VT Bounty Hunter the Legend

To clear up the Paypal issue, from what I understand, you can send payment via Paypal for free so long as you back up that payment with a bank account number. However, if someone is paying you through a credit card (the majority of payments), you can only accept it, if you are a member of their premier account. A premier membership is the one where they tack on the fees for receiving a payment. For Paypal they say they offer a free payment service (which is true), yet in reality I'd say at least 80% off Paypal payments are backed up by credit cards, so Paypal scrounges up a percentage on most the transactions carried out. I found that out through my exchange with SWAF.

Needless to say VT, I'll be sending you a check :)

jt: "these folks aren't forumites"
-so?? i repeat, as Rooster might entreat Huggy Bear, hook a brutha up :silly: if that wouldn't work lmk what you hope to get for it :)

"unlike your Frugalness"
-yeah, just seems a shame to me for a whole fig to go to waste :crazed:

"think Spike is using the series because. . . they get it cheap"
-a plausible theory; i shoulda guessed :rolleyes:

"half-baked. . . probably is why it ended up a gift-set exclusive"
-an interesting speculation that woulda never occured to me, thanx for sharing :)

"Main Deflector just a flat surface with blue paint"
-ah, but what a diVine shade of blue :happy:

"pylons are way too thick"
-so she's a little thunder-thighed. . . considering her other charms i can live with that ;)

"lines are too deep"
-that's what She said last nite :lol: actually i prefer their depth compared to, say, reliant's, cuz it makes them Pop more. mms aren't simply about accurate translation, they're also about artful translation- taking the format's inherent limits into account and deviating from pure faithfulness when it yields a more, shall we say, Charismatic result :) personally i woulda liked the photorp-deck's front to at least sport a black rectangle; i spose i could add one myself w/a marker but in my mind it just wouldn't be the same, since part of the joy of these things for me is they come so ready & complete Without me having to paint, assemble & whatnot.
to me reliant's lamo by comparison, it may be more accurate but it just lays there in dullsville :p i even like ent-a's colors better- but of course that's an area galoob often excelled in; compare, say, the hotwheel atomix trike's green/black/silver scheme to mos eisley landspeeder's same. trike's looks like it came right outta the can, while moseis looks like a picky, well-paid galoob colorist took his sweet time tweaking each hue :) speaking of:
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found b'jr Another $2.49-targ-priced atomix 5-pack; my fellow mm-ship fanatics who ain't yet got really oughta consider them (bc3, i'm tawkin to Yoo) :cool:
vt

I don't think I know one collector who would go in for these accessory trade things of yours really, but I'll try to remember to bring it up in passing. As for what I'd want to get, I hadn't thought that far ahead. I could go the easy route and say "Holo Luke" since he's the only one right now I don't have that I want that's out, but I don't know if I'd really go there, R1 is a "hot" figure right now and while I don't expect to rip anybody off in trade, asking for a figure that's super-new like a fig from the General Madine wave doesn't seem so far off the map. Of course, what I'd like and what I get are 2 different things, as is evident by the stockpile of POTF2 trade bait I never got rid of.


Only you could be so entertained by the sloppy blue paint on the deflector. Isn't the impulse crystal also that blue, yet not as sloppily applied?

"so she's a little thunder-thighed. . . considering her other charms i can live with that"
- what charms? Thick thighs and thick neck do not the Enterprise-A make, though the latter does make the Enterprise-D.

"actually i prefer their depth compared to, say, reliant's, cuz it makes them Pop more. mms aren't simply about accurate translation, they're also about artful translation- taking the format's inherent limits into account and deviating from pure faithfulness when it yields a more, shall we say, Charismatic result"
- No, sorry, I'm not buying this here, maybe on Space Dock or the TOS Enterprise, perhaps, but the Ent-A has a very specific look and those lines ain't it. They're not supposed to pop, they're a secondary design feature of the saucer, they're supposed to give light suggestion of shape, not demand attention away from real features such as the bridge and impulse engines.

"to me reliant's lamo by comparison, it may be more accurate but it just lays there in dullsville i even like ent-a's colors better"
- I'm not talking about the colors, the color scheme on the Reliant was designed several years before the Ent-A, the Reliant's colors were at the very beginning of the Space MM revolution (though I do appreciate that Reliant's paints are neater and less thick). So what makes the Reliant 'dullsville' besides coloring? And after you answer that, beyond giving some vague artsy comments (if you'll pardon my tactless, tasteless, uneducated, paletless wording), what ACTUALLY makes the Ent-A work for you as a STMM (after all, you did say it posts very high among STMMs on your list)?

starcon sightings, say so Now if want: $40 predator af in beat-up box, $100 unopened tie-def in better shape. also various furata ships $15 each, exc. for ent-e, sulaco etc which are $30 each
baggins
for b'jr: o-o-p snapfast tf lander for $0.10, all four podracer 2-pax for $1 each and pod race arena (which has aldar beedo pod b'jr never got) in trade for for 1 st & 3 sw mm singlepax we didn't need :)
for tokyo joe: targ-xclusive a-wing for $15; tj gets the pilot and b'jr gets the ship :) also traded a holo-leia r2 and $20 for walmart-exclusive snowspeeder (tj gets the dack & luke figs, b'jr gets the snowsp) :)

jt: "don't think I know one collector who would go in for these accessory trade"
-a longshot as usual i know, but then what other kinda shots are worth pursuing? :)

"Isn't the impulse crystal also that blue"
-prolly; the more "that blue" the merrier :D

"what ACTUALLY makes the Ent-A work for you. . . what makes the Reliant 'dullsville' besides coloring?"
-i hope you won't find it too vague & artsy for me to simply comment that, since nothing beyond what i've already specified comes to mind, the answer to those two questions is to me self-evident when i look at em- one just catches my eye way more than the other :classic:

"pardon my tactless, tasteless, uneducated, paletless wording"
-pardon it? i Applaud it, and thank you for your interest; just wish i had more specifics to offer in return. of course, you've always had a talent for getting me to elaborate, so feel free to keep at it until i cough up more of what you seek :)
vt

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starcon sightings, say so Now if want: $40 predator af in beat-up box, $100 unopened tie-def in better shape. vt

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I s'poze you already tested the seller's resolve, as far as taking $25 for the Pred? Hey, I'm not totally inflexible, I'll go to $28. ;)

[unrelated note: saw KillBill2 at a matinee on Friday. Yowza!!! hella-fun, as you Coloradans say.]

