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Same. I was fortunate enough to have a cash infusion bucks come my way at the right time to preorder it, given I was a kid with no job.

The Animeigo release is about the highest quality possible, given the source. DVD passed the limits of the original film grain, and Animeigo actually had to add film grain back in after they restored it.

Ummm.... the Mac Plus DVDs have TWO SEPARATE SETS of subtitles. Depending on whether you select english or japanese audio, it selects a set of subtitles to match. Which line? I don't recall that issue. I remember V1 of the first OVA disk had some severe issues. That could've been part of it. Not that I think Manga did a great job with the franchise(I'm STILL waiting for them to do the movie DVD right), but...

That was a Robotech-ism. In real Macross, they all live. BOMBA! That's likely, actually. They injected Minmay and Sharon Apple, and even Mac2 for some reason, into Mac7.

Mao showing up in Frontier is stretching credibility a bit, really. Unless she was on Macross Island and caught up in the fold accident, she probably got toasted in the final battle of Space War 1. Of course, they DO have jets that completely seperate into multiple parts during the transformation, so...

Relativity experiments involving event horizons.

2 "words"... ZOMG RARE!11111 Seriously. Game collectors will pay absurd amounts of cash for anything if it's rare.

I repeat: Good ol' Chromedome.

Good ol' Chromedome.

You can use 3 extra remotes as "trance vibrators" for 3x the fun! Seriously, I dunno. Hell, I've had the DC disk image for I think 2 years now and never tried it out.

Only if he can pass on his skill of luck.

BOMBA!

Basara.

Shame he's not devious enough to hide his machinations long enough for them to work. He'd be more effective if he ACTUALLY killed Megatron instead of just TRYING to. Punch, on the other hand... was totally irrelevant to the US continuity. (I always thought that was a neat concept. But I think it was gone from shelves by the time I found out it existed.)

When comparing the Dancouga to Nova, any cheap shot is acceptable. Is that 32cm to the top of the head, the top of the wing/ear antennae, or the top of the back cannon? Not that it's a huge difference either way, but... Yah. I WOULD like to see some side-by-sides of the SOC Dancouga and the CM's Nova once it comes out. Just to see how they compare. The individual beast machines probably benefit a lot from the larger size. Especially given the Nova head unit is so much bulkier than the original Eagle Fighter to start with(that was the weakest part of the SoC by far, though they tucked a fair bit into such a small piece).

It almost seems like a Forgotten Worlds sequel.

Ahhh, good ol' Sega. Even if it WAS Sega Europe. Sega America ran similar ads at times.

SOC Dancouga = bigger. SOC Dancouga = cheaper. SOC Dancouga = better-looking. SOC Dancouga = not related to the horrible Dancouga Nova TV show. The choice is clear. Sorry, CM's

The RX-8 mold is the best, because it is Shockwave. I suppose Mirage was pretty good, from a technical standpoint. But he was not Shockwave.

My Slag's still in.... relatively good shape. By which I mean all the parts are still attached. Pretty much every last speck of chrome has been rubbed off at this point, the stickers are gone(he went in the swimming pool a few times), and the tail is a bit worn, but... by favorite childhood toy standards, he did good. Actually, most of my Transformers came out of things fairly well. Even still have a lot of the guns. I was an odd kid. I never noticed that on mine.

Heh. I'm biased. Slag was my first Dinobot, and for a long time was my only dinobot. Add to that the fact that triceratopseses were always my favorite dinosaur, and.... Slag could've been a Micromaster and I'd still think he was the best TF ever.

You did NOT just say that! Triceratops > *. By extension, Slag > *. Also not insultable is Swoop. Pterodactyls are ALMOST as awesome as triceratopses... triceratopsii... triceratopsen?

Hikaru's head gets bashed in by Kamjin at one point in the TV series too. And crushed by Britai at another.

