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Yeah, I'm down for a v2 Q-Rau. It was a poorly executed toy when it first came out back when and it hasn't aged well at all. The new detroids blow it out of the water.

I'd buy one but no way in hell for 200 bucks. At most should be 3 for 100 bucks. I'll live if it can't fit a little 1/60 zentran soldier but if that's the case I'd like one a nice posable one packaged along side it. And by nice, I don't mean pvc crap like their bubblegum figures but something along the lines of the of the newer posable GI-JOE and SW action figures.

could be the ads being run on the site.

My attempt... man am I rusty

NICE! You knocked that out of the park.

well, just in case the wife is reading this, I got the D90 so I could take pictures of our baby cuz he wouldn't hold still long enough for our little lumix P&S to take decent pictures of him...

yes, throw it in the air and take picture! But yeah, clone out those arms!

That's what happens obi-wan when you go wandering off in the desert, your padawan gets all strong in the force, before he was but a learner but now he's the master!

Nice, I like the first shin/nora picture, I like the blown highlights off of nora makes it look more like they're way up there in the sky where light is all harsh and strong.

That 2nd hand 5D (frame only) costs more than my D90 and tamron 28-70mm f/2.8 brand spanking new so he can go cry me a river about he's so jealous over an 80 dollar vf-1.

Vegas comes here and boohoo's about how jealous he is over valkyries but he's buying a 5D

macross 7 and macross zero.

drool. The lift truck adds so much to it. Amazing work!

ah. Well, 2 months then!

eh? 2 months?

nope. Trust me, there's only few places for over sized packages and those places already have occupants. You don't use up one of those valuable oversized shelves when you can use one of your many regular shelves because where would you put the oversized items? You're not grasping the volume and speed that HLJ and similarly sized stores can process. Over-Drive is a mom and pop organization in comparison. Here, try to understand it like this, HLJ probably receives a tractor trailer worth of merchandise every day and ships out an equivalent everyday and this is during non peak, non holiday periods. I bet they do 2 tractor trailers or more during the holidays. That means around 6 THOUSAND plus orders a day with each order most likely having multiple items. Those workers are being clocked by the second. Over-drive does maybe 2 UPS trucks worth a day. Trust me, HLJ doesn't give a sh!t what you want. Their only concern is to ship quickly and safely. I'm speaking from experience, I've been a supervisor/manager for operations that have around 70% of the SKU's of HLJ and for operations that have around the same amount of items as Over-drive. With the smaller store, yes, it was possible to do stuff like simply slap a shipping label on a factor fresh case and send it out especially with that model where the items we bought are the items we ordered. But with the larger model with stock on hand it's just not feasible.

psh, retail. A retail stockroom is a fraction of the size of an operation the size of HLJ. A retail stockroom is a closet compared to a warehouse which is where operations like HLJ take place. Retail may order a case or two of any given product as stock goes down, imagine whole trucks full of stuff coming in 2 to 3 times a day, 3-4 days a week. Pickers don't know what they're picking up, they have little guns that wireless send them a new order and they do it by shelf and lot number like a library but a library where the books are constantly moving to new locations to ensure the popular books get moved quickly and efficiently. If you went to a stock room and said, "get me 4 hikaru vf-1s" they'd stare at you but if you said, "qty 4 row C shelf e-23" then they'd understand. Retail and e-retail are completely different beasts.

nope because those guys aren't going to pay enough to make up for the lost time and space. Think about what land costs in Japan or hell anywhere with enough of a transportation system to allow for quick and easy international shipping. Do you really think they're going to cut the useable real estate of a shelf by 50 or 75% just on the off chance GHQ is going to order? And do you think GHQ would be willing to pay the several thousand dollar premium to make up for that lost space and decreased worker productivity? I can tell you, performance in the backroom is measured in seconds. We calculate out how fast a worker can pick, sort, package and place on a palette down to a fraction of a second. I'm in no way exaggerating here. Part of a stock room worker's evaluation is to see how closely he can meet those theoretical goals. We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (easily for a small company) or more for the latest software that tracks sales and creates optimized floor plans and stock placement. Stock is cycled every time new merchandise is brought in which can be several times per day for high volume operations. Just in our stock room, a single day would see 2-3 deliveries, several hundred next day air shipments and 3-6 thousand regular shipments with 4-5 items per order processed by a stock room team of around 10 full time employees.

Thanks. I should start putting "inspired by" shout outs on my pics. Thanks for the great ideas!

Eh... as someone who's worked in the back room before, when the delivery truck comes in EVERYTHING gets broken down. Stock shelves aren't designed to accommodate manufacturer's shipping boxes and we don't have time to check and see if there's some fussy customer who wants the "original factory case" and even if we knew about it, we wouldn't care. A modern stock room is being constantly reshuffled with more popular items and fast movers having priority and sale and clearance merchandise moved around. Stock shelves and shelf real estate are vital and we're not going to waste precious space trying to keep keep a case of 2 deep x 2 high intact on the off chance someone is going to order it like that. The time it takes to rebox those items for shipping is minimal and the wasted space would hardly make up for whatever convenience would come out of those rare orders.

meh, tesla did it a hundred years ago. Successful wireless energy transmission, I mean.

I love bioware, even their game specs are reasonable. I won't be able to play with all the bells and whistles but I will be able to play... unlike Neverwinter 2 which played like a slideshow...

oh how I wish that were the only dumb thing about Mac II.

Nice! They look great!