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  2. mikeszekely
    Yeah. I just ebayed a pair of 8GB crucial ballistic modules. I know this Ideacentre I found was a budget computer from five years ago, but it's still got a 1TB hard drive and it's relatively small. Could use it as a file server, a media center box, etc.
  3. shazam
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  5. 26662
    Is he bendy or is he more like a statue? I would have killed for this as a kid. This and the oversized Jumbo Machinder Shogun Warrior toys.
  6. sh9000
    Hot Rod is sold out and Optimus is no longer available for pickup in my area.
  7. sh9000
    Transformers Generations Studio Series TFTM Hound x2. Quote, quote, quote.
  8. azrael
    This is why I’m hesitant to send an older system with DDR4 RAM to the junk pile. I might never use it again, but with prices as they are, I might need to cannibalise it for parts with the way things will be for another 1-2 years.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    To be accurate, what's described there isn't just Earth's defenses. That's the combined forces of the Solar System Defense Perimeter that protects all of the inhabited planets of the Sol system. Fans often forget - because we are not often reminded - that there are a lot of other places in the Sol system that people live besides Earth's surface. Luna has multiple colonies and at least one military base on it. There are O'Neill cylinder space colonies, factory stations, and multiple factory satellites at the Earth-Moon Lagrange points. Mars has cities on its surface. There are "satellite city" constructs orbiting Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. There are bases and possibly colonies on the Jovian moons including at least seven on Europa (given that Isamu is assigned to Europa Base 7 at one point). There is at least one base in the asteroid belt. This massive fleet that Master File's describing protects all of that. One thing of note is that there are, at least according to official media, a bunch of variants of the Northamption-class and similar that we have simply not seen. Macross Chronicle mentions the Northampton-class having specialized variants intended for enhanced combat capability, reconnaissance, or early warning/picket duties. The same is likely true of its derivatives, like the NUNS stealth cruiser from Frontier. The aforementioned aegis destroyer is probably the early warning variant Northampton. We've only really had two or three classes of cruiser in-series so far, so odds are the guided missile cruiser is a variant of the 2050s-era stealth cruiser fitted with more missile launchers in place of its beam turrets. There's only really one known candidate for a NUNS-affiliated beam gunboat and that's the Zentradi one. Yeah, perhaps too much so given that it's never even mentioned in Project Super Nova. That's not the kind of thing that's easy to cover up. One important thing to note about the numbers published by/for the Russian and Chinese navies is that they tend to inflate the number of available ships by counting anything the government owns that floats as a Navy ship. Including ships like military-owned conventional motorboats, launches, landers, and ships that are not even technically operational but still kept on the fleet register for morale/propaganda reasons like Russia's infamous drydock queen and only aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov. Yeah, that's a bit large... official media usually says that the Guantanamo-class carries ~45 aircraft and and the Uraga-class ~75 aircraft. It's possible that these air wings are being split across multiple ships in the same taskforce, since some ships like the Northampton-class can carry up to a single platoon of Valkyries in normal operations (meaning just one squadron might be split across 5+ ships). It makes more sense when you consider that, under normal circumstances (at least based on 7 and Frontier) that carriers make up 1/3 or less of a typical fleet formation. The 37th Large-Scale Long-Distance Emigrant Fleet's military component amounted to 186 ships with 66 carriers of various grades and 120 escorts. The balance is arguably a little different from that in normal operation since the Battle-class, four Uraga-class, one Guantanamo-class, and one Northampton-class are tied up with emigrant ships of varying types, leaving the operational fleet with 60 carriers (16 Uraga-class and 44 Guantanamo-class) and 119 Northampton-class frigate escorts.
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  11. TG Remix
    In general I can see some more firepower from Earth's neck of the woods, considering both of their Macross 13 units and the Battle Astraea, they most likely have their own fleet of Macross-class ships, which as 7 and Frontier show, is strong enough to send away branch fleets or similar sized attacks as debated here. (Sorry for double posting, forgot this bit and I couldn't edit this reply in the first message!)
