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Newbies / Re: Good Bye for now!
« on: April 30, 2006, 01:42 AM »
Take it easy Clone COmmander, and catch you come fall...

I think this is our first "goodbye" amidst all these hello's.

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Newbies / Re: Vader's Fist Arrives
« on: April 30, 2006, 01:41 AM »
Well...

Uh, welcome aboard. :)

Remember though, we're not JUST a customizing board VF...  We're Star Wars collecting, first and foremost, so while it's great you've found our customizing boards a valuable asset (no doubt about that), remember to pop in the collecting areas and join in the fun...  We have a fairly broad trading community.

You're from Hawaii?  Yikes...  How, just in general, is collecting out there?  Rough or no?

Either way if you need help, give the classifieds a looksee and find it...  SOmeone's bound to lend a hand.

Glad to have you on board (also at www.FFURG.com where I also work), and hope to see you around a lot.  Anything at all, just ask the staff...  We're all over the place here.

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Feedback / Re: TheBlackDog65's feedback
« on: April 30, 2006, 01:36 AM »
Jay came through on a deal he and I had going from a while back.  We reworked it some and it really was even better ultimately so that is really cool.  Glad to do business with ya man, thanks.

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Toy Reviews / Re: New JD Review: VTSC Han (Trench Coat)
« on: April 30, 2006, 01:34 AM »
Thanks Brian...

Tough call on the debate between VTSC and VOTC Han...  Personally the edge for me goes to VTSC at this point.  The gap in his back is my only major complaint/detraction on the figure.  Sometimes I think the legs look a bit stickish but then I think it's just my eyes really.

The articulation is unmatched on a Han figure, the coat is as good as softgoods gets in this scale, especially when you consider the complexity of it (working, scaled pockets...  That's amazing).  The holster "hovering" is a flaw on both figures, so I don't really count it as a knock then on VTSC that hurts it much. 

VTSC Han is more versatile as well...  Throw the Leia Collection Bespin Han jacket on him, and yet another Han is born of this one figure.  Honestly if Hasbro re-used the body to this Han, and just slapped a jacket and new arms on him, he'd be a perfectly acceptable SA Bespin Han to me that I'd gladly shell out more money for.  If they'd rework that gap in his back and re-release him as Carkoon Han (redo the right leg to not have the holster thigh-strap too I guess) and again I'd re-buy this figure.

I think VTSC Han's gonna get my vote out of simple re-useability.  I like this figure.

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: Wal-Mart "Early Bird" Exclusive
« on: April 30, 2006, 01:28 AM »
Hmmm  that's weird Jack.  Twice it didn't make it to you?  $20's not a bad price mind you, all things considered, but still you had to get two other sets so that sucks.  Maybe one will show up some time?  :-\

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Top 5 Hotties
« on: April 29, 2006, 03:39 AM »
No ****.  Bad enough that I had to see that ****, but then somebody has to carry it over to a fresh page?

Damn.

Even still .. .does anyone have the real story on this thing?  I've seen this pic around the interweb before. ..is it a fake?  Did carrot top go to prison to get all buff?  What the **** bizarro wolrd are we living in?

I met "The Top" once in Station Square in Pittsburgh...  He was eating his lunch as I was wandering around, and he's that big, if not bigger.  But when you think about it Carrot Top would have to be big to defend himself...  Guy had to have gotten smacked around as a kid so I imagine he can defend himself. 

When I saw him, and this was years adn years ago, before he was really at any big level of fame, he was just a big dude...  Kinda scary looking without the hair.  With the hair he's your worst nightmare.

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: Wal-Mart Separation of the Twins Figures
« on: April 29, 2006, 02:18 AM »
Oddly, these got blown out at my local WM's this year when Saga was out...  All of a sudden a bunch of ROTS showed at most every WM in the area, and along with them were Sep. Twins sets for $3 along the ROTS figures...  They were there in some abundance then gone.

Very weird... 

