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I can't believe that someone is putting one of those up for auction. Just on principle alone, if someone puts a serious bid on that I will have to stab them to death with my chin!

I was on Yahoo Japan when I came across this thing! yahoo japan auction I've seen bootlegs of M7 valks before, but I've never seen a bootleg with a completely new color scheme like this before! What would you guys nickname this thing? The Crusader Valkyrie? Paladin Valkyrie? (if the link doesn't work I could post the pics I saved from the auction)

Yeah, it's one of those suspend your beliefs kind of thing. I mean, a bokken is as lethal a weapon as a katana (it may not be able to cut, but some people used them instead of katanas), a sakabatou would be just as lethal if not more so. Get a good hit in the head, a hit in the neck, cause some internal organ damage, you get the picture. If anyone is familiar with the Miyamoto Musashi story, in one of his duels he chose to use a bokken rather than a katana. It wasn't so that he wouldn't kill his opponent, it was for longer reach (he carved one out of an oar) while retaining the ability to kill. RK is one of my favorite series, but someone seriously needs to kick his ass. Saito could/would, Watsuki even said so at AX, with the only exception being if Kenshin were fighting to protect someone. Otherwise if it became duel time...

Here's a second mention: Live with it, Shawn and Graham didn't have to create Macross World, and they sure as hell aren't doing this because they're paid to. Thank them and live with the delay because Shawn and Graham do have lives off of this forum.

Okay just in case: SPOILER (for those who haven't watched Episode 3 yet) Did anyone notice when Nora was trying to take down Shin and Deadgar, that when he started trying to shoot her down with his lasers, he got in like three or four hits that did absolutely NOTHING? I checked out that scene frame by frame, and damn, it looks like the lasers hit and just dispersed over the surface of the SV-51. Is this an effect from that armor thingy that seems to be incorporated into the variable fighters?

I remember getting freaked out about pivoting the legs to swing them down in fighter mode, I was afraid of turning them the wrong direction and hearing a *crack*! After having read all the stories about this or that breaking on the 1/48 the first time I swung the legs down out of fighter mode, my heart kept stopping because of those cracking sounds the legs make!

I got my gold book for about $200 with poster, but not with the film strip, and its an '84 print, not a reprint. I paid a bit more (with shipping included) than I would have if I had bought it at a local anime shop, but their copy looked liked it had belonged to a library in Japan or something. I mean it had stamps on it... I'm happy I dished out the money! Mine is definitely 19 years old, it's got that musty smell that old books get.

Mechamaniac: So it's you! Elf: I want you to hit me as hard as you can. Mechamaniac: How 'bout if I give you a vaseline smeared cookie and a cup of Agent One's home-brew DNA! Elf:

I'm thinking something along these lines! Forgot to add the picture! This is what happens the night before your last finals!

I'm thinking something along these lines!

Don't blame me, Graham brought up the topic once! Dunno if he meant it this way...

I read just enough katakana to make out "Bandai gashapon HG series".

Counter-prank when its Halloween... "Hello Clarice! What's your favorite scary movie?" j/k

Wonder what's gonna happen when they all start going Sharon Apple...

Get a friend to help you and counter-strike your suspected business partner's wife (or who-ever else might be your prime suspect(s)). A funky gift on their porch, and a call from Santa. Suspect: "oh look! A bottle of vaseline! How nice!" note: On the (whatever) day of Christmas Happiness draws near So here is a bottle of vaseline to bring you joy this year next day- suspect: "Oh look! ................ Agent-one's DNA...." (And just to be clear, I wasn't serious on the paintball thing, it was all in good joking. The paintball gun is a weapon and like everyone else said, too much trouble from it. Besides, it would suck to paint someone that's only trying to be nice! Then again if it's an evil little elf... j/k)

Dunno about an equivalent of a cold shower... I mean, thinking about HG get's me ANGRY , it doesn't give that cold shower effect. ... ... Damn, I can't think of anything. I really want a 1/48 VF-4 and VF-11... *sigh* Maybe get some stuff for the glass to block any UV rays that might hit your valks?

Not married yet, but living with my fiançée, does that count? I rarely buy anything. I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't go to nightclubs or parties. So I sort of have "credit" saved up for when I want to buy stuff. She actually tells me to go out and buy things sometimes! But, it also helps that she's into dolls (like that Minmay doll that someone posted about before). Hell, she got herself the VE-1 because she thought it was cute and liked the name. When she got it, she tore it out of the package and started petting it and calling it her "birdy"! She's the greatest!

