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What I really want is for Prometheus to show us more of his Zone collection Anybody else got Victory, Zone and Masterforce toys? I only have the reissue God Ginrai, but generally am becoming more and more fond of everything G1. It's interesting how things come around... I was never a G1 purist; I'm still not since I love Beast Wars - but it's wierd...I hit 30 in feburary and suddenly it's like - only G1 Transformers interest me... Mildly interested in Henkei... but mainly it's G1 ... how...wierd... Well - G1 and BW Neo/II... But I never had any of the Zone, Masterforce or Victory figures. Not the Japanese originals at least - and I'm actually thinking about starting to collect them Pete

When they are in the protoculture city, we see them kiss after their "pretend diner." Scene fades to black. Next scene we have rumbling and Hikaru checking out the commotion (it's the Macross coming). At this point, Misa comes outisde - and we see her zipping up her jacket. It seems pretty obvious to me that they slept together that night. This in turn was very helpful for Hikaru when confronting both girls later - helpful in chosing Misa (who put out) over Minmei (who kept teasing but refused to go to the motel with him when on their date) The date that Hikaru was sure - I think - would land Minmei in bed with him per Roy's advise about being aggressive with a girl. Turns out if the girl loves you (Misa) you don't have to do anything except BE there to get her to sleep with you. Pete

That Ranka puts Sheryl at a MAJOR MAJOR advantage .... And what's with the stars? Why? That makes no sense Keeping bra on. Pete

So the moral of the story is that if you didn't know how to read Spanish, you wouldn't have worried so much? Pete

Will probably see it with girlfriend + step daughter. I end up seeing EVERY film like this because it's a family film - perfect for all three of us to see together. Looked at and watched in those settings; it's hard to be too harshly critical of Shrek III and the like because you're just there to have fun with the wife and kids. and eat nachos. at least I eat nachos instead of pop corn. I love nachos at the movies. Pete

Because that Gundam tank is worth two times more? Pete

I would just like to announce that while re-watching Episode 1 last night, I noted that towards the end, when Boota makes his way out of Yoko's wonderful breasts, Kamina wonders out loud: "I wonder which tastes better?" I never noticed this before. I bow before Kamina-Sama Pete

Not exactly a "pose" - but a nice comparisson shot. I like how the VF-25F looks inconspicuous with the other Valkyrie from Yamato. This is important- it shouldn't stick out like a sore thumb because the design aesthetic is within the realm of the same thing... anyways - me likey: Me also likey how easy it is to transform, and how sturdy all the parts are; the die-cast metal is really really well used. There are some annoying things, of course - I don't like opening the cockpit, and not even because of glued-to-his-chair Alto, but because of those two stubs on the sids of the cockpit which just scream "toy!" I also am mildly annoyed by the gazilion hands needing to be swapped... The legs "not" being flush...well - actually it's not that bad. You have to massage him a little - besides, look at the legs on the VF-1 or even the YF-19 - are they as flush as...say...a Hasegawa model? No. It's not a big deal. In any event - all my Yammies have their minor pet peeves - so demanding that the DX be perfect is kind of pointless too. And dag - I love those die cast metal shoulders Pete

Has anybody gotten the Brain-Wave reading Force Use Teaching tool that allows you to use the Force to lift up balls? Does that thing actually work? The concep is amazing Pete

I'm sure she was drugged and forced to do the photo shoot against her will. That or some one took pity on Demolisher and tried to find some function in life for him that WOULDN'T make him immediately noticable as a POS Pete

Yeah; it does kind of look "too perfect" - but then that's how it looked in the anime - at least in the first couple of episodes ... Pete

If you're into tanks - no need to depart the realm of anime for the real world when Bandai has put this Gundam tank out: Pete

Someo f those deviant art guys really like their tight spandex As for Misa-as-mother... did she braid her hair up....or cut it? Either way - it looks bad. I hope she didn't cut it. If she braided it up - she's got to get the cock (or whatever it's called) to be more visible - or just do up a pony tail... I dunno... although she is still cute. I do like the face - very SDFM TV. Hikaru STILL hasn't lost the hair do - amazing. That hair do survives everything - global war, armagedon, nuclear holocaust... and now even family life! Pete

