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Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! Good to hear, Kevin.

Thanks for the good news Kevin. This will be my X-mas gift to myself, From: Me, To: Me

Congrats! You might want to look into getting a Fast Pack set for your new "precious".

At sucking! What about the 1/55 MPC the best of the best For me to poop on!

Why? If you want that, just stick with the 1/60 version. If you look at the pic with the battroid's back on the first page, you will notice that the tip of the nosecone is not visible. Which only means that it had to have been removed. I prefer the look of the line art, which I think the 1/48 version will come closest to replicating. Viva Yamato!

Do you mean a hangar with catwalk and maintenance crew? I would guess only if they are painted within the box. I would just prefer a sturdier box with a beautiful painting of the GBP, but some cell art from "Miss Macross" featuring the GBP would be okay. Definately getting at least 3 sets. 1 for my nekkid 1J, 1 for the forthcoming Roy 1S and a hopeful 1 for a CF.

Finally poppin' that 1/48 cherry. Congrats! Welcome to the club, this will be my third Roy. Planning to outfit this one with some GBP armor goodness.

Cars? What about Toy Story 3?

The CF looks even better when outfitted with FPs, IMHO. Make that all 1/55s, especially Hikaru's 1A. It's my fav 1/55 that is being displayed at the moment. Although I'm getting a hankerin' to display some M&M with FPs.

Impressive, most impressive.

In Yukikaze it's bAdweiser.

BigBadToyStore.com has most of the Binals on sale for $44.99. Good time to get that BT you've been waiting for. Check it out.

For example: CF, 1D, Max 1A, Kakizaki 1A, maybe Angel Birds and some destroids, regults and fighter pods and... Well you get the idea.

Hmm, my nephew's 2nd birthday is coming up in a few months. I think I'll be getting that TF/Go-Bot for him. Since he always wants to play with my valks. Thanks for mentioning this bot, Metal_Massacre_79.

Bring on the TV version. Collect them all! Valkaholism, it's fantastic.

Hexagonal shaped things? I believe those might be screw covers. If they are indeed screw covers, you can gently pop them off with a flathead. If you could take pictures of them, that'd be awesome They were screw covers! TheLoneWolf you are the freshest. My Q-Rau is nice and sturdy now, thanks to you.

It's possible Yamato may have glued the leg together. I don't own a Q-rau, so I can't say for certain. When I was disassembling my 1/55 reissues, I had the exact same problem. I unscrewed the nosecone, but the two-halves wouldn't seperate because they were also glued together. So I just got an exacto blade and gently cut between the two halves. It worked like a charm. Thanks for the tip TheLoneWolf. I think the hexagon thingies might also be keeping the leg together. Am I the only one with a loose leg on his Q-Rau here?

Caught the Sunday matinee showing at the Village in Westwood with a friend, well worth the money. It was cool to hear the Martian war machine death ray sound effect from "War of the Worlds" in Sky Captain. I was able to catch a few nods to previous sci-fi films like the platform 327 exchange on Cloud City in ESB. It's an entertaining two hours.

So that makes Minmay 11 years old today, right?

Must have for me. It's the same size as the AMT/Ertl model kit, kinda small. Would've been even better in a slightly larger scale, with opening doors and retractable ADF pod. Oh well, any replica of "The Lady" is better than nothing. Where's my season dvd box sets Universal?

Less than 5 hours left of this great offer. Just wanna let any members know about it before it's gone, since it was on the third page.

Hey LegoManiacs! Amazon/ToysRus.com has a special offer going on until 11:59pm Oct. 2, 2004. You buy two Lego sets and you get the third FREE! Go here for the 411. I just placed my order for the UCS Snowspeeder, AT-AT, a free Millenium Falcon plus free shipping. This is a great deal, don't miss out.

This was posted today on thedigitalbits.com: In all the hype over the DVD release of Star Wars, I'm afraid to say there's a bit of bad news about the discs (or at least one of them) from a quality standpoint. We've discovered what we believe are serious audio defects on Episode IV - A New Hope. We've updated our DVD review of the set accordingly with the details as follows: [Editor's Note: since we initially wrote this review, we've detected a number of audio/mixing errors on the DVD version of A New Hope. They are as follows: 1) The familiar Force theme trumpet fanfare that used to play right after Red Leader says: "This is it!" and just as the X-wings start diving towards the Death Star's surface has been dialed back in volume so that it's almost inaudible - it's almost completely buried in the surround mix. 2) The audio quality varies wildly as Tarkin says the line: "You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system." - almost as if the master sound element was damaged. It's very distracting. 3) Possibly most critically, John Williams' entire score for the film has been flipped in the rear channels, so that what should be the left rear channel is playing from the right rear channel (and vise versa). What this means is that the rear channels don't match the front channels - instruments heard from the front right channel come from the left rear instead of the right rear. Again, this is very distracting once you notice it. These problems are certainly severe enough in our opinion to merit a repressing/exchange of the disc. We're waiting to hear back from Lucasfilm on this issue and we'll update this review with the details as soon as we do. Another disc exchange a la Back to the Future fiasco.

I believe Miria is a Taka and Max is a reissue. By the way it looks like you put the intake stickers backwards. It's supposed to pointing to the back ">".

I believe it's been reported that the Max Q-Rau will NOT come with the pilot figure. I guess we can expect another 3 piece set from CMS, with Max in his tuxedo.