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Customizing Tips and Tricks / Re: Adding Body Parts
« on: February 4, 2006, 03:21 AM »
A lot cut a notch in the peg, and reboil/repop it, so yeah that's possible, just takes some work.

Also sometimes (if you're not extra careful) a limb's post will stretch when you pop it out so you may want to make sure it's gonna fit.  WIth Torso splits that's not a problem, you can rebuild the figure to make sure the fit is tight, but otherwise just look and kinda eyeball to make sure it didn't stretch at the post so it is loose when you repop the limb/head onto the figure.

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Hey Hasbro! / Re: Get someone new to run the line!
« on: February 4, 2006, 02:40 AM »
I, as in me.  Let me run it. 

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Just stepped by to say hello
« on: February 4, 2006, 02:37 AM »
Make a hell of a business card.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: Super Bowl XL Pittsburgh vs Seattle
« on: February 4, 2006, 02:34 AM »
To Porter's defense, he only said ANYTHING after a Seattle player talked some **** on Bettis which, given Bettis is a special guy on and off the field, didn't sit well with anyone in Pittsburgh...  Porter's just the only guy who says anything on our team, haha...

Personally, I'm not a fan of talking trash, but that's what gets some guys fired up.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Just stepped by to say hello
« on: February 3, 2006, 05:03 AM »
Hey I don't see anyone else taking the title Henrik so run with it man...

It's kinda like the Guiness Book of World Records...  If there isn't a record, then the first person to come in and claim it gets it.  So till someone can detrhone you as the most important Star Wars fan in Denmark...  You're it man.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: SAGA - how much have you bought so far?
« on: February 3, 2006, 04:38 AM »
Not much...  Between price hikes and stuff just not being abundant, plus the fact that quality's down a bit in my eyes, I just haven't bought a ton but what I need to "keep up".

-AT-AT Driver
-Veers
-Derlin
-Gonk
-Han Carbonite
-Leia Boussh
-Bib Fortuna
-Barada
-Chewbacca Chained

I got Chewie as an impulse buy at Wal-Mart the other night and Barada was a gift or I'd have passed him quite easily.  The boys each got a Fett since they don't have him, but I didn't buy them for the kids, their mother did.  One bought Han Carbonite too because he just had to get that money out of his hand. :)  BTW he also complained about it when he opened it and realized it "didn't move or do anything".  Kids have really enlightened me to this hobby.

I'll be dealing with one Bib short of seeing him on clearance...  Han, I may get a 2nd due to the genericness of his torso and stuff.  I'd prefer to do that with a sale though.  Gonk I'm definitely getting a second because it's just good diorama filler.  Veers I'm debating on a 2nd for SOME of his parts I can cast, but at the same time the figure is disappointing to me.  Derlin I'll likely pick up a second for future parts casting.  Leia Boussh I'll only have the one figure.  And the AT-AT Driver I'm just waiting to find at Wal-Mart to buy some extras of him.  I won't army build at $7 a figure I didn't really want a resculpt of all that badly in the first place.  He's cool though so I'd like a few more...  Not a ton though.  I'd take 10 if I found them in abundance for a time though.

Waiting really for the Coruscant Wave so I can nab lots of the Utapau Grunt...  Need a nice army of those I'm afraid, and I'm also afraid finding a nice army won't be fun at all.  :(

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Battle of Geonosis Wave
« on: February 3, 2006, 03:52 AM »
Wouldn't Sora be an easy custom? Just give him some new articulated legs?

I wouldn't say anything is easy...  If you gotta fix it, it's not good IMO.  :)  To give him articulated knees, without painting, you'd have to find knees that match his pants already on another figure...  Pop 'em off that one, cut the legs off Sora and dremel into his leg a hole for the pin on the other knees...

Short of paint matching and sculpt matching up, that's about as easy as it could be, but that's still a lot more work than I wanna do plus it's at the cost of another figure, so even as a customizer I look really negatively on this.  Sora should've just had articulated knees...  Hell, make his arms angle-cut elbows and give him the knees, but just give him the knees. :)

EDIT:

By the way Hunter I decided to check out hte Clones in ROTS, as I'd wanted to kind of anally slow-mo the DVD anyway and just look at all the little details I haven't seen...  I don't agree that the Carbine has overtaken the blaster rifle as the most common Clone blaster though...  It's more prominent though in ROTS than it was in AOTC.  It was barely noticeable in AOTC actually.

In ROTS though I looked at a couple key Clonie moments to decide...  Only on Felucia did the Carbine seem to outnumber the Rifle...  Ironically it's the Commander on Fellucia with the rifle while all his squadmates that kill Aylya have the Carbine.

Anyway, I checked out a couple other sequences for a couple areas and I came to these conclusions...

