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You're reading too much into it. According to 9th Wonder, she's a hottie with an un-glamourous ability. According to NBC she's an illusive hero. I rewatched last weeks ep. Can't believe I missed this line: "I believe in fate, karma and I'm not just saying that because you're Indian, Mohinder." For whatever reason, I find it funny. They definitely have to kill Sylar off this season. According to the promo pics, Sylar gets to see the map and the list on Mohinder's computer. With his memory, that means unless a whole lot of people are going to die, or else he has to die. Secondly, I think Claire will die at some point in this season. Just a feeling. I'm excited! A Peter vs Sylar faceoff! vinnie

I like Naruto. It's got a nice message and a relatively interesting plot, but by all that is holy AVOID the fillers. Seriously, it detracted so much from the series that I think they would have been better off not making the fillers. vinnie

This is how a superhero franchise should be done! Powerful, compelling. I hope it stays this awesome for its five season run! How can you not feel for all of the characters??? This is way better than "Lost" was at its best. I just rewatched it again, and damn it hits hard still. When Claire's hugging HRG and the music swells up and then the choirs' hum chimes in... powerful! HRG rules! Matt finally redeems himself as a character. I glad they finally went somewhere with him. It took a long time in the building, but for such a climax, it was worth it! Too many storylines that are running along. I wonder what the Niki, DL, and Micah storyline climax will be like??? You know there's got to be one. They just took care of the Peter one, this was HRG and Claire. That leaves them and Hiro as the remaining resolution. I'm going to hate the end of the season and waiting for season 2! vinnie

Holy crap that was an awesome episode! I teared up at the end. That was an awesome performance! The music was perfect. The question is where does it go from here??? This is the best episode yet! And we got a look at the organization. Does Sulu know about Hiro??? What will happen when Hiro finds out? vinnie

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Lol, damn, Graham's everywhere! It's spot him in the crowd. vinnie

If this is going to be out by the summer, I think you can kiss a Toynami Tread good-bye. First of all, this tread looks awesome compared to the Toynami one. Secondly, its going into production already so the market share for Toynami is going to be smaller. If Toynami is still trying to gauge interest... well this would pretty much guarantee that there won't be enough interest. Just my opinions. BTW I do like the overall look of both the tread and legioss. It is indeed more anthromorphic than Toynami's version. vinnie

You're trying too hard. Thou doth protest too much. vinnie

Did Peter ever meet Eden? In "Collisions", Peter goes to meet Mohinder. I can't remember if Eden was present or not. On top of it Eden was the next door neighbor. How close does he have to be to absorb people's powers? Reason I asked is because when Peter uses his TK to push Isaac back, his voice changed. I didn't know if that was to reflect Eden's powers or not. Who's more powerful? Peter or Sylar? The answer should be Peter since as soon as he meets Sylar, he'll have all of Sylar's abilities, but Sylar won't have any of his. On top of it, Peter's got TK, healing, invisibility, mind reading and time manipulation. Sylar's screwed. He's only got TK, cyrogenesis, eidetic memory, cyrogenesis, super hearing, and tactile molecular manipulation. It's going to be pretty hard for Sylar to take Peter down with only TK and cyrogenesis being ranged offensive powers. Peter might go bad for a whiles, but not permanently. There's no reason why Future Hiro would collaborate with him if he was truly bad forever. Can't wait for next week to see the Bennet showdown! vinnie

You're absolutely right. The graphics isn't good. It's downright hideous. The fact that the CG renders are not even as good as the amateur renders done by many MW members (go check them out for yourself) speaks to the amount of effort they put into the movie. Story? Funny, I thought stories have a plot. That would include some premise, a climax, and a denouement. What was the premise again? The Haydonites are the children of the shadow and they are out to get everybody I guess would be the premise. The climax I guess would be the blowing up of the space station. But wait how does the two resolve each other? They don't. in fact they really have nothing to do with each other because at the end of the movies, the Haydonites are still out there and they are still out to get everybody. That's right, there's no denouement. Generic character designs with overly muscular men, and gargantuan breast women. And then they go and cheat by only animating their mouths to simulate speech and save on cost. M0 had a crappy story. SC has no story. I don't know what's worse? M0 had characters that look and move naturally. SC had automatrons. M0 wins. M0 had innovative mechanical designs. SC had rehashes of 20+ year old designs. M0 wins. M0 had awesome battle sequences. SC has bland battle sequences but more of them proportionately. M0 wins because I'll take quality over quantity any day. The bottom line, both are bad, but compared to SC M0 is golden. If all you want to see is old beloved mechanical designs in action again and lots of action, but no story, SC is for you. Not necessarily unenjoyable for what it is, but lackluster for what it strives to be. vinnie

As someone mentioned, it's the shoulders. I don't want that will break. Fact of the matter is I am plenty pleased with all the Yammies I own right now. Well worth their cost. vinnie

