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I'd take the donation happily. ... As long as I imagined it being ripped out of his still-living body Mortal Kombat-style.

No, because HG will throw a hissyfit over anything with the Macross name.

If I recall, Kawamori's actually stated he's never SEEN Macross 2, so he has no opinion on it. So it certainly wasn't banished because he didn't like it.

I've seen them for sale. I have serious doubts as to their effectiveness, as well as noise level. 'Sides, with a passively cooled VGA card, you'd want the slot cooler bringing air in and blowing it over the video card heatsink.

I've seen that box all over the place for a while. Pretty sure Prime's supposed to have windows. I've been mildly tempted to pick the box up. But only mildly. And it's not exactly going anywhere, so why rush?

Exactly. So what happens if they DO revisit Basara, but rewrite him to be some stereotypical angst-ridden twit instead of the Basara we all know and love(or at least love to hate)?

I still haven't seen a second Jetfire. Prime is EVERY-F'ING-WHERE, though

What if they rewrite Basara so he's all angsty and paints his Valk black while crying about how no one understands him?

See the HG license debate thread in general anime. General consensus is that Tatsunoko has distribution rights for the original TV series. Maybe DYRL too. Harmony Gold argues that it was international rights for the entire franchise, which they got from Tatsunoko, so HG owns Macross outside of Japan. So redesigning everything won't fix anything, since HG will make it unprofitable to bring over regardless of legal standing. I'm mildly surprised they didn't sue Bandai because Gundam Wing had robots that transformed into jets and therefore fell within their Macross license.

:'(

Saw an Ultra Magnus/Skywarp package. I picked it up, just because I like how Skywarp looks. I was tempted to leave some twist ties wrapped around Magnus after I got him loose. The clipped remnants were hanging in such a way that it looked like he'd ripped them apart while breaking out of a prison or something. But then they started falling off. I may do it on my next 'bot. This concludes today's episode of "Fun With the Box in Spite of Hasbro." Seriously, how about they use a third the twist ties and put the money they save into more paint apps?

I thought the monsters had a 100% survival ratio. They only had 3 of them in the first place, and I'm pretty sure they hauled more than one out for the final battle against the bodol fleet.

Well, that depends... will I be assigned to one of the 3 destroids that get blown up AGAIN AND AGAIN every time the zentradi attack the ship? Seriously, it depends on WHICH destroid. I'd take a Monster assignment in a heartbeat. They aren't even deployed most of the time, and they have enough armor to withstand more of a beating than just about anything else. But if it's a Defender, I'm placing better odds on the Valk.

I'm leaning towards the latter, personally. But quit being unfun.

Fine... buy whoever bought the mold after they folded. I know they survived for some time, as I saw a toy catalog in the late 90s with a version of the 'bot. Original phallic trigger version, no less.

Oh, c'mon Hasbro... just buy the damn company already!

Well, it's not exactly strange for a panorama camera. 9" isn't an odd frame width for professional applications. It captures enough detail that you can do a lot of serious studying of the image. And let's be honest, if you're gonna be one of only a dozen people to walk the moon, you want the best damn pictures you can take. But yeah, the camera was expensive. Pretty much everything we send into space is.

Bill Gates actually owns the inspiration for the Transformers XWing.

The king of braves has... fallen? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you want an easy comparison... The GeForce 4 MX is actually a GeForce 2. You'll be replacing it with a low-end GeForce 6(that actually IS a GeForce 6). Suffice it to say that yeah, you're gonna see a good bit of a performance boost.

Again... It's not weight, which makes no sense for a spaceship(as weight is directly dependent on gravity). It's not even mass. Displacement = volume. Which is basically how much space is inside. That can go up REALLY fast with a hollow vehicle. Simplest explanation is the ARMDs are wider and/or deeper than the Daedalus and Prometheus they replaced were, thus making them roomier vehicles. It probably won't cover the whole difference though, since the ARMDs are shorter than the D&P were(pity the Compendium doesn't list the width or volume of the D&P).

The Compendium isn't using the ton as a unit of mass. It's using it as a unit of VOLUME(hence why that measurement is labeled displacement, not mass). The actual mass is FAR lower, if for no other reason than the ship is hollow. Hooray for reused unit names...

If I were Hikaru I'd... kill myself. Of the 2 listed options... Misa. And I'd settle things a LOT faster, even if it DID torpedo the post-war arc.

Ouch... that wasn't even close... Well, at least I can vote Guy without a guilty conscience.

Do you have the ability to screw with post counts? You could start messing with it at random intervals. ... Actually, one board I was on let you have NEGATIVE post counts. That was hilarious.