Roy Focker

Have you picked up any of the evolutions sets Roy? Nope their too expensive and half the time I'm not intereted in 2 third of the figures. Maybe in a few days I'll take some new picks.

Nowadays there are many working adults and toylines are also being geared towards working adults. Working adults have the $ to buy up the shelf in multiple stores. Plus they have the resources to hit the stores once the new stocks come in. Other adult casual collectors hit the store when are off work or on the weekends. It just takes one horder or scalper to hit everystore when everyone else is at work. Strange this is I heard people defend the scalper and horder. Look at it from another perspective, the chasing is often as good as the toys themselves. The harder to get, the more intrigue that toy is. Remember that state of esctacy you reached when THAT parcel finally arrived at your front door? I get excited tracking down and finding a import or an true rare toy. Not some new toy that should be avaliable in retail at the MSRP. Even should you find an online retailer selling a new action figure at the MSRP. The shipping charges will be just a dollar less than the figure. Few six dollar action figures are really worth eleven dollars to me. Like wise when I have a day off I'm not in the mood to hit all the toy section of every store with in a 25 mile radius just to find a couple of items. Some people do that. I just check the stores that I am already in for something else. Sometimes I strike good but most of the time I see empty pegs or stuff or peg warmers from a year ago. These should be easy to find, affordable domestics. You shouldn't have to be lucky, dishonest or obessed to get them.

Was there a page one of this topic? In any case I got a PM from one of the posters here. The swastika symbol wasn't always one of evil. The Nazi's use of that symbol has given it a bad rap. In the proper contexts not all swastikas are bad but the casual poster here isn't going to see the intended context right away. There was a comment about the avatars of the nude female form in the private message. Which ones are were being talked about? Most of those are moderated. I recall one of some topless model whose arms or hands are covering her breasts. Even though it is nude it still covered and I don't recall the pose looking vulgar or her facial expression moaning or anything like that. As a general rule on questionable avatars. There are some here that I find tasteless but which I don't remove. My personal taste alone isn't enough unless the avatar is clearly bad. For all other ones that fall in the questionable area I typically wait for someone to send an offical complaint in which I take a look and if I agree the avatar is fixed.

Does every subject need it's own super thread? Anyways I've collected 1/18 stuff as well. Here's an old pic I took a few months ago.

Remember the good ole days? If you're my age that's from 1980 to 1990. The toy selection of your local drug store might have sucked any time besides xmas but you could always go to some nice toy store on the weekends and find every thing. Skip ahead a decade. My generation grew up and a lot have become adult collectors. The social stigma against it not as strong as might have been. Now when we are looking for toys its not that easy. I'm not refering to expensive imports that are hard too find to begin with but domestics that should be cheap and everywhere. You read on a message board about the new line of super deformed man and his mighty armored warriors of freedom. Perhaps you decide that will would like to get two figures out of the next wave. Misses Deformed with elevating Skirt and armored warrior with the special midnight blue armor. In the old days you could luck out and find at the nearest drug store or go a toy store and find nearly all the figures. Today's toy stores selection is sad. There are stories of bad disturbution. The toy makers making less of the likely popular characters on purpose. The Walmat effect, Then there are horders or scalpers who run to the stores once they open. In some cases having an in with people who work in the stores. You can combat them by playing their trick against them. Some collectors will drive to twenty stores hunting down a certain figure or check every store they pass when they are on the road. I don't have time to drive to every store. You could use the internet. Ebay maybe but that's where the scalpers are. Who else could be selling the latest hottest toy so fast? What about an online merchants. They're are'nt scalpers but most are smart to jack up prices and charge you extra for shipping. If you find anything good today without paying more or putting in a lot of effort you're lucky. Some collectors have said you if you really want something you have to pay more or really work for it. Not all adult collectors want to pay more for a silly toy or want to spend their free time running around looking for one. If you go to extreme lengths then you're a lot more than a casual geek. Sure toy makers have really started to make toys the appeal to the ten old in each of us but the real ten year olds are missing out. Toy collecting shouldn't be someone's obession or way to fund their retirement.

Okay started to some of the new batch. Yeah all of them. Want a better look of how they looked on the boards and how they compared next to each other. Start your comparing as well.

Weren't the RRG also the ones that named the Orguss hyrid VF that appeared in a sight gag in Macross. Didn't they name it "Jotun" or something? From what I remember about that group is they pass themselves off as experts but do appear to list stuff is unoffical. You just have some fans buying things as fact. That has been a common tradition among uninformed fandom. You want to learn about something. Type a few keywords on a search engine and find a well written by full of speculation essay. If its on a well produced site it gives it even more power. For some fans that is all that is needed for stuff to be canon. Some times the authors make it clear what is made up and what comes from source material but it just takes one fan to buy every things as a fact and pass it around. Happen to me and a few here a couple of times. Where we had to say, "Um. That fiction I made up. If you go to the main index or scroll down you would see the disclaimer."

There is also a huge topic on the VF-0 switch has been on the first page of topics here since it started. Addtional information and question can be posted there.

The problem with the improved skull is that the reflection distorts the shape of skull making it look like either a very strong reflection or a tumor.

