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Speaking of Terminator, My "Making of Terminator" video uploaded to Youtube has been taken down in Feb due to copyright, now I've received my first strike.
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Bandai 1/12th scale C3PO. Detail is stunning for the size.
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Where is the red arm :D
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Yeah fuck that.
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nippon-yasan is having a sale and that bad arse transforming mech from MGS V is included in the sale (ED-209's daddy):

(from 471,96 AUD to 264,96 AUD)
https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/13 ... ropus.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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looks pretty accurate to me:
Still waiting for Arcadia to get the Reactive Armor pack for the 1/60 VF0S... (they are getting too expensive now imo. Bandai has all the licenses for new shows which is eating away into their profits which I think is causing them to have to charge premium to keep their head above water. That = delays for release)
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Looks like they bumped the price back to normal. :( I refreshed to let a friend know and now it's appearing at the regular price again.. :roll:
WTF? "5th anniversary sale" my arse. :down: Never trust your email newsletter ads..
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Quite an involving transformation on the 1/72 kit of vf-31..
looking forward to getting the DX chgokin. Also still got to get me Glaug Himetal soon. I knew it was a good scale to release enemy mechas at considereing how big they'd be at 1/60 which to me is way too big..

scans of 1/60 VF-31 chogokin:
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Reviews of Bandai Hi-Metal Regult and Glaug:
out now and still available in the usual anime/hobby /toy shops. Super Max VF1-J will be out november. Preorders for that has recently closed but hopefully that still is available after release.

The next release in the Himetal macross line which is imminent is the MKII Monster. Even at 1/100 it's still huge. lol

I see hiMetal as the best desktoys of macross ever done to date. Don't know why they were ignored by the Yamato collectors back before the "R" series. Snobs. You get quality in a tiny package.

I hope that if the sales of these are good Bandai do other macoss mecha in HiMetal line. (eg a variable Glaug, VF-22, VF-11 etc) 1/100 scale is just small enough for you desk but not too big when considering enemy mechas which imo are too big in 1/60 to display and would cost too much. (besides the japanese live in shoeboxes)

BluRay makuross opening (man this series so needs a reanimated reboot with 60fps micromissile swarm)
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pics are emerging of the Arcadia VF-0S Reactive Armor finally (they only do one new toy a year :shock: ):

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youtube vid:
(Starts at 4:04:07)
also vid of the Bandai Himetal MKII Monster:
HLJ currently have VF-1A (cannon fodder paintscheme) HiMetal and MKII Monster Himetal in stock:

http://hlj.com/product/BANN06245/Act" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://hlj.com/product/BANN05211/Act" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The price on monster is pretty high* for 1/100 toy but its HUGE (the original Monster was larger in size than the transforming Koenig Monster) even though its 1/100. I guess this one is for the real diehard collector. Think of all the MP transformers you could get with that? I guess that is the mark of the true fan.

sizes of mecha in SDFM (MKII Monster is the biggest. Makes sense why it can split a Zentadi Scout ship in 4 with single shot):
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*and that's not even taking into account shipping lol

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Bandai DX Chogokin VF-31 scans (from Macross Delta):
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Look great in all modes. 1st Aug is preoder time.

VF-31J preorder:
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After looking around for MP-10 recently I noticed there were a lot of interesting knock off toys floating around out there.

Why does this matter to collectors? Aren't the knock offs of cheaper quality and therefore to be avoided?

Well in the case of MP transformers sometimes the knock off is superior to the original.
2nd edition of KO is improved even more:
if hasbro takara want to stop worrying about this they really need to pay attention to small details on their best toys because they risk losing money to the knock off products. In the past people would avoid the knock off due to being worse, but as time went on they are almost perfect replication. (I guess the knock off companies are big fans of TF to put so much passion into the product lol)
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Bargain spotted:
"Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Riobot Metal Gear Sahelanthropus
by Sentinel"
at hlj
http://hlj.com/product/SET88021/Act" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
List Price:
¥38,000 ($497.95 AUD)
Sale Price.:
¥15,200 ($199.18 AUD)

same thing covered in my other post

If you like MGSV and the series and know other fans, you could probably resell these on the second hand market for profit in future. (V is the last Kojima game, so anything from that game would be considered of high value to fans of his games)

HLJ sale page:
http://hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?ItemGroup=WEEKLY20160815" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I missed the last sale where VF-0S was selling cheap. :(
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Just received my HWR-00 Mac II Monster (bandai HiMetal R line 1/100 scale) today in the mail!

