David Hingtgen

Finally found deep magenta wrapping paper, so here's my Nora all ready for Xmas: (I wanted to use dull gold ribbon for striping, but could only find bright "chrome" gold--was hard enough to find a dull bow)

I just might. However, I don't think the new versions fix any of the issues I currently have. I straightened out the landing gear and gunpod.

The 3253H at the other BestBuy has the exact same problem. ?!?!?

No, I'm not sure. However, I don't ever recall having this problem with any MW attachment before. I doubt yesterday was the first BMP attachment I ever encountered here.

Heavy Duty HAS no character. Road Block is an awesome character. Having Heavy Duty instead of Road Block is like having Bat-Mite instead of Bat-Man.

That's part of the problem--there's no thumbnails anymore. I'm wondering if MS did something during the last windows update or something.

I didn't find out until recently it was MadCatz, but JB0 already made the necessary comment.

Just started noticing it tonight. Was a board setting changed/updated? BMP's no longer thumbnail or anything, and I cannot successfully open them in a window in any way--not "within MW", not in a new window, not in a new browser. They MUST be "right clicked and saved as". Windows (XP, SP2) keeps giving me security warnings about them. (the files are fine, it's EVERY bmp file that it doesn't like) Just me, or someone else? I've attached a very small BMP file for testing.

And said lineart is the only way you'll figure out how the wings transform into the chest, as the game will ONLY show you a view from the rear.

90 bucks? Sell your premium console while keeping the HD, and buy an arcade system. About the same cost.

A request for anyone who's going out looking at HDTV LCD's soon: Could you check the Samsung LNT-3253H for white stuck pixels in the upper right corner? I just noticed the very same TV that I stared at yesterday, had a GROUP of pixels stuck white today. AFAIK stuck pixels are usually "set" when the TV is new, and don't generally start appearing later. The absolute upper-right one is stuck white, with the next 3 or so to the right "trailing off" with less degrees of whiteness. It doesn't really look like a stuck pixel, more like the pixels themselves are somehow peeling off the backlit area or something. So then I go to BestBuy---same thing! Same place! I have no idea what's going on. I doubt I could have missed such an obvious flaw on the multiple times I've stared at these TV's, but I also doubt 2 TV's could have an identical stuck pixel patttern. The one at BB also has the extreme upper LEFT pixel stuck white. Now, in the thousands of posts at the AVS forums on this TV, no one's ever mentioned it. And you'd think they'd complain about multiple stuck-white pixels. I'm driving to the BB 30 miles away tomorrow to go check theirs and see what's up. I'm wondering if this TV has an inherent "stuck white pixels in the corners" flaw, or "backlight leaking in the corners" or what. Darn. I was *this* close to finally deciding on that TV. PS---I had considered that maybe it was an underscan issue or something, that it was trying to show something "beyond the edge" that it shouldn't--but it's not, the Samsung was actually overscanning compared to the other TV's there.

I tried getting the lower leg halves closer together, but only made it worse. Yamato plastic doesn't really seem to respond to glue. (I tried both normal styrene glue and ABS glue). (this really should go in a -19 thread)

My like of *natural* red hair is known on several forums. As is my dislike of blatantly fake hair. It just ruins the effect. It's the same as some strippers with literally M-cup chests or something---5x larger than humanly possible, with literally gallons of silicone inside. So impossibly fake that there's no attraction--it's freaky, instead of attractive.

Some guys are leg guys. Some are boob guys. I like red hair.

I just transformed my YF-19 for the first time in months. Time to get out the nail polish again. V.stab won't stay up (keeps sliding back down the leg), bottom part of the chest won't stay up, right wing REALLY won't stay in place in fighter mode, etc. It just plain needs more hooks/tabs to start with, and those that do exist just don't work well. Honestly I'm pretty disappointed with the YF-19, it just doesn't hold together in either mode and is loose/floppy at all times. Hopefully Nora is better (I think it is, by a lot, based on reviews)

What about POTC? Wrong framing. But that's Disney---do the various companies' engineers/encoders etc just not understand Blu-Ray, or is it simply random screw-ups? Have any HD-DVD's had similar problems?

One of the first results I got googling her was this quote (very recent): "Even one redheaded Rachel Nichols is too many. Now we have two. TCL hasn't ever worked out why a woman would dye her hair some variation of scarily fake red. Whether the hue aspires to "auburn" or "deep strawberry blond" or "sassy ginger," the result always looks slightly "fright wig." Let's get this straight, ladies: No dye job exists that credibly replicates real red hair." My sentiments exactly. BLANTANTLY FAKE RED SUCKS. It's no different than having bright green or blue----it's WAY off the 'realm of possibility' and just looks weird. Might as well wear those contacts that give you yellow eyes or cat-like pupils---you look inhuman, and its unsettling. (It's just that fake red is so prevalent, people have learned to accept it and it's not as disturbing to some--but those of us who like real red, know real redheads, etc, it's really distubring) Well, there is one positive note to choosing her: at least she's fairly fair-skinned. Not like, you know, Jessica Alba as a blue-eyed blonde... Honestly, I don't know why Hollywood types etc pay for stuff like that. I bet I could make a girl's hair more realistically red with a few packets of various Kool-Aid colors. But they pay like a grand to some "stylist to the stars" with years of experience and training, just to end up with hair that's a pretty close match to Ronald McDonald's.

I just realized---does the lift fan cut rear visibility to zero? Isn't that "fighter design no-no #1?"

Saturn?!?!?

Personally I never really "got" the story either, it's more of a visual thing. To rephrase your comment---literally, SEE the amazingness. Look at the world of Blade Runner. That's mainly what I get out of it. Visual style.

VF-9 has an amazingly complex wing transformation, seeing as how they form the chest... (took me a while to figure it out, even booted up M3 and just sat there a while, switching from one mode to another, watching) IMHO the VF-9 has the most unique transformation of any valk. I mean, it's not even symmetrical.

I'm waiting until the 25th to take mine out of the box too. (Even going to wrap it---found a perfect matching shade of giftwrap but they were sold out--going to keep hunting around) (yes, I try to match paper/bow to the toy---got a dull gold bow, now just need purplish-red paper)

The Nora I bought myself (and just got) will be wrapped and I will wait until the 25th to open it.

Why did they change the lift-fan's door? Bi-fold doors are not complex or prone to failure or anything. Half of all airliners have bi-fold landing gear doors 99% identical in size/shape/operation to the X-35's original lift-fan doors. I can't imagine that one big huge wind-catching piece is any better, besides saving a few hundred bucks a HUNDRED MILLION BUCK plane.

Nope. (I get that question a lot though)