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You know most of us pay good money to garbage collectors to get rid of the crap we already have...If you want free crap, we could all save a bunch of money by connecting our toliets to your house! If you consider it crap when its selling for $20 on the CD rack, then WTF makes it worth a free download?...crap is crap. My gawd, with all the mud you guys like to sling at the music and film industry for produceing such crap...Its like your neighbors have a Pitt Bull they swear craps solid gold...you can even buy a pile of it for $20 at thier weekly garage sale...But you can obviously tell the dogs crap is like that of any other dog and pass on the deal...Yet, late at night you sneak over and steal some Its not like practicaly every store that sells music doesn't have a CD lisening station, its not like you can't rent DVDs and video games...it's not like you don't have tons of music, film and even video game reviews to gauge the general opinion and value with...with as much time and effort as it takes to download crap for free you could already be aware of just how crappy the crap is...But no, you want your crap, and want to eat it too...instant satisfaction is the name of the game, not enough patience to wait for soemthing to reach the discount bin, not enough forsight to wait until the hype dies down, can't be bothered with checking through the compilation or "best of" CDs for those particular songs you want...nope its just consume, consume, consume. it is astonishing how you don't even bother to read what people are actually saying... and then take one line and then run off in some strange tangent. first it was nazis and now it's trash collectors.

just because yamato's boxes suck doesn't mean that toynami's is good... it's entirely possible that both suck.

gotta love that logic... hmm.. tv prequel sucked and got canned.. oooh, I know, let's make a movie exactly like it but different! yeah!

Be that as it may, I still think we have a surplus of them. it's not that there is too many of them but that we aren't utilizing them properly...

Matsushiro made the first Jetfires. This custom looks good but he needs to fix the paint on the nose. The red should cover the entire top of the fuselage. he did say that he hasn't finished the job yet...

very cool custom.. I'm quite partial to Jetfire as it was the first valk I ever owned. any chance you could post some detail pics of the hands.. maybe a few showing what range of motion they do... stuff like that? I'm interested but I'd need some more info. thanks.

truly amazing work.. but I too have to say I get a weird feeling in the pit of my stomache lookng at a damaged 1/48... but in this case the results are definitely worth it!

you forgot the vote response: meh.

they can both look bad at the same time...

so sad. just give it up fanboys. it's a terrible show... just let it die already.

CD and DVDs require workers to source raw metal ores, ship it to refineries, refine it into alloys, ship it to disk pressing plants...plastics require oil , which must be drilled, transported, refined, transported again....then there is packageing, printing of covers, inserts, liner notes ... A lot more goes into CD/DVDs then you think. The packageing alone uses the same printing, binding, resources as books...plus the added fluxuation of oil basied resources and transportation costs...even if they refine the manufactureing process, if the cost of materials goes up accordingly, there is no net saveings. Yet CD prices have remained relitively the same sence introduced well over a decade ago ... yeah, the cost of liveing has increased during that same time...books have INCREASED, food has INCREASED, houseing has INCREASED....but so too your income has INCREASED...whcih allows you to not only pay your bills, but still have the same percentage of disposeable income left over for things like CDs...and sense this percentage is of a larger income, it means you have more purchaseing power for the SAME priced CD/DVDs as you had over a decade ago when first introduced. And for the love of god, calm your ass down...I didn't call you a nazi, or even insinuate that type of infantile BS...You do not need CD/DVDs to exist...you wont starve to death without them, you won't freeze to death without them, they won't heal illness...they are a luxury...nothing more, nothing less. Uhm... right, so the gas in the chainsaws, the diesel in the trucks.. the coal and oil burned to power the factories... the huge amounts of pollution produced to bleach paper and make it acid free.. the toxic glues (also petroleum) used to glue the binding... the inks... the graphic artists who design the covers, and create the fonts... all these things don't factor in at all? I'm actually well aware of what goes into making a DVD.. I know wage slaves that make DVDs. And feel free to continue to not address any of my points... go look at census data go and actually see if the middle class is growing or shrinking. see if wages in the US have kept up with inflation. As for DVD prices staying stable.. well, let us just forget that DVD prices were not stable and that bulk discounting by Fry's and Best Buys (which the MPAA tried stop) forced companies to start selling DVDs at lower prices. And you can go back and edit your posts all you want but I already quoted you... you said: Which is so incredibly poorly worded that it could mean: 1. It is right for companies to double charge us for goods because the nazis were worse... which makes no sense... that's like saying it's right for me to rob you because it would be worse for me to kill you. 2. Corporate greed defeted Nazism... so we should reward them by placing no controls on them. Which is so far from the truth it makes me really afraid for the education system in this country. 3. That I am nazi sympathizer for wanting to place controls on corporations, since without corporate greed we would be living under nazi rule. Judging from how quickly you resorted to profanity and condescention, and how you went back and edited your post.. I don't think my reacting is far off the mark. Why wouldn't one become angry at having their arguement linked with Nazism? why would you even bring that up? And then, having brought that up, get all huffy that someone would be offended at the comparison? And once again... let me just bring this up one more time, since it obvious you don't get what I'm saying... I never said that entertainment was a need. I never said people were entitled to steal the stuff. I never said people should steal the stuff. I never even suggested it might be a legitimate form of civil protest. In FACT.. if you bothered to read my post.. I said that the argument of boycotting the product was an ENTIRLEY LEGITIMATE form of protest... I merely NOTED.. as in commented upon a HISTORIC FACT... that there are always people who are willing to break the law to get what they want. edit: heh.. messed up my use of the quote tags.