VT, I wish I could figure out the thing to say that would loosen yer tongue about what criteria got the Ent-A so high on your list, but I'm afraid I'm running aground on this. (ok, we're done with the :Pirate: refs for now)

Lemme ask you this, when you see any model of the movie Enterprise/Ent-A, whether it be a level-3 model or a snapfast model or the MM or the ST3 die cast or the Art Asylum version, does it get a high response from you? Are your opinions on the MM version based heavily on feelings for the movie prop's design, or is it an MM first and foremost?

When you look at your MMs together, does the Saratoga catch your eye perceptively more than the Reliant? Do you notice the 'Toga as much as the Ent-A?

on way there found sun tzu's Art Of War at yardsale for $.25, and once there traded a borg-head water bottle a pal got me in vegas years ago for an applause droid fighter ornament (kinda a less-detailed mm of same but w/the wings separated) :) also traded a 10" dukat fig and an ep2 sticker set two other pals had given me, for another pod race arena (again for the aldar beedo mm; now bjr'll have 2, unless someone here needs) :) but most important for me, i made unexpected headway in my "longshot" accessotrading by trading 3 figs i targ-sale paid $1.25 for each (sa clone, faytonni & factory-flight r2) for the exact accessories i wanted from Six figures: cw fisto's saber, antilles' gun & helm (latter fits & looks Great on my saga reb trooper :cool: ), saga tie's chestbox, saga dengar's backpack & rifle, preview zam's rifle & pistol (waited 2 years for this :) and, of most interest to us mm collectors, wat tambor's holoship since that's the closest we'll get anytime soon to an mm of same eh? :D worked my trade partner (a con dealer) into such trading fever that he let me just Rip the stuff i wanted out of his mint-card packages right there on the dealer room floor while his fellow dealers watched, aghast but unable to tear their eyes away from this 2-way de-commodification; that was fun :D
which reminds me, i got a surprise for you fig-receivers (jt, lbc & ltb): several of the ones i targ-sale bagged after the new year were not $2.52 incl. tax, but $1.25 incl tax- so i'll be passing that savings along to each of you by halving one each of your figs' prices (below) :) anyhoo now that starcon's over i'm readying no less than Eight packages for launch including tokyo joe's. the first four below i can send quickly, while the last three i'd like to send later for reasons specified below. notes on each:
ltb: 3x $2.52 sa clones + $1.25 sa clone + shipping- and my cryptoquextion for you is: you still Jonesin on the same street? ;)
lbc: $4 dc tie-b + $2.52 mcsqetchtroop + $1.25 durge + shipping to add to your prev $8.56 total- & plz remail me your address :) also lmk how important packaging is to you, i.e. mind if i bend any/all cards to ship in smallest possible box?
gsj: $10.47 atte + $9.77 atte + free rotj mag +shipping, plz reconfirm post 638's cryptoquext :)
pf: vintage chewy rifle (trade so no charge); all i need's your address :)
jt: $14 hms b-bop + $6.45 ds9 tech + free-replace sa clone (in trade for atomix, so retro-pricing one of your previous $2.52 figs to $1.25 :))+ $5.28 rig4 + shipping; add to newly-adjusted prev total ($55.43) and reconfirm post 638's cryptoquextion above :) prefer to wait on sending yours so i can finish reading 2 more free trekmags i'm gonna enclose, mm-k?
kak: your cw ekalauncher is $2.48; since this will be our 1st transaction i'll advise you on total w/postage, then await payment b4 sending :)
swaffy: "hella-fun, as you Coloradans say"
-maybe my social circle's mercifully circumscribed but aside from cartman & co. i've never actually heard a coloradoan utter that; it's one of my staple Humpjectives primarily for its concise utility :stupid: by time i returned pred af had been sold; however as per your prev-specified max prices, got you unopened $15 af tanker bug for $10 :) you want i should enclose recently-scored Wigstock and Career Girls club VTapes while i'm at it? recommend both :) prefer to wait on sending in case i can score you more from snail-like sst af source, nn-k?
suggestion for all: if/when you encounter apparently ongoing problem of addressed-to-me emails bouncing (and from what i'm hearing it isn't just plaguing overstuffed boxes like mine :frus: ), might wanna notify me of same via a post in this thred :)

jt: "wish I could figure out the thing to say"
-worry not, you seem to understand that well-chosen quextions are a key to a successful interrogation- a knack that will serve you well when you "ssg user/fan" interview me :cool:

"a level-3 model or a snapfast model or the MM or the ST3 die cast or the Art Asylum version"
-as yet i'm not intimately familiar with any of the non-mm versions you cite, and that fact touches on one of the very reasons i favor mms: getting familiar with mms requires less overall ($$, effort, inflexible display logistics) than the other formats. aside from st3dc which i consider a blaring-white, featureless, needlessly metal version, one drawback they all start off with in my eyes is their size. i do have a few larger ship toys (isd, borg cube & sphere, ds9, vorcha, falcon, tyderium, slave 1, b-wing), but in every case both their acquisitional circumstances were so efficient and their innate charms were attractive enough for me to bother- a litmus test that, for me, mms pass much more dependably than larger-scale toys :)

"is it an MM first and foremost?"
-in light of my above-delineated preference for the mm format, i would say so- good quextion :)

"does the Saratoga catch your eye perceptively more than the Reliant"
-yes, it does, tho it still strikes me as a bit of a missed opportunity (no xwing-style side guns to further set it apart from reliant- or better yet, since it's so similar to reliant, instead galoobb coulda offered an entirely different ship extant at the time, such yridian, cardie patroller, regula 1 etc).

