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there is actually still a large range. Collector sites have them priced according to what they are worth for some but to expensive for others. As always it comes up to ... "something is worth whatever some-one else is willing to pay." I know that a MIB bandai seeker is easily worth $500+, I also know that while I might trade that much in value, I would never actually spend near that much for one. The market does fluctuate though. I personally normally just search on ebays completed items to see what they average, as I know worst case scenario that is how much I could get for it as a seller. Obviously I don't factor the stupid sellers who put a MIB sdf-1 for BIN or less than $40 Many people however, myself included, are willing to pay more to fellow members than ebay [some refuse to deal with ebay alltogether to avoid the head-aches] as it seems better comunication happens hear than ebay. Then again quite often people sell for less here than they might get on ebay to not have to deal with ebay fees and annoying buyers plus they know that the stuff will go to a good home. I have actually benifited greatly from the "I want it to go to a good home and don't want to deal withh ebay nonsense" greatly... just look at my trade post As I got hooked up I try to spread the good karma around and hook up fellow members before trying to make room by selling on ebay. That and I prefer trading to selling as cool stuff is cool stuff and money is just money.... an attitude which might be why I'm broke all the time I might add a aproximate value page to my website eventually, but I just know it would be hopelessly out of date all the time. That and there is much more usefull stuff to add first that I have yet to get to. Here's a big tip for you though... If the seller is telling you what it's worth... get a second opinion just in case... Or if you want, I can sell you a original ulta rare transformable macress figure for only $100

do fletchette guns exist? I remember the old thing from "three days of the condor" where an individual used bullets of ice stored cold till just before use that left no trace but water... I remember, and I'm probably not the only one, the air gun injectors they used for giving large groups of military personel shoots and vacines... How about frozen slivers of narcotics propelled fast enough to penetrate skin and render the target immobile or what-ever depending on the chemical composition of the fletchette. I assume with all the scary ass stuff our military has it might be out there some-where?

Let me know if you find two ps... airsoft makes paint balls that fire from their guns... so it pretty much is paintball with realistic weapons. I just love paint grenades

Damn... I knew none of this and had a mac... Granted... it was aquired from some-one leaving the country for a while a whole lot cheaper than that... and sold back at a tidy profit a year later. I think I ponyed up for ammo twice during the year... "yippie... look at me... I just spent $50 shooting a cans, trees, and dirt". Might be a good weapon for crowd control in close quarters... but lord knows you'd be toast against anyone with a rifle who could shoot. So I can only assume that my friends shouldn't be modifying firing pins on non-chinese made AK's? should I also assume that I shouldn't put "modified sound supressors" in my trade post I've seen some home made guns... and I don't mean saturday night specials either. Amazing what can be accomplished with a proper machine shop.... anybody here dabbled? nobody's answered my question about a 380 colt that looks just like a PPK?

exo-squad 7" mecha is worth the same as original loose [aproximately] and much less boxed. The 3" mecha [ie 1/144 scale] exo-squad is no-where near as good of quality as the original takatoku/bandai which had die-cast. If you are serious about the diorama thing... check out my trade post and follow the army builders link in it...

robotech... macross... As long as the toys produced are cool I really couldn't care. We all know HG sucks not so much for it's toys but for it's non-competitive business practices. This is fact. Hopefully when the alpha MPC is released and HG wants to export it to places of great demand they might lossen the choke hold on valk import to the states. I don't understand why such flaming starts in a thread about toys. As far as I'm concerned the toys have less to do with the cartoon representations than the skill of the manufacturer. as for the r head... I recieved a super posable in the mail the other day I got dirt cheap and had to admit that the head wasn't that bad. It kinda made me think of something I had planned for a custom using spawn bits. I hate to say it but I probably would pick up a custom 1/55 yf head to use on a jetfire . I will say purist crossed a line with the bonehead's comment. Saying both are bad 80's anime is one thing... making a personal attack against people who have different beliefs and value systems is how wars and religions get started.

