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Scandalous! Pete

What's a Table Top Player? Sounds like a stripper that does erotic dances on tables... For the record, I just watch DVDs on my laptop. Don't have a DVD player seperate from that, or a TV, and my Table Top Player works fine but also has problems with english subs - she just speaks Polish all the time no matter what buttons I press on her set up menu. Pete

that was sweet! Pete

ACTUALLY I START JOKE. YOUR JOKE ONLY COPYING OF MY ORIGINAL JOKE. YOU IS POSTING LINK TO PREVIOUS POST YOU MAKING WITH SAME JOKE TO SAYING IT FIRST COME BEFORE MY JOKE BUT MY JOKE IS WRITTEN FIRST AND YOUR JOKE IS JUST SPOKEN JAPANESE COPY OF MY JOKE WHICH IS WRITING FIRST WHEN I LIVING IN AMERICA BEFORE INTERNET IS COMING SO IS WHY LINKING IS NOT POSSIBLE. STILL TRUTH IS BEING THAT MY JOKE IS. HAVING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS TO THIS JOKE. IT FACT. COURT DID NO ORDER BUT DID COURT IN USA SAY I DO NOT HAVE IP RIGHT TO THIS JOKE? THEY NOT SAYING SO - SO I ASKING YOU DO I NOT HAVING JOKE IP RIGHTS? MAYBE FACTS CHECKING YOU BEING BEFORE POSTING SAY WHAT? PETE

True true. And I am the happy owner of numerous Revoltech Gurren Lagann items. That said, while Figma might never pierce the heavens with their drills, figma does give us many things for our drills to pierce Pete

Me neither. But the word at Robotech.com is that they are still trying to decide on the title. The alternative is "DrillBoy Zeta" Anyways, the basic plot is basically about some kind of colony of Miners who drill for Protoculture and instead find a new form of Robotechnology. The show will feature Roy Foker jr. (pictured on the left), Rick Hunter Jr. (middle) and Janis Mach II (right). The big robot in the background is a hybrid of Robotechnology and Invid technology. Sounds pretty awesome! Pete

In the best squeeky little John Conor voice I can muster: "Haven't you learned anything yet!? Haven't you learned how HG operates?" Pete

You know - I would be content with a smaller scalled SDF-1, kind of along the lines of the DX Macross Quarter (which unless I'm mistaken is....no-scale?) ... But what I really want is just a large scale cut away diorama of the SDF-1's leg with the city inside. I LOVE that city - and I far prefer the TV city to the DYRL one because of its' chunky 70s style goofy goodness Although DYRL was quite nice too... still...I see that in this guy's leg they went with the TV series. Pete

Cracking plastic on a Perfect Grade Gundam?? Sad... I think they rushed it. Look - I know it's been like 5 years or more since the last PG - but when did the OO Raiser design come out? It's pretty recent.... so you gotta figure that they spent only a year doing this glorified 1/60 NG ...which is what it looks and sounds like. Pete

Here's a Christmas Thank You straight from the greatest robot in the whole wide Universe and beyond! Pete

Eh...the Titanium 6" came with ...platforms The seekers did indeed come with stands - but they were fixed pose stands... as I remember Hybrid Convoy's stand was ..umm...what's the word...moveable? ...beats me... I dunno. We'll see.... Pete

It's time to make your private message public and bask in the utter wisdom of Robotech fans who proclaim the following: Take that YAMATO AND BANDAI!! YOU DON'T EXIST!! Technology has evolved to the point where Bandai's chunky munky swing bars of the 1980s have been streamlined into Toynami streamlined swing bars of...a couple years ago I think Robotech.com is the Onion of the anime world. Pete oh yeah - source, courtesy of the ever-vigilant Gubaba: http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/re...&forumid=31

Hey - tech commentary is what I live for Anyways...I've ultimately decided I'm not going to build the Blue Frame Astray MG. In the words of that Italian dude from that movie with that babe who goes to live in Tuscony..."That's nice." And yes, it is nice. But it's just not for me. Ultimately, I'm just not into the wierd proportions. Was very tempted...maybe I'm making a mistake? Maybe I'll build it a few months from now...beats me... I'm so indecisive Pete

D'oh! Double post! D'oh! Double post! hey...