"notice the 'Toga as much as the Ent-A?"
-no and that's an incisive query, in that toga's more sophisticated, subtleized palette is one reason i slightly favor it over reliant :) other reasons are the slightly coarser, more-poppin etchings and slightly-thicker saucer & nacelles which, while i usually favor maximum delicacy for the sake of accuracy and pushing fabrication limits, in this case imparts a more satisfying feel overall :)
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ltb: 3x $2.52 sa clones + $1.25 sa clone + shipping- and now for your cryptoquextion: you still Jonesin on the same street? ;)

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Don't really understand whatcha mean by "jonesin on the same street"? :nerv:

Clone deal sounds good to me. :cool:

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swaffy: "hella-fun, as you Coloradans say"
-maybe my social circle's mercifully circumscribed but aside from cartman & co. i've never actually heard a coloradoan utter that; it's one of my staple Humpjectives primarily for its concise utility by time i returned pred af had been sold; however as per your prev-specified max prices, got you unopened $15 af tanker bug for $10 you want i should enclose recently-scored Wigstock and Career Girls club VTapes while i'm at it? recommend both prefer to wait on sending in case i can score you more from snail-like sst af source, nn-k?

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nn-k!

Thanks VT! How / when shall I get you the $$?? Lemme know.
(btw, what's up w/ the Avs? Dallas must've really worn 'em down. Not that my Wings have been consistently great, thus far. Just watched 'em drop a heartbreaker to those hoser backbacon-eatin' !*#$%& Flames)

Huh, dunno how I missed this post last week.

Nice gets on the accessories, sweet deal!

All that renumbercrunching has left my brain confused. I'll just trust you on my stuff here.

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reconfirm post 638's cryptoquextion above

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Oh good, that wasn't confusing at all. :p Luckily, using my mad math skills, I was able to track down that original post and figure it out by seeing the original question, to which I answer: "yes". And enjoy the reading of the trekmags. :)


"as yet i'm not intimately familiar with any of the non-mm versions you cite"
- Shocking! I love the movie Enterprise, so I'm very familiar with 'em all. I did forget to cite (thanks for the spelling lesson BTW, internet pushed that spelling right outta my brain till now) the various pewter versions, tho' only 1 really deserves any mention in this pricerange, the one from Racing Champions.

"one of the very reasons i favor mms: getting familiar with mms requires less overall ($$, effort, inflexible display logistics) than the other formats."
- Yeah, tell that to someone who doesn't have this piece now though. Friggin' scalpers, friggin' Paramount.

"aside from st3dc which i consider a blaring-white, featureless, needlessly metal version,"
- Lemme compare your claims against the 2 I have... yup, yup, and yup. The first one I have was 'battle damaged' when one of the pylons broke by accident and then I gave it a full-on beat-down to match (same thing with the Die Cast Ent-D years later!). Still, up intil recently, that was the ONLY toy version I could even find (the big mixo-chango one was unknown to me until very recently).

"one drawback they all start off with in my eyes is their size. i do have a few larger ship toys (isd, borg cube & sphere, ds9, vorcha, falcon, tyderium, slave 1, b-wing), but..." The snapfast model is about Action Fleet size, the Racing Champs pewter one is about Galoob Die Cast size. I do see what you mean though. But which Larger-Sized Falcon are you referring to, the Kenner/Hasbro full-size one, the Kenner Die Cast one, or the Action Fleet one (or one of the models)?

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"is it an MM first and foremost?"
-in light of my above-delineated preference for the mm format, i would say so-

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At first, I made the same presumption, but then I backed up when I realized that this Ent-A is the ONLY Ent-A in the scale, so it's harder to totally judge that answer at this point. Still, it'd be hard to fully gauge whether I'm splitting hairs with that one or not, so I think the point will stand as an MM.

"-yes, it does, tho it still strikes me as a bit of a missed opportunity (no xwing-style side guns to further set it apart from reliant- or better yet, since it's so similar to reliant, instead galoobb coulda offered an entirely different ship extant at the time, such yridian, cardie patroller, regula 1 etc)."
- On the Toga, are you saying you would have rather seen Galoob make an inaccurate vehicle, or are you saying you would rather it had been a Soyuz class instead of the Toga?

"no and that's an incisive query, in that toga's more sophisticated, subtleized palette is one reason i slightly favor it over reliant :) other reasons are the slightly coarser, more-poppin etchings and slightly-thicker saucer & nacelles which, while i usually favor maximum delicacy for the sake of accuracy and pushing fabrication limits, in this case imparts a more satisfying feel overall :)"
- Hmm, especially taking into account that last part, I'm suspecting that besides your yen for the MM scale, perhaps the MM Ent-A is a more idealized version of the Starfleet design, it captures the very essence of that design because it literally is the prototypical for Modern Trek ships. Or maybe its coarser sculpting and painting are like a loud yell to you rather than the normal visual conversation between the rest of the Starfleet MM vehicles.

I wish I were feeling more inspired right now, but the weather is kinda beating me down today.

. . .which, added to $2.62 price, makes your final total $4.60; payment specs have been emailed to you :)

sighted: mm-sized 1980 dc buckrogers ship w/deployable wings, $15, but seller has had this same one for Years so if anyone's interested i'll try to bag it for $10 or less :)

swaf: "How / when shall I get you the $$"
-might as well wait till sending back club VTapes, at which point you can enclose cash if you wish; will enclose Career Girls & Wigstock Vtapes and oh, i forgot, plz reconfirm answer to post 638's cryptoquextion ;)

