Mr March

Yeah I saw the teaser. I gotta check out the featurette though.

No. The original Death Star was 160 kilometers in diameter. The second Death Star was 900 kilometers. Remember, in the dialogue of the first film, they mistake the Death Star for a "small moon" until they discover that it's actually a massive space station. So the Death Star is definitely not planet sized.

Oh cool! I loved that Macross game! BTW, has there been a version of that game released for MAME that finally features some sound?

Very strange. The decal on her butt makes me laugh

Guys night out at some local drinking establishments. Hopefully, it will lead to some ladies for us guys...and some fun

Unfortunate, but at least he got it "mostly" right

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA I loves it my precious!!!

Damn, that's what I'm trying to do...sell my VF-1A 1/48 Yammie. Gotta make room for my new VF-1J with FAST Packs

Love those hands! Thanks for the great pictures Graham. The new pilot figure looks fantastic. The pose is classic.

I admit I'm very picky about my technical data. If I had to choose one over the other, this new second edition would win. The old black and white EGVV got two things wrong that really made me dislike it. They used that stupid 8 km length for the SSD and they stuck the schematics for a Victory Star Destroyer into the section for the Imperial Star Destroyer. For crying out loud the ISD is the poster child for Star Wars spacecraft...it should have been a no-brainer. So yeah, the NEGVV definitely beats out the old. But just so you know where I stand on written content, the NEGVV contains no more or less fluff than the old one. The old EGVV is just as campy and "fact" filled as the new one. The new one may even be slightly better because of the more accurate editing, but I wouldn't bet on it. Personally, I consider "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross Sections" to be the definitive published work about any Star Wars spacecraft released to date. The book featured real scientific units, plenty of accurate data (let me say that again...accurate...that felt good), and had the most technically relevant discussion that was both entertaining and interesting. Unless someone does the same in their book, I'm always going to give the competition a lower grade. As for stuff that got the axe, all the stations have been removed. No Death Star, Cloud City, Hosk Station, etc. Which is kinda good in a way since they are neither vehicles nor vessels. You'll be happy to know that most of the EU stuff got axed to make room for the clone hardware and like you, I don't miss the cut. Personally, the more stuff I see about the Acclamator-Class Republic Assault Ship, the better. Here's a short list Stuff I miss from the old guide: Death Stars Victory Class Star Destroyer (even if it was just an RPG concontion made out of Star Destroyer concept artwork) World Devastator Stuff I love in the new guide: Acclamator Mon Calamari Cruiser (new, more accurate schematics and a great glory picture) All the droid army materiel All the clone army materiel Techno Union Starship Color pictures!

Yeah, like all those lame old classic films. Gone With The Wind? What a crap movie it was...like saying "I don't give a damn" in a film is such a biiiiiig deal. And all those lame action flicks that look so cheesy compared to the huge budgets and awesome action scene editing we use now. Who the hell watches The Road Warrior and how can they stand it? And how about those stupid special effects that audiences tolerated? Star Wars and 2001...what the hell is up with that?[/sarcasm] Never understood why those films are so popular

Star Wars The NEW Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels Written by W. Haden Blackman Illustrations by Ian Fullwood Del Rey, Published by Ballatine Books ISBN 0-345-44902-9 For a fan of Star Wars, much of the wonder of this mythic science fiction fable has been thanks to the wonderfully colorful spacecraft that fly across the screen. Whether doing battle or just cruising in hyperspace, the spacecraft detailed in this updated book on all ships Star Wars is enough to satisify most fans of the franchise. To label Star Wars The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (NEGVV) as either essential or new is something of a misnomer. What the book does is list in alphabetical order all the ships and vehicles from the Star Wars movies and books, devoting two pages to each vehicle. For each ship within its pages, the NEGVV features a full color, one page glory shot of the ship at a dramatic angle as well as two small orthogonal schematics and some breif statistics. The second page features a name and class designation as well as a detailed and at the same time frivolous description of the ship. Yet while the NEGVV is certainly an improvement over the black and white schematics of the previous edition, don’t toss your old yellow book by Bill Smith and Doug Chiang into the green recycle bin just yet. The reason the title of this book is a little misleading is because like its predecessor, the NEGVV is a 200 page book. Unfortunately, as many Star Wars fans well know, there has been a number of new ships and mecha created for the Star Wars franchise in the seven years since the first Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels was released; a book which itself was 200 pages back in 1996. What this means is the NEGVV is something less than complete. Those Star Wars fans who own the first edition of this book and collected the Incredible Cross Sections series will find they certainly want to maintain their collection. The first edition EGVV features some Star Wars materiel not included in the NEGVV (or only breifly mentioned). Furthermore, the Incredible Cross Sections books (especially Curtis Saxton’s remarkably comprehensive Attack of the Clones ICS) explore the machinery and statistics of each Star Wars ship in much more detail and most importantly, with much better accuracy and science. Lastly, the written descriptions feature plenty of fluff just like the first edition. There is more than a little information included for the sake of word count that reads like a comic strip and is just plain incorrect or irrelevant. More hard statistics like complete ship measurements (ie more than just length), weapons payload, operational ranges, and more real technical analysis would be welcome. In other words, get Dr. Curtis Saxton to write more of these books...many more. So what does the NEGVV get right? Actually, quite a bit. The presentation itself is plenty to be happy about. The guide is printed on glossy paper and is much more colorful than the dull, colorless pages of the first edition. The NEGVV provides the beloved schematics featured in the first book while also featuring full color, full page pictures of the ships in all their glory. Most of the glory shots look great and many of the vessels - like the Mon Calamari Cruiser - benefit from a much stronger presentation. The NEGVV also has a good number of new vehicles not featured in any other book to date and all of the vehicle descriptions are newly written. The book also corrects several size errors and moves numbers more towards the accurate sizes of the Star Wars ships. The fan favorite Executor is described as 12.8 kilometers long in NEGVV and while this number is still a long way from the correct canon figure of 17.6 km, avoiding the long time erroneous 8 km figure is a welcome change in a Star Wars publication. Most of all the NEGVV is a fun read. Even for diehard fans who ould probably write a better guide themselves, the book is worth the price. Just hang on to all your other Star Wars books, cause the ultimate guide hasn’t seen the light of day just yet. Rating: 7 out of 10. A flawed encyclopedia of Star Wars vessels that is at the same time entertaining to read and informative even for veterans of the franchise.

