Graham

There's stuff I would love to tell you guys, but unfortunately for whatever reason Yamato doesn't like me to reveal as much stuff as in the past. It may have something to do with the fact that early this year or last year some Japanese fans were lurking on MW and complained to BW and Yamato that we had more info than they did. Also, while I still have some insider sources at Yamato, my main source is now virtually impossible to contact and much more tight-lipped than in the past Graham

You guys are not getting anywhere near my girlfriend Hmmmm.....maybe this is the real reason that Noel is not coming now........................? He is too scared to let all of us near his girlfriend! Graham

Rough date, middle of next year....probably. These things are always subject to change tho G-

Also gotta add, kudos to Spykes and Infusion. Very clear and readable subtitiles. The translations seems very accurate from what I can tell. Graham

Thanks for providing those links, I can now get both audio and video. Sound is excellent and picture quality is very clear, however, the video keps pausing and skipping a lot, especially in the CG Valk action scenes. It's just short pauses of like a half a second and then a skip ahead of maybe a second. It is very frequent and very noticable. It doesn't happen much during the cell animated character parts. I downloaded ep# 2 & # 3 and it happens with both. This is my first time ever to try downloading anything. Any idea what could be causing this? My computer is fairly low spec, actually you could say 'antique' these days, PIII 700MHz, 256 ram. Graham

AFAIK, there is no firm data published yet with regards to height and weight. Even the Compendium and Nanashi's have very limited information so far. Graham

The K&M (Kaiyodo & Movic) figures are constructed of PVC for the non-transforming figures and ABS for the transforming VF-1 figures. There are no metal parts. They are pretty small. The non-transforming VF-1J Battrroid from the series # 1 set stands at about 8cm tall. The transforming VF-1 toys stand at about 6.5cm in battroid mode. With the exception of the Regult figure, I was not impressed by series # 1. The transforming VF-1's have terrible proportions in battroid mode, although the look OK in Fighter and Gerwalk. There is a lot of parts swapping involved in transforming them. Articulation is also very poor on the transforming battroid. The non-transforming Hikaru VF-1J figure had very stiff joints and I snapped the elbow joint accidently after less than 5 minutes. Also, the paint job on the VF-1J was odd as some areas of the Battroid were white, while others were varying shades of grey. Articulation was quite good on this figure though. As I said, the only figure I really liked from series #1 was the Regult, which had an exccellent paint job and even had some of that squiggly Zentradi writting on it. However, it was not as well articulated as the Regult toys from the Bandai HG Mission # 2 set. Basically, these should be considered as similar quality to Gashapon toys, but at only ¥300 per figure, what do you expect. Graham

I already pointed out in another thread that at the end of ep # 3, when Mao is brought back to the Asuka, there is a side view shot of her lying unconsious on the examination table and her breasts seem to have magically grown much bigger. Graham

I really hate watching those 'behind the scenes' or 'making of' programs before I actually watch the movie. They always show the best action scenes and spoil the movie for me. Graham

I'm not really an FPS fan or PC game fan, but I don't mind playing a single player FPS console game occasionally, as long as it's got a good story, not just mindless shooting. I've just finished the PS2 Judge Dredd FPS game by Rebellion, which I really enjoyed as I've been a big fan of the character and reading the comic since 1978 (and yes I agree the Stallone movie which had little to do with the comic sucked). I've gotta admit, I've never seen the attraction of online FPS games. The few times friends have persuaded me to try games like BF1942 at cyber cafes, it all seemed pretty pointless, just run around for a few minutes shoot a few people and get shot. Ho hum, where's the enjoyment? Graham

Best Macross game so far IMO, just a little short. I've no regrets about buying it. Graham

Well, in episode # 4, they better bloody well answer the question of where all the VF-0's were when this attack was taking place, otherwise I will be most pissed off. Graham

That wasn't a VF-0A that Shin and Edgar were flying, it was a VF-0D. Graham

Actually, that's an excellent point about the infantry. So not only does the Anti-UN Destroid have to store that big gun and missile pod, but also carry infantry! When we first see it underwater stealing the AFOS head, it doesn't seem that large, certainly not large enough IMO. Graham

That's what I think, it's a sea skimming anti-ship missile. Also, you do see Nora and D.D.'s SV-51s carrying and launching 2 sea-skimming anti-ship missiles each, which they target against an Aegis cruiser. Two of the missiles get stopped by the ship's defences, but two get through and take out the Aegis. Graham

The HK set of Megazone 23 parts I, II & III has very good subs IIRC. Graham

I'm probably in the minority here, but I have absolutely no interest in playing online PC FPS games against 64 people I'll probably never meet. I'd much rather play a console game against 2-3 friends in the comfort of my sitting room on my wide screen TV with lots of beer and pizza involved. Graham

Too dangerous to target the bridge. Don't you know that's one of the rules of anime, if you blow up the bridge, the whole ship will explode Graham

Finally bit the bullet last night and decided to try my hand at this bittorrent and downloading malarky. Bear in mind I'm not really a techie person and I'm only just about computer literate (at least I know where the on switch is ). Anyway, I managed to find the BT site, I think(?) and download the software. I then found and downloaded Zero ep # 3, which took about 4-5 hours even though I have broadband. It downloaded as an .avi file, is that correct? Anyway, when I tried to play it this morning using Quicktime, I just got a white screen with no sound. When I tried RealOnePlayer it said I needed to download some more software and Windows Media Player told me I needed a new codec (whatever that is), sounds like a type of cold medicine! Unfortunately, my broadband modem was playing up this morning, so I couldn't download the upgrades, plus I had to rush off to work. Is there anything a complete newbie like me needs to know about getting the episode to play? Graham

Difficult to tell from that screen grab, but to me it looks like a sea-skimming anti-ship missile about to hit the Asuka. Graham

Zor, heck, don't you mean Macek. I never new HG had so many talented mecha designers. Graham

Heh, I never actually formally proposed to my wife, which is something she never lets me forget. The story is like this, we had been living together for about 7 years already and talked about marriage, but we were not really in a hurry. Anyway, my parents in UK kept bugging me about getting married, so just to shut them up, I told them we were thinking about it sooni-ish and then all of a sudden just like that, they started arranging everything, booking the church, hotel reception etc. So rather than disappoint them, we just decided to go along with it and got married. I've no regrets and I've been married very happily for six and a half years already now. So I guess the closest I every came to a proposal was: - Me: "so ya' wanna get married in a few years?" My wife: "Err....okay, I guess so." Graham

Ya' mean like dey stuff the leaves up the tubes or sumtink like dat? Dons bullet proof vest and ducks for cover. Graham

OK, As this is no longer a new or hot item, I'm going to unpin the topic. Graham

Ya' know, I'm beginning to wonder if the blue glowing thing is actually the AFOS head or something else, perhaps something ejected from the AFOS head. For a start, it looks too small and is the wrong shape in my opinion to be the AFOS head. Graham