Graham

And guys, please give me some credit for at least having half a brain. I do know what Ulysses 31, Battle of the Planets/Gatchaman & Thunderbirds are!!!!! I wouldn't ask about something so obvious and well known as those shows. As a Brit I grew up on Thunderbirds which is something of a national insitution in the UK as well as other Gerry Anderson shows like Captain Scarlet, UFO, Joe 90, Stingray, & Space 1999. I may be an old fart (35 next month), but I'm not quite senile yet Graham

I like the beige and tan colors of the anime VF-0A better than grey, but I agree that it would probably be difficult to find the correct color of plastic to look good, unless the toy was fully painted. HLJ has some nice photos of the painted Hasegawa VF-0A. Now that's how I'd like the toy to look. Graham

Disappointed that the VF-0S's head hangs down so low in fighter mode. There is really no excuse for this given that so much parts swapping is involved and the toy comes with a seperate nose/cockpit section for Fighter mode Graham

Noel, A few questions: - Does the Yamato 1/100 VF-0S have a pilot figure in the cockpit? I can't quite make it out from your photos. Any news of the release date of the VF-0S? Did CM's have a booth and were there any Macross series # 3 figures on display, or any news of a series # 3? Did Hasegawa have a booth and was there an Ivanov color (black) SV-51 or a VF-0D on display yet, or any news of them? Any news of any new Hasegawa Battroid or even Gerwalk kits? Graham

I wonder how much sending out all these replacement toys is going to cut into Toynami's profit margin? Will it make them too scared to produce the red, green and dark Alphas? Hopefully, they will greatly improve the QC for any furture varients, as I imagine it would get prohibitivly expensive if they have to send out replacements for each color varient . Graham

'Space Sentinels' That's the one, thanks David. Graham

October 22. Try searching first for such a simple question. Graham

I need help finding information on a Sci-Fi/Superhero cartoon from my childhood. I think it would have aired sometime in the mid to late 1970s. I can't remember very much about it, except that it featured 3 hero characters each with different powers, who may or may not have been named after characters from either Greek or Roman mythology. They also had a cool looking spaceship that was based either inside a volcano or a mountain, or perhaps under a lake. As I said, my memory is sketchy from so long ago. I sorta remember the spaceship as being vaguely flying saucer shaped, with 3 landing struts and lots of kibble on the exterior. Please bear in mind that my memory may be faulty. The only other thing I remember is that the ships computer or perhaps it was a ships robot spoke with quite a sexy female voice. I've tried searching for info on this, but when some or all the details I'm remembering may be incorrect, I haven't found anything so far. Hope somebody can help me as it's bugging he hell out of me. Graham

Looks fantastic. Great job. Always a pleasure looking at photos of a well built Macross model. Graham

Bariaburu Faita, if you are in contact with Atelier Sai, please let him know that a toy of the MADOX-01 powered suit from the 'Metal Skin Panic' anime would be very popular with I suspect a great many MWers Also, please ask him why the heck he canted the VF-0S's headlasers so far outward on the latest sculpt revisions. They were the one thing that was fine about the original sculpt! Graham

From what I understand, Toynami is not a very large company, so I bet they only have 1 or 2 people handling customer service and theose people are probably not full time on customer service, they most likely have other duties to attend to as well. Graham

Oh dear, just as I suspected the revised head laser sculpt on the VF-0S head with those widely canted head lasers looks awful in fighter mode. The lasers are angled too far out the sides. Graham

I hope the fighter pic above is not what Yamato considers to be the correct VF-0A color, as while it looks nice and I wouldn't mine owning it, it is completely wrong as far as the anime goes. The VF-0A in the anime is a sort of light beige color with tan trim. Graham

Quite like the design as is. Although, the ships seem to be covered with awfully large rust(?) patches in the first few pics. Seems like the Captain should be ordering a work detail to get out there and repaint the hull Graham

The Escaflowne's cloak was made of rubber (soft PVC). Unfortunately, it was very heavy and because of the weight has a tendency to pull the arms out of their sockets. Transformation is pretty complex, but not that difficult to master and once you've got the hang of it, it becomes second nature, like most transforming toys really. I actually wrote the English language instructions for Yamato, although I wasn't happy with them as I had to follow Yamatos photos and order of photos, which I didn't agree with. I would have much rather changed the order of the photos and added a few additional steps. Anyway, IMO it's not as bad a toy as many people claim and I think it looks good in both dragon mode and Guymelef mode. It's definitely more of a display peice though as articulation is fairly limited. Gotta say the box design was awful to. yamato's worst looking box ever. Graham

Corrected typo Graham

Nah. toynami is basically doing the same thing for me. Same here... however Toynami has been very rude and not too talkative in their communications with me and I still have no idea when my replacement will come. Heh, I bet they read all your posts in this thread Graham

The official R2 DVD of Macross Zero episode # 5 is now up for preorder at cdjapan. I've just ordered mine. Graham

One minor niggle. The F-90 and F-91 GFF share the same feet, but this is incorrect. The F-90 is supposed to have vernier jets (circle in a square shape) on the front and sides of the foot (the white area of the foot), but the GFF omits these. I'm guessing Bandai just wanted to save a bit of money, so gave the F-90 the F-91's feet, instead of sculpting the correct feet Graham

Yep as others have said, RahXephon can be described as an Eva clone, but with likeable characters and an ending that can actually be understood and makes sense . Gotta say I enjoyed RahXephon far more tha Eva, but that may be just because I'm stupid and don't actually get Eva Never watched Argento Soma, so can't comment. Graham

Please post your pics of the VF-0 & VB-6. We want as many pics as possible, whether or not they are good or crappy. Graham

Wow, that looks like a VF-19F or VF-19S conversion in that pic (dark blue and grey one in the middle).....lovely. Graham

Ahem, micro-missiles which don't stay on the launchers Graham

That seems a bit low to me, but then again I'm just going by the HK price. I have no idea what they sell for on ebay. Graham

It really depends a lot on the condition of the toy and the box. Is the box pristine? What is the condition of the toy, C-10, C-9 etc? Are the stickers applied? Are all the small parts still on their sprus? Does it still have the standing Hikaru pilot figure? Are the instructions and card still with the toy? Are the diecast metal parts untarnished? Is the toy broken in any way? Is any of the paintwork scratched? There are many things to consider! Here in Hong Kong, a mint HCM VF-1S with unapplied stickers will normally sell for about HK$3,000 to HK$3,500 last time I checked (About US$385 to US$450). Graham