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Other Collectibles / Re: Unleashed Battle Packs
« on: January 17, 2006, 06:55 AM »
While I'm NOT pleased with this idea overall, some of the execution is cool.  I may be getting some like the Hoth Troopers just because they're the best little Hoth Troopers Hasbro's ever done (sadly). 

I think if these had been 3.75" 3-packs they'd honestly have gone over better, and that's not to say I'd have been happier, but if Hasbro had a format where the 3.75" line was the focus including Unleashed, I think it'd make everyone happier.  Make the basic line an articulation focused one, and make the 3-packs the odd deluxe thing here and there, and that'd be a bit more ideal...  I'd be more into a 3-pack of Hoth Troopers if I knew a SA one existed and they were all int he same scale and were complements instead of separate items.

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: ROTS Recent Purchases
« on: January 17, 2006, 05:04 AM »
I found Jedi Star Fighters (Red and Yellow), Tri-Fighters, and Grievous Wheel Bikes for $13, and $5 deluxe (Yoda w/fly, Vader w/Table, Grievous, Spider Droid, Crab Droid).  No Stass Allie, the one figure I'd really hoped to find, but I did get 2 Spider Droids nonetheless.

Got the JSF's too.  I'd put those off, wasn't sure if they were to-scale or not, but upon measuring they are spot-on which is nice, and I'm glad I didn't pass on them. 

May get a wheel bike and 2 more Tri Fighters if they go cheaper.

Oh and they had the early bird kit for $18.  Man that whole thing sucked.  Love the Chewbacca, but that's it really.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: 12/16/05... Stern's Wrapping Up
« on: January 17, 2006, 04:12 AM »
I have heard that about the LA stations.  One guy said he'd listen, and they'd go to commercial shortly after he left on his commute and he'd be to work by the time they came back from commercial sometimes.  That would have sucked.

Pitt had it live, but you still got huge commercial breaks, and on my 50 minute commute I'd still only get a short ammount of show to listen to.

The revelations show today was funny but brief.  They're doing a part 2 to it for tomorrow which sorta sucks, I'd rather have heard it all today but whatever.  It's funny what I've heard so far, or just surprising...  Richard Christie knocked up some girl and had to pay for an abortion?  Who even knew he was having sex?  That's sad because he sounded sad, but at the same time the fact he's been hiding that he gets some is funny.

Sal's was lame.  I'm wondering now who had plastic surgery.  I thought for sure the cheating one was Stern, but turns out it was Scott the Engineer...  Which is shocking given who he is and what he looks like, but at the same time he's just sorta meh.  Shocking, but he sucks so who cares.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: TSC Recent Purchases
« on: January 17, 2006, 02:56 AM »
I got a Bib Fortuna last week, but this week I got a Barada (someone got it for me), and so since it was bought for me I opened it...  He had a CHewbacca Boussh Prisoner stand though however. 

And I got a Han Solo tonight at Wal-Mart.  Everyone was reporting Carkoon Wave around our area though, and smatterings of Hoth Wave remnants.  So that's a plus.  Bodes well for me finding something at some point.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL 2005-06 (Now with Playoffs!)
« on: January 17, 2006, 01:07 AM »
We got one more week to get through...  The fans are confident in a win, but reserved, so nobody's getting too cocky...  neither will I, but I'm supporting the team I have since I was a baby.  When your old man worked in a mill...   When his old man worked in a mill...  When HIS old man worked in a mill...  And when you've put some time in that same mill...  You support the Steelers!

HERE WE GO STEELERS!  HERE WE GO!

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: 2006 VOTC
« on: January 16, 2006, 11:26 PM »
I was reading the story over at Scum...  I like how they start it out like there were people saying this was BS...  Not sure where they got that idea or if they're just wanting to sensationalize nothing, but whatever.

Sounds like some cool figures...  Greedo sounds like he's as bad as ever.  I don't get him as a choice really.  Hell, a 21 back Fett with ESB colors would've been cooler but that's me.

Then again, how cool would a Death Squad Commander have been?  I just don't get their choice of Greedo at all but Hasbro seems to have this hard-on for that character.  At least it's not the CT figure repacked.

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I'm wagering package variations now too, more than anything else, which is alright I guess...  I'm not a HUGE fan of this idea either way, but I'd rather a package change than paint variant clones noone can find, or some ****.

