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Yeah, I mean, it'd be one thing if Shatner was just so full of himself that he figured he could sell it and use the money to build a statue of Kirk on his front lawn. But since it's going to charity, then it becomes kind of admirable. I mean, anything that can help the unfortunate without hurting anyone in the process is respectable. If he wanted a statue, he coulda just made one out of the kidney stone. Be the only Kirk merchandise in the world that was the 100% genuine article. "GoldenPalace.com originally offered $15,000 for the stone but Shatner turned it down, noting that his "Star Trek" tunics have commanded more than $100,000." His counteroffer was accepted." Ya know, I'm not quite sure that bodily waste and TV props belong in the same category... But really, I have to applaud anyone that can sell a kidney stone. He could've used the 25 grand to wipe his ass and I'd still applaud, just because he managed to sell somebody a piss crystal.

My unit's as good as ever. ... Or did you mean XBox 360 unit?

Officially, it's battroid with an R, Exedol with an L, Millia with an L, and TREAD with an R. Not really relevant, but all of them except Exedol/r roll off the english-speaking toungue easier that way. MOSPEADA was big on english acronyms, and TREAD is one of them(standing for TRans-EArth-Deployment). Unlike the other 3, there's not any room for translation variances here.

He IS an overdressed cyborg. Of course, a lot of the bulk is battle armor. That was out-of-continuity. ... *spoiler* He DOES get a new fleshy body back at the end of the series. */spoiler* Yah. 2 pairs of trucks(3 pair in Final), a cop car-motorbike-helicoptor set, and a lion-cyborg-train-jetplane-drilltankthingie combination, then Big G + a tank. HyoRyu and Enryu were designed primarily as support vehicles. Their main purpose is to protect civilians. Combat is a secondary role. That's why you have a crane and a firetruck. As far as FuRyu(cement mixer) and RaiRyu(dump truck)... well, they needed somewhere to stick the FuRyu's missile launcher, and RaiRyu... there's no excuse evident. They just wanted him to be construction equipment so he'd match his cement mixer "brother." The dimension pliers aren't really relevant. Trust me. No personality, and they show up all of... 3 times, I think. Once is just so they can get smashed. As far as original series goes, the 4 Ryus, GoldyMarg, Mic Sounders, and Volfogg are the relevant 'bots. And Gaogaigar, of course. It doesn't take itself very seriously. It's a super robot show, with all the cheese that entails. You have shouted attack names, trademark killer moves, mechs ranging from utterly absurd to almost plausable if you're drunk, giant alien monsters, little children running around underfoot, and all that good stuff. GGG isn't a deep program. There's no drama, the plot's paper-thin, plot twists are almost non-existant(and very deus ex machina when they DO show up), the good guys always win, the bad guys always lose, both sides are very clearly defined as heroes and villians, and so on. You're not going to spend a lot of time thinking about it afterwards. It's just fun to watch. And that's why it's recommended. ... And Taiga rules!

Another bootleg 361561[/snapback] As of right now, the ONLY complete legitimate english version is the 9-disk Animeigo set. If it's not 9 disks, it's a bootleg.

Bootleg, using Animeigo art.

Some pussies can cock hammers.

Yah. Bunch of nifty merchandise. Coffee mug included. http://www.goshouworld.com/GaoGaiGar/merch_other.htm Personally, I got nothin'. Just the fansubs.

I thought one Hyuuma was quite enough. Having said that, I DO want this...

Pretty much. Except they launch him as a robot and after he lands, he has to jump BACK into the air for docking. Sometimes Goldymarg helps fight, but not often. Given he's the only safe way for Guy to kill the zonder, they like to keep him out of the battle until the hammer is needed so he can't get damaged. But yeah, it's definitely marketing.

My PBS station is still running "Are You Being Served?". They try to work it in every episode. 361411[/snapback] PBS? Yes, but they are godless Communists and therefore have no sense of decency. 361412[/snapback] Ah, of course. How silly of me to forget.

My PBS station is still running "Are You Being Served?". They try to work it in every episode.

It's nice to see some Kutaragi that's ACTUALLY made up, instead of just sounding like it is.

As I understand things, any Vehicle Voltron content is pretty much impossible from a legal standpoint. World Event Productions lost the Dairugger 15 license.

Check out my cock!

Versatility? 361351[/snapback] Well, given they could launch gear out of a rail gun and Big G could dock with it in mid-air(done regularly for the dividing driver), and Goldymarg was deployed to the battlefield by the same railgun, it always seemed that adding a transformation step was a tad... stupid. And yes, I DO realize that picking on the logic of a children's show in a genre full of outright absurdities is a bit absurd to start with(especially since I'm not picking on the equally absurd Choryujin and Gekiryujin)(Gee, I really seem to like 'absurd' today). I SHOULD just laugh at the anime-world logic that says you need to add legs and AI to a hammer. And I DID laugh when they introduced him, actually. So I guess I'll drop it now.

And heck, if you're getting it to be like Prime, you need the trailer anyways. ... Just make sure it's an air-conditioned trailer.

I was talking more about the idea than the implimentation thereof. See, I always took the MGS idea as being one more of that Snake had all the raw material to be good, but Snake was Snake because of his own choices and his own experiences. Same thing with Liquid and Solidus. They all shared the raw material, but they became the people they did because of their own choices and own lives. Except Liquid was supposed to be the crappy asthmatic Steve Urkel version of Big Boss. *chuckles* I've never heard it put that way before.

Because he did some parts swapping. Genesic GGG is the big one with animals everywhere. Original 3G has vehicles that clip onto the lionbot. And then he swapped heads and forearms for fun. I strongly recommend it. It's a damn fun show. http://anime-in-action.edwardk.info/ Have to scroll down a bit, as GGGFinal is listed before the original series. Yeah, the Goldion Hammer was a bit of an absurd upgrade, even for a super robot program. And it's one of the more obvious concessions to the toy line. Official excuse was the backlash from the hammer was too powerful for Gaogaigar to bear by itself, so they needed an upgrade to use it. The hammer itself was needed because 3G's built-in killer move put too much strain on the pilot, and was gonna kill him eventually. But they never did explain why the upgrade needed to be a triple-changer that transformed into a robot and a tank as well as a giant fist. Basically, it was a way to make the new robot more appealing, since it turned into a weapon for Big G.

Voltron. Genesic 3G is a tad overdone for my tastes. Honestly, hair? Forearms also need a redesign. Cylinders are lame. As far as Hell and Heaven goes... http://licos.web.infoseek.co.jp/mia/other/GGGG/56.jpg It can't QUITE get the fists together. It might be "close enough" though.

That's because everything but CRT is actually a fixed-resolution device. If you feed it anything other than native res, the display has to up/downsample to that resolution, which invariably introduces scaling artifacts.

Coulda been worse. I would've stuck him with "Yang Neumann's bitch."

You actually thought Arnold was natural? 361018[/snapback] *shrugs* More like didn't care. 361046[/snapback] That guy is more important than Jesus, Ghandi, and the Dali Lama combined. EVERYTHING he does is important. 361189[/snapback] Jesus, Ghandi, and the Dali Lama were a combiner trio? Why don't people mention that more often?

*slowly walks around box for 10 minutes so footprints don't fill too fast* *gets bored, breaks your neck* Yes, I actually did that in MGS on mroe than one occasion.

You actually thought Arnold was natural? 361018[/snapback] *shrugs* More like didn't care.