"what's up w/ the Avs?"
-axin the wrong guy i'm afraid; one of the few things noam chomsky & i are on the same page about is that most sports always struck me as irrelevant diversions i could never get caught up in- even more so than certain Wars eh :speech: :rambo: but re avs, if anything i'd feel for quebec, cuz like 1-2 years after their nordiques were bought, moved here, renamed & infused w/big-money talent they won their first championship in forever. so we newcomers bagged glory right off while quebec fans went without for decades- and don't get me started bout how broncowner pat bowlen blackmailed this city into paying for his new $300mil playpen or else he'd move his post-elway-mediocre team outta town :dead:

ltb: "Don't really understand whatcha mean"
-hint: see quextions i just axed lbc :)

jt: "I'll just trust you on my stuff"
-see apr3 reply to lbc above :evil: ;) on that note, whoops lbc, dctb's $5 as cited in post 724 above, not the $4 cited just now :nerv:

"using my mad math skills, I was able to track down"
-gee, next time you want me to hyperlink to it? and while i'm at it, fetch yer slippers for ya? ;)

"Nice gets on the accessories, sweet"
-yeah, glad to hear Someone here in mm-land can appreciate what an improbable triumph it was- yay for me :classic:

"tell that to someone who doesn't have this piece"
-actually i did, namely myself- to wit: annoyed at being tricked into buying the 1st 5 3-pax before the le box 1 offered ent-a xclusively, i'd long resigned to not going after it since it'd mean buying 15 mms i already had. but as i raconteured on the galooBB years ago, one of the several miraculous suMMer '97 finds that inspired me to assist fellow mm collectors ever since was when b'jr & i came across three le 1 boxes at a discount store for $10 each. as you've no doubt gathered, his mm collecting emphasizes multiples, as opposed to my one-of-everything style. so he was happy to bag all 3 boxes- in all their redundancy- and trade me the ent-a from one in xchange for a few doubles which, despite my best efforts, galoob had tricked me into acquiring the previous 4 years :D the lesson: stand firm and everything you're meant to have will eventually be yours on Your terms :D

"referring to, the Kenner/Hasbro full-size one"
-yep, that one; found in thrift store for $1 :) b4 that found 2 of same's vintage version for similar prices, which i subsequently gave to b'jr upon baggin the mid-90s upgrade (in fact, early-90s price tag's still visible :greedy: ). of course all had some part strippage, but whatta i care about dat :)

"up intil recently, that was the ONLY toy version I could even find"
-a qualifier which illustrates exactly why scifi mms were such a landmark, one which demarcates collecting eras into Before and After MMs, to wit: After, the bar for acceptable ease, detail, value & fun was irrevocably raised :cool:

"saying you would have rather seen Galoob make an inaccurate vehicle"
-inaccurate? you mean the x-wingy side guns? as your ds9techman will make clear, sarat Did have such guns even tho the mm omits them :Ponder:

"maybe its coarser sculpting and painting are like a loud yell"
-i wouldn't use the word "loud", but yes, indeed it's more striking :cool:

(from apr 17 post): "thick neck do not the Enterprise-A make"
-yep, that makes ent-e instead- or maybe them hippo-like deltaquad "hierarchy" aliens holodoc encountered :crazed:
vt
p.s. last chance for receivers to request enclosure of following music!
cassettes:
depeche's Songs Of Faith & Devotion
808 state's Utd. State 90
Deep House: Nervous Breakdown Vol. 2 (compilation)
horner's Aliens score
badalamenti's Twin Peaks Fire Walk W/Me score
cds:
808 state's Don Solaris
howie shore's Crash score
carter burwell's Being John Malkovich score (scratched, skips a bit)

I dunno VT, the Kenner/Hasbro Falcon is pretty badly misshapen IIRC (it's been a while since I seen one, I refused to get one my whole life). But, at a buck, I suppose who can complain?


"-a qualifier which illustrates exactly why scifi mms were such a landmark, one which demarcates collecting eras into Before and After MMs, to wit: After, the bar for acceptable ease, detail, value & fun was irrevocably raised :cool:"
- except not many have picked up the gauntlet now that it's 'after', except for the rare heres and theres, it's become 'before' and 'never again' for the toy industry. Maybe the Japanese pieces and the upcoming Playing Mantis pieces will change the way the industry does this, but I'm not holding my proverbial breath on that one. I still submit that Art Asylum (now owned by Jakks Pacific, which bodes very poorly for all involved) is sitting on a gold mine that they refuse to tap by not producing small-size Trek ships.


"inaccurate? you mean the x-wingy side guns? as your ds9techman will make clear, sarat Did have such guns even tho the mm omits them :Ponder:"
- Despite what the book says, the Toga was seen on film and had no such guns. The EU can suggest there's a second saucer section on the Defiant for all I care, it's the images we see on screen that produce the scale by which we judge accuracy here. I can't imagine why this book would say that, I can't wait to see it. I thumbed through it when it first came out and found its details on the Defiant sorely lacking, but that could have been from not really digging in.


"yep, that makes ent-e instead- or maybe them hippo-like deltaquad "hierarchy" aliens holodoc encountered"
- Like Voyager, Ent-E has no neck at all. Have I mentioned recently how nice the pewter keychain Ent-E is? This sucker just screams "Micro Machine", it's far more accurate than the official MM version. Don't remember those aliens.

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swaf: "How / when shall I get you the $$"
-might as well wait till sending back club VTapes, at which point you can enclose cash if you wish; will enclose Career Girls & Wigstock Vtapes and oh, i forgot, plz reconfirm answer to post 638's cryptoquextion ;)

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per post 641's cryptoanzwer: It's Curtin for me.

