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Penny was at the church, She was sitting with Desmond. Walt wasn't there, it's been said that his story was one of the arcs that wouldn't be resolved and Michael is a Whisperer now, stuck to the island for what he did.

no, there was a bunch of other people.

yeah, I thought it was great ending, I half expected Jack to end up in an empty sound stage with the whole cast of the show surrounding him and slow clapping but this worked too.

2.5 hours on the TV

I think he just means it's not anime accurate.

meh, it makes compromises, big deal, so has every other vf-1 toy ever produced.

and the heat shield and gunpod.

I know someone in japan who can work it out, just wondering if it's worth his time to help people out is all.

Any demand here for the sleep convoy coming out?

so the 1/2000 SDF-"Debacle" is sold out, again.

she's been bad mouthing the franchise for a long while now, the movies, the director, every time she's asked about it she has something bad to say. No surprise in her getting fired, it was obviously what she wanted.

It's easier just to say: everyone

meh. There were so many characters far more annoying, far more worthless than hers.

<does best Jacob impersonation> What do you think?

I think it's clearly explained that his decision was a subjective one based on what happened to his own biological mother and his adoptive mother. He even tells Kate that it's still up to her.

I dig the sheryl version. Too bad I'm broke.

I'm going to duck in here real quick, the actor that plays jacob answered some of these questions and hulu has a clip of it: http://www.hulu.com/collections/453/149379

maybe in terms of design but tooling costs, manufacturing and materials aren't going to be different if the number of individual components is similar. Which between the v2. 1/60 and the destroids they are. Then you have to consider the market demand and ability to milk the molds. The v.2 vf-1 has both greater marketability as well as more potential for variants to spread the cost around.

Just to add to the discussion on the idea that selling direct to consumers = more profit. I've worked in the IT department at a major company that employed thousands of employees whose technology most of you are using right now at a helpdesk level. And I have also worked for a small e-retailer that employed around 50 people total (most of whom worked in the warehouse)that did on average 5000 unique orders per day running their customer support call center. Guess which company had more customer support people and handled a greater volume of calls? business to business is always cheaper to run and operate.

yes... and lets imagine if you will that Yamato came out with a toy where the paint rubbed off with your fingers, covered in grease, with shopping cart landing gears, a blob of plastic for the pilot, accessories that you had to mail away for, warped plastic, mismatched paint, accessories that were missing major details, hinges that were designed to lock but didn't, all on top of crumbly plastic and loose joints. Because I look at the toy boards and there aren't any "what's wrong with my Bandai" threads (even though that whole laundry list above relates directly to the dx vf-25) while there's a new yamato problem thread every other week, several "yamato sucks" threads, a pinned thread about yamato problems, several threads on "how yamato should do business" when any post 1/48 yamato toy has only *one* of the issues the DX vf-25 has. There's more anger directed at Yamato for releasing a niche product for a 25 year old show as a limited kit than there is at bandai for releasing a major toy line, in connection with a major show where the accessories were all web'sclusives. And really, it's the DX THREAD where else are people supposed to talk about the DX? The very fact you're harping on people for discussing their disappointment with the line in the actual thread about the toy line just goes to further my point.

Are you kidding? You don't remember the debates on how the DX vf-25 was both accurate *and* better than the line art? How it fixes Kawamori's hideous anorexic design? How people who pointed out flaws just needed to get over it? And then the waves of, "don't worry, it's just resin, you don't know anything about how toys are made, you're not a real collector, they'll fix *everything* before the toy is released, in Bandai we trust" nonesense? And how after it first came out, everyone was gushing about how strong it was, how sturdy it was, how yamato could learn a thing or two? Well, here we are, a year later and the plastic is out gassing and turning brittle, multiple reports of cracks all along the various hinges in the back plate. Accessories that break the transformation, cause stress to key joints, joints that wear out even while not doing anything at all... and it's still heralded as sturdy? No, I agree that Bandai gets a free pass on this board.

sure, the zaku II was popular and it got the PG treatment, how many other enemy suits got the PG treatment? And yeah, the "just make it cheap" argument is nice on the surface but design takes time and money and so does tooling new molds, retraining workers on assembling the new toys, etc. Like I said, I just don't see these things moving even if they did cost 25 dollars a pop. They're huge, they weren't even the hero mech of the villains and unlike the q-rau and the Nousjadeul-Ger they don't even get updated designs in the sequels. But I hope dizman is right and they sell like mad and yamato goes ahead and does a regular production run of them. And I don't get how the destroids were designed to fail. They are fantastic in every possible way.

I think there's a pretty defined line between "how dare you make something I can't afford!" and "how dare you criticize X company". I really don't care if people buy it or don't buy it. I've never particularly cared for the Regult and I would never pay more than 25 bucks so I've pretty much written off ever owning one. I'm just commenting on the level of angry entitled rhetoric here. All the baseless speculation and arm chair quarterbacking on how yamato should be running their business. And I'm not going to defend the Q-rau. I agree with pretty much every criticism leveled against it. But let's look at the destroids. Great sculpt, tons of detail, even a gimmick or two, great posability (given the limitations of the design), decent price point and even that wasn't enough to really move them off the shelves and most major e-stores ended up putting them on clearance to get rid of them. Even with shows like Gundam it's hard to get high end enemy mecha. Even with transformers, it's Optimus that gets the repaints, the endless minor variations and tweaks while megatron languishes on the shelves collection dust. So if huge franchises like Gundam and transformers have a hard time pushing enemy mecha, just how likely is it that a walking egg that wasn't even the main villain mecha from 25 year old show is going to do well? Especially considering the current global economic situation.

Maybe, but let's be realistic here. Even out of Macross fans, how many are going to buy a giant enemy mecha? I know people here jump and down and say they will, but 30 people in a poll on a tiny forum representing a tiny fan base? It's a niche product for a tiny fan community. It's a freaking egg with chicken legs, I just don't see it selling well even if it were priced at 25 bucks and sold at wal-mart.