Apollo Leader

Cool stuff. I wonder if this will make it to the Episode III DVD?

When you have this robot driving itself (with a several hour delay between inputs from JPL/NASA here on Earth) around on a planet millions of miles away, it could have hit a rock and flipped over, a storm could have came up... anything could have happened. Other then this snag, this most recent attempt to put an unmanned lander and rover on Mars seems to have been going quite well. BTW, for those who are interested, Space.com is a great source for space exploration related news and topics.

Somewhere over 3,000.

http://www.dreamwill.net/giwoah/ This isn't the home page of Eric Fensler (http://www.heavengallery.com/fenslerfilms/) who iriginally created these, but this seems to be the best collection of Eric's parodies of the GI Joe PSA's.

The original thread was closed because the beans kind of got spilled about what he was going to show. I think Graham's "surprise" will be revealed in a few more days.

Hopefully it's okay that I post this, but it sounds like the earliest that the first of the MPC Alphas will arrive will be late April... but that's okay since I'd rather Toynami get things right and it will let me have time to set aside some dough.

Congrats, Jeremy!

Finally!

I checked out a number of Targets this afternoon and none had the RX-78. <_< Looks like I'll have to wait another week or two...

I'm crying in joy!

I had been told by someone at Bandai a few months back that the RX-78 and Char's Gelgoog wouldn't be hitting stores until April or so. It was just two weeks ago I saw that Target was carrying the Arch Enemy Wing Custom and Tallgeese III. Hopefully this is true.

So does your Robotech box set go in a lead lined case when you put them away with the rest of your anime collection? I really can't complain about the Robotech Remastered DVD's because it gave us all Southern Cross and Mospeada in remastered form and at a decent price.

Wait and see what happens next week.

I know who Mandy is, but how are you guys coming up with this "Naked" Mandy stuff? I've seen all of season 1, the last 6 or 7 episodes of season 2 (I'll be going through my season 2 DVD's VERY soon), and all of season 3. Am I missing something?

It's a personal opinion, the F-15 has never been shot down and has a massive amount of kills, but that's because a lot of other countries bought F-15s aside from personal opinion, is there any objective data that I can use to compare F-14s to F-15s (e.g. range, engine capacity, radar, manueverability,etc.)? And why did these countries(Japan and Saudi Arabia)buy the F-15 Eagle over the Tomcat? Don't forget Israel who's F-15's (and pilots) have a stake in about half or more of all F-15 kills. All together, four countries (including the US) operate the F-15 Eagle.

Before I forget, I watched both programs on the F-117 and F-14 Friday night. Generall they were okay (they even got one of the two Have Blue test pilots interviewed), but there were a few number of errors and inconsistencies. Here are a few: 1) When talking about the Have Blue, they cut to F-117 photos and footage a number of times. 2) The editors couln't make up their minds if the F-117 is a bomber or a fighter. 3) The narrorator blindly labels all laser-guided bombs that the F-117 carries as "bunker busters". To my knowledge, most of the weapons the F-117 has used in combat has been the 2,000 lbs GBU-27 which is basically just a Mk84 with a laser sensor and guidance fins (not sure what they were using for Iraqi Freedom). The only true conventional "bunker buster" that I can recall off the top of my head is the 5,000 lbs GBU-28 and it's later JDAM version, the GBU-37. (I need to get caught up to speed on what bombs the F-117 is using these days ) 4) Considering the show was made after Iraqi Freedom, it seems baffling that nothing was even mentioned the existence of the much superior B-2 (a true stealth bomber) and that a real "stealth fighter" in the form of the F-22 is starting to enter service. 5)One criticism of the F-14 show off the top of my head, the narrorator gives the impression that the F-111B was soley Grumman's creation; this was a joint project by both General Dynamics and Grumman to navalize the F-111 Aardvark.

Another thing to consider is that most of the Navy's aircraft were limited to Kuwait and southern Iraq so they only saw action mainly there. The Iraqis had heavily mined the waters of the Persian Gulf right outside of Kuwait forcing the carriers to be kept back at a safe distance.

Actually stories exist to this day that some of Iran's F-14's are still in flyable condition in part because of help from the Russians. Iran's F-14's did see combat in the 1980-88 Gulf War between Iran and Iraq. It is known that some were shot down by both SAM's and in air-to-air engagements, but the exact numbers are not known. I don't know the exact title of the book or the author, but I have seen in a local hobby store a pretty good size book that was published a year or two ago about the Iran-Iraq air war that might be worth checking out. As for Desert Storm, I believe the F-14 has at least one kill in the form of a helicopter.

I don't know what the exact reasoning behind this story of Grumman having to destroy some of the manufacturing capabilities to manufacture additional F-14's, but I will have to say this: 1) When Cheney was Secretary of Defense in the late 80's/early 90's, it should be remember that his responilities were for the entire Defense Department and not just one naval aviation program. 2) At that time, it was planned that a true F-14 successor, in the form of a navalized F-22 or F-23 would be fielded in the late 90's. But of course in the Bill "I loathe the military" Clinton 90's, that wasn't going to happen.

Besides Zeta, F91 should be seeing a release during 2004, too.

Looks like I'll have the History Channel on tonight.

I've only seen parts of the episode when I taped it Tuesday (I saw Chase getting beaten up), but the situation that Chase put himself in and the danger he has put Jack, other CTU agents, and even national secuirty in is another example of why YOU-MUST-OBEY-YOUR-ORDERS, especially in this line of work.

I hope your friend "Occasional Fan" doesn't come here and blast us for staking the vote in Convoy/Prime's favor! Speak for yourself, dude. I don't even know who you're talking about. No need to assume fans from any one BBS are all like-minded. After all, I'm a Macross fan and I don't dig Yamato's stuff as much as most folks here do. Some TBDX folks may speak out loudly about their dislike for TFs, but I for one am pleased Convoy got the win. Last year, someone who hangs out on the Toybox DX forums, came here to Macross World under the name of "Occasional Fan" (he had a Zaku II head for his avatar) and started personally blasting me and a bunch of other people because Yamato's 1/48th scale VF-1A had won the toy of the year award all because us Macross fans had "stacked the vote". He was on Macross World on and off throughout 2003, but after the new Macross World forumss were created, I haven't seen him since. My comments weren't aimed at you or anyone else associated with Toybox DX, either the site or its forums.

Well Duh!!!! haha cmon its only 20 bucks!!! Just look at teh Arch nemisis they are 20 but do they look as cool? no!!!! Heh, I like the Arch Enenmy figures and I can't wait 'till the RX-78 and Char's Gelgoog are released.

I hope your friend "Occasional Fan" doesn't come here and blast us for staking the vote in Convoy/Prime's favor!