Yep you need to wait for the weekend for me to do the old switch-a-roo with them.

The Simpsons should died a long time ago. Remember when it first came out of people were all upset of the negative influence it could have? By todays standards the Simpsons is a tamed show now. The first few season by today standards were less tame then they are now. They've stopped being funny a long time ago and now are just corny and hokey.

Okay I place more up just to give us a better idea of how things could like. I also used the standard red kite for to replace the ones on the main forums page. It can be replaced again. I'm liking the kites however I don't think the twenty different colors looks good. Different shades of red or kites of altered designs look better than fruit loops. The use of the markings on a Valk for the other minor macros work as well. Still like to use the black skull and Minmay wraith in some fashion. Besides of what can be changed here what Left: POLL (new & old). B_HOT_DOT (Not sure what it stand for currently is the green skull). B_NEW_DOT (Currently the light blue file folder). B_POLL_DOT (Currently the purple file folder). Next day I have to spend more changing them is Sat. I don't expect the finalized version by then but we should have a clear vision of what that will be.

AFM was great. Last time I checked it was spammed with porn ad posts.

How long was down for? Two minutes. Man you're fast.

What am I the only one here who doesn't ponder such important questions while driving on the road with friends? Oops that counts as a question. I forgot my quota. Okay gonna have to extend that ban two an entire week now.

Okay Quamtum Leap! I was never a super fan but I would watch from time to time. What a great concept for a cheap sci-fi show. Its science fiction which sounds like it could be expensive but he's always end up in the past so you do it for cheap. Still there is one thing I always wondered about... Sam sometimes ends up leaping into a woman. Now if she's has an intimate partner Sam will have to play her part. Now to other people Sam is a she with female parts. When Sam looks down I assume he sees his male parts. I don't recall him looking at his hands any differently. Only when looks in a mirror does he see what everyone else sees. So when he has to do it as a woman what the hell happens? This leads up to the question about going to the bathroom. Say Sam wakes up as a woman (but doesn't know it yet) with the urge to urinate. As a man on the inside he's gonna natural do it standing while handing the equipment. Does hit the target or get piss all legs and hand?

Went on the IMDB. Read the bio on Kawamori. According to the trivia he's 6'3. This makes him very tall for a Japanese. Even make him tall for a caucasian. I'm about 6'3 and a half. Guess this means we can see eye to eye. Is this data accurate? Anyone remember him looking down at you that anime expo?

I don't know. I find the Minmay Wraith funny now. Maybe she be reserved for pinned topics or something special. Maybe warning levels. Lets have her inspire fear and dread. Okay eta: Please finalize all suggestions in one handy post by Thurs. That's when I'll start changing them. If I have any questions or prefer some changes then I'll post the rest on Sat.

You'll never guess who I vote for.

Writing in Bold cause don't want this post to get lost I placed a few more. Consider them a temp place holders. Next two weeks will be busy for me. Next week especially. There are few more tasks I need to do here besides watching the boards and this project. In the mean time please live with these for the next week or two. If people want to make better ones or suggestion where certain ones should be assigned feel free to but please organize and finalize the suggestions in one post for me to review. On a side note but 'Locked Topic' and 'Moved Topic' ones. Unless the custom macro has an 'x' or a pointing 'arrow' those will most likely be left the way they are. I want the meaning of those two to be pretty clear without having to resort to a key. [/n]

I thought so too. Things still might be moved around.

If somebody wants to pay me equal or more than my present salary, then I'll quit my day job and make Macrossworld my career and work on the site from 9-5 Mon-Fri. Otherwise, I'm doing the best I can with my limited time, resources and skills to get the site updated step by step. I'll accept that offer as well. If you're someone that can use the internet to read up on boobs, comics and toys while on the clock good for you. Some of us actually have to work all the time on our jobs. Out of the free time we have left MW gets not all just a part of it. If A1 wants to take the role of Graham's wife (and all the services she does for him) then I'm sure he'll be able to devote more time with you. Graham is obviosuly making a serious effort now, and to continue knocking it anyways is just childish. Yes it is pretty childish and A1 your doing a bad job promoting the that forum. Instead of noticing any good things it has to offer their are going to start associating you with it. Guys, let's please avoid another fight here and also please leave Macross Nexus out of this for now. You can't judge one forum or site based on the opinions and statements of only one person. Let's get back on the topic of Macross World and it's kites. Agreed and speaking of which I posted a few more.

When was the last time Scarlett pushed her boobs together at the site of Duke screaming "Yo Joe!" in that cartoon?

Yep there are groups of people that don't age the same.

How was your experience during the old days of Macross/Robotech toy collecting? Did you think Matchbox handled their license well? How about the older bunch of us, who probably had access to funds to buy the then superior takatokus (if they could be found)? My experience sucked. I was old enough to realize what toys were better but too young for parent types figures to spend the money on. So instead I got mainly crappy matchbox toys. Once I was a little older Macross and Robotech were a no show. Then came the internet where you got a 1/55 for several hundred or do what I did buy a Jet Fire for less. Thank you Yamato! I could reunite some of the sections. Maybe I will today.