bandit29

Like this was any surprise lol

http://filmforce.ign.com/lotr/articles/435...5/435024p1.html

August 22, 2003 - This December, lucky fans of The Lord of the Rings will get the chance to see the ultimate in-theater movie marathon.

New Line Cinema has announced that it will be releasing the extended DVD versions of both The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers in select U.S. and Canadian markets two weeks before The Return of the King opens. About 100 theaters in the U.S. and 20 in Canada will participate.

Fellowship will be first, hitting venues December 5th. The Two Towers will follow on the 12th, and on the 16th, there will be a marathon in which audiences will be able to watch both films back-to-back, directly followed by the first midnight showing of The Return of the King.

Although this is quite a limited release, New Line Cinema expects additional theaters to do one-time showings of the two extended films.

Also on the subject of The Return of the King, a nice new series of posters for the third film have been revealed online at the film's official website, as well as some new desktop wallpaper.

Ya Yamato's stickers are awful. Too thick, don't stick, peel etc. Takatoys sheets for the 1/48 are awesome.

I might ebay this one already. The Amored Core series needs to be totally redone.

Media Blasters gets my vote for best anime distributor for releasing my favorite anime series of all time, Berserk. Even though some of it came out in 2002, the rest fininshed up in 2003.

ADV had really good year too. RahXephon and Devil Lady are some of my favorites. I gave up on Dunbine already, reminded me of Gundam a little too much. Ya I know Tomino was involved, that's the other reason I gave up lol

Pioneer. Most of their titles I don't care for but they have done a good job with X and the first DVD of Heat Guy J.

Manga? Read or Die eh ok. They'll never release Giant Robo so I went and bought the Korean box set. Awesome

Bandai. This company has really fallen of the map for me. Titles like Love Hina and .hack//sign, I have no intereset in at all. Big O season 2 is coming to DVD in December though....and Witch Hunter Robin starts in Sept? so things are looking up.

Viz. The only series I like from them is Inuyasha. But until they release an actual box set/brick of the 1st season, the bootlegs of the R1s from F/X(which are very good btw) will have to do.

Really? I wonder how Yamato was able to convince BW with the 1/60 and it's non anime accurate removable legs? go figure

Well, technically the legs do come off and reattach. Yamato merely omitted the transfer system.

Yep, and I believe G already explained that issue waaaaay back on the old boards, and right smack in the middle of the "removable leg vs swingbar" debates.

Ya I kinda remember those debates...2 years ago? 2-1/2? It's been a long ride...

As for the 1/60 gunpod, Yamato wanted to making it right from the begining with a collasable handle. I've seen and handled the prototype. However, they were not allowed to do this by the licensor as a collapsable handle gunpod was not considered 'anime accurate' It took several releases before BW could be persuaded to change their mind.

Really? I wonder how Yamato was able to convince BW with the 1/60 and it's non anime accurate removable legs? go figure

Funny how we have the new MW forums and the same old complainers with the same old tired arguments are still around.....

I've never seen macross 7 and am considering getting it. how is it? how does it compare to the sdf macross tv series? do they have the vf-1 from the original show?

If you care what your friends think of you... don't see it with them.

lol so true. I just tried explaining the show to my friends who have a mild interest in anime and Macross. They looked at me wierd. My wife usually walked out of the room when I was watching it, saying what crap it was.

Me personally, I think the show is both awful and disappointing. There are alot more anime series worth your time than this show. Don't be fooled by the Macross name, not everything Kawamori does is good.

On its own. Bundled with any type of armor would cost too much.

HHH still the champ and and an announcer(Jonathan Coachman) turns heel? oh boy...no wonder I haven't ordered a WWE PPV in about 2 years...

How about TV Max "J" or something unique like the Low Viz? These DYRLs are getting old....................and boring...................

Since the Hikaru VF-1J is coming, I wouldn't be surprised if a Max and Milia 1/48 VF-1J will be available someday.

I'm just buying 3 for now. I've been unloading stuff on ebay to help pay for them.

I've owned at least one of every Yamato product sold so far except the 1/60 VF-1D, but I've sold most of my collection.

Here is what I currently have:

1/72: 2

1/60: 4 (soon to be none)

1/48: 5

I'm going to buy 7 sets of FAST pack.

Based on my conversations with Yamato yesterday, although they are trying their best to meet the end of August release for the FAST Pack, there is a possibility that it may slip to first week of September.

Graham

Toys R' Us Japan has the release date as 09/12/03

http://www.toysrus.co.jp/toys/cat_detail.s...ME=TAB_TOP_0001

and no they can't ship out of Japan

According to this thread from Aod, the Bandai rep said that "Fairy Air Force" might just be on 2 DVDs

scroll down a bit

http://forums.animeondvd.com/showflat.php?...sb=5&o=&fpart=1

I only want Hikaru and Minmay.  But if anyone finds them let us know where.

Oh yah are they going to make more.  I would also like a Focker, Max and Millia.

According to the box, the next stage is due Feb 2004. If that set includes Basara I'll have to burn it lol

I wonder if more of the first stage figures will be availible. They seem to have vanished, online at least, awfully fast. I'll keep an eye out.

HLJ doesn't have them up for sale right now and the prices on ebay are just ridiculous. These figures are around 5.00 a piece, not 18.00-20.00 or 39.99 for that Minmei doll.

I'm buying both. I love this movie. Macross stuff can wait.

Also the LOTR diorama sets from Play Along(who is affilated with Art Asylum) are just starting to come out. I saw these on display at Wizard World Chicago, very cool.

One thing though.... is it just me, or does it seem like the ppl who work at EMS play soccer with our packages? Damn those things arrive all beat up and stuff.

Never had that problem. Never had a problem with EMS from anyone(CDJapan,HLJ, KoreanDVDs.com etc). Its fast, just expensive.

Why did HLJ stop using UPS anyway?

Well if anyone really needs a Minmei trading figure that badly

***cough***rip off*****

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...9&category=1345

Ya I got mine last week from HLJ. I ordered 10 they sent me 9 in the blue box. The only one I'm missing is the clear hair Mylene which I don't really give a crap about. HLJ is sending me another figure , EMS for free no less.

I wonder which one I'll get.

Overall these things are pretty cool. You can remove Hikaru's hair and put his helmet on. I really like the Minmei figures.

The next wave of figures is due Feb 2004

Its the same pic that was up on the old MW boards. Its a bad photo shop of a VF-1S Roy. You can see the yellow underneath the red. So maybe the heatshield might be red in the final product. I like black better but red isn't bad either.

I wouldn't buy this from HLJ though. EMS is too expensive and SAL is too slow.

http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?YMT00024

Coming in October

Wow I like the look of the new boards. Thanks Shawn for all your hard work.