Movies, books, music, etc... don't cost a lot of money because of the media it's printed on. All things considered, those things cost a few pennies to make, at most. What we are paying for is the intellectual property, the printed words, the filmed sequences, the recorded music. This is something authors, film makers, recording artists live on. They make these things to make money, which is the same reason any of us go to work everyday for. I won't comment on the pricing structure, but I will remind people that there are DVD's out there that cost $29.99, and then there are DVD's out there that cost $7.99. There are CD's out there that cost $19.99, and then there are CD's out there that cost $1.99. Well, yes and no... you really aren't paying for the intellectual property... you're paying for a license to view the intellectual property. In fact, often times when you buy a painting or sculpture, the artist still has control over how the piece is displayed and if there can be any changes or alterations made to it and gets a cut everytime the piece changes hands (not every artist mind you) You don't own the contents of the CD/Book/Whatever, you only have the right to view and copy for your own purposes. In regards to artists making money off of these DVDs and CDs.. that's pretty much a joke for the vast majority of artists out there... most of us do work for companies that OWN everything we do... we doodle on a napkin, our company owns it... they own the intellectual property rights for what we produce. It is the very rare and fortunate artist that owns what they create.. unless you're a fine artist... but graphic and commercial artists? nope.. they see very little of the money from the sale of reproductions of their work. Most musicians earn their money from concerts and selling swag... most graphic and commercial artists draw a salary or earn an hourly wage.. most of us for very little money. So please don't misuderstand what I'm saying as to mean that I think we should rip off joe blow artist, because I am joe blow artist. To me, DVDs are very similar to buying an "extended warranty" at circuit city or whichever electronics chain you want to insert... that is, it is basically profit. No services are usually ever delivered; in the case of warranties the majority of people who buy the warranty will never use it and many find that when they do go to use it, there are reasons why they can't that was never explained to them and with DVDs this is work that has already earned its money in the theaters... and yet these giant companies just sit there, and rake in the profits. perhaps I would feel differently if the actual artists were compensated more... but only the elite of hollywood really get any sort of power or control... most of sign away our souls to work. As far as pricing goes... 1. Recent class action lawsuit, RIAA lost.. they HAVE been ripping customers off. 2. Universal was the company that first introduced the pricing tier for DVDs in a bid to stay competetive... not as a means of trying to deliver content to consumers in a any sort of fair or meaningful way. 3. Discount bins at Walmart don't count.

no they hate you so they stopped all production. not true at all, the rest of have ours and it's all a conspiracy to make some people think they never came out...

haha. Cap't Ramius had plenty of bouncing breasts in SEED and Wing was almost nothing but boy love. Nuthing new here.

I'd be willing to do that! just give me your address, how much you want for your labour, your paypal account and I'll send my DVD, a blank dual layer DVD and send the money over to you!

whatever they're called, that's some nice work there...

yup. don't understand this thread.. these two toys are in different groups.. macross yammies are high end collectors toys, limited production runs, alts and binal techs are low cost mass market toys. different markets all together. get both, I do.

