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Didn't that suit end up becoming self aware, but eventually sacrificing itself so that Tony could live? Which led tony to go back to an older model suit because he was paranoid about making another sentient suit? I liked the movie, but I pretty much gave up on the comics.

Of course, having an arm break off of a 200 dollar toy isn't the worst thing that could happen. The severed limbs make for great props:

Meditate on this:

No... it was the character animation that suffered the most. Static shots were passable but all the movements seemed like they were missing a few frames. For example, watch the scene with altoh and sheryl talking before the Quarter launches. When altoh is leaving, Sheryl jumps up... shes sitting one moment a frame of her jumping and then, tada! She's standing. A lot of the profile scenes are drawn horribly as well... nananse at the mall while starting the ranka fan club looked particularly amatuerish.

heh, I love these stories. My own: My son is 26 months old, I was watching ep 4 of Macross Frontier after he went to sleep. Ranka was singing 'my boyfriend is a pilot' and alto was in zooming around, dogfighting the pixies when he comes running and laughing out of his room, and jumps up into my lap. He watches the tv for a second and starts singing, "kyun kyun" and then pretends his hands is a valk and says, "wooosh!"

Yeah, in the beginning, I fell for the red herring with saji and setsuna... thinking maybe that the writers would develop that relationship and bring saji into the celestial beings fold... but as they moved away from that and had saji cooking and what not... I realized they were doomed.

I'm chalking it up as an animation mistake... shortcut. The guys animating this episode *really* didn't like to do character animation...

dunno, maybe lucas is something of a genius and skipped a grade?

I got the impression that michel was calling alto "senpai" because he was impressed with how he hooked up with sheryl... it's just another way for him to tease alto instead of the usual "hime"

I think you have me confused with Chrono. But no, it was pretty obvious, they served no purpose, they didn't drive the story all they were from the begining of the show was a foil.. grounded "real" people the viewers were supposed to relate to. But honestly, how long could they keep up the funny antics of those two dating while the world went to hell around them?

I hope the inevitable toy of the vf-171 allows for that feature.

Most of it was okay, but the stuff with Sheryl at the end was pretty bad.

So it looks like in the future is alive and well, or at least their is around.

you keep ignoring the match. Oil in 2000: 22 USD. Oil in 2008: 120 USD. That's not 60%, that's 600%. The dollar did not fall by 600% in ANY MARKET. Yen in 2000: 105 to 1 dollar, Yen in 2008: 101 to 1 dollar.

Narrator: I had it all. Even the low viz 1 with the blurry little sticky weathering splotches, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous peoples of... wherever.

Here's one for BoB: Narrator: A new valkyrie built by my company leaves somewhere and gets transformed. The shoulder locks up. The shoulder shatters and breaks with little bits everywhere. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of valkyries in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of breakages? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane: Which toy company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.

I think chances are rather good ranka will turn into a diva. Michel's comments that she's bratty/spoiled could be an insight into how fame and success will affect her. On the other hand, sheryl was pleased with Ranka's new found confidence and that ranka was starting her career as an idol.

Yeah, toys are toys, I buy them because I like em, not because I think they're going to pay for my kid's college education. And if it comes to that, well, my kid can take out loans like I did.

Voices would be an awesome cover for Ranka.

I like being owned. heh... I was quoting Fight Club, seemed apropo to what you were saying.

the things you own, end up owning you.

heh.. but I found these tiny thin little rare earth magnets... if they're strong enough and small enough to pop in those mount wells... then out comes the epoxy.

wow, they're really on it. They just released ep 4....

double plus dude.

true, and I get that obi was talking out of his ass, but I'm just saying... he KNEW that Tony's suit was at least capable of taking out a rather heavily armed weapons depot when he made his claim. He was probably wrong in claiming the iron monger suit was better than the MK III, but I don't think obi was refering to the MK I... that's just silly.