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Well, it was stated on the final episode talkback thread that the spoiler tag rule was void for the final episode. It didn't make sense to me to do that, but I guess the mods figured everyone would be caught up in the excitement and watch it right away. Please proceed with caution in any of the threads on this board.

meninge, thanks for all the work putting the chart together. It is nice to be able to compare all the sizes. Can't wait to see the addition of the F-14. BTW, I get that the term "booby ducks" is referring to FAST packs on the VF-1, but I still don't get the joke. OK, I suppose I can get the "booby" part on a VT-1. I know it's probably obvious to some of you, but please enlighten me.

Well, don't we all have one. When she started ripping off her clothes I was thinking "whoa baby!" And, then she got all tentacled and vieny and then I was thinking "eewww!" BTW, why is Grace still wearing her glasses at the end? I assumed it was simply part of her disguise so people wouldn't know her true nature.

You'll be happy with it I'm sure Cypher. It really is an awesome box set. The books have quite a bit of content in them. I wasn't expecting them to be so thick. The entire set is quite heavy you'll find. In the past I was watching it on my computer before I got my DVD player. I noticed that the Philips DVD players usually have simple hacks to re-set the region code to whatever you want. I bought the cheapest one at Target and it worked great. However, I took it back because I want to get the up-converting one. Enjoy the box set!

The thing is, why would she need Ellison to help her find another machine as she claims. If she really needed one, they could simply send one back in time. Heck, they could send a whole team of machines back in time to start a company and work on creating Skynet. I think it is another plot to get John Conner, or perhaps there is another agenda yet to be revealed. One thing that bugged me about this last episode is when they were at the pier and Cromartie is chasing after John and shooting at him. How is it that the police never arrive to investigate what is going on, and possibly see him walking out of the water onto the beach? Why wasn't anyone else near the area where they fell over the pier trying to investigate what happened? I would think that someone would have called 911 after the first shots were fired. I wonder how long it actually took Cromartie to sink to the bottom and walk out?

Wow, you had some really cool parents. I thought it was funny that it was mentioned that Red Dawn was considered the most violent movie every made when they also write about Robocop in the same article. I re-watched Red Dawn a few weeks ago in fact. Pretty tame by today's standards.

Hey, don't be dissing Airwolf. That was one of my favorite shows as a kid. And if you're going to praise Borgnine it should be for his Oscar winning performance in Marty. I've long made the contention that Earnest Borgnine has arguably the longest filmography among actors today, and seems to have worked every year of his long career. This guy has been in just about everything. So, I don't think he was really ever hard up for money at any given time. You could easily play the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game in about 2 degrees with Earnest Borgnine.

Hey protostart8, I also live in Georgia, and have noticed that my shipments from HLJ that come SAL have taken much longer than in years past. But, I've always received my item. It was never lost. I have seen my time of delivery almost double from the past. Recently items have taken almost 4 solid weeks once I receive my shipping notice from HLJ. I understand that you can get anxious because it does seem to take forever. I was the same way. My theory is similar to others on this thread in that due to higher fuel costs I believe the shipping companies are making sure that each transport container is completely full before it leaves. Also, tighter customs processing since 9/11 is typically a cause for delay as well. By the way, SAL is Suface Air Lift which means it is not coming by boat. If it came by boat (what HLJ simply calls "Surface") it would take the 4 to 6 weeks mentioned by HLJ I'm sure. SAL ships by truck to the airport and I believe it gets loaded into those special containers for airplanes. It simply waits at the airport until they can get an entire contianer and an entire plane loaded full. Then it is flown across the Pacific most likely to a major hub in California for processing by customs. There it is put on a truck and shipped cross country to Georgia possibly stopping at major hubs along the way. So, each time it gets unloaded at a hub sorted and loaded back on a truck I'm sure there is delay to make sure the truck or plane is full. By comparison something shipping EMS to you in Georgia will fly immediately from Japan to a hub such as JFK airport in New York. It is then received by customs and flown to Atlanta. I've received something here in Georgia via EMS in as little as 3 days from Japan. The downside is it's very expensive due to the more people that have to handle it and the more money on fuel spent to send it on a per package basis. The good old days used to be when I would order something regular mail and if you were lucky it would get thrown in on the express container leaving Japan just because they had room.

Did gg Fansubs put out ep24 a little earlier than usual? I guess they were as excited by it as all of us here on Macrossworld

I guess I'm the type of person that wants to like a movie going into it otherwise I won't even start to watch it. Call me a sucker, but I usually go into a movie with an open mind and wanting to be entertained. I try not to bring in my own preconceived notions of what it should or should not be. So, for me, a movie has to give me a reason not to like it. I thought Speed Racer was a fun and entertaining flick. While I can appreciate various movies on various artistic levels, I thought this was a creative way to present the Speed Racer story. But, then again, my taste in movies is so wide and varied that I'm a pretty easy person to please.

