Shaorin

yeah, even made me want to add a Fuko-chan♥ figure to my collection. i checked on them on EBAY though, and, YEGADS!! the overpricing!! anyone know where i might find CLANNAD figures at any halfway reasonable price? i also believe that i vagely recall hearing that AZONE or someone put out a Doll series, but i suppose that if they're really are some out there, one would have to give up an arm and a kidney for any of them... at any rate, i'll be fine with completing CANNAD on DVD myself, as, not only do i feel that there just isn't enough of a resolution boost with Animation on BRD, but i also know for certain that there exists no BRD player out there as exquistely and gloriously overbuilt as the PIONEER DV-09 that i have a well maintained healthy copy of; http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/DV-09/DV-09REPAIRED5-16-113.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/DV-09/DV-09REPAIRED5-16-112.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/DV-09/DSCF1959.jpg

just fished the first half of CLANNAD for the second time. don't know why, but this time the climax of the Fuko Ibuki story arc just really hit like a ton of bricks. it made me tear up, something that very rarely happens indeed. i do not recall being bothered overmuch by it my first time through the series some time ago, but this time, it just hit me right in the heart. man, i really need to get around to picking up the balance of this series now...

i dunno... i think it's kind of Cute♥...

WHOLE lot of Adorable♥ stuff in there! thanks loads!!

all the same, i've nearly pulled the trigger on a copy of that kit a few times, and i just yet might one of these odd days. here's to YAMATO somehow managing to pick up the license to produce a 1/60 P. TRANS. becase, detractors say what you may, this is something that really needs to happen, right alongside a 1/60 VF-2JA!!

actually, as of late, i've been working on a long planned effort on purchasing and building up a 2nd copy of the old, long OOP 1994 1/1000 ERTL U.S.S. EXCELSIOR model kit, after first attempting one back in the early 1990's and doing a TERRIBLE job on it, and i've been going back to the third movie for reference material, and it has just hit me too just how BAD the film's scripting actually is. take, for instance, the EXCELSIOR herself; it stands to reason, even by early 1980's thinking, that space-fairing vehicles as sophisticated as ST's Starships are, even, nay, ESPECIALLY untried, experimental ones such as the flagship of the EXCELSIOR class, would have more than sufficient checks and fail-safes against all number of foreseeable issues, including the sabotage induced by Scotty in the film. further, the whole sequence of the EXCELSIOR's TRANSWARP faltering out, while viscerally exciting and great for "Laffs" and all that great stuff, has to be, IMHO, one of THE great groners in all of the TREK saga. i mean, after all, this IS far into the distant future, is it not? with technology so far advanced that it might seem magical to anyone from the late 20th century to present day, no? well then, is the audience to assume that this cutting edge experimental spaceship of the far future does not have even so much as a halfway sophisicated computer system that would clearly notify the crew that the TRANSWARP drive system is malfunctional and positively not in any operational condition BEFORE the crew attempts to crank it up?!? like i said, great for Laughs, BAD for the cerebrum. one more little anecdote that sticks in my craw; one would only natually assume that the TRANSWARP system would have been long since modeled and simulated to death by computer before a prototype testbed tech demonstrator was made, and yet TREK fans were simply left with the basic canon explanation that TRANSWARP was eventually proven to be a faulty technology. yes, people, yet one more little piddly detail of the ST univers alone that gets overly anal nerds like me all in bind, god help us all...

i received the STARFLEET MODELS EXCELSIOR custom decal set i was waiting for yesterday. it all went on well enough. so far so good, i suppose. now i need to get to reworking the blue areas of the saucer painted by the original owner, among plenty of detail work...

doubtless this has been discussed too many times to count in the past, but i found an EXCELLENT way (IMO) to get the 1/60v.1 YF-19 in a good BATTROID stance without pulling the legs out of the hip socket mountings. just bend the GERWALK intake/ upper thigh joint forward a single click, angling them ahead of the FIGHTER/GERWALK attachment recesses on the main fuselage, while angling that main fuselage backward a little, so the BATTROID's natural stance has the "Crotch plate" angling outward a degree. truly, it's easy to do, and looks fantastic, a WHOLE lot more natural than bending at the knee joints, as YAMATO did in their box/manual photos, at least to me anyway...

ROBOTECHNOLOGY LAPTOPs are QUITE Expensive, you know...