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Fritz, they're real...  The Colonial Marines.  They're part of HOt Toyz's line, which I have S1 of...  Need S2, and I'm assuming the "Aliens" figures of Marines and Ripley are part of S3...  Definitely the same line though and 3.75" so your wish is granted to at least some limited extent.

I just hope they keep going with it, and maybe we see some accessories beyond the snapkit figures.  I want Ripley's Mech loader at least.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Infidelity.....what say you?
« on: April 29, 2006, 02:12 AM »
Hmmm, I don't know about the wandering eye Force Guy...  To me, that's almost subconscious for most...  I think if it is a persistant PROBLEM then it's one thing, but I think that fidelity is mostly in your ability to control yourself more than anything...  You are faithful because you care about the person, and you wouldn't do anything to hurt them like cheating...  Your eyes may wander, but do you act?  Procreation is a natural instinct, so wandering eyes will happen...  Do you do it in your partner's face, do you do it often, or constantly?  Or are you able to control yourself, and of course "keep it in your pants"?  That's where it, to me at least, isn't infidelity... 

To me, I can look at a good looking girl, admire whatever I'm admiring on her, but still not really feel as though I'm lusting for her...  Because the end debate in my mind is that "I wouldn't do anything to her because I'm with my gf and care about her"...  It's an interesting thought though, what you bring up, but I don't think I agree with the wandering eye syndrome unless it's blatant and constant, and is a "problem" between the people in the relationship.  If that makes sense.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Jeff For Fan Club President!
« on: April 29, 2006, 02:06 AM »
***Flails his arms wildly while crying hysterically***

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Feedback / Re: roron corobb's feedback
« on: April 28, 2006, 01:29 AM »
Harley hooked me up with an Ascension Amidala for my Sio Bibble...  Very fast shipping, and I only wish I'd been as quick!  Thanks man.

Very positive experience trading with Harley!

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: April 28, 2006, 01:07 AM »
Like these poor bastards, on both sides of the aisle....  :D

Exactly...  Of course, watching Senators and Congresspeople walking across the street in droves daily would be comical.  ;D

Maybe they need secret air tubes to shoot them around underground to the places they need to be...  Like the tubes at drive-in banks.  Those things are cool, so it's high time our politicians got stuffed in them and whooshed away to wherever it is they go rather than driving SUV's back and forth around the block.

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Toy Reviews / Re: New JD Review: VTSC Han (Trench Coat)
« on: April 28, 2006, 12:54 AM »
Thanks guys...

The reason I didn't mention the "lean" (I noticed it too), is that I think in part Hasbro intended it...  He sorta has a cocky slouching look.

That said, my sample I can move perfectly straight and it holds the pose, it just doesn't seem like its the NATURAL pose intended for it...  I'm not sure.  At the end of the day the torso articulation is really cool but I could've done just as well if they had simply done a normal swiveling torso articulation point instead of trying to get flashy.

However, at the same time the Carkoon Fett is there if one were so inclined to try and mesh the two together...  I dunno.

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Other Collectibles / Re: New Yoda and Darth Vader backpacks
« on: April 28, 2006, 12:48 AM »
I know it'll gain me unwanted attention but I must have the Yoda pack.  I love that.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: April 27, 2006, 05:08 PM »
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But, what's funny is that generally those same lower income people, throw cash away on beer, cigarettes, pull tabs, powerball tickets etc. and yet they bitch that about gas. 


That's a pretty HUGE generlization there jaybird...  Not all poor are drunks, gambling addicted, wasteful douches...  I'd say quite the opposite, but it's the minority that are cited as the "general" behavior.

Personally...  It's the wastefulness of those with, rather than those without, that bothers me...  People who drive across the street in their Humvee to pick up a loaf of bread they forgot to get on the way home because they're too lazy to make a list...  Then run their kids to soccer and home, but forgot to pick up detergent so they go BACK out... 

Call me crazy but those are the people I see using a LOT of gas in things that use a lot of gas as it is, and not the guy who can barely keep his car running making a trip to 7-11 to buy scratch-offs and cancersticks.

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