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thought I'd chime in since this is the place for help! I've got a friend going to Tokyo very soon and I'm in desperate want of a GX-34 Gunbuster after a friend's order didn't come through. Are they readily available around Akehabara or other toy hotspots? Or should I just choke down an ebay sh*t sandwich?

And to you Japanese based MW'ers I'm hoping to get over there this year as an Australian airline is starting up super-budget airfares to Japan in the middle of the year so I'd love to catch up.
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I'm very late coming to this thread and I'm not reading 31 pages! All I have to say is my friend just bought one and my cynicism has been blown away. Clearing out the lounge room, cracking some beers and playing Wii sports is a great way to spend an evening! Although while playing baseball I almost killed my wife. I swung and missed her head by about an inch. Note to self. When batting, stand to the RIGHT of the pitcher!

And now she's hooked on Pikmin which my friend just bought. I wonder what that would be like to play on psychedelic substances...?

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Does anybody know if the Gunbuster is confirmed as being re-issued
I saw that on HLJ its marked for future release.
I'd like to know too.. I missed out on the 1st run.
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blasphemy!
Tis the Space pope!
lol.. isn't there a comic called 'Battle Pope'? It needs More Mecha!!
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nice mod! The battroid's head reminds me of the alien's heads in Independence Day.
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for my updates, a few of the sites I visit on a regular basis are:
Zinc Panic: http://zipa.inwards.com/radar.phtml
Toybox DX: http://www.toyboxdx.com/set-rumble.html
Toywave (new releases) http://www.toy-wave.com/
Hobbylink Japan (sci-fi/future releases) http://www.hlj.com
Robot Japan: http://www.robot-japan.com/
Toys Daily: http://www.toysdaily.com/
SG Collect: http://www.sgcollect.com/
Yamato Homepage: http://www.yamato-toys.com/
Spanish Soul of Chogokin fansite: http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&am...6lr%3D%26sa%3DG
And of course, Macrossworld.
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thanks for correcting my ignorance on jet anatomy!

Once again displaying my ignorance (and it's prolly been asked before), but is the SV-51 inspired by a real life counterpart at all? I always thought not as most of it looks pretty sci-fi but I thought the body might resemble something.
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thanks for the pics! I still think I'll pass on Mr.Ideon. The Jolly Red Giant look isn't my thing. Plus those big pointy toes..
but a Power Loader! I'm there!
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haha, we're all turning into panic merchants. For my contribution to the mass anxiety, I'm thinking about packaging and shipping. This puppy looks like it will have lots of fragile pointy bits that could snap in transit, like the tips on the VF-0 tailfins did (for eg, the split wing tips and the fuselage fins.. dunno what the proper name is). I wonder if the toy could be shipped without them attached?
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Transforming sneakers is officially the Worst Toy Concept Ever Conceived. Worse than transforming rocks.
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Graham has been strangely quiet since the pic was posted.. I thought he'd be able to let a cat or two out of the bag now there's a proto.
And it's funny.. a few years ago I though this would be the 'toy they could never make' as it's so skinny and fragile looking. I'd prefer them to take their time on QC rather than have it asap.
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the painted megs looks awesome. and the legs aren't too skinny either, I reckon. I hope they do the same thing as they did for Starscream and have to face versions. I 'd love to see a 'maniacal evil laugh' face on megs.
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hmm.. showing my age but... I had one of those watches as a kid! And there was another type which transformed from a chubby fighter jet to watch mode IIRC.
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Cool!! you should photoshop out the roof and lights and replace it with a sky background.
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I love the EX version. The others fuggedaboutid.
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saw the trailer yesterday. I'm super excited about this. Danny Boyle + Alex Garland + great actors = hit.
I thought 'Event Horizon' too but this won't be a horror/sci-fi I think. More spiritual & meaning/existence-of-god-etc themes.
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Hi fellow Australian!
I share your pain at having to always get toys from overseas. you can't go wrong with hlj. Sometimes shipping can be a bit slow but the prices and shipping are pretty good. I've been buying off them for 6 or 7 years. You can get cheaper prices if you know someone in Hong Kong, I've bought off Neova (a member here) quite a few times and he has great prices and ships lighting fast. Also ask Kensei who is also from WA ( I think) -
jeee wowzer that looks amazing. I've got the one which is 2nd in from the right side in the top pic and this new one looks a million times better.
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please tell me that hasn't been transformed properly. And the quality is so CHEAP! solid plastic chunks for hands and the ugly peg sticking out of the leg.
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I think most of us already posted our opinions of movie megs. Mine was he looks like a crushed up soda can. with a really, really scary head. RAAR!
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me too. I do mine with a mechanical pencil so they are very subtle. And it only takes half an hour and little to no skill level.
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Ratchet looks pretty good. I like how they used a fairly non traditional transformation scheme for him. I am absolutly baffled by screamer. Since when did he transform into a pregnant whale?
..since Michael Bay.

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I see the Walker Galliar is out.. anyone got it yet? Thoughts?
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I just picked up the Classics Prime and I'm surprised how much I like it. heaps of fun to transform and super poseable. I actually like it a lot more than the MP starscream which I got at the same time.
The Comic Book thread
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Well done, O Resurrector. I've gotten into Civil War, but it's gone on for how long now?!?
I just this second finished reading Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. It was GREAT. Go get it!
also recently read 30 Days of Night. Cute idea, great art, bad writing.
What else.. I'm enjoying Garth Ennis' The Boys, and his new series of the Midnighter is great too. 7 Brothers on the other hand seems more like 'I did it for the money'