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Anybody ever see the commercial from either Hong Kong or Korea a couple of years ago, where a girl is only seen from about the upper lip/bridge of her nose, while making small, bobbing movements and slurping contentedly? Also holding her hair out of the way A cell phone interrupts and she sits upright to answer, while wiping a wet gleam from her mouth. Turns out she is eating a bowl of Ramen. One of the best(and MOST suggestive!) executions of erotic inuendo I've ever seen! Friend in Japan had it downloaded to his PC

Now THAT is one nice scheme!!! I wanna kiss that noseart girl

No, Godzilla, its not wrong.... Its been 20+ yrs since Macross. So Roy & Claudia, who are about mid-late 40's now, have teenagers, a suburban ranch property 15 mins from dwntown, own 2 SUV's & 2 luxury sedans(not including Roy's vintage Mustang & motorcycle). They come home from SDF duty, lounge around in front of the boob tube in their skivvies, leaving microwave food or Pizza Hut for their kids(screw cooking, honey-chile!). I'm surprised Roy put on a uniform over his wife-beater instead of a stained Gold's Gym T-shirt while Claudia's sport'in a new weave. They'd both rather be knock'in back beers and pork skins on the sofa. I'm going on 38 and keeping my "girl-ish" figure is freakin hard work!

What the heck, Jem... Howsabout 'Lazer Blast'(post-ANH sci-fi schlock trying to cash in on the SW hype; including scene with the protagonist w/the arm mounted cannon blowing up a poorly mocked-up "Star Wars" movie billboard)? and 'Alien'...no,...'Alien 3' Yes, I can increasingly identify with the 'rape-of-my-childhood' whine!

Ahh...soh Ariga-to gozaimus. Well, guess I was waaaay off topic. Thanks for the explanation. Vesp.

Excuse my ignorance, but what are "PSA"s? My PC @work where I tune in to MWorld daily, firewalls out all kinds of good stuff you all post. I am not able to open ebaumsWorld and see what the hub-bubs about. Guessing its some kinda G.I. Joe parody, like the Aqua song that was mentioned? I actually got into a discussion with an older guy(well, ~10yrs older than me, so fart'in 2x as much dust...cough...cough...phffft!!) at a Best Buy over modern animated movies(ToyStory, Monsters,Inc.). The TV/ video section had Toy Story2 playing and we got talking about toys from "back-in-the-day"; Rock'em, Sock'em Robots, Erector Sets, Big Wheels and original Tonka Toys,etc. Our sig'nfcnt others were shopping for video stuff w/the offspring, so we shot the breeze while enjoying the show. Turns out he was USMC, ret. and I told him I was AD USN, HM. A little contemporary politics crept in, as well as business/marketing policy and the huge pay-offs corp.s want for their products & trademarks appearing in films and we managed to talk up a spoof of Barbie & Ken, done part-CG & part-Team America'. Say for instance, Barbie & Ken are graduating HS & reconsidering their future together - Ken wants engagement, then marry during their Jr. yr but Barbie doesn't want commitment yet and wants to explore opportunities w/out being pegged to "Malibu". Shes a modern woman... - Ken thinks this means "She wants to see other 'dolls'(guys)" and decides maybe he should hook up w/'Skipper' or 'Lindsay' for the prom. Peels out in 'Vette in a huff. Their parents are played by the "Barbie:B-Boomers/Granparents" dolls for Barb and the cloying, insipid "Perfect Guy" & "Perfect Girl" dolls seen grinning from discount bins in stores, as Ken's parents. They try to patch up the pair with disasterous blind date situations which take the youths in diffrn't directions, while they look for "themselves". - Barbie gets fed up w/guys she meets @WASP'y family society circle while at a mega-BBQ held @the Bush #43 Ranch(cameos by the C.i.C., Laura, the nare- do-well daughters Barb & Jenna, D. Cheney & Ken DeLay, L. Armstrong & Sheryll Crow,etc.). Daughters actually introduce Barbie to their Texicano friends(played by "Bratz" dolls) and Barbie actually starts dating one of the sports action figures for the S. Antonio Spurs/Sharks(pick your favorite player/or Texas team). Trips to NY for Knicks games, etc. ensue and one way or the other Barbie gets swayed into working for the ACLU and the office of Sen. H. Rodham Clinton... - Ken, meanwhile, is affirmative ax'n-quota'd out of Ivy League college(prior to Supreme Court Educ'tn rulings) and in another, spoiled prep-boy mood hastily joins the Marine Corp with hopes of going to Annapolis. He, instead ends up going to Boot & then with the 1St MEF to Fallujah. His cushy, T. Hilfiger butt gets calloused into new life by hanging with good 'ol G.I. Joe & Elite 12" action figures, while serving with multi-national forces(invariably played by other, un- named brand, 12" action figures found in discount stores & OddLots). After mixed battles with the forces of "Plastro"(opportunistic strongman, best known from the annals of 'Sarge's Heros')who has filled Hussein's power vacuum, Ken gets to understand life for the avg. American svc. guy, who couldn't get sta- tioned at a MEPS w/ daddy's help. He gets shore lv. from the LHPD in Thailand & forever says good-bye to Skipper, Lindsay &...and...Barbie... We ended up figuring you could throw all kinds of pseudo Michael Moore/Hannity & Colms b.s. into the plot to juxstapose the real corporate profits/media buy-out motivations behind even toy companies and do your kids toy marketing at the same time, for all the nostalgic toy lines. Mattel, Hasbro, Whore-money Gold, etc. could only make a killing from nihilistic, satirical storytelling like this. Todays generation would get the humor and us old, Gen-X'rs would get classic toy fansvc. The 2 of us had a pretty good laugh in that Best Buy; considering we both were admitting our concerns for friends/assoc. on deployment after the initial ToyStory chuckles. Heck I'd pay to see Barbie hob-knobbin w/ GW's crew and visiting Slick Willy's NY estate a few scenes later . You think "puppet-sex" would garner an NC-17; how about Ken on 'liberty' in Bangkok? Can't wait for Team America to open!

