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You're talking about Hyperdyne right? His blades are absolutely sick. Blindingly powerful. He's also just developed a bluetooth soundboard for the saber hilts too - i'm keeping a close on his progress - when he starts to offer his kits, i'm definitely sending in my just-purchased-as-an-xmas-gift-to-myself Anakin saber. Speaking of which, for those of you in Canada who want to get an Annie or Vader do the following - get the latest Toys R Us flyer, which lists them both at 129.99. Go to Best Buy or Futureshop with the flyer. They'll price match the sabers, plus knock off an additional ten percent. I did this when the sabers were at full price at TRU for 149.99 and ended up getting the Annie at Best Buy for $134. I might even get a vader during this deal (it would come at around 117 before tax). Finally, i've seen first hand that the copper button and gold plated switch on the Anakin ROTS saber wears off pretty easily. Is there any way to preven this? Anyone know how to fix it? Can you get the pieces replated somehow? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Did you see what they did with Lisker though? That wasn't in the manga, was it? (I'm glad they expanded his character personally)

Guyver-Fansubs is the best of the bunch, absolutely. But they are ridiculously slow when it comes to releases. Like Hikuro said, the latest episode to air in Japan was 15, while they are only on Ep 3.

Wasn't this about the time the MPC Voltron was supposed to come out? There are only a few more days left of November....so what gives? Will I be able to grab one for Christmas, or wait until the New Year? Anyone have an idea?

No, that’s not the HCM-Pro Strike-Freedom and it’s not the 1/144. It’s the Strike-Freedom MSIA that I modified by attaching the HG 1/144 wings to its back in what was a very easy modification. Pay attention to meeee!

Here are the photo’s of my modded Strike-Freedom MSIA – I took the wings off of the HG 1/144 SF kit and attached them to the back of the MSIA. All I did was cut down a nail that fit into the connectors of the MSIA and insert it into the model’s wing joint, then popped them on. They work very well and make the MSIA feel whole.

I found Victory difficult to get into though, it took a good twenty eps. Also, i agree wholeheartedly that Zeta is waaay over-rated. Frankly, I thought it was pretty crappy - and to this day I don't get why it's considered to be so amazing. I much preferred Gundam X and even Seed over it. I will admit that Destiny was worse though, which given how much I was boosting the Seed universe is saying a LOT.

Nah, I bet it has to do with the negativity. The mods of the old Gundamwatch forums all moved over to the GOUF forums en masse, and they could have given the mods over at Robotech.com a run for their money in terms of censorship and post deletions. But when crap happens, all the deleting in the world won't stop people from talking about it. I imagine it got to be too much for even them to moderate and so they or Bandai themselves pulled the plug. Mind you, if it was Bandai who did it they brought it on themselves with the terrible way they handled the ending of Seed Destiny

I don't know who was ultimately responsible for this travesty, nor do I care - i'm just so disgusted right now. I cannot believe how quickly this series just degraded. It started off so well, I was so pumped for it, and now after having watched the last episode I can barely keep my bile down. Kira, Athrun, Mwu and company getting out of it all without so much as a scratch, Rey shooting Gil at the end for no apparent reason, Talia deciding to die with Gil while leaving her young boy motherless....ridiculous. But the ultimate insult is what happened with Shinn. Here's a character that was groomed to be the star headliner, given the most powerful MS yet, and he descends into stupidity, anger, and gets his MS completely owned by Athrun halfway through the show, leaving him sitting on the sidelines and crying by show's end. What the hell sort of Destiny is that?? I hope that if they ever make a Seed 3 they redeem his character, and do him justice. He started off so multi-layered and torn, and ended up being reduced to a secondary joke. Just terrible. I'm so angry right now it's not funny. I feel betrayed by this show after investing so much time into it.

I was one of those GSD boosters before, but not anymore. I'm disgusted at how this show has degraded. Even more at how Shinn will apparently get his ass handed to him early on in the next ep. Way to go character development Ugh. This show was like Star Trek Voyager, so much wasted potential. The only thing I like about it are that the MS's are damn cool, but we barely see any of them either. Please get rid of Fukuda. Don't let him near another Gundam series.

Really weak. God, i'm just so disappointed with the way Destiny ended up being treated. I really hope they fire Fukuda for the next series. All i'll be tuning in for for the next two eps are the fight scenes, and i'm sure they'll even skimp on that!

Argh, i've had it. I've been the biggest Destiny booster around, but even i've had enough. This show has just descended to the ridiculsous. Episode 47, and we're getting a bloody recap ep of a character that people could care less about?? This is the worst example of filler that i've ever seen! I just keep imagining some random Anime fan tuning into this show expecting MS vs MS action and instead watching some pink haired lady dance around for half an hour, and then turning it off. It doesn't even look like we'll see any of these spiffy MS in action next episode! The Dom Troopers, Meteor, Akatsuki, Infinite Justice....why bother introducing these mechs? Ugh. Let this series just end already. Maybe the rumoured third series will actually get some decent creative staff.

