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Is it just me or does that Mitsubishi sort of resemble a VolvoS80

Sculpt looks good but I have some doubts on to how articulated that could be. Is that 1/2000 SDF-1 fairly well articulated (I know... it's an SDF-1... but still).

Eh Hurin, I'm not going to re-engage you... I never wanted to engage you in the first place. You got yourself suspended because you were so stuck on a word that you couldn't let it go. You stuck to it so hard and fast that you even came around to paraphrasing me later in defense of your own argument. Look at you now mischaracterizing this argument as if it started with a post a page ago. That's not where it started at all. It started when I said it was petty of you to want to debate semantics rather than posting something with substance in the post immediately before mine. That was my pot shot. That was me saying your previous post seemed like silly agitation over words. How did you respond? You responded by turning back a page and re-reading one of my previous posts. What does that have to do with my pointing out that you were fixating a little too hard on semantics in the post I had responded to? Nothing. Honestly, I am okay, not in the least bit embarrassed, about not being an expert at Lost, or any of its loopholes or plot twists. I’ve never watched a lost episode on DVD before. I don’t go to Lost websites, don’t write essays about Lost while being suspended from my favorite forums, and I don’t even have people to chat about Lost with at a water cooler at work. I can’t even swear I’ve seen every episode of Lost. If I’m wrong about anything I’m not going to be shamed. People post in threads like this to clear the air and they don’t expect to be attacked for word choice (and then later be full-on attacked when the attacker doesn’t like having it pointed out that it’s pretty petty to argue semantics). When I try to clear up some points you used that as evidence I was confused. Kudos Sherlock… Kudos. I never declared “I know everything about Lost.” Generally speaking, it also seems a little sad to try to speak ultra definitively about a show while simultaneously saying “you shouldn’t ask too many questions, that’s just the way it is.” Finally, it seems a little high and mighty to say "you're an idiot, you're a douche, and I stopped coming to Macrossworld because it was full of idiots and douches." How do you think that makes you sound? Do you think you sound like a member of the community who should be esteemed? Anyway, I don't know if tomorrow's show will be a rerun or another new episode. If it's a re-run I won't watch, I don't watch re-runs, but if it's new I'll probably come back here and make a post. If it shows some confusion I welcome a clarifying response that doesn't sound like it's coming from someone who spent days grinding their axe.

Tip 'o the iceberg. The whole anime industry in general is going to have to find ways of generating more income. Mail-away extras and such aren't really new... they're just a whole lot more convenient now that we have the Interwebs and can do website exclusives. Macross fans just get the double-whammy of having to deal with licensing issues. If Yamato USA (or Bandai, whoever) could also put the same exclusives up for sale here, and we could order through their site and pay domestic shipping it might still be a bit of a rub but it wouldn't be nearly the pain we're going through now. It's also worth noting that as the number of website exclusives have multiplied so too has the amount of stuff available to us. Seriously, Hikaru's fanjet... there's only one way that thing ever gets made and it's as some wonky exclusive (same with the VF-19Kai's soundbooster). With add-ons being exclusives a lot of people should be grateful, if you don't care about Basara's sound booster then you're thrilled it's sold separately as an exclusive because you weren't forced to pay extra for the original toy and get that part.

While I agree, those parts get really hard to take off... there's absolutely no reason to take them off for transformation. The part rotates so you don't ever have to remove it (for transformation purposes).

Yamato should have made this a 1/72 kit. Then, if it sold well to the model builders in their favorite scale maybe that would have been an indication of possible 1/60 toy scale sales. Oh well, I still think this thread ought to be in the models section. I would expect it to be full of models fans either thrilled about it or poopooing it... not full of angry toy fans upset about a model being made (although i understand it means a toy version is now unlikely). AFAIK, model fans see some pretty pricey products, I doubt they'll hit as much sticker shock as the toy fans who balk at Toynami's Battlepod costing nearly $30.

This thing shouldn't cost any more than the DX Quarter. The DX quarter has functioning gun turrets and some solid metal joints with ratchets and seems to be similar (if not more) complicated in design.

This may sound a little creepy odd but can we make it so we can PM ourselves again? The board gives an error message about hwo that's not allowed but I did it all the time on the old board. It's a good way to transfer text data from one computer to another via websites I know aren't blocked (lots of work computers don't allow access to common email programs for fear of people downloading viruses).

Bummer. Can I steal your pic and use it on anymoon.com whenever I have the chance to update that post?

While I'd put Miria in Q-Rau well above Leia in dress you can include me in the group that would have much preferred the green TV version over the 2 DYRL variants we got. EDIT - bought both the Max and Miria Raus... I think both were slightly marked down but I'm sure someone somewhere still made money on them.

This makes me want a JM2.0 really bad

I find it highly unlikely Yamato would make a kit and then produce a toy version even if the kit sold like gang-busters (and at $400 it'll probably be very limited and there won't be much to gain from how quickly it sells out). Yamato would have to wait years before they could make a toy version as to not burn all the kit buyers.

I'm glad that Regult is a kit and not a toy... I would have purchased a toy but I don't mind saving some money. If they ever do make a toy I'm sure to own one. Shouldn't this thread be moved to the models section?

If MIB is just taking the appearance of Locke, and has not been reborn in some way as Locke, then what does it matter that Locke was a candidate? I thought MIB just had to convince someone to kill Jacob? EDIT - I reread this and it's pretty poorly worded. I realize he has not been reborn "as Locke" but rather as something Locke-inspired.

