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    Would be a stand out in your Roy collection.
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    I have no self-respect. lol
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    Yeah- the BBTS stuff doesn't list even the guns they show in the pictures, so that doesn't help. But just from running through the pictures, it looks like the Robotech "Scott" doesn't have a Laser Hound but the Mospeada Stig does. Both have the 60mm beam cannon. I'm guessing the Robotech release will have a lot less goodies. I grabbed one of each (Mospeada and RT) and so expect to have three riding and three in armor mode. I'll mix and match parts, if necessary.
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    They also seem to be generally more pricey so far ($70-80 + shipping versus $59 shipped) . I preordered the BBTS ones even if they say Robotech on them but have been waiting to get a set of Mospeada ones from Japan. So I'm hoping the Mospeada ones from Japan have extra goodies to justify me paying more.
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    Interestingly, this is actually closer to the novel Bond in a way. Bond definitely gets into situations in the books that he didn't plan on at all. Then he ends up reacting to things and trying to pull something out of it or he gets off a message somewhere and you get the deux ex machina. And I don't see him as a "dumb thug", but I do see him as flexing that license to kill. Novel Bond, as Seto mentions, hates killing if he doesn't have to. So this is a switch up. Except it isn't *really* a revenge thing- that's what it was played out for everyone to think he was focusing on, but the classic line at the end of Quantum of Solace indicates that's never what it was about ("I never left.". I think the DC movies do a better job of using the "rogue 00" theme than some of the prior movies. Probably one of my favorite scenes is in QoS when Bond takes out the guards on him in the hotel, slips back over to M, and then M says "He's my agent and I trust him", quickly followed by Felix helping him in the bar stay just ahead of the US troops gunning for him.
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    What's funny is Brosnan wanted to be a more gritty Bond but they didn't allow him to. He ended up getting closer to what he wanted to be in The Matador. Also- Dalton is very underrated as Bond.
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    Gorgeous.
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    Oh yeah- I totally know the time period stuff (after all, women couldn't even get their own credit cards and such until the 70s). It's just amazing to be reading along through a spy adventure novel and then it drops something crazy misogynist or racist. H.P.Lovecraft's earlier stuff is often less in comparison (hell, he writes about what he considers white trash people like the "degenerate Catskills people" more than he does other races). It's 20 or 30 years after Lovecraft (and after WWII) and Fleming is throwing out lines like "Oh yes, this club doesn't allow Goldblums or Shaumbergs- we have a no Jew policy". Fleming trying to write from a woman's perspective in The Spy Who Loved Me was very entertaining, though. I did love the hatred of tea by Bond, only for him to savor it in the novel version of Thunderball when he is stuck at the clinic. And poor novel Felix gets messed up so much and keeps on going. I have to say in the Craig Bond's, I love Wright as Felix.
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    I actually like Daniel Craig's Bond, but Spectre was such a mess of a story that ruined everything the other three films set up (like Mr. White going from the guy from Quantum who keeps slipping away again and again to suddenly he wants Bond's help). I'm also rereading all the original Fleming novels and damn is there an extreme level of misogyny throughout them. The adventure aspect is a lot of fun but there isn't a book where Bond doesn't mention wanting to hit a woman (usually referred to as "spanking" but it is almost always described as him being angry and not playful).
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    Picked up this 1980 Games Workshop Doctor Who game- it is unpunched.
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    I've seen my paintwork and I'm definitely not happy with it. 🤣
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    If I get really crazy and buy a second one to make a Virgin Road version, I will definitely hook you up with the fan racer. The main thing keeping me from doing this is my painting skills suck. 😂
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    What's this? Are you wanting a fan racer? You probably should have indicated this to us earlier, multiple times. Maybe sprinkled in a couple times each page. Also- if all these sarcastic replies hasn't gotten someone to feel bad for you and offer you one of their extra fan racers, I don't know what will.
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    We have no idea what you are talking about!?! New phone forum, who dis?
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    Then why didn't you tell us? We're not mind readers!
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    Mines on the ground at National Airport and being handed off to a DHL driver, so I almost have mine. Here's 1/60 Hikaru chatting with Max and Milia while waiting for his new fan racer to show up.
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    Even if the ticket cost the same, the amount I'd pay on getting more toys toys and attempting to bring those back would make this waaaaay too cost prohibitive.
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    I paid 27800 + 4480 for shipping, so 32,280 (which is currently about $295 total). But that required hitting Anime Export at the right time and such. $345 at this point is not unreasonable.
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    Mine is now rolling out of Tokyo on DHL, so I can't wait to have it in my hand so I can complain about the size and scale and lack of extra Hikaru figure and sitting Minmei. I've been looking for ward to complaining for days now.
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    Macross Chronicle shows the same cutaway @TheLoneWolf posted. It looks like the wheel is sipposed to pop up between the legs or something, given the dark circle there. They also show the length as slightly more than 5 meters. You can see the measurement in the lower left of the first page below.
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    I just spit out the Coke I was drinking.
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    FedEx dropped off a big box- my wife was like "There's a big FedEx package outside for you. I got all excited, thinking somehow it made it through fast or that something else I had ordered but forgotten about showed up. It was a package for a neighbor a street over. I hate them so much right now.
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    Pretty standard for a place to say "shipped" when they've got it in a box and a tracking number assigned, even if it hasn't been picked up yet. So you're ok.
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    That's very strange, since my Roy came from them and it was definitely boxed.
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