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the show explained it pretty well, I didn't have a problem with it, especially since the movies made even less sense.

I forgot I saw this... must have blocked it out of my memory like some horrible trauma.

photoshop DYRL opening remake at the end is awesome.

I agree it looks nice all armored up

I have it, I wouldn't recommend it unless you plan on it just sitting on a shelf. The basic toy wasn't designed to accommodate the armor and with it on it's a fiddly mess. A few months on, with it having done nothing but hang limply off it's stand, several joints are now loose, the elbows, hips and one of the ankle locks. Picking up the toy causes the legs to swing freely and the arms can barely support their own weight. With the armor on and standing on it's own, the toy will slump to one side as the ankle lock fails.

I thought it was a good choice. I think that particular reveal maintains some much needed momentum immediately going into the next half season.

Or, as the argument is made against yamato all the time, they could have just done it right the first time.

I gotta agree with the Duke here. I actually agree with a lot of the points you guys were making but it was just done at a level where it felt like you guys were more interested in one upping each other than anything else.

That doesn't explain why the joints are tight out of the box and then become loose on their own. The only logical explanation is that the plastic isn't formulated correctly and is physically changing. Looking at the dull, poorly cured, pre-chiped diecast on my 27, I wish it was painted as crappily as yamato's diecast.

I plan on getting him, but I'll have to wait for the nemesis repaint as money is more than a little tight right now.

Yeah, friction joints losing their stiffness is just natural but there's something wrong with the plastic if they're becoming loose over time without manual wear and tear.

There's a huge difference between the joints becoming loose due to play and the joints becoming loose because they're just sitting there.

You didn't say "fighter plane", you said "plane" and that's a "plane" And yeah, the AC-139 flies in a big circle, it doesn't dogfight, it just pounds whatever is in the middle of that big circle.

Well, there's the AC-130

Any technology that advanced would still yield better results in a vehicle without those flaws.

large bipedal robots make no sense for warfare, their cons out weigh any potential benefits in maneuverability. Increased per unit cost Increased maintenance cost and time More soft points to worry about Increased visibility/radar signature Slower movement speed Increased fuel consumption Decreased stability as a weapons platform

looks good. The CG stuff doesn't match the live action stuff very well but it's still full of shiny and win.

that doesn't make any sense, in fighter mode the wing gloves have their weight supported by the legs while in battroid the wings + booster packs just hang there supported only by the hinges. If it was the weight of the boosters causing the cracks then the problem would have happened to mine as well. edit:: maybe it's not weight but that with the leg armor attached the wing glove is now at a slight angle since the leg/wing lock is now a little higher up than it stock and that stress is causing the cracks. I can see on my copy that the area where those cracks are that there's a slight indent in the plastic as if there was a mold/flow issue and that area is just plain weaker to begin with.

I had mine on the stand so no joints had any weight on them, the legs were allowed to hang and the only thing the arms were doing were holding the gun across the chest. I found the figure to be such a fiddly mess that I didn't touch and just left it as a display piece. After a few months of this the elbows, the ankle locks and the hips are all loose now. Picking up the figure with armor on causes the legs to swing freely and the ankle locks can barely support the weight of the unarmored vf-25, they collapse entirely if the armor is on. The elbows are quite loose but can still support the weight of the forearm and gun. I suppose the elbows can be coated with nail polish but I don't know what can be done for the hips and ankle locks. edit:: only one of the ankles is loose. The other one still snaps into place. There's enough friction in the slide that it still stands there if it doesn't get handled.

my copy is fine, had the armor pack on in battroid up on the stand for a few months. Most of the joints are shot to hell and so loose as to be nearly worthless but no cracks.

the 18-200 is a better lens than either the 18-50 or 50-200 with less distortion at 18mm and a better focal length than the 50-200. It's a well regarded lens, it's just big and long.

don't feel bad, the map is useless for 20 hours of gameplay and then all of the sudden it becomes handy, easy to overlook it.

just open up your map, the mission monster is identified with a red star, some of the missions take you to different areas

Hey, Mari is having a concert in Sacramento in the beginning of September according to her FB page, any thoughts on carpooling out there?

meh, it looks better than the yammie in every mode. Even if it's as floppy, it still wins just because of all the sculpted detail.