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Hulu has a pretty good one, they've gone back in time, complete with derezzed screenshots and dial up modem noises.

darn it! I was looking forward to months of people b!tching about the price.

That's a photoshop job, I wouldn't read too much into it. But hopefully yamato isn't cheaping out on the plastic and molds.

don't forget to rotate the pilot in battroid mode

I'm NEVER going to go see a movie with you.

I was playing with a demo unit at Target. I was really impressed with it and the 3D effect worked like a charm. I'll definitely pick one up eventually but I have feeling I'll wait until they've gone through at least one hardware revision.

Wow, awesome news, can't wait to experience it vicariously through some of our more talented members!

Of course they're going to say that Macross is a mecha fan show... they haven't had an original mecha design that got anywhere past "concept design" phase and they're still recycling decades old designs even on their "original" material. What else are they going to say?

Yeah, I was thinking that too but then right before you face off against the uber T, EDI says she's getting (paraphrasing) "biological AND Reaper" readings. And if the Reapers use the bio-smoothie to reproduce, why would the uber-T have that unique reading and why would it be a giant humanoid reaper and not some sort of squidy-reaper-fetus thing? Me too... there's gotta be a big reason why the reapers keep it around, leave it staffed with nerf'd protheans and made a bee line straight to it with sovereign.

Yeah, okay... but if the reapers are constantly culling the galaxy before the reach a level where they can be a threat (understanding mass effect, relays, etc) then what can they possibly be getting that would be beneficial to them?

But if that was it, why the cycle of expansion and contraction. It seems like there's some goal.

it's that line about salvation through destruction which makes me think that there's some other actor in all this.

During the last battle in ME2, it sounds like the Reapers are saying there's something worse than them out there. Or maybe the reapers are more interested in shaping the evolution of the galaxy towards a specific goal rather than just complete domination?

I decided I'm going to wait for the passenger liner VC-19V "VIP-Calibur" version. make it happen yamato!

woohoo! Can't wait... I guess it's finally time to finish my insanity run.

All the metal/plastic/metal joints on all three of my DXs have gone to crap. The 25 is particularly bad in that the "collar bone" hinges can no longer stay in place on their own so the whole arm slumps down, the hips are shot and the legs will dangle freely. The 27 is a little bit better because there's a notch on the shoulder assembly but metal joints themselves are just as loose. Elbows and wrists are loose as well.. basically any joint that is a friction joint has issues. In comparison, the yammies I own that started off loose like the first release 1/60 yf-19 and SV-51 remain loose and those that started off with tight joints, like the v2 1/60 vf-1, remain tight.

oh neat, look at those hinges holding the wings up in battroid, I was hoping there would be something like that this time around! oh neat, look at those hinges holding the wings up in battroid, I was hoping there would be something like that this time around!

I don't see how popularity of the toy has anything to do with the quality of the plastic. The v2 1/60 sold well and they were breaking as well. Just flip through there's plenty of people complaining that their DXs have magically become loose over time. And if it is become of flashing? Then the design still sucks because then what you're telling me is the only way that my two 27s and 1 25 could hold their own gunpod up was because of shoddy quality control and workers not properly cleaning off flashing on key joints... flashing that magically went away by itself after a couple months of sitting around and not doing anything.

Lucky for you, you're a special and unique snow flake, the rest of us haven't been so lucky.

Suicide by relay... Wow.

the biggest thing that frustrates me about the game is the class balances. The ONE tank you get in the game doesn't do enough damage to hold attention. Meanwhile, rogues and mages do so much damage that within seconds the entire mob will turn on them. Which isn't so bad but since both classes have near zero resistance to knock down, they're quickly in a position where hits are sending them flying across the room, unable to run away or cast counter spells of any kind... not that it matters because with both classes, a couple hits kills them. Mob control in general in this game is difficult. Several of the mini boss encounters pretty much centers around throwing a dozen baddies at you, either in a tight corridor or out in the open where they swarm you from all sides. Mage Hawke has some AWESOME crowd control spells at his disposal but the other mages do not and the rogue's various mob control tactics don't last enough to make a difference, especially when new mobs just magically drop down out of the sky to swarm you anyways. Honestly, at the higher difficulty levels, this can be a very frustrating game to play because of the glitches and balances issues.

So, I really enjoyed dragon age 2. The combat, the story structure, the new graphics engine, I liked all of that but holy cr@p is the game bugged. Casting haste makes me move faster yes, but it also makes the mobs move faster as well, my loyal dog frequently likes to just stop and admire a corner of the map, forcing me to resummon him, I've jumped/teleported off the map on more than one occasion, switching weapons will randomly cause my character to fire at the slowest rate of fire (so if I go from daggers to a bow and back to daggers, hawke still wields the daggers at the speed of the bow), entire mobs are individually marked as plot points on the map so that the entire map is covered in markers, I've had the character animation freeze in the " running with weapons drawn" pose making for rather hilarious cut scenes where hawke looks like he's in a full body cast... I'm sure theres more. This game just should not have been released in this state.

There's no other way that a joint that hasn't been used in months to suddenly become loose than the plastic itself is changing. Considering it's been happening to all 3 of my DX which are different versions bought months apart from each other, and that the same thing is happening to other members here tells me that it's a problem with the plastic itself and not "flashing"

I've used ami-ami a lot, from pre-orders to regular purchase. Always good communication, prompt shipping and competitive prices. Their only fault is that they like to use over sized boxes.