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Full Metal Panic i want me a 1/6 or what ever would match a 1/48 valk toy of the ARX-7 arbelest. =D

They need David Hayater to do some voice work for this movie and kurt russel to do a cameo for this snake extravaganza to truely be comeplete and a cardboard box. that is all.

1/60 Yamato YF-19.... omg... is this real?..... and it'll look good in all three modes.... My wallet and the wallets of macross fans all over cry out in pain and joy of this great news.

That song is not in the glorious single for good reason, Its actually the A.C.E 1 opening song. its called "garnet moon" or something like that.

As for the DS being the Ds's codename, it wasnt, the Ds's code name was nitro, beleve it or not. you can see remnants of the code names for nintendo hardware in the hardware model number for the system in question, atleast the first generation of said hardware. take for example the gamecube, the hardware model numbers for all GC models begin with DOL(DOL for dolphin), the first DS's hardware model is NTR-001(Ds lite is difffrent, i think it starts with DSL instead of NTR). etherway, Wii while a strange name for marketing, represents the only console im really intrested in right now, I will however rent/borrow a Ps3 for MGS4 only. E3 this year should be very intresting.

ok, i think i remember posting something simlar when avp reared its ugly head. it is very very very simple to make a good avp movie if the following formula is followed. Space marines + Aliens + Predators + poo blowing up = kick ass movie. come on fox execs, its simple math here, its not even the new math, just read the above formula, and dont poo on your fanbase... -.- sad to see fox make the impossible possible, and pen a worse crapfest than than avp1, this script review makes avp look like oscar material.

Personally im all for a new macross series, but aside from the m3 game, theres nothing really fleshed out between the end of SW1 and macross plus, a story set in that time line with sexy vf-4 action, and stuff would be awesome. theres tons of stuff that can be explored, mecha to see animated(varible glaug anyone?). now as much as i like gundam, in its various milkings i dont want to see macross go down that path, however another macross tv series would be a damn fine thing to see, and it would give yamato another excuse to take our wallets by making toys from said series.

1/48 (VF-1J) x 1 1/72 (VF-19A) x 1 Sucks to be a poor college student. i wants me a vf-1s damnit.

Now while i dont rip video's for use on portable platforms, i know a little bit about encoding, pretty much any question can be awnsered at www.doom9.org. listed on the site are various guides for ripping dvd's to diffrent codecs/formats. and the download section has all kinds of nifty programs and stuff to do it.and the good thing is, the techniques can be applied to anything encoding related. as for .mkv's remember there a container format like .avi, only more versitle. So you can take the contents of the .mkv and convert them to .avi(the codecs will be the same, and its relitively simple/easy to do if you use virtual dub mod) The only difficult thing you'll face is having to encode the subtitles directly to the video. And the psp uses quicktime mpeg-4 specificly? i thought it used just straght standerd mpeg-4 with aac audio? not quicktime specificly.

wtf its a dvd 18(dual sided, dual layer) i didnt think they made those anymore, last one i remember was one of t2 realises. ether way i think im gonna pick this one up

Id say he has considerable infulence at konami, considering he has his own production studio within konami(Kojima productions, its logo is a modified foxhound logo.)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEE. hideo must be rolling around in his cardboard box because of this. hopefully its a rumor.

also remember a resperator is a must when airbrushing!. the lungs and atomised paint particles dont get along to well over time. You can find a good resporator that gets the job done at the home depot for roughly $30.

I have that brush(from the ebay auction)(well 2 of those brushes) and a dual action brush + that very same compressor. The single action doesnt look like much, but airbrush city useually has them on sale for $15. and they work well for priming kits and as a general single action airbrush. ive liked mine so far. i just wish i had more time to paint. the compressor is good, but use thew direct hook up hose, instead of the extension for better air pressure.

Is it me, or is the zeta v2 box slightly reminicant of the strike pose in the seed intro? Otherwise, damn, i want one of those badly. and for the PG RX-78-2 earlier in the thread... damn i hope when i get around to doing mine, it comes out half as good.

Hikaru in the dub clip = bad. almost tony oliver bad. Hearing Mari as minmei in english is werid, but her english is suprisingly very good so i have to give the thumbs up to that.

I myself watched the raw a few weeks ago. the first hour was WAY way too rushed(they could have cut out the lila part, and have been good to go). but the earth stuff in the last 30 mins was good. the asshimar actually looks good now, and i wouldnt mind a MG of it. for the bad, the new charicter animation,and new animation in general is VERY jarring compaired to the zeta tv footage. The Mecha look awesome, especally the MkII and Char's pimp ride, the hyaku shiki. But the transition to old and new, is just well werid. that also being said the animation for zeta tv holds up better than i expected it to. Amuro and katsu's hijack of the plane was great. but i wish now looking back, it would explain a little bit more in depth why amuro lost his fighting sprit(other than the fact he killed Lala sun). at the end of the MSG movies, he seemed rather ok so to speak, but in zeta as we see(less so in the movie,as it goes from frau talking to amuro to him and katsu jacking the plane) he has kind of lost his edge. also hopefully amuro doesnt get as jipped this time in the mecha department than in the tv series, a apparence by the Zeta plus would be nice. That being said i am highly looking forward to movies 2 and 3. I wish they would have totally redone the animation for the movies from the ground up, it would make for a less jaring and better flowing experience, but otherwise tomino's definately still got the touch. it'll be intresting to see how the psycho gundam turns out in Movie 2.