-Utapau...  The opening Clones (down the zip lines) all have Carbines, however after that it's not a landslide of rifles but there are definitley more riflemen.  Lots of Carbines in there too though, but the Rifles become more prominent.  For instance most Cody scenes have landings of squads on Gunships and almost every Clone in the gunships is coming out with a rifle.  Cody's also surrounded by guys with rifles and only a carbine here and there.

When the trooper is gunning the Crabdroids, he's using a Carbine but Slow-Mo showed most around him had rifles.  There are a ton of Carbines too, just that I see more Rifles by my eye.

Utapau has the most footage to watch...  There's lots of both types of weapon seen for sure here.  I thought it was the most interesting to sort of analyze.  Actually too I was really taken by how incredibly detailed the streets of the subterannean cities of Utapau were.  There's tons of detail there, like even roadsigns it seems.  Really cool to sit and just ogle all the detail.

-Fellucia...  Tough to see a lot since it only zooms in close to Bly and his troops but Bly's the only guy with a rifle, everyone else had Carbines that I saw.

-Mygeeto...  I think ONE guy near Bacarra has a Carbine, and Bacarra has one, but it seems to me that every other grunt around Bacarra when he cuts down Mundi has a rifle that I can see.  There's some odd background shots that it's tough to judge but I see a mix...  I can see Rifles for sure, but I also see a seemingly equal number running with Carbines.

-Kashyyyk...  Kashyyyk was the weirdest...  The first site of Clones is really the beach preparations.  In the shots there you don't see many Rifles at all, mostly just Carbines.  I think I saw a rifle here and there but not much.

Cut to the battle though, and the beach has still mostly Carbines but Rifles are much more noticeable...  Not a lot, but more for certain.  Also, ALL the Clones up in the tree branches and higher positions are sporting rifles, not a Carbine among them, which makes perfect sense militarily since the rifle would be the more accurate weapon by all accounts.

So anyway, I was sorta curious about this anyway so I decided to look into it...  I don't think the Carbine's overtaken the Rifle by a long shot then based on what I saw but I also think the Carbine's a lot more prominent for sure.  I'm all for it being included with figures, but at this point I think the mass shortage of rifles between the AOTC styled clones not coming with them and the #41 SA not coming wth them is a big hole...  I wish Hasbro would fill it by packing in the rifles with Clones so you could decide what gun they get.  I'm definitely on a shortage of rifles at this point.  Extra commanders I bought have helped fill holes but not a lot, especially with the EE Clone 4-packs needing rifles too.   :-\

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Bald or grey?
« on: February 3, 2006, 03:35 AM »
Quote
Oh. .. and it would appear that I'm getting a fair bald spot on the crown of my head.  Nice.

My pastor had a funny story in his one sermon about how he had no clue he'd had a bald spot.  The man's been our pastor for years and he's had the bald spot as long as I can imagine.

Anyway, he said in his story how he had just found out a week or two before when his sister was out from New Jersey to visit him, and she said, "Oh my Ed your bald spot has grown a bit since I saw you last"...

How's that for letting you know you had one in the first place.  That's just funny.

BTW if God's listening, please don't make me go bald now...  Guys, check the traffic, is Greg(g) on?

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: TV Funny Man Dave Coulier...ALIVE!
« on: February 3, 2006, 03:32 AM »
**** Coulier, I am laughing my ass off that Stephanie Tanner is a meth-head.  That's awesome!

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Top 5 Hotties
« on: February 3, 2006, 03:27 AM »
She makes me feel like dancing naked in front of my computer.

Please don't.  Thanks.
 ;)

Too late.   :-\

&

She makes me feel like dancing naked in front of my computer.

Sheesh, speaking of boner killers.   :P

For you I hope, but for me it's lookin' just fine.   :-X

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: How often do you go to the Dentist?
« on: February 3, 2006, 03:25 AM »
"Son be a dennnntist...  You have, a talent, for causing pain.  HEY!"

I have to go to a guy in my hometown which is convenient but I'm not fond of him...  I like my dentist I had when I was young under my father's insurance.  He had a lot of nose hair but he was a good guy, really funny...

His nurse was his sister, and she was the first girl that gave me tingly feelings.  To this day, she's a hot MILF (though she's not a mom, never had kids), and I still dig it when she's asked for more suction.  I wanna scream out, "Yes, I concur!"

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Newbies / Re: Greetings
« on: February 3, 2006, 03:18 AM »
Welcome aboard, and enjoy the site...  If you've got questions feel free to ask, but otherwise just jump in.  Lots of popping areas with a lot to talk about, so dive in and enjoy.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Splitting a torso in two...
« on: February 3, 2006, 02:50 AM »
This is something a lot of people debate what works and what doesn't Dre, but my method's worked 90% of the time...  I do break a torso now and then though, but I know of no perfect technique every time...  When you work at scoring the seam, it leaves marks I don't care for so I tend to prefer a break with needlenose pliars.