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Newbies / Re: Hello What is up?
« on: January 16, 2006, 11:03 PM »
You guys take it to Private Message please, this thread was dead so resurrecting it to talk about him in a personal conversation isn't warranted.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL 2005-06 (Now with Playoffs!)
« on: January 16, 2006, 07:03 PM »
The NFL officially rescinded (not that it matters) that Interception call the refs said was an incompletion instead.  So that's at least vindication and Porter won't get fined for saying what he did in the locker room about the reffing of that game.

I'm not a fan of complaining about officiating, but the weekend was bad overall.  In the Steelers Colts game there was a pass interference call against I think Randle El that wasn't called but was right in front of an official, and he was staring at them plainly in the replay, and just opted not to call it...  Clear as day that he just made a decision to skip that.  There were facemasks on both teams (it seemed) that weren't called.  And of course there's the "let's make up our own rules" call on Pollamallu for his interception.  Just total bull****...  Oh and then there's the "false start, no wait, offsides...  no, wait, nothing, nevermind" call too...  The announcers said it was Fannaca, I think it was offsides though and Fannaca didn't move enough for a call against him...  I dunno.  What a mess.

I'm glad to hear more Steelers fans are emerging.  :)  Nice...

Anyway, here's something I thought was sad during the Colts game...  They were trying a "Terrible Towel" thing to support their team...  I mean, granted the Steelers don't have a patent on waving a towel but it seems lame to me to copy something that was started long ago here and wasn't done by other teams till just recently.  Just a little aside I had.

Oh, and POrter can talk allt he **** he wants if he's gonna produce. :)  He's a good player, and our only one that actually trash talks.  I don't know why, it fires him up I guess, but it's not a Steelers thing generally...  The organization generally stays quiet but Porter likes the trash talk, so more power to him I guess.  A lot don't care for that I know, but he doesn't seem to pull others into it...  And he did back it up.  Lots of hard sacks by Porter in that game.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: 2006 VOTC
« on: January 16, 2006, 03:16 AM »
Count me in for messing up the Pittsburgh area. :)  Though finding Stormies wasn't exactly what I'd call "easy" for me.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Happy Birthday Jeff!
« on: January 16, 2006, 01:16 AM »
Happy Birthday to Metal Jedi and Ryan first...  Sorry for my late well wishes to you guys, and I hope you had good ones guys.

And of course happy birthday to Jeff, our site expert. :)  Hope you have a good one too, and you all get lotsa good Star Wars swag.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL 2005-06 (Now with Playoffs!)
« on: January 16, 2006, 01:13 AM »
Pittsburgh's already fired up in a tizzy...  They handled the Colts, though I'm sure I'll get to read some comments around the news (and boards) saying it was some sort of divine act that let them win, Colts were better, blah blah blah...  At this point, that's what being a Steelers fan is all about I guess.  You're not allowed to enjoy hard play, you're always just somehow "lucky" till you lose, then you were beat somehow by skill and a fantastically better team.  It never fails, and I doubt it will this week either.

I had a great time watching the game if not for feeling sick all day and the game's gut-wrenching theatrics making me feel worse with every play.  It was insane...  I'm just glad that the Steelers brought their A game, they backed up their thoughts that they can take anyone...   The Colts didn't play bad I don't think, not the whole game at least, and no more than we did at times, so it really felt great to get a solid win in on a solid team.  I'd likely be rooting for Indy right now if it had gone the other way...  Then again I'd likely have rooted for Cincy too if that had gone differently.  I'm glad we've got at least one more week though, and the city's pumped.  You can just feel it everywhere around here and that just makes the atmosphere around here fun. 

If the Steelers had lost today, I would have felt horrible for Bettis...  For him to have his last play (likely) of his career be that, it'd have been horrible for him, and he's as nice a guy as they come...  He's an asset to Pittsburgh.  I guess Ward told him on the sidelines that they weren't gonna let him go out like that...  Not that I can think of what Ward had planned...  :)  Still it was nice.  They really put Bettis on a pedastool for being a great person, not just a player, and rightfully so.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Battle of Coruscant Wave
« on: January 15, 2006, 05:34 PM »
I would sooner have Padme over most Neimoidians I think...  Just for some Padme diversity, however I do classify them both similarly.  To me they're boring, more or less statues.  Nothing to get me really jonesin' to own them, but at the same time I'd be happy to buy them when (or if?) I see them.