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"what's up w/ the Avs?"
-axin the wrong guy i'm afraid; one of the few things noam chomsky & i are on the same page about is that most sports always struck me as irrelevant diversions i could never get caught up in- even more so than certain Wars eh :speech: :rambo: but re avs, if anything i'd feel for quebec, cuz like 1-2 years after their nordiques were bought, moved here, renamed & infused w/big-money talent they won their first championship in forever. so we newcomers bagged glory right off while quebec fans went without for decades- and don't get me started bout how broncowner pat bowlen blackmailed this city into paying for his new $300mil playpen or else he'd move his post-elway-mediocre team outta town :dead:

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at the risk of getting you started, I totally agree about the entire issue of tax $ for sports stadiums. I also agree there is an insanely overblown amount of attention to sports in our culture. While I do enjoy watching the RedWings, and will keep a NASCAR race on the boobtube if I find it while surfing, that is about the extent of my interest in pro sports. I cannot name a single Wings player by their jersey number (but can pick them by their face or pattern of movement on the ice), and only know a few stock car drivers by sight or car number, so I'm hardly a fanatic even about those two sports. This is going to be a rant, so I'll spare the SSG MM/AF crowd from the ramblings to come, and move the remainder of this post to e-mail (that is, of course, if your !*#$%^&*?~"{/*-+`><} ((darn! ran out of curse-word-substitute characters!!!!)) EMAIL box isn't OVERFULL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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ltb: "Don't really understand whatcha mean"
-hint: see quextions i just axed lbc :)

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Oh you mean this?:

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lbc: also lmk how important packaging is to you, i.e. mind if i bend any/all cards to ship in smallest possible box?

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I've been thinkin about it and I'd kinda prefer for them to be left as they are right now so I can compare'em to the ones I have carded now, should be able to put all four in one box though and it'll probably be $4.95. There's a basic rectangle box the post office has that fits 4 figures (stacked bubble to bubble in an *ahem* 69 posistion.. :nervous: ) perfectly. I'd guess no matter how you packed'em the figs would still cost around $4 to ship anyways. That ok?

-nope, my cryptoquextion means is your mailing address the same since prototour? if not plz mail me current address :)

jt: "I still submit that Art Asylum is sitting on a gold mine"
-so whadya want from me, a argumint? :D

"Hasbro Falcon is pretty badly misshapen"
-no doubts there, but i'd buy that for a dollar ;P

"not many have picked up the gauntlet"
-except for the b5 fig pack-ins, ep1 & voy snapfasts, playmates captain's yacht, furuta/romando et al i spose that's true, but better than nothing eh? :)

"it's become 'before' and 'never again' for the toy industry. Maybe the Japanese pieces and the upcoming Playing Mantis pieces will change the way the industry does"
-regardless its source or improbability, i live in hope; failing that, i simply enjoy what i already gots :)

"had no such guns"
-if you say so, but would they reallya been so bad on the mm? :crazed:

"Don't remember those aliens"
-episodes "tinker tenor doctor spy", "rennaisance man" and "big fat hippo-like deltaquad aliens" ;)

swaf: "I'll spare the SSG MM/AF crowd from the ramblings"
-in case email box Is too full, personally one reason i come here is For the rantings :)
vt

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-nope, my cryptoquextion means is your mailing address the same since prototour? if not plz mail me current address :)

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It was so...simple.... you've got me too used to the complex deciphering of your uniquely encrypted messages. :crazed:

Yeah my address is the same, don't think I'd ever be able to move from this dustbowl. :D

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jt: "I still submit that Art Asylum is sitting on a gold mine"
-so whadya want from me, a argumint? :D

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No, but I had to vent anyway.

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"not many have picked up the gauntlet"
-except for the b5 fig pack-ins, ep1 & voy snapfasts, playmates captain's yacht, furuta/romando et al i spose that's true, but better than nothing eh?

"it's become 'before' and 'never again' for the toy industry. Maybe the Japanese pieces and the upcoming Playing Mantis pieces will change the way the industry does"
-regardless its source or improbability, i live in hope; failing that, i simply enjoy what i already gots :)

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Yeah, but with so much room to expand, I really feel like we're being cheated out of great stuff, the promise of an unfulfilled future is frustrating, I suppose.

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"had no such guns"
-if you say so, but would they reallya been so bad on the mm? :crazed:

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Possibly not, but it takes us back to that thorny "accuracy" issue. ;) Now, if Galoob had bucked the themed 3pack trend and simply added a Soyuz-class, we'd be talkin' another tale.

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"Don't remember those aliens"
-episodes "tinker tenor doctor spy", "rennaisance man" and "big fat hippo-like deltaquad aliens" ;)

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Ok, I remember now thanks to those eps, I had forgotten all about them. Long way to go for a vague reference. ;)

VT, cram the figures in the box, tape it in a half-arsed, and slam it against the wall repeatedly, as violently as you can. For good measure, stomp on it a few times. That way, you'll save USPS valuable time. :D

ain't posted in over a month or answered no emails, & i'm ready to ship :o

jt: "feel like we're being cheated out of great stuff"
-hey i'm doin my part, "raisin awareness" by cafe-table-displayin my mms every chance i git :D btw i fogrot, hierarchy-heirarchy hippos were also in "void" ep, and in accuracy/accessotrade news i have an xtra saga-size imp blaster; recall you saying you liked this new size so, happen to have an xtra blue-purple saber blade? (not the mace shade of purp, the bluier one) :D

lbc: "save USPS valuable time"
-way ahead of ya- i guess "efficient" minds think alike ;)

ltb: "guess no matter how you packed'em the figs would still cost around $4 to ship "
-not neccessarily; if i can make a pkg small & dense enough it can pass for media mail which is often cheeper :greedy:and yeah, biggs is right you're Never gonna get off that rock ;)
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in light of high interest here re jpn furuta trekships, i've asked tokyo joe to purchase ~100-150 on my behalf at $2-3 each so we can All get some :D so get ready to put yer wallet where yer mouth is, i'll keep yall posted :)
have been told about a few trek 3-pax- prices are supposedly negotiable so if interested lmk max you'll pay & i'll run it by em:
#13 (voy, maquis & kaz): $75
#15 (obsidian, karemma & sisko sailor): $150
#16 (voyshut, kaztorp & array): $110
erratic pricing indicates uncertainty re their worth on part of scalper- i may be able to use that aginst him :evil: also heard he has 16-ship stmm boxes between $20-50; not sure whether they're I, II, III or combos thereof but say so if you seek one or more ships from any, as well as the max you'd pay to get those ships. if he has the ones you seek, i'll see if i can cut an acceptable cost-sharing deal between you and b'jr (he'd take the ships you didn't need) :)
cds bagged 4me: cirque du soleil's Quidam and omd's Sugar Tax for $2 each, and bbe's 4-cd MAW '96-2000 comp for $13 :D
bagged free for swaffy: mar/april issue of IFC Rant cuz it has a few articles i think you'd find of interest, i'll enclose w/next pkg :)
vt

Hey VT, i got your email and i will send out the cash tomorrow, ive been so lazy lately that i havent even bothered writing down your address on an envelope yet. Sorry for any trouble i may have caused. If you have the spare time, let me know when it arrives. Thanks.

