Kamen Rider

http://www.subchat.com/buschat/read.asp?Id=279971

Alright, now the little nitwit is talking to himself.

The two of them just won't shut up...

And they still wonder what they did to piss Harry and the mods off

I know alot of people rag on the 1998 movie, but some of Toho's movies make it look like a master pecice. Two of them, for example, just shoehorn the big guy in. Godzilla vs the Sea Monster started life as one of Toho's King Kong movies, but changed thier minds. So, they stuck in Godzilla. problem is they never bothered to rework the scrpit, which still operated on principles of king kong. The Kaju version of Kong had electricty based powers. Why a giant monkey from the south seas uses electricty as a power source is beyond me, but that's Toho for you. So, they take Kong out, put Godzilla in, and he's suddenly using Kong's power set. It's like playing Super Smash Brother's with Mario sudenly acting like Pikachu.

Then there is Godzilla vs. Megalon. That was supposed to intoduce Toho's robotic Ultraman knockoff Jet Jaguar. but they stuck Godzilla in anyway and gave him top billing, even though he's got maybe 10-15 mintues of screen time. and everything revolves around the robot. Heck, The lizard isn't even mentioned in the story until someone suggests Jet Jaguar go get him for help. I kinda like to think of this movie as "Toho's salute to our rivals", a Ultra knockoff for Tsuburaya, and for Toei, Godzilla finishing off the enimy kaju with a Kamen Rider style flying kick, which was used in the opening credits of MST3k from the start of season 3 till orignal host Joel Hodgeson left in season 5,  

No, Woodhaven was the one *I* was referring to. Maybe you should look it up some time, let me give you a hand:

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/woodhaven.html

 

But guess I was wrong because I didn't know that wasn't the same Woodhaven as on the subway.

 

@realizm: With the CTZ package deal it isn't gonna cost you $7.50

The LIRR Woodhaven station is about 4 miles away, in the actual neighborhood of Woodhaven. The closedt subway stations are Woodhaven Blvd on the J and Rockaway blvd on the A (where woodhaven becomes Cross Bay). The street used to be called Trotting Course Lane, a name an orphaned section of the original route still carries. the street never had an LIRR mainline station where the two cross, but there were stations in ether side of it, Grand Ave and Rego Park. But these both were only for Rockaway Beach Branch trains on the original outside tracks when the ROW was 6 tracks wide. Forest Hills was always the next stop for mainline trains leaving Woodside running local.

http://www.subchat.com/otchat/read.asp?Id=1085820

Speaking of which...

And he still wonders why he got the boot...

What would Woodhaven do to help Queens Blvd?

That's on the Atlantic Branch.

Chargerdoge/jgood, the whinny cry baby, is bad mouthing this site on subchat.

http://www.subchat.com/buschat/read.asp?Id=278956

little prick.

Look out the windows as the train enters and exits the station. There's space for the tracks to divert to the outside of the platform.

What I think he really needs to understand is that the way the subway is operated is roughly how it was designed to. Multiple lines merging in and out of each other. In the past, these were even more complex. You had 7th ave locals going to 242ns street and 241, and the same with expresses. Then you also had nearly ALL south Brooklyn traffic being routed onto the broadway BMT. The IND was drawn with a 6th ave line and an 8th ave line from each northern branch.

Part of the problem we're having with this Queens blvd issue is that by using the switches you are still slowing trains down significantly.

Most of these switches are of the low speed. Trains can only cross them using thier first power setting, which is why that setting is called "Switching" sometimes. If every train has to use them, it will cut into the TPH. As much as 15 to 20%. They can't take full power till they clear the switch. Just running through the station as they do now removes that veriable.

I'm still also trying to figure out what you have against Euclid ave. station is designed as a terminal. B'way junction isn't.

That's another issue. I don't think B'way junction has crew facilities.

Many of us have very vivid imaginations, we just keep the crazy stuff to ourselves...

It was really done to drive home the point that it won't be for some time to come before ANY changes are made along the 8th Avenue line, and if there are, it won't be until the new Hudson Yards buildings open in a few years at the earliest, something people missed.

Hudson yards are going to have ZERO effect on 8th ave , get that trough your thick head.

Some plans show it staying a stub terminal, some don't. guess the question is which version of the second system...

