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Philips players are very easy to make region-free like most china-brand players, but it is still a low-end player. May or may not be enough for you. If you want a higher-end dvd-player that's easy to make region-free, get the Oppo brand. A little pricey (avg of $170 and above), but it is one (if not the) best dvd-player right now.

I'm not sure where you got that idea, but Japanese R2-discs do require and enforce region-coding.

I was gonna post in the Total Bugs thread, but it'll just get lost since it already got too many pages on it and that thread is much suited to bug-discovery. So I'm starting the Macross F DEBUG-version!!! A thread where we can post the animation-corrections found in the dvd and/or bd versions. To start off, here's the infamous arm/no-arm shot of the VF-25 in ep2: tv/broadcast-version (prolly upscaled): R2J dvd (native-res/unscaled) version: R2J dvd (xineplayer-scaled) version: dvd time-stamp scene: 00:06:40 unfortunately, I'm not collecting the BD-version anymore, so somebody else has to post the much larger BD-version of this and other snapshots. at any rate, I highly encourage and totally appreciate other MW-members who are also collecting to the dvd/bd of Macross-F to join this snapshot-orgy.

for those interested... pic of the vol-2 of the R2J-dvd stuff (dvd/case/sms-pins): sample-pages of the liner-note: no scanner, so just camera-shots. oh, and i ain't gettin the BD-versions anymore, so somebody else will have to show you what stuff they got in the BD-release of vol-2 and beyond.

yeah. how much is the shipping/handling-cost to the US from HK-sellers for the yammies? from the few times I saw hk-sellers on ebay, the valk-price itself is sweetly low but the shipping/handling to the US is quite astronomically expensive, making HLJ and BBTS seems like bargain-stores in comparison.

that looks like a really malnourished 1/100 VF-25F, g-man.

oh noes! crooked crossbones! nice writeup, mang. obtw, anybody seen it locally (US), yet? read a post from kevin (VE) somewhere that the US-release has been delayed or something by Toynami for some reason.

hmmm, something ain't lining up right with that pic. Long shot, but could it be that the . Or it could be Weirdness.

found PowerGlide today at the local wally's. He actually ain't all that bad. Ugly bot-mode, but still not that bad: his plane-mode was pretty good, tho his Gatling messes up his front ground-clearance: alongside Classics Skyfire: His gimmick of electronic lights and sounds (including the classic Transformers sound effect) was ok enough. Oh, btw, the Transforming-sound effect is not activated by that obvious orange-button. It is triggered by another button somewhere.

lol! if things continues the way i'm seeing it, Sheryl will pull a Minmay/Mao combo, while Ranka will pull a Myung/Sara combo.

hey, uhh, you guys remember... ...in Zero, Shin was gonna . ain't it a little bit similar to what Alto is thinking of doing to Ranka if desperation happens? Isamu did it to Sharon, too, you know. In Plus, that is. just sayin...

too sleepy to do it properly, but here's a quickie battroid-shot: DYRL-pose!!!

the 1/60v2 doing some classic FP A-stance fer y'all:

++ NO on fighters. that would be so meh. however... definite YES YES YES YES YES YES on Q-Raus (TV/DYRL), Destroids, Nousjadeul-Gers (TV/DYRL/PLUS), Regults, and Glaugs!!!

more shots! how 'bout some FAST-packed super-1A: oh HAI thar! i iz Jetfire from the other show! i wanna join teh partay, too! time to park 'em on the shelf for the nite. Prime and Hikky on perpetual guard-duty, it seems. :

alrighty, then! pls do bear in mind that my old 1/48 Hikky-1A is still somehow retaining it's ghetto-lined (#2 pencils ftw!) self so it kinda stands out a bit from the shots, while the 1/60 has yet to find any pencil near it. so... enjoy!

oh, HAI! not sure if somebody already posted this, but cover-pic of vol-4 (dvd/bd): http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/images/...61958&s=dvd rejoice, Klan^2-fans!

well, i just got my Super-Hikky 1A today, so pix against the old 1/60... and juz coz the original 1/60 did not come with a pilot nor a FAST-Pack...

welp! Unfortunately, since HLJ has just opened up the pre-order for the Hikky-1A-FP for August-release, I will have to drop my preorders for the Chunky Max and Hikky 1A-FPs. Hope you guys don't clean out the Bandai-inventory so I can still buy both in the near future, tho.

uhh, obtw, guys... the Hikky-1A and the Tomahawk are now up for preordering at HLJ: Hikky-1A w/ FP : http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00086 Hikky-1A : http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00094 Tomahawk: http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00093

not sure if this was posted, yet, but here's the pics of the upcoming Macross Zero blu-ray stuff: http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/images/...s=dvd&img=2

shots of gunpod (non-extended) in battroid-mode:

shots of extended gunpod in battroid-mode: guess it attaches fine and doesn't fall off on mine. edit: couldn't add more pix.

valk fp-mode gunpod-clearance (check reflections of tires and gunpod to determine how low the clearance is): here's another shot using shadows instead:

It does look nice against the Yammie Roy-v2.0, ain't it? Got it a few years ago for like either $10 or $20 at software-etc or gamestop when Mechwarrior Dark Ages came out. It used to be made by Joyride. Don't think they make 'em at all anymore. It's about 8" tall, but I'm not sure if it's a 1/60.