It's one heavy motherfucker and solid too.

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The clicky joints inside the toy ensure this can hold pretty much any pose you can make it do and the diecast feet means it is bottom heavy so unlike the QRau or other back-heavy or top heavy mechs it will always stand upright when you shake the floor.

This is probably my all time fave mecha in the original show because of how specialised it looks compared to the other destroids which use the same feet and only differ in the torso. (apart from the Spartan which is a melee mech)

Being the heaviest of all the destroids and the one relied upon in the show and movie to guard the bridge, this also has an iconic look to it. It is never seen doing anything other than sitting down and shooting its massive cannons to slice up zentradi ships into four. The detail on the toy and tampo printing is very impressive (fuck stickers) and it was wise to have made this guy at 1/100 as it would be absolutely too much at 1/60.

Wil review the glaug next time.

Here is a youtube review showing all the articulation and gimmicks:
scenes in robotech/macross at the conclusion of space war I that feature the monster (usually in final battle protecting the bridge crew and punching holes in large targets using reaction bombs)
tv series (bodolza getting blown away)


movie (helping to punch through the armored skin of the alien mothership with the rest of the good zentadi aliens)
the unofficial theme song for MKII Monster everytime it gets into fights:
"watch me Stomp his ass out.." Monsters would have tendancy to wreck the floors of the ship because it is so heavy. Nobody seemed to fuck with it, and I didn't recall it get beaten in the show or movie unlike the cannon fodder destroids.
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The next himetal R release is up for preorder:

http://hlj.com/product/BANN12853" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

recently got my Glaug and Monster. I have a choice between this Spartan or Max VF-1J.

I love these little guys.. Now that Macross Delta is over, SDFM needs to be reanimated as a tv series FFS.
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Local toys stores doomed as star wars toys sell like crap:
That's what happens when feminists take over the IP. Disney is to blame. Get back to making good SW movies and then kids will want to buy toys of the cool stuff they see in movies.

BTW I've pretty much run out of space for high end toy stuff so I let this thread sink over time. The new macross mechas look cool. Wasn't a fan of the show as much as the last macross show though.

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Hi from Australia. I heard about this from SC Reviews in Australia. They had been told from a person who was given a ticket by the marketing company they worked for and told to be at the premier at 5.30 pm for a 8.30 pm start. they went on to say that most of the people at this event were paid to be there. Lucas film had paid marketing and modelling agencies to send some of their people down to the event the people who were paid to attend. were even told to wear something star wars related, as a result some women dressed in white business suits arrived. The source went on to say that every body really looked awkward and out of place including themselves. It was also said why this was done was because only 25% of the tickets were sold for this event and Lucas film needed a rent a crowd really fast. The Rotten tomatoes thing has also been disused and SC said they will talk to geeks and gamers, Mauler, world class Bullshiters, ComicArtistPro secrets so yes the shit is going to hit the fan.
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Robin Williams was a closet anime figure collector and robot/mech fan:
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Wow never thought he'd be one of us. Probably watched these shows as a kid and bought this for memories of his childhood. There are a lot of us out there. One day scientists will find out the secret formula used in the movie weird science and make these figures come to life and then we are all going to live in the fantasy world of these comic and anime stories.
watched this recently. Ebert was right.
now that we live in the age of 3D printing (of synthetic biological organism) and CERN maybe they can get the portal open to let fictional beings emerge for real?
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I'm trying to collect The Power of the Primes Dinobots but fuck me is it near on impossible to find wave 2 sludge and snarl, selling out in minutes on the Hasbro site and impossible to find at retail.
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I think people have turned to exclusively to Masterpiece and third party transformer toys (clones of the original characters which inspired the clone but the toys are original designs under a new name to avoid legal trouble) mostly. I liked hunting for toys but got tired of going there and seeing nothing I want or too much of one toy that I already had or don't want.