Yes. that's exactly it. I'm an operative of Al-Quada. You've found me out. Now I will bomb your house. Hail Bin Laden. I really think that statement speaks for itself. I see no need to deal with it in a remotely serious manner. I could probably ignore the entire rest of this pile of lies and insults and just leave that statement sitting there to shame you. But I'm going to plow ahead anyways. More wild assumptions with no basis in fact. And a few blind zealous lies thrown in on top of it. I watch TV news for laughs, not real coverage. You can't adequately cover an issue in the pathetic soundbites of space granted TV news. Hell, you can't adequately cover an issue in the few-pages spread a large newspaper article gets. I SUPPORTED the invasion of Iraq. Not on grounds of ZOMG TERRARIST!111, but on grounds of "Saddam Hussein is a sick, sadistic man and needs to be removed from power." I have subsequently been embarrassed by the mishandling of the war and occupation. But I still believe that the invasion was the right idea, just implemented very wrongly. And while it is clearly NOT going according to plan, I strongly advocate a continued military presence because... let's face it, things would be even MORE in the crapper if we pulled out and left things to descend further into anarchy. It's too late to stop now, and has been ever since we took Baghdad. BTW... Iraq isn't part of the "war on terror." There were, and still are, no credible links between Hussein's regime and international terrorism. Actually, no clause of the PATRIOT act has been used in the investigation of a terrorism suspect. The broad powers it granted were only used against US citizens with no known ties to any terrorist organizations, explicitly in violation of the promises made by US intelligence agencies to get these powers granted (or reinstated, in some cases). It's a rehash of the things that got wiretapping so heavily restricted in the first place. And despite one highly visible failure, the government has proven remarkably good at stopping terrorist attacks WITHOUT these powers. The only good thing about the PATRIOT act is that the powers it granted had clearly defined sunset periods, and those dates have come and gone without extension in most cases. Amendment 4 The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendment 5 No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Amendment 6 In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. The above paragraphs are not idealist concepts. They are calculated responses to abuses of the people by a government that was supposed to be protecting them, and were crafted to prevent the government that followed from abusing it's people in a similar manner. They have been proven necessary multiple times in this nation's history. Yes, we could probably stop a lot more crimes, of all types, without such nagging trifles as due process and innocent until proven guilty, but AT WHAT COST? What you call "collateral damage" I call gross irresponsibility and unconstitutional. The prison in Guantanamo shames me deeply as a US citizen. It should do so to everyone. Sadly, it's easier to turn the other way and ignore it. For the record, in my area we're busy re-investigating and overturning thousands of convictions by a district attorney that shared your view of the law. The DA office under his tenure operated under the belief that everyone was guilty of something, and that a conviction by any means was acceptable. The end result was a huge number of people railroaded into jail for crimes they never committed. Some of them may in fact be guilty, but will get out anyways because a crooked DA office tainted their case so badly that it's not possible to prove the point. Oh, well that's okay then. I'm pretty sure the heads of the CIA and FBI don't have wiretaps on their personal lines. Check into Hoover's tenure as FBI director. It's a large part of what got wiretaps so restricted in the first place. Wrong. I made no Chuck Norris jokes, and that was established early on in this thread as the gold standard for anti-military propaganda. I have, as of yet, not made a single anti-military comment. Except in your deluded fantasies where I'm burning soldiers in effigy. I feel a mixture of pity and envy for you. I pity you for your stupidity, which is shamelessly displayed for the world to see. And I envy your naivete, which is evident in your belief that constitutional restrictions on law enforcement are un-needed and only the bad guys have any reason to worry about them. Barring any tremendously offensive instances of slander against me, I'll be dropping this now. It's worth arguing, but this isn't the place.

One word: Jamming. That is why a more-autonomous drone is an appealing idea. As countermeasures evolve, it will be desirable for the vehicle to be capable of independent decision-making should it lose contact with the base. Then if it suspects tampering with the signal. Then, since it's proven so capable of self-control before, they remove the pilot totally.