Jet fire is kinda the bastard son of valks. blasphemer every super box but two, which hold my o' and a valk with o' armor, have jetfires in them. Kinda sad that with all those boxes I don't have a single super with armor... good thing i'm married cause I sure wouldn't want to bring a strange girl back to a bedroom with this much crap

I wonder if there's some loophole somewhere... Has to be someway of getting one short of breaking the law... canada is soooo the easiest US border to get stuff across... just don't tell them whats in the bag under the severed head A gun that got my curiosty is one a co-worker mentioned he might sell. It's a colt 380 that looks just like a walter PPK... anybody have a clue about such a thing? Oh yeah... here is a pic of part of one wall in my house Behind the freaky fan sculpture you can see the 'poon

That doesn't sound like a bad initiation compared to some southern ones... "squel like a pig, boy!" Is it worse than an over-packed muzzle loader?

bunch of gun loving nutcases I'm ex-navy so I got to shoot a 22 pistol in boot camp once Anybody still active mil? Anybody still active mil work near planes? The reason I ask is I need another one of the "remove before flight" ribbons that attach to the landing gear pins. 5 feet long with please. I don't need the pin itself... just the ribbon. In fact... if somebody has any desire for pins from an 18... Don't ask why unless you can help me out That said, I have played with just a few firearms... some of them even legal to own in this country. I know myself and try to stay away from fire-arms as I would likely end up shooting my x-box or some other inanimate object that pisses me off. As such, things like heavily modified ak-47's end up with friends who have use for them... not that I don't enjoy going through a few thousand rounds every once in a while. Kinda sad the gun that goes with my silver bullets is not in my house-hold. Explosives are a different matter as I actually have a use for them. Searching local streams for shark teeth and assorted fossils it occured to me one day that there had to be a faster way to erode stream banks to get to the nifty fossils I just knew were a few feet down than using a shovel for hours. Amazing how much earth a properly placed charge can move . I have a few friends who are bad influences on my already warped being that showed me how useful a shrapnel charge over a shell bed can be when fishing... just make sure the fibreglass boat isn't near it when it goes off else it's a wet ride home bailing as fast as you can. favorite gun... as in one I would actually spend money aquiring... Navy colt revolver with swapable chambers. Who didn't love the eastwood spaggeti westerns? I belive bsu legato knows the gun I'm refering to. favorite fantasy gun... cerebral bore from turok .... tell me that wouldn't be fun as hell in a shopping mall a holy handgrenade could be cool though p-38 space modulator? Then there are the sharp pointy things... I like bathlets but I don't consider them, or anything else I have dropped on my foot, fantasy. I have a side business selling pointies and I am in the habit of only stocking stuff I don't mind getting stuck with . The business made a whopping $68 last year but I managed to add a lot to my "demo" collection and a few from there have made the next step into my personal collection [ie not for sale]. From paki steel to chinese stainless to toledo steel that I sell to masonic swords from the 1800's, swords that have survived blade on blade contact, and assorted other cool pointies that I collect... my place has to much crap in it. Just another of my osessions . I mention stuff periodically in my trade post, but have been pretty bad about taking pics as that involves cleaning all the crap off my table. So anyways... I get to play with a variety on non-gunpowder related weapons and trained much when I was younger. In my personal collection things that I love... Ninja to 39 1/2" inches long with a 24 1/2" blade and 14" handle. My personal sword... The one that flows in my hand and has survived blade on blade with a much heavier full tang katana with only a few tiny nicks in it's stainless full tang sharpened by dremmel. the sword I would take into battle and will carry on my back should armageddon ever come. The Origin is unknown as it was bought years ago from a strange man who got it who knows where. The sword the cops gave back to me [loooong story ] Its is light enough for me to happily have a normal handle ninja to with a slightly bent handle in my left hand as a "shield". All I can say is it dances. I highly recomend a full tang katana, though mine has bigger nicks in the blade than the ninja to despite being the heavier of the two by far and also being stainless. Mayhaps it had to do with the edge angle or something? The katana can definately hack up some stuff when well made with a nice edge. my harpoon... "don't make me poon you!" "car 14... please respond to a possible harpooning??" The fun you can have . It was also a gift... I know strange people 26" with 17" blade full tang to style. Basically a honed piece of steel with a tanto like edge and a wrapped handle that I find ideal for yard work and walking through swamps where critters lurk. Bo staff. Again... a well made one is impressive. The weapon I spent the most time training with and my personal one can, and has, go through a car door and break concrete. the klingon blade on the right of the photo... spend a couple hundred hours using any blade clearing swamp land and you develop a feel for it, this one for worked well at kudzu removal for me throwing cards are fun I'm having my one double zatochi extended to 5' so I can use it as a staff proper... though they are fun the way they are too. my 5 foot ribbon like keychain. it's friggin evil and can break cinder blocks. My want list... I really want a nice rapier. The french were a world power for a reason, right frenchy? Lord knows how many french survived an arm slash while an opponent with a poked spleen died a slow death. "whats a spleen? I don't know but it ozes green when you poke it with a pointy... let me show you" lol . I had a damn nice one but a friend wanted it more than me and was better with it. chinese "hook" swords [pair] I just sooo want to play with them. a titanium bo staff another harpoon... never know when you might need two My wife works at bear so I really should be stocking up on some bows... mayhaps a crossbow for christmas

