Graham

Don't have access to ep 23 at the moment, but when I watched the GG sub yesterday, I seem to recall Luca(?) mentioning something about how the missiles (or rounds) contain powdred Vajra, or Vajra fragments or something like that, which is why they work on Vajra.........or I may have just been dreaming it. Graham

Actually, in that scene, I thought it was the wing missiles firing from the left and right wings. Have to fire up the laptop nad watch that scene again more carefully. Graham

Heh, the early propmotion footage also showed the VF-25 with missiles on the wings and taking out Vajra in fighter mode using the wing root lasers. Graham

I'm also gonna tentatively call BS on these spoilers. Not saying it's not possible, just unlikely. Graham

That's the IHP resin kits. Graham

SW ep III, Vader's small hands. Graham

2ch = the site is run by 2 guys called Chan. 4ch = run by 4 guys (or girls), all surnamed Chan. At least that's what I thought. But seriously, I have no idea, I never visit either site. Graham

Asked and answered. Graham

EMS here in HK charges purely on weight. Graham

Yeah, first I've ever heard of Crunchyroll as well. Had to Google it. Graham

Frak No! Not right now! Arghhhhhhhh! This is potentially terrible news! Can't whowever 'they' are wait until after the show is finished and all 25 episodes have been fansubbed first. I don't want the fansubbers to drop Frontier because it's been licenced and then we have to wait who knows how long (a couple of years maybe!), to see the last couple of episodes subbed (or yuk, dubbed) in English in an official release. While of course I'm happy for an official release outside of Japan, we are so close to the end now, I want eps 24 and 25 fansubbed within days of their airing on Japanese TV. Graham

You missed VF-171EX standard version, i.e. as flown by Alto's wingmen (white with black and grey trim as far as I can tell). I don't see a Diamond Force paint variation as likely at all. Graham

My thinking for this was as follows:- Firstly, although the Hasegawa fighter mode kits are fantastic, most of us don't have the skill, time or patience to do justice to them. Yet, many people here love fighter mode. I'm an absolute crap model builder and the only way for me to have some nicely painted Hasegawa fighters, is to get somebody to paint them for me, which is very expensive. Secondly, While the Yamato 1/60 PT toys are great, they are expensive and as mentioned, many us us just transform them a few times and then leave them in one mode. Also, some of them can be a little big to leave lying around on the desk and just casually pick up and fly around. Also, of course depending on the toy, there may be looking issues, which means you can't fly it around as much as you would like (1/48 with FPs, I'm talking about you)! A few people have commented about how beacuse of the Bandai VF100s line, they would not be interested in GNU fights. However, I'd just like to pooint out that the VF100s line is really pretty much an unknown quantity at this point. They may be great, or they may turn out to be horrible floppy messes, we don't know yet. I've really fallen in love with the GNU battroids and would like in scale fighters to match. Like most people here, I'm not too interested in a GNU VF-1 fighter, but I'd definitely but Macross Zero, Macross Plus, VFX-2 fighters. So to revise my original proposal, if these GNU fighters: - 1) Sell at a cheaper price point than the GNU battroids. 2) Have moveable swing wings. 3) Come with detachable wing missiles and FAST Packs. 4) Includes a display stand. 5) Have some removeable panels, e.g . engine nacelle covers. Would you buy them? PLease just a yes or no reply, aloong with any comments about what you would like to see in a FIGHTER. No comments about enemy mecha, destroids etc. This thread is not about those. Graham

IMO, about the only animes where the mecha look great in GC are Macross Zero and Macross Frontier, but I may have a slight bias. Graham

Definitely buying the VF-19A and white VF-11, they look great. Graham

Finally saw the Roy, Max & Hikaru on sale in Animate yesterday, but decided to pass. While they where good toys back in the day, they don't really cut it anymore IMO. I may pick up one for my 4 year old though, as he is still too young for Yamatos. Graham

With the 1/60 DX VF-25F/S, Bandai already have 90%+ common tooling to make Luca's RFV-25, so costs are minimal. For a VF-171, it means starting from scratch. Big expense. Graham

Err....is this anything to do with Macross Frontier? Graham

Guys, If Yamato were to make a non-transforming Fighter mode GN-U toy, how many of you would buy it? I've been extremely impressed by the scupt, quality and materials of the GN-U Macross Plus battroids and I'd love to see a GN-U fighter mode as well, that being my favorite mode. I think a GN-U fighter in scale with the battroids would by the perfect size for play and display. So assuming the following points, how many of you would be interested? Would come with a display stand. Would come with detachable landing gear to allow it to be posed either wheels down or flying with wheels up. Canopy would be clear, with a pilot figure inside, but may not open. Cost would be comparable to or slightly cheaper than GN-U battroids. Would use the same materials and have same high stand of finishing as GN-U battroids. Wings would move. Foot thrusters would also likely move (to simulate thrust vectoring). While the 1/200 VFC are nice, I'd prefer GN-U size and quality. Graham

That's the plan, or so I've been told. Graham

I certainly hope not. IMO, the Revoltingtech VF-1 toys are absolutely horrible looking. Graham

Do you even need to ask? Of course the answer is yes. However, I reckon It's unlikely that Bandai will make one in 1/60 scale though. At least we are getting one in 1/100 scale. Hopefully Bandai will release all three variants: VF-171, RVF-171 and VF-171EX. Graham

Not really, just a few words and simple sentences. Graham

In the Frontier news section in the TV series forum, Kresphy just posted a link to the new Macross Ace Frontier commercial. mms://221.243.119.235/macross_acefrontier/pv2_1009_1m_df87.wmv The game looks even more awesome. And it's confirmed, you can customize the colors of your mecha! Graham

I'm trying to get confirmation from Yamato about what (if anything), is happening. Whether anything is actually happening depends on who at Yamato Overdrive spoke to. If it was just some junior sales flunky, they may have just given Overdrive a line of sales BS. If however, it was the CEO or head of product development, that may be another story. Stay tuned. Graham