Amazon is taking over man. I think the toy store near aspley hypermarket is closing down. That was one I would visit regularly since it has lot of space. I reckon this might be a good time for people who sell shit at flea markets to take advantage of this opportunity to put up stalls of "rare toys" that you could normally have bought in retail but are now not around anymore. (make a quick buck out of this collapse of brick and mortar toy store)

The future is going to be this: dude run a drop shipping website to sell stuff. People order from him. The guy process the order and sends direct from the factory and the fat bastard doesn't even need to go to the post office to send shit because a robot handles it all. Then drones deliver the item (no more trucking companies as self driving robot cars take over guided by skynet) and the customer's robot butler answers the door to take the package and sends a text message to the home owner that the parcel has arrived and then opens it all up for him while he is at work. (no need to be home to sign the package to receive it)

People will laugh at the idea of getting out of their house to have to buy things and become disgustingly obese and eventually have to replace their body parts with robot parts or just use powered suit to lift themselves off the ground if they want to move. (they are going to do this in japan to get old retired people with frail bodies back to work again lol. It's all the hikkikomori's fault for not breeding and keeping the population stable. Whether you like it or not we are going down the same path as japan which is why we got to kill off feminism yesterday as it is driving people away from stable marriage due to the corrupt family courts which need to be done away with. They are designed to kill families and feminism has enabled irresponsible behavior in women so they don't respect long term commitment causing people to not bother with having family because of the risk of getting divorce raped. The politicians do not care about long term effects of their decisions as they are only in it for their career and short term gain they can make while in power and then screw up the future of many people)
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Search the toys r us at westfield chermside the other day and spotted power of the primes grimlock. Two of them. One had dent on the box is that matters to you MISB guys. (might be able to bargain down a few dollars) The other had good condition box.

Power of the Primes line looks bloody good. Only thing I wish is that grimlock chest plate had that nice gold chrome paint but aside from that it's a great sculpt.

Combiners seem to be the thing right now. The transformers like to poke their pegs into another robots holes to feel stronger and more bonded sexually before fights. And these designs are solid for the guy who wants to collect it all and see the final united form.
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Well wave 2 never made it to retail in Adelaide anyway so I saw Cyberverse at Toyworld the other day so I figure no more Power of the Primes coming there after Wave 1. It's odd, I see maybe a wave 2 or 3 of the big ones but no others. I ended up ordering Sludge and Snarl from Big Bad toy store and they should be here soon, interested to see what the dinobots look like combined. It's the best TF line I seen in years, the return of the Titans looked good but these ones are much more true to each character.

I'm also looking to try and get the Walmart G1 re-issues but I have no hope for a decent price.
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Gundam Live Action movie: Will it suck?
Definitely don't adapt it for an american audience. Do something radical like introduce characters like tv show then span it across ten years so the movies have more epic feel. Problem with american movies is they never seem to care how 3 dimensional a character is and it's always about the guy who is gung ho. (you can have those types too but just don't make them the focus. MAcross did this well by introducing Roy Fokker who is the bad boy of the story but he dies suddenly sending a shock to the audience that no matter how confident you are you can be killed by a random grunt for not paying attention) Nope we got marvel movies for that.

Gundam is about the emo slightly autistic kid who is more into machines than people and the robot war is the way for the nerd to triumph over his human limits and put his personal values above that of merely serving governments who are obsessed with power over the other rival power. The Gundam is symbolic of knight of justice fighting to protect people and is beyond patriotism of normal soldiers on battlefield who are just there to kill for paycheck or because they want revenge on someone for hurting their family. It's akin to angelic being intervening in battles while they happen and ensuring one side of a conflict doesn't turn to the dark side and abuse their power once they obtain control/dominance over the other side. So it's an antirape anti bullying story. American comic books prefer the opposite of that where a guy has to be atheletic, physically appealing, and confident. Gundam is the opposite of this where masculinity is not the answer to the problem of war but that prevention of conflict and trying to obtain peace is the solution. (much closer to X-men than the avengers) If you don't go above and beyond what the authority is telling you and strive for decency you become a cog in the machine and no different to a robot yourself. And that's what makes the story appealing: these are humans inside the robots and the power of the robot is only half of the reason a battle is important. A bad pilot in a high performance machine can take on an ace pilot in a shit machine. So when they make this movie they need to explain all the technology reasons for why some battle are won vs why they are lost and the tactical backing behind decisions to engage or not engage. Eg at the start of Gundam Amuro is just a ordinary guy without any newtype powers and he encounters Char Aznable who is a ace. Char isn't able to secure the Gundam because a) he wants to capture it for study. b) he is in a worse machine c) Amuro is in a machine which is more advanced than the Zeon's best suits.

