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Funny I paid the money to get Franklin's Charger out of impound only to get home and find it already parked in the garage...

I finally got some time back in with the game, and got Trevor into Los Santos so that all three characters are playable again. I find they managed to work the characters with enough back story and "feel" that I want to play each of them differently. It's a lot easier to go all buck-wild killing spree with Trevor, than say Franklin who was never really a serious trouble maker. Gotta say I wish the Bounty Hunting missions you do with Trevor were a little more clear as to the location of the bail skipper. A sat photo doesn't do much when you're trying to compare it to the paper map that comes with the game.

No I'm pretty positive I didn't day anything about "the new guy with fast and loose morals" This seller and SAME FLIPPING argument come up every couple of weeks. I don't see why a dog pile of members needs to form to see who can yell the loudest who would not buy from this guy the most. "He'd never get a penny from me times INFINITY!!" Being new you didn't know the hand-wringing and high horse riding expo you'd start, do I don't fault you at all, although some of your comparisons to gasoline and pharmaceuticals are sketchy at best. But more broadly to everyone, criminitally if you don't like the guy, his "tactics", et all, block his ID so you don't see it. Poof problem solved! This is having a problem, or rather creating a problem just to have something to complain about...

Man did I miss the "Pin Harry to the Wall with Fake Outrage and Dubious Moral Superiority on 9/22!" Memo?

Gotta love the day shift vs. night shift wars. Night shift has to do EVERYBODY'S work and then gets jammed up when everything isn't perfect for day turn. Changing jobs isn't going to help unless it's to someplace that closes at 5pm. Because this battle royale is universal. The last place I worked that had a real split shift system, the day shift drivers felt they were special because they saw the sunlight. Forever late to jobs, late FROM jobs making night shift scramble for equipment, when they did show up trucks were out of fuel, low on fluids, had flats/mechanical issues, out of DEF, full of trash, etc. If we did shift change on site they'd howl like babies if night shift wasn't there precisely at 6pm, but they'd show up to relieve us at 8am-ish cause they'd stop and eat breakfast ON THE CLOCK. It led to the point of near fist fights before corporate fired the local management and pulled the day shift aside sand pointed out the reason they were on days wasn't because they were special, but because they were all newly minted CDL holders and they managed to run over/onto/into enough things when they could see where they were going...they were terrified to let them operate in the dark.

So far I've only wrecked a motorcycle a couple of times which weren't fatal. I did get crushed between a bad guy on a jetski and a seawall trying to turn around, that proved to be life ending.

Right now there's no separate listing for a P/E set from Tamiya. Most of the high-end "Black Box" releases have had some form of P/E in them recently, although the picture would seem to offer a release date and price for it that's not in the kit. Right now IF it's separate with the exchange rate and the price show in the pic the P/E would be about $11.00.

It was one of the most expensive video games ever developed at an estimated cost of $250 million dollars. But like I told my wife, they'll make that up in the pre-orders they fill at Midnight, everything after that is pure unadulterated profit. Got in a few hours of straight play before heading out to work for the week, and I have to say I appreciate several of the new features, namely the ability to save the game from your "phone" as well as being able to resume the failed mission from the action. I've only died twice (once with each character I've unlocked so far), but the ability to not respawn at the hospital, and have to hijack a car to do a different mission and/or the ability to restart the mission without having to view the cinematic and drive from Point A to Point B AGAIN is the best part of the game.

Last shipment from HLJ last week... Picked this one off eBay, factory sealed for about a third what they normally go for, and the seller even refunded an over-charge on shipping These two came this week from Hobby Search, both were recently spot-run in the past few months, but for one reason or another I missed them on HLJ. Despite being marked up for their JDM origins all of the Export LHD parts are included in both.

I just shot down two police choppers with an AK, I'm good on the not cheating yet

Takes forever to lose your wanted level in this game. Even if you pull into an alley or into a garage, out running the cops was in IV was easy, just drive beyond the radar marker and park, wait 10 seconds and off you go. Not a fan of the radio selector wheel, it bounces all over, and 95% of the time I just want the radio off anyway so I can hear the character dialogue. I was an old pro and slinging around the cars in IV, if you understood how to dirt-track race you were good as gold. This new driving interface is somewhere between Mario Cart and IV, sometimes the car is unshakable sometimes is sliding all over.

Kids went outside for awhile and I managed to find out my character has a new "Charger" (more or less...they still aren't using real cars) which I promptly t-boned a Range Rover with resulting in their being one less computer driver above ground. Then I promptly got killed in a fire-fight...then the kids came back in, forcing me to pause in the middle of the shoot-out. Can't wait till these little people go to sleep...they can't watch me play this the language would make the entirety of the U.S. Navy blush.

Waiting for this 8GB installation to finish...then maybe I'll have 2 minutes to play before all the kids wake up.