Hey, Gunota has posted some good news for all you Seed Haters! Whoops, did I say good news? I meant bad More and more confirming that Shin will eat a bullet in the final ep of Destiny, or turn into a vegetable.

If anything, I think Shinn is going to go the way of Camille. The allusions to Zeta Gundam in the opening make me pretty certain that Shinn will probably die, most likely in a heroic self-sacrifice at the very end when he realizes that Rey and Dullindal were manipulating him.

Oh man, i'd snap up a Yamato SDF-1 in a second. Come on guys, you've gotta make one! Looking at the SDF-1 models there, it would have been a lot cooler if they could've retconned the TV model as "SDF-1" and the DYRL model as "SDF-3" or such..... oops, wrong series! hahahaha

Come on you guys, stop talking about cartoon politics and shift to reality! Specifically, the reality that the Strike Freedom MSIA has no Dragoons and how to bash it to give it some! I know there are people who know how on here....

Anyone got any suggestions on how to modify the Strike-Freedom MSIA to incorporate de-tacheable dragoons (apart from simply cutting them off completely )

That's called characterization. You can *feel* the romantic tension there as he ponders the request!

Well, it's official - NO DRAGOONS for the Strike-Freedom MSIA: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/...p=JAEN&wb_dis=2 Dammit, that's REALLY weak Bandai. Seriously. Not including the main defining gimmick of the suit?? WTF. I really cannot express how much I was looking forward to this figure, and how disappointed I am in it now.

crosszgundams rules! i've been buying off him for the last year and he blows stores like HLJ out of the water. As an example, I ordered the Gaia/Chaos/Abyss MSIA's from both crossz and HLJ at the same time. It was only about a week AFTER I had gotten the figures in from crossz that HLJ sent me an email telling me they had JUST shipped the figures. 3 weeks later they were there. Crossz usually gets the figures to me in a week, sometimes under, and i'm in Canada. Somehow it always by-passes customs too, so no duties either. I haven't been disappointed by him yet!

Strike Freedom MSIA has just been released and is for sale on Ebay! I just bought two, can't wait to get them in and settle once and for all if it has removable Dragoons or not!

Nah, I don't think it's gonna be a UC series. God I hope not at least. Even the most rabid and die-hard UC fan has to admit to the fact that the UC has a TON of baggage and backstory - too much I would argue for new fans to be attracted to it, which spells death for a franchise. Seriously, even I get intimidated by all the backstory, and i've actually seen it. Any new fans would be thrown off immediately. It isn't good business sense. For those of you who think that the next mainstream series will be hardcore UC, I really think you have to prepare to have your expectations dashed. Side-stories, an OAV or one-shot maybe, but Zeta Part 3? No chance.

You know, I don't see it that way. I think the writing in Destiny is more subtle than that - basically you have these two strong characters who, through the circumstances around them, begin to start doubting their beliefs and in the process themselves, under-mining their self-confidance, and the payoff for people who are invested in these characters is seeing them once again regaining the strength that they started out with and maturing as a result. I don't see it as "180 from crybaby to heroine". But that's just me apparently. Effect, no offense man, but it doesn't seem as though there's ANYthing that Destiny can do that'll please you.

Man, I cannot believe it's gonna be a recap show next week! What the hell were the writers thinking?? Ugh Still, for all those wining about how Cagalli has been reduced to nothing but a crybaby, this ep should mollify them. She's very assertive, authoritative, and....shockingly effective now. I have a feeling we'll see this same sort of character redemption in Athrun in upcoming eps.

Kira making his way and getting into the cockpit of the Strike Rouge while preparing to booster to space I can imagine. A rogue organization dubbed as terrorists by ZAFT somehow stealing Gaia, a suit that has already BEEN stolen once before and recently recovered, without any sort of repercussions whatsoever is a plot hole. It would be like having the Chaos, Gaia, and Abyss appear in the ZAFT hangers one ep and then be piloted by the EA on Earth the next ep, with no explanation as to how they got there. What's Bull-dust? But seriously, it's not a question of the weapons on the thing, it's a question of its age. Regardless of how armed it is, it was designed *years* earlier than the latest generation of MS's - so like Strike it has a slower OS, outdated engineering and mechanics, and a less efficient power source (remember it was only Zaft who came up with the anti-neutron jammer cancellers - and even if ORB had the technology back then, there's no way Cagalli's dad would want to so blatantly violate the treaty and upset the balance, bla bla). The thing is O-L-D. It's Windows 3.1 as compared to Shinn's Windows XP w/SP2 hehe. At least, that's the way it should be. From the sounds of it, it's holding its own just fine