If the movie doesn't make things like that clear we can't understand the reason why certain things happen. It has to be made clear the differences between mechs so the audience knows the power/performance level differences between rivals to understand realistic reason for a loss in a battleencounter and a win. When Amuro (he is not a superhero) beats many of the adult pilots in crappy mechs he gets a big head and develops an ego in the early part of the story. Just like in real life if you give a kid a cheat code in a computer game and he thinks he is amazing. But along the way as the enemy develops machines as good as gundam then Amuro must learn to focus on bettering his skills (much like the Karate Kid not becoming cocky because he can easily beat up kids who don't know martial arts) if he wants to maximise the potential of the tech. He is slowly maturing and getting more adult in his decision making and less kiddy.

Then later he becomes sensitive to other people;s feelings and develops empathy and can feel their deaths and mourns it. So he develops a morality for each kill: some are necessary to win the war, some are able to be won by simply disabling the weapons systems and letting the bad guy go to gain a win.

Eventually he grows up and becomes anti war and pro peace by fighting against people who like war and just want to fight in them because it gives them a sense of purpose. It's beyond the grunt soldier who is only in it for money or to prove themselves to thier commander.

You don't get this in american comics because americans won world war II (all the action movies are just ways for saying "we are the best, we win so lets celebrate that fact" so it's going to be interesting to see how this turns out. Will they honor the creators intent (who I think is antiwar) or ignore it and adapt it for the lowest common denominator who just want to see robots fighting?

One of the appealing things about Gundam is when ace pilots face off against each other. They need martial arts expert advising the movie makers on how a battle should be prsented because if you think about it the beamsaber battles are the equivalent of the light saber duels in star wars. If they look generic and boring people will be angry. They need to have fight choreography and show the differences between a space fight at close range and a ground fight. The purpose of all the specialist mecha is so you have some that are superior on ground, some on sea, air and space(more thrusters means more advanced evasion skill can be used to dodge through attacks to get to the target without them getting you.)

Although Gundam is about war. It never says that one side is more right than the other. It leaves that up to you. Generally we root for the Federation because the hero is on that side. But we dont say everyone on that side has pure intention. Some good guys are forced to obey an order against their belief and some bad guys on the other side can ally with a hero for short time for a common purpose. There isn't a black vs white story of good vs evil but that each individual must choose based on loyalty to family, nation, race, or just the principles they follow so it's never certain that when these different things come into conflict, what decision a character will take. That's what makes it special. You could be third faction and see all the sides as wrong and this would be all the grey characters who can act s opportunists selling stolen weapons and tech or just former soldiers tired of war who hate both sides. But you are never told: these are the good guys and these are the bad guys. Characters are 3 dimensional and realistic. (at least all the gundam shows other than gundam wing lol)

MY prediction is the americans will fuck this up. They should treat this the same way Marvel treats it live action movies by trying their best to interact with fans on regular basis and don't try to disrespect the original creator's work by ignoring important details. It should not be a popcorn flick but a genuine attempt to capture the most important things seen in the tv series where people grow to like or dislike characters as they would real people. The more realistic the characters the easier it is to ignore that it's a story about geeky topics like tech and robots. non geeks should want to see it for the fights. The girls will see it for romance on the battlefield. Little kids will want to see the action etc. And unlike other science fiction stories people dying is ok because it's a bloody war so when it happens nobody can say its unrealistic death since many skilled people will die due to bad luck or the other side having tactical advantage in a particular battle over the other. (example zeon have the first mobile suits but the federation were the first to develop anti-robot beam rifle tech. If you have both better suit and better weapon for that suit you can realistically outclass majority of soldiers on the battlefield. Skill is only one factor in whether you don't die in fights. LAter the Zeon have anti-beam fields to counter the beam weapon so I guess these would act as the bosses of the One Year War since it solved the problem of "weapons tech overpowering shields tech" at the start of the war)

IF they really must insist on adapting Gundam to americans: just do a live action Gundam Wing movie. That is already very action heavy series which was popular in the west. (and no knowledge of previous story was needed to enjoy it) Plus the mecha design in those was great. The grunts, the heroes, all had nice design. Each of the Gundam pilots were like a member of a boy band so it will appeal to girls. hehe

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I'll just leave this here. Yes, it's real and is out now overseas.
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Amazing engineering in the Power of the Primes Optimus Prime figure :up:
I haven't been to a retail toy store or a department store for a while but next time I go I want to hunt this one down. The face sculpt on this looks great. It almost looks like a Masterpiece TF toy (at least from the front - if you view it from the back it kinda looks like an alien has attached itself to optimus body and won't let go which has forced him to merge with it and it grows inside his body ready to hatch one day hahah)

