so he makes 40 grand and then shuts the site down and hands over all the user logs?? I never download movies myself, although I do grab TV shows that i've missed. I wonder, does the MPAA cover television as well, or only films?

LokiTorrent got owned today by the MPAA http://www.lokitorrent.com/ It's interesting though - the last I heard they had acquried a group of lawyers and were raising funds to meet their monthly payments. I wonder what happened?

Oh hey, you're from Ottawa too? Cool. No, this city is a wasteland when it comes to Alternators .....I have a feeling we'll get a repeat of what happened with Silverstreak, Hound, and DeadEnd - a few more months of nothing, and then BLAM!, 6 new alternators flooding shelves at the same time. Which is something I really hate, because it usually bankrupts me to buy them all at once

Oh man, there'd BETTER be a Gouf Ignited!! And yeah, Athrun is the man....