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lol, and hydrogen peroxide is a base right.

I dunno, looked good to me, the subtle movements in the cheek when kratos is huffing and puffing looked convincing. I'm sure when we see shots that show case more of the environment and vistas we'll all be suitably blown away.

just shows how old I am, the first exposure I had to HD sets was an HD CRT TV.

a lot of HDTVs do some up converting on the their own nowadays. Granted, it's not as nice as a high end upconverting deck, but if you're saving up for a blu-ray player or something, it may not be worth going out and buying a new DVD player just for upconverstion.

yeah, sabertooth doesnt start off feral. In the comics both he and wolverine were black ops/special ops. Even when creed becomes sabertooth he's usually portrayed as cunning, manipulative and psychotic rather than feral... which up until recently really the domain of wildchild.

legos are cheaper, yes, but it's apples to oranges legos don't break easier, a flat piece of lego ABS will break just as easily a flat piece of yamato ABS yamatos are too expensive, if you can afford a 500 dollar millenium falcon, you can afford a 200 dollar yf-21 yamato breaks a lot, your mileage may very, there are people here like myria, scream man, kensei who have had very few if any problems with their yamatos, but yes, I would agree that yamato needs better QC. that argument is rather weak. Would I mind if any company reduced their prices? lol.

" For example, what happened to Bandai's Macross properties between 7 and Frontier? " EXACTLY MY POINT. Those 8 year old molds from the "7" license are at best rusting away in some factory or warehouse. There's not a SINGLE component used from the vf-19 to the vf-25. NOT A SINGLE part, okay, maybe the screws. However, other than some unique parts, like the broom on a harry potter kit, virtually 100% of the bricks from hairy potter can be repurposed for any other kit. What? I can snap a lego rail just as easily as I could snap a yamato wing. more so cuz the yamato wing uses a softer plastic that bends while the lego is much more brittle and more likely to snap than bend. As for lego's QC, my nephew's MTT has those little turret things and they pop right out when you try to pose them. That a design issue. If that happened on a yamato or bandai people here would be shitting up a storm. And actually, when Lego first opened up their factories there were lego fans up in arms in the reduced quality of the bricks. As for your claim that lego kits are done by hand: http://gizmodo.com/5022769/exclusive-inside-the-lego-factory And here's Lego themselves talking about economies of scale and how it relates to them: http://www.brothers-brick.com/2008/08/01/w...st-lego-prices/

The point of distributed cost is that the price for developing a part gets displaced over all the units, over the entire service line of that brick. Yes, all the VF-1s are functionally the same but that left wing panel can only be the left wing panel for the VF-1. It can't be the left wing panel for the VF-0. However, the left wing on the a Lego Airlines set can be the left wing on the Lego Star Wars set, or the left wing on the Indiana Jones set or the left body panel on the pirate set or the left whatever they feel like it to be. That's the point. That part has myriad uses for myriad kits so the cost of that panel, gets distributed however many times it gets used in each kit by however many kits are sold for however many years it gets sold. On the other hand, the left wing on the 1/48 has to pay for itself in far few number of units sold. I don't even know where to begin with your comments whether or not I can snap a lego brick in half. I've seen plenty of SIMILARLY sized lego bricks to various yamato parts, break and distort under use. Of course my kids Duplo block is going to take more abuse, but that thin smooth brick used to make the slide rail for the MTT, not so much. As for your number of lego properties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lego_themes

yeah, I remember those big dudes, but those were mostly for the technic kits back when I was a kid. I remember the mini figures back in the mid 80s... ?

LOL!

the new parts are not unique, they get recycled into other sets, thus molding and development costs get distributed over multiple kits for years and years. And yes, we are still playing with the same bricks from 1979, I know because I still own kits from 1979 and I've made plenty of modern kits. wow, 3 plastic formulation over 5 whole years? as opposed to multiple plastic formulations and metal molds for each product. I count at least 4 unique materials in just leg of a vf-0, threres metal, rubber and at least 2 unique plastic formulations. Let's see, Lego.com, front page, 11 lego IPs and 3 licensed... sounds like most to me.

I think the idea of tying Home into game achievements is a good idea. I'm sure it would take some work to get the developers on board, but having a cool 3D model of a trophy would be pretty cool to place in my virtual pad.

I guess that's one way to deal with the server issue...

Lets say you're right and the molds are completely broken down, they still don't need to make anything else new. They aren't paying an engineer to design a new brick, a materials engineer to pick the plastic (granted yamato doesn't seem to pay this guy enough) and they're not paying to retrain their workers to learn how to assemble a new toy. They're not paying to reconfigure their machines for the new molds, they're not in contract negotiations with their suppliers to deliver the new plastic formulas. They're not paying QC engineer to stress test the new bricks. this is the WHOLE POINT of a modular system. Distributed costs, lower overhead by reproducing the same basic component for different projects. It's why and how fast food restaurants are so profitable, minimal unique ingredients and procedures, plenty of unique products. And please go look up "economies of scale" And yes, disputed... as in lawyers are being paid, where do you think BW is getting the money to fight this thing for 20 years? That's right, us. On that note, the majority of products sold by lego are owned by lego, the IP that is. EVERYTHING yamato sells they have to pay someone to be able to sell, you don't think that factors into the costs?

sin city was supposed to have come out towards the end of october, it's be been postponed, no idea why and no clue about a new release date. Maybe they decided to give it BD Live.

that's actually a rather poor comparison. 90% of legos are classic blocks that have been around for DECADES. very few sets have unique pieces, so there's endless re-usability for any given mold. While specific kits may have a limited production run, the actual components do not. The same isn't the same for a valk, a wing panel for the 1/48 VF-1 has very few applications other than as a wing panel for the 1/48 VF-1. Any non modular toy has far more costs associated with it in terms of modeling, tooling, manufacturing, and construction in comparison. lego also has far broader appeal and it's markets are not constrained by decades long legal disputes in two countries.

hah, I remember when "made in japan" meant cheap shoddy knock off.

kid, couldn't you just have said you life in the congo to help me make my point?

In africa they have a service where the villagers write their emails and it gets stored on a local computer with wifi,, then a guy on a motorbike or jeep drives by and downloads/uploads emails and moves on to the next site. And in some countries that are painfully poor, internet and cell phone service is readily available. i've been to communities in rural china where farm hands slept huddled together in rooms still warmed by coal burning stoves, where a flashlight was considered a luxury, yet they still had satellite TV to watch their korean soap operas and time on a computer that had internet access. Technology and the access to it is not a good indicator of the economic development or access of a people or region. The days of a predictable, linear growth in technology and infrastructure are long gone. I'm not saying this guy is such a case, I'm was just pointing out that people in different parts of the world can make drastically different amounts of money for the same amount of work put in.

missing the point, but a nice dig, the point is that it's not the design that's inherently fragile but the implementation. and it can also be called: wishful thinking and mental gymnastics.

2 billion people live on less than 2 dollars a day, so maybe 2 years isn't lazy....

They can go work for Honda or Toyota, they seem to have no problems using the same workers to make quality cars people actually want to buy.

agreed, all great monster movies/stories started life as social commentaries. If you're in southern california a surprisingly good Japanese ramen place is Shin Sen Gumi, it's a chain and there's some in LA and one in OC.

that part could be stamped and the ball joint could then be screwed into it, was what I was thinking.

Well, maybe it will mean quality Macross projects and not endless reboots or minor variations on the same story?