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* Actually, I liked the final fight between Spike and Vincent in the Bebop movie more. Just a flat-out, knock-down, drag-out, bloody fight with some tight background music. * Also, gotta mention this one for it's collection of fights (even though it's a bit cheesy): You break my record. . . Now I break YOU!!

I think it's up to the audience to decide whether she knew about the poison or not. But the actress who plays Ellen said in a previous interview that she played the scene as if she knew the drink was poisoned. I gained a lot of respect for Ellen for 'fessing up the way she did. No excuses, no begging for forgiveness; just a straight up admission of the whole ugly affair and explaining (with no apologies) that she would have done anything and everything to keep Saul alive.

I still love how the beginning of this episode played out with Tigh and Ellen having their little "discussion." It's still a personal favorite of mine.

^^Opens the bottle AND cuts the lime. It's quite multi-functional!!

Don't forget the Old Man calling Apollo a "fat-ass." There was much "joy" in that too. Exodus Part II, huh? Strap yourself in, and hold on tight. It's gonna be a hell of a ride emotionally and viscerally.

^^HEY! It's the VF-2SS SAP attachments! j/k

Yeah, I voted for Bastila too. I just hope they base the figure on her in-game appearance, not the box-cover artwork. Given Hasbro's questionable choices lately, I'm a little worried about how she'll appear in plastic form. If Bastila's not in her in pink-and maroon get-up, super-articulated, with an adequately-sized double-bladed lightsaber, with soft-good front (and back) tabbards, and with an accurate face-sculpt (with clean paint-aps), I'll be most. . . displeased. The only times I ever found Revan, Malak, and the pre-cyborg Grievous were at Kohl's of all places. I think if I ever get my hands on another Revan, I'll repaint it as a Star Forge robes variant. BTW, were you able to find a space Ahsoka that met your standards, DH?

No, no, NO. A thousand times NO. None of those three have a passion for Macross. And it would show in the final product. If they wanna use ILM for the special effects in a live-action movie, that's fine. But I'd rather the director be someone who grew up with Macross, rather than any of those three.

So, we'd want Yamato to be more like Hasbro by making toys based on a crappy derivative of Macross, by pissing on years of backstory and history in favor of making ONLY toys to support their latest blockbuster Hollywood movie, and by alienating the original fans of Macross (much like Hasbro's current treatment of Transformers and GI Joe fans). Got it. Or should Yamato mimic Hasbro's "wonderful" way of loading heaps of pegwarmers upon us, failing to acknowledge how its distribution of figures has been an absolute crapshoot, and deciding to kill a fairly popular subline because of their own stupid decisions and case assortments? Yeah. . . I'm not exactly a fan of Hasbro's more recent decisions. Back on topic, although materials are an important factor to us Macross fans, most of us would agree that it has to be balanced with lineart accuracy in all three modes, sufficient articulation to pull off cool poses (especially poses that can be done without the aid of a stand), minimal kibble, and of course, PRICE.

I believe you'll be utterring the phrase, "Oh frak!!" a number of times during the start of Season 3. Not sure if the Season 3 DVDs have 'em, but there's also a few "webisodes" that fill in the gap between Season 2 and Season 3. They're each usually just a few minutes long, and they focus mostly on some minor characters. But it'll be good background filler for when you start up Season 3. If you thought the poop had hit the fan before, just wait.

^^No. Galactica. . . It's. . . It's a COOKBOOK!!

Shush! Enough already! (Just don't mention how Galactica is actually the SDF-1 and gets thrown back in time to 1999 after an encounter with a spatial anomoly in the Devron system)

The next two or three episodes immediately after the Pegasus arc are a bit clunky. But stick with it, and you'll be rewarded by season's end.

Make sure it's the extended version that you pick on the menu screen. The "aired on television" version is good too, but the extra bits on the extended version are definitely worthwhile contributions to the plot and story.

Just "kind of"? I love everything about the end of that first hour/episode with Pegasus: the camera work, the editing, the cutting between the two CIC's, the crescendo'ing music. . . everything was absolutely pitch perfect for that whole sequence.

That's just downright frustrating. They didn't exactly help their cause by re-packing those crappy Darth Vader/Rebel Trooper and comic-colored Han and Chewie packs either. Honestly, the majority of my SW purchases the past two years have been comic packs. Other than the Legacy General Grievous, there hasn't been much that has truly caught my fancy in the main single-pack lines. I mean a man can only purchase so many variations of the main characters. I just hope that when The Old Republic video game gets released that Hasbro does the right thing. The KOTOR period really deserve an honest-to-goodness wave of its own. Shoot, if Force Unleashed can get its own wave of figures, then certainly KOTOR (with three video games and a comic series to draw from) merits having its own release/wave of figures.

'bout time you reared your ugly mug back in here. Glad to see you, the bottles, and the pint glasses back. <tosses Ace a bottle of Yoshinol>

If we're talking size comparisons and costs, I could always compare the SDF-1 to this too: Link. (Yes, I know it's an unfair comparison.) Yeah, it sucks that they're charging so much for an over-two-feet long, transforming ship. But I had a hard time even accepting the speculated $500 price point. I'd probably also be more pissed if this was a TV version of the SDF-1. But as I've said before, let's just wait and see. IF Yamato does make a mass-production version and IF that version doesn't meet our expectations in terms of size, quality, level of detail, and especially price, then feel free to continue the b*tch-fest.

James Cameron presents Dances with Smurfs. Was dying of laughter at that little twist near the end!

Man if Yamato made a Roy Focker Skull Squadron color scheme for all the valks I would buy everyone. That YF-21 looks awesome. If I was doing a Skull-1 color scheme for the YF-21, I wouldn't add that red trim on the chest/intakes. It doesn't look right for the color scheme. Instead, I'd: * Keep the yellow trim all the same as on Guld's blue YF-21. * Paint the cockpit canopy black. * Paint the all grey and light-blue parts (on Guld's blue YF-21) black. That custom's a good start. But it would need the above tweaks to make it a proper Skull-1 custom.

<Sigh> Not this again. (Hey! Why's my 1/60 VF-0S so much bigger than a 1/48 VF-1?) I've still got this sneaking suspicion that Yamato's trying to hit us with "sticker shock" now. So that when they do finally unveil their smaller, mass production version, we won't think twice about a $500 price tag. Also, I wonder if making the 1/2000 version out of less expensive materials such as ABS or regular plastic ratchet joints (instead of nylon) would help to lower the costs? (I'm no plastics expert. So please, go gentle if you have to rake me over the coals for my ignorance.) In any case, let's wait and see what develops.

Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but we mentioned this awhile back in one of the old YF-21 threads: Linky with color picture attachments. On my custom YF-21, I also "cheat" and take off the kneepads when going back into fighter mode (minimizes the paint-rub ). Doing that might help out a little bit when you're trying to get the -21 back into fighter mode.

^^I thought fag was also British slang for a cigarette?

I like this idea! --------------------------------- Thank you, Graham, for getting us an update on this whole situation. Please thank your Yamato contact too for taking the time to answer our questions and clear up the situation. If we can't get the 2-foot tall Holy Grail, maybe we'll still wind up with a 1/3000 or even a 1/2500 scale version? Oh well, we can use the extra time, money, and savings to our advantage once again.

"You know what 'brown' can do for me? He can mind his own business!"