I'll walk you through what I use, and how I do the technique as best I can...  As always too, if you're looking for some good explanations on basic (and more advanced too) techniques, check out www.FFURG.com because there's tutorials on our site that are just there to help including separating figures.

That said.....

I bought a cheap chinese made set of detail work pliars at Sears.  They're a must-have.  They're sturdy, but about half the price of a US made craftsman set.  You can't get them replaced like the craftsman ones though, so when you break 'em you buy a new set, but they're cheap enough I suggest having a set even if you have a craftsman set.  These are good for your dirty work, so to speak.

The set has like two wire cutters of different head styles, some gripper needle-nose, etc...  But the set I use most is the LONG thin needlenose pliars, they're best for torso splits because they give you leverage for yanking torso's apart, but they also are long and tapered, and very thin, so what I often try first is sliding the figure's arm hole down the pliars and watching for any stressing of the plastic...  Sometimes it'll break clean as can be just by doing this, sometimes not.

Now, here's the deal...

Step 1:  Boil & pop figure completely (this is just what I do, if you don't need the legs popped so be it...  I pop everything so I'm workign with a clean slate)

Step 2:  Take the torso (now head and armless).  Depending on how thin the figure is, I sometimes dremel the post in the center of the torso.  The post that helps hold it together.  At times this is fused itself and makes a pop hard to accomplish cleanly, other times it's just because I can fit the pliars down in easier INTO the torso because there's no post. 

If you wanted, you could do this with every figure but be careful as the friction from the dremel bit can distort the neck hole while you're trying to dremel-cut the post inside...  I use a grinding bit to do this btw, it cuts through plastic with less melting.

Step 3:  As I noted, I often slide the torso down the pliars (they're closed btw), and slowly watch for stressing at USUALLY the middle-back, or around the arm-holes.  As I said as well, sometimes a figure pops apart just by doing this.  I popped something the other day (forget now) and this is what happened.  Clean as can be pop.  Other figures are tougher though...  For instance, a female Jedi Stass Allie's torso became problematic for me at one time.  Was a real bitch to cleanly get her torso apart due to the thinness of the plastic.

Step 4:  So if it doesn't break cleanly and you're just not lucky with above, you can slide the pliars into the neck hole...  If you left the post in tact and didn't cut it, I tend to try to have dremeled the post area so the pliars are wedged into the cut between the two post halves.  This acts as a brace, and a good center point for popping the figure apart.  Case in point, I did this with the Saga Endor Rebel Soldier because he has a thinner torso, and I had to cut the post.

Step 5:  Once you get the pliars inside the torso sufficiently (I usually try to get them as far down itno the neckhole as possible for leverage), now it's time to yank the figure apart...  What I generally do, since parts will fly, is I try to cover the torso with a rag, and I do this kneeling on the floor...  I YANK the pliars apart hard.  I even build up to it with 3 breaths (laugh all you want, but timing this so you yank this open quickly and with good force is important).

Yanking the pliars open is the tough part, and this is more or less the moment of truth.  If done right I've got a great success rate with very few misses.  Breaks happen, but they're rare and usually because I didn't sufficiently weaken the figure by cutting the post or some such when I knew I should have.  Live and learn.

Now, I will say that I've gotten where I can just judge if a figure will break by me shoving the pliars into the arm socket forcefully too.  This has worked for me at times... 

I'd give cracking some torso's like this a go by practicing on cheap figures.  Saga Endor Rebels are a tougher nut to crack so after you try maybe a POTF2 POnda Baba, I'd give a Saga Endor Rebel a go...  Just practice a little, you'll likely have a use for the parts anyway.

Hope this is of some help to you though.

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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Mygeeto Diorama
« on: February 2, 2006, 06:12 PM »
Whoops, yes Mygeeto is Bacara...  Muh bad.

I saw a good pre-action shot of the Mygeeto setting somewhere.  No "movement' and stuff in the shot, just the big bridge with stuff on it.  No Clones.  It was a shot of the production mid-completion.  I can't find it for the life of me, but it'd be helpful if someone found it. 

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Battle of Geonosis Wave
« on: February 2, 2006, 05:45 AM »
Yeah, Sora I knew didn't have knee joints by his early photo so I'll add him to my list of the disappointing.  It's tough to look at him, and then look at every secondary Jedi we got in 2005, and not think that this is somehow a let down on some level.

Great sculpt though and I like having some Weequay diversity in their looks.  It's good for customizing.  And it's not that Sora's horrible either as a figure.  Great sculpt overall, good upper body articulation too (looks like SA everywhere but the legs...  This is a ****** trend, if it is indeed a trend for this year).

I'd be lying if I said this figure ultimately made me happy though.  It's ok...  It sucks compared to Agen Kolar, or Kit Fisto, or Shaak Ti, or Luminara Unduli, or other members of his peer group.  He'll just not be quite as good or fun to mess around with as the other Jedi figures.

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