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Sorry to hear that you're having issues Cory. If it does get to the point that the balcony option seems overwhelmingly attractive, please do us all a favor and send me a PM first (I mean this sincerely). This is a toy with an extremely complex transformation mechanism. Truth be told, mine are both still in their initial states of transformation to armor-mode - they seriously look great in this mode, and I haven't had any impulse as of yet to transform either back to bike and rider mode. Maybe in a few months, or years, I will endeavor to transform them back... but it is not an operation to take too lightly. Hope you have better luck, man. Gillermo, awesome pics. You must have a very understanding girlfriend. She sounds like a keeper.

I most always flew solo, but of course I know of the Blitz Pigs Always seemed like a really good group.

Dude!! Welcome back, great to see you here again. Stick around, the noobs all need your help

Kinda sorta. The best plan for survival tends to be to apply opposite rudder (opposite of direction of spin), and apply a little down-elevator (nose down). If you can get the plane to dive, you have aerodynamic authority and are flying again. There are plenty of situations where nothing you can do will right the plane - best to eject in that case. I can remember one funny occurrence in IL-2 from years ago, where I was just messing around doing aerobatics in a P51-B. I was doing a knife edged turn at high speed, and lost it, skidding into a flat spin (all too easy to do). I was at relatively high altitude, and had a little bit of time to try to wrangle the plane. My plane-wrangling failed, and I bailed at a fairly high altitude (~2000m). Drifting down on my parachute, I watched my plane right itself, and continue to fly around in ascending circles until it ran out of fuel, such was the way I had it trimmed. Maybe there is something to the "let go of all controls" theory after all

Perversely, since upgrading my video card a few months ago, IL-2 no longer works correctly for me, and I spent hours and hours troubleshooting to no avail. There's something about my 4890 or the current ATI Catalysts that it don't like . I can either run it with minimal detail and lighting effects (runs great, looks like poo), or I can run it with full detail and lighting effects (runs great, looks like poo due to crazy artifacts). It kind of bites, as I've been playing since '03 and have been without my fix for a while now. Hope the driver gets sorted. All that aside, IL-2 is my absolute favorite combat flight sim. I'm holding out for its replacement, the BOB:SOW series. I didn't even know that there was a console port in the mix until I read this thread. I'll have to take a look at it.

I checked your site right after posting about it... and of course, you were already on it. Your pictures (and of course, text) are much more descriptive than the publicity shots. I'll have to pop in on the licensing thread, thanks for the heads-up.

Has anybody seen these? Looks like kind of an attempt at the Yamato 25th Anniversary JPS scheme... http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product...amp;picture=out

Am I missing something here? http://cgi.ebay.com/Miracle-House-Gokin-1-...id=p3286.c0.m14

I am quite looking forward to this one - I loved the original as a kid, so much so that I programmed my own light cycles game in Atari Basic back in the day. I am also embarrassed to note that I have probably seen the original movie in the theater more times than anyone else on the face of the earth, but not necessarily due to choice... See, way back when, TRON was released just slightly before E.T. What was that, '82, '83? I actually went to see TRON once with my family, and a couple/few other times with friends. Saw it of my own accord maybe 3-4 times total. When E.T. came out, it became one of those must-see movies, and at any theater, there were invariably lines stretching around the block to see it. On the multitude (oh, god, I don't know how many times) of occasions that I attempted to see E.T with various friends and family groups, and failing to get in, we would invariably sit in on TRON instead... Bringing my in-theater viewership of TRON to some incredibly high number. I can remember sitting in on TRON one time, when the over-played film and projector were so overworked, that the film melted onscreen (during Sark's address of his conscripts). That was cool. To this day, I have still never seen E.T. In fact, at some point, I decided that there was such a perverse universal conspiracy to *prevent* me from seeing E.T., that I consciously decided that I must *never* see it, out of sheer bloody-mindedness. Fact.

iirc, I'm pretty sure that one was from Macross:The New Generation.

I didn't want to make Ralphie cry. I think that was Kawamori behind the mirror, yeah?

