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Micronauts are my thing. I've got over a dozen original TV spots on 16mm broadcast film, and had them transferred by a NYC post house that does network transfers and had a whole staff of Micronauts fans. I loanded out a couple of copies of them, and now of course they're all over YouTube. Look for the ones with the countdown on them and that don't look like crap... Interestingly, I found that most of the Transformers, Star Wars, Mego and other similar TV toy spots of the 70s and 80s were done by the same couple of studios, and almost all the same production people.

Would you care to share them via Mediafire, or MegaUpload?

Ah, more classic Macross literature for the holidays! Thanks, Gubaba!

Nice score, Luclin999. Nothing like having an real, 1980s example of THE TOY that started it all. I picked up one myself - gently used and still in its wonderful Takatoku box with original Japanese price tags - a couple of months ago, and I just marvel at it like some dinosaur footprint or an actual letter in some famous author's own handwriting.

I now your'e rong! It'ss MACRES ! It says so on on of my toyss! (Wiht "real seal')

"I'm not your enemy, Ming is! Let's all team up and fight him!" Besides - Even that novel element is a retcon. The Robotech novels might as well be fanfics, really. Its a neat little bit added in, but its soooo removed from the orginal concepts and creators at that point that just about anything could be written in between the original lines.

Oh, that's gorgeous! A beautiful old-school gem! Great work!

The FSS movie is essentially the core story from the first FSS manga tankoban. ADV made a very nice domestic edition, subtitled with a decent little pack-in booklet. Well worth picking up if you can find it. (Another one of ADV's 'labor of love' classic anime releases.)

I believe that's intended to be part of CMs Brave Ghokin line - like their super-expensive but brilliant OAV-style Gallient. It'll be a beauty, but will probably set you back a mortgage payment...

I have a couple of Legioss fighters from what I believe is that production run, as they share the same workmanship, demolding patterns, etc. I got them from a 25-cent vending machine back in the very late 1980s. I've suspected they are bootlegs from genuine Morinaga or Meiji candy toys. The machine was also filled with the usual super-deform 1980s anime mecha like L-Gaim, traditional super robots, little figural Godzilla monster rubber-stamps that I later found were made by Popy, and a similar set of ORGUSS mecha stampers. Sadly, the machine had been emptied pretty quickly when I returned a few days later literally with a $10 roll of quarters... Sometime after the holiday rush is over, I'll try to post a couple of pics of the Legioss fighters I have.

I only got the first 2 IA volumes before they were canceled (grrrrr!!! After decades of waiting!!!), and had to borrow the rest from a friend. They've got a very aggressive anti-copy on them... Another pal of mine got a bootleg DVD set a few years ago. The subs were laughably horrible - to the point where they had to have been using the subs file from a completely unrelated show at some points...

I thought I'd refresh some of the old-school ORGUSS love here: New addition to my collection, from the collection of Matt Alt - Takatoku's odd little "System" Gerwalk Nikick (Athena Henderson type) toy. Made up of a heavy, diecast skeleton with removable plastic hull structures. About 4 & a half inches tall. The only articulation is at the hips & shoulders, and the head turns. This one came as part of the rare "System In Box" set, along with the Kei Katsuragi Orgroid (which I also have packaged solo from my high-school years collection). Although the Nikick was available individually as well. They're kind of non-scale, and are just slightly larger than the cheap-end, all-plastic transformable Orguss toys. Only this Nikick and the Kei Orgroid were released in this format.

Toynami's 1/100 Regult announced for release in February 2010 as the second in the company's vinyl series, limited to 2000 pieces, retailing for $25. Preorders available through the usual channels!

Awww... Very nice! Picture-perfect old school piece. Warms my heart, Vifam!

I really enjoyed the first couple of chapters that I read ( ). With the new artwork, slight changes in character design and story, it honestly had that same 'freah, new' feeling that the original SDFM episodes had when I first saw them. A real pleasure to read!

I was looking over a 1980s 1/100 Takatoku variable Valk in my collection the other day, and was struck by how similar the Variable Revoltech's fighter mode is to the old Takatoku, but not in a positive way. Points to them on the effort and the pricepoint (especially), but they're just stylistically ugly to my eye in almost every possible way - which is too bad for everyone involved. Very disappointing.

A "Seductive Techno-Fantasy" is what Animag called in many moons ago - probably the best description I've ever seen for the series.

Manga-ka, writer, mecha designer, fashion designer, and even his own rock band. Nagano is quite the renissance man, no? He also looks like one of his own characters - rail thin, judging by a photo of him in one of the Japanese tankobons.

You suck, with that luck! Actually, congrats on the great finds. Looking forward to the podcast! My (sort of) Takatoku score this weekend, for my collection of these knockoffs:

I was really into the whole property back in the late 80s & 90s, and the (relatively recent) translated manga was a godsend. But my interest has kind of cooled into a background classic, since new - or even newly-translated - content has been so sproadic or difficult to obtain. Still, its one of my favorites design & story-wise... like the 'fine literature' of the mecha genre. I had a 1/100 scale vinyl kit of the Led Mirage with Flame Launcher a long while ago, but sold it because it wound up rather difficult to maintain with moves and hot summers. I also had a couple of General Products' tiny metal kits. (Still have the Black Knight somewhere. I think I sold or traded the KOG.) And I had the classic 'floating' kit of Lachesis built-up, but I sold her, too. Now I've got a couple of KOG & Led Mirage plastic kits by Wave I picked up cheap during a lull in popular FSS interest, and are waiting to be built. I've got books, a couple of posters & printed things from NEWTYPE. So I've still got a fair - but inactive - interest and collection of stuff.

PERFECT MEMORY of course has that 'reconstruction period' illustration of Meltrandi pro swimsuit wrestling. (I kid you not...)

The orange makes me think of Hikaru's fanracer & flight suit or the VF-1D in SDF:M, or the VT-1 in DYRL - so there's a sort of orange element in early Minmay imagery as far as my mind's eye is concerned.

Excellent! That Lancer is a gem!

Repeated stabbing with a bowling ball?

Very nice! The original Imai kit had big round super-robot hands, rather than the square hands on your kit. Did you replace the hands? Or does the later Bandai edition have the DYRL-style square hands? Wave's releasing a Monster kit next year, so even if the Imai/Arii editions don't get a reissue, there'll be a plastic kit for us.