Orion Pax face sculpt also looks accurate from what I remember from the g1 cartoon. They know who are buying these: not the kids of today but the grown up Generation X adults that remember the characters! It's time disney sold Star Wars back to george lucas so hasbro can make shit that sells. Why should retailers waste so much space on overstocked Rose Tico figures when they can use that space for optimus fucking prime?? I think if the Gundam live action movie turns out to be good, it's going to be tough for hasbro which is stuck with Star Wars. My advice is focus on rebooting transformers live action movies. This time with different director who read the comics and watched the cartoon. Fully CG matrix style action flick (set it on cybertron) about war between non-violent robots and robots that crave destruction and battle and explore the reason for their motivations. (why does the decepticon army care so much about conquering? Was it the slavery by he quintessons that drove them to the edge? And why does Optimus care about defending earth? They are aliens, and the humans are just as warlike as the decepticons) Humans are only involved as support (they are the cannon fodder in the story) and the autobots are like the equivalent to a super robot to the human's normal robot defense weapons. This way the human military forces don't get to steal all the credit in winning battles away from the autobots. I'm sick of humans doing that. We watch it for the transformers not the fleshlings who just get themselves into danger and make it hard for the autobots to focus on fighting them without hurting humans accidentally. (safety of humans getting hurt during a fight only distracts from their fights. normal robots are like tanks in speed compared to transformers which are closer to the giant in Evangelion and can dodgeroll and do acrobatic manuevers and move with fluilidity so they can kill in style)

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Do you catch a bus or train to the department store?
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Nope rode a bicycle this time. I predict the future is people choosing to get to work on Electric-bicyles. There are too many cameras on the bus these days and I do not want them watching me while I play switch games. Big Brother is getting out of control. Fuck them all. :down:

Also notice how everyone in the west are getting fatter as we become lazier in terms of physical activity thanks to mechanisation? We are fatter and more depressed than people in the older days and our T levels have gone down due to all the soy in our processed food products. The illuminati is softening us all up so we can't fight back.

Also I think I have cracked the code to why everyone is becoming more of a pussy. It's the birth control pill. When women flush them down the toilet and it gets in the water supply we are altering our hormones. Alex Jones was correct about this shit. It's not just the rise of trans people, but the promoting of sick people in general as the new normal. Why do women's fashion magazines have fat women on the covers? They are sick people not healthy people and this is bad role model for kids as it teaches them to eat more junk food causing men to be repulsed by them and to not to breed which leads to lower population. See how they planned this shit out? No? Because you are not thinking how they think. They plan this for hundreds of years.
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very interesting to see they are going for his retro look from the 80s. Could this be the very first good transformers live action movie? Wish they would just continue the transformers prime cg cartoon series. That was good! And it was dark with cannon fodder transformers which is an amazing idea. (you still get up close to the characters which have personalities and unique flaws that makes them memorable people (ie you can care about them!) but can still have more epic battles when important ones are away or doing other things because the cannon fodder robots are fighting in backgrounds giving the war a bigger scale)

Hopefully newer TF movies learn from what worked in Transformers Prime which to me is the best TF cartoon. Sure G1 had more content and it was the original but you couldn't seem to bond with particular ones because each episode didn't zoom in enough to get to know them which is crucial if you want to be able to place drama into a story. It's why optimus Prime dying worked so well in the animated movie of the 80s since he was basically in every single episode and you grew up with the character throughout the whole cartoon series. They did that with all characters in TF Prime and even made Optimus Prime less of the focus of the story (making him similar to soundwave in that he is just a stoic being doing his job and not emoting that much but his action are guided by principles alone) It worked because everyone else could be funny while he played it straight but you never felt that comedy was the main reason to watch a cartoon like other cartoon which get out of hand. People want to see gorey robot deaths and cool fights with interesting set pieces, not chuckle at caricatures of their hero without serious consequences in the story when people battle and lose. Cartoons with a serious tone and adult themes in them is more of what fans want. They have a chance to make a Transformers movie like a marvel movie by tapping into he desire of fans of the older show and updating it for today. (eg don't just have official cars but unique designs like how you get weird batmobiles in Batman movies.)
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Re: Mechs toys

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Maybe in the next TF movie Optimus Prime can turn into an electric bicycle.
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