Wonderful design work! It has proportions, curves and arrangement elements that suggest an SA-43 Hammerhead..a favorite tv space fighter of mine(or a 2-place bomber variant). Kudos. Vesp

ahhh...The Forbidden Planet! That was about the beginning & end all of SF/Anime sources way back in the summers of '82-'84. I and one of my best friends from HS use to cruise Manhattan looking for hidden troves of rare, imported anime(back in the day when it was definitely niche market. We used to reminisce over Star Blazers and waking up @05:30 just to watch it, fall back asleep and then get up in time to get to school. That was also that glorious Macross summer, when pictures & models of VF-1s, Battle Pods and Destroids first started showing up. We used to hang around SF conventions w/out the money to get inside & truly enjoy . Also the first time I saw super detailed & finished Macross models. Addicted for life! Back then, there was also a branch of Forbidden Planet Uptown, at about Park Ave. or 3rd & 59St. It had piles of Southern Cross kits for the longest time. May not be there now, 20-odd yrs. Vesp

Gud'ay MW, I've garnered a growing interest in 'Blue Gender', even though I've only watched about 4 episodes when it was on "Adult Swim". I'd like to see detailed picks of their mecha, the Sniper & Grapple Armored Shrikes. I read a snipet on an anime review site that roughly suggested mecha fans had "issues" with the plausibility/functionality of the designs. Can anybody enlighten? My web searches turned up little, save screen caps, but I've been doing it at work so haven't been very thorough. Info on any garage custom builds or kits available wouyld be great too. por favor Vesp

Absolutely beautiful! What do we at MW owe you for your fruitful devotion to fanime customs?!! Please make this available for us all to build. I have envisioned such constructs for the Macross VFs & Mospeada craft for such a long time, but out of more time consuming foam & cardboard building; nothing quite as self-tutorial and mass-reproducible as folded paper! I'm already envisioning your paper model reinforced w/foamboard, balsa or polyurethane coated cardboard & styrene, at about 1/32 scale and fully tricked out w/scale details and sturdy, posable joints. The hell with Toynami and their over-bloated $80 Robo-crap. I'd pay you that much for a 1/24 customizable paper kit of this model. How detailed a final kit might us enthusiasts expect to see?

