HG Blows

Sorry, wasn't able to write more yesterday, work got in the way .

OK, first up the quick review for those with short attention spans : -

• MSiA Chaos = Crap.
  
• MSiA Abyss = Excellent.
  
• MSiA Gaia = Excellent.
  

Now for the slightly longer version

MSiA Chaos Gundam

Includes: 1 x Chaos Gundam figure, 2 x beam sabers with detachable hilts, 2 x detachable Mobile Weapons Pods, 1 x beam rifle, 1 x shield, 6 x hands (2 x closed fist, 2 x open hands for holding the shield or beam sabers, 2 x beam rifle hands).

Positives: Attractive box, same style as other Destiny MSiA. Figure has nice sculpt and good paint job. Quite a lot of ABS plastic on this one, including the main body of the Mobile Weapons Pods and the MA mode head cowling. Good articulation (ver.2 knees and elbows). Well articulated waist allows the figure to bend forward (necessary for MA mode). Lots of gimmicks, such as detachable Mobile Weapons Pods which feature opening doors to show missiles and extendable beam weapon barrels. The thrusters on the Mobile Weapons pods are also articulated with a ball joint allowing you to simulate thrust vectoring. The MA head cowling also has a sliding eye sensor to reveal the beam weapon(?) underneath. Beam Saber hilts can be stored on hips. Folding claws on the feet and knees.

Negatives: Very strong (nasty) PVC smell on opening box. Shoulder sockets are not deep enough, resulting in both the left & right arms falling off several times. Balance is a big problem in MA mode. I have not been able to make the figure stand up in MA mode at all yet. Beam rifle and two of the fins on the mobile Weapons Pods suffer from gashapon disease (warping). The ABS head cowling for MA mode does not attach firmly enough and is easily knocked off. The hip sockets for the Beam Saber hilts are not secure enough, meaning it is easy for them to fall out and get lost.

Conclusion: Nice sculpt, but figure is let down by too many parts which fall off too easily and balance problems in MA mode. Definitely one to keep in MS mode, where there is no balance issues.

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Graham

Saviour is the same way. His canon thingies on his back weighs him down big time. Haven't tryed the fighter looking mode, don't really like the half ass fighter modes on gundams.

Bought mine at Frank and Sons, $13 for Blue frame $14 for Red

What's the problem N-Jammer Cancellors? I mean EA already tried to fry Plant with nukes in ep 9.

Plus, I dont think Shin's all that. I hope they dont put him on the same level as Athrun and Kira. He shouldnt even be as good as Yzak, maybe Deakka though. My hope is he gets bitch slapped the whole series.

just saw ep 9. What was all that jibrish Jibril was talking about? Sounds like he has some shady plans after they kill all the coordinators. He said something like "A beautiful garden for us Logos"? whats a logos?

Well, my Max VF-22 is almost done, needs some paneling and then I just have to put it back together. But, that'll have to wait till finals, and other projects are finished.

Here's the pic form the scan.

Eh, why the mask if he doesnt have some mean ass scarring or something? Very dissapointed . Thanks for posting it though.

Nope. They even acknowledge that Rau's genetics are messed up (the only other known clone in the SEED universe, Prayer Revarie, also suffered from similar genetic problems) and he also takes them numerous times when he they wouldn't be needed for mobile suit piloting.

Where did they mention his genetics got screwed up?

Ah finnaly some info on Prayer. Is he another Ariga clone? What's his background?

If neither the Alliance nor ZAFT knew about the existance of Newtypes then that would mean a geneticaly "normal" person could operate the Gunbarrel and DRAGOON system as long as they were gifted/skilled enough. Meaning:

A: The Alliance got lucky in unknowingly getting all Newtypes for the Mobius Zero squad that Mwu was a part of.

B: You just have to be extreemly gifted/skilled to use those weapon systems.

Mu said something about it in one of the last episodes. Not enough of some chemical starting with a "T", speeding up the aging process or some crap like that.

But there's a pic of Rau without the mask? I wanna see this, anyone have the scan?

...engaged, and then finds himself getting closer to Luna and then also having to deal with the 2nd Lacus...

I don't see much happening with Luna. With Luna, it's more of a school-girl crush. It's not every day you meet the idol/poster-boy of ZAFT's Special Forces. Fake Lacus....now there's a problem.

Hey, I think Rey's been giving Athrun some looks too.

But seriously, has there been any speculation of Rey being related to Raww in any way? He looks like he's hiding something. I'm not buying the clone speculation either. Maybe a bastard child? Raww might of been pimping it on his days off.

engagement ring!?!?!? Cagalli is dead no question about it now.

She can't die, who's gonna run Orb?

Hey does that fancy thing come with a Mu pilot too? Show the guy the some love.

Wanna buy the MSIA Advanced Freedom from seed. Gotta complete the collection. This shits really hard to find right now for some reason...

Hey, wut clients do you guys use to dl torrents? I tried torrent storm, but that wasn't that great. I hear Azureus has bugs. The default client is weak, I'm always uploading at like 25, and averaging like 12-15 speeds, and I supposedly have a 3 mb connection. I mean, jeez I should at least be up to 80.

Eh what happened to all the seeds and downloads? I'm downloading, and all of a sudden all the seeds disappear. I refresh the page on animesuki, and it also reads 0 seeds and 0 downloads when it was like 500 seeds and 1000 downloads this an hour ago.

Eh how old is Sue exactly? Because isn't Mr. Fantastic in his like 30's, 40's? Damn that guy is robbin the cradle.

Man I'm a little late but...BOOOO! BOOOOO! FOR SHAME! I can't say I wasnt surprised with how it ended though. Macross and anime in general tend to end stuff in the middle of nowhere.

I'm painting a YF-21 to make a max custom. But there's a lot of places that rub, and I wanna be able to transform the thing, not often but a couple times at least. I know clear coats not gonna be good for the parts that really rub, like the shoulder slider. So anyone know a good way to keep the paint on in those high friction areas? Thanks in advance.

This is awesome, keep up the good work.

I bought the Miria 3 pack at treasure island for $35 last week. They might of bumped it up though.

Congratulations. She's smokin, your a lucky guy.

Anything WS Anderson touches turns to crap. That's all I gotta say. I'll never forgive him for AVP, NEVER!

The fan base is hybernating until some actual news is released or something actually comes out. Like all things it's a cycle. Ups and downs. Pork and beans...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hope I'm not too late. PM sent.

All I can say is WTF? That movie was so disappointing. The special effects were cool, but that was about it.

Seed is like 50+ episodes right? So how many volumes would that be?

Well, that's too bad. I thought Pierce was the best Bond. I'm not into Connery's old school movies, and everyone in between was fugly or old as hell.