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  1. anime52k8
    easiest way to trim parts cleanly is just snip them off with nippers leaving a little nub, slice the nub off carefully with a hobby knife, then rub over the surface with your fingernail. leaves a nice, clean surface with with minimal sign of the sprew ever being there with no sanding or polishing required.
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    still going through the art book. I also need to redeem all these DLC codes. kind of sort of want to keep working on my pure survival DS3 run though.
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    Even if non-newtypes and more "realistic" takes on combat are your thing, I still think 0080 is a better series overall than 8th MS team in that vein. Personally, I saw Wing, 0080, 8th MS, and G all before I saw 0079 (I may have watched 0083 before 0079 too, but I can't remember) but I'd still rank 8th MS lower than all those (except 0083). I agree 08th MS is beautifully animated and has some cool stuff going on but I just never could get that in to the story. I think it's because I just Don't like Shiro Amada as a character. Also, the ending is kind of a cheap.
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    Admitedly, Bioshock kind of sucked on the PC when it first came out (shitty DRM, weird technical glitches, screwed up FOV when using 16:9 widescreen). That said, if you're getting it free on steam with infinite, take the time to play it, that version should have all the patches that make the game run better and it's still a good game to play, IMO.
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    I think you could say that about life in general.
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    First off I don't think things were as bad as you make it out to be. First run stuff almost always sold well and at close to retail price, it was only second run items and less popular repaints that ended up being sold at discounted prices. And even those discounted prices where probably still enough for retailers to break even and even turn some profit. sure Yamato Macross toys didn't fly off shelves every time they got a shipment in and sell at 100% of MSRP every time the way bandai toys did, but retailers weren't taking on every Yamato release they stocked. Secondly, something being sold at a discount by a retailer has no direct effect on how much money Yamato made for that unit. even if a toy sat on a retailers shelf for years and had to be sold at a 90% discount Yamato would have made the same amount of money off that toy when they sold it wholesale to the retailer as they would if the thing had sold at full retail the day it arrived in retailers warehouse. Now if this happened too many times retailers would stop stocking new releases from Yamato and the company would loose money that way, but as long as retailers kept taking what Yamato put out, Yamato would keep making money.
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    Yes and no. The VF-1 line sold well enough in it's initial releases that it covered all of it's development costs, so on subsequent runs they only had to recoup the cost of materials, labor and other marginal costs to turn a profit. that meant later runs sold at the same price had a higher profit margin, but they still needed to sell the majority of the units produced in order to recoup the money they still spent manufacturing that run of toys. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_Costs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Costs
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    you have some very odd tastes in trek man.
  9. anime52k8
    but changing you name from one Leijiverse spaceship reference to another is more thematic.
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    They get through Mk 47 in this movie. that's 40 more armors for hot toys to make. Just think about the hall of armor setup that will need.
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    Personally I liked the second game a lot more than the first. I found the characters much more interesting and I cared more about what I was doing and the consequences of my actions because I was more engaged by the people I was interacting with. I also thought the overall plot complemented the themes of the first game well. Extreme objectivism versus extreme collectivism and the illusion of choice versus the consequences of choice. Also, the final act of the first game is really let down buy having a bunch of cool ideas that where executed really poorly and a lackluster boss fight that wasn't all that satisfying. The second game on the other hand manages to take those conceptually cool mechanics (i.e. becoming a big daddy and escorting a little sister) and make them work really well throughout the whole game.
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    Never finished Bioshock, never played Bioshock 2, and bought Bioshock Infinite for a free copy of XCOM... I'm sorry, but you are officially dead to me. :edit: BTW, Picking up my premium edition from gamestop... SO EXCITED!!!
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    The 1/48 version was also less limited and a lot uglier. Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention but has there been ANYTHING at all that would definitively support the assertion that they in fact went bankrupt or changed name to avoid bankruptcy?
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    How many old ladies do you know that shop at Ikea in general?
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    No, but clearly the lack of formal statement from them means that They've lost all their old molds, all of their Macross licenses and will never, ever, ever, ever, ever release another Macross related product ever again, ever.
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    seriously?
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    they're basically the same size. I used actual micro cassettes in my MP Soundwave to try out the multi-tape gimmick.
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    MP Ratbat will probebly be exlusive with MP soundblaster. They're supposed to be standard Micro-cassette size so they're in scale with Masterpiece and G1 cassettes.
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    well, they are display cases. toys, collectable and related merchandise pretty much covers everything you'd want to display in your home.
  20. anime52k8
    and she's positively adorable too (haven't played the game yet, been watching walkthroughs. need to get this at some point).
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    Saying that you're too embarrassed to watch or discuss a show with people you know in real life because one of the characters has big boobs speaks more negatively of you and your maturity level than it does of the show.
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    3rd party beatbox and sqawktalk? WAT? http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/3rd-party-unlicensed-41/cst-03-cts-04-boxbomber-unofficial-beastbox-squawktalk-cassettes-177124/
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    they're a US retailer so they have to buy stock through wholesale distributors. Typically that means it'll take longer to get stuff in, and sometimes if there's a shortage of stock in japan they're more likely to get shafted. metal Build gundams aren't nearly as limited as DX Valks though, so it'll probably be ok. Also, BBTS doesn't charge on pre-orders until they have the item in stock, and there's no consequence for canceling pre-orders with them.
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    I think the scale and proportions make a lot more sense if you base your model/measurements on official line art and better proportioned models like the Hasagawa kits or a Yamato 1/60 V.2 and not an old chunky monkey.
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    the red Klan VF-25S was from one of the PS3 video games (I forget which, might have been the one that came with the frontier movie?). the master file has one that's grey with pink and white stripes, a big blue swatch on top half of the forward fusulage that fallows the shape of the dorsal hump, and has the pixie squadron insignia on the back plate. I prefer this one to the red klan 25S. (I like both the colors and the head better). There's also an earlier pixey squardon that's similar to the master file version that first showed up in an issue of model graphix. I like the color on this version the most but I'd need it to have the color matched armor parts:
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