Since it went off the rails a long time ago...

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When ideas are stupid they will be shot down. If you can't take the heat then stay out of the f**king kitchen. Idiot....

Pot, kettle, black

I remmember when you first came along...

well, the problem with wally is he thinks each of the fantasies will we welcome with open arms as making the subway better. He doesn't realize his plans will make life worse, or even have no basis in real life. Kept trying to convince everyone that using the upper level at Roosvelt Ave as a through station for a super express to Manhattan was a great idea. Never mind I told him about six times, on seperate occasions I might add, that using that station as a through station would require demolishing the mezzinine of the main station, and that there would be no way to acess the street from there.

that little gem a page back is actually about four months old. He loves to make big, compliacated crap when a simple change would do. MTA considers running culver express service. Everyone else was ether in "G local F express" or "Add the <F>" camps. then Wally opened his mouth...

wally, we've had this conversation. We're not going to go down this road playing your stupid game. Stop it. They are not going to reroute a subway line JUST for a few buildings that are nowhere near the line in question. you want hudson yards, how about using Hudson Yards station.

OK but now we are talking two problems.

 

First we are talking about a shortage of cars. There are barely enough cars as it is to supplement the as it is let alone a service to lefferts, with the SMEE scrap mishap when the R160's started to be introduced into revenue service in 2006.

 

Second, the Cranberry Street tunnel cannot handle more but two lines at a time.The river tubes will be brought to it's limit with crushing capacity problems. It would make better sense, (if at all possible) to add a few put ins as a temporary remedy. CBTC I'm sure isn't coming to the 8th Ave line and the Cranberry St tube any time soon. The MTA is focused on the and the QBL, as it is on CBTC installation. We'll have to wait decades before that to Lefferts via Fulton Street be implemented.

 

In fact many engineers looked into this over the years, the only way that capacity on Fulton St can be fully utilized is with a new river tunnel to bring trains into Court street into the IND Fulton St line. If we actually had a new river tube to feed trains into this Brooklyn subway line, then perhaps that could actually work. 

 

But as of now it cannot work. I'm sure there are other reasons too that cannot come to mind right now.

what they're suggesting is a simple renaming. Leffert's A trains would simply wear the K bullet instead. I still kinda think it's pointless given the number of people who actually have the problem of confusing the two branchs isn't very high.

Here's the problems with your plan, Q90, in list form.

1. The B would not be recolored, as your idea has it still uses 6th as it's trunk. It would only be blue if running on 8th between W4th and 59th.

2. Service given vs service needed. The Rockaway line stations are ranked as follows

Shuttle/Rockaway Park branch

Rockaway Park/Beach 116th - 413 out of 421

Beach 105th - 417 out of 421

Beach 98th - 415 out of 421

Beach 90th - 411 out of 421

A/Far Rockaway branch

Beach 67th - 399 out of 421

Beach 60th - 398 out of 421

Beach 44th - 416 out of 421

Beach 36th - 414 out of 421

Beach 25th - 408 out of 421

Far Rockaway/Mott Ave - 325 out of 421 (transfers from Nassua commuters help here)

both

Broad Channel - 418 out of 421 (most traffic is transfering between the shuttle and the A)

Howard Beach/JFK - 347 out of 421

Aqueduct/North Conduit Ave- 372 out of 421

Aqueduct Racetrack - 420 out of 421 (closed for renovations)

These numbers show not only just how low useage of the line is, but that it doesn't really matter where the service goes. There are A branch stations with lower useage than those on the shuttle. That doesn't justify ramrodding three lines onto the Fulton. Park Place on the Franklin Shuttle gets more passengers than some of these stations, it's at 392.

Current B stations

Brighton Beach - 124 out of 421

Sheepshead Bay- 114 out of 421

Kings Highway- 77 out of 421

Newkirk Plaza- 158 out of 421

Church Ave- 88 out of 421

Prospect Park- 165 out of 421

7th ave- 171 out of 421

Atlantic Ave- 25 out of 421

Dekalb ave- 85th out of 421

Grand Street- 47 out of 421

Broadway-Laffeyette 24 out of 421

These numbers show you are taking service away from much higher trafficed stations (not counting the transfers from Q only stations bound for B stations further up the line) to send to stations that just don't need it.

