David Hingtgen

Compared to the missiles, those must be fairly small (long and skinny) bombs. Certainly nothing compared to a 2000-pounder.

You can go by the production number stamped in the back of the packaging. Don't know if Skids follows the same set, but for Breakaway and Sideways: 89xxx, 90511, 906xx, are the older version 90961 and presumably everything later is the new version ::edit:: Found some skids numbers---90981 can be either painted or unpainted, so he must be a later change.

Anyone gotten the new, fixed, non-knurled shoulder hinges as replacements yet?

9 is one of the best ever. It's more like 4 or 6 than anything else. It is "FF4, if it was made 10 years later".

Ok, finally saw the FF14 trailer. Question: How, in any way, is that really a NEW game? That looks exactly like a high-res upgrade/expansion pack to FF11. "Now with better textures and another whole nation to explore!" I think I'll pass on "FF11, Version 2.0".

Anyone else just now start having issues with WMV at Gametrailers.com? Trailers I watched just hours ago now look funky---like there's a "ghost" of the image in a different color an inch to the right. (also, a vertical shake) Looks the same as when trying to play something with a codec that "sorta works" but not very well. I'm having to use Quicktime for everything there now. I sure didn't do anything to my player or codecs between noon and now, so I'm blaming them...

True, but IIRC part of the stated reason for not being as realistic/detailed was to make it playable online by as many PCs as possible. They seemed to be designing it for people with 5-year-old graphics cards.

Seeing the trailer just makes me desire that style of artwork/proportions even MORE. KOTOR (along with most Bioware games) has such realistic people, but SWTOR is cartoony to the point of distraction.

Dang it, my printer simply can't print that well. I've actually had my instrument panel decaled for weeks, but it doesn't look as good. Maybe I'll try again on photo paper...

None that I can think of. The few model planes that can retract their gear, have inaccurate gear and gear doors to be able to do so---at which point IMHO, they are no longer models, but more like "very accurate toys". IMHO, there will never be an F-14 that could do that, due to the gear door that lies alongside the intake when the gear is down. That's hard to model correctly fixed in place, much less make it moveable.

The game description alone is pure win: "Splosion Man™ (Twisted Pixel Games/Microsoft): Fools they were, to tread where knowledge should stay forbidden. For what emerged was not a man - it was a Splosion Man. "And all who saw him were sploded, for he was the fire and they were but meat." Able to splode himself at will, the Splosion Man launches his way through levels, an uncontainable force. From Twisted Pixel Games, developer of the award winning The Maw™, Splosion Man will keep you on your toes as you play through more than 50 single-player levels and 50 multiplayer levels."

My knowledge of biplanes is nil, so I can't help. I couldn't even identify what Ransack was, other than "military".

I'm a person who hates spoilers, and even I say that's not spoilerish. (what I read on some other forums WAS spoilerish though, which annoyed me as the biggest/best suprises in the first half were already spoiled)

I would have liked either Olga or Sunny as a cyborg ninja more, actually. Even after MGS4 I still don't like Raiden.

Darn it, now I have to buy a Wii....

In short--no. The ones currently sold individually do NOT combine. (and there is little chance of fan-made connector parts working either, due to scale and likely lack of several entire characters) For the big gift-pack: You get 6 vehicles. They can be stuck together end-to-end to make Devastator. They do nothing more. (and it's not all that screen-accurate either, considering that that's all it has to do)

They remake Ninja Gaiden more often than they make a new one...

To nit-pick: If it doesn't work, then it's not really a "launcher", is it? Then they're just "molded missile details", like on Classics Galvatron.

Saw it tonight. Will go against the flow and say it's only a "B" as Pixar goes. 3D not worth the extra expense IMHO. Wall-E still my all-time fave Pixar.

Welcome to MW from TFW2005.

Regardless of what type/size of missile they are----working launchers in the arms means big arms. (especially if they try to be screen-accurate, what with the giant tri-missile crossbow SS uses)

The most common definition for a squadron is 12 planes. Can be more or less (especially when there's only a single squadron in the wing) but generally---12 planes per squadron, 3 squadrons per wing. And my money's on Ozma's Skull Squadron being unrelated to Roy's/Hikaru's. Both the US Navy and US Marines have a "Black Knights" squadron, and they're even both parts of the US military---surely a para-military group can have their own squadron with a name identical to another.

That actually sounds less hopeful than before. I figured "hidden missile launchers" meant accurate to an F-22's AMRAAM or Sidewinder bays. If they're inside the arm, that means really friggin huge arms, like the 07 movie figure----which probably means they're hanging under the wings or something... Working missile launchers are the WORST possible gimmick for a transforming plane--they are the largest gimmick. (yes, I realize the irony that planes are among the few real-world things that DO have missile launchers---unlike say semi trucks and sports cars)

All depends on if they really listened to people about the SS kibble issues, or if they go the "bigger means more gimmicks" route like they did with $70 BB, and actually gets LESS accurate to accomodate many more gimmicks. With how gimmicky and kibble-fied Leader Jetfire is, I'd hope their kibble-gimmick hunger is satiated, and they give us ONE good "jet mode accuracy over all other considerations" mass-released big jet toy this decade.

Really, all I want are people who know planes to report on the accuracy/alt-modes of the various new things shown but not photographed---cone-head VTOL Dirge, someone I forget (another VTOL?), and Leader Starscream. It took a while for Classics Octane to be positively identified--half the reports said "bomber jet". (didn't help that they showed an A400M in the presentation)