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that's not a schooner, that's a sailboat.

I don't see how I could have misunderstood. Maybe it was when you said: The fact that there are several popular characters and franchises based around those characters that resonate with "north american" audiences seems to disprove your entire point that disliking Basara has something to do with a cultural bias.

wow, that's a huge leap. There's plenty of characters that go through no character development that "north american" audiences like very much. Such as Captain Jack Sparrow or Morpheus (as he is in the first Marix movie). American "sit-coms" were designed around characters that didn't grow or change through hundreds of episodes. James Bond, until the recent Daniel Craig era, had no real character arc either. The difference is, those characters are all interesting.. Basara is not.

the TP is in the vf-17 picture

That's only true of 2. The third movie easily has as much team work as the first movie

that's nice. I like pizzas. They're yummy. When I was a kid I liked the pizzas with a lot of toppings but now I like pizzas with simple toppings like fresh sliced heirloom tomatoes and fresh mozzarella cheese.

so, I installed mw3 on my xbox360 slim and while everything else plays fine, multiplayer is slow and choppy. Even the lobby music cuts in and out and the menu is slow and unresponsive. Any ideas on what's causing this?

good luck with that. For some reason, macross toy news is treated like state secrets. Actually, state secrets are pretty easy to come by.

yup, the 27 looked great next to the v1 25 but the renewal does it no favors. I put my 27s back into fighter mode

I think that will be the case. The front panel on the the v2 is designed to come off.

Why, I doubt there's even a toy in that box! I bet that when people open their boxes, there will be nothing but coal in there with a note that says, "ha-ha!"

damn kids and your skateboards! and get off my lawn!

lol. You kids and your fancy polyphonic music! Why, in my day we sang one note, that's all we needed and we liked it!

Thank you.

4,725yen = 61$ + 40 bucks int shipping 101$ + BBTS mark up ??? They don't ship directly from over seas so they need to roll that international shipping cost into their prices.

can you imagine what the guy who collects 20$ transformers thinks of us?

I don't know how you can say that, he was part of the love triangle, like saying ranka or misa weren't main characters.

I got a spot like that on mine as well. Just looks like there was an air bubble when the paint was being applied

the 19 does come with release agent. Wiping it off with a soft cloth, like a micro fiber or lens cleaning cloth will work just fine. No need to soak or scrub

But it didn't need the hatch on the cockpit or the rotating seat. Transforms just fine without it

I can't say I have those particular problems with my copy. The ratchet/indent joints are fine. It's just the ball joint and friction joints that are loose or inconsistent.

it looks like the pauldrons snap on over pegs on the metal shoulder piece. I'm guessing you could carefully pry it apart and pop them off the pegs but I think the plastic used is on the brittle side and I wouldn't risk it. BUT, you can raise the arm up at the shoulder joint and if you look underneath you'll see the exposed the shoulder hinge. You could try that trick where you apply crazy glue or nail polish and keep working the joint back and forth as it dries.

yup, those plates pop right on and right off so they're an easy parts swap instead of an entirely new piece. Bandai really put some thought and care into this.

yeah, razor is definitely worth the watch. The Plan, not so much.

yes, but the characters in MF weren't 13 and all this talk of statutory rape...