Interesting way of looking at Christmas. I must adopt this view this year! As for Misa giving off a fcuk off vibe - yes - but that doesn't mean she doesn't have to be beautiful. My girlfriend TOTALLY gives off this vibe - heck; I still feel it five years into your relationship. I get a text message "come visit! I miss you!" and I arrive and have the feeling she hates me, blames me for every bad thing that happened, and wants to push me out of a fifth story window... But it's just the kind of vibe she gives off. Also, she is known at work as cruel and heartless - which to me is shocking because she really is very caring and tender and I'm always telling her "just fire the person" as the solution to whatever problem from work she brings up and she'd be like "but they have a family and a kid and bla bla bla" ... Yet she still gets all the flack... And she's 41 So it all fits. This is why I love Misa - the character is such a perfect perfect fit. Getting a guy's attention and keeping it are - however - two different things. Misa gets guys attention and then opens her mouth and they guys flee in panic. My girlfriend is pretty much the same. I didn't run because I'm a sucker for punishment...and because I pretended not to understand Polish and would talk really fast english to her which threw her off track But I don't have long blue hair and I'm not attracted to girls like Milia. This might be true - good theory. It's kind of a variation of Sheryl finding someone who isn't intimidated by her idol stature... and is still able to talk down to her like a normal guy. Hikaru also has this ability... yeah - that would work. That would also make Alto/Sheryl and Hikaru/Misa far more similar than I had originally considered Pete

Ah yes. That episode. I'm sure I tried to forget that on purpose... Well - that would be really strange for Minmey to sleep with Hikaru but Hikaru still chooses Demon Woman who never once slept with him and only gave him grief... But then again -maybe Minmey sleeps with everybody, while just one kiss from Misa is very romantic and enough to melt a guy's heart? Also - since we're on this subject... Bri explained very well why Hikaru loved Misa - but why did Misa fall in love with Hikaru? If anything, I would have expected her to fall for a guy like Global? The only thing that comes to mind is that she found Hikaru highly sexually attractive. I mean - let's not argue that it was due to his heroic or noble character. There were plenty of heroic and noble guys on the Macross and amongst the military and pilots and what not. Misa picked Hikaru - well - her emotions "picked" him because of the hair and because of his flamboyant temper. Obviously Hikaru ALSO had to be noble and heroic - but given the situation lots of other guys were too. But not all the guys had Hikaru's temper and hair. I think Hikaru's wild temper reminded Misa of her stern dad. Her dad probably didn't get all emotional when he got angry, but he did fly off the handle in his own special rigid way. Hikaru is equally rigid, albeit due to his youth his rigidity usually means he flies off the handle and bad mouths his superiors. Admiral Hayese didn't need to bad mouth superiors since in most cases he WAS the superior - so he could just give orders which veiled his temper. And then there's the hair and general boyish good looks. Misa just likes boys I guess Pete

Well then I guess I'm just Kakizake-dense and not Hikaru-dense then; since my experience has been either: a) Girl has no interest in me whatsoever and thinks I'm wierd (no interest meaning neither "just friends" or more) b) Girl falls in love with me immediately and we're a couple and everything is fine - or not - but definitely only romantic friendships/love rather than "non-romantic" friendships. I honest to gosh never had a girl who was just a friend and not a girlfriend Heck, I couldn't even get along with my ex-girlfriend's (real ex-girlfriend, not my current girlfriend who dumps me 2 times a month and becomes "x" for the 24 hours she usually needs to come running back) friends who were girls... Most women think I'm a chauvinist who's only interested in sex and chinese food. Thus my affinity for Kakizake I guess... Pete

