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Not until I get a MASK movie!

Or they were watching stunt planes with smoke generators. But heck, the lack of pilots kills the disguise anyways. May as well go all out.

No. The disks don't have enough space, and the end result won't adhere to any reasonable standard.

Mine have the feet... They also have instructions to pull down on the feet to extend the legs. Which results in detached feet, but what the heck, let's do it anyways! As far as the shoulders go... I think Hasbro is just unwilling to acknowledge that joint exists. They insist on leaving them up for the boxart and everything too. On NotLazerbeak, they missed the hinge to angle the wings up. And forward. Those 2 steps make him a LOT nicer looking.

That's easy. Cut a hole in the side of the box, run wire there, glue the battery pack in it. I've been kicking around stick ideas for a while. More PC-oriented, due to MAME. Modular so I could match arcade panels(and play around with layouts, like classic Atari-style right-handed directionals). But being me, I had plans for something extremely modular. Scavenge a few controllers and wire the boards up to a standard connection, mount them in a box, and I could easily swap the "brains" of the stick out with a cartridge for any system I owned, 2600 to 360. I need to dig some notes out and actually make one.

It had a theatrical release. But fun thing... they still use 4:3 film for movie releases. They actually matte it down for the movies. In the case of animation, the entire 4:3 frame is almost invariably drawn. So you actually GAIN image area. As far as the "HD master"... Either Bandai's planning an HD-DVD/BluRay release, and this is made using a cleaned-up remaster made for that, or Bandai is full of poo. DVD-Video disks CANNOT carry HD video, as the resolution is explicitly 720*480. And if you're distributing it on DVD-ROM (which... isn't really that useful. People tend to not watch movies on their computers.), you're limited to something like a half-hour per dual-layer disk(which clearly isn't enough for this).

Yeah... Which would've useful if I remembered anything besides "Energon Arcee, only in blue" Though the price classes they use amuse me. Mainly because "Deluxe" is so close to bottom-end.

Ummmm... Good question. I didn't realize there were two. Shows how much attention I paid. Repaint of Energon Arcee, whichever class she fell into. ... How can I know that, and not whether it was 6 or 10 bucks? I'm really a special kind of special here. *rummages at Hasbro's site* Scout.

Good to know. Now I can be a cheap bastard and use my 1 free month of Live Gold to download Mechassault updates! ... And, you know, play a game or two. Maybe. ... As soon as I run some copper across the house for my 'Boxes.

The Target I went to earlier had Arcee on the shelf already.

Speaking of ball joints... Why the HELL is Hasbro ignoring the ones on Barricade's arms that let you flip the front quarter-panels down. He looks infinitely better without them jutting up like they keep illustrating him. Right now I've got Barricade and Not-Lazerbeak. Kinda wishing I'd held off on Barricade for a little while. See if a Voyager mold pops up. Something with, I dunno, hands maybe. But he's still neat, head excepted(I REALLY hate most of the movie heads).

I hate myself for this... I'm seriously considering buying a trio of the digicam 'bots and claiming they're Reflector.

I think it's Prime's fault. If he'd written "Don't grab the handles! Stick your fingers in the holes!" on the back of the Matrix, Magnus wouldn't have gotten blown up. "And that's who you'll be from now on, Kup! Sh!tpiece!"

I know they weren't just going hunting with a REALLY fancy rifle. But it's funnier that way. Be honest, you laughed at the idea of a Tomcat launching a Sidewinder up a camel's "tailpipe" too.

Or Seamonkey. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

"Narrated by" is stretching it a bit. They ARE in character, though...

I still think they should have done SOMETHING with Flower Girl, instead of just finding a way for Basra to blow her off every episode.

"Yup, that camel almost got away. Was a tough fight, but I got the better of the dirty humpback in the end."

MY EPISODE PREVIEWS! THEY'RE SILENT! NOOOOOOO!!!! I was wondering how they were gonna handle that, since they didn't make much sense after being (un)scrambled. But... silence?

That was what I meant. But it looks REALLY good that way. Seconded.

Hmmm... that animation-paint Starscream... He looks a LOT better with the kibble not attached at the hips OR legs than he does with it hanging off of either location. Pity it leaves spare parts laying around. As far as the movie toys go... all I've seen is the 10$ ones. Damn Hasbro for making some of them look appealing! My wallet was glad I was going to sit this line out!

Supply permitting, I'll be buying my miniature shrine to Suzumiya Haruhi tomorrow... well, later today I guess. Broadcast order disks don't ship until the 3rd volume? I'd missed that. Thought it was a 1 per volume thing.

I still maintain it should've had minimal protection from hazards. A simple cord to prevent impact with the ground would've satisfied me, though I DO think that a locked plastic box would've been optimum for their goals. Anything other than leaving an important sample completely 100% alone would've been a good idea. Theft may be highly variable with the individuals involved, but gravity is constant. Indeed. The people that do it are at least the minority already.

That's a lot better than having to redo it from scratch. Like I said, even ignoring the possibility of theft, there's a lot of mishaps that could've befallen the thing that would've made it HIGHLY prudent to lock it up, tie it down, or SOMETHING.

I wasn't saying MR deserved it, or the thief isn't the scum of the Earth, or anything(though if I were on the Star Wars board where the news started I think I'd have to remind them that it's a replica movie prop, not food for orphans... they're taking it WAY too seriously). I was just saying that it was stupid to have something that important out in the first place. They placed what was apparently a critical part of the manufacturing process in the path of about a million different hazards, and one of them came through. It just HAPPENS that it was one of the more malicious hazards that struck.