3. Operational capacity; Switching the B to 8th at West 4th will incress delays due to switching. You need to get the B between the 6th ave express tracks (only way to get to/from CPW) on and off the local tracks (only way to use the junction south of W4th). This will lead to more delay on the F and M. You are also stacking 4 lines onto the lower section of the 8th Ave. B, C and E on the local tracks, with the B and C using merging with the A at Canal Street. Incudling the B will also delay the C and E.

So what if he lives in Ottowa? that's not actually that far away. It's closer than Chicago... Just becuase it's over an international border is not an excuse right off the bat.

And he wrote a 60 something page report on his idea. So it's not like he just showed up with a kooky idea, he showed up with a kooky idea and paperwork to go with it.

 

This proposal might not be well received due to the amount of changes proposed (I've heard New Yorkers don't like change), however I would be interested in some feedback from individuals who can appreciate its content (compliments and criticisms are both welcome) .

 

No, it's not going to be well recived becuase you've in effect RUINED the subway!

Do you have any idea about the needs and wants of the people who actually use the system day-in and day-out?

Have you done exhuastive stuides on when and where trains need to run.

You've made crowding WORSE becuase you haven't taken in to consideration the human factor.

Example, I live along the Myrtle ave line. When the MTA was considering it's 2010 cuts, they merged the M with the V becuase they found that the majority of M passengers wanted Midtown. Not the majoirty of passengers from Canarsie. They have also spent millions of dollars and years of hard work automating the Canarise line, so keep your mitts off it, bub.

you posted the track maps, but did you bother to read them? Half of what your suggesting is physicly impossible, the system just can't do it. You want to avoid conngestion, so you require EVERY train on the second most crowded section of the subway to use the interlocking at Roosevelt. For your next trick, are you gonna try to put out a fire with Gasoline?

Want to know a secrite, The reason the E is so crowded is becuase of the enormus amount of people who want to use it, not becuase of it's headways.

it's also the track layout, the one thing you don't want to change. Jamaica Center was never inteded as a long term terminal, so the interlocking is too far from the station to be effective, which is what cuts the E's abilty to run, that's why the Hillside Es exist to. incresse E service, but to not clog up an underbuilt terminal. It's the same with the Nostrand Ave Branch of the Brooklyn IRT. Flatbush ave is a POS. To compensate, some 2s and 5s are sent to Utica and/or New Lots. They are also sent there because they are laid up for the night at Livonia yard for rush hour service the next day.

Broadway junction was not ment to be a terminal so I don't know what you're doing there. What the heck was wrong with Euclid. you know, the one meant to be used as such...

Worked out another set of videos. limited squinting at your monitors this time...

I give you the 5 most epic fails in movie making.

This aren't just sucky movies (IE SYFI's saturday lineup), these are movies who's directors should be kicked out of the guild perminatly.

They are just plain old done poorly.

First, at number 5 is "Manos: The Hands of Fate". Yes, the title of this movie is "Hands: the Hands of fate".

Made in 1966 and Written, Directed, produced and staring Harold P. Warren, it was made to satisfy a bet that anyone could make a movie. Mr. Warren sold insurance and fertilizer. The crew he hired knew next to nothing about movies. thier rented equipment could only shoot 32 seconds at a time. The loooooong driving sequince at the begining was to put in the credits. No one wanted to be credited for this mess...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AJVZuQuD6M&feature=player_embedded

Number 4 does go back to my last series of posts, but only because of how aweful this next movie is.

Kamen Rider x Super Sentai: Super Hero War.

When this movie was first annouced, it was lauded as a momentenious occasion in the Toku fandom. Then it came out. And it had nothing that resembles a plot. Hell, it would sufice to say it seems that several diffrent people were writting this movie and none of them knew what the others were doing...

Super Sentai and Kamen Rider are made by the same production company, TOEI. This was the first major cross over between the two franchises. Kamen Riders shows star solo heros in more armor based suits, and tend to lean hard on the drama side. 2009 was the shows 10th consectutive season (it had a harder time staying on air, it's been on in four distinct blocks, 1971-1974, 1979-1980, 1987-1988 and since 2000) and to celbrate, they made Kamen Rider Decade (pronounced De-cade) who had the abilty to turn into any of the pervious 9 riders. when Sentai reached it's 35th season two years later, they barrowed the concept to create Priate Sentai Gokaiger, who did the same thing with the 34 pervious ranger teams.

