Graham

Regarding the meeting of Roy and Claudia, I'm betting that Edgar dies by episode # 5 and Roy will be shown meeting Claudia at Edgars funeral. Graham

Great show in its uncut form and highly under rated IMO. One of my all time favorite mecha anime. It's got great action scenes, an interesting story, realistic military style robots, giant bugs, lots of death and mutilation and great BGM and opening song. What more could you want? My one wish is for an art book and some toys of the mecha. Graham

It looks like the sculpt already shown. Graham

Actually, Briareos now going under the MW name 'Physioguy', submitted pics for the MW custom toy gallery a few weeks ago. You can see them here. Also, this custom TV type Q-Rau was already discussed in two older topics here back in March, and early April here.. Graham

Aghhh.....I want Yamato to make the VF-17 and VA-3 from those pics into toys. Graham

Busy, busy, busy. Only about 5 weeks left now until our first child is born. Things are getting hectic. So many things to buy and prepare for. Graham

There's some more and larger pics of the VF-0D up in the MW magazine section. See June 2004 issue. Graham

In most color art of the Max and Miria VF-1J, the head lasers are shown as being blue/red, so I think Yamato got them correct on the 1/48 and wrong on the 1/60. Graham

There's a short trailer for Macross Zero episode # 4 on the Bandai Visual site. Graham

From the bottom left picture, it looks like Roy rescues Aries. Graham

While I like the head sculpt, I'm really disappointed with the wings. The narrow section of the wing is far too short. Compare the wings of the 1/100 toy with the Hasegawa model kit, which has a much longer narrow section. Graham

Here's some more pics from the new June 2004 issue of Hobby Japan. This still appears to be the old sculpt, as the promised modifications to the fugly hips have obviously not been made yet. Graham

And the last one for tonight. Graham

And some more. Graham

Here's the pics of the custom Shin type VF-0D. Larger (and more) scans will be going up in the MW magazine section over the weekend. Graham

Here's some more screen shots from episode # 4, as well as the first look at the DVD cover. Great cover IMO. Wonder if it means Nora gets a new identical SV-51? Graham

Here's the first black and white and color line-art of the Octos from episode # 3. A larger version of this scan whill be going up in he MW magazine section over the weekend. Graham

I'm still not allowed to say what it was, but unfortunately, it was cancelled already I think it was felt that there was not a large enough fan base, i.e they wouldn't sell enough units to make it worthwhile proceeding. Graham

Don't think I would ever get a tattoo. If others want them fine, just not my thing. Graham

No, no, no. I do not want Yamato to release the VF-1 in 1/100 scale. We have enough VF-1 toys already. Another line of VF-1 TV and DYRL varients in yet another scale would just be too much, because we all know that Yamato wouldn't just release only one 1/100 VF-1 toy, they would release all the different head/color varients all over again.....arghhhhhhhhhh! If Yamato are going to switch their focus to 1/100 scale, I would much rather they concentrate on other VFs that have not been released as toys yet such as the VF-4, VA-3M, VF-5000B, VF-22S, VF-17D/S, VF-3000 etc. Graham

The new June 2004 issue of Hobby Japan features an 18 page Macross section, including a great conversion of the Hasegawa VF-0S kit to Shin's VF-0D. I'll try and get scans of the VF-0D up later today and get the whole section scanned in during the weekend. Graham

Always thought the Zeong was a big skirt wearing sissy Graham

That's the million dollar MW slogan. LOL and most often asked about the Low Vis. Graham

As much as I used to like Votoms, I do feel the Scopedog design is starting to look a little dated. If Yamato wants to make a military mecha toy, I'd much rather they made a Tactical Armor (Gasaraki) or Armor Shrike (Blue Gender) toy. Graham

So they intend to make a whole line? I pressume so. It would be a bit silly of them to go to all that expense of design and tooling just to release only one version. And with Votoms, there are like a gazillion variants of the basic ATM-09 scopedog. Graham