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Just think of it this way, you're helping keep some poor chinese peasant girl working in a factory instead of being married off when she's 13 to some 45 year old in order to pay for her drunk dad's gambling debts. Only to be raped repeatedly as soon as she starts menstruating, working in the fields for 14 hours a day, 365 days a year except for that one day she gives birth... praying that it's a boy so they don't have to go drown a girl baby in the bath so they can try again for a boy baby in order to keep her in-laws happy and to continue the family name. The small pittance she receives from yamato helps to keep her mother and father warm at night with the small lump of raw coal they burn in their small stove. Of course they have to keep the windows slightly open, even in the middle of winter because their mud walled home has no chimney and the carbon monoxide builds up at night all the more dangerous because like the other 200 million desperately poor peasant farmers in China they sleep on pounded earth floors not just because of tradition but because they're too poor to afford a bed. This peasant girl considers herself lucky to have a job at all, knowing full well thousands of factories have already closed down, their workers sent packing in the middle of the night. The lucky ones will go home to a feast of hot rice and stir fried wild vegetables that grow on the parched land behind their parents homes. In the morning they'll go out to work the fields or tend the milk cows with their parents. The unfortunate ones will find themselves prostitutes in the streets of Shanghai or Hong Kong servicing drunk westerners on their sex holidays. The really unfortunate ones will end up in some building in some city in some foreign land, no money, no passport, confined to three rooms (the room the eat in, the room they poo in and the room they service in) for the next 5-10 years until they pay off their "debt". This peasant girl even hears whispered stories of girls younger than her in places like Indonesia who work, chained to their tables, for 14 hours a day putting together beauty and the beast toys for disney. Their fingers burned from the poorly designed equipment, their already frail bodies used up and broken by the time some rich american teenager gets a brand new car for graduating high school. The peasant girl hears stories about how one of these Indonesian workers tried to stand up and form a union and had her knees shattered for it. The Chinese peasant girl hears these stories because the people who tell them to her wants her to be happy for the job she does have and not to get funny ideas into her head, comrade.

Gundam Seed is a bad joke.

Nice base you got there, let's see more please

Welcome to MacrossWorld, your collection is impressive don't worry about the peanut gallery.

I get what he's saying. My order for the vf-1d and vf-11 at overdrive came out to over 300 dollars. So the SDF-1, is around what I spend in a year for macross toys... but it's 1 toy... that's what people are balking at because no one is thinking, "I'm gonna get this instead of", everyone is thinking, "I'm gonna get this on top of..."

damnit, looks like Bandai subcontracted out to the same factory that makes the toynami alphas....

Yes, just call us goldilocks.

yup... I'm gonna be dumping some transformers and other stuff for this. If, for no other reason, just to make room for the box....

It's the sheer size of the ARMD that has me worried... heavy plus yamato's questionable materials choice has me seeing disintegrating ratchets like in the toynami alpha

I don't even think ratchets will be enough for the shoulder/elbows. I'm envisioning pull out/in metal pegs to physically lock the pose in place.

right around 2ft, give or take an inch

around 500 USD

I hope you're right as well.

next spring? wow, that's good news... hopefully things will be turned around enough where I can spend that kind of money on a toy.

I hope the elbow joint is equally impressive thought I do hope the final sculpt hides the ratchets.

gonna be hard to swing 500 dollars on 1 toy by the wife...

awesome, looks great. this is shaping up to be a very expensive year!

oh, it's so awesome... but I'm afraid it's too big for me and I'm really scared at how much it will cost. Still, just gorgeous.

I really hope the game continues with Shepard... I put a lot of thought into the stats based on my play style and what the fully powered up abilities would be like... so if they toss the character and just keep how you affected the characters/galaxy I'll be pretty disappointed. And I actually though the female shepard's voice acting was much better than the male shepard. That's the primary reason I made my "main" shepard female, I couldn't stand the male shepard's voice work.

nah, he was made a squad leader later on and for a specific reason. I'm gonna go with "cuz he's the main character" or "cuz he was best friends with the CAG"

you "she"

boo on the KIA

hikaru never had a 1a in SDFM. His first is the 1d, then he trains in the CF 1J, he gets his 1j and then the 1s

Q-roomba?

fixed.