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Get a bigger vaccuum cleaner. But a good thread nonetheless. It's interesting.

I'm sitting on the fence on this one. FF is supposed to be a group of adventurers/explorers. They don't go looking for trouble but if trouble finds them they band together and kick it's ass. If they turn this into X-men or 'SuperHero Team-of-the-week' I'm going to be sorely disappointed. (blah blah blah raped my childhood!! ) Jessica Alba - means it's at least worth a rental.

LOL! SHOULD. NOT. FALL. OUT. OF. SEAT. LAUGHING. AT. WORK. LOL!!

Y'know what, I just realized why I like this series so much. It fills the fracken void that happened when Space: Above and Beyond went off the air. Both gritty space-based drama where humans get their assed kicked just as much as they kicked ass. ---dammit. mechaninac beat me to the S:AAB reference while I was doing work orders. Time to abuse some power and ban him for a week!!! Bwahahahaha!!!!

Nice pics! Especially the family one! Yamato should listen up. Destroids will sell if they look this cool! (works pretty good as Wallpaper too!)

Hmmm....final unpainted proto-type pics of MPC Voltron. Voltron Lions Mmmmm......doesn't look bad, and I like that it can two-hand the blazing sword but I'll wait for reviews and a price drop before considering buying it. I'll live with my heavy die-cast GoLion for now.

Well, finally(tonight) Canada has aired episode 1.....and I'm buying this fracken series when it hits DVD. Now to show some restraint and not download all the episodes off the web.....

Easiest way to answer this is to read this thread. Animation is the same, Robotech altered the story.

Great because in two weeks it'll be 1 year since this project was started. Let's get this finished for the 1yr anniversary! 2 wk deadline! Let's see if we can meet it!

Not very likely to happen. Bandai's already released GX-06 Getter Robo and it won the 2001 TOTY.

Dead thread. Debate the cool/not-cool factors of the Mac Mini or iPod Shuffle on a PC forum.

Great toy. ADV-manga.com is releasing the manga here. The “lost life phenomenon” plagues the La Gran Sabana, Venezuela. This series of inexplicable mysteries is responsible for sudden disappearances of entire villages and a slew of violent acts, even murder. Three years later, heroine Akao Hiiragi suddenly finds herself piloting a jinki, a form of gigantic battle robot, and the weapon of both sides of the struggle. As she stands against frightening, foreign enemies, Akao will only face newer, tougher jinkis, but as long as young pilots like herself crave vengeance, the struggle will continue. Manga 1: A mysterious explosion rocks La Gran Sabana, Venezuela. This marks the beginning of the “lost life phenomenom,” a series of strange occurrences ranging from random murders to sudden disappearances of entire populations of villages.Three years later, heroine Akao Hiiragi suddenly finds herself piloting a jinki, a form of gigantic battle robot. But even as this young girl seeks to use the power of the jinki for good, a group of mysterious masked villains is after her, determined to take her captive… Manga 2: Akao has fallen into the grasp of miscreants and evildoers, and her only hope of rescue lies with the soccer-loving Elnie and the sword-toting samurai Ryohei. These two will be up against more than the average jinki, as new prototypes are summoned against them in the midst of battle. And while the pilots appear to be on the winning side of combat, another menacing shadow looms on the horizon. Manga 3: It’s never too quiet when it comes to the Jinki phenomenon, especially when Kalis Norman returns! Akao, Elnie, Ryohei and Mel get strapped in a slippery situation when Kalis comes seeking vengeance—Vargoyle style! Despite their numbers, experience rules in the world of Jinki, and Akao and her teammates will have to wait on reinforcements to get out of this mess! There's more but ...eh. Read the Manga or watch the anime.

That's a very handy guide. Give yourself a pat on the back.

Getter Robo Shoji Kawamori style? Guess I'll give it a shot.....and the toys too.

Yup. That's what I'm waiting for. Since I never cared for anymode but Gerwalk, that's more inline with the price I'd be willing to pay.