The movie stars the leads of Decade and Gokagier, having teamed up with some of thier show's respective major bad guys, to exterminate the other side. And they are damn mum on WHY. When they do give some plot background, it doesn't make logical sense, and then you have someone who was trying to be a good guy get POed enought he starts stomping on the heros in a mech becuase he feels left out...

Under "SST" parts 1-6

Number 3 "Santa Claus"

Take a figure from another culture, make a move about him, but don't bother to do any ACTUAL research on the topic.

This 1959 stink bomb points to the issues of guessing and making stuff up as you go along. It was made in mexico, where, at the time, Santa was not that big a deal. the Three wise men were still the primary gift givers. So why this was even made is beyond me...

Here the jolly old fat guy lives in a golden floating castle in space. Next to several other floating castles which I can only assume belong to The easter bunny, the great pumpkin and Kawnza-bot...

For help Santa has a workshop full of identical children, some of whom may or may not be aliens since one doesn't understand earth food, Vulcan, the Roman god of the forge, and Merlin, as in King Arthur's Merlin. See what I mean about throwing things togther. Then it only gets worse, as Santa's Christmas eve trip is nearly wrecked by a demon named Pitch, who may or may not be trying to userp his boss while he's at it (the voice of the devil in the dub is the same voice actor who dubs Santa)

Original version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6dbM-KK3Qk4

MST3K version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4UxYNmJXQE&feature=player_embedded

number 2 'the Starfighter's.

"Is your face odd? Mishapen? join the Air Force1"

a lesson in filler. when enough of you movie is stock footage that you shouldn't actually be credited as director.

The Starfighters refer to the F-104 fighter jet. this movie is the sort of story of a young pilot and his two buddies learning to fly them. And I say sort of because the large majority of it is just planes flying to the sound of annyoing jazz. They spend so much time on mid air refueling, the writers of MST3k ran out of sexual inuendos...

Number 1: "Space Mutiny" or "Mutiny in Space" (they never seemed to have made up thier minds)

Where to start with this. Where to start...

Well, we could start with the blatnetly obvious... EVERY SPACE SHIP SHOT IS STOLEN FROM BATTLESTAR GALATICA!

The movie's setting consists of basicly two areas. An empty factory that plays the part of the starships' engineering areas and a converted office building that's used for the command sections. The factory has windows, looking outside.... To fix the problem of the sunlight they filmed with an orange filter and were going to slip in something about the windows being a part of the engine. Unforuntily, they forgot to tell Post production, who removed the filter...

The Galact.... I mean the "Southern Sun", is a generational vessel, built to carry colonists to a habitable planet 10 lightyears away. It's been enroute for nearly 400 years, but that's beside the point. But it's a generational starship that get's visitors. So one can only assume at some point humanity devloped some kind of FTL, which kind of renders the slow boat routine moot, but that's the LEAST of the movie's problems.

First, bad guy blows up something that opens and closes the landing bay doors. Which according to him and his co-horts, means no one can get on or off for two weeks. Which is kind of akward, given the bad guy's top prooity is getting OFF. Which doesn't make much sense again. seeing as how if the ship get's visitors, then he could have just quit and left...

Jump to 35 mintues into the video. A member of the ships' bridge crew is murdered in cold blood. If you then sit through a umm.. "Car Chase", yes, let's call it that, or just jump to 37 mintues and 20 seconds... she's suddenly alive and back at her station.

Another problem is that a number of the monitors on the bridge, keep showing footage from later in the movie...

they can't figure out how to spell the female lead's name. and I mean her real name. It's Cissy in the opening credits and "Cisse" at the end.

And add to that the flatest, weirdest actting I've ever seen.

My aunt has had her iPhone 4s for a while now, and still can't use Siri properly. I think it's how she talks.

What ever it was, it's not what I'm talking about. Probably was just robotech or something.

The Last Starfighter was a 1984 movie, one of the first to use large amounts of CGI. I don't know anything about a TV show.