mechaninac
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I missed it by 4 1/2 hours. I guess the rule of this game is that you have to check your email every 5-10 minutes or you're SOL.
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Saw the emai from Figinstock as soon after waking up this morning; of course, by the time I did, it was already too late... another case of if you miss it by a minute it may as well have been a day. I'm hanging my hopes on HLJ reopening their listing, personally.
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^ Oof! That's likely to leave a mark, specially the Orgroid. I'm actually hoping that the Orguss II gets included in HLJ annual X-mas/end of the year sale... it would make it much more palatable to bite.
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Another HLJ cancellation heads-up: I just dropped my preorder as I have one with CDJ.
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CDJ's price was just too good to pass up; with shipping, it totaled just 100 yen over HLJ's "before shipping" price. Now, just to make sure, CDJ won't charge a CC until the item is close to or at release, right? I've never shopped with them using a CC and the preorder already shows up as a currently uncharged "Pending Transaction", and my Paypal experience with them is that the bill goes through immediately... I'm just looking for a bit of piece of mind as I don't want to pay for this thing until release.
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I secured one with HLJ. Amiami is slow as heck and the slight savings, before shipping, over HLJ is not worth the hassle. Now I'll just wait for N-Y...
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The only sounds you hear are the collective biting of fingernails... soon to be replaced by gnashing of teeth.
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Could they be mislabeled, or the wrong stock images used for the listings? They look more like the old-school transformable 1/48 kits to me.
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^ Well, I remember it being mentioned somewhere that not only are the AT-ACTs much taller than the AT-ATs, but also lightly armored as they were never intended for front-line operations; therefore, weapons capable of taking down the former had little to no impact on the latter. This explanation for the apparent inconsistency in resiliency and survivability between the two models may be a bit contrived and entirely too convenient, but it has enough in-universe consistency and logic to be adequately serviceable, so I'll go along with it and move on. -
Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
mechaninac replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
... but the NATO convention is to have adversary forces' fighters' names start with "F", bombers with "B", etc. So, how about F'n Spread Eagle?... -
Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
mechaninac replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Su-57 Fizzle, or Flutter, or Fuzzy, or Fluster, or... The amount of comically unflattering names are almost endless. -
Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
mechaninac replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
If I'm not mistaken, the Russians liked the NATO designations Fulcrum, Flanker, and Bear so much that they actually adopted them as the semi-official names for the Mig-29, Su-27..., and Tu-95, respectively. I don't think they were as keen on some of the other code-names (Fagot, Fishbed, Foxbat, etc.) that the West have chosen for their aircraft, though. -
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mechaninac replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
'Good news, everyone!' I hereby propose Farnsworth as the NATO designation for the newly christened Su-57... -
.... and CDJ has shipped my HM-R Defender. Now the waiting game begins.
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All my other 1/60 VF-1s are regular finish, so going Premium with Millia's, and then Max, would make it (they) look out of place in my collection, which would then gnaw at me and prompt me to eventually replace my current Valkyries with Premium versions... and that is one can of worms I do not want to open.
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So it does. When I first posed the question all my Order History stated was "payment okay"... or something to that effect. Good to know that things are moving along.
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I don't know.... A Pink Pecker sounds like something you'd need to treat with copious amounts on antibiotics...
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I noticed that N-Y lists the Defender as In Stock, but I ordered mine through CDJ; has anyone, who did also, receive shipping notification from them yet?
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That last picture kind of ties a knot in your guts and makes you go: Damn!...
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I like pink on my strawberry ice cream, not on my VFs, but the blue on grey version would be so bought.
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That's if they don't send you an email requesting extra money for shipping, even though they charge for it upfront...
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Robotech and REMIX by Titan Comics
mechaninac replied to Old_Nash's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Why oh why did I venture into this topic?... cannot unsee... My poor eyes, they bleed! -
^ Or the same ones who designed the N.S.E.A. Protector? Parody a parody that parodies a franchise primed for parodying, exactly because of things like ST:V and Nemesis... an oroboros or a chicken and the egg paradox...
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No one is bashing Charlize Theron specifically, at least that was not what I wrote. The overriding theme is one of a general frustration and bewilderment at these incredibly privileged actors' cavalier penchant to tell people to do as they say, and not as they do. It's tiresome. Charlize is a good actress, and I don't begrudge her playing roles that may directly contradict her beliefs; it's her job and her craft, after all... but it is elitist, hypocritical, and disingenuous to push an agenda that will never affect her personally and that she (using her/she as a stand-in for they) does not live by 100%. As for the movie itself... it strikes me as just another "girl" power movie (110 lb petite woman beating up men twice or more her weight without breaking a sweat... the cliche is getting very old). I have no intention to watch this until it hits basic cable.
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It's easy for these holier-than-thou elitists to be anti-gun when they've got the means to hire armed bodyguards or have bodyguards hired by third parties for their benefit... the irony never seems to get through to their echo chambered brains...