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Couple things... I'd argue that Jump to Lightspeed IS as good a simulator as the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games were. That is to say, not anything close to Falcon 4.0 levels... but far above the Rogue Squadron type games. The missions DO get tedious, but there's always PvP... and you don't HAVE TO do the missions. You can fly around and engage the stuff you want... or go to Deep Space and take your chances... Seeing that JTL just came out, I think this time next year it should be pretty damned good. And I despise the "grind" nature of the regular SWG, too. These days all I do is fly in my Y-wing or X-wing... as a casual player it took me a month to get to the X-Wing... my more hardcore friend got there in 10 days and he's almost done with Tier 4 starfighter (A-wing and thence the B-wing, and multiplayer ships (Firespray and Nova Courier). As far as the spoilers, quit your bitching Duke. There hasn't been anything close to a spoiler that would've set off any working sarcasm detectors. That said, given that Max is indicating he'll allow a SPOILERS thread, someone posting pics and not just enjoying them should start one (or someone like the Duke, afraid of spoilers), though the idea of there being anything worth spoiling in Ep3 seems ludicrous to me (barring the idea that Obi-wan could be the father of the twins, etc etc). At least as long as it's not gonna get locked with instructions to come this thread.

Yup, movie II-VI uniforms were the best. I always thought the TOS colors made more sense than the TNG, though I do wonder if there's a side story for the switch...

Since I skipped the first precisely because of QC concerns, I'd lean on the former. My Alpha is pretty good, if not perfect (at least as much as any of my Yamato, 1/48 included). Also like my 1/48, there are a couple places I'm afraid I might break, due to the design (backpack hinge on the 1/48 versus the front wings on the sides of the cockpit on the Alpha)...

Heh figures mine was the last post in the old thread. As far as the green Alpha, this is what I put: Quality seems beter than 1/60 and only slightly behind 1/48 Yamato IMO. Stickers are way better than anything Yamato has used.

I got the green / Lancer one (#1853) yesterday. Pretty cool IMO. It's definately not as small as I was fearing from hearing it was 1/55 and reading this thread (probably when it was 20 pages or so smaller). It seems well constructed with a good paint job. I was kinda afraid to transform it at first, but the manual is pretty good and toy itself is nice and solid. Only one of the old complaints that come to mind (this thread is too fracking huge for me to go through it) is the right arm droops when the gunpod is put into it. And I'm having a slight issue with the right arm fitting to the peg hole when it's collapsed in. I usually have to leave it slightly telescoped to reach the whole, which means there's a gap. Left one is fine though and it seems symmetrical everywhere else, though... so I'm kinda confused about it. I've been leaving the left arm with a small gap so it matches up. As far as the design... the feet are HUGE... but I didn't really notice it until I left it in battloid and stepped back and looked at it. I'm usually leaving it in fighter anyways. My design complaint would be that I can't have the shoulder launcher thingy is an add-on part. Shades of 1/60 heat shields to me. Anyways, I'm thinking of getting one more green and maybe the red one. I'll definately be getting a shadow when it comes out.

The old Baltar would have chewed up this girlie-man. Deliberate traitor with an agenda > accidental traitor.

Seriously. We got your point many pages ago, Sundown. You're just beating a dead horse. I happen to like the whole fancy in the old days utilitarian in the latter days... from the Naboo 50's ish chrome stuff to the Jedi fighters to the original TIE / X-wing / Star Destroyers, etc. It's all just a bunch of models and toys.

I like this movie and have it on VHS... I put off buying a DVD because I KNEW a better version would come out. Maybe I'll get this one.

Yup, the midichlorians are merely a physical manifestation for "the Force is strong in my family." Causality has never been established... merely correlation.

That thing is cool. I wish Yamato would make one... but then I think about how much $$$ it would be...

Apparently you missed his son at around the same age. Whiney farm boy Young Skywalker is the is naturally the son of a whiney slave-boy Young Skywalker.

Meh. I got mine, at least (fortunately not from these guys).

