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    Not strictly aircraft exactly, but the Worlds second most otaku military organisation - the UKs - has launched the final satellite for its Skynet network. You have a few more days to find a 40 megawatt pulse rifle and an EMP generator before it goes on-line and starts hunting puny fleshlings, folks!
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    Ah, thank you! I did try looking on Collection DX but it never occurred to me to look for another version of the Garland and see if there was a guide!
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    Okay, I figured out I was putting the leg pegs into the wrong hole - insert joke here - but the shoulder thing is driving me slightly nuts. The wheel halves appear to be lined up with the shoulders, the magnets on the body are popping out, and whilst the wheel halves do attach to the magnets there is a tendency for them to lean outwards. Has anyone got a close up of their shoulders to show me where I'm going wrong (if I am at fault)?
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    I picked up a Proto-Garland recently and its a great toy, but I've got one or two niggles - which I think my be my fault. First, the shoulder "wheels" in mecha mode - I'm not sure if I've fixed them in place correctly, they have a tendency to "lean" out when the arms are posed. I've got them lined up with the magnets and I think I've got the "bars" they're attached to aligned right. Anyone else have this problem? Similar story for the pegs that connect the legs to the lower wheel. The pegs don't seem to go all the way into the holes and have a tendency to pop out. Anyone else have this trouble?
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    I always enjoyed playing Battletech. It wasn't exactly quick to play, but it was relatively easy to get a game together with some boards, counters and some pre-made stat sheets. It also had a very involving Universe, and one that evolved and grew as time went on. Even without 'Mechs, it would have been quite a solid basis for a SF setting. The Clans threw the game balance out a bit - you either had to be the reincarnation of Alexander the Great or compensate the Inner Sphere side quite a bit to compete - but then FASA had to keep interest in the game going over time. The difference in the depiction of humanoid fighting machines between BattleTech and Anime is basically that of a difference in perception; to the West until recently a humanoid robot was basically a walking tank, a bit awkward but with massive firepower, whereas in anime mecha have basically always been rocket-powered robot ninja.
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    The Moffat episode - first part - aired in the UK Saturday evening. It was, of course, excellent. It will also - again, rapidly becoming a Moffat trademark - give a whole new generation a reason to shield themselves from oncoming terror by hiding behind the sofa.
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    I saw these some time ago, but I've no idea where. I also once saw a copy of the Japanese edition at a UK anime con, but that would have been several years ago now.
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    David Tennant is doing a stint in a production of Hamlet shortly; heres Neil Gaimans take on what that might be like: ""To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?" Theres also a rumour that Stephen Moffat has asked Neil Gaiman to script an episode when Moffat takes over...
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    Thanks for the information!
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    They've got this the wrong way round, actually. They asked Captain Eric Brown to come out of retirement and give the rubber landing strip another go. Just in case the F-35B doesn't work out...
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    Looking at the 1/20 figures - they appear to be listed on HLJ as trading kits, and "Snap-Kit" - I'm assuming that they're pre-painted, but also assuming the only way to get them is by buying a whole box set, yes?
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    By all accounts Tomino was not in one of his better moods at the time; its said that he was worried about Bandais takeover of Sunrise at the time (and given what we've had since then, maybe he was right!), and apparently he even appears on an extra of the V Gundam DVDs exhorting people not to watch the show! And its also well known that Turn-A seems to have been something of a cure for Tomino; indeed looking at the two shows and having seen them as closely together as I did, I sometimes have trouble believing the same person was responsible. But, still - Graham likes V a lot it seems, and judging by some of the responses here so do other people. It can't just be down to the Zanscare Empires All-Womens Bikini Bazooka Team, can it?
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    I'm a little curious - why does everyone like V so much? I didn't hate it, but I found it rather depressing and I got the impression that the production staff didn't really have their heart in it. However, this may be because of the order of shows I watched at the time - SEED, Destiny, then Turn-A, then V. It may be that my impressions of V have been coloured a bit by how refreshing I found Turn-A overall...
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    The most overpowered mecha of all time to come, Ideon, was a combining space truck. Do not underestimate the power of the Transforming Space Truckers Union.
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    Just a heads-up: this Saturdays episode will be the Stephen "Blink, The Doctor Dances" Moffat-penned two parter. He has also been recently confirmed as taking over from Russell T. Davies as executive producer from 2010. This episode was delayed a week by the Eurovision song contest. DON'T ask.
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    Actually, I'm kind of pleased. There was a sticker on the front of the box, but I didn't notice it at the time, and even if it had it wouldn't actually have meant anything to me as I hadn't realised the Legioss had designators like "Z" - and I was under the impression that only blue ones were being sold in shops. In this age of instant download anime and encyclopaedic on-line knowledge of it, its interesting that an anime fan like me can still be surprised occasionally. I realise this would be an issue for some people, and it is a lot of money for a colour I didn't think I was getting, but honestly, I mainly wanted a Legioss and the colour is only a secondary concern for me personally.
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    I recently went to Japan and picked up... er... a few... things. One of them was a Legioss and Tread. I went to a shop (Yodabashi Akiba) and bought a blue one, and shipped a blue one back home. It arrived this morning. You can imagine my surprise when I opened the box and found that I had a red Legioss and Tread...
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    Dammit, I'm an idiot! I should have thought of that one right away! If only old H.G. had realised that giant human-piloted robots are better visually than bacteria...
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    You better be able to roller-skate over peoples faces.
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    My guess would be that unless you learn to read Japanese they're going to be pretty rare. Its probably a cultural thing, the Japanese don't seem to go for superheroes in the Marvel and D.C. style in the same way... Peter F. Hamilitons Fallen Dragon features a kind of biological power armour, but again human-scaled, and occasionally spider-type tanks show up in SF but other than those already mentioned I'm having trouble - wasn't there a RPG series called Living Metal once? Wasn't that based on a book?
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    Well, take heart that when the crusher meets the F-14s titanium wing-box assembly its probably going to lose quite a few teeth. By all accounts, that particular F-14 part was built.
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    Some toys, he said...! Wow. Just... wow.
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    This is a parody, but it pretty much sums up why Turn-A is the awesome: http://www.mahq.net/rants/neo/comic9.jpg
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    Nah, Everyone has parts left over, even those inhuman cyborg modellers with multiple limbs and forty fingers. You'll know you've really arrived when you watch some tiddly little but unique and vitally important part describe a ballistic arc onto the carpet...
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    I'm fond of 0083, largely because its the first actual Gundam I saw - as opposed to reading about . Its hard to disagree with the article I read before I saw it, though, that its rather shallow but well detailed and somehow makes you care. Even if it has the most completely contrived plot twist ever. I got a burnin' heart...
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