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You will NEVER hear from them if Yamato never gets back to them. Did you ask for a part for a toy that is currently in production? All Overdrive does is act as a forwarding service for international customers. You write Overdrive "Hey, my toy broke, I need X part" and Overdrive forwards that to Yamato. Then Overdrive occasionally gets a big box of nothing but toy parts. They look who asked for what and contact you. If your part never comes in they won't write you to indicate that it still hasn't arrived.

I meant no offense as I consider myself a high-functioning nerd but I also hate to be the bearer of bad news but, assuming you're an adult, you're a nerd too. Now I don't want to try to draw up some strict definition for "nerd" but it's generally safe to say it's VERY nerdy for a grown man to collect toys... even if they occasionally call their toys "collectibles." The good news is, if you enjoy what you do then you shouldn't be bothered by the label. Also, it's in bad taste in any social class to be a braggart (even if their is some semblance in shame in the highest numbers). I find the last thing my friends with yachts and such do is boast about what they've spent although all are certainly happy to share their enthusiasm like we do with our threads dedicated to toys. Remember, it's not the size of the collection that matters, it's the pleasure you give or derive with it.

Is this like nerdom's equivalent to a biggest dick competition?

I apologize, I was thinking of that super fold pack for some reason. Brain fart.

The tornado armor is a pink color... this is the unpainted prototype. EDIT - no, i am not joking.

Did HG and FASA have their legal tango before or after FASA's legal tango with Playmates?

Don't forget EXO

We sent Peter to Poland after he professed a love for Macross7.

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I'm sure you could gather that from a pic on anymoon.com

Arthurius, I posted pics on my site of the Aoshima Tread next to the Bandai 1/60 DX Ozma... there are also size comparisons of the 1/60 VF-25 and the 1/48 in different posts. Between the two you should be able to get some sort of a feel while you wait for someone to take that pic for you.

I don't buy every single release of a toy (unless it's Mospeada) so I don't really care if the 1/48s will never have a CF-1J or something like that. The LV1 is a beautiful toy and definitely amongst my favorite Yamato releases ever. It's vastly superior to the LVIII VF-1S. $250 is a good price.

They're probably pissed they didn't change more names due to the rights issues now. They Americanized the names to make the characters appeal more to American kids. As to why "Rick Hunter" it was probably no more deep than someone saying "That sounds like a cool name kids will love... 'cause Rick is an any man name and Hunter sounds tough."

sad http://anymoon.com/blog/2007/01/21/yamato-160-vf-0s/ http://anymoon.com/blog/2007/10/31/yamato-...nknown-soldier/ http://anymoon.com/blog/2008/01/17/yamato-...kudo-ghost-set/

If you owned one of those 1/72 Legioss toys I think you'd find it funny just how small that complaint about the hands would be with the various other complaints you would have. This was their smallest and cheapest line.

Begin meltdown of Kara Thrace writing on my mark.... MARK!

Nah... still stickin' with the Disha on this one.... she's the kind of hot that turns straight girls gay.

Uh, every time they say "Protoculture"

As to the Robotech fans not caring about anime, I'm sure most have seen a smattering of other shows. I think it boils down more to the westernization present in Robotech. Robotech took three shows, none of which were a war over resources, and turned them ALL into a war over resources. That's about as American as Apple Pie and Manifest Destiny. That's why some RT fans can watch the originals and STILL prefer Robotech. That's also why RT gets compared to American SciFi more often than anime in these discussions. EDIT - I guess the original Southern Cross is kind of a war over resources... but that's a whole ball of odd.

I'm not sure how Terminator canon works but T3 explained how Skynet would work without humans. Humans at that point had created the first line of Terminators and the first aerial assault vehicles (well, I suppose any military drone existing today covers that). The military installation in T3 exists to show the audience that Skynet already has the means to begin its takeover. Skynet's omni-presence would also allow it to calculate where safe havens would be after the Russian counterstrike. So, Skynet launches the nukes after diverting its resources to some place safe, lets the Russians do its dirty work in the US, and then employs the existing Terminators to clean-up the remains. Unfortunately for Skynet, the humans survive in greater numbers and prove far more resourceful than calculated. Thus Skynet needs to evolve to step-up its termination routine evolving its terminators. EDIT - RE: Red2Alpha I couldn't help reading the last bit and remember Ripley from Aliens. Nuke 'em all from orbit... It's a good point, Skynet would simply use spy satellites to locate all human strongholds and then decimate them. The only way for humanity to survive would be to go underground... like the Matrix. The next question would be, what would Skynet do without humanity? If it's doing all of this out of an intense desire for self-preservation, what does it do when all threats are eliminated? Would it power everything down?

If HLJ sells that one I might have to make that my first transformable toy with weathering (ignoring the LV1).

Love it or hate it it's the iconic valk from a popular TV show with BY FAR the most air time in that show.

Totoro is linking to these: or

I have found that people who hadn't seen DYRL (because it wasn't available in the US) but then saw MacII when it saw a US release seem to have much better feelings toward MacII than others.

You flipped the waist upside down to move the legs down... good thinking.