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It's never been intended to be the "start" of his spy career. It's only the start of his 00 status. Bond has always been a veteran agent, implying he's no fresh-faced twenty-something. In Fleming's books, Bond had served with Naval Intelligence in WW2, some 15-20 years earlier.

But it has to be one of those mildly condescending ones. The kind that implies that it's actually your own fault that XYZ happened, because you weren't careful or didn't take the time to educate yourself on the risks.

Wow....that sounds worse than I'd intended it. The power of Agent ONE compels me.

Let's see how well that Thunder Hammer saves your ass.

*incoherent screaming*

Without seeing so much as a single frame of film, I've decided that eugimon's Mr Rogers remake is an afrtont to society in every conceivable way, and thus I will pour fiery hot vitriol over any further posts he makes on the subject! Vitriol, I tell you!

No, I'm pretty sure I had it right the first time 'round. Let me check. Yep, sure enough it's right.

Steve Carrel > Ricky Garvais

These days Joel has his own not-quite-MST3K thing, called Cinematic Titanic.

Urk!! Optimism....fading. Fading.....fading...

Any particular medium you're looking for? Books, movies, uhh...movies based on books? Novelizations of movies?

Yeah it turns out I was cross-remembering it with a real story about Bird directing "1906", which was about the same time as the Wall E trailer first hit the net. (I have since been forced to release my longtime assistant and fact checker, Kaydee the Kat. It turns out she wanted to pursue a different opportunity anyway. Something about chasing some string under the couch.)

Well I'll be damned. I have been lead astray by the internet, and my oft-fuzzy recollections of blogs it contains.

Pixar + Brad Bird = Automatic win. I will fight anyone who suggests otherwise.

lol, my mistake. n/m

That is not the Parksabers M41A. His was, IIRC, merely an built-up, overpriced G&P airsoft conversion. This is an all new replica, and a better looking one than the G&P.

That is a nice looking toy. Hell, it's an awesome looking toy. But it's not a $600 toy. Let's hope that's just an ugly rumor.

Not really a lightsaber, or even Star Wars for that matter, but Hollywood Collectibles Group has released the first pictures of their M41A Pulse Rifle replica.

Save Robotech is my new hero.

Good info, Chowser. I'd heard rumors about Hasbro continuing the FX lineup, and I guess this pretty much confirms it. I don't know how EFX is going to pick up where MR left off in terms of props, though. Most of the iconic ones have already been done. Twice or even three times in some cases. Maybe an all-new Obi Wan ANH, with the correct and not guestimated parts? I'd go for that. Or maybe items that MR had very small runs of, like the Luke ESB blaster and the Vader ROTJ saber.

Riiiiiiiiiise I saw the latest SW Insider whilst shoppign yesterday (featuring the "100 best things about Star Wars"....IMO, the laziest form of writing there is) and there was an ad on the back for these EFX Collectibles characters. In addition to the "helmet" that the web sites home page promises, the ad also claimed sabers, props and studio scale replicas. Has anybody been to...ugh...Rebel Scum and maybe heard who these guys actually are. I'm curious to know. While I know the die-hard prop nerds always found some fault in the MR offerings, I personally liked the pieces that I bought and hope that EFX can at least match them in quality and pricing. http://efxcollectibles.com/

Anime magicuuuuuu! Mospeada is chock full of it, I tells ya.

Well or starters, the whole "obsolete" argument is certainly debatable since as I pointed out we traded one interceptor for another, foreign interceptor. (particularly at a time when every other first world nation was building their own) Second, you keep throwing around this 3% figure, which you freely admit is derived from your own calcs. Now I'm by no means an Arrow expert, and its no secret that there was indeed a lot of money being sunk into the project, but I haven't seen anything to substantiate that astronomical figure. As far as I'm concerned, Dief got elected largely on a platform of reigning in "Liberal" over-expendatures. The Arrow was unfortunately an easy target, especially when the US was offering to sell us the "next best thing" to the Arrow. And from I've read, the cost in lost jobs was closer to 25,000.

I've seen the IGLOO dvds once or twice, and they're just not worth it. Overpriced is an understatement. $50 dvds are NOT the way of the future, Bandai. Not unless you want to see the market continue to shrink.

I was wondering how long it would take the Diefenpologists to show up. There's a little more to it than that, however. You overlook the fallout from the cancellation of the Arrow/Iroquois project. Consider the subsequent brain-drain of engineers after Black Friday. Avro itself never really recovered, which was another blow to Canadian aviation. And for all the talk about Soviet bombers being a non-threat, thus retroactively justifying the cancellation of the interceptor project, less than two years later McDonnell & Uncle Sam were more than happy to sell us another interceptor, the Voodoo. But my favorite part of the whole debacle is the mutual defense development pact we signed with the US which explicitly forbade us from ever again developing our own aircraft. The final insult is how they not only scrapped all existing prototypes, but insured that all blueprints and othe related material were all destroyed. The Arrow wasn't so much cancelled as it was expunged. But I'm sure your calculations are right. It was all for our own good.