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ltb: "guess no matter how you packed'em the figs would still cost around $4 to ship "
-not neccessarily; if i can make a pkg small & dense enough it can pass for media mail which is often cheeper :greedy:and yeah, biggs is right you're Never gonna get off that rock ;)

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But I like keeping the cards too. :p

Yeah...I'll probably never move, but it's hard to find an anti-twister area in Oklahoma anyways, so it's cool with me. :D

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in light of high interest here re jpn furuta trekships, i've asked tokyo joe to purchase ~100-150 on my behalf at $2-3 each so we can All get some :D so get ready to put yer wallet where yer mouth is, i'll keep yall posted :)

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Sweet! Definitely lemme know when these come in, they come in plain boxes right? No window box crap or anything?

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have been told about a few trek 3-pax- prices are supposedly negotiable so if interested lmk max you'll pay & i'll run it by em:
#13 (voy, maquis & kaz): $75
#15 (obsidian, karemma & sisko sailor): $150
#16 (voyshut, kaztorp & array): $110
erratic pricing indicates uncertainty re their worth on part of scalper- i may be able to use that aginst him :evil: also heard he has 16-ship stmm boxes between $20-50; not sure whether they're I, II, III or combos thereof but say so if you seek one or more ships from any, as well as the max you'd pay to get those ships. if he has the ones you seek, i'll see if i can cut an acceptable cost-sharing deal between you and b'jr (he'd take the ships you didn't need) :)

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Those're pretty steap to me... if you can get some dots put in like.. 11.0, 15.0 and 7.5 lemme know or somewhere in that area. :D I'm really only looking for loose versions of ships anyways.

Lemme know what 16 count sets he has. I'm still trying to find III, and a MIP II if nobody else needs it.

Yes, I too have been recently wondering where our errant MM forums moderator has disappeared to. He's left me a mod short and it's only by the relatively-good behavior of the MM crowd that I'm not freaking out over it.


VT, if waitstaff controlled the MM-style Sci Fi market, your efforts would surely have gotten us a treasure of spaceship riches.


Yes, I loves me POTJ & beyond Imp blasters, they's my preciouses... However, I don't know what color of saber blade you speak, I have enough little blue saberless-blades to choke a horse, but none seem to have any purple in 'em. Got a specific figure in mind that came with one of this hue of which you describe?

Nice job with the Futura ships, I'll probably want in on that. Keep me posted please.

HOLY FUDGE! Those STMM 3pack prices are heartstoppers! Please give the scalper in question a purple nurple from me next time you see him... or just shoot him dirty looks, whichever doesn't get you charged with a crime.

Hi VT, I've never gotten around to getting the Furuta Trek ships, mainy since they aren't Galoob. Anyways, if you're getting a bunch of them I'd love to get a set (I don't even know how many there are, bu would like them all). Oh and I've noticed Trek MM sets XV and XVI seling for around 75.00 lately on ebay, so if you can;t talk that guy down to much you'd probably be better off just checking out ebay for them, 75.00 for set XIII seems really high as well. Oh and if anyone is looking for Trek MM set XI, I think there are about 3 of them up on ebay now, so maybe it would be a good time to get it for a decent price.

Later,
S43

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yard-sale bagged 4me: backup teac cassette-dubbin deck, $10 :) also sighted some loose bionicle chunks but not sure if anyone here cares about so left em, feel free to say if that choice was wrong :zzz:

ltb: "only looking for loose versions of ships anyways"
-an angle i Might be able to play, thanx for idea :)

"plain boxes right? No window box crap"
-apparently they're analogous to trading cards you buy in a vending machine in that they're uniformly packaged so the contents can't be ascertained til after you buy & open them. which makes our going in on an arrangement like this (all buying a bunch together) the best option to maximize our chances for complete sets. of course it neccessitates i or tokjoe open every one, so lmk if that's acceptable :)

jt: "Got a specific figure in mind"
-i consulted the database in attempt to narrow down, but hues on pix therein don't ring a bell; hmm, maybe shaak ti? :alien:

"your efforts"
-oh i could never characterize such easy pleasure as "effort" :classic:

"purple nurple"
-is that just a titty twister the autocensor won't bleep? ;) anyhoo i prefer shooting a Bemused look as i walk away following whatever deal we do cut, leaving him holding undesirably-priced items after getting him excited about sellin them; then maybe he's more flexible after i let him sit on em for a year or so :evil: another idea: thanx to darthcarlos ~2 years ago i still have 1 xtra each of ep1 pax 11, 12 & 13 that i can presuade him are worth more than the treks :evil:

s43: "I'd love to get a set"
-yeah i bet you would :evil: in light of your turn to the scalp side a while back & my well-known, longstanding policy of not assisting those who do so i'll have to take your request under consideration :sur: feel free to make your case, and anyone else here got any thoughts re whether s43 should be put on scalper probation/redemption? meanwhile most recent email from tokjoe can answer some of your quextions:

ST FIGURES:--> I got you 3items. Number listed below is successively continued from collection 1. Collection 1 contains 10 figures plus 1 secret figure (chaser- rom warbird) and collection 2 covers from item 11 to 20 and 1 secret figure.
13: USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C
15: Future USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D
Secret: USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E (You are lucky again!!)
-yay :D (note to forummers: key word is "I'M lucky" :evil: )

Do you want me to continue to buy or stop?
-dozo, dozo (note to fourmmers: japtalk for horschak's "g'head, g'head" ;) ) :D

