yeah its quite surprising to see the low prices nowadays, ive seen 250gb harddrives for as low as $100. I need to pull some money together to take advantage of that.  a good processor will last you 4 to 5 years, so its good to know that if you want to do other upgrades, its not too costly to do so. well except for flat panel monitors, blah!

Morgbug did a pretty good job on giving you the reasons not to buy a laptop as a home pc, especially the whole damaged part/not being able to fix it yourself issue. Another problem in tune with that is, if you ever want to upgrade any part of the pc, you pretty much can't unless it has an external equivalent. That means no new memory or a better video/sound card, as well as higher priced hard disks and media storage devices. Laptops are all great for being on the go, but as your main pc they aren't worth it.

Also a bit of advice as your shopping for your new pc, the best buying point nowadays is not the speed of the processor, but more about how much RAM and hard drive space you have. Pretty much nowadays for the average user, a faster processor isn't going to be noticed as most programs do not utilize all the resources made available to it by a top of the line processor. However, many programs nowadays are memory and storage space hogs, so when looking around I would suggest not worrying about if a Pentium 4 is either 2.6ghz or 3.0ghz, go with which ever one will net you more RAM (512mb is a good standard nowadays) and Hard Drive space (120gb is a good standard as well).

Best of luck!

Pornmaking gone hideously overboard.

must.... resist..... urge..... to say what MUST be said.... dammit someone  put the word in the censor list so I can say it.....

Neighbours with there bass to high on there stereo. Boom, boom, boom. 

Cars with their bass on as high too. I don't need to be sitting in my house or my office and hear some jackass zooming down the street listening to loud thuds that some moron thinks is music as it shakes everything in its wake.

Nice indeed!!!  Especially that back left corner

Fond of the original 12 eh? They just look so cool all together, I should have put the vintage back together years ago.

And pics have come. With the new bookcases up, I've started the long process of cleaning up my vintage collection and displaying them. Lemme tell ya it's hard work, you've gotta be careful cleaning up the vintage, would hate to ruin it. And many of the vintage playsets and vehicles had all these small nooks and crannies, where dust and soot just conglomerate. A q-tip however is your best friend for sure in that case. So far I've got my loose figures all displayed as well as maybe 60% of my vintage vehicles/playsets. The chronicle has been updated showing what I've got and here's a sneak peek as well...



Enjoy!

Hi All,

I've been in the process of finally getting my loose figure collection displayed in my Collection Room and was taking a look at various figures of which I had multiples and had some variation questions. I've already consulted Toysrgus, the Scum Vintage Archive and Kim Zoll's webshoots photo gallery, but they did not have all the answers I am looking for. Hopefully though someone will so I can more accurately document my collection database.

Imperial Commander: I have both the "Skinny" and "Round" head versions, of which I understand the Round head version w/o COO stamp is a TriLogo figure. My questions for the Round head version are, what country could the figure have been produced in and is the skin on the face painted or the actual color of the plastic the head was moulded in? That second question coincides with a question I have on the Skinny head version, I have 2 which appear to have paint applied to the face and another which appears to have the face color in the color of the plastic the head was moulded in, could this be correct?

Emperor's Royal Guard: I have 2 "Dark Red Helmet" w/o COO stamp ERGs (as opposed to the "Pale Red Helmet" w/ COO stamp), Kim Zoll's site indicates that these figures were produced in Taiwan, could they have been produced for the TriLogo cards?

Klaatu: I recall hearing that there is a variation where the face paint has a bluish hue to it, is this correct? I have a Klaatu which appears to have this bluish hue, but I'm wondering if that's a paint variation or just a reaction of the plastic over the years.

Cloud Car Pilot: I found two CCP's where the Copyright year stamp and COO stamp were on different legs. One had the year on the right leg with the COO on the left, the other had the stamps swapped. Is this an indication of a change in the figure, I didn't notice much difference between the two otherwise. I can't imagine Kenner would have gone thru the effort to modify the molds to change which leg each stamp was on.

Normally, I don't go off looking for variations except for the limb variations on the Klaatu as they intrigue me with all the possibilities, yet while putting up my figures, I found I actually had quite a few. If anyone has the answers to my questions that would be of great help.

Thanks!