Graham

That may or may not be the case. That magazine pic you are quoting is already over a month old (the previous issue of Dengeki Hobby), whereas these C3 pics are much newer. Graham

This is the definitive version of the VT-1, we have been waiting 25 years for. Awesome, Awesome, beautiful toy!

On the DX line in general, it's quite common to have paint chips or damaged Tampo printing brand new out of the box.

Have to study the CG art again, but first impressions are the upper arms look too long & skinny on the Q-Rea toy.

So how does one tell what region is ones PSP?

There was also a coloring issue with the face of the VF-19S as well. Bah, two of my favorite mecha, the VF-17S and VF-19S and they screw up the face coloring. Graham

Will pass on the launching missiles. They look pretty silly IMO. Graham

Sheesh, didn't know he had gotten that fat. Graham

Damn, either these sets are heavily weighed towards the VF-1, or I'm just an unlucky SOB. Picked up another two at random on the hope of getting a VF-25F/G, VF-2SS or a VF-19S/Kai/P and what do I get, 2 more bloody VF-1s!!!!!!!! This time a TV VF-1A Max and a TV VF-1J Millia. That means out of the 4 I've bought at random, 3 have been VF-1s. That's 75% fracking percent! Grrrrr! Sigh..........I didn't want any VF-1s at all. Oh well, I'll glue them together so they don't fall apart and give them to my son, I'm sure he'll like them. Graham

Don't know how authentic the food is, never having been to Mexico, but there are at least 4 (what I consider to be good) Mexican resturants here in Hong Kong. Graham

Saw Plus for the first time in 1994, within a week or two of it's release in Japan. Same goes for Mac 7. At that time, there was a shop here in HK that sold bootleg VHS tapes, copied from the Japanese LDs. Of course it was raw Japanese, unsubbed, but that's how I watched most anime back in the day. Graham

Yay, got a 'B' grade this morning on Sad Sniper EX and killed that pantywaist Brera. I think you just need to get an 'A' grade to get the VF-27 right? Is it even possible at all to keep Alto alive in this mission? Graham

Here's some pics of the white & blue YF-19. As promised, Yamato have definitely tightened up some of the joints in battroid mode and the toy no longer feels like a floppy mess, unlike the original Macross Plus colors YF-19 toy. The main improvements are where the wings join to the hips. As you can see from the pics, both wings can now hold a horizontal position in battroid mode. I left the wings like that overnight and they hadn't drooped at all by morning. Another improvemnt is the locking of the shoulders. On the original YF-19, when you angled up the shoulders, even glancing at them the wrong way would cause them to drop down. On this lastest version, the shoulders lock very positively in the angled up position. The small shoulder flaps aslo feel much tioghter and don't pop out all the time. Likewise, the arms and leg joints also seem a bit tighter. Graham

Yay lived through Sad Sniper EX for the first time in 4+ hours of trying! Only got a 'C' & Brera escaped, but at least I didn't die. Graham

Not the special melee, the special where you fire your sniper rifle. Most of the time it never seems to do anything, just swing your rifle around and shoot at empty space. Graham

Damn, Sad Sniper EX is hard. Been playing it for several hours, played umpteen games and died everytime (E grade). Only ever got as far as the VF-27 one time and then died, as I only had a smidgen of life left. Trying lots of different tactics. Quite tricky to avoid getting hammered by the missiles from the first wave right at the very start. Tried a tactic at the start of the game of breaking lock and running away to the edge of the map and sniping at long range. Worked great for one game for the first two waves, but I swear the bastards learnt, as the next few games they followed me at once rather than hanging about near the middle of the map. The special attack, triangle + circle seems especially useless, as 90% of the time, it doesn't even connect and seems to be aimed wildly off target (am I doing something wrong?). Graham

Who wants to take bets on what's going to be the next new VF in the VF100s line after the VF-19. My bet is on the VF-4. Although I'd be over the moon if it's a VF-17D/S. Graham

Not going to hunt one down, but I quite like the colors of that Family Mart version. Graham

Will be all over the VF-19S/F/P if they make them. Graham

And a two-seater cockpit with slightly reshaped canopy. Graham

Hah, yeah free sample baby.........not in shops yet! Graham

Got mine yesterday, but still in the box. No time to open it yet. Abtually, it's still at my office.

I still don't see any doors for the rear landing gear on the VF-19Kai. Maybe Bandai decided to forego landing gear?

I still don't see any doors for the rear landing gear on the VF-19Kai. Maybe Bandai decided to forego landing gear?

Is the skill you list as 'Hayase', the one that people have been referring to as the 'Misa' skill in recent posts or is that something different? Graham