Others from collection 2.
11. USS Enterprise NCC-1701
12. USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B
14. USS ENterprise NCC-1701-D
16. USS Voyager NCC-74656
17. USS Farragut NCC-60597
18. USS Prometheus NX59650
19. Jem'Hadar Attach Ship
20. Ferengi Marauder
Those are almost finishing at store. Better be hurry up. ST BATTLESHIPS: I WILL TRY TO GET THE REMAINING FROM SERIES 2 AND POSSIBLLY FROM 1. HWVR, DIDN'T I GET THEM ALL FROM SERIES 1?
- i thought so, but later i found out my information was incomplete ;) we could use ds9, romulan warbird and especially ent-a from 1st wave, if it's possible to still find any for $2-3 each, thanx :)

IT WILL BE DIFFICULT NOW TO FIND THEM AT 50-100PCS
-if you buy that many at once, maybe a shop will give you Bulk Discount? ;)

SO PLS ALLOW ME TO PRIORIZE YOURS FIRST.
-as you wish; my friends will get the leftovers :evil:

Konami Alien Nostromo --> PLEASE LET ME DROP AT SHOPS WHEN I AM FREE.
-as you wish, no hurry :)
vt

VT: All I can say is that everything you've found for me in the past I still have. I've never asked you, or anyone else on the board, for anything I didn't personally need for my own collection. I'd love it if you decide to help me out. If so I'd really like to get one of each of all the Trek ships produced by furuta. I have none at all, I think there are just 2 waves out there now?

Showing the guy with the Trek MMs the completed auctions where sets XIII, XV, and XVI have been going cheap lately should help him rehtink his prices. Just do a search for: micro* trek (xiii, xv, xvi)

Here are a few that will come up:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...241971390&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...190865080&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...189763402&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...240622771&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...242804621&rd=1

Later,
s43

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sounds cool. thanx. sorry I am taking so long w/ VTapes. not getting many chances to watch flix this year. if you are losing patience, I can send 'em back, or at least a partial shipment. lemme know.

also want to add my concerns for GSJ's well-being. hasn't it been nearly a month since any post from jeddah, too? coincidence? hmmm........ ;)

"of course it neccessitates i or tokjoe open every one, so lmk if that's acceptable"
- Fine by me.

"i consulted the database in attempt to narrow down, but hues on pix therein don't ring a bell; hmm, maybe shaak ti? :alien:"
- Could be, I didn't buy Shaak Ti though, I wasn't terribly keen on a lot of the Saga Jedi figures.

I believe the purple nurple is the same, only moreso. :eek:

"i still have 1 xtra each of ep1 pax 11, 12 & 13 that i can presuade him are worth more than the treks :evil:"
- I dunno, those Ep 1 packs are probably more rare than the Trek packs even, since the Trek ones had a US release while the Ep 1 sets had only a painfully-limited Euro release. I'd hate to see those end up in the hands of scalper scum. But on the other hand, the Trek packs have 3 ships each while the Ep 1 sets are:
* 1 ship, 1 beast, 2 figs
* 1 ship, 1 podracer, 2 figs
* a buncha figs
so maybe the Trek packs are bettah.

$40 unopened le 2 set, in great shape aside from slightly dented corner; interested? try to post answer here by monday 8am my time :)

jt: "Fine by me"
-yeah but since you didn't axe about packaging i wasn't axin Yoo :cheeky:

"Could be"
-hmm, maybe ploo koon or saesee tin? i just dunno :ermm:

"have enough little blue saberless-blades to choke a horse"
-oh yeah? how'd you manage to come into those?

swaf: "at least a partial shipment"
-even if i Were losing patience (and i think i've made it clear there's no hurry), that wouldn't be very Efficient, now would it? :classic:
anyone else wanna weigh in the s43 VerdicT? :sur:
vt

Hmm..could be Plo Koon. Though Saesee did have a purple saber with black handle in the POTJ line. http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?i...esee_front.jpg

Answer me these questions three:
1. What does it's hilt look like?
2. What kind of energy burst spikes does it have? (IE: Long, short, hardly apparent, none?)
3. Is it removeable from the hilt?

I am still here. I have been made to work for the money I am paid (such a drag) and have made infrequent visits here.

Also, I have finally brought up to London Baal's miniheads and Rancors (I had forgotten about the Rancors) so I can send them and settle some of my debt with VT. Nice to be missed :kiss:

Also, [getting ready to dodge the ire] I have just got back from a long trip to Atlanta which left me with a lot of catching up to do....

Finally, there are some massive changes going on with the company I work for and these will impact my situation here in London. I will update the board of my movements and in the meantime, my email addresses have been changed slightly... my work one is still valid (aspectworld) and VT has 2 others for me as I no longer use jeddah@paradigm-shift etc due to 400 odd emails offering me all sorts of vulgar offers.

jeddah

Sorry VT, no Saga Plo Koon or Sassy Tin either.

Blue saber blades come with a lot of Jedi figures, nearly every Anakin figure for example. I dunno really. When I looked at my main saber pile, I see 2 different shades of blue, but neither seem even remotely purpley to me.

. . .that transforms into future "all good things" version, $25; lmk :)

ltb: you didn't answer my $40 le 2 set quextion, and scalper didn't bring by $110 kaztorp/array 3-pack so couldn't verify or move on either of those; but did have opened-but-complete LE box 3 for $50, and i talked him down to $40 :D proof-of-purchase has been cut off box but otherwise in great shape. i recall you still seek ent-e and miradorn so how's this sound: your get those two ships (and the box if you want it), b'jr gets the remaining 14 ships, and you guys split the cost ($20 each) deal? and if you want to trade its unbent voyager for your warped one we can do that too, esp. if you have any xtras you can lay on b'jr :) lmk if any of this sounds good, otherwise i know bjr'll be happy to take all 16 ships for $40 :greedy:
quextion answers: 1- idunno, i thought there was a that-colored blade detachable from the handle, 2- don't recall any spikes, just a nice smooth rod and 3- since you ask i spose i'm Not sure :Ponder: but yes, excellent, thanx for pic referral ltb, that's Exackly the shade of blade i meant; so cough one up horsey jt :silly: meanwhile jt, i bagged apr '00 issue of st mag for $1, will enclose that after reading & rippin out stuff i wanna keep from it :evil:

jdah: "due to 400 odd emails offering me all sorts of vulgar offers"
-the real vulgarity is said vulgar offers aren't Free ;)
vt