I don't need Revell to be the U.S. Branch if Tamiya, I just need them to act like they care once in awhile. I have never once on my commentary on Revell argued about their choice in kits, but rather in how they decide to go about things. I could care less about meeting release dates, I like many have enough stash that I've built the equivalent of a Hobby Doomsday Prepper Fort. I just think you're seeing the double edged sword of the Hobbico ownership. The proverbial unintended consequence of goods intentions if you will. The argument can be made very strongly that without Hobbico there might not be a Revell today. But because of the background of where Hobbico came from - the merging of Tower Hobbies & Great Planes, the bottom line of "SELL MOOOAAAR KITS!!!" to the exclusion of quality control and focusing on the adult market in 2013, as opposed than trying to recreate the kid's market of 1964. I get that they sell more kits overall to 45,000 average modelers who buy a half dozen kits a year, than 5,000 hard-core forum builders. But a rising tide lifts all ships. Revell doesn't need to make an LX with 250 fiddly over-engineered rivet-counter Skill Level 5 parts, just one that isn't plagued with issues that in this day and age shouldn't even be a factor in world-class model making.

*sigh* You're not listening (or reading). I didn't say there shouldn't have been three versions, I'm saying version ONE should have been correct in the first place if the parts for it are in version THREE. If they had planned to do a "COPO" Nova the whole time, then putting the bench seat and non-SS parts from it (they were going to tool them ANYWAY) into the Yenko Nova kit where they BELONGED wouldn't have cost any more money, since they planned to spend the money anyway. Putting the proper parts into the proper kit isn't making it a 3'n1. The kit would ONLY be able to be built as a Yenko Nova - like the box says. Then you would have the SS 350 kit which is a 2'n1 since it can be built stock or drag. Then you have the "COPO" Nova which is also a 2'n1 since you can build it as the fake 427 Nova or as a SS396. Also using Michael's as an example of stock is hysterical, Michael's seems to rotate their kit stock bi-annually at best. My local one has Revell kits on the shelf that aren't even in the catalog anymore. Let alone my LHS which has THREE different kittings of things like the '99 Lightning F-150. If Revell wants to hang it's hat on being the company for the masses producing a variety of half-hearted releases that are aimed squarely at the weekend warrior modeler who buys one or two kits every quarter, than that's fine. But they should stop pretending to be a Hobbyist Orientated company in that case.

Excellent news, look forward to seeing everyone.

I would agree, BUT, why not just make the Yenko kit correctly in the first place? Doing that would have still allowed a "COPO" 427 nee SS396 kit, as well as the SS 350/Drag Car kit. Kit bashing to me is (more traditionally) to put something from a kit it doesn't belong into another kit it's not designed for...ZR-1 motor, drive train, and suspension into a '56 Nomad. What this situation amounted to was taking a Group of Parts from Kit A and putting them into Kit B. Actually because the COPO Nova has ALL the parts from the Yenko kit other than the wheels, all you really need to do is swap the hoods and decal sheets. That's not kitbashing, that's laziness on Revell's part. Plus you have to consider the COPO Nova didn't get released until THREE years after the original Yenko kit. By then most people who wanted a Yenko replica bad enough either built what they had, or scratchbuilt and kitbashed the mistakes away.

I forgot about this one, I made this back in March after the real LaFerrari reveal. See I can predict model kit releases!

Correct to both yourself and Rob. It's almost time to start reckless speculation about the next batch of new kits, when we haven't even gotten all of the last batch of reckless speculated upon kits yet

Welcome back to the fray Patrick. If you want your mind blown (and perhaps a talking to from the wife) don't forget the Three Rivers Auto Modelers show is coming up Sept 29th one town over in Castle Shannon.

Oh I know, I'm just sayin'...I've been to NNL East, and it's bigger - at least in floor space and models on display, ironically I spent the least of any show I've gone to in the past 3-4 years there. 3RAM continues to soldier on for what has to be close to 25 years, as I went when I was in my late teens, and that's around 20 years ago.

Still the biggest regional show around, as I don't think NJ being 7+ hours away puts it in the same region as Pittsburgh.

I don't remember what the first thing I purchased was, but I remember that I was in a hotel room after being Best Man in my best friend's wedding. Back in 1998 before I had a laptop, and WiFi was ubiquitous, this hotel had a little computer "terminal" (flat screen monitor and keyboard with touchpad) mounted into the wall as a desk. I'm not a drinker and my significant other at the time couldn't/wouldn't come all the way to Philadelphia (from Cleveland at the time), so I was bored and wide awake at 1:00am so I figured I'd look up this whole "eBay" thing.

Well seeing as how it's not showing on the MPC/Round 2 page, I'd say it'll be into 2014 before it sees the light of day.

I see what you did there Erik, but it's not quite in the tradition of that meme...so I fixed it