Well, yeah. 12-14ft., I can easily conceive of 15-25 feet before load & shear stresses becoming problematic, assuming the same biochemistry. Modern day rhinos & elephants fit around this and dinosaurs functioned in this size range. Antediluvian & post-flood humans at these sizes are akin to grizzly & polar bears. The 50ft & larger sauropods & therapod dinosaurs(meat eaters & plant eaters, respectively) show evidence of stress & injury fractures in fossil records, at least educated interpretations. The human shape at those scales may not fair as well in augmented sci-fi combat, so organosynthetic composite bioengineering is a very favorable premise, as far as Macross goes. Good thread to resurrect!

Long time no post... Saw the topic and found it very interesting. I happen to remember reading an entry by a member on an aviation forum and he commented on exactly this, from his own experiences. IIRC, he said he grew up during the Blitz and would watching the curling & crossing contrails in the sky w/his friends in the street. He said his father had use of a car related to his job and was very proud of it in those austere times. He went on to relate that he became furious when he came out one day to see a .303 round had made the trip all the way down and burrowed into the bonnet near the windshield wipers. I always remember that scene in "War in the Pocket" when the kid's mom gets fatally clocked in the head w/that huge-ass casing during the GM-suits urban gunfight.

They Live! Keith David[seeing the aliens w/glasses]: "Where the hell do ThEy come from?!" Roddy Piper: "Well, they ain't from Cleveland.." Though of another fun one. Pretty good pulp story w/made-for-video qual. SFX... Space Truckers! Pull-start, prosthetic "knob" for the pirate captain! Gotta luv Dennis Hopper, dedicated psycho 'ol fart. Anyone see him in the '80's surreal-mystery drama "Blue Velvet"? SiCk flic, with Kyle MacKlaclin, a seductress Isabella Rosellini(chalk one up for the over-40, *ock-tease MILF!) and a nubile Laura Dern. D. Hopper: "Don't LOOK AT MEEE!!!!

And I actually felt sorry for the guy when I learned the mob had been leaning on him for some time. I'd never taken any time to know anything about his personality off sceen! Set yourself up, A@#hole! And stiff'in his Japanese wife & kid,...no mercy. But, then again, in retrospect it is undoubtedly better than for them to have been saddled w/that tub 'o dog $hit and his eff'd up lifestyle!

Even if some of us MW-ers are not "customizers", I get the idea that this buxom monstrosity will be disassembled, diagramed and painted & modded by somebody within 1 mo. of it being released...AND to top it all off, their processs will be scanned & posted/linked here for all to see. It may be Shawn or Graham(bless their souls) or someone with artisitic/creative cohones from Japan, since it appears that most of our N. Americans are ego-fragile, entitlement mentality whine-babies. Point of my rant is: Who would be against sticking lead or clay in the hollow(highly probable) leg sections of the Q-rau toy to compensate for any tipsiness? The way the 1/60 & 1/48s have been displayed down to the nuts & bolts, I figger it would be easy to put lead shot or BBs in those cavities w/Elmers glue and at least give it a fighting chance? It has been stated before by other authorities on Yamato that they designed & made these toys w/customizers IN mind. With the resources some of you post up in this forum, I believe ALL the "hard work" is/will be done! Some might say,"Why do I have to disasemble & ADD stuff to a frick'in $100+ toy to properly enjoy it?" and I've said it before( in some thread in a galaxy far,far, away), "Why b*tch & moan about the non-availability of accurate, quality Macross stuff at credit card or cashwad-away reach? Get off your duff and use some of the wealth of modelling information provided on this site by its generous members and build your own Valks, Reg's & Quads if nuth'in Yamato puts out satisfies! Exercise your brains & hands for permanent satisfaction & not just your(OR YOUR PARENTS!!!) wallets" I'm in the middle of closing on my first house and looking after a new family and ALL my Macross, R/C and{insert expensive/materialistic indulgent hobby here}...." is on hold, BVR. I get guilty when I buy an R/C plane or aviation magazine I'm so strapped. I'll have to be satisfied w/the Meltran I married for now & her "top-heaviness", which actually keeps me on my toes . Making hard, quality decisions is keeping my feet on the ground, till I'll be able to tackle balancing out $100 lumps of plastic. Hopefully I won't need any acrylic stands! {rant off...} Vesp

