Graham

Tight fit, no hanging down. Graham

Luke, can you please check your PM. Graham

It does use magnets in the legs. Graham

Tampo printing on the production toy includes: - 1) Red ">" on the intakes. 2) "19" on the left shoulder. 3) UN Spacy Kite on the wing. There's also the cockpit instrument panel, but I'm not sure if it's Tampo printed or a pre-applied sticker. Looks more like a pre-applied sticker to me. And yes, Isamu is a very tight fit in the cockpit. Graham

I'm asking for permission to post pics, but may not be allowed to until the official release date. Graham

Jenius, you are making a lot of assumptions on articulation before you have actually handled the toy. I just checked and the head can tilt down (forward). While the head itself can't tilt back, the whole neck column does tilt back, which allows the head to look up. An "A" stance is possible and there is plenty of mobility in the hips. There is also a knee swivel. Plenty of articulation in the shoulders (in fact the whole arms) as well. Graham

Am I that transparent? I've been in China so haven't been online. I have seen some very interesting things tho. Graham

Toy should be out soon. The production versions are very tight. that's all I can say for now. Graham

I'm sure Kawamori-san will be tickled pink to see the vids. I doubt very much that you would get a cease and desist order, that is unless you are going to mass produce the SV-51 for commercial sale. I'm meeting with poeople from Yamato later this week and will give the a disk with the vids on to pass to Kawamori. Graham

While Battroid mode flight time with early VFs certainly seems extremely limited, that certainly doesn't seem to be the case with the more advanced VFs that have insane thrust to weight ratios, such as the the Mac Plus& Mac 7 Valks. There's lots of Battroid mode flight shown in M7. Graham

And yes, except for hip bars, the yF-19 is pretty much all ABS, with a bit of POM thrown in. Yamato don't like to use die-cast metal for extrernal body parts, as on transforming toys the paint chips too easily and you can never get a 100% color match with the ABS parts. Graham

Err.. don't you mean almost 100% ABS? Graham

Here's all the pics I have of the VF-11B's gunpod. Enjoy! Graham

We have had multiples topics on the Rafaga and Tech Romancer posted over the last few years. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...2&hl=Rafaga http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...0&hl=Rafaga But nice pics anyway, at least one of them I hadn't seen before. Graham

I have it. I'll get it scanned at the weekend. Graham

It's not due out until end of November, which we all know means in reality sometime in December. Graham

Never heard of a turrent before. Graham

While a little off topic, I'd like to know where the heck was the Asuka's air wing when the SV-51's attacked in episode # 3. Seems like Roy was all by himself. Graham

I'm happy with the size of the Wave SDF-1. I'm already running out of display space as it is, just with Yamato toys, so I don't want larger toys. Maximum height bewteen shelves in my display cabinet is only 13"-14", so a toy taller than a 1/48 VF-1 is a no-no for me. I already have to angle the Strike cannon on the 1/48 VF-1S Strike Valk Battroid as it is to get it to fit in my cabinet. As previously mentioned, I'm not a ship guy, so I don't really care if it is smaller. Graham

I can scan the pics from Hobby Japan, there's no pics in this month's Dengeki. But there's not much point as the pics already posted in this thread from various sources are just as good if not better. I'm looking forward to this, even though I'm far more of a Valk fan than a ship fan. I just hope it can hold a pose and the arms are not too fragile or floppy. Graham

My take on things is that only the Asuka has AG generators, and these were activated by the AFOS. The AFOS was able to control Asuka's AG field strength and size, so that the AG field was large enough to lift the whole battlegroup and the Anti-UN sub out of the water. As for why? Maybe the AFOS just wanted a closer look? Graham

Before we go all overboard with speculation, I'd just like to remind everybody that a YF-21 has not been confirmed. Graham

Ha.....I wish! Graham

Here's the only lineart pic I've been able to find of the Asuka, from the official M0 DVD booklet. There are some CG pics of various parts of the ship in the Tenjin Valkyries artbook. op4_delta, do you have that book? Graham P.S. op4_delta, no pics allowed in sigs, please remove

We're just about all gimmicked out now. Actually, that's not quite true, there's still 1 or 2 things, not revealed yet! Oh, and a correction from yesterday. There is actually a very small gap in battroid mode, between the curved middle part of the chest and the plane nose (uni-boob). It's not a gap that you can see through, as the inside of the curve has a straight horizontal bar across it. Graham