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  1. Chewie
    There are a bunch of pictures of the characters over on Comingsoon.net that just went up. Possible spoilers I think. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=117066#/slide/1
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    Mine was 30,578 total shipped. I'm happy with that.
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    I want it.
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    They reversed that change awhile ago. They DID drop it at one point though and aliens was being thrown around.
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    This one was one of my favorites as a kid.
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    They're planning for once a year, right? Makes it a little more manageable.
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    With $1,500 you could buy a "low end" Asus RoG G750, a decent sized SSD to throw in it and still have a nice dinner. Then just go to http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/ and "fix" Windows 8. Pretty much the best $5 I've ever spent. =) EDIT: I see you were already looking at the 750. You can't go wrong with it.
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    I think the important part looked over here is where the tech comes from. Current technology and fuel sources? There's a reason we don't have anything remotely practical for a giant robot, let alone a transforming fighter. Drop in a spaceship full of tech to reverse engineer, a possible threat of 50 foot tall aliens and most of that goes out the window. The logistics of such a thing would, hopefully, go out the window too. That said, I think the right type of dog could be trained to do anything.
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    1. YF-19 2. YF-30 3. VF-5000
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    I bought a GTX 780 and haven't looked back. /grumblesomethingabouttheTIcomingout20daysafterheboughtit Still pissed about my POS motherboard but Christmas will be rectifying that soon. Yay Asus ROG. Was [] close to buying a 4930k but it sold out before I could. It would have been super overkill but for the price it was, it was certainly warranted. Kind of adding to the tv thing, I have a no frills Samsung plasma and it plays everything beautifully. I have some issues with light, but closing the blinds instantly fixes it. I've never noticed a thing playing my 360 on it. I even tried out PC BF3 set to ultra on it and had more issue with 60 inches just being too much to take in all at once. Nothing with ghosting.
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    Ruining? It's gorgeous.
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    Canceled and reordered. Thanks for the heads up.
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    It's so pretty..... Not available for preorder yet, right?
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    Thank you sir. =)
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    I've only ordered from HLJ once and it was a $8 wristband. Will an item like this get hit with a customs fee?
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    I owned the original blue 1/72 for about a month. The only valk I own now is a V1 Yamato VF-1J. I preordered from HLJ. This is my favorite Valkyrie and I am excited. =)
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    Wonder what something like that would ultimately cost and if it became something they'd have to license, would it even be allowed for sale in the US?
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    Side Scrolling Awesome Action of Awesome with MISSILES!
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    That is beautiful and amazing.
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    Been in a Star Wars mood lately.
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    Dunno how I feel about this color scheme. Linkin Park exclusive Soundwave designed by Joe Hahn. http://store.suru-la.com/products/linkin-park-soundwave
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    While I shouldn't have had to, I bought and installed Start 8 from Stardock and haven't looked back to Windows 7 at all. 8 is delightfully fast and lean and once MS releases 8.1, hopefully after a bit more polishing, there will be very few things to hold people back from moving into it.....except their 15 year old XP machines that "do everything I want it to, just make it go faster please." As for Chromecast, I think its biggest problem is people who saw "$35 steaming dongle thing" and had no idea what the hell it was, but knew they HAD to get one. My store was sold until last Thursday and we were STILL getting returns on them because people thought they would just take them home, plug them in and they would magically just stream the things they wanted. The amount of returns we took because they needed a power source....it hurt my head. It's a great device if you can control it though,(lol) and I think the implications of what it can do for $35 will force a lot of TV manufacturers to rethink "smart" TVs in the very near future. That extra $400 for a TV that has wifi, a browser and Netflix capabilities just became prohibitively too expensive compared.
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    DX Chogokin Super VF-27

    Chewie replied to IXTL's topic in Toys

    These websites are also catering to someone buying one type of item. While I am sure there are a certain amount of added sales to those sites during the release of a certain item, I seriously doubt it's enough to sway them to not implement a queue system if it became necessary. It in fact could be turned on only for certain items. There's no loss from someone just perusing who happens to add said item to their cart and it removes itself. "Please be aware Mr. and Mrs. customer, this item you have just added to your cart comes with a specified time frame in which it can be purchased before being released" or some such nonsense. It's not like people are just happening across these ultra rare and hard to get items either. "Oh, this looks cool, let me cart this for a few days to think about it." Odds of that on specific release days are slim to none. As a procurement manager, you would set a list, check it within a specified amount of time and check sales VS that. You have 9,465 units left out of 10,000 that are using the system 1 week in. You turn it off. No harm, and no lost sales. The prices of some of these items alone (simply referring to Macross) would prohibit spur of the moment buys for a lot of people. Even then, using Blizzard as an example again, their store sells regular "every day" items. Things that are certainly nowhere near ultra rare or coveted anymore, but when they sell Blizzcon tickets, the very same store has added features for that specific item. Sure, Blizzard is a poor example because they have unlimited people to throw at this stuff, but it's also not rocket science or expensive to have a website designed in such a way. You don't need an IT team of 400 people to add a timer to a checkout process. Traffic for those sites also plays a major factor in the first come, first checked out game. You click checkout after entering your CC information at almost the same exact time I do. You win because the page times out for me but lets you through or vice versa. The queue systems help alleviate some of that problem. I agree that 1 click checkout would be awesome, and being registered for the website you're using ahead of time is also good. I just think it wouldn't be some ultra stretch to use a system like that.
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    DX Chogokin Super VF-27

    Chewie replied to IXTL's topic in Toys

    All they would have to do is what a lot of movie theaters and high demand ticket sites do: A real time checkout timer. Gives you 3-5 minutes after putting something in your cart to checkout. If you don't enter all your info in that time, you lose out. You're also put back into a queue depending on how high demand the item is. Blizzard does this for Blizzcon tickets. It was done for Star Wars Celebration VI tickets.
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    tl;dr version: The license is about to expire?
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