Mehhhn...Double Impact and the actor playing more than himself at the same time? Doesn't hold a candle to Michael Keaton in "Multiplicity" Clone 3: "Umm, I gots someting tu tell yu, umm...Laura touched my pee-pee" Oh, wait . M. Keaton don't do martial arts. Batman? Wayy off topic! Sorry

Is any data provided as to the yield(or projected yield ) of these missile warheads? How many mega, giga or tera tonnes? Biiiggg bada boom!

"Message From Space" and Battle Beyond the Stars". Oh, yeah, can't forget "Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension". "The Hidden" and "They Live!". Rasta-aliens and John Lithgow hooking alligator clips to his tongue for a mind trip! "THey Live!": Alien dude in bed:"Hey babe,...whats wrong?" !

Maybe the A vs. P costumes would look better if P. Anderson didn't get his creature design staff from the back stage crew of Guar? Roger Corman wannabee.

Waaaaay back in the day(turn-o-the-last-century), wasn't the definition of a "geek" a member of a travelling circus side show, that would bite the heads off live fish, frogs and chickens,etc? What's that show on HBO about the circus side show freaks & such? Vesp

Howsabout retrofitting Sony's QRIUS hard & software into it a couple years down the road and see if it can unlock doors or hack ATM's w/that retractible roto-probe arm?

Most California Home Depot's stock stuff in the cabinet knob/nuts-n-bolt's section for earthquake proofing your home goodies, including display case items. I was surprised to see these products, like stick gel for the underside of figurines & velcro add-ons and straps for furniture,etc. Ask around. I slept through it. This makes about the 4th one I've slept through, 2 on the east coast & one in Japan.

Mostly OT, but concerning ewilen's comments on the cadeuces being adopted by formalized medicine, as opposed to Aesculapius' single-snaked staff, I'm tempted to believe the choice was one of distancing the discipline from Judeo-Christian record of Mose' staff totem at Mt. Horeb. In order to ward off/remedy the pestilence that broke out amongst the Israelite camp for their sinful behavior, Moses fashioned a bronze serpent, depicted as nailed or slung over a tree branch. It represented the "proto"-crucifixion of the serpent/Satan & fallen nature's influence in man on the staff(Law of God). Archaeologically, the Aramaic/Mesopotamian origins of this symbol for the abundant life vs. 'poison of nature'/healing conflict, predates Greek & Egyptian culture. However, as current separation of church/state issues in the U.S. roil & France's big stink over religious cultural clothing in their public schools festers, its all too apparent many cultures find(and have always found) things Judeo-Christian a thorn in the side. Not to get religious/political. Just bolstering how old the symbology of the serpent/winged serpent/cross/staff/women/circle-of-life-thingy is in human lore. Vesp

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Where are they going with these, you ask? Toys for the capt. of industry to showcase or rich & indulgently mindless or eccentric: yes for the time being. Goose-stepping drones from the Ist Renaissance of AniMatrix, to take over dull & dirty work from us in ~10 yrs, when the tech is in its umpteenth developement iteration. You KNOW by that point, DARPA & other cabal members of the Neo-Co-Prosperity Sphere will be generating "defense" labors & boomers, while hackers will find ways to extrapolate these potentials for private use. In general, dirty deeds(literally & figuratively), done dirt cheap. All SF writing is an unconscious exercise of modern day 'prophecy', whereas we conceptualize & reinforce the thought-form of our future(& past) behavior until we can readily slide into it as an actualized identity. Virtually all of our classic SF has come true in some sense in modern society. Why not wake up & smell the coffee that the last 20 yrs of Hollywood will follow suit? I'm not saying its going to be apocalyptic, but it'll prolly be dirty. Just an 'ol man's cyniscism. When I'm phart'in more dust than I am now, Zone-E's(play on Sony, ala Zero-One/Zion <_< ) model THX1138 will be wiping my backside in the 'ol VA hospital. Vesp