Please stow your tray tables and return your seats to an upright position. Express elevator to hell, going down! http://toyboxst.inwards.com/rumblizer/view...article_key=500

I'm guessing bootleg. I can't think of a single reason why a company would release any of their DVD catalogue as Region Free. That just goes against region coding which they enforce with a vengence.

The review section(Toys, Books, video....etc) are for reviews of Macross items. Everything else goes into Other Anime and Sci-fi. And since this is about TF's, we've already got a pinned thread for all things TF. Feel free to ask this question in there.

Looks like that trailer transforms too. http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.p...3985#post873985

TFW2005's got some Galaxy Force clips going on. http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=64465 Does GF Prime ripping open his chest look Guyver-ish to anyone?

No. Leader One was Megatron's minicon(beeyotch). Bendy Prime had Over-run as his minicon.

Sweet. Nevermore on TFW combined all the Binaltech stories so it's easier to read. Check it out. http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/thread63771.html

Great. So exactly HOW MUCH money is Rohby wanting to take from me? :D (JM's, TF Gunpods, now M2 badguys...)

Drag 'n drop. I'd rather set up a playlist in iTunes hook my iPod to it and have it sync. Simpler and easier IMO. Apple is a business. Alot of the irrelevants you cite are relevant. You're looking at the end product but you're not looking at WHY. To use wmp/wma Apple has to go to MS and talk to them about licensing it to use that format on their drive/program. And if RIAA/music labels are stupid enough to sue the customer for d/l tunes instead of the provider why do you think they won't throw something about OGG into a clause? I've seen ogg stuff on p2p sites often enough. It's not common but it's not rare either. Firmware glitches. All different firmware patches are saved to your HD. If the current one's broke, run the previous version and voila! iPod did not originally have AAC support. Firmware patch fixed that. If Apple could support OGG on the iPod (and people've been crying for that since Gen1 showed up) they would. As for the AAC and MP3 thing, you have no idea how many....challenged people there are that don't realize compression loss. Joe-public: again JP=90% Techs=9% AUDIOPHILES=1% As for not having a IBM-compatible machine at home, look again. SHUTTLE SN95G5: Athlon 64 3500+ www.shuttle.com That's a WinXP machine(sp2). I sold my old Antec Aria last year. I build and tinker with my own PC's too. Funny how my home PC's are much much better then my work PC.

iPod needs iTunes to run. iPod tried using MusicMatch but it was a horrible experience. iTunes is about 12mb(and IMO a better mp3 player/organizer then wmp) and does play OGG. Unless you're really hurting for space that's not going to kill you. Plus it's PnP if you want to use it as a HD only(though that's kinda stupid...) WMP/WMA is a competing brand and Microsoft has been saying that it'll come out with it's own Online music store soon. So why would Apple want to support a competitor or vice versa(Microsoft). OGG is the best for encoding that I know of but I'm not an audiophile. AAC and MP3 are fine for the general user and are supported by the iPod. Re-encoding an MP3 into AAC is crap. Encoding into AAC from a CD is much better then MP3. Also OGG is open format. Allowing an open format to work on the iPod would probably violate one of the agreements with RIAA. Remember iPod+iTunes are symbiotic and to get RIAA approval for an online store they probably had to make concessions on what the iPod could support/play. The iRiver, Lycra and other players that you're citing don't have an online music store so they don't have that hurdle to deal with. MP3's are widely used. Joe-public knows of MP3=music files. Joe-public=~90% of people buying digital music playser. Tech guys=9% wma-ogg-acc-lame...etc. Hardcore Audiophiles=1% (they all suck. No warmth in the playback whatsoever). Apple's demographic is Joe-public and you know what, as a business that's exactly who they should appeal to and they're doing a damn fine job of it. oh and for the record and before anyone accuses me of being Apple/Mac only: G4 Tower(home) G4 Powerbook(home) Shuttle SN95G5(home) G5 Tower (work) IBM Netvista(POS-work)