I own only two Valkyries and have had my first for well over a year and a half. I don't really collect them at all. The reason I purchased the Yamato was for several reasons. Macross has been a rather large part of my life for most of it. I've been a Macross fan longer than I've been friends with some of my best buds...15+ years. I wanted a memento of my fandom of Macross, something I could enjoy beyond just the films and series themselves. Also, Macross merchandise is still notoriously difficult to obtain. The way things are going, Macross could easily become more available or less. Now was the time to make the most of being a Macross fan, so I purchased all the stuff I could and all I wanted. I'd do the same for my other favorite interests like film or literature. The remarkable longevity of those few stories in my life that I'll never stop enjoying deserves a special something worthy of commemoration...and it's not a pen or plate

Hell Yeah!

Looks like I made the right choice finally deciding to buy the VF-1J. Looking forward to the pics

I would have wanted to be a Monster pilot or gunner, I don't remember any of them get destroyed Isn't the VB-6 in service in 2040????? That would be an effective ground unit I've just been rewatching my AnimEigo box set and although I don't remember which episode it is in, I'm sure there is an episode somewhere in the first half of the series, where you do see a Monster being destroyed. Can anybody help out which ep it is? Graham Episode 8 "Longest Birthday". Kamjin's squadron conducts an assault upon the SDF-1. All the onboard destroids are deployed to defend the ship. The destroids fire out at the Regults, but are very ineffective. In the retalitory strike, you can clearly see the top half of a Monster getting hit by Regult weapons fire. While we don't know for sure the Monster was destroyed (it looks like it's right hand side arm was blown of and the ensuing explosion destroyed or damaged the four top mounted cannons), it was certainly heavily damaged and was definitely disabled at best.

Fanatastic! I also very much like your "exposed" mecha transformation. Impressive.

Amelie was a great film! One of the best foreign films I've ever seen. Sorry for the off topic post, but I just had to say something about this charming french film.

If I can do one thing as a member of this board that might help you through this difficult situation, then take this with you... You made the right choice. Never doubt it. Best of luck to you.

You DO mean RED, dont you? I mean blue. VF-19 even the Fire Valk get's bashed a lot, i love it's color, it seems like the perfect shade of red. so i guess u could say the VF-19 was in blue and red. Well, I like blue, so I like the blue VF-19 version. The red looks okay I suppose, but it's not my favorite. I actually do like the tan color of the YF-19, but given a choice, I'd pick blue

good testimony you have there keep it up! Yamato 1/48 VF-1J with FAST Packs...here I come!

Keep in mind that the pricing above is talking about a valk without FAST Packs. I hope WM Cheng doesn't mind me posting this here. But, then again, it's there in that thread for everyone to see. Please don't construe this as any promise on WM Cheng's part. He may very well have changed his mind! H Understood and absorbed. Thanks for posting that Hurin. Hmmm, now I'm thinking I want that done.

Welcome aboard! But be warned, I was a near merchandiseless Macross fan before I joined MacrossWorld. A few VHS tapes, CDs, and DVDs, one or two magazines, and great respect for the franchise was about all I had. Then I joined. Six more Soundtracks, eleven more DVDs, my first two Yamato 1/48 VF-1 Valkyries, my first two official fanbooks, and more stuff on the way. Expect to spend! Hehehe

My complaint was not about shipping. Actually it was a legitimate complaint about something very much within control of HLJ...shipping the proper merchandise to the customer. Like I said, it was just one time and I haven't stopped buying from them. But my orders better be flawless from that point onward. Everyone deserves a second chance, but my patience ends at the third

Well, the YF-19 and YF-21 did utilize new active stealth systems. Yang stated their chances of going undetected. The grid didn't seem to notice them until they were already past the grid itself.