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  1. mechaninac
    I just love this quote!... it's brilliant, in a redundantly memory-lacking way.
  2. mechaninac
    The vast majority of the Macross collectors here, myself included, are OCD riddled pack rats engaged in an eternal pursuit of the next "shiny bauble".
  3. mechaninac
    Not biting at anything above 17000 Yen. N-Y can keep'em at that price.
  4. mechaninac
    A pox on Bandai for making this 29 a general release. I'll wait until after release to see if I can get one at or bellow retail.
  5. mechaninac
    Self inflicted... what a pathetic waste.
  6. mechaninac
    I was thinking about doing the very same thing (Revo ones)... mind elaborating on what kind and where you ordered them?
  7. mechaninac
    Seasons 1 and 2 are epic, with only a few mediocre episodes sprinkled in; season 3, on the other hand, while not completely awful, was a drastic drop in quality both in writing and animation. I noticed that they're missing episodes 34 and 39 from season 2... wonder if those will ever be uploaded.
  8. mechaninac
    Where the new YF-19 is concerned, since it's built to order, availability isn't an issue; if your preferred web shop has preorders open and you reserve one, barring some extraordinary snafu on Arcadia's part, you're guaranteed to receive a copy. Any stock around after release will likely be due to last minute cancellations and no-pays; this should work out the same as Yamato's VF-4G.
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    I find that if you have many items of differing sizes, weights, or values, you can save quite a bit on shipping by adding and subtracting them until you've reached an optimum mix. Case in point: I had purchased a bunch of things off their X-mas sale and one of the items was about to reach the imposed 60 day limit on their Private Warehouse system. Shipping it alone would've been 780 Yen by SAL, and another, larger item that still had 2-3 weeks left would've been 1260 Yen SAL if shipped by itself, but combining the two was still eligible for SAL at a total of 1680 Yen (a 380 Yen savings); next, I started adding small items (ex.: an etching saw set) that would cost around 580 Yen apiece if shipped individually until the quote changed; I then cut back on one of them to restore the previous quote of 1680 Yen for 5 items combined via SAL. Playing with the Private Warehouse this way saved me about 2100 Yen over shipping each item on its own. So I have notice that HLJ's PW system does save you money.
  10. mechaninac
    Booyah! My home's just been invaded by a tutti-fruitti colored crustacean from outer space... well, Canada at any rate...
  11. mechaninac
    Still waiting for my Pinky Crab to arrive...
  12. mechaninac
    I sounds like you chose Registered SAL, if you have a tracking number. Thankfully, I got my Isamu YF-29, purchased at N-Y and shipped ECO-SAL (no tracking), in a little over 2 weeks. However, to offer you some perspective, I bought a 1:18 GT Auto Pagani Huayra off a Chinese vendor on Ebay on Dec 18; it did not ship until the 25th and it just arrived yesterday, and unlike ECO-SAL, it had a tracking number and everything. SAL is unpredictable, and your package may have gotten delayed at the dispatch office or US customs, but you should be getting your Durandal within the next week or so, at least I hope so... I know how frustating it can be to attempt to track your package daily and see no updates for weeks.
  13. mechaninac
    "Berkut" 29 ... I'm in! As for the 25S... Make a damned re-pop announcement already, Bandai!
  14. mechaninac
    Level of tint: Approved!
  15. mechaninac
    Are you going to be sending out notifications as the batches ship?
  16. mechaninac
    To achieve the kind of resolution necessary for viewing an exoplanet within, say, 100 LYs from us, and be able to distinguish geographic features smaller than large continents, let alone things as small as cities, in the visual spectrum would require a telescope with the effective light gathering capability of a mirror larger than the size of Earth's orbit. That doesn't even take into account the fact that the glow of the parent star just about completely obscures the reflected light given off by its planets; all exoplanets discovered thus far have been indirectly detected by either the wobble they cause the primary due to gravitational influence or by the very minute dimming of the primary's light when the planet passes in front of the star, if the orbital plane happens to be aligned with our line of sight; to my knowledge, there has been no direct observation of a exoplanet in the visual spectrum, but I seem to recall that some hot Jupiters have been "imaged" through infra-red astronomy... enough to visualize hot and really hot hemispheres. Ultimately, any determination of an exoplanet's viability for harboring life, of the terrestrial variety anyway, not it's actual existence, will need to be made by inference of it's distance from its sun, its mass and density, and spectrographical analysis once interferometers with enough power can directly image a world to see what gasses are present.
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    Just about the same for me. N-Y's shipping confirmation email was sent out on 12-24 and I received my Isamu 29 on 1-10. Gotta give'em props; they did an excellent packaging job... they've definitely been improving. Also happy to report that my copy seems to be flawless.
  18. mechaninac
    The nuke do. And the cockroaches... don't forget the roaches. Then Death reaches across the table, touches/kills his date in disgust, and asks for the check...
  19. mechaninac
    About the ignored logic of Cowboy Bebop, disregarding the fact that the show is sci-fy and no worse than anything else in the genre: Self-contained cartriges do work in space (vaccum). The combustion of the charge does not depend on external oxygen; see here Inhaling, exhaling in space. This is something most sci-fy gets wrong. SG1 got it right: you first inhale to pack your lungs and over-oxygenate your blood, then you exhale all the air out so that your lungs don't pop. A terrestrial lobster wouldn't but the lobster in episode 11 was not a lobster, it was a Ganymede Rock Lobster. This organizim's metamorphosis is perfectly consistent with sci-fy tropes. Hacking into secured systems with handheld/junk would depend on the quality of the so-called "junk", and one has to take into account the technology portrayed in the show and the time in which it was created; given that, I don't really see any incongruities. Not all portions of the Earth were damaged to the same extent; it was all rather random. Methinks you're just fishing for things to dislike. Some of your criticisms are valid, others... not so much. Agreed. While not good, it was far more enjoyable than the train wreck that was the first.
  20. mechaninac
    No definitive official word as far as I know; I woudn't count on it.
  21. mechaninac
    Insert off color, Persian targeted, joke here: _______________...
  22. mechaninac
    From my point of view, based on the above side view comparison, the old Yamato version outshines the new Arcadia one in a few areas: The canopy treatment - I'd rather have it clear than the too-dark blue tint they've got going now, but since we're still dealing with a prototype that may change by release time... hoping that's the case, anyway. The overall shape of the leg intakes, not just the lip, looks better/sleeker on the older toy. The relative height of the stabilizer tails on the Yamato makes it look more prominent and a bit nicer. The lack of the black gap between the legs and knees on the original 19 make that section look more integrated. In every other aspect, however, the Arcadia version is leaps and bounds superior to the Yamato one, which looks fat and arch-backed by comparisson... and that gullet was, is, and forever shall be an eyesore.
  23. mechaninac
    Watched it and my first impression is that I want my half hour back. They went for zany, but only accomplished stupid; not Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo bad, few things in this world are, but up there in the I-feel-soiled-for-watching-this scale.
  24. mechaninac
    Ha! The infliction of blunt force trauma... the cornerstone of every successful marriage.
  25. mechaninac
    Excellent step by step breakdown of how to take these babies apart; it's much appreciated.
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