David Hingtgen

Green+blue=pink (or purple).

PS--want to REALLY spy-proof your system? Stop using default MSIE Java and download Sun's. Best thing I ever did, spy-ware wise. Also fiddle with java/active permissions and restrict most everything. It'll be annoying for a few weeks, until you've manually approved every website you frequent, but after that, you'll be pretty safe (and it'll stop a lot of pop-ups, too)

That's weird. Would have figured Rei would be smaller, if anything. Well, guess we'll have to wait for Asuka to be released to get a "comparable size" figure to test on. (I'm buying Rei regardless, undecided about Asuka--I do hope we see more than just EVA figs--I'd love some videogame characters, not just anime) PS--where'd you get your Rei figure? Every place I've been checking still has them listed as pre-order/arriving soon.

Anti-virus: Avast! Anti-spy: AVG Seriously, you can't beat Avast IMHO. Totally free even for continuous automatic updates (several times a day sometimes) and about the least resource-hogging there is, and catches things 5 other "top name" ones don't.

Yup.

Cameo--I did. As for Blitzwing---while I only have 10 secs to go by, I didn't see 3 personalities--I saw 3 variations of a "crazy German". Just IMHO.

My brother and I both just use long ethernet cables snaking across the living room when we need to connect to LIVE. It's cheap, and easy enough. And very easy to configure. PS--man, A. Creed for 40 bucks? BestBuy in the US is selling the PS3 version for that, but not the 360 version. But Canadian Best Buy's sell the 360 version for that price?

Must apologize for the quality of some, not many turned out (I took dozens)---indoors in the afternoon around the winter solstice is probably about the worst time possible to take pics. Anyways----here is the "hinge to fuselage" joint at the "battroid mode" angle, but with the "hinge to backpack" joint in fighter mode---basically I folded the backpack up, then unfolded just along one hinge. The opposite configuration was just impossible to photograph due to the fins getting in the way, I could do no better than what you already see from the backpack fully folded up pics of Graham's. All I can say is the hinge-to-backpack angle is definitely acute. Here are two different angles of the hinge area of the backpack joint fully folded up. There is a small protrusion inside the backpack on the hinge itself, that rubs against a grey part (backside of the 3 small backpack thrusters). That does seem to determine the angle the backpack folds to. Looking at mine, it is completely unaltered. Maybe yours has something blocking it. or something. But I have no play in the hinges fore/aft or any sliding motion--it is purely rotation.

While I'm still not fond of the animation style, I did enjoy the characters/story a lot. Especially Starscream. There were a few points (especially near the end) where Tom Kenny came pretty close to Chris Latta IMHO, and he should only get better with time.

Ok, I'll go take pics right now.

Way too much to repair. The well-known 707 nose repair was from just behind the cockpit forward, not the first 50 feet of the plane. Also, it had no wing/engine/gear damage. And nothing's more expensive than the engines and gear! Write off, salvage the remaining bits to build a new one with its parts. I think I did post about this, not sure. Somewhat ironically, while the A340-600 has yet to crash, 2 were lost that week---hitting the wall, and sliding off the runway. The one that slid off was one of Iberia's in Quito, Chile. The aircraft is pretty intact, but frankly---the airport is small enough that they just don't have the equipment to bring it back up out of the embankment and fix it up enough to fly it out of there. It could easily be repaired to ferry-flight status to fly it to somewhere for full repairs with the right equipment and better position, but it's just "stuck" and that airport doesn't have enough to repair the left gear and pylon and replace one engine to get it flightworthy---so they're going to have to scrap it where it lays. Hopefully they can save some other engines, gear, and tail parts to build a replacement. (aircraft parts are salvaged whenever possible--there are airliners built with the parts from ones that crashed)

And you can do more than merely "have her in your party".

If you'd like, I'll take some pics of my hinges in different configurations so you can see exactly what angles each piece needs to be in. I might even be able to get my backpack open again and see how it looks inside, so you can compare to see if anything about yours is "wrong".

Just for your consideration: Here's Zhang Ziyi just standing there. And she gives off a huge Chun-Li vibe IMHO. Imagine her in the costume.

There was a blurb before K.K. was cast that the movie would focus on Chun-Li taking down Bison's empire.

----and toy gun laws...

That review also says the PS3 won't upscale standard DVD's at all, which goes against everything I've read. It also says it won't downscale 1080p to 720p.

If you want a stockier Battroid, then pick up one of the many cheap, used, first or second release Yamato YF-21's. They were sold off by all the people who want a skinnier fighter. There's no need to compromise, buy the version you want. But there will never be one that matches the anime. The YF-21 actually has the most anime magic by far if you really analyze it, surpassing even the YF-21 or most Transformers™ in how much stuff "magically" appears or disappears when transforming.

I was thinking the guy's name might be meant to be "Guillaume". Just, romanized and pronounced literally or something.

It's the essence of pure evil from the future, given form and brought back to our time.

Absolutely. I have over 200 model planes all to the same scale. I often show them for comparison. (and then they inevitably ask if they're to scale right I tell them that they are--no one ever wants to believe that planes actually do vary that much in size in relation to each other). All my model fighter jets are 1/72, my airliners are 1/400. Having a 1/60 F-14 and a F-48 F-15 and a 1/72 F-16 would defeat the point. And my United Express regional jets SHOULD be utterly dwarfed by a United 747 jumbo.

dnd--I'm guessing you tried it AFTER Hurin made his little change. Now "SV-51" works. 24 hours ago it most certainly didn't.

I'll take pics next time I transform it.

I haven't watched the subbed version yet---is the VF-25 specifically NAMED Valkyrie, or is just "called a valkyrie". I'm not sure if it's canon in Macross to call "all transforming jets" valkyries, but we the fans sure do. If the -25 is NAMED Valkyrie, it should be the Valkyrie II. Unless we've got a new/retconned universe where the VF-1 never existed, and the -25 is the first to use the name. VF-0 never did get a name IIRC. As for reusing names on planes---all the time. F-4 Phantom II, A-10 Thunderbolt II, F-35 Lightning II, F-5E Tiger II, etc. And---VF-4 Lightning III, VF-22 Sturmvogel II.

Maximiria--the number 1 complaint of all previous YF-21's has been the belly. From SHE to version 1 to version 2 of the old Yamato. Yamato was simply listening to its customers. And what's the number 1 thing for which praise is heaped upon the D'stance? Its skinny belly. Also--it's not a "slight bulge" under the belly on older ones. The older ones look 2 or 3 *times* thicker.