On set 2, like I said if anyone else wants it that doesn't have it then they can take it. If ya don't get any offers (besides B'jr of course :p) then I'll try and see if I can cough up the money. Set 3 though? Me want me want :D Dunno when I'd be able to get the money, but yeah.. would kinda like the whole set, but don't wanna sound greedy. :\

let's cross fingers that scalper don't remember to charge me tax, as he didn't for le3 set (but Did for prev-bagged #11 & 12 3-pax and dctb) :) but if he does i'll be sure to insist on a receipt, a la worf to sisko: "at the first sign of treachery i Will kill garak- but, i promise to bring the body back" (ds9's "in purgatory's shadow" ) ;)

"would kinda like the whole set"
-alas, i'm afraid i'm not offering you that option :evil: so plz lmk if you desire ent-e and miradorn (and le3 box, if you want) for $20. also lmk what you decide about offered straightened-voyager help :)

"don't wanna sound greedy"
-no worries, i don't concern myself w/how a person "sounds"- and for that matter feel free to ask Why i'm not offering you the whole le3 set, cuz i also don't mind if you "sound" nosy ;)
on related trivia note, in acquiring this latest box i noticed a slight packaging variant: lower-numbered le3 boxes (~the 1st ten thousand?) sport the yellow lettering (for "introducing ent-e" and "special display stands inside" captions, as well as edging the Trek logo) as seen in '97 trek fanclub catalogs. but later boxes changed the yellow to the silver used elsewhere on the box, while shifting the color of the trek logo itself from an orangey to a more rosey red. dunno the why for this vagary, but personally i prefer the earlier version, it's more punchy :D
vt

Sorry VT, I don't have an extra POTJ Sassy Tin saber and I ain't giving up the one I do have. Sassy had his own color of saber, I don't think it came with any other figures, but perhaps the Saga Sassy had this same color of saber (cheap Hasbro bastages) and he was one of the "we can't give these f'ers away" clearance figures IIRC.

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alas, i'm afraid i'm not offering you that option :evil: so plz lmk if you desire ent-e and miradorn (and le3 box, if you want) for $20. also lmk what you decide about offered straightened-voyager help :)

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Sneak. :p Don't suppose you could throw in the Jem'Hadar ship in there, or would that contradict as to why you're not offerin that? :D

'Spose sounds like a great deal, considering cheapest I've seen the Miradorn usually go for alone is around $8. So $12+/- is frickin awesome for the Ent-E. It's not bent or anything right? :)

As for Voyager, I would just I really take a sentimental attachment to things like that. That make me a fool? :([/

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Sorry VT, I don't have an extra POTJ Sassy Tin saber and I ain't giving up the one I do have. Sassy had his own color of saber, I don't think it came with any other figures, but perhaps the Saga Sassy had this same color of saber (cheap Hasbro bastages) and he was one of the "we can't give these f'ers away" clearance figures IIRC.

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Nah the AOTC/CW Saes came with green sabers. However he did have his POTJ lightsaber with the POTJ sculpt in the TRU Jedi 4-pack. Those aren't going anywhere, so I'm sure eventually they'll mark'em down for dirt cheap. And you could probably get some interesting stuff outta it VT. (Paint the beams red on the electro prison and put an Ent-B MM in the "nexus"?)

-hear that, jt? there are always possibilities, so you keep eyes peeled for any such Opportune Opportunities, & i'll enclose potj impblaster :)

"It's not bent or anything right?"
-uh, that's what She asked last nite ;) in my experience they're all bent, but not uncorrectably so; boil & bend should easily remedy, i'll even do it myself if you want :)

"Don't suppose you could throw in the Jem'Hadar ship in"
-oh it's one of your faves too eh? me & b'jr also; anyone else? :cool:

"would that contradict as to why you're not offerin"
-only partly; see, since my bountyhuntin skills have allowed me to exercise discretion re who gets what, i generally pursue a "spread the luv, then serve the amazing" metier:
my first priority is to assist fellow collectors in getting at least one of everything they seek. (several of you boast more complete sets thanx to my having talked b'jr into collaborating with me re this policy, which is why he's graciously letting ltb have this ent-e and miradorn :) ) this serves to maximize appreciation for scifi mms as a whole while minimizing needless discouragement of mm desire by scalpers as much as possible, which serves to preserve cohesiveness in the mm community thru these times of drought. which is why i asked lbc (post 730 above) if he already had a dctb when he asked for the one i recently found (we'll disregard for the moment that he's thus far failed to answer said quextion :ermm: ).
and "serve the amazing" means my next priority is a conscious choice to continue augmenting the already-stunning mm fleet numbers of baal and especially b'jr since, to our knowledge, no other sfmm collections in the world come close- baal's thanx to sheer cash expenditure, and b'jr's thanx to having the benefit of my personal touch for years ;) it's analogous to choosing to add to the size & grandeur of the giza & cheops pyramids rather than the also-rans up & down the nile which none of us could likely name. by virtue of their pre-existing exceptionalism i've decided these two collections simply Deserve preferential treatment, and make no apologies for that. cuz these exceptions attract awe and attention (and, at times, envy and resentment) to sfmm collecting as a whole, which raises interest and, in the long run, also benefits all sfmm collectors. as you can see, i'm playing a deep, long-term game here- and given the prevailing conditions, what other choice do i currently have? :smoker:
but as indicated on previous occasions, rather than contradicting each other these two priorities end up serving each other more than might be expected: since b'jr has so damn many, he's been more predisposed to defer the xtra siskosailors, hms k-bops and ent-es i've bagged over the years so the rest of you may more easily complete your collection :)
as always, lmk if any quextions :)
vt