I was thinking actually of maybe re-acquiring Hybrid style Optimus Prime... even though the truck mode has its' faults, the robot is beautiful. It is small, true, but it's very nice. And uniquely amongst Transformers, it actually has a stand. In recomending stuff though, you guys should keep in mind that I've owned every single TF (US issued) ever made and all Japanese TFs issued starting from BW II. Well - actually - the first and only line I've gotten 0 from is ROTF... but if I get Bludgeon and a few others - that'll change I guess... Oh - and I definitely want Animated Wreck Gar! Pete

You wanna talk about hair killing a figure's range of poseability - exhibit A has got to be Revoltech Fraulein Asuka Langley. I sorely wish them to mak a revised version - and not the EVA 2.0 version but just a regular NGE version and do something about that hair. I am also curious about figma Tsuyara-san, because she seems to have the longest hair in all of anime - I wonder if it is problematic on the figure? Pete

Well that's actually pretty easy given that the proto-velocity level at G3 thrust is within the range of proportional oscilatory sequencing (POS). All they'd really need to do given all of this is use a tampon and three pairs of nike sweat socks to create a gravitational intertialization mechanism. It's child's play when you think about it. Pete

Well to be fair, part of the problem with this thing is that it remains unpainted. Up close , the details are really nice... but also - the pictures, I think, don't do it justice because they are blurry. Pete

My predictions for 2010 are: Mastergrade Unicorn version 2.0 which will adress all of the flaws of the first one, particularly the knees. I kind of don't want this to come true, since I have both the original MG Unicorn and the beautiful Titanium version but I think that with the movie coming up and the splurge of Unicorn related figures in other lines - it just might happen. Highgrade - beats me. I don't care about Highgrade much. I built three from Gundam OO but compared to the MGs they are just not at all impressive - at all. Not at all. Like not. Not at all. At all. Not....you get it. What was the rest of the question? Pete

What pray tell is this? I remember you mentioned you'd be working on a Christmas present for us....but I forgot what it was And I am torrent-averse at the moment. Anyways - thank you for all you've done for the fans and Merry Christmas! Pete

Kind of wierd that somebody who bought the uber expensive SDF-1 shows it off next to a bunch of chunky munky Bandais and the lone Yamato VF-1 is the 1/60 version 1 Maybe he sold all his version 2.0s to afford it? Pete

Yeah - that part I understand, and I was also actually alive back then - in the days before the internet, when the only way you could even LEARN that there was something awesome happening in Japan was via intermediaries who "westernized" things a bit for you. And actually, compared to stuff that was available back then, Robotech media were not all that "westernized" - you could tell it was very different from something like GI Joe. And also - those were the days BEFORE Star Trek the Next Generation, and the only serious sci-fi I can recall from that time period was Alien and Terminator (in terms of US produced stuff). I still remember having the feeling that I was privy to something unique and awesome whenever I walked into a hobby shop and got a Palladium roll playing game, and the Robotech novels, to my little 8 or 7 year old mind, were pretty awesome too. I mean - novels (mentally bringing to mind Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry or Where the Red Fern Grows" - which is what I was forced to read in english class back then) -- but about ROBOTS and INTERGALACTIC SPACE TRAVEL!! Wow! None of this "livin' in a corn field with ma dog and growin up in segregated America' crap which - to me - was utterly foriegn, since I looked around and saw my friends in school who were of all colors and creeds and it was like...why is the teacher going on about this? Wouldn't it be better to read about space adventures? So - yeah - the quick buck thing - but also, I would actually argue that there was LEGITAMITE reason to be authentically happy with Harmony Gold back then for bringing the stuff over. The problem really started when the internet was born. Harmony Gold never adapted, and behave like musicians or record companies or film studios who can't understand that their business model is out of date. They can huff and puff and whine and complain - but in the end - they need to accept new technology and adjust to it. Lots of companies have realized the huge benefits of adjusting to the market and enhancing people's multimedia/internet experience. Some companies, like Harmony Gold, still - IMO - wish the internet had never been created because then they could just continue along with their old business model of buying licenses and putting something on TV. That is the real problem. It's not what they did (which in the 80s was cool!) -- it's what they're doing now. Pete

What Ginax production is that from? Otaku Land heh heh very nice Pete

Given all of these sad stories, I wish I hadn't asked... Pete

OOps I was so focused on the quote-block that I didn't notice there was a link to look at. 2005 eh? Seems like ages ago now... and yet I remember when I was a kid - Transformers the Movie taking place in 2005 seemed like the far off future... Pete