Graham

Actually, I also love the old Yoshiyuki Takani box art on the old 1982-3 Imai and Arri Macross kits. More recently in the late 1990's Takani also did the wonderful box art on the Wave 1/72 Mac 7 kits (best VF-17 battroid illustration ever IMO). I've got both of Takani's art books and they are worth picking up if you can find them. Yuji Kaida (of 1/55 VE-1 & VT-1 box art fame) also did some beautiful box art on 4 of the old Bandai 1985 Macross kits. These are some of the hardest Bandai Macross kits to find. And of course Tenjin's box art on the Hasegawa Macross kits is mind-blowing. I've stated many times on these forums, that if Hasegawa were to release a book of Tenjin's Macross art, printed on high quality glossy paper, I would buy it in a heart beat. Graham

I think it's pretty neat that according to the Gunota update of January 24, a recent poll in Japan of 500,000 people lists Lunamaria Hawke as second place in the ranking of the top 30 favorite female Gundam characters. Go Lunamaria! Graham

Next without skirt . Graham

, i guess we will have to wait for them to come up with a way to have Gff gashapon figure, where you can remove/ replace this or that. Blue?,, I thought it was going to be pink or black to match with the uniform Oh I got a way you can remove it,,, But you will have to rub her butt until the panties disappear By the way any pic? Okay, here's the pics of my Lunamaria Hawke figure. First with skirt.......... Graham

It's a Takatoku toy of a mecha from the anime Orguss. One of the rarer Orguss toys as well. It's nothing to do with Macross, despite the auction title. Graham

Heh, saw this thread title and it immediately made me think of this quote from Aliens: - Dietrich: "Looks like some kind of secreted resin." Hicks: "Yeah, but secreted from what?"- Haterist, I'd suggest getting the Pulse Rifle from the armory and checking your house for any signs of Alien infestation . Oh, and lets just hope you don't get any sudden chest pains. Graham

How about some rear visibilty so the pilots can check their 6. Why is it that most sci-fi fighters have no rear visibilty? Graham

Just picked up the new March 2005 issues of Hobby Japan magazine & Dengeki Hobby magazine. Unfortunately, there's no new pics of the Yamato 1/100 VF-0S. In fact, neither magazine has anything about Macross at all, zip, zilch, nada. IIRC, this is the third month in a row now that there has been no updates on the Yamato 1/100 VF-0S, which leads me to suspect that Yamato might have quietly decided to drop it. I'm guessing that one of two things may have happened: - 1) The prototype scrulpt was so badly received based on the older pics in the hobby mags and as seen at trade shows, that based on negative market feedback Yamato figured it just would not sell well enough and it was not worth the expense of starting from scratch to make an all new sculpt. 2) Yamato has taken so long developing this toy, that their licencse with Big West to produce Macross Zero toys may have already expired! I'm reasonably certain that Big West toy licenses last for 2 years. And the 1/100 VF-0S toy has been in development for 2 years already, so it is conceivable that the license could have already expired and Yamato figures it is just not worth renewing it. Let's hope I'm wrong and the toy is still going to be released some day. Graham

Yep, please post all TF stuff in the pinned topic at the top of the page. Graham

I have some of the Great Mechanics books and they are good, but too small and the main focus is Gundam. I really want an A4 size (or larger) 'This is Animation' style Macross Zero book to be able to fully appreciate Kawamori's line art. Oh well, perhaps a Macross Zero book will be released a few years later. And nice to see you posting again Seichi. I thought you had disappeared . Graham

You mean a pic of the figure or a pic of me rubbing her butt? Graham

Pics anybody? Graham

I'd rate it as a good, fun action-comedy-sci fi movie. Woth seeing for Milla in her white bandage costume. I've been meaning to pick up the DVD for a while now, just haven't got round to it yet. Graham

I like the second two pics, but the first one doesn't really look much like her. Graham

The kneeling pose gashapon figure I have of Lunamaria (with removeable skirt) has her wearing dark blue panties (unfortunately not removeable ) Graham

But if just one DVD gets copied, then the terrorists win. Can we afford to let that happen? Doesn't god also kill a kitten each time a DVD gets copied as well? Graham

I wanna see those pics. Graham

If you mean Lunamaria Hawke who pilots the red Zaku Warrior, she looks nothing like Frey IMO, she's much more cute and should not die, at least not before giving us some significant panty or shower scene fan service . Graham (Lunamaria's No.1 fan)

Yep, that's a good price. Graham

Yep, I noticed that when I saw it at the cinema, which is one of the main reasons why I purchased the DVD. Gotta love that pause and slow-mo function Graham My favorite part of that scene has to be watching it with the commentary on so she proudly proclaims "TWAT SHOT!" LOL.....I'll have to watch that part with the commentary on. I usually never bother with commentaries, find them too boring. Graham

OK, apparently there was a 1967 Hanna-Barbera FF cartoon, which was quite faithful to the comics and featured pretty good art for that time. This did feature all 4 FF members. Then there was a 1978 FF cartoon, which featured lousy art and replaced the Human Torch with a Robot called Herbie. I've read some stories that say there were concerns about children setting fire to themselves, which lead to the Human Touch being replaced by Herbie. Other stories say that it was beacuse the Human Tourch rights were held be another company for use in a possible live-action movie or TV series at that time, so he could not be used in the 1978 cartoon. Graham

Yep, I noticed that when I saw it at the cinema, which is one of the main reasons why I purchased the DVD. Gotta love that pause and slow-mo function Graham

How about a VF-1A head, with two extra lasers stuck on the side. We could give it our own official designation an all......oh no wait, Toynami already did that . I say somebody does a 3D scan of Shawn's head so that Capt America could do a realistic sculpt of Shawn and we use that as the official MW 1/48 head. Shawn, what do you think buddy? Graham

I want to know where's Herbie, or whatever the silly robot in the cartoon was called? Graham

Heh, brings to mind images of Doom strapped to some table in a UFO after being abducted by aliens, screaming "No...........not the anal probe!" . Graham