If you're going to continue to name Conan you got to include Red Sonja. Some other fantasy flicks some may have forgotten. Legend Willow Does anyone remember the ultimate guilty pleasure Condorman? And, I think I remember SpaceHunter being in 3-D at the theater. While of the 70's era, I remember watching The Black Hole, Silent Running, and Logan's run quite a number of times as a kid in the 80s. Edit: Oh, yeah I forgot Time Bandits.

Although the Studio Nue Entertainment Bible No.9 is Macross related, the nature of my question is about Gunbuster. So, I bring this up, again. Previous thread I have to assume from comparing the cover with my pic of the Exlion one coin figure that it has some Gunbuster content. So, does anyone know about how many pages are related to Gunbuster? I was thinking about buying the book, but I can't bring myself to spend the money if it only has very little Gunbuster content.

You know, taken out of context, that's a pretty embarrassing statement. I'm having flashbacks to an old episode of Three's Company.

Wow, it's probably not very often that you can use that Taco Bell reference. Good one! Wesley Snipes finest performance!

I'll be sure to post some within the next few days; most likely over the weekend.

Not sure if anyone mentioned this in the past. Did a search and didn't really get anything. I have been re-watching my Animego DVD of SDF: Macross and realized that Nyan Nyan is the name of Minmay's family restaurant. I'm sure you die hard fans picked up on that right away, but it totally went over my head. I hadn't watch the series in quite some time, and I completely forgot that. I bring it up only because Frontier seemed to dwell so much on the Nyan Nyan franchise in the early episodes. Just thought others would find that bit of trivia interesting. I can't remember if M7 mentions Nyan Nyan restaurants or not.

I read the plot summary for Ender's Game from wikipedia. Man, it sounds like a great story! I will definitely read it. I used to read sci-fi books all the time, now I don't seem to have the time for such activities. My reading time is severally limited, but I will put this at the top of my list. Thanks for posting the thread.

That's the one, but not the color scheme I remember. I was able to dig up Mr. Yodana's display at the Summer 2000 Wonderfest courtesy of our good friend Black Aces. I really like the traditional color scheme the best. http://www.geocities.com/regult/wonderfest9.html

Yes again, to your revised proposal. Would like to see articulated legs and/or thruster vectoring nozzles where appropriate. A certain amount of articulation on the wings on a YF-21.

I'm making a prediction that Yamato will put these out. They'll be really awesome looking. Then you'll start to hear, "well I wasn't considering them before, but they look so cool and not too expensive, so I think I will get one." Battriods are cool and all, but it is clear that the design is primarily a fighter first and battroid second. That's why I always felt the fighter mode is the best looking mode. But, like the majority, I hope that we seem some enemy mechs(Officer Glaug please) and not so much of the VF-1. Oh, and each fighter should have fast packs that can be added or removed. That's why I feel it is important to have the legs fully articulated at least.

Sounds like a great idea to me. While the ability to do a perfect transformation in a toy is cool, for me it is only a means to an end in order to get to a specific mode. I can count on 1 hand the number of times I actually transformed any of my Yamatos. For the most part they just sit there in one mode or another. I see where transforming and non-transforming toys have their place with collectors. You can perfect the things in a non-transforming toy that you had to compromise on in order to make a toy transforming. Personally, I would be satisfied to have nicely sculpted, detailed, articulated toys in each mode. They could still put in nice gimmicks in each one as well. For example, for a battriod they could have the head swing back and the cockpit could come up with a pilot inside. The could do a 3 pack set of each mode in a decent scale and price as well. I suppose for the type of toy I'm talking about you would need to be in a larger scale than the current GN-U toy line. And, you would probably be talking a higher price point. At this point you would almost be selling pre-built and pre-painted models although I would expect something more robust and durable such as a toy should be. If I had the skills, time, and patience of a model builder I would probably be more into the Hasagawa models anyway. Graham, to your specific post, YES I would love a nice GN-U type of toy in only a fighter mode. One thing I would seriously consider doing is to make the entire, engine/leg assembly fully articulated since this is also a maneuver you see Valks doing from time to time in order to quickly slow down during a dogfight. You know, gerwalk mode without transforming the arms and hands. I recall my old Arii toys do this. Soooo, any particular reason you bring this up Graham.

The thing is, I don't think Shin realized she was inside the Birdman until the last minute.

I keep waiting for someone to post a pic of a Macross tattoo.