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as for the topic in hand, this vf25-v2 is quite an improvement over the v1. for the simple fact of no more viagra-needing headlasers!

uhh, dude. you're just really making stuff up now with that bolded part. how could you even dare say with a straight face that anybody here picked the MPC over the yammie-v1??? i don't even remember you here in this forum back when the yamato-v1 was introduced and all of us bought it and made the 1/55's over-inflated cost and value dropped like a lead balloon faster than speedy gonzales. not even sure why you're even mentioning the 1/48 since it's not even the same scale and released far after the yammie-v1. don't we have some timeline stuff here in the forum?

just saw this: http://www.hlj.com/s...;header=macsale1011 ends 11-17-11 6pm, it says...

Very nice! Never seen any TM-HOTAS paired up with a laptop until your pics. I would get a 24"/27" monitor for it. To play Mechwarrior-games. Still, definitely would be awesome if AC supports that setup.

possibly that and well, the (general lack of) QC on the Milia-22 could be another reason.

oh, that is nice! never got the original wally's (gotten Skywarp, tho) so i'm gonna totally stake this out better when wally's or amazon gets the US version. don't really care about the cape and crown, tho.

MP-11 "Ster Scream" at 10400y preorder-pricing at http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT42286

latest, with a couple of preorders: http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/japanese-transformers-40/mp-11-masterpiece-coronation-starscream-official-and-up-for-pre-order-173605/ wonder if Hasbro will do a US-version. hoping the scalpers don't ruin the supply yet again.

ah, i see. that would be a really interesting statistic if Graham can somehow finagle it from yammie-toys just how much us gaijins represent in terms of purchasing-stats. also, just how much exactly does Yammie-Toys market/advertise/availability wrt their macross-toys over there in japan? can't be just that they're all concentrated in akihabara only, right?

i like it! but i'm priced out.

uhh, maybe the fact that not everybody has money to willingly spare/spend on it given the crappy exchange-rate is more like it. not everyone's rich nor want to go and stay in credit-card hell forever. personally, i'm still hoping the VF-11B goes on a really good sale. like US$100 shipped. in the meantime, i rather get me an Onkyo-509/609 with my remaining funds instead...

aside from the springs, this thing's pretty much all-plastic. no diecast, afaict. ratchety and clickety, tho. which is damn kewl! did the orange japanese-edition have any diecast? anyway, more pics!

aha! behold! Chaos Bringer! i haz it now! and is really damn huge! pretty kewl spiffy plastic-packaging, actually. $59.99 from amzn a few weeks ago...

hey now! he did have his G1-voice when he uttered Prime's name in the 0.5secs alloted vocal-time he had. that's about it, tho. ; and, oh yeah. the nearest Target and Wally's over here are just overflowing with Generations Kup now. still no Wreck-Gar or Warpath, tho.

well, if he did it like the way Vash the Stampede did, maybe he'll be alot more likable and stuff. LOVE AND PEACE!

Well, you know, there are several proper ways to use a term besides it's dictionary-meaning. It might actually even have different meaning based on context, usage and stuff. Like, you know, the term "kappa". or "Otaku". or whatever else japanese-terms that have multiple meanings and usage and stuff... "Definitive purpose" meaning "no other options left". "Pacify" fits only Basara, but not the other Macross-pilots. So the term fails for comparison's sake. Maybe if we're comparing Basara with the Macross-babes instead, it'll have a better chance for usage. If it's the only viable option left, then yes it's a kamikaze. If there are actually other viable and available options left, then no. Definitely not a kamikaze. It'll just be a lazy usage of the kamikaze-term. That's fine with me.

you are willfully not reading the other part of my post? here's the pertinent section again: That should be clear enough for the usage of the term "kamikaze". It's not that I dislike Basara at all. I think I mentioned that I actually like him better than Alto I'm just giving you some rebuttal for the "heroic" aspect of the other Macross-pilots to contrast with what you posted about them to compare to Basara.

Try to read my post above you to hopefully make sense of what I was trying to convey to you.

I think you're just hung up on some dictionary-meaning. Read the listing again. The "kamikaze" death-dive and such refers to the last desperate no-other-options attack available to those Macross-pilots. Whether to rescue the lead-girl or destroy the enemy or both. That is quite clear on the listings I've made. Maybe you overlooked it? In contrast, Basara always have other available options. Yet, he decides not to use them every time and he just stupidly charge in the middle of the battles. That is just not heroic and I just cannot consider that a "kamikaze" something in the context similar to what the other macross-heroes did. The theme Renato opined was that those other Macross-pilots didn't do anything heroic more than Basara. I listed some of the stuff I remember as a rebuttal. Maybe you both consider Basara interjecting himself as a peacenik in the middle of a raging battle to sing a song as "heroic". I just don't. Especially in contrast to what the other Macross-pilots did do. Is that clear enough for you?

go do some of your own research, then. that said, maybe you should provide some rebuttal on the heroic listings I'd made and/or try to paint Basara as a heroic figure instead?

:sigh: not all kamikaze pilots died in ww2, you know...

No. Like I said, you do not know what you're talking about.

are you that dense to be aware or know of the context in how I used it in my listing of the heroic acts?

with a definitive purpose...

I do not think you know what you're talking about.