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The rear landing gear doesn't angle outwards, without moodification (drilling). Graham

EMSiA Sazabi & Nu-Gundam just released here in HK. Paint application is crap IMO though. Took one look and went....bleh! Although articulation does appear to be pretty good. If you are looking for good looking toys of these mecha, I'd stick with the HCM-Pro Nu-Gundam & special finish HCM-Pro Sazabi which looks absolutely gorgeous. Bandai, where's my HCM-Pro RX-79G? One of the few Gundams I actually like. Graham

The poll should have an option for 'both'. Graham

I agree with you about the Bandai being super easy to disassemble. That's some great poses. I'll have to get round to doing the knee mod myself someday. Graham

There have only been two transformable YF-21 garage kits released as far as I know. One by Studio Half Eye (SHE), the other much rarer one by D-Stance. You are probably thinking of the D-Stance kit, which had a very nice sculpt, but like most garage kits is not suitable to be coverted to an ABS/diecast mass-produced toy. While Wave has released a 1/100 scale YF-21 garage kit, it was battroid mode only and non-transformable. Graham

FLEX (actually, it's spelt 'FREX' on their name cards). Is a product development company, not an individual person. Takayuki Nishikawa was the sculptor responisble for the 1/48. Actually, sculptor is the wrong term, as since the 1/48 everthing is done on CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping machines, so maybe calling them 'designer' is more accurate. I don't know who the individual person or persons are that were resposnisble for the CAD designs of the 1/60 YF-19 and VF-0, but I can try to ask. Graham

Macross VO. There are some very long threads on it here and on the old forum. Do a search. There is also some info on it in the Main site games section (scroll down to bottom of page). Graham

Based on the number of submissions to the MW custom toy gallery, that doesn't seem to be the case. In the last few years 1/48 customs have far exceeded 1/55 customs. At the moment, there are 6 pages of 1/48 customs vs only 1 page of 1/55 customs. Graham

The number of RX-78 toys and models that have been releasd over the years is far, far greater than the VF-1. Off the top of my head, here's the ones I can remember. Toys Many, many, many RX-78 gashapons. Many, many RX-78 keychains. Gundam Collection (1/400), many. 1 x Gundam Micro-Bots (scale ?) 1 x Gundam The Origin (scale ?) 1 x HCM (1/144). Several RX-78 MSIA (1/170?) Several kado Senshi (sp?) 1/144? RX-78. 1 x EMSiA RX-78 (1/170?). Several HCM-Pro RX-78 (1/220?). Several Jumbo Grade RX-78 (scale ?). 1 x 1/12 Scale? RX-78. Several GFF RX-78 (1/144?). 1 x all metal unpainted deluxe Gundam that came in metal case (I forget the name) 1/100?. New part metal GFF (1/144?). I know there are many RX-78 toys I'm forgetting as well. That's not even starting on the models. Graham

Good fanfiction is an oxymoron. Graham

Here's 9 pics I just took of the Yamato 1/60 YF-19 with the Bandai 1/65 scale reissue VF-19 Fire Valk & reissue VF-17S Stealth Valk. Sorry, the lighting is not that good as the pics were taken indoors at night. I really wish Yamato would give us a decent VF-17D/S. Graham

Oh goody, just what the world needs, yet another RX-78 toy! (insert sarcastic smiley here). There must be more size, scale and material variations of the RX-78 than any other toy ever produced in either the East or West. Graham

Can we have some larger pics for the MW custom toy gallery? Graham

If Yamato don't release the two Super Nova schemes, hopefully one of our intrepid MW customizers will step up to the plate and tackle the challenge! Erick (Takatoys) or Devin (if he comes out of retirement) would need to scale the Hasegawa decals up to 1/60 scale though. Graham

I'll try to take some pics of them together in the next day or two. Graham

The Wave website now shows the release date as January 2007. Damn, I was hoping to get this before Christmas. From the pictures on Wave's site, it's easy to see where and how the shoulder cannons rotate. Graham

This is worrying, but it's too early to start to panic. Hopefully it's just a few isolated incidences of drastically overtightened screws and not another full-blown VF-11B epidemic. AFAIK, only 2 or is it 3 MWers have reported this problem with their VF-0A so far? Still, I'll be checking my three VF-0A when I get home. Oh, and can we have some photos from those who have had the toys arms break, so I can pass the pics onto Yamato. Graham

So just how do you pronounce the name of this console then? Is it: - 1) Why. 2) We. 3) Double-You Two. 4) Double-You Eye Eye. Silly bloody name whatever IMO. Graham

Ditto. Graham

So do I. I love Nora's color scheme much more than Ivanov's which I find somewhat plain. My Hasegawa SV-51 is painted in Nora's scheme. I do hope that if Yamato reelease a Nora SV-51, the yellow markings will be Tampo printed on, as they would like terrible as stickers. Graham

While the animation and story of MacII are considerd to be somewhat sub-par by many, the Valk designs in general are well liked by most. I'd personally love to see a perfect transformation VF-2SS w/SAP and VF-2JA by Yamato. Not bothered about the Metal Siren though. I never did care for the design. It's extremely fugly IMO. Graham

When are we going start seeing some VF-0 customs? Kurt? Jung? Graham

Guys, please keep talk of the VF-0A to either the VF-0A thread, or the 'What's wrong with my........" thread. This is the YF-19 thread. Graham

Yes, it should be able to fit on the VF-0S. Graham

Sits quitely twiddlling thumbs and smiling. Graham