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Base XO is definitely unstoppable.
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What about magnets? No one knows how they work or what they can do.
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Indeed. I was missing it.
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@  tigerhawk : (24 May 2021 - 07:42 AM)

I'm making progress with tweezers. It's no great loss given Dai Atlas minor roles anyway, I really do prefer this mold for Titans Overlord and Sky Shadow,
@  unluckiness : (22 May 2021 - 09:57 PM)

Had that happen once. Drilled a 1 mmhole in the peg and superglued a rivet into it for something to pull on.
@  tigerhawk : (22 May 2021 - 09:44 PM)

pliers, superglue, heat, nothing has worked so far but I had to take yesterday off due to pfizer side effects.
@  unluckiness : (22 May 2021 - 07:04 AM)

is there enough plastic sticking out to yank it out with pliers?
@  tigerhawk : (21 May 2021 - 01:05 PM)

Oh great my Legends Dai Atlas fell and the gun snapped in two, the handle is stuck in the port on top of the vehicle mode.
@  Nevermore : (21 May 2021 - 04:14 AM)

Also, our compound terms are legendary among foreigners, because we throw them together as a single word, with no spaces and usually without hyphens too.
@  Nevermore : (21 May 2021 - 04:12 AM)

You can have straightforward sentences that are a literal word-replace translation of stuff like "I go to school", but once you throw in perfect tense and prepositions, you end up with insane constructions where the main verb is at the very end of a very long sentence, so you have to listen to the whole sentence until you have any clue what is going on.
@  Nevermore : (21 May 2021 - 04:10 AM)

And I stand by that. German sentence structure can be utterly insane.
@  Nevermore : (21 May 2021 - 04:10 AM)

Fun fact: When I was teaching German kids English, I kept telling them that English grammar and especially sentence structure is more logical than German.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 01:17 AM)

e.g. Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den was by a Chinese guy pointing out the weirdness in his own language, rather than the frustrations of somebody learning Chinese as their second. So English isn't the only case where native speakers might enocunter funky issues.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (21 May 2021 - 01:17 AM)

Then I shall concede, and retire.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 01:14 AM)

I'm not sure if that's even all that unique to English.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (21 May 2021 - 01:07 AM)

Which is why I specified those comparing learning it to learning other languages as a second language.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 01:04 AM)

And I don't think "ancedotal frustration" means much, considering that every language has complaints from people trying to learn it.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 01:03 AM)

The fact that these stand out certainly makes Japanese "not a smoothie". And it's only consistent within more recent loanwords. Older ones stick out in a different way.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (21 May 2021 - 01:00 AM)

Even writing them generally in katakana is a consistent treatment, and gives someone learning the language a general expected approach. I'd say the anecdotal frustration with English by those learning it compared to learning other languages as a second language is a demonstration that this sort of consistency and organization was not a valued thing in the past few centuries of the language's development.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 12:28 AM)

Frankly, it just sounds like you think other languages seem a certain way because you don't look into them all that much.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 12:28 AM)

It's pretty pervasive in Japanese as well, with how these feature into everyday speech.. And I don't know what you even mean by "deep", since writing them in a particular character set basically calls attention to not just their derivative nature, but their relative recency as well.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (21 May 2021 - 12:25 AM)

Indeed, every language has those artifacts if you examine deeply enough, but in English they're not deep, and they're pervasive.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (20 May 2021 - 11:56 PM)

like Japanese using three different script types together, and more recent word borrowings tend to be in katakana.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (20 May 2021 - 11:51 PM)

I don't know what you mean by "cohesively". Borrowings are probably obvious if you know what to look for.

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The Toy and Action Figure thread

Started by Shanghai, Feb 07 2011 04:20 PM

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#1 Shanghai

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Posted 07 February 2011 - 04:20 PM










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Posted 07 February 2011 - 04:38 PM

A terrible joke custom. Modern Aquaman, as of Brightest Day #19.


But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander... All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. You seem to think that our plan is one of censorship. What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.

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Posted 07 February 2011 - 06:41 PM



This picture was a lot better in idea than execution, I couldn't decide what to do with the arms. Still love the kit though!

Edited by Enbee, 07 February 2011 - 06:42 PM.

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 12:16 PM

Now, let's begin the Toy Fair hype!

We should be seeing a bunch of new Star Wars stuff, including the Republic Attack Shuttle, since glimpses of that have started to leak out already.

There should be the stuff for the new Thundercats series, due out in August, which was seen briefly at the UK Toy Fair.

Probably Transformers DotM and Prime stuff, since that's started leaking out too.

SK Omega, a GI Joe style military line, will not be there but will be posting actual toy photos on their site soon:
http://www.hisstank....1-update-10129/

Oh, and NECA's doing some stuff. Among other things, more Bioshock and a Duke Nukem:
http://toynewsi.com/...39&itemid=16865

Finally, I hope we see Mattel's Back to the Future line that they've supposedly been working on.
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Posted 09 February 2011 - 02:50 PM

Also, we will probably be seeing Hero Factory wave 3 there as well.
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Posted 10 February 2011 - 01:15 PM

Well, it's begun. And hooray for the lobster megazord!















http://toynewsi.com/...hp?itemid=16873
http://toynewsi.com/...hp?itemid=16875

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Posted 10 February 2011 - 11:52 PM

I've never bought a zord in my life but, that...that my friend will be mine.


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Posted 11 February 2011 - 12:30 AM

Ebizou actually doesn't come off too bad.

I'm guessing, then, that Ika-chan will come in a two pack with Gold like the other auxillery Zords.
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Posted 11 February 2011 - 12:31 AM

You might consider the current Samurai Megazord, too. If this one at all is like the Japanese version, you will be able to combine them to get something like this:


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Posted 11 February 2011 - 12:32 AM

If it looks like you can go full clusterhug Samurai Ha-oh with these guys, I might end up considering them.
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Posted 13 February 2011 - 01:41 PM

Gaming Heads, the company that has been making hideously expensive Valve-based statues, is finally making some figures!







Smaller-scale poseable Heavy! With swappable hands!
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Posted 13 February 2011 - 06:45 PM


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Posted 13 February 2011 - 06:55 PM



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Posted 14 February 2011 - 12:32 AM

YES.

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Back To The Future products are coming in mid 2012. They only have the rights to Doc and Marty at this time and the Delorian, so look for different versions of those two characters from all 3 movies to be released in various scales.


http://toynewsi.com/...88&itemid=16919
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Posted 14 February 2011 - 12:41 AM

Combined:

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Paramount Home Entertainment will be releasing RANSFORMERS CYBERTRON on 9.13.05

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Posted 14 February 2011 - 12:43 AM

Looks like they're having the parts that fold up into emblems on the Japanese one just hang off the back as arms, with the hands folded away. Not ideal, but eh, it works.
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Posted 16 February 2011 - 12:49 AM

Where do Minimates get sold???



Cuz I wants me some...

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Posted 16 February 2011 - 01:22 AM

...I want Ammy.

But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander... All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. You seem to think that our plan is one of censorship. What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.

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Posted 16 February 2011 - 02:44 AM

QUOTE(Waspinator @ Feb 13 2011, 10:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Gaming Heads, the company that has been making hideously expensive Valve-based statues, is finally making some figures!







Smaller-scale poseable Heavy! With swappable hands!



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