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xerxes was an interesting guy, actually. but what are you gonna do with a guy who think's hes a god and is trying to take over the world.

mr smithers: "that's when he crossed over from regular villany and into cartoonish super villany."

i wonder how much of a physical suit we'll actually see. Hell, I wonder how much of a physical suit is even POSSIBLE!

I don't see why you coudln't dress up an actor in a metallic looking body suit for the iron man costume. Problem is, how hard would it have been to make a spidey costume and how many of his scenes were cg?

too many. that's how many.

rainbow vader is SUPER, thanks for asking!

as a moment of clarity, perhaps a glorified nazi helmeted super soldier bathed in the "red white and blue" isn't really the best image for a United States Postal Service stamp.

Which is excellent! However if they attempt to pull a Halo suit for the newer suit it gets instant-fail.

what do you mean exactly? i'm really hoping they do a live action suit/animatronic.

use the jolly rogers paint layout with a low saturation pink in place of the grey, and a teal or turqoise for the black. Round it off with a bright pink heart for the emblem and name them the "Dainty Ladies"

Lace and stockings for the wings and legs are optional but encouraged.

Thanks for the suggestion! I KNEW the name sounded familiar, those are the guys I usually see at nekocon with good deals!(bought a bandai VF-1A hikaru from them 5 years ago for $45)

VF-1A? 1/48?? what??

the X-wing fighter was pretty much the only thing or person to survive lucas's "reimaginations" of the original trillogy and the prequils with out being made into a blithering wussy.

Seriously i've lost all respect for Vader; all of the mystery around boba fett is ruined; Yoda is lost to bizzare character inconsistency; han shoots first and is a patsy now; Jedi's turned out to be a bunch of incompetent nit-wits; storm troopers are clone troopers and aparently are all jango fetts... the list goes on.

Pretty much Lando Calrisian (sp) and X-wing fighters are the only thing to remain cool in the starwars universe.

when the thundercats were young, they wore no clothes and were missing all genitals. episode 1 was a confusing time for thunder-fans.

I've always loved blue with white trim, but since max already did that, i'll have to go with something else..

I'm liking the light grey with read trim.. though that smacks of a "hot topic" squadron.

I might try the CF pattern, with a light tan in place of the white, and a rich green color in place of the brown

dude that's hot.

is anyone going for a second 300 viewing?

Chicks will definitely not be into it, just so the rest of you guys know! "300" is definitely a guy's movie.

I just wanted to say I saw this movie on Friday with my husband and I LOVED!!! it. It was funny in parts and violent in others I loved everything about it. I was reading thru and saw alot of guys say chicks wont dig ....It think your wrong. Theres probably more out there than you think who will enjoy this movie.

i can name 300 very obvious reasons a woman might like this movie, not to mention the fact it's neat looking, relatively smart and interesting and VIOLENT. what's not for woman to like?

Um...I think Kaiyodo got too clever this time. Had they put the spear with the wing version, it is just a simple move for Eva nuts to buy 9 of the same.

I am not sure if I want to do that now, knowing I will not be crazy enough to get 18 Eva-05 just to creat the final scene...ah well, I guess Kaiyodo might have shot themselve in the toe this time...

for serious, ALL i want is the wings and big dual bladed thing, i could give a "poo" about throwing knives, weird swords and even the Lance of Longinus. I had a space all set up at work for my unit 02 to square off with 9 landing MP's.

I guess 02 will have to make due fighting her team mates.

*** see my next post ***

All the revoltech evas seem to have the same accesories as the old kaiyodos.

If so , i'm guessing the winged EVA05s will have only the big lance, wings and sets of hands.

The unwinged variant will have no wings, hands, the lance, damaged heads, damaged hands, two tri-blades, and a buncha throwing knives.

that is exactly the mix i was not hoping for. i may not be buying any now

while i'm not against banning nude images on this board, the idea that doing so will somehow stop any paticular 13yearold from seeing porn during his stay on the internet is laughable.

tonight we dine in heck! http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=22520

Errr, no it isn't. It has nothing to do with the phalanx being simplistic - it has to do with how flexible the legions were in comparison. See Warmaker's post. The Romans proved it themselves when they took over Macedonia/Greece.

I think the "real" inflexibility was trying new tactics.

The phalanx was a powerful way to wage some war on some guys directly in front of you. but it's not good for everything, and it seems like the greeks tried to use it for every little battle they could.

Yeah the phalanx itself was sort of not flexible, but thats not why the greeks started loosing. They'd done so well for so long with their phalanx's that they probably figured they didn't need to come up with new stratagies.

iirc the romans themselves used phalanx tactics when the battle called for it, but they were themselves flexible and didn't rely on it as their sole tactic.

I'm netflixing a documentary called The Spartans . I'll let you know how it is.

You know, I was thinking. I really like how this movie is bringing up a facination with the actual history behind the event. Not just here, most people I know who've seen this are inthralled by the story and very hungry for the "actual events."

I think this is the best possible responce to a "historical event" movie and the team behind it should be proud.

Also I'm fairly proud of the general public for seeming to understand the somewhat complex relationship this movie has with real life: it's a real event, told in a fantastic way, yet retaining the general idea of what happend... most moive makers would be very happy to just confuse the audience in order to sell their stuff. I'm glad this film has stirred up a desire to "get the real story"

Very cool.

even as a complete non-fan of Ghost in the Shell, i gotta say those are some pretty damn rad looking figures.. (the spider bot and girl inside)

I always have thought those spiderbots were a oddly utilitarian design. very cool.

Well, I knew most of that already - but thanks. The tidbit about the elephants was interesting.

i didn't think that was boring at all. I love the story about "if" i'd just read that the other day, pure gold.

Someone on joecustoms, or was it goodtogo customized one of these as a what if batman beyond bat armor, it actually works for that I think, very sweet. Now we need revoltech to make a Q-Rau, Nos-Ger, Reguld, Glaug, rouge zent armor, etc...

link?

man, when is the white eva coming out? i'd like to know when the final versions of it are announced so i can make plans as to how to buy them. I soooo hope they don't make two versions.

if the rhino hadn't been felled to a javalen toss, could a spartan.. or any phalanx stand up to a charging rhino?

Seems maybe they could, but they might want to try and deflect it rather than absorb the brunt force of it. it's questionable wether the whole phalanx had the dexterity to adapt to a charge like that though.

Yeah its really sad how some people and even governments can take movies too far, even though those events depicted happened thousands of years ago. Its time to move on and enjoy movies wither they are fact or fiction.

I think a lot of those countries don't understand our free press too. Iran probably thinks that because a movie is made in the US it must be propaganda made by the US.

Sorry, its just the views of a comicbook nerd named miller with a tendancy towards 13 yearold-kid fantasies of violence and women.

In reality xerxes was actually a pretty interesting guy. He had a similar policey that the Romans had, where they would overtake a culture relativly peacefully, allow them to retain their beleifs and social structure, and they became a part of his empire.

If Iran were smart they'd just say "persia was a crazy place a few thousand years ago" and move on. It'd be like the US getting bent out of shape if someone made a movie about gnomes , dragons and trolls fighting in the civil war and mentioned "the u.s. had slaves". It's just make beleive and especially in this case, not even trying to be realistic.

Even if the movie was trying to be historical, the "Persian Empire" covered what like 2/3 of the known world, it's pretty arrogant for modern day Iran to think they can speak for the representation of all the peoples shown in the film. It'd be like Germany saying "hey, don't talk about neandertals like that, those are our forefathers."

Seriously, choose your battles.

i'm starting to see why so many people go as storm troopers. It's excellent protection from pastey white nerd flesh.