Apollo Leader

Hasbro made the deal with Bandai/et al (Tatsunoko or Big West?). Hasbro lost the rights to depict Jetfire/Skyfire as a VF-1 many years ago and that is why Harmony Gold is able to put out their "serious" VF-1 MPC toys out on the market without worrying about legal retribution from Hasbro.

Paypal has sent e-mails out warning about this kind of fraud before. Just like one should never give credit card info to someone asking for it over the phone (if you are not making a purchase or reservation), NEVER respond to these kind of e-mails asking for you to input banking and other personal information!

Hopefully Tony won't die and won't be crippled, but obviously Tony being injured in the field when Chase could have been there will probably come into play in future episodes. This was one heck of a roller coaster ride so far this season and there are 21 episodes left!

So far I've watched the first two episodes off of Cartoon Network. So far it looks okay.

I saw a commercial for this DVD set in which I saw Arnold in an Army or Air Force uniform wearing a berret (I saw only a split second of this). My guess is that the original endoskeleton designs where based around a real officer... who just happened to look like Arnold.

I've just downloaded all these commercials... awesome! Glad I have a cable modem! Thanks for having these up for downloading, Shawn.

It's been a week since the last time I played the game, but the last time I was, I was playing the hell out of P-01 and was at the point where I was consistently getting an A score (haven't gotten an S yet). Everything whether it be your damage, time remaining, targets hit, accuracy, otherwise saying EVERYTHING seems to add up.

Since I know exactly what else is on the show, I will post some additional pictures I took of some of the other hot projects (like the R/C X-30 and the 9 motor cluster known as "The Beast") tomorrow (about to catch some z's ). For those who missed it or want to see it again, the 3 episodes will reair twice this Thursday evening starting at 7:00, this Saturday starting at 11:00, and finally at 4:00 on Saturday the 22nd. The times I listed are CST.

If you can't get a copy on tape, I'll see what I can do.

Okay, did anybody watch it? I saw myself quite a few times throughout all three episodes usually in 1 to 3 second bits. Unfortunately, they didn't use the brief interview they taped of me out at the pads for the "From the Ground Up" Contest. For those who missed it, check the beginning of this thread or check my sig for the additional reair dates.

Almost forgot, but here is what 316 Estes D motors look like.

Since it was underpowered, Maxie D's timer didn't deploy it's chutes until it was about to hit the ground.

Just have time to post one more. Not sure if this will be on, but Larry Drake of our group tried to beat his old cluster record of successfully lighting 269 A10's back in 1997. In this case, he tried to do 316 Estes D11's... unfortunately, only about 140 of them lit.

Post flight (left to right) - Frank Uroda (founder and president of Public Missiles Limited - PML was a spnosor for this project), Greg Rothman (Greg and everyone else on this list belongs to THOR), Bruce Lee, Kevin Rich, Devin Rich, Deb Trojanowski, and Kevin Trojanowski.

Liftoff! Powered by 3 AeroTech J260 hybrids, Stumpy got to about 790 feet before it buckled.

Stumpy - World's tallest model rocket - over 52 feet tall!

Post flight. Even with the motors still under a little bit of power, Our Stinkin' Rocket was too baddly damaged. It might fly again next year!

... this is going to hurt!

...with bot chutes opened, Stinkin' hardly got over a 100 feet up...

Liftoff! Unfortunately, the two parachutes have already deployed...

The show will start in an hour and a half, but I will go ahead and give a sneak preview of some of what you will see. First of all, here is "Our Stinkin' Rocket:. As can be seen, it is an actual Porta Potty! This thing was powered by two AeroTech M1419's. From left to right: Bruce Lee (who is president of THOR and is treasurer of Tripoli Rocketry Association - no Bruce Lee jokes, please ), unknown, Ky Michaelson (owner of Rocketman Enterprises), Jodi Michaelson (Ky's wife), Tony Cochran (fellow THOR member), and unknown.

Since this thread's back up, I noticed that Gamestop now has Encounters in Space moved up to early December. As for EIS getting a one star rating in OPM, EIS did average a 6.5 out of 10 in Game Informer magazine. Since I can now play Japanese PS2 games, the temptation to get AEUG vs. Titans is growing. Ditto for Gihren's Greed.

On the old Takatokus, they had no detachable heat shield. Maybe the cockpit was molded red to give the illusion that it has a red heat shield, kind of like how Takatoku tinted the canopy of Roy's VF-1S very dark and then painted the skull and crossbones on top all for the purpose of making it appear that the toy had a heat shield.

The good news about this game is that it stands a chance of a US release... Nintendo Power has had it listed for a US release for a while now. Can't get enough of the One Year War.

Domo! I'm about to hit the sack (just got back from seeing Matrix Rev.), but tomorrow I'll be posting more pictures.