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  1. Shaorin
    this sure makes me appriciate the fact all the more that my life doesn't hinge around the latest and greatest in video formats. i lived, for FAR longer than what should be considered decent, with the old BEST VIDEO VHS release of DYRL, and only realitvely recently procured an all-region subbed DVD edition. that said, the DVD looks great, sounds great, has an excellent sub job, and is a complete cut, to boot. guess i'm just not a videophile, but i just don't see how i could possibly ask for more, personally... (special features/theatrical trailers would have been nice, but it ain't the end of the universe, or anything...)
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    sounds exactly like what i went through around 5 years back, when i moved to my current locale. i must've had around a hundred built-up kits, collected since i first got into Anime and plastic modelling back around 1993-ish, mostly 1/144 and 1/100 GUNDAMs, but some vintage MACROSS and other 80's series kits in there for good measure. (i gratefully grabbed what i could, back in those make-do, pre-internet days, and 90% of what i was forced to make-do with, of course, was invariably GUNDAM-related) - i had all those kits, built-up, -mostly quite poorly- in their boxes, -with parts frames and everything- all neatly shelved in my closet at the time. my dad had often joked about me having my own hobby shop in my room, in fact. anyway, when it came time to move, around 2006/'07, we all began cutting way back on the excess around the house, and i had decided that the majority of those kits really weren't all that terribly important, so i went ahead and collapsed all the boxes, separating them all at their glue joints, disposing of the bottoms and parts frames, and filing all the instruction manuals in a little filing caddy. i put all the box-tops in a rubbermaid case, and did the same with the models themselves. they have been in storage since, and i just haven't missed them at all. i'll likely be throwing the lion's share of them out, first chance i get...
  3. Shaorin
    indeed. even something as relitively obscure as the AS-E53 "LEYNOS" Assault Suit from the old 1990 SEGA MEGA DRIVE/GENESIS game "ASSAULT SUIT LEYNOS" has seen it's very own 1/35 plamo, as well as at least two variants, to my knowledge, since early/mid 2011; http://en.wikipedia....lt_Suits_series http://www.gundammod...ted-sample.html
  4. Shaorin
    just to expect loose-ish poly-joints, especially on the weight-bearing ankles and shoulders, that can pose quite a frustration when attempting any fancy poses. if you can figure out a better way of firming them up than i (electrician's tape around the top-half of the joint-balls) then please by all means share. for the most part, engineering is largely on par with BANDAI's 1990's HG GUNDAM kits. in other words, PLUM/PMOA are amateurs. most inspired amateurs, mind you, but indeed amateurs all the same...
  5. Shaorin
    finally got around to finishing up that PLUM/PMOA "ASSAULT SUIT LEYNOS" AS-E53 LEYNOS that i picked up early this year. i replaced the stock head antenna assembly with one of my own fabrication, scratch-built from a steel sewing needle, and decorated the model with old ZOIDS decals i had around;
  6. Shaorin
    YOU'RE DAMNED LUCKY, YA KNOW THAT? -too bad 'ol David ain't a little bigger, though; he makes a bit of a poor match for my Miku-chan, scale-wise, at the very least;
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    like it or lump it, it's pretty much the way it has to be in order to make it all work...
  8. Shaorin
    back in the late 90's, i had gotten (and still have) MGS1 on the PS1 when the game hit the shelves. i became an instant fan, collecting the entire set of McFARLANE MGS figures along the way, paying about as much for all seven of them as for just one of these PLAY ARTS. my sister became a fan around the same time, developing a crush on SOLID SNAKE, and as the 2000's came along, and i devoted myself more and more to Anime, MGS fell by the wayside, to the degree that i was ready to consider trying to make some quick cash, to infuse into my Anime devotion, off of my MGS collection. it was then, that i found that my sister had stayed true to her MG fandom all through the while, and just about had a stroke when she found out what i was considering. needless to say, she put a kibosh to that real quick. all this time later, i have went back to all the games in the series, rediscovering just how good (oft-cheesy, but still excellent on the whole) they actually are, and being grateful that my sister didn't let me part with them. and then these PLAY ARTS materialize, which pretty much handily blow the old McFARLANE figs out of the water in most every way conceivable, and, hideously overpriced or not, i just had to buy my sister at least her two principal favorite charas...
  9. Shaorin
    well, my sister's MGS PLAY ARTS collection is now complete, so far as she feels it'll ever be; in a perfect world, she'd like to collect them all, but at $70 a pop plus shipping, she feels it best to keep to her must-haves...
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    Macross figures

    Shaorin replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    simple. they have a strong attachment to the character(s). take myself, for example; i'm strongly attached to one Mikuru Asahina of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" fame. i consider myself immensely lucky to have a (SHOCK/GASP/HORROR) 11" doll of her, and, yes, i'm a 30 year old guy. color me mad, blind and/or gay, but i wouldn't be able to bring myself to trade her for all the Valks in the world... gee, and just 20/30 years ago, so many had theorized that humanity would have the solar system colonized by 2010 or thereabouts... fast forward to a little ways on PAST that very actual date, and the current state of the gloriously foretold human condition? "MY LITTLE PONY; FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC" and it's strong male cult fanbase are one of the most notable phenomenon of recent years!! "Radiant Future" indeed!! L. RON HUBBARD rotates in his resting place!!
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    one of these beauties, either 11B or 11C, -really- needs to be my next Valk acquisition...