20+... I don't want to count them or dig through piles... lets just say I have 20 boxed Somebody has two green joons?!? Don't people check the wanted section off the top of my head... 1 leg clip away from completing my 8th jefire, 3 clips away from completing the 9th. joons patriot x2, space fighter, max and milla a number of re-issues a few originals recast seeker, ostrich x2, gbp-1s, and strike armor... with two extra strike cannons and a bunch of other resin parts. Thats not counting my customs, as they won't fit in a box, nor the half dozen partials all missing at least a few parts I can't swap around to make a whole one . I call them potential customs once I start recasting bits I need for myself I might try to get a real collection going. oh yeah... anyone who doesn't like their chunky monkeys can fell free to trade with me as I just can't seem to get enough

Infected mushroom anybody??? Bo diddly grew on me after I spent enough time selling him connectors and him giving out stuff.

might as well see if somebody is willing to pay for shipping on the boxes before you throw them away.

My pattern is buy the toy, take it out and play with it, trade the boxes to kanata67. Yup... lots of stuff boxed, some even MIB, but only a yammie 21 non F/P MISB just because I ended up with a second and saw no reason to open it. I was the first person outside of the factory to touch my bandai 1/100 die-cast 1a, but as the boxes weren't factory sealed...

and I thought I was bad being able to say that about 1993 then again... the state of my wardrobe might explain why people keep giving me clothes

I follow the pattern of get something cool without box cheap then spend lots of time tracking a box down for it so my cats don't eat it I prefer boxed but less than 1% of my collection is sealed/unopened... not counting my spawn stuff which would disintegrate if exposed to air I find it easy enough to remove something from box when I want to and put it back when done, and boxes stack better than loose toys. I also find that my hippie coworkes and friends are more likely to grab/drop loose stuff lying around than stacked boxes. Oh yeah... anybody who doesn't want their boxes can always send them to me as a birthday gift

I can't help but think a lot of rush fans would beat you to death for saying such a thing Then again... I was mad impressed with the primus cover of floyd's "have a cigar" had to laugh at how many people diferentiate between old metalica and the "new and improved" metallica And dejr8bud met testament... I always wondered how much meeting bands meant to people and influenced their listening. If I had a bottle of tequila for every time I passed out on a couch surrounded by musicians... One of my best friends used to harras manson back when he worked at the mall food court. I laugh at him now as he went the REM style band at the time without much success and manson got signed across the street geeze... lets think about bands I've gotten smashed with... I mother earth final decent fury in the slaughterhouse sponge toadies thursday's child the greatful dead [i didn't know I had an in till the girl I was seeing asked if I wanted to see her uncle "phil" play in tampa] ... more that I forget as I used to party to hard... Kinda funny when you get better treatment than the hot groupies just cause you have the drugs they want

Hey all. Just wondering if anybody [over 18] still asks for toys for x-mas and their birthday? I learned a long time ago not to ask my wife for toys as she never manages to get the right one . She knows I want a seeker but lord knows I would be unwrapping a yammie and not a bandai tonight if that was what I asked for 4 my birthday. In fact, I can only think of two people who have given me toys I actually wanted in the past 5 years... one was the fellow who got me into spawn and the other has more spawn than me. I asked my mom for spawn for x-mas a few years back and I get he-man... WTF Do you guys get cool stuff that you want or do you find it easier to buy toys for yourself and get services like dentist appointments or lap dances for gift giving occasions? if on the odd chance I actually get something cool today, I'll let you guys know.

