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well, with the 0s arms, the halves were glued together before being assembled on the shoulder mount, causing stress when the workers forced the ball into the socket. IF thats the case with the 0a arms, it could explain the stress marks.

finished watching 23. Okay, I was wrong, rossiu wasn't some amoral sociopath.

That's a totally understandable reaction. And one I'm inclined to follow. If we were looking at a fail rate (where failure = stress marks) in the low single digits, I could chock that up to manufacturing flubs or user error... but at 30%, that just tells me that either yamato didn't put the new materials in the shoulders or the chemical reaction bit was only part of the problem and the underlying design problem remains. In any event, I dunno now if I would ever get another vf-0 toy unless yamato significantly improves this part. And oh yeah, compensates me for the fraking replacment arms I spent money on.

well, rossiu didn't really do much. the arc gurren was a converted ganmen that they dug up, so it would still have been there for simon to use. the orginial ganmen would have been effective against the antispiral, in fact, earth would have had more defenses if all the ganmen from the earth weren't replaced with the few new mecha. Which Simon saved from being wiped out by the first antispiral attack. In a mecha that rossiu would have sent to the junkyard. And Nia told simon everything that head in a jar told rossiu. Also, without simon and the gurren lagaan, the arc gurren would have been a debris field. It wasn't rossiu's efforts that allowed simon to be victorious, it was clearly simon and the brigade that saved rossiu and all the other turncoats. and rossiu never tried to quell the uprising. He never trusted the population or his friends to understand the situation. Like most elitists, he assumed only he was qualified to deal with the situation. He simply refused to give the population information, refused to treat them as human beings (the same his father did in the little theocratic hole he crawled out of ) and the population sucumbed to their fear and hysteria. And rossiu was all the more willing to sacrifice his friends in order to placate the crowd. For someone who is being held up as cool and rational, his actions are clearly driven by baser motivations. Fear, selfishness and arrogance. you can argue that simon was an ineffective leader, and rightly so, that still doesn't give rossiu the moral right to lie to him, to enact oppressive policies behind simon's back and in simon's name. It was rossiu's aggressive and draconian policies towards outsiders that helped to breed the resentment against simon in the first place.

well, com'on, it's FOX... no one knows how to kill a show like FOX. And no one knows how to take a giant heaping dump all over their audience like sci-fi.

well, we don't really know how long it was before we had so many os arms fail... so who knows, maybe it holds at 30% maybe in 6 months, we'll have 90% failure. then again, with so few people actually bothering to describe the break, maybe people are just reporting stress marks as a "break" in the poll and the results are totally off.

true true... I guess in that aspect, rossiu is the most believable character in this show.

I don't think rossiu is evil, I think he is amoral. the problem with people like rossiu is they always have a perfectly justifiable reason for the selfish and hurtful actions they take. Their thinking, their motives, their conclusions are always the best.. they make decisions on behalf of other people, with or without their consent.

Bump... graham, any word from yamato? you should also check out scream man's poll, there seems to be a thrity percent failure rate on the shin combo arms.

yeah, I really wish people would post up details. I want to know if they're reporting stress marks, or full on cracks and breaks.

without the rubber rings, the bicep swivel will be the same as the 1st release 0s bicep swivel... very loose. if you have a CF0a and aren't inclined to pay for the replacement arms, I say live with the loose shoulders and take out the rubber.. if you already bought the replacement arms, check anyways to see if there is any excess material (flashing) causing extra pressure.

well, it's not that he just threw simon to the mob, it was the actions he took previously... keeping simon out of the loop of his draconian policies towards the rebels, his destruction of the original mechs, his willingness to use human bombs in order to ensure simon's cooperation. All these acts together show a picture of some one who is cold and calculating and completely amoral and self serving. My view of rossiu is not that he was willing to do anything to save humanity, but that he was willing to do anything to further his own agenda, and saving humanity (his way) was just one more tool in the belt.

huh, well, I guess I'll help myself to that big ol'helping of crow now. KS, if you're reading this by some odd chance, sorry I ever doubted you.

it would make sense if you were a spineless weasel, he's just a little man trying to be a big man, but doesn't have the balls to do the right thing. He just wants to be respected and have people look up to him, so he's more than willing to sacrifice his comrades and diminish their contributions so he can be the big shinning star.

wow, thanks for taking the time to scan those for us.

any chance yamato will revist the 1/60 vf-11? a bunch of us want to see an updated one.

nice pics. Are they from different dates? Or were you putting on stickers whilst taking the pics?

It sounds like something sci-fi would do. I really hate the channel and the decisions they make. They basically treat their audience like crap. Unfortunately, no one else has the balls to show science fiction shows that don't involve 5 teenagers in lycra bodysuits fighting giant monsters, so they know they have us by the balls.

he's the bad guy becuase he withholds vital information and is willing to sell out his comrades to further his own political goals. He's a spineless shark.

I finally broke the 10k mark with a score of: 10266.6m. And as a side note, my baby loves this game, he even tries to make all the little grunts and yells.

ah, right you are. a modded vf-19f it is.

it's a vf-19 with some funky wings attached.

it's based off of this:

I can accept stres marks. As long as we don't get the same sort of cracks and shattering as before.

gah. thanks for the pics mowe, how about the rest of you guys who voted yes, post up those pics. let's email these to yamato and find out what can be done.