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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.

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New theory...
What if you're the one doing all of this, Mechamaniac.
Maybe you never knew it, but you have split personalities (Toy Collector/Strange Elf fetishist) and you're being forced to deal with them both, causing delusions (the phone calls... are they real? Do you really know?).
Perhaps, this is your tangled, tangled, mess of a mind's way of signalling the endgame. Only one your personalities may survive this duet... pray to whatever you hold dear that the Secret Elf side doesn't win.
Then no one will be safe.

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:



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VF porn?! Geeze what hell are you people thinking?!


I'm thinking something along these lines!



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I read just enough katakana to make out "Bandai gashapon HG series".
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Have you planned a "counter-prank" yet?
Don't let your wife in on it, otherwise she'll tell whoever is involved and they'll be one step ahead of you.
Counter-prank when its Halloween...

"Hello Clarice! What's your favorite scary movie?"


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

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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...
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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.

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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?
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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! 
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Okay, let's get it all out of the way...
MOVIE TALKERS SUCK ASS! PEOPLE WITH CELL PHONES RINGING (AND SOMETIMES BEING ANSWERED AND CONVERSED THROUGH) DURING A MOVIE SUCK ASS! PEOPLE INVOLVED IN INMATURE BEHAVIOR, INAPPROPRIATE LAUGHTER AND GENERAL ASS-NESS DURING A MOVIE I PAID $8 BUCKS TO SEE.... SUCK SERIOUS ASS!
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!

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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!

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Dude, I would just wait out there with a paintball gun. I can let you borrow mine.

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:
She did not however spot anyone, so if they were on my front porch, they must have dove into the hedge in front of my house to not be seen.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!

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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!

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Maybe it's one of us in the forums!

They're reading every word we type and laughing as it goes along!

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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!"

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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!!!



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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!
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Maybe it's like the F-117, the stability of it during flight is handled by computer, while the pilot does the main piloting. If the computer goes down, it turns into a flying brick!

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Okay I searched back and found that I might be setting myself up for some angst.

1/72 - 1/60 - 1/48...Damn the scale, then! -I just want a bigger VF-11!
weather that be 1/48 or 1/54.2846739278, I don't care...
A 1/48 VF-11 would be about the same size as the VF-1 in battroid, and just a few centimeters longer in fighter mode...

I mean imagine a VF-11 with the amount of detail that the VF-1 got! A VF-11 with working airbreaks and flaps. The possibility for a smoother transformation since Yamato's gotten experience in producing valkyries since the original M+ valks were released. The "skeleton hands" on the VF-1 would look alright on the VF-11.
Oh man, just thinking of all the things they could do with a 1/48 VF-11...



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It's Mink from Dragon Half. The main character.
ADV releases it in the US. <_< Poor Mink!
The DVD release sucks.Before Excel Saga, I thought it was the most off the wall crazy series around (two OVA episodes).
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Thanks for the link Exo!

Exo's calculations on 1/60 scale
YF-19 - 12.21 in or 31.01 cm
YF-21 - 12.87 in or 32.69 cm
VF-11 - 10.18 in or 25.86 cm
My calculations on 1/48 scale
YF-19 - 15.27 in or 38.79 cm
YF-21 - 16.09 in or 40.88 cm
VF-11 - 12.72 in or 32.31 cm
Okay, the VF-11 would be practically the same size as the 1/48 VF-1, I want my VF-11 in 1/48 and not 1/60.
Heheh, I could display them next to each other and have them be in scale!Okay, I know people scream in horror at the monstrous size that the YF-19 and 21 would be in 1/48, but the lenght difference would be something like 3-4 inches, but I don't see that as being thaaat much of a problem. Now, I'm not saying "skip 1/60s and go straight to 1/48s"!

What I am saying is that they would not be so big that we could drive them around (maybe use them as short skateboards). They could be made in a limited way like the 1/60 Monster. If there are 1/60 versions released, then those who don't want the 1/48 will be sated of their hunger, and if there is a 1/48 version released afterwards, then us others will be sated of ours.
Oh yeah, since I remember in the last MW Newsletter that Graham had mentioned possible candidates for future Valk release where the VF-4 and the VF-5000, here's the length of the VF-5000:
actual size
VF-5000 - 14.03 m actual
VF-5000 - 29.23 cm 1/48 toy (smaller than the VF-1)
*crosses fingers* Here's hoping for a 1/48 VF-4!
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Right, I got interested in finding out what the scale would be for different valks as toys at the 1/48 scale that some people are for, and others against.
I've spent a bit of time going over the data at Macross Compendium, took the data provided and scaled them down to 1/48. You may use this for discussion (let's keep it clean and calm) and personal interest.
My Formula was: valk size (length or wingspan or height)/.48 = x
It is .48 to convert the meters into centimeters.
I'm listing the VF-0, VF-1, VF-4, VF-11, YF-19 and YF/VF-21/22 with wingspans spread to their maximum
Actual Size
Fighter Mode: length wingspan height
VF-0 18.69m no data no data
VF-1 14,23 14,78 3,84
VF-4 14,92 14,28 3,72
VF-11 15,51 11,2 3,49
YF-19 18,62 14,87 3,94
YF/VF-21/22 19,62 15,36 4,04
Battroid Mode: Height
VF-0 no data
VF-1 12,68
VF-4 no data
VF-11 12,92
YF-19 no data (VF-19F/S/Custom is 15.48 without the laser)
YF/VF-21-22 no data
Toy size (in cm)
Fighter mode: length wingspan height
VF-0 38.94 no data no data
VF-1 29.65 30.79 8
VF-1 31 31 8 (hastily taken measurements of my 1/48 Max)
VF-4 31.08 29.75 7.75
VF-11 32.31 23.33 7.27
YF-19 38.79 30.98 8.21
YF/VF-21/22 40.88 32 8.42
Battroid mode: Height
VF-0 no data
VF-1 26.42
VF-1 26 (hastily taken measurement of my 1/48 Max)
VF-4 no data
VF-11 26.92
YF-19 no data (VF-19F/S/custom would be 32.25)
YF/VF-21/22 no data
I did an excel sheet with these, plus some other valks (unfortunately most of them had no data). If you want, I could try to post it.

1/48 Transformation
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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!