I'm pretty sure none of this is your fault. Hurin just had a bone to pick. I told him it was perfectly acceptable to think of MIB's death as a transformation and made a butterfly analogy. He then summarized his argument by saying I never considered that maybe the MIB was like a butterfly, shedding his one existence to enjoy another. So... yeah... whatevs. On to the next point though, if there's nothing special about the MIB being Locke, why the big ruse? Why didn't the MIB assume the form of someone who had died previously, convince the survivors that there was a malevolant force, and kill Jacob a long time ago? What kind of plan is: 1) People will be brought here by Jacob 2) I will watch people, maybe kill a few 3) People will escape... but I'll convince one of them to bring them all back 4) I will hope the one I've convinced kills one person in particular 5) They will return 6) I will assume the now dead one's identity 7) I will convince my stooley to kill Jacob I will then convince the people brought here to kill each other 9) I will leave We already saw MIB send Richard to kill Jacob. Why not act like Echo's brother when Echo arrived on the island. Have him say "OMG, there's this guy here who has been tormenting me." Echo would have slit Jacob's throat, the end.

Am I sorta dumb... or did the writers have him leave behind a CORPSE?? Again, you're going back to semantics. He's not dead... he's "transformed". Yes, he transformed from a physical entity, with a body, to a spirit. Some people call that "dying." How is your argument over whether or not "dead" is the right term NOT a matter of semantics? Times MIB will come back from "dead" to be "living" (although, maybe 'living' is the wrong term): 1) When Jacob "transformed" him from a person with a body to a corpse and a black smokey monster. 2) When the black smokey monster transformed itself into (un)Locke as the rules seemed to have changed at that point making it capable of leaving the island... the "loophole" as Jacob put it. Now, stop being intellectually dishonest. What troubled you was why the MIB was being referred to as "dead". Now you're changing the focus of your argument onto one sentence of my original post. Go ahead now and argue with me over whether or not the instances I've allude to really represent someone coming back from the grave. An argument there would be pretty useless though, those are the things I said I hope the show would expound upon. I've already asked my questions about the first rebirth:

So, because in your head you had built this up to be an argument of more than semantics, the fact it was just an argument over semantics makes me an idiot? Apology accepted... but you're going to have to work on being more gracious the next time I hand you your ass in an argument.

Wait, arguing your points is arguing semantics? If your points themselves were not a case of arguing semantics then wouldn't I have been unable to do what I just did? How is the idiocy on my part when your arguments are all so easily defeated? Why would what you "originally" said be off limits? Isn't the fact your argument had no substance proof it was just a case of semantics as I originally point out? I love the "now that you grasp what I was saying originally". My original quote said: The guy has a corpse... it's okay to say he died. If you prefer to think of him as a butterfly, and his corpse is just the remnants of his cocoon, and he did not die but elevated to some other plane... that's cool too. Where are you finding something new from that in my "he's dead, he has a corpse" rant?

Now that that's out of the way, why would the MIB be "distilled malevolance"? It seems him who has been wronged pretty hardcore in the backstory we were given. Was he wrong in seeking vengeance against the woman who raised him? Well yeah... but she thanked him twice while dying. Does the light suck away all that is good of a person and just leave the bad? Is that why MIB had a corpse... did Jacob simply kill everything good in him (including his physical body) leaving a rampaging negative spirit in its wake? These are the answers I look forward to when we get to meet the "new" MIB (or at least, that's what I hope is about to happen).

This has been the silliest argument I've seen in a while. because he has a corpse. and now his physical body is a CORPSE. All would be true... if he were NOT a corpse. He's dead... he's a corpse. He continues to exist on DIFFERENT plane but it's pretty hard to argue that he isn't dead... cause he has a corpse. I'm saying he's dead... which is true. I'm not saying "he has ceased to exist." I'm hopeful that we will see Jacob's first encounter with the re-manifested MIB in the next episode. Now simmer down... simmer...

I'm a douche, I'm an idiot... and it's me who is the incendiary one? Well Sir, I genuinely appreciate your magnanimous decision to stop insulting me over my understanding of corpses equating physical death.

Man you protest too much. The guy has a corpse. Would you argue with me that a ghost is still alive? Well yes, you would, because you love to argue. "No officer, it's cool, I didn't kill this guy whose corpse I'm dragging because I saw an apparition." It's pretty cool that Jacob can't hurt the MIB... but he can bludgeon him and turn him into a corpse (but not kill him... the other kind of turning him into a corpse). C'mon, use your catch phrase now... I love it. I asked if MIB had become Smokey as some means of Limbo from being killed by a man who couldn't kill him. You're saying "He wasn't killed, he just BECAME Smokey and left a corpse behind in the process". I appreciate you finding worlds of difference in the two sentences.

Don't forget, Bandai just made 1/55 VF-1A Max and Hikaru in DYRL schemes in their chunky line... If Bandai gets into mold-milking I don't think it's a stretch to expect those schemes.

Hurin you kill me. "He's not dead! I want to argue semantics!!!" The show's a wee bit convoluted for all that. The guy has a corpse... it's okay to say he died. If you prefer to think of him as a butterfly, and his corpse is just the remnants of his cocoon, and he did not die but elevated to some other plane... that's cool too.

I was kind of "meh" on that episode. I suppose in the next episode we'll see MIB reborn in some fashion. I don't get all the "you can't come back from being dead" stuff... except for the guy who keeps coming back from being dead. Is he stuck in some sort of purgatory because Jacob was under a spell that kept him from killing his brother but he went ahead and killed his brother anyway? Is this going to link to Sayid's coming back and the "infection" that was referred to earlier? I dunno, not a whole lot of time left. How did the lady kill everyone at the camp? Why didn't she just do that earlier before her son left her to join them? The one bright spot would be the wrapping of the mystery of who built the wheel that moves the island... otherwise I can't help but feel we could have gotten a whole lot more out of an episode focusing on Jacob and his brother.