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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Top 5 Anything
« Last post by Jeff on Today at 10:49 AM »
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
3. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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LEGO / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« Last post by McMetal on Today at 10:22 AM »
Thanks guys, great input again. Yeah, one of these guys is def a reseller, I checked out his Instagram account. The thing is, I don’t see any benefit to me from doing that. I price all my stuff based on the current market values, eBay takes 15% and shipping is usually around $10 to most places. So unless these dudes are willing to pay 90% of the market value, which I highly doubt, it just isn’t worth my while financially.
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LEGO / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« Last post by EdSolo on Today at 06:59 AM »
Ebay's default position is to screw the seller, regardless of how obvious a scam a buyer is running.  Paypal can be a bit better with protection.  As a seller, while this is a bit dishonest, if you can get someone to send money friends and family, then they have no recourse with Paypal.  That is an obvious red flag to any legitimate buyer.  Avoid anyone who asks for Zelle, it is the scammers payment of choice.  I have had countless inquiries that end up with "I'm busy but my brother/husband/cousin will pick it up.  Do you take Zelle?".  Meanwhile, the FB account they have stolen is from somewhere in Europe when my listing is clearly from the US.

Really FB marketplace isn't really any different than someone asking to purchase your ebay listing outside of ebay.  However, many times these people than they should get a 50% discount for "saving you the ebay fees".
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC Project, Coming Soon!
« Last post by Nicklab on May 22, 2024, 06:10 PM »
I would be willing to bet most of those licensing people at LFL are no longer there at this point.

I’m pretty sure Chris Holm is still there, but he might fall under a Disney reporting structure.
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TV-9D9 / Re: Tales of the Empire (Disney+)
« Last post by Jeff on May 22, 2024, 05:26 PM »
I liked the three Bariss stories better than the Morgan episodes.

It's been a while, so I guess I can get spoilery - SPOILER WARNING
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I guess I was wanting more from the Morgan episodes.  Her whole motivation for joining up with Thrawn/The Empire was "**** the Separatists, that's why"?  And what was her deal on Corvus?  The Separatist destroyed her home and family so now she's going to do the same to a random planet in her quest for revenge against the Separatists who aren't even a thing anymore...  uh, ok.

They were fine I guess, but not what I was hoping for I guess.
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TV-9D9 / Re: Tales of the Empire (Disney+)
« Last post by Matt_Fury on May 22, 2024, 12:04 PM »
I really enjoyed both stories.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC Project, Coming Soon!
« Last post by Matt_Fury on May 22, 2024, 12:03 PM »
This reminds me of a time during my missile tour.  Missile Crews routinely carried code authorization docs out to the field when pulling alert.  Back in the day, Missileers were armed with an M-9 pistol, but during my tour, we were never authorized to carry.  Talk amongst the crew force was back in the day some idiot was playing with his pistol on alert and put a bullet through the console.  After a four year missile tour, I could totally believe that.

One day during our Pre-departure briefing, the 20th AF Commander, General Klotz, came to speak with us and he told us a different story:

     It was 4th of July and nearing crew change over, the relief crew had received their brief from the security forces guy upstairs and were getting into the elevator to head down to the Launch Control Center (LCC) and had brought a bunch of firecrackers with them and were lighting them and dropping them down the elevator shaft.  Meanwhile, the alert crew is prepping for change over and while the crew commander was getting all the classified out for inventory the deputy opened the blast door and was putting their bags out into the tunnel junction.  The deputy was startled by the firecrackers and cracked his head open on the low ceiling and knocked himself out....bleeding all over the floor.  The Crew Commander, wondering what was taking his deputy so long to put the bags in the TJ went to check on him and saw him laying in a pool of blood and hearing what sounds like gunshots.  He immediately pulls his weapon and takes cover behind one of the shock isolators at the back of the capsule and calls upstairs to declare a security situation.

     By this time, the relief crew are laughing about the firecrackers, come out of the elevator and see the deputy lying in a pool of blood, and the Crew Commander taking cover at the back of the capsule with his weapon drawn.  They thing the Crew Commander has lost it, shot his deputy and is ready to kill them as well, so they retreat to try and get out!

     After everything was resolved and medical attention was administered, a formal review recommended that crew members no longer be allowed to carry weapons.

Tell anyone who has pulled missile crew duty in the USAF and they would all tell you either story is completely plausible.  Especially because a two-star general told the more fantastical story!

Anyway, I highly doubt we're ever getting the Tonnika sisters.  It would've happened by now.
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TV-9D9 / Re: Tales of the Empire (Disney+)
« Last post by McMetal on May 22, 2024, 10:43 AM »
I watched the first three of these last night and enjoyed them. The animation is great. I’m not a big fan of this whole cultural trend of glorifying villains, but they were fun episodes to watch.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC Project, Coming Soon!
« Last post by McMetal on May 22, 2024, 10:40 AM »
I would be willing to bet most of those licensing people at LFL are no longer there at this point.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC Project, Coming Soon!
« Last post by Qui-Gon Jim on May 22, 2024, 07:13 AM »
Great summary!  Learned some stuff here.  It is all made weirder by the existence of the Micro Machines Brea Tonnika figure.
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