I just try to get my wife not to break my toys I gave up on trying to get her to watch anime, or cartoons in general, a long time ago. How I could fall in love with some-one who says "the colors give me a headache" about fritz the cat is still a mystery to me . She doesn't even like disney stuff , much less invader zim .

listen to the bends. its their best CD. Yup, The Bends is their best album. Less experiment and more substance. I listen to a select few of a wide range. I'm too lazy to change my CD changer, currently it has CD1: Sinatra, Martin, Bobby Darin, Tony Bennet, etc CD2: REM CD3: Weezer CD4: Joy Division CD5: Trashcan Sinatras SD6: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Elton John, CCR, Eagles, Clapton, etc CD7: Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Marychain, Mazzy Star, etc CD8: Ash CD9: Beck CD10: Yo La Tengo/Dump CD11: Gomez CD12: Stone Roses The compilations are burned CDs... My tastes are varied with the only pre-requisite being able to identify with the artists vision. I'm kind of dark myself so favs, as in I listen to them 75% of the time are... NIN +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Linkin park I am to lazy to change my cd player as well. Heck... I'm to lazy to move stuff around so I can hook up my third hundred disc changer For obvious reasons I won't do a list like exo . rather than struggle to remember what all I listen to... here is a list of my computers directory of music albums I ripped personally from my cd collection as I like supporting the artists and don't download. I also like to make mixed cds and tapes for work and it's soooo much easier if everything is in one easily accessed place. Keep in mind this is only the directory of artists as if I included albums I would get yelled at for excessive posting... I have over 20 NIN albums . A few compilations/soundtracks are hiding in here as well as occasionally stuff goes in the wrong folder. The only reason you get this is I still remember "dir > list.txt" Directory of G:\My Documents\music_mp3s\My Music jen IAN POOLEY Xorcist Utah Saints Trainspotting tool They might be giants Soundgarden Techno the Tea Party Transmission System of a Down Smashing pumpkins Rollins Band Queensrych rennassance REM Rolling Stones Psychefunkapus Primus NIN Praga Khan Pearl Jam Nirvana Local H mind numbing hardcore Ministry Lords of Acid Dr.Octagon Killer Techno La Funky Jesus Jones Gravity Kills Giuseppe_Verdi Electronic Deep Forest Crystal method Angels_Chorale Captain Beyond Cake Bush Bob Dylan Carl_Cox Big Black Altern 8 311 Alice in Chains LinkinPark Garbage C_C_R lenny kravitz Disturbed Faze Action AKIRA Hendrix Limp Bizkut Lit Fuel NickleBack Puddle of Mudd Social Distortion X marks the pedwalk Mike and the Mechanics DJ G Malign dead or alive tori amos simon and garfunkle suicidal tendancies alanis morissette beatles the bob marley danzig Dead can dance eagles flotsam and jetsam fury in the slaughterhouse greenday jackyl Jamiroquai Janis Joplin jesus and mary chain K L F Living Coulor oasis pink floyd PM Dawn poe Renegade soundwave AEROSMITH u2 teenage fanclub cranberries the depeche mode firehose metallica mother love bone neds atomic dustbin siouxsie and the banshees type o negative longpigs Lost Highway Soundtrack Luscious Jackson mammas and papas Mazzy Star no doubt romeo and julliet Soundtrack silver chair veruca salt white zombie possum dixon Quicksand blur chemlab clutch collective soul counting crows cracker die rache der schonen dog on cd electric hellfire club Enya everclear Forrest Gump Soundtrack guns n roses jewel Killer Instinct Gus Gus marilyn manson megadeath 99x mr bungle pantera R H Chilly Peppers rage against the machine rush Skinny Puppy slim shady spore sugar ray DJ RAVEN toadies woodstock94 alex gopher Dimitri from Paris Hawke Peace Orchestra Pepe Deluxe Q-Burns Abstract Message TANTRUM Thievery Corporation Unkle cartoon covers Mixmag snatch alpha pepper Batman_beyond marcy playground ambient systems 2 back to mine bauhaus beck best of house music bt ima creed dj culture dj kicks dj shadow doors the dope on plastic duran duran electronic trip hop abstraktions everything but the girl feed your head frosty funki porcini gavin kardkiss idjut boys janes addiction john cougar journeys by dj jdj kid loco kid rock led zepplin leggo beast little wing love and rockets akotcha misia moss murk P O D police the robbie hardkiss steely dan sundays the tantric tetris trik turner ultraman up bustle and out The Killing Had Begun Velvet Acid Christ LEaTHER STRIP Front Line Assembly Leanard Cohen My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Freaks Holy Wood Drawback OhGr Project Pitchfork Snog The Cure stromkern temple of the dog adny the pursuader bad brains benny goodman bjork blondie and pat benatar body and soul cafe del mar chill in chillout 2001 coldcut and the guilty party david bowie dc and sneak derrick carter dj brad smith plus spice dj fluid dj food dj icey dub reggae E Nomine electric blue electro lounge enigma funk master flex future sounds of london garden of eden grace heavyweight duo hooverphonic instinct ambient itaal shur presents milk and honey jackson 5 janet jackson jdj journeys by dj mark farina my house in montmartre nicola conte orb phat global plastikman pure abstrakt sade scott hardkiss presents god within stan gertz bossa nova stoned stryke system soundbar adny the modern sound of ubiquity love from the sun the theory of evolution tom petty tricky turbo studios ultramarine united djs of america united state of ambiance urban dance squad way out west willie and lobo coil blame makurosu for starting this topic

