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Heh. Methinks an extra letter might be needed.

The stabilizer fins of the AMM-1 do not extend until after the missile is launched. Use can see the side drawing on the AMM-1 page which shows the AMM-1 with its fins retracted: http://nanashi.macrossmecha.info/resrc/cat...siles/amm1.html But you just said tail fin missiles aren't AMM-1s.

True. DirectX didn't exist until ... I think '96. Or IS IT? Maybe Kawamori and company predicted Microsoft's rise to power 2 decades ago, when the IBM PC was just a dream and Gates was just a conman.

But I'd pay good money to see someone blast a WORKING one out. Especially if it didn't go straight up, so it spun in the air. ... This all assumes I'm a safe distance away.

Yamato will be the winners, no questions asked. Bandai's are reissues of the old toys from the original release of the show. While good for their day, and the most playable of the 3 main ones, they aren't exactly known for their accuracy. Toynami has had major quality control issues, as well as being Robotech merchandise, which earns them some more ire. Yamato, despite a few quality control problems here and there, has consistently offered the most detailed, articulated, and accurate toys.

Are you sure you're not confusing her gloved hands with tig bittes? Probably. *picks mind out of the gutter*

Damnb, but Minmay's chest is big in that shot.

And eventually it follows you while making tweeting noises and launching lightsabers at you through an air cannon..

The clip where Hikaru's plane # reverses!

the bartender says "Not you three again!"

Pros: Basara sings better than Minmay. Cons: Minmay doesn't sing every episode.

The fact that there's a club devoted to making R2-D2 clones astounds me.

He's talking about the Saturn/PlayStation game that features very liberal usage of FMV between levels(captured from the movie as well as new animation).

Assuming it's canon, then yes.

That's a diffrent episode(the one where Exedol comnes aboard to negotiate a cease-fire). The DirectX logo is just a yellow X with a bluish circle around it. Though a porn star would probably look a lot better. Can't get a shot of the billboard(lack a PC DVD player), but here's what the directX logo looks like, so you know what you're looking for(it's really hard to miss).

Technically, it was called the "Star Wars Holiday Special" so I didn't feel bad about leaving it out. For all we know, it may have been intended to celbrate Hanukkah, Ramadan, or maybe even Kwanza. That's why I didn't capitalize. I wasn't sure of the real title. Strong are you in the dark side. Evil you are, yes.

What about the Star Wars christmas special? *gets shot by an assassin hired by George Lucas*

I'm dead serious. There's a big rotating DirectX logo, plain as day, on a billboard right smack in the middle of the screen for a few seconds in one episode. I think it was the first one with the spies onboard the Macross, right as they step into the city. But I'm not sure. Okay, found it. Right scene. It's about 6 minutes into episode 13. As our trio of comic relief stares at all the flashing lights, a traffic light changes. After that the camera pans across a row of stores on the street. One of them has a big DirectX logo as a sign.

I should run through the DVDs again and find the big flashing DirectX billboard. Macross City: Powered by Microsoft.

To be fair, the MPCs were designed to compete with the 1/60 Yamato, not the 1/48. Which isn't saying there aren't some problems with the MPCs, but it's not really fair to compare them to a toy that came out that much later.

Tonight it was a fruit basket. What kind of fruits?

I was just saying that relative to other states, Texas is VERY friendly to debtors. I happen to be quite fond of Texas, BTW. Well, aside from the weather in summer.

Or some sort of "programmable" paint. The pilot just has to create a color scheme and feed it into the computer, which realigns the pigments as needed. Intended for stealth purposes(adaptive camoflauge), but the pilots keep defeating the purpose by wiring it up in bright primary colors. The worst part is there's similar products being developed now. Only for "smart" paper instead of fighterplane skin. They're already working on such a system. What I was refering to is different though. It's basically big vinyl apliques that you stick on the plane instead of paint. The idea is that if you ever need to repaint or repair a plane all you do is peel off the old apliques and stick new ones on. Over the long run this actually saves weight (older airplanse can gain several hundred pounds just from new layers of paint over the years). The other advantage is you can come up with new paint schemes out in the field then just print them out on a giant printer and stick them on the plane. Another approach. Likely far more practical, too.

Yep. Just look at the poor reposessor they killed awhile back. Doing nothing but his job and the MURDERER got a pat on the back and was told quote "You proved a point today, they won't be taking our property anymore." Insane indeed. Don't recall the case you're talking about. Knowing how lenient Texas law is about debt, he could have been within his legal rights. At the very least, I'd bet the reposessor was trespassing(since the whole POINT behind the job is they don't want to give it back). Doesn't mean he should have gotten off, just that I understand why (legally) he did. Anyways, the intent of the law is to acknowledge that the police can't be everywhere every time, and the people should have the ability to stop a crime themselves. But like I said, there's a few flaws in the implementation. I would argue, but the one about the eBay motorbike auction ceased being fun the moment eBay deleted the auction.

That picture is photoshopped. Everyone knows that the original Tracks' legs always broke off.