Gypsyboy

My six yr old daughter likes the Wii.

Congrats on the job. "my team is known as the "Jedi Council" and the wditing [my bold] team are the "Imperial Forces." " So, why haven't they put you on the editing team? J/K, couldn't resist. Congrats again. As for a Jedi name... how about spelling "imperial forces" backwards? Lairepmi Secrof? Or is that just too clumsy sounding?

If you have a "business park", "industrial park", etc in your area you might want to check the yellow pages to see if there is a plastics dealer. If you buy it in larger quantities, the price is better anyway.

Although there seems to be some bargaining going on at the time, I think the 50% cut is something of an exaggeration. From what I saw when I did some surfing it looks more like the pay increase that has been tabled is not satisfactory to the union.

Personally, I've never listened to a podcast. It's not something I would even think to do. Mind you, I'm a little behind the times when it comes to tech and stuff.

I'm not a 501st member. I just love the costumes and the idea of building stuff. I started with Vader (in retrospect, I should have started with something EASIER!!), and decided I wanted to have more home-made SW lids and stuff around. I hang out on these forums mainly to learn more about the details of the costumes...and to chat with cool people too, of course.

Evil, I tells ya! My wife's b'day is also on the 22nd.

Depending on the size of the item this is true, but parcels can be costly to ship between Canada and the States. I've done a fair bit of shipping into US from Canada and some of the costs are rather high. After having sent something from Europe to Canada, and then into the US, you're probably looking at prices comparable to just going with the higher priced services out of Europe in the first place. This will not be true of small packets of course.

If you can get some grease solvent that should work. Lighter fluid also dissolves plasticine, but I'm not sure if it will affect the mold.

Those are just funny shaped rocks. Tricks of light and shadow.

Maybe they just sent you the fan kit as a "reminder" and to see if you want to give them money for a new membership.

Interesting. But is it needed to say "Star Wars character"? I mean, why dress up as any character? Robocop? Iron Man? Batman? Pokeman? Winnie the Pooh? A French maid? An early 1900s gentleman? Are the underlying reasons not all the same?

I must say that I have had pretty good luck with people following through on their orders (for which I am very grateful) but I do have a policy of securing an order with a deposit. This ensures that my basic supply costs are covered prior to purchasing what I need to make it. After all, this is a hobby for us all, and sometimes life gets in the way of buying those fun things we really want, but just can't justify letting the bills pile up for.

I always thought it sounded kinda like TCHUNG! TCHUNG! (not to be confused with the smaller blaster sound that is more like TCHUU! TCHUU!)

An interesting bit about "burning the midnight oil": http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/80200.html Phrases and ways of speaking are often changing (at least in English) and are given to having a number of different acceptable "styles" depending on what groups you hang out with. It can be confusing. In fact, even between British English and North American English one can run into interesting differences. Some of them can lead to blushing if taken the wrong way.