David Hingtgen

Gaaaaaawwwwwdddd, even as "stupid TSA stories" go, this one's bad: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Nine American Eagle airplanes were grounded Tuesday after a TSA inspector, conducting an overnight security check, used sensitive instrument probes to climb onto the parked aircraft at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, aviation sources tell ABCNews.com. At least forty regional commuter flights were delayed throughout the day, according to American Airlines. "We think it's an unfortunate situation," American airlines spokesperson Mary Frances told ABCNews.com. The TSA agent, as part of spot inspection of aircraft security, climbed onto the parked aircraft using control sensors mounted on the fuselage as handholds, according to a TSA official in Chicago, Elio Montenegro. "Our inspector was following routine procedure for securing the aircraft that were on the tarmac," Montenegro told ABCNews.com. The TSA agent was attempting to determine if someone could break into a parked aircraft, according to Montenegro. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< This is why people who couldn't get a job at MickeyD's and don't know the SLIGHTEST thing about aviation, shouldn't be allowed to mess with multi-million-dollar aircraft. And I'm betting replacement pitot probes etc for the SAAB 340 aren't that easy to come by nowadays.

8.1 is pathetic. My first car could do better. Sigh--I don't know if I'll be able to afford gas for a 2011/2012 or so Challenger R/T. Might have to keep my current car longer than I'd hoped.

I think that was the ONE time something like that happened, and it was believable because it explained how that species was (basically) like Vulcans, but to an even more extreme step--purely logical, with pure order. Everything nice and patterned with straight lines and right angles. So an attack comprised of purely "random" patterns and curves probably would be darn-near uncounterable by them. It's not like he plotted an entire war based on some little manuever that humans aren't good at countering based on his study of Matisse. Frankly, there'd be a zillion ways to learn that "whatever species it was" was basically incapable of comprehending "random 3D curves" or whatever---and you can bet every commander in the fleet was probably aware of that and used it to their advantage whenever possible. Thrawn just liked to show off via art...

Graham only teases, serving out little morsels of info to hungry fans...

And we still don't know exactly how micloned Meltrans age---Milia's the first, and is basically "an experiment". I wouldn't be surprised if she shows up looking exactly the same as she did in M7. How old do Zentradi live? Britai was very old IIRC. But he's "special" and not your typical Zentradi. Milia's Meltran, for starters, and is presumably "more special than average, but not as special as Britai/Laplamiz".

The problem with Clone Wars has NOTHING to do with the fact that it's "TV shown as a movie". The older TV Clone Wars mini-series eps shown before ROTS were inherently better. Cheaper to make for sure, but I enjoyed them far more. I often watch them straight through as a 2-hour movie. It's a sheer quality of plot/writing issue here.

It's the ATD-X. Just a mock-up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_ATD-X

I believe that was noticed back in ep 13.

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The animation's definitely "stiff". As opposed to the very smooth TV eps...

Yeesh---I thought this thread was JUST ABOUT to get back to ep 19 and not "MKV's suck" but it's still going on. Encoding/playing etc discussion ends NOW. Go talk in our "fansubs and how to play them on your PC" thread here: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?show...5914&st=480

I think we need a video for "transforming the shoulder without breaking it".

Eeeek. And you even said like 3 posts ago you're careful. I'm kinda afraid to open mine and transform it... (mine just arrived)

When City 7 is 'stolen' and Battle 7 arrives on scene with only seconds to spare and prepares to transform to fire the cannon but they don't have time so Max cancels the transformation and just rams the other ship, don't you think that if it was at all possible to fire the cannon in ship mode, he'd have done so? Near the end of the series he even does 70-80% charge firings to save time, but still always waits for transformation to finish.

I thought they were cosplayers---just look at the other cosplayers---the people on Frontier have GOOD costumes.

No, but the theater had grape Icee, which I've never had before, and was awesome. Icee>movie.

::edit:: Subs are out for DDL.

Veoh--yeah. Veoh always seems to be the first place to have subbed versions--but the quality's so poor I refuse to watch there.

No comments? Am I the only one who saw it? My short take: Good, but I liked the TV eps better. If anything---too much pointless (and often juvenile) banter. The TV series had entire eps with little/no talking.

????? Still no ddl for ep 19, and I know GG's had their subs available for a decent amount of time.

Found the new HISS, Trouble Bubble, Serpentor Chariot, etc. HISS driver has a color issue---his helmet doesn't match his uniform at all. While many "medium blue" Cobra figures have a bit of a color matching issue (especially the arms), this one is the worst I've seen. The uniform is very "faded" compared to the rich blue helmet. Pretty much ruins the figure for me (and I really wanted a blue HISS driver). PS---HISS has all-white markings. I was hoping for red...

Did you read Graham's review? "However, a word of warning. The leg fins need to be gently pulled out a couple of mm (you'll hear a click when they are pulled out as far as they can go), before you try to fold them. Failure to extend the leg fins before folding them may resort in breakage"

Armor is nothing more than a hope/rumor so far. I expect super parts to come with the valk in the box.

SPACE MEGAFORCE. Must-play. Everything about it rocks--graphics, weapons, stages, and most of all---music. After that, Darius Twin and Super R-Type are both classics. I like Darius a lot more.

Found Onslaught, and despite being a huge Onslaught fan, I passed. Just not worth 25 bucks. If they ditched the lights and he was just 20, I'd have probably bought him.