Here-here! And while we're at it... INCOMPETENT PEOPLE WORKING AT THE THEATERS SUCK ASS! Frickin incompetent people at the local theaters here in my neighborhood all told me that they were only going to show ROTK dubbed in French, and not have sub instead. Then what do I see today when I'm walking by some of those same theaters? They have them showing subbed in French... Plus I could have gone to see a marathon of LOTR extended version, but every theater doing it kept saying that you had to go see FOTR extended first week of December, get a passport and stamp for LOTR, then go see TTT extended the next week and get another stamp. Finally the day before ROTK, you show the passport and stamps, then you get the right to buy a ticket for the marathon... It turns out they were completely full of crap, and I could have gone... Phew~ I feel better now!

Happy Holidays Shawn and Graham! And the Mods! And everyone else! And... those pesky little elves! (sorry Mechamaniac! ) Good luck to any poor bastards out there like me, taking finals! I can't wait for that update!

Nah Airsoft all the way baby. Full auto w/ silencer whisper quiet and compact. But paintballs would be much more festive. I could load it up with Red and Green (Christmas Colors) balls, and when I see them on the porch, I just step out, and as I stitch em from head to toe, I scream....Merry Christmas Motherf$$%$rs!!!! Tell your wife that you're going out somewhere, like visiting a friend or whatever excuse that might take a few hours. Leave the house well in advance, then sneak back with a paintball gun and hide in those hedges you mentioned: Then wait for the "elf/elves" to show up... Paintballs away! Although I love airsoft, I'd rather paint someone head to toe with a paintball gun than with an airsoft. Bigger rounds and more punch!

I FOUND YOUR ELF! j/k

MM do you have teenage kids? Could they be pulling this off? If you have the Evil Dead Collector's Edition, that comes in the Necronomicon book/case, lock it up at night! Mine likes to occassionally dissappear and then reappear when I notice that it's gone... If/when you find out who's doing this, maybe you should do a little payback! A little phone call, "What's your favorite scary movie?" Or a horse's head on their bed before they wake up. j/k We're waiting to hear what happened on the 16th!

Maybe it's one of us in the forums! They're reading every word we type and laughing as it goes along! ... ... ... It's not me! Actually... You haven't had any bad trades or sales on Macross World with someone in your area, have you? Maybe a forum member really is screwing with you! Although if the stuff Blaine said starts coming true, I'd advise getting some kevlar. And if you do down the psycho, don't forget that if you get close to see if you've really killed them... As Ash put it: "It's a trick, get an axe!"

Do you have any Christmas Elves lawn ornaments? I swear those things are PURE EVIL! I was at a friend's house and spent the night with a couple other friends, and we were sleeping in the living room where there was a 3-foot tall elf lawn ornament. It was holding a pad of paper in one hand, and the other was holding a pencil the way you hold a knife to stab someone with. We were trying to go to sleep when we noticed it started to move... Its arm with the pencil started to slowly move and make slow stabbing motions. Plus, its head turned to stare at us. It wasn't just me watching it. It was all three, and we asked each other at the same time if we thought it was moving. So we ended up fleeing into another room, where we pushed the lazy-boy chairs against the door and locked the glass door leading to the padio. It happened a couple other times my friends and I stayed over at his house. And we even checked it during the day to see if it had batteries or anything... BEWARE of Elf Lawn Ornaments!!!

I can see why they put the butt-plugs on the F-22. Last spring here in Paris, the military had a sort of an "open-house" day and had a big show of stuff on the Champ de Mars (the field between the Eiffel Tower and the Military School/Ecole Militaire). They had parked in front of the Military School a Jaguar and Mirage Fighter. It was cool because they let the public in small groups take a look at the fighters from up close and touch them! They even let us in one at a time to sit in the cockpit under supervision! I got to sit in a Mirage! One of the pilots that was hanging around and answering people's questions ran off and managed to convince one of the traffic cops to give him a ticket to put on one of the planes! However, there were these little brats that were running around stabbing the plane with sticks and throwing crap into the engine from the rear! Not cool! So with that having happened, I can easily see why they put butt-plugs on! Prevent unintentional (or intentional) foreign objects being put in the engines! (God! If only I had a camera on me that day! And, no, they didn't have the Rafale on display)