I think it goes something like this... Focus Group Guy: [after showing the fans some Macross cartoons] Okay, how many of you fans would like Macross to deal with real life problems like the ones you face every day? [the fans cheer] Focus Group Guy: And who would like to see the show do just the opposite, getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers? [the fans cheer again] Focus Group Guy: So, you want a realistic down-to-earth show that's completely off the wall, and swarming with magic robots? [the fans all chat at once about it being a great idea] Milhouse Van Houten: And, also, you should win things by watching. Focus Group Guy: [sighs]

You guys might enjoy this... Not quite a high-poly 3D model, but this is a GunBuster model I made a while back in Spore. There were a few other users who had decent Buster Machine models - if you have the game, it's worth a search. gunbusterlf.bmp gunbusterr.bmp

The stickers haven't been applied. Those ones weren't factory-fitted on the Gakken, along with the invasion stripes, cockpit display, the black bars that go on the wheel hubs, and several of the little warning labels.

You shouldn't imho, unless you are on a corporate lease plan. VW's are the Bic lighter of the automotive world. Audis are slightly better.

Unlikely scenario. The pure awesomeness of the Beagle should be all the impetus you hobos need to "buy, buy, buy". Read Save's posts.

Welcome to the club Eugimon. It really is a fine piece, and in my reckoning the in-hand experience is well worth the pricetag. This is one of those few modern toys which is actually more impressive in person than it is in photos. Grats dude!

My reaction would be the same as >EXO<s, but the profanity filter wouldn't let me say it if I tried.

Blasphemer. BURN HIM!

WDC, I don't know if you are still fishing for advice on this one, but here are my thoughts... About ten years ago I had a customer make the same mistake, putting about 8 gallons of diesel into a 12-gal tank. The car in question was subject to a recent mechanical restoration which I had performed myself - the engine was brand-new, and was still being broken-in. What amazed me at the time was that the engine actually ran on the diesel, although it was belching, smoking, and knocking like you wouldn't believe. After pumping out and flushing the fuel tank, purging the fuel system (including the mechanical injection pump and injectors), changing the oil, and running a couple of tanks of premium through it, the engine tested healthily and suffered no ill effects. It still runs strong and healthy today. I've seen multiple catastrophic cooling system failures in VW's and Audis over the years; once a faulty heater-valve caused the heater core in a car I was driving to explode, showering me with steam and scalding hot water from the heater vents - all of the glass instantly fogged (I was on the highway), and I received several 2nd and 3rd degree burns to my legs and feet. Other failures I've personally observed have had to do with the coolant hoses blowing off of their fittings (due to inadequate factory-equipped clamps and mounting hardware), and head gasket failures (usually the result of owners using cheap or low-octane fuels). In my (admittedly biased) experience, I've come to the conclusion that VW cooling systems are absolute junk. There have been numerous class-action suits against VW for the very reasons I've mentioned. My thinking is that while the diesel-fill wasn't the best thing that could have happened to an already compromised engine, it probably didn't do much to accelerate the problem. If diesel was entering the cooling system in volume (very unlikely), it would most certainly cause it to run hotter. HTH

To add to BigF's list, the only thing that bugs me is the posters (here and abroad) who actually receive pleasant responses with good basic information and corrections, and who do not bother to read them, ofttimes quoting those very same posts...

...But the doorknob lives in perpetuity For the unaware, "doorknob" has since become a catch-all description for any knob-ish type characters here, so watch out, lest you become a knob yerself.

The stars can be giveth; and they can be taketh away. I doubt that anybody gives any credence to the stars when looking at sales items. Hell, I didn't even know about them until you posted this thread. For all anyone knows, the stars could be related to relevance to topics posted, as this is how they work on other message boards. If you're a reputable member and/or on the SSL, that seems to generally be enough.

Greyrider, lemme guess: was it StormTrooper? All of the incidents there seem to revolve around one mod... I've never been banned, or warned anywhere. I'm a good boy

Ups and downs is a bit of an understatement. "Heights" and "Depths" are more the terms I would use. IMO (take lightly, just my opinion), if you are a line-art nazi, the Toynami setup is for you. The sculpts are really pretty nice. Though the build quality on their Tread is really quite nice, the Legioss' are more hit and miss (and more "miss" than "hit"). The Aoshima stuff is about the same as the Toynami cosmetically speaking, but going by most reports, is even more deplorable in terms of build quality. The CM's stuff is (again, by all reports) terrific in terms of quality and playability, but somewhat inferior in terms of sculpt and line-art accuracy. If you are not a Line-art nazi, then by all means go for the CM's. The final option is the OG Gakken 1/72. Prepare to bend over. Expensive, extremely hard to locate, fragile, and wooden. Pretty cool though in terms of rarity, cachet, eliteism, status and funk. My $.02