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Sounds great. Wish Mustangs/Shelby's were for sale around here.

Cool idea but shame it's a PS3 game. No M&K support and regionlocked for DVDs (and BR to a degree), just no

The Macross is 1200m in length. Roughly, 1200* 1/3000 = 0.4m so the model would be 40cm (15.75inch)

Fantastic battroid mode, love the way they proportioned it. Looks a lot better the YF-19. Really agree on the priority, given the anime, but I am curious what the eventual fighter will look like.

That looked awfully close to the camera position. Hope the audience was in a different spot. Glad to see the pilot made it out alive.

Haven't been convinced about the 1/100 line so far but this one looks too good to pass up.

Received the two VF-1S TV versions. Glad I bought them, the deep white color really matches up better with the vermillion team. It also frees up my Roy DYRL for the DYRL display. Shame Yamato isn't offering the Super/Strike DYRL parts at the moment, but I hope I'lll be able to pick them up in the future to complete the DYRL skull team. Yellowing so far has been limited to the Hikky 1J. Oddly the 1/60 seems to yellow faster then the 1J 1/48 while I display them under identical conditions. Yamato delivered pretty much what I hoped for, only thing remaining would be a 1/48 TV Roy, possibly as a web exclusive?

hmm, is the story not part of the authors' rights part of copyrights (though this might differ from country to country)? As far as I'm aware authors' rights mean a story can only be owned by a natural person and those rights are not transferable (except after death). Copyrights on stories by a firm can as such only pertain to economic rights.

Durarara and Bacanno seconded. They are great shows but calling them unpopular is a bit of a stretch. Bacanno is considered one of the top titles of 2007. Durarara is currently the bestselling TV anime of 2010 (though Angel Beats is probably going to overtake them during the year). Unfortunately these two are fairly unique. Only things remotely similar that come to mind are Bakemonogatari and Kara No Kyou Kai, mainly because of their integration of music, animation, interesting characters and non linear story telling.

We already got the World Cup for that In flight close up of the air forces' demo bird escorting the World Cup team home

Fortunately it predicted the 2008 EC finals wrong, so assuming it fails again, things are looking bright

Nothing in the summer season really appeals to me on first glance except Cat poo One. I'll wait and see what the surprise hit will be but can't spot right away. Other anime: I've marathoned Birdy the Mighty Decode seasons one and two. Was a lot better then I expected based on the rather silly concept. Fan service and otaku themes were kept within bounds and the superhero type story was given a nice twist. Occasionally the animation quality dropped a bit but that is fairly common for A1 productions. "Working" will be the next project on the list.

That probability off course assumes that the choice of the octopus is purely random:p

It's actually very cheap (relatively speaking) for a full anime season on Blu-ray. Kyoani's other Blu-ray season boxes like Clannad and Kanon cost around 55,000 yen (around $600) per 24 episodes. Japanese anime DVDs/Blurays just cost so much more as they target a very small market. Haruhi was an absolute record selling title for a late-night-anime in the mid 2000s by selling around 40,000 DVDs. We've debated anime pricing of original Japanese material before in other threads, some accept those prices, some won't.

wonder if there is a catch when pre-ordering it at amazon.jp, it's like 25% cheaper? Also the new upcoming Yuki pvc figure from the Kyoani webstore looks very cool: http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/shop/figure/haruhi/genkei.html#genkei_top

OMG, the finals, they actually did it. 'Oranje' is in a world cup final after 32 years. Total madness here, celebrations everywhere, the commentators were crying on TV. It's going to be a long night Spain or Germany. Spain has the better team but Germany has been on fire. I'm guessing Germany, history has a twisted sense of humor so it will be '74 all over again. Hopefully with a different result this time.

First of all... f**k Yeah!! The King is dead, '94 settled, semis inc. Nonsense, several positions require a lot of physical power. The top play makers (the nr. 10s) are pretty much all short and stocky (like weightlifters) with a low center of gravity so they can't be pushed of the ball. Forwards and wingers generally have sprinter type builds, CBs need to be taller and more powerful then strikers, but can't afford to lose speed, requiring a triathlon like athletic balance. However what sets football apart from the world of athletics is the far larger requirement in terms of game skills, control and spacial awareness. Most of the latter is acquired through competitive play. Super athletes, even those with a natural talent for the game, that do not posses those game skills are useless. Nor can these skills be easily acquired in a short amount of time. It's the main reason why football hasn't become a joke like the Olympics where a sports resources, funding and organization have a large impact on the amount of success. As for "theatrics", unlike Rugby, football is not a contact sport so fouls affect game play a lot more. Faking fouls offers distinct tactical advantages. The theatrics are there to make it hard for a referee to distinguish between a real foul and a fake (a dive). If Rugby fouls offered similar rewards towards winning the players would be dropping like flies as well. Any top level team is able to play the referee, it's just an essential game skill, only frowned upon by the weak or the naive.

In your country gender roles are reversed?

Pretty much caught all games so far. Really enjoying the tournament, though the heavy defensive styles did not provide to many beautiful games. The country pretty much comes to a standstill when the national team plays. The upcoming match against Brazil has been dominating the media the last few days. So random comments: Plenty of drama, Italy and France imploding. The refs failing at critical points. The English disappoint again. The billionaire toy Premier League really seems to hurt their development of new talent. Germany on the other hand was impressive with their young squad. Spain has been really awesome after their initial misstep, though they seem to have a strange problem with converting the many chances they create. Brazil and the Netherlands have given up on their traditional beautiful playing styles. Everything for the win now. Argentina and Maradona are a breath of fresh air and slightly mental but very entertaining. Expecting a lot from them. Argentina vs Germany and Brazil vs Holland are pretty much finals on their own. Going to be spectacular to see these heavy weights to go at it in the next few days.

Go Fedex, Yamato Patlabor shipped 16th received 18th, that's 4 times faster then the fastest EMS shipment I've ever received.

A Robotech Saimoe contest? Minmay ought to win that one Much to the chagrin of the RT fans I'm sure

The open orders menu needs to show the item in the shipment processing stage. I've discussed this problem with HLJ customer service when I had an issue with unwanted merging of orders that lead to forced EMS shipping. ( EMS = extortion by customs and mail service) The response just pointed at the shipping rules: take it or leave it. They did not offer an option to contact them before ordering, just to wait with a second order till the first reaches the shipping stage. According to them most customers prefer the automatic merging of orders. As I am not part of that majority I'm testing other shops that either have SAL unregistered or are prepared to ship EMS with reduced value.

Yea, HLJ's order system that automatically combines shipments is a pain. Waiting till the first order hits shipment/payment processing stage isn't always handy, especially during sales. I'm happy that Ami Ami now offers unregistered SAL as well, as they are more flexible when it comes to splitting orders, I have switched most of my purchases to them.

Yeah, got behind a bit and planned to catch up. Run up to and the World Cup itself take up a lot of free time, that won't change till that event is over.

Completed the Birdy the mighty OVA, better then expected. Nice animation quality and Birdy shares Misato's voice actress. Unrelated: Bandai is releasing Patlabor OVA I and II and the Patlabor TV series on Blu-ray.