SIX-DISC MAGAZINE-TYPE multi-player. PIONEER made a multitude of models, spanning a good 15-year period, (1985/2000) and this PD-M6 was the very first;

working on the 1/1000 USS EXCELSIOR that i picked up for cheap, as it had been started, but nowhere near finished by one of it's previous owners. got a good deal of painting/touch-up/detail work left, as well as application of the FEDERATION MODELS custom NX-2000 decal set heading my way in a couple/three days or so; http://federationmodels.com/

yeah, i got the TOYNAMI SCOTT (Blue) back in 2004 at a comic shop for $60. there was also an MPC VF-1J MAX at the same price, and i serously reget not getting that instead. let's just say that my LEGIOSS suffered just about every issue mentioned in this thread. i managed to "Fix" most issues as best i could, but the thing is nevertheless an elegant looking, spot-on design, fatally flawed by piss-poor engeneering and manufacturing QC that renders the thing nothing more than a fragile desk-top model. NOT RECOMMENDED, unless you want a fancy-looking static model that's best put in whatever mode you like best, and left that way permanently...

myself, i have yet to leave physical media behind, and i'm quite certain i never will either... anyway, how's this for "goofy crap" ? -the 1986 PIONEER "PD-M6" the very first consumer CD changer to ever hit market. i have a copy myself, that sits by my PC as a decoration, as well as platform for my MACROSS collection;

myself, i actually PREFER the 1J Hik T.V. without the "Grey Goggles" perhaps one of the lead designers over at YAMATO happened to feel the same way, and thus decided to specify the final pruduction samples as unpainted? at any rate... i don't really see why YAMATO couldn't have just provided an extra goggled head as an option, especially considering the detachable design of the 1/60v.II VF-1 and all. then again, being so generous as that certainly would have rendered the web-exclusive approach fairly moot...

i remember that!! i damn near bought the issue because of it...

i dunno, i rather like this one myself. she looks rather sweet and sincere there to me. at any rate... this rather looks to me like the same artist that did the DVD cover art for the early-2000's "Ai Yori Aoshi" Anime series...

it's nice to hear that some of these figures are getting realitively high-profile exposure, as they are truly works of art, but if i were the curator, i would have chosen among far more of the more "tasteful" examples out there, and probably would've attempted to excuse it all with far less Quasi-Metapsychological Mumbo-Jumbo, and just keep it clean and straight, somewhere along the lines of; "here is but just the smallest sample of what your humble host feels is a singularly beautiful, yet oft-underapprerciated, realitively new Artform. -please feel free to appreciate it, and if you would like, please write down your thoughts and and place in the drop box on your way out" -but, then again, i suppose that simply would not catch the attention of the Hoity-Toity Big Apple Art-Culture ELITE like this parade of largely tasteless parade of examples might, followed with it's carefully crafted rumination upon Pornography and what it means to Humanity as a species...

i laugh my laugh at all the noise NP has been making about ABYSS on the 3DS. played the whole damned thing through several years ago via it's initial PS2 release...

and, despite the namesake, each and every franchise the world over will offer nothing more than a high-nutrition protein paste in your choice of flavors...

try these for a start; http://www.mindspring.com/~laserdisc-forever/ http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/ also, my personal LDP; the 1988 PIONEER CLD-3030; http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/PIONEER/DSC_0447.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/PIONEER/DSC_0452.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/LA%20SYSTEM/CLD-3030LA9-29-0811.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/LA%20SYSTEM/CLD-3030LA9-29-0815.jpg

i dunno... perhaps this is simply a case of luck or something... perhaps it's all due to production batches. perhaps there was even some dimwit in the final assembly line that was putting some of these key stress regions together wrong, and weakening their already flawed materials in the process. my -19 was just recently picked up off a fellow MWer, and he says he transformed it around ten times at most since getting it new back sometime close to the initial release date. it has a smaller version of the same crack that the OP's copy has. the gunpod was crooked, and the original owner had corrected it at some time in his ownership, so my sample is definitely from an early production run. i have almost completely dismantled this thing, using my electrician's tape technique to tighten up all joints in the process, and i theorize that it now must be as tight as the DN/BOP releases, if not tighter yet. all that said, i believe i must have transformed it perhaps 40+ times so far in my two/three months of ownership now, and i can proclaim with confidence that it has held up so far absolutely beautifully, better than i ever hoped it would...

i used to do that all the time with my 1/65 VF-17D...

NO!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE STOP!!!! Gaahh!! everything i couldn't stand about my late teen years through the latter half of the 1990's, neatly congested into a sickening miasma of typical 90's SCI-FI crap!! THANK YOU for dredging up those gawdawful memories!!!!

here's some pretty crappy ink and colored pencil work that i did the better part of ten years back;

believe you me, it was a BLAST. i was able to work on it all day for three days straight, and i still wasn't finished with it. in fact, i ended up screwing something up in assembly of one of the two lower leg modules, and had to dismantle the whole damned thing like twice or so before i finally got it right. that aside, it mostly went together quite smoothly, despite the complexity. it was, without doubt, the pinnacle model building experience of my life, and will likely remain so. that said, i still get way more enjoyment out of fiddling with my Yammie Valks than this impressive, yet wildly unrealistic over-engineered GUNDAM design ...