Graham

I'd happily put a VF-19 or VF-22 up against an F91 anyday. I'd feel quite comfortable putting an earlier generation Valk (VF-1, VF-4, VF-11, VF-17) up against any mark of Zeta, which has the aerodynamics of a flying brick! GP02 would have to hit the Valk first. In the original Gundam One Year War TV series, Gundam armour was IMO shown as being overly unrealistic in it's ability to stop the shells's from the Zaku's guns. Later Gundam anime, seemed to revise down the protective ability of Gundam armor to the point where it could be penetrated by cannon shells. And there are cannon shells and there are cannon shells! IIRC, wasn't it once calculated in another thread on these forums that the kinetic energy produced by a shot from the RX-78's beam rifle was actually similar to that of a 55mm round from the VF-1's GU-11? Graham

Non-existant unfortunately! But I seriously doubt we will ever see a PG, MG or SOC Valk. Bandai has never had much love for Macross. Graham

Each to his own I guess. Our tastes definitely differ though. I've always found Gundams and Evas to be very asthetically unappealing mecha designs. I do like some of the Zion designs though. Graham

I disagree. One of the issues I have with many Mobile Suit designs is that despite their huge size, they actually have extremely limited armament and often limited mobility as well, especially the early U.C. era MS. Take the RX-78 for example, it can't fly, only walk, run and jump, so has to have a mother ship or other transport vehicle to transport it from location to location, unlike Valks, which with their high Mach speeds have far more useful stategic mobility. Not to mention far better manuverability. Many MS, the RX-78 included also carry a tiny weapon load for their size. Head Vulcans with limted ammo, a beam rifle with limited ammo that usually has to be discarded after 20 shots or less and no spare ammo! beam sabers that are only useful if the enemy gets within range. While I'm not going to get into a Valk vs MS discussion, I'd take any VF over any pre-Victory (UC153) era MS anytime. Valks generally have the upper hand in armament, speed and manuverabilty. Valk armor and pin point barriers on later VFs is nothing to sneeze at either. Not even going to get into the whole G-Gundam, Wing Gundam, SEED/SEED Destiny thing as they are more super robots than real robots IMO. Graham

So what pistol does Bond use in this movie? The movie posters which have just started going up here in HK, show him with what appears to be a silenced PPK, but what's shown on movie posters often has no relation to what's actually in the movie. Graham

From what I understand from my conversations with Yamato, when the 1/48 was first designed, two-seater versions were not considered and not even taken into consideration. Originally, the line was only supposed to comprise the 3 main DYRL single-seaters (Hikaru 1A, Max 1A & Roy 1S) plus FAST Packs. However, the popularity of the 1/48 surprised even Yamato, so the line was gradually expanded. IIRC, Yamato said that, two-seaters are just about technically possible, but the existing 1/48 design is not an ideal frame for making a two-seater. I've only briefly looked at Capt's 1/48 VF-1D conversion kit and correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the heat shield have to be removed during transformation? Also, doesn't the head hang too far down in fighter mode? Graham

Hopefully, the Ghosts won't be late. I mean they don't transform and have a relatively small number of parts (unlike the GBP), so they should be fairly simple to make. Graham

Don't ya know that Roy had a tradition of painting all the skulls himself on the tails of the Skull Squadron Valks. Being that he was usually dunk, he always painted the skulls crooked. Graham

Ah, but the straight Skulls were the special limited edition version and will henceforce triple in price on Ebay! Graham

On this page, you can see a date of May 2007 is mentioned for the Shin & Ghost set. On this page you can see that a date of April 2007 is shown for the Ghost by itself. Remember to check the MW updates! Graham

The top of the head comes off? I didn't know that. It's not supposed to! Never had it come of on my VF-0S. I'll have to try it when I go home tonight. Graham

Maybe Kawamori has said that crooked skulls are official! Did ya think of that huh? Well, did ya? Graham

Never liked Gundam much and always thought the RX-78 is a hideous looking design. Never understood why the anime is so popular also. Give me Macross over Gundam anyday. Graham

There's been a review up of the VF-0S since it was first released in early May 2006. I'm planning a review of the VF-0A CF soon, as IMO it merits it's own review due to the improved joints. I'm also planning a VF-0 video transformation guide soon. As for a 1/48 video guide, I did one years ago see:here. As for other 1/48 repaints, they probably won't get full reviews, but I'll eventually post some pics and write a few comments. Graham

So is it Lego or Megablocks? The thread title mentions Lego, but the first post mentions Megablocks............confused! I really hate the RX-78 with it's silly red clown feet.........Mwahahaha! Graham

I'm gonna try and get a review of the VF-0A done before Christmas, mainly as I wanna mess around with shooting photos wih my new light box set up. May also do a transformation video guide. Graham

One thing I forgot to mention in the videos and in the review is that when transforming the arms to fighter mode, after you slide up the bicep covers, there is a joint hidden under the bicep cover that hinges 90 degrees. You can see this clearly in this pic. I've never held with the belief shared by some members here that Yamato toys are fragile 'display only' pieces. I handle all my Yamatos roughly and apart. Graham

Yummy Hind pic, but I'm wondering why the guns in the chin turret? I thought all newer Hinds had dropped the chin turret guns for cannon mounted on the side of the fuselage? Graham

20th Anniversary T-shirts from Japan, available in black, red & tan and in three different designs. I've got the black and tan ones and I think Noel has the red IIRC. I got them as a gift. Graham

Well, I could do the whole high definition, THX sound, John Woo style leaping through the air while holding two YF-19 sideways and transforming them both at once in slow motion, but the file size would be at least a Gig! Or perhaps next time I should try for a Bullet Time transformation.....LOL! Graham

I'm always pretty rough with my toys, but then again I've logged a lot of time with the 19, so I pretty much know what I'm doing. Graham

Luckily they just pop right back on. There's a few parts of the toy that can come of or come apart during transformation, such as the backpack connection that I show on the video, the tail fins if you pull too hard, such as when the moving base is too tight and also the the upper backpack section where it connects by two begs o the back of the chest plate. I'll probably make a vid of that later. Luckily everything pops back together easily. Graham

I also uploaded the three videos to the MW server, so there is anoher source other than YouTube:- Battroid To Fighter Mode http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/Y...fighter_all.wmv (28.4MB) Fighter to Battroid Mode http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/Y...attroid_all.wmv (22MB) Fighter to Gerwalk Mode http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/Y...gerwalk_all.wmv (13.8MB) Graham

Uploading to YouTube is still processing on a couple of the vids, so please be patient. I hope they are OK, as I haven't really checked them yet to see if I do anything stupid, like going of camera. Graham

OK, let's see if this works. Here's the 3 transformation video guides: - Graham