Then buy a BLANK DVD! Books cost far less (even paperbacks) then what they charge for them...thing is you are not buying empty pages...you are buying the words they contain, the media, not just the medium the media is delivered upon...same thing with DVDs and CDs...Strange though that people always seem to overlook this, even though paperbacks are inching up to near DVD prices and it costs far less to manufacter a book then a DVD. Yeah, CDs prices really havent dropped or really risen much sense being introduced well over a decade ago...but then the medium income has risen quite a bit sense then...minimum wage around here was around $2.85 when CDs were first introduced...its now $6.50 which makes that same $20 CD much more affordable. And the whole argument about films already makeing thier money back is moot...hell, if companies were forced to limit thier profitability...we would all be liveing under nazi rule right now, without even the crap films to entertain us. Sure, whatever... thinking that companies should not be able to charge whatever they want is NOTHING like Nazism or fascism... go look up what facism stood for. If anything, the idea that companies should have limits is more akin to socialism. You can choose to think that companies have the right to do whatever they want and consumers are powerless agianst their holy capitalistic might but this just isn't the case. left on their own, car companies would never have install seat belts or other safety features. We would never have had VCRs or any other form of recording equipment. We would not have the right to reproduce content that we have bought and paid for. Children would still be working in factories, workers would have no rights or compensation for being injured on the job... 40 hour weeks? 5 working days? Where do you think these ideas came from? From your beloved companies and corporations? It was corporate greed that lead to the invasion of Asia by Japan, it was corporate greed that was one of the principle driving forces behind facism and the blind eye GB and the US gave Adolf when we could have stopped him. As for your assertion that books cost less to manufacture than DVDs.. hmm, go look at the size of the average book and weight and compare it to the size and weight of a two DVD SE release... which one takes up more space? Which one weighs more? Which one is made of a thin film of metal and covered in plastic and which one requires workers to chop down a tree, drivers to transport the tree, workers to process the tree into wood pulp, a factory to turn the wood pulp into paper, bleach the paper and then ship the paper to a printing house, workers to run the presses? Try to guess which costs more to manufacture, has more steps in the manufacturing process and costs more to ship and takes more space to sell. Tell me again how DVDs are more expensive to make than a book. As for your minimum wage arguement.. try actually looking at the total cost of living, a little thing called inflation. If we're being so generous with minimum wage, why is it that there were more families with one working parent 20 years ago then there are now. Why is that the middle class is steadily shrinking and there are more people who fall at or under the poverty line? The idea that a product should cost less after the initial release is not that new or shocking. Look at syndicated TV shows... does it cost as much to air an advertisement on a re-run as on the first airing? No. Why not, it's the same product right? Since entertainment media is valuable, shouldn't the channel be allowed to sell air time at the same rate as the first time the show is aired? Sure they can, it doesnt mean companies are going to pay that inflated rate. In the same way, consumers who don't want to pay high prices for old media will find ways of bucking the system. Try actually reading my post before you compare me to a nazi next time... I never said that everyone should D/L divx movies.. I only said that in any given situation there will always be agitators who move to one extreme in order to force change. And once again, if you bother to actually look at the history of entertainment companies and technology, you will see that everytime some tech came along to make life easier for consumers, companies freaked out and tried to criminalize the tech. And yet, every single time, that same technology elevated the market to a new level. When LPs first came out, recording artists freaked out and were sure that they were all going to starve to death. When radio came out, record companies freaked and thought they were going to go out of business. When TV came out, radio companies freaked out. When recordable cassettes came out, record companies freaked out, thought they were going to go out of business. When recordable video cassettes came out, film and tv companies freaked out and thought that it would mark the end. When MP3's came out, record companies freaked out, said that MP3s were destroying the music market. Now the big bad is DiVX and PVR systems. With each new technology these entertainment companies sought to limit consumer rights, restrict the technology and criminalize people who adopted the technology. And yet, each and every single technological innovation has lead to growth and increased marketshare. But for this to happen, there had to be people who were willing to adopt the technology and agitate for change and recognition of consumer rights. Next time you wanna call someone a nazi, try doing a little homework first.

gotta agree, doesn't look bad at all, like the color much better than the red... somehow the face isn't as annoying now.

not true not true A1!!! R2D2 was quite convincing.

looks cool... the porportions don't look as funky as I thought it would be... woohoo! can't wait! well, actually I can.. I'm a little short on the money lately. haha. sigh.

while I love Voices and Information high.. I find myself humming DYRL and Angel paints far more often... and when I think of macross I think of the final attack on bodolza with minmay singing DYRL...

I'm so disapointed...

low viz, hikaru 1s and a max 1j for me...

yup!