  12. Shaorin
    Ahhh, Shoot... - DOUBLE POST -
  13. Shaorin
    as can be seen in the photo above, one of those tabs just broke on my most recent acquisition 1st Ed. Focker 1S. i went ahead and X-ACTOed the other off, for symmetry's sake, if nothing else. ain't the end of the world... just wish it would've held it's integrity, as both tabs on my Hikaru 1J TV have managed to hold firm to this day, after three/four years of ownership, and COUNTLESS transformations... and they work damned well, at that, actually. they just seem to be conditionally fragile; probably when the owner attempts transformation quickly and brusquely, without careful and special attention made to disengaging the intake sections from the chestplate section slowly and carefully, with those tabs in mind all the while...
  14. Shaorin
    yeah, "TENCHI MUYO!" was one of my earliest, and first excursions in Anime outside of the MACROSS universe, and i had totally had a crush on Princess Ayeka Masaki Jurai. today, the series kind of rather irritates me. but about a decade back, however, i was quite the passionate fan... i'm pretty certain that it is this, with a semi-custom paint job applied; i should get myself one. if i can do up the "Minky Momo" figure kit i recently completed as well as i feel that i did, then i figure that i can handle one of these just fine... also... CURRENT VF LINEUP;
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    hi, i'm a native Portlander, born there in '82, and lived there 'til '92-ish. nearly all of my extended family still lives there to this day, so i'm often making at least two trips up there per year. all four of my first YAMATO Valks (1/72 VF-11B/ 1/60v.I VF-1AHik. DYRL/ 1/48 DYRL VF-1S Focker and -1A Hikaru) - were bought right as they were initially released, from a "JUST BE DISTRIBUTION/TOYS" that was located right there in downtown Portland's Chinatown, IIRC. this was back in the early 2000's, naturally, so, you've any idea if those guys are still around?
  16. Shaorin
    no, this isn't the $400.00+ 60cm tall YAMATO VMF50 Minmay that i have, it's the $130-odd 11in. YELLOW SUBMARINE/TAKARA MACROSS 15th Anniversary Minmay from the late-90's. i made the boots and gloves myself, and replaced her stock TAKARA JENNY doll body with a vastly superior OBITSU; - YAMATO VMF50 - - YELLOW SUBMARINE/TAKARA MACROSS 15th Anniversary - - could be better, i'll freely admit, i'd much prefer the gigantic VMF50 myself, but the at or near $1k that she tends to command these days is well out of my personal league. the puny little 15th Anniversary, however, at right around $100, was something i could manage... (( Derpy-looking, ain't she? well, what else could you possibly begin to expect from - TOYNAMI - ? )) oh, that's the 12in. TENCHI MUYO "Princess Ayeka Masaki Jurai" doll that TOYNAMI released back in 2001. (along with matching "Tenchi Masaki" and "Ryoko Hakubi" dolls) she was my very first Anime doll, and the only one i had, for many years. i had made her that spacesuit, along with many other outfits, learning how to sew, and honing the skill, as i went along. today, that skill, highly refined, is put to service of my small-but-growing Anime Doll collection, but it basically all started with that Princess Ayeka and the NASA SPACE SHUTTLE-type spacesuit that i had made her back then, so i keep her around, Fugly as she might be, in relation to the balance of my collection at least... see much more here; http://shaorin-chan....rt.com/gallery/
  17. Shaorin
    it doesn't seem to...
  18. Shaorin
    i've just gotten hold of an 1st Ed. 1S Focker DYRL, and, even though the original shoulders have cracks, they hold their integrity. they are annoyingly loose, however, so i went ahead and replaced them with the perfect set off of my 1st Ed. 1J Hik. T.V. since it is getting a bit threadbare, after several years worth of heavy use, and i'm planning to replace it with another, fresh copy in the near future. since SHAPEWAYS no longer offers a GREY set of these replacements, and i am in no position to be dying them myself, would it be a good idea to get a set of these NYLON replacements anyway, even though the 1J POM originals are perfect and tight as a drum to this day, and are serving my new 1S very, very well so far, despite the color mismatch? any suggestions/recommendations here?
  19. Shaorin
    TELL ME ABOUT IT... just plain incredible. makes me embarrassed to have attempted to show off my own sad little current state of affairs...
  20. Shaorin
    me? i wouldn't give a Rat's A$$ what other people think, myself. Haters will, as they say, Hate, and after speding my mid-teens/mid twenties observing what the overwhelming bulk of my generation, as well as most every other before it, have been rigidly conforming to, and what the almighty society at large overpoweringly dictates as acceptable "Adult" Tastes and Behaviors, i have personally concluded that it is simply not for me, and not worth bothering to appease/conform to...
  21. Shaorin
    my latest addition, just arrived in the mail today! (5/7/12) - it truly looks awesome. it blows me away straight out of the box, in the very same fashion as my first 1/60v.II, the Hikaru 1J T.V. did back in mid/late 2008-ish. the joints are a wee bot looser out of the box than the 1J was, as my memory serves, but that was largely the product of customer feedback on part of past releases such as this one, no? at any rate, everything's plumb and smooth, and the shoulder's integrity (both cracked) seems to be holding just fine so far. a little loose, but holding. i'll likely be getting SHAPEWAYS replacements in a month, when i can afford a set next, but i have a sneaky suspicion that the existing joints will hold at least that long. we'll see...
  22. Shaorin
    G.D. IT!!!! that was one of the lamest sequences in that otherwise excellent series!! one too many damned times have i been witness to a great Anime series getting dragged down by stupid s&%t like that! it's too damned sad, really...
  23. Shaorin
    http://akb0048.jp/ WOW... that's... pretty lame, IMHO... EVERYTHING's starting to take on a quasi-K-ON! look, and we're all the poorer for it, i think...
  24. Shaorin
    i dunno... $50+shipping is an awful lot for a singularly ugly Valk kit that don't even transform...
  25. Shaorin
    that's more reasonable. still a Fugly bird, IMO...
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