  12. TG Remix
    It's certainly a lot more off a bombastic reason to have 4th Gen Valkyries be developed, isn't it? That feels like an event that if it happened in official material, it'd probably hang over the heads across the galaxy. Arguably more so then the time it happened on Earth, since there's millions of humans all over the galaxy to witness and know of it. Which is funny to me because that's easily the biggest number given to a fleet by far. The Macross 7 fleet had 185 ships plus its liaison and civilian ships, and then there's the Master File's notion that the Frontier fleet had 600. The only Navies in our world that exceeds that size is Russia's and China's, with none of the population numbers they have. Makes me think that UN ships are made to be a lot more autonomous then conventional craft, and that's without factoring the widescale adoption of drones. Going through the VF-19 book again, it goes into detail about its Air Carrier Wings, in the next pages no less. Specifically the "Earth Mobile Fleet Squadron," which seems to be structured a lot like ours. It sounds a bit obvious, but it states each CVW has a base on the ground (some on stations on orbital satellites,) where they conduct the usual training and maintenance. This kind of arrangement seems plausible with the Uraga, less so with the space only Guantanamo. Although it seems their capacity are a bit more inflated, with the former being able to hold up to 105-120 aircraft carriers. Them being said to accompany immigrant fleets make sense, considering notable pilots like Timoshee was a captain of escort units of the Macross 3 and the fleet that made it to Eden, and Gilliam and Wilbur being enlisted to one for thhe 28th Ultra Long Range Emigrant Fleet. But it's also said by 2050 there's 140 of the Air Wings; 68 on Earth, 40 on the Moon, and 30 on Mars. Again...That seems pretty miniscule, especially compared to the 2550 ships Earth's defense. Though being a mobile fleet squadron, they probably do have more autonomy compared to the aforementioned. It does make me wonder how many ships from said fleets return to Earth and how many stay with the fleet when they settle somewhere. It does seem like a factor to the decentralization of the UN, with some being way too far to return back to Earth, and Gilliam mentioning that independent governments aren't given enough intel from the central UN and are forced to borrow troops from them, if not just applying military pressure against frontier planets with their own governments.
  13. 26662
    I had the same confusion when I saw it the first time. And from that moment on my little kid brain saw Omega Supreme as nonsensical. [I still wanted the toy desperately, mind you!]
  14. JB0
    Obviously the base is flying behind him just offscreen, like Optimus Prime's trailer.
  15. 26662
    Same. I’ve owned G1 Skywarp before (my first Seeker), but all of the others are new to me. I’m certain the combiners will disappoint, but it’ll be a fresh, novel disappointment. 🙂
  16. mikeszekely
    Hot Rod is the only one I really want. It's showing limited stock not available for pickup at my store, and out of stock at other stores in the area. I'll swing by on my way to game night with my friends, if not I'll try and order online.
  17. rsvictor1976
    I don’t know where to put him now. ======== 1). Maximum uploads of 3 pictures of a toy even if you bought two. That means if you bought DC Batman you can post a combination of boxed and opened pics of up to three here. Anymore than three will get the post deleted. If you bought another copy of the same DC Batman toy that does not constitute as a different toy and does not earn you three new photos. The moderation team considers that spamming and will be deleted. Text link to an external photo gallery if you have more than three pictures to share. 2). Image size: Height maximum per toy will now be set to 2400pixels for 3 pictures combined. That means one high resolution picture at 2400pixels or three decent resolution picture of 800pixels each.
  18. JNordgren42
    Thanks! I came up with a VF-1 Wolfpack scheme for the YF-19 that I want to build at some point as well. I like putting my own stamp on things.
  19. MKT
    It's quite the surprise that Bandai made changes to the plastic to make it more opaque, but this can only be a good thing.
  20. MKT
    Some of these I wanted so badly many moons ago! Especially the combiners..
  21. mikeszekely

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    Is there a reason why images can be uploaded in forum posts but not DMs?
  22. Apok451

    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    Apok451 replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    Thats awesome. Early new toys are the best. Ok well not like THE best, but its up there.
  23. M'Kyuun
    Ordered my copy of Hound; should arrive in a few days.
  24. Big s
    That’s what I figured, no figure
  25. sh9000
    Robo Tokka and Robo Rahzar. Footbots.
  26. Duke Togo
    Dunk & Egg isn't a serious drama. If you're expecting it to be like GoT and HotD, this might not be for you.
  27. sh9000
    X Falcon Armor.
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