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Toy Reviews / Re: New JD Review: Tomy RC R2-D2 "RC-D2"
« on: February 21, 2006, 01:44 AM »
Yeah definitely.  I'm not being tech correct with its description...  :)

I'm glad it's infrared though, because true RC would really look ****** actually, haha.

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Clone Wars '03-'05 / Re: EE exclusive Clone Trooper 4-packs!
« on: February 21, 2006, 01:41 AM »
EE's still got individual sets, I think you'd have been further ahead to follow the link on our front page out there Clone Commander.

They're definitely fun sets though...  Worth owning.  If you have a local collecting group, let me HIGHLY suggest you get involved with them.  Ordering in bulk on items like these makes it REALLY affordable for you.  I got my sets in a case our local group ordered, now they're talking about ordering the new all white case for more and pulling me in on a set again.  That'll build up the troops for me a good bit.  I love the early war Clones design maybe even more than the ROTS...  Hopefully Hasbro puts a basic CW SA Clone out on pegs again.  No reason not to really.

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Clone Wars '03-'05 / Re: I got 35 clone troopers
« on: February 21, 2006, 01:38 AM »
Since I'm not a fan of any sculpt but the SA one, my army is obviously not where I'd enjoy it to be, and given the price of the EE 4-packs I doubt I get it up to the 100's anytime soon.  Best I can hope for is a 50-man platoon or something I think, and that's best case...

The 3-pack figures I've just found to be inferior, and same with the Saga sculpt...  SA though, I'm a happy camper to own as many as I can get my grubby fingers on.  Found a guy selling at the local Toy SHow in December for a fair price individual ones, so I got some random colors the guy had to sweeten a deal I was already picking up off him.  Helped bolster the troops a bit.

I can't wait for the Battlepack with the ARC's and things though.  As inferior as the sculpt of the ARC trooper is, the Gunner and the Sergeant ARC's are welcomed and the other 3 will be folded into the army or modified in some way since I already stocked up on the blue ARC a bit.

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Saga '02-'04 / Re: Dexter Jettster in the checklists.
« on: February 21, 2006, 01:34 AM »
Hmmm, not sure if Thomas was handling this stuff or not but he's been MIA for a bit.  Hopefully he sees this thread though and can answer the ? for you on this one. 

I'm not a Variation fan myself unless it's a big intentional thing...  This almost sounds more an error on a variation.  :-\

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Saga '02-'04 / Re: Jedi Starfighter!
« on: February 21, 2006, 01:32 AM »
It's not a bad ship...  I think the ROTS ship is more accurate overall but the Saga/Clone Wars (and Plo Koon) version is pretty sharp too.  Anakin's CW fighter is pretty nice as well though a wholely new sculpt. 

All very good fighters really...  I wish it'd had more accurate landing gear is my only real gripe.   :-\  The damnable "features" that weren't in the film even are what hosed the ship on having actual retractable rear gear though.

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: TRU 2-pks
« on: February 18, 2006, 05:15 AM »
I was out tonight and saw nada but know they're in my area.  I know I'd like some Wookiee Heavy Gunner sets, and really I could care who he's packed in with because I just need that damn heavy gunner. :)

The Tact. Ops would be nice to find for just one more but the Wookiee is who I'm now on a massive hunt for.

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The Wookiee Arcade / Re: Star Wars: Empire At War (Coming Soon)
« on: February 17, 2006, 05:15 AM »
The AT-AT's on the march, the rebel tanks...

I hate the bold blue and red colors on stuff, it takes away from realism (you should learn the units more than rely on bold coloring), but it's still a great looking game.  I'm amazed a databank entry followed it, actually.  I wish I could run the SW.com Databank I'd fill that thing with all the video game goodies peopel would love to read about.  Oh well.

I gotta get some upgrades or something to play it unfortunately.  :(  I'm pretty far from an upgrade.

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Customizing Tips and Tricks / Re: Fodder Alert!
« on: February 16, 2006, 10:29 PM »
It's way underscaled.  Dimensions posted for it online before it shipped were either wrong totally or were for the packaging as opposed to the model itself, but the model is I think either 1/32 scale or so from what I've heard of those who bought and built it.

I had a story on the front page when it first surfaced because I did measurements on the given dimensions online for the model and compared them with the actual dimensions of the vehicle (if it existed of course) and it matched to almost exactly 1/18 scale or, more or less, Star Wars 3.75" figure scale...  SW figures "scale" varies because nobody's keeping track at Hasbro.  ;D

But yeah, the Corp. Alliance tank is way undersized, believe me I was hoping beyond hope it was what I thought at first.  Unfortunately it's nowhere close.  It's actually closer to the SW Miniatures Battles game if I'm not mistaken, but maybe a bit large for that.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: JD and Toy Fair
« on: February 16, 2006, 09:15 PM »
Mine's more hairy.