For me, and I'm maybe against the grain here, the Talz Jedi rocks.  I'm all about EU really so it's no real shock but he looks tremendous to me.  Just like in the toon, but sculpted realistically.  Given their build, the nanuk boots make sense to me, and look pretty close to the cartoon...  Lacking articulation on him would be my only gripe if I have one at all when I find him.  He looks great otherwise. 

The Ki-Adi is as I expected, and the Grievous is a tremendous waste of plastic.  Vader...  meh.

I may have to order this case just to get my clone fix on some level.  I can't find anything around here.  No Carkoon, no Hoth, nothing.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL 2005-06 (Now with Playoffs!)
« on: January 15, 2006, 05:21 PM »
If it had, you'd have seen me here cursing and swearing about it then moving on to figure who I was gonna root for, haha. :)

Seriously though, what a game...  I'm slowly getting a case of the flu I believe, so I decided not to go to my woman's family event today, glad I didn't because my stomach is in 1000x worse shape now than it was this morning when I woke up and I'd be miserable "out".

I loved the game, it was played predominantly well by the Steelers and for my $.02 I think the only flaws were sloppy ref's making sloppy calls, and seemingly making their own rules up to suit them too, and Bettis fumbling the ball on the 1.  I love Bettis, but holy **** you have got to be kidding me!?  To his defense, it was a really solid helmet hit on the ball, but still where was his other hand?  COVER THE F'n BALL!  Game's on the line, final seconds, you don't do stuff like that so I hope he got that out of his system and there's no more of it...

I really was hoping for a win over Indy.  I knew we were underdogs, I knew it'd be tough, and really there wasn't a WHOLE lot of anymosity till about mid-week some really ****** stuff started leaking...  One thing was a guy from here out in Indy went to get a coffee at this coffee shop and the owner wouldn't serve him till he "Took off his Steelers crap".  I kid you not, he would not serve the guy.  That's just bull****, and childish, and the kind of stuff that actually makes you hate the other city enough that you want the win desperately.

So the Steelers played well for all of the first half, no doubt.  To the Ben naysayers I think they've been proven wrong as to what an asset he is, how well he can play, and how he too can dominate a game...  His cryptic answer walking off at the end leads me to assume his arm wasn't up to snuff after he took the helmet on it so we were forced to run.  Hell, his play after the fumble shall forever be remembered as THE play of the game.

We really did run well against a tremendously skilled defensive opponent, so I give much love to our O-Line today for opening up big holes for Parker and Bettis.  I don't think the numbers will show it necessarilly but there was some hard fought wars for a yard, or at times less.  I wish the (assumed) arm injury hadn't forced Roethlisberger to throw less though, as he was so on today it would have been fun seeing what he could've done to disect the Colts secondary into the 2nd half.

Pollamallu played tremendously, and he was robbed of an INT that would have, I believe, been the nail in the coffin.  Just my opinion though, but I really do believe that would have been it if the ref had actually not been giving himself a thorough colonoscopy.  Either way though, Pol's a class act, and the Steelers are lucky to have him.

And to the rest of the Defense, they played tremendously I felt.  Lots of sacks, and the Coordinator even said afterwards that they'd never expected to take down Manning that many times but they still did.  Porter was shining despite the announcers best efforts to take a **** on the Steelers D almost all day.

Just a heart stopper to watch for a Steelers fan...  Good football, some weird stuff to see too.

Oh, one other complaint though...  I hate the national announcers generally, but those two today were just horrible.  You'd think they had $ on the Colts the way they called it.  Sometimes I think I'd be better off turning the volume on the TV off and the volume on the radio way up.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Rebelscum
« on: January 13, 2006, 05:09 PM »
And then my text should be like this for reverse compensating.   <--- hah, that worked.  :)

BTW Matt, there's no JD thread, right now.  I have seen threads regarding other sites come up, and as long as all you did was BASH that site and not link to it, that was ok. :)  That's funny.

The most recent example was a thread trashing GalacticHunter where all links got removed.  It was trashing them for some rumors they'd posted, blah blah blah...  You couldn't link to it, but you could talk as much **** as you wanted about the site.  Very childish... 

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