I agree with the "if you're not happy with Yamato, don't buy their toys" bit. I haven't bought their toys in years... I only recently bought 2 new 1/48 VF-1's. These are far from the first generation Hikaru I had that I wasn't too pleased with for minor details. I was going to buy the VF-0A, but decided not to since the problems have not been addressed from the VF-0S. You DON'T have to buy every first release. I never do! But in the end I still get nice toys that do not have QC or design issues and usually for much less than original releases. It's the "I've got to own it right NOW " and the "I've got to own EVERY version" mentality that is the cause of so much grief. And you know what? If people stop buying first releases, I guarantee you'll see an increase in QC as well as a lowering of the prices. vinnie

Not according to the latest graphi novel. vinnie

For a guy who can hear others thoughts, Matt sure is a schmuck! I think it would be cool if Matt realizes what a loser he is and sprials down the dark path such that Season 2 is him as the major villain. Because seriously, he's the least interesting character on the series. He hasn't grown since day 1! White guy shows up at my door. "Hi, I'm Mohinder Suresh." "You don't look Indian to me." Slams door on his face. Seriously was it me or did anyone not find that really funny? That's like this one time a white dude stole my credit card and used it. It had the little photo of me in the corner as a security measure. He signed my name. I don't know how he could have gotten away with it when he obviously looks nothing Asian like, and sure as hell wouldn't have my very non-Western name. Lastly, I'm wondering if Peter is able to keep other's abilities because he met Sylar? After all that IS Sylar's ability. He just incorporates them into him reflexively. Ultimately, the problem with this is Peter is going to be the damn most powerful person in the show. Sylar is already pretty damn powerful (which he needs to be as a villain). vinnie

I got one of the original 1/48 VF-1A Hikaru's when it first came out and I assure you after being displayed all this time it is the same shade as my brand new VF-1S I just got. My 1/60 VF-1A Hikaru on the other hand show some yellowing. And my Toynami 1/55 VF-1 Dixon is majorly yellow (kind of funny since I just read one Toynami lover saying that Yammie lovers' claim that Toynami uses cheap plastic is unfounded). vinnie

I think it is a testament to how crappy the animation in Shadow Chronicles is when the toy looks 10 times better. They really should have just used the toy and done stop motion. vinnie

Dude, you need to get yourself a real woman. vinnie

Wow, I just saw Shadow Chronicles. A few comments: I feel asleep the first time I watched it. It was really boring. It's like all action and no plot... In other words your typical Hollywood fare. Unlike Hollywood, the action sequences suck. No eye candy here. Alex Romero should get his eyes checked... he keeps having this tic like thing going on with his eyes. Actually its his entire face later on. A poor attempt at facial gesticulation. and oddly the only character to have any facial gesticulation. Vince Grant is really stupid. If I didn't know better, I'd almost say that its playing off a certain social stereotype, but that would be so last century. Claudia was always protrayed as being highly competent. Vince: "Helmsman, follow Dr. Nichols calculations to the letter." Nichols: "Actually there aren't any letters, they're all numbers." After an explosive rocking of the ship. Vince: "What was that?" Nichols: "It appears we are under attack." While interviewing Bernard. Intercom: "Sir, we've lost communications with Space Station Liberty." Reinhardt: "Dammit!" Vince: "I guess the interrogation is over." After being teleport by Ariel to the bridge. Vince: "Does she do that a lot?" The dialogue is horrendous. The voice acting is overly melodramatic. They are trying too hard. The animation is laughable. Most of the time, the character is completely motionless except for their mouths moving to simulate speech. I was looking forward to the musical score, but while certainly not bad, I don't think its all that memorable either. No better or worse than any musical score from you typical action blockbuster movie. The vehicles look like papercraft. Seriously. They should have just ask Kin to finish his and then they can use it as miniature models and save on all the CG. Also the movement of the vehicles are too... perfect. There's no sense of realism in them. The only reason the last battle sequence is even exciting is that even though the vehicles do very little, the camera pans all over the place to yield a sense of action. Over all a "Meh" experience. I've certainly seen worst movies. But not many. The only reason to watch this is to see some beloved vehicle designs in action again. vinnie PS: Holy crap! You guys weren't kidding when you said EVERY single female character had huge tits. It was disturbing after a while... Too much of a good thing! Ariel had hers hanging out of barely large enough... uh cups... for the latter half.

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I'm not sure what you are referring to... the hook is attach but the backplate trap door won't stick the the back plate itself. the trap door and the backpack are flopping backwards. Also the forward missle section of the boosters don't seem to stay together very well... Thanks for the fast response! vinnie

Just got my first FP kit and I put it on the Roy, but it seems the backpack isn't strong enough to hold up the boosters in battroid mode, even with the backpack hook. But everyone else I see seems to have no problem. Anything I can do to make it not flop back? vinnie

Hey, those are the size of my ex's before she had a reduction. Lost 1 lb in each. She had all sorts of back and balance problems. After reduction she was still a DD. vinnie

Heh, out of morbid curiosity I went over to RT.com. The amount of praise flowing on there is amazing. Grown men crying for the awesomness that is RT:TSC! Looking at it, I'm sure there is a certain degree of spin control going on. vinnie

Hey, watch it! Tommy says SC has OVA-quality animation and HG says it's award winning. How could they possibly be wrong? vinnie

I don't think so, they are just a convenient way to show the two aspects of Niki interacting with each other. Niki and Jessica interchange with or without reflective surfaces before. vinnie