Loved the seizure mode or the gakken alpha... good example of why pilots and drugs don't mix LOL those destroid jean http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=11483 ... People pay money for stuff like that??? MSRP $435?!?! My work jeans look like that after a couple of weeks if I'm not careful... perhaps I should try selling them Heck... my jeans look cooler, though I can never seem to get rid of the chlorine aroma how is a robotech jacket Punk??? Geek maybe... but punk? well... I guess if the image was of fokker's mangled corpse... but it isn't sd toys at what they are worth... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...86&category=348 signal light??? WTF??? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=16467 soe people shouldn't try and transform things... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...9&category=4694 Helmet??? looks like a bioroid head to me http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=16467 UNCANNY x-men sure... UNCANNY embryo?!?!? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...49&category=747 anyone want an ATAC? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=16514 and this is robotech how??? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=49018 selling a banpesto as a taka replica??? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=19198 anybody mind giving head? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=16467 why do people always get the scale of these wrong???http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3149158927&category=16467 It's printed on the friggin box can we say crack head boys and girls... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=36568 I knew you could wish this pic would load for me... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...92&category=748 is it worth it? thats it for relavent stuff... at least for now

A few words I see come up during my browsing I have no clue about... GODAIKIN ??? CHOGOKIN ??? POPY ??? VOTOM(s) ??? Are they name brands, series, or what???

points for effort I would recommend getting one MicronianDevil, not that I'm bias or anything Yeah... they are an ambiguous scale... yeah... they lack detail... yeah... they have a misproportioned cockpit... They are still the biggest marauder I have found so far I bet one of the robecrap I-men valks would fit... as if anybody around here would waste money on such a piece of... oh yeah... I'll post a pic of that later

not that off topic.. as the bandai's 17 and 19 lack of metal and detail were the reason I gave yammie a try in the first place. Boy am I happy I did. Get a fire valk bootleg and you won't notice the difference between it and the bandai... As for the 17... If you have to have it... get it. I was less than impressed myself. oh yeah... welcome

Makes me wish the 19a and original 21 were packaged in fighter mode ... That would definately be ideal in my world. Do the original's fit in the FP boxes?