Ok, so I guess it's a place where goth emo zomie-aficianados hang out?

Well can't rely on the Europeans to take care of the Balkans nor the former Soviet Republics. I wouldn't go as far as to say the Frogs and Krauts are enemies... yet... but just in case...

Is that site for real?

IMO, nothing wrong with downloading it... As long as you actually buy it when it comes out.

That's how this aircraft neophyte feels about it, anyways.

Heh, wasn't expecting there to be that many fans of the AF TIE Defender. Jolly Rogers, I have seen customs made from TIE interceptors, but I would like at least two TIE Defenders to have flaying around (leader and wingman, of course). With the TIE interceptors also in the squadron.

Yeah didn't Galactica 1980 blew (from that flying bike to the "time-warp" boosters to the goon-human-looking-Cylons... wait a minute) but it had a couple good things. "Boxy" being all grown up, etc and Starbuck's last mission, etc.

I still have my gripes about the remake... from Starbuckette down. It's a good character IMO, just not worthy of the name "Starbuck." The same with Baltar. The same with Adama... etc etc. If they had just named this thing Battlestar Whatever-Other-Than-Galactica-And-Pegasus and shown the events of the original series from a different perspective, everyone could have been happy.

Nice pics, all. Damn, I love the TIE Defender. I wish I could get a hold of the rare Action Fleet one... too bad the !#@!$# things go for so much money.

I have the 10th Anniversary Edition so doesn't sound like there's much for me in this one. Though the Kurgan DOES rock. They should have made the fricken tv series a prequel... and all of the other movies DO suck... though the least sucky was the 3rd one, which basically seems like a remake of the first.

I got it as a Christmas gift. Fortunately, I read on The Digital Bits about this set coming out so held off on getting Reloaded or Revolutions on their individual DVD releases. Pretty bad ass set IMO. I had borrowed Animatrix from a friend and gave it back so am glad to have everything in one box. First movie's transfer is noticibly improved, amongst the other goodies.

The Spaarti cylinders ARE mentioned in the progress of the Clone Wars. It's just not the method used by Kamino (and thus that adopted by the Republic). Check out the Clone Wars timeline on the official site. Unless we hear some explicit dialogue in Return of the Sith to the contrary, Padme's sensitivity to the Force is not likely to be brought up, as it's irrelevent. Even if she was, she wouldn't be trained... and she wouldn't choose that lifestyle even if she could (which she can't), anyways. So far what you're saying about that book (even without knowing if you're distorting what it supposedly says or not) hasn't been invalidated yet... and there's no reason to think it will be. Lucas and LFL's stance on canon is well known. Movies are at the top followed by screenplays, radio dramas, novelizations of the movies, etc etc. Outright contradiction has yet to be established on anything substantive on anything except the most particular of details, which often themselves ignore the infamous "certain point of view" (which would be my view on the "veracity" of the EU in regard to the various levels of "canon").

Like I said minutae. To continue the debate would involve quoting the EU source in context... and assuming there's no debate about authenticity, or the infamous "point of view." Cloned by an entirely different method. If you've read the books, you'd have read there was a reason for the unusual effects of Thrawn's clones as well as other clones done by that method (with Spaarti cylinders, for the record), over a period of days and weeks as opposed to the method used by the Kamino, which took 10 years. An apples and meatloaf comparison. Source? Context? Point of View. You may be right... but I'm not aware of the reference... nor am I aware that it's been conclusively demonstrated that Pade is NOT Force Sensitive. Certainly not in the movies... nor the screenplays... nor in the novelizations of the movies... nor in the EU. Sources? I'm aware of nothing that says either. There are implications in the Zahn trilogy... but they are really vague and don't specify who was fighting who... Wait till Episode III... according to the spoilers we're all going to see some Clone versus Jedi that goes decidedly against the Jedi (thanks to the perfidious Sidious and his ooga-booga Sith timing). The fact of the matter is that none of you canon-Nazi's can point out an outright contradiction of anything other than minutae. That is all.