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The Wookiee Arcade / Re: Star Wars: Empire At War (Coming Soon)
« on: February 16, 2006, 07:41 AM »
And today's the day folks...

Did any of you read the SW.com databank entry we reported on the front page the other day?

Lots of new tank units.  I wish they'd do a databank entry that covered all the Force Commander and Galactic Battlegrounds units and folded them into the vehicles database the site has going. 

Be cool if they included the ground units from Rogue Squadron series too because the Rebels were fielding a few slow hover tanks, looked old and cool.  I'm wondering if there's names even for those though.

Good stuff though, and right now I'm wishing I had a new computer.  :)

Share your reviews on this one if you get it, I'm curious to hear people's thoughts.

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Toy Reviews / Re: New JD Review: Tomy RC R2-D2 "RC-D2"
« on: February 16, 2006, 07:16 AM »
I actually didn't have to point it directly Ruiner, but I didn't try pointing it from like behind something or really odd angles...  I know I was running it from another room with an open doorway, but wasn't pointing it directly at the time...

Then again I can flick my TV from the other room with the remote facing exactly opposite so it may be redirecting the "beam" or whatever off the wall or something, I dunno.   :-\

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Toy Reviews / Re: New JD Review: Evolutions - Sith Lords
« on: February 16, 2006, 07:14 AM »
By the way, thanks for the positive marks guys...

Yeah, the Evolutions sets were novels...  Really they and VOTC were.  The positive was that I can cheat a little by giving the same blanket opinion on certain aspects (packaging, etc.), so I try to cut my workload down that way.

I'm all about the actual review though...  I like to take a close look at this stuff, not just breeze over it and give opinions without substantiation to why I feel the way I do...  I own it, I opened it, I review it by actually messing with the item.  I have my pattern and routine down with these now, but yeah reviewing 3 figure boxed sets really kinda got long-winded.  :)  Especially on sets like the Sith Lords where they're all 3 substantially unique from one another.  The Clones were the easiest because from AOTC to ANH they don't change a TON.  When you talk about armor sculpt, it's the same on all 3 in quality, so you can't get as long-winded.

The Sith Lords and Anakin though...  Man I was really burnt out, haha.  I'm glad I'm done, and if Evo sets come up in the future I"ll be a bit selective what I do.  I wanted this series covered though because I have a love for this whole concept so I wanted to really get my opinion out on them.  They're just great product.  Same with VOTC, and also the basic line I try to get my strongest opinions out...  Positive or negative.  That's why I don't mix in much that I'm "indifferent" towards because it just doesn't make for good reading.  They only sneak in for diversity's sake.  ;)

Thanks for reading guys, there's good stuff there so try to find a set if you don't own it.  Same with the other 2 (3 technically) sets.

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Toy Reviews / Re: New JD Review: Evolutions - Sith Lords
« on: February 16, 2006, 07:03 AM »
I think AMazon has this set for, actually, a reasonable price Ruiner.  Check out our Amazon link on the front page if you would.  I was looking up Evo sets tonight and know I saw it there...

BTW, Entertainment Earth I think has all the Evolutions sets too, if you're looking, and while they cost a little more than if you'd found them at retail, they're worth it more or less.  I'd suggest getting 'em that way.  EE link's out there too (I gotta whore the site ya know).

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: JD and Toy Fair
« on: February 16, 2006, 12:45 AM »
And I can attest that we're obviously going to learn from this as a staff and having contingency plans built up for these things.  Some things fell through, the weather surely didn't help, and ironically having someone close to the event wound up working against us (in conjunction with the weather...  Had someone been flying in we'd probably have had that person there by Friday to handle it), so that's just an irony we didn't foresee.

Problems are having the iron taken to them, believe me.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Rebelscum
« on: February 15, 2006, 08:05 PM »
In the spirit of bitching about things that don't matter . . . a lesson in homophones.

. . .  Just try to bare in mind that "**** happens" . . .

Bare = to make naked. (in the case of the Top 5 Hotties, I suppose I "bare in mind" frequently)
Bear =  to hold/carry


.
I'm asking you guys though to take a step back and bare with us as we change things up where we need to.  

Bare = again, make naked. . .and I'd rather not do that with you guys, but again in the case of the Top 5 Hotties, I'm afraid it's likely that I already have at one time or another.
Bear = to endure


. . .but it doesn't have a baring on your guys' individual thoughts.  . . .

Baring = showing one's ass.  (see Slothus)
Bearing = relation or connection


Barely anything new was shown, and what was shown wasn't making me do backflips, so that's a plus. 

DING DING DING DING DING   :-*

Bastard.   >:(

Ya know I was writing that thinking something wasn't right...  but after all the typing I did last night, both public and private, I didn't really care.

And YOU can kiss my BARE ass.   :-* (_Y_)

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