Nope. Because when Minmay woke up - Hikaru was sleeping on the couch. How does that work? They had sex and then Minmay said "and now go away to the couch because I don't want you taking up the entire bed?" I guess it's possible - but most girls like to cuddle up. Why wouldn't she? I am more inclined to think that Misa and Hikaru were sleeping together when she was living with him, doing his laundry and all that. But I think the only way to answer these pressing questions is to get someone versed in Japanese social more of the early 1980s. There are usually certain signs that we recognize to signify that two people are having sex - aside from the blatantly obvious times when the media in question explicitly SHOWS this to occur. Then again - I now start thinking about Shinji and his thoughts concerning Misato. We the audience SEE Misato...well, ok - HEAR Misato having sex one time. However, Shinji rightfully points out that she probably does it ALL the time - or at least when she's not home/not around him. And yet other than being generally hot, nothing about her really demonstrates her sex life - she doesn't brag about it, she's not on the phone all the time with her boyfriend, she doesn't inquire whether he'll like something that she was thinking of wearing... In Macross we also get some signs of sympathy but nothing explicit... Then again - we don't see Roy having sex with Claudia either but it would be pretty hard to make the case that it's otherwise. I guess it DOES make the love triangle all the more exciting and dramatic if we accept that Misa and Hikaru made love at some point and began a sexual relationship and the same goes for Minmey and Hikaru. But it is very difficult to figure out when what happened- we're always left guessing. Clearly when Misa overheard that Hikaru was going to let Minmay stay with him - her reaction left little doubt that she believed Hikaru would sleep with Minmey. But did he? Would he have at that point? I dunno - DYRL makes life a lot easier I think because it is more explicit in suggesting levels of physical attachment. Minmey gives Hikaru a nude shower dance and a kiss. That's great, but it just can't compete with having sex with him after visibly demonstrating her love of washing dishes and making dinner (even if it was just pretend) which is what Misa does. Although somebody can argue that Misa doesn't - but I just don't believe it. The scene closes with them kissing/embracing passionately and the next day they both come stumbling out of the same home and Misa is still putting her clothes on - well - zipping up her jacket - something that the otherwise rigorous sour puss might have been too embarassed to do with Hikaru around. Oh - and when they see the Macross they embrace eachother... Yeah - you could argue that they kissed and went to bed seperately and that in the morning all Misa was doing was zipping her jacket and that the embrace was a "we're saved" relief embrace... but... What we need is a re-telling of Macross with more explicit sex scenes. Otherwise this problem will never figure itself out... Pete

Well - I think the size is not the most important thing here - but what the thing can do. If it can't do anything and is totally un-complex then it'll be a let down. So... I want to know more about features and less about scale. Pete

"Talk to the Hand!" maybe? Pete Re: Xabungle - sounds good. Small size doesn't bother me much.

So...getting back to pictures. I'm still all smitten with love over Alto's VF-25F DX... I love how the knife actually does have a greenish hue which is visible at certain angles. I like the leg poseability. You do indeed have to kind of push him to his limits to get him into certain dynamic poses - but the key here is that you CAN do it. I'm really really surprised at how cool the DX is. Pete

No. In the end, he trips, falls down a flight of stares and plunges head first into a live volcano where he is tragically melted. But just before he goes off line, he gives us the thumbs up sign. Even Linda Hamilton shows up as an extra to cry. Pete

I don't understand what you mean by three times faster - but the Gundam RX F.E.M is strangely erotic... Pete

Well - I think DYRL gives us the answer You need to sleep with the guy It was the same for me with my girlfriend, who, like DYRL Misa, figured this out pretty quickly. Lo and behold, Hikaru upon returning to the Macross and being confronted by Minmey didn't really need much time to consider who he loves. The reasons is simple: if you option is between: A) Beautiful girl who never puts out but keeps cnfusing you, changing moods, getting pissed at you for forgetting her birthday present, hitting on your subordinates rather than congratulating you for your promotion, telling everyone and their grandmother that you're just a friend but then announcing to the universe that she'd be jealous if her hippie cousin had a girlfriend, and always always making you feel inadequate OR B) Beutiful older woman who waits for you all day, brings you an envelope of sexy pictures starring her and Shammy, tells you how tough you are and how she'd be a gonner without you, willingly dreams of doing the dishes and making you dinner, waits for you at home while you go out to do whatever you want and then has sex with you. It's really NOT a hard decision SDFM TV is just drawn out because Misa takes longer to finally sleep with Hikaru Thankfully - DYRL gives us the sweet and short version Pete

What are you talking about? The dam was built to hide the frozen Megatron so that current technology could be reverse engineered from him. Duh. As for the SDF-1 - I say build it. Time to get off this stinkin' planet and take to space! Pete

I agree. Ice! Ice! Baby! was the pinnacle of the genre. Not to mention You Got Ta Pray Just Ta Make it Today! Hamma' Time! In fact, I'm surprised any music of any genre was made after that. ... But it is true that this is a totally off-topic theme Ah... but see - you make the mistake of assuming that the needs of the audience coincide with the needs of the plot. WE don't know anything about the Supervision army - true. But Exodol does. Most Zendradi probably do. The fact that we don't hear more than what we're told in Satan's Dolls and some other fragments from other episodes doesn't mean that the characters themselves don't know more than we do... I just think that in the final analysis it wasn't really that important. Could be wrong though Besides - it's little "holes" like this that make for great future Macross shows Pete