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Tank crossed with motorbike: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/5fa2...ecbccdrcrd.html

very nice. I can't wait till this guy comes out. might even bust my MPC convoy out of storage.

Oooooh, so cute! Nice to see some sign of rohby again after all this time.

people keep complaining about the colors, but other than the white accents and the grey emblem, nothing else has changed. Still that stupid red chest and the blue arms. What's all the yapping about?

They try to make everyone happy by glueing the panel in wrong so that the canopy can't close correctly? Huh? I expect better from something I spent more than $100 on. 416267[/snapback] meh, the chinese factory farm that it was made at probably pays there workers 100 dollars a month. and they probably do nothing bun churn out toys all day. I bet they really don't give too much of a hoot.

I dunno... I'm actually happy with the more muted color scheme... I think the vehicle mode looks kind of garish with his regular colors.

Low vis. LOW VIS. LOW VIS! Here's a picture thats floating around TFW2005, but it might be a photoshop job. http://zip.2chan.net/2/src/1152806402596.jpg 416217[/snapback] might be? you think...? light grey body, red in the chest, blue in the arms. That's starscreams colors. The only difference it sounds like is a grey faction symbol and white accents instead of red accents on the wings. Why don't we all just calm down and wait for actual color photos to be released before freaking out.

so... other than the decepticon symbol being grey instead of purple.... what else changed?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, naturally. Yours is entitled "heresy". 416209[/snapback] yup.

Hahah, my wife says this to me as well... I tell her when the kid is old enough to reach the valks, they're going into locked cabinets or into storage until he moves out.

True, but why go half way when you can go all the way to perfect it. I mean even this Arrowhead water bottle is more clearer. 416002[/snapback] yeah, and it holds water too! my 1/48 holds very little water and I wouldn't drink any of it.

they say, "ooooh, robotech." Then I say, "no... macross..." And they respond, "yeah, yeah, robotech." sigh.

oooh, purdy!

would you like some PEZ?

mine's crystal clear. Maybe it's just you bro. Have you had your eyes checked?

They're located in the the anaheim/fullerton area. Tam will allow for local pick-up... so if you're around here, give him a call and save yourself 6 bucks. Also, is USPS shipping is great. I've ordered more than a few things shipped and they always came in perfect condition.

I also recommend Twin Moon anime: www.tmpanime.com. Tam is a great guy, careful package, fair shipping rates and he has the VF-1s hikaru in stock.

from what i gather, 'convoy' is the name of optimus prime in the japanese market. kinda like how in the US, we've got 'robotech' versus what the japanese call 'macross'. IMHO, convoy looks closer to what i consider to be optimus than the US optimus, ie no battle damage and normal smokestacks. 415477[/snapback] Kind of... "convoy" is a title for the leader of the good guys.. which if I remember, are called seibertrons or some such in the japanese version... so all the future "convoys' usually have some other name, leo convoy, blah blah blah convoy... get the japanese version... the US version is just lame with chopped off exhausts and the funky battle damage.

yup Imagine if they redid macross with that level of animation.... drool.

actually, sony is in trouble. They lost out big time in the portable music market by pushing the MD and missing out on the MP3 wave. This let smaller companies like Samsung, iRiver and Creative Labs really take a bite into that market. In America, the ipod rules all. They never pushed into the top three with their cell phones and had to join up with Ericsson and even still, motorola and samsung have really established a stronghold when it comes to high end, feature rich phones. Televisions, sony has also taken a beating... Samsung has been running up and down beating them with in the LCD/plasma market and whole DLP thing really has made a big dent. In short, smaller companies like samsung and LG have really taken a big bite out of Sony's market and Samsun is expected to surpass Sony in terms of worldwide brand name recognition. Is sony done for? Not hardly, they are a well diversified company and their recent movies have done well... but definitely their core electronics market has been shrinking and they are vulnerable.

I think you're on the right track here... the decepticon mustang had all sorts of little decepticon insignias and details, the lack of any emblems on the semi gives me hope that this isn't the final prime vehicle mode. That's pretty much G2 optimus prime right there... maybe we're looking at nemsis prime and there's still hope for a good ol' fashioned g1 prime.

I just got me a reissue VF-1s Hikaru from Twin Moons... very nice. all clean and the head was glued together nicely, relatively seam free. can't go wrong with that.

the end is awesome.

They're releasing it today?

I'm having serious doubts the PS3 is gonna survive. Sony's following the traditional pattern of the video game industry, where the dominant hardware company grows overconfident, believes they are invincible, and then shoots themself in the head. 415183[/snapback] yeah, I'm seeing nintendo making a huge comback and winning this round in the console wars with wii.