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    Cool - is that a vintage shot or has someone restored one?
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    yes, it makes more sense now that Davids posted the other angle. My bad with SeaRAM and the Sea-Sparrow; I meant RAM and I missed the Sea-Sparrow launcher at first, I thought it was just a deck fitting after only glancing at it.
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    "X-Ray Hotel 558... " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7494406.stm "... glad to see you back. And, oh, Gravitys just wet itself."
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    This isn't Engrish as such, but I recently caught an internal flight in Japan with a friend. When using the toilet, I noticed it had a sign on it saying "Please do not flush foreign articles down the toilet". As one of exactly two foreigners on a plane full of Japanese, I hadn't previously realised the danger we were in...
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    You know, there are times when I miss the days when all I had to worry about in anime playback terms was Dub vs Sub. I use VLC generally, though by the time I've posted this, it will probably have been replaced with something else.
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    Regards old Doctor Who episodes - it might be worth noting that due to various clear-outs of the BBC archives during the 60s and 70s, some episodes are currently lost in Time. Some of these episodes are highly sought after, so if you happen to have a dusty broadcast version of the first Doctors regeneration scene from the fourth episode of The Tenth Planet hidden in the basement...
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    Hobbylink Japan mentions that there is one, and the U.S. version press release says theres two but theres no hint whatsoever what they might be on the boxes.
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    Hes trying to protect us from seeing the Shornet.
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    Interesting that the rear quarter seems to have Phalanx on one side and SeaRAM on the other - are they expecting one side of the ship to only be attacked by low performance missiles or something? Speaking of carriers - the Royal Navys two carriers are definitely going ahead now, so would you lot please hurry up and finish making F-35s so we have something to fly from them please?
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    I've never owned or flown one myself, but the one theme that constantly seems to crop up in any discussion of them is that you'd better find some spare arms to graft on.
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    Penultimate episode of the current series last night, which I've only just seen due to prior commitments. Remember how I said I had trouble speaking after seeing the trailer? Well, after seeing the episode fladderburblegeeblewhippsplerg!
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    Er, that wasn't intended to be sarcastic - it was just a tribute to The Simpsons and Richard Dean Andersons pre-StarGate career. Honest!
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    It can be done, but you need some chewing gum and the Moons gravitational pull.
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    The actual LEM - the "lander" - was probably a piece of cake compared to what the astronauts had to train with to learn how to fly it...! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLRV
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    I haven't commented yet because I haven't been able to make any sound other than "Whu arble weeble FLUB!" for two days since seeing that trailer...
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    Theres going to be a game. Its on Wii. And its being developed by the Ace Combat people! http://kotaku.com/5018178/ace-combat-team-...pired-wii-flier Radar looks familiar...
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    The moral of Orguss? Mecha pilots: keep it zipped, lest your wild oats come back to bite you on the ass!
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    There was a T.V. programme broadcast in the U.K. the other day which featured one of the last surviving Dambusters visiting Germany. He went to see a power pylon that one of the Dambusters crews fatally flew into on the mission. His reaction? "Bitch!"
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    Very first clip is Space Runaway Ideon, possibly the most influential mecha anime most people haven't seen. Also the one where Tomino really does earn his "kill 'em all" moniker...
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    Not strictly aircraft exactly, but the Worlds second most otaku military organisation - the UKs - has launched the final satellite for its Skynet network. You have a few more days to find a 40 megawatt pulse rifle and an EMP generator before it goes on-line and starts hunting puny fleshlings, folks!
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    Ah, thank you! I did try looking on Collection DX but it never occurred to me to look for another version of the Garland and see if there was a guide!
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    Okay, I figured out I was putting the leg pegs into the wrong hole - insert joke here - but the shoulder thing is driving me slightly nuts. The wheel halves appear to be lined up with the shoulders, the magnets on the body are popping out, and whilst the wheel halves do attach to the magnets there is a tendency for them to lean outwards. Has anyone got a close up of their shoulders to show me where I'm going wrong (if I am at fault)?
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    I picked up a Proto-Garland recently and its a great toy, but I've got one or two niggles - which I think my be my fault. First, the shoulder "wheels" in mecha mode - I'm not sure if I've fixed them in place correctly, they have a tendency to "lean" out when the arms are posed. I've got them lined up with the magnets and I think I've got the "bars" they're attached to aligned right. Anyone else have this problem? Similar story for the pegs that connect the legs to the lower wheel. The pegs don't seem to go all the way into the holes and have a tendency to pop out. Anyone else have this trouble?
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    I always enjoyed playing Battletech. It wasn't exactly quick to play, but it was relatively easy to get a game together with some boards, counters and some pre-made stat sheets. It also had a very involving Universe, and one that evolved and grew as time went on. Even without 'Mechs, it would have been quite a solid basis for a SF setting. The Clans threw the game balance out a bit - you either had to be the reincarnation of Alexander the Great or compensate the Inner Sphere side quite a bit to compete - but then FASA had to keep interest in the game going over time. The difference in the depiction of humanoid fighting machines between BattleTech and Anime is basically that of a difference in perception; to the West until recently a humanoid robot was basically a walking tank, a bit awkward but with massive firepower, whereas in anime mecha have basically always been rocket-powered robot ninja.
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    The Moffat episode - first part - aired in the UK Saturday evening. It was, of course, excellent. It will also - again, rapidly becoming a Moffat trademark - give a whole new generation a reason to shield themselves from oncoming terror by hiding behind the sofa.
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