Nice, nice results. still need to get my airbrushing skills up before i tackle my PG RX-78-2. the clear parts look kind werid, but still cool, and the added weapons are spiffy. kinda sucks how the 78, only comes with beam rifle,shield and 2 beam sabers.

"rick" wasnt that bad in the dub, the problem comes from us being enlightened by his hory froatingness's original work. Hikaru, was much more ,lets just say confident, as evidenced by episode 1 of macross with him flying into south ataria and fokker giving him poo for it. Atleast inititally in the series. And come to think of it Hikaru strikes me as the most "normal" charicter in all of macross. But then again the viewer is supposed to somewhat identify with what hikaru is going through, throughout macross. Fokker and max tho, were the most changed. Roy went from Our favorite badass womanizing drunken skull leader, that gave hikaru sh!t, yet guided him along the way, kinda you would expect a real "big brother" to do. to a cookie cutter Gi joe esque, not so drunken womanizing skull leader, but still retained just a wee bit of the badassedness Skull leader. Infact Roy's death in Roboattech was almost completely out of charicter for "roboattech Roy" now that i think about it. Max on the otherhand, went from badass womanizing space pilot, to whimpy no balls leonardo. totally diffrent charicters when compariing roboatech to macross. and i think this is something ADV should seriously look at when dubbing macross. Its very important for them to forget the roboatech charicterisations in order to do macross properly(if you call dubs that). What makes Macross great, other than the VF-1 are its charicters, and they should attempt to get the performances to atleast be like the original charicters. I wont be doing the double dipping thing myself(the animeigo dvds are good enough), but i would like to pick up atleast one of the disks to hear mari doing Minmei in english, just for the sheer weridness factor that alone makes this project quite intresting. Lets hope it brings more macross fans into the fold.

actually that wont happen thank god, reportedly according to several interviews with Hideo kojima, if there ever is going to be a MG movie, kojima himself would have to be the director, otherwise they wont option out the rights. But then again money hats seem to be all the rage these days.. Mgs directed by Uwe boll...... *shudders and hides in his cardboard box*

I think the below summarises hollywoods feelings on remaking films. Hollywood Exec: We have won again. That is good! But what is best in life? George Lucas: The open steppe, Money, merchandising, copyrights! Hollywood Exec: Wrong! Paul WS Anderson, what is best in life? Paul Ws Anderson: To remake movies, see the audiences driven before them, and to hear the lamentation of the Fanboys! Hollywood Exec: That is good. The Moral of the story is as others pointed out earlier in the thread, is why remake something that isnt Broken? Prediator, Conan, terminator many of these great 80's flicks we treasure are perfect the way they are. Hell preditor isnt that old, yet it stands the test of time perfectly. Films dont need to have Cg or be X-TREME, over "modernize" themselves to be good films. Bottom line, hollywood needs to settledown on the remakes, possiblities of remakes, and such, and mabie try to make some new good films, with worthwhile stories. then mabie people might want to go to the theatures again. But untill people stop eating up this remake and bastardification of franchises(see AVP for example)stuff, then hollywood will contiune to put out the same stuff, milk the cow, then pop out another sequil again. Sadly the video game indestry has caught the sequlitis bug as of late. but thats a whole other debate. I really hope this remake doesnt happen, it would be spoiling a perfectly good film (some would argue predator 2 did that already, but i digress). I guess thats all i have to say on the subject.

I managed to go to the stupid ign live event today, which for the most part was LAME, i feel sorry for anyone who paid to go(friend of mine had free tickets from his work) However the one shineing light in this puddle of crap was the nintendo ds kiosk, and mario kart DS. My impressions? Mario kart DS is simply awesome in cartridge form, it plays like a cross between Mario kart 64 and SMK, plus the frame rate is silky smooth, drifting is a breeze. unfortunately the demo kiosk did not have the online part of it. but what i played i liked much. Mario Kart DS is essentially what Mk Double dash should have been. Nintendo you are well on your way to stealing my money once more.

Cool sounds like there trying to revitalize the bond franchice, good, it needs it. Now lets hope and pray they dont give the bond charicter a unneeded change, and make him a non womanizing, just doing his job bond. keep the womanizing, Martini-sipping, bad ass charicter of bond, that we all know and love(mainly from connery's version of 007) and not make him a modern politically correct metro sissy boy. Bond is ment to be a bad ass womanazing ass kicking spy, as our favorite drunken skull leader Roy fokker in SDF macross is supposed to be a bad ass womanizing drunken pilot. no room for sissified, New age "everything is right in the world" charicters that seem to be the norm these days. Moral of the story: dont make sissified charicters for the sake of political correctness, it offends more than it helps. and its bad for todays kids. i guess thats all for my sermon of the day.

I Must haveeeee ittttt MY PREEEECCCCIOUSSS!.=D all in all, its looking damn good, i see no real faults with the perportioning or anything, at this stage it looks even better than our beloved 1/48 VF-1. But if possible, i would love to see yamato give the 0S perfect grade style hands(Chicken hands or not), i want indevisual jointed fingers so my 0S can flip off all my other toys. and please can we get an SV-51 to go along side with this.

Well in the case of certin games, namely square games, the eternal spu is recomended over the standerd epsxe spu. it also has some fixes for MGS and a few other games. and overall it works pretty damn well. as for epsxe graphics plugins, the 3d plugins work great for the majority of the games, but for 2d games, like the aforementioned castlevania:SOTN then petes software plugin is best.