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Not every Macross toy is a Yamato toy....

"All your Base Sara are belong to us!" Glad ya like it! The little vinyls are actually pretty darn nice once you bend them back into their proper poses, and they've got some good detail. The Destroid Phalanx is actually one of the nicest in the set. I still need the Tomahawk, Spartan, Max & Milia 1J's, and the VF-1S in the small sized set.

Hello Mars! Takatoku's chunky old sofubi. They look like Sanrio Macross!

Absolutely amazing! Thanks for passing this along!

As an aside - That grey-dusted prototype is probably the clearest, most-detailed view of the Quarter I've ever seen.

I saw these once at a convention, and thought they looked cool. Bought one box, and got one of the chase DYRL cockpits (Hikaru), which was the thing I'd have wanted the most. I was all jazzed so I bought another one, and got Basara - which was the last one I'd have wanted. I quit there....

Maybe that's the intent? I nabbed a torrent and skimmed it. (Probably won't have time to watch it 'till later in the weekend, or Monday). The impression I get is one of innocence and wonder giving way harsh reality, and the disillusionment that comes with it. Sure, its got a lot of Oshii's usual pet metaphores, but I think that's the simple theme he's working with. He's probably just telling it with his and Amano's own particular tool kits. Oh - Her buddy with the hair & the Cross-bow struck me more as being like Archangel Gabriel or some similar angelic dude, not Jesus. He's kind of her guardian angel, leading her to a particular place she needs to go to... adulthood. Bastard!

well, you still have to register with the zealot forum to see the pics.

Someone posted here (and sorry, but I forget where) a translation of the initial Destroid history section in that book. Very interesting read!

I really enjoyed your blog, and even shared the Gendo Ikari piece at my Facebook, much to the enjoyment of a number of my friends. Great work!

Is it any wonder that Gerry Anderson is still a great a source of design inspiration around the world today? Thunderbirds, Space 1999, UFO: amazing works!

Now THAT was much better! Even if the movie is total crap, I'd rather have the benefit of some of your academic background in the analysis than rambles about Doug Funnie... OK... now I really have to find a copy of it! If anything, the film sounds like Oshii a dream put to film - and I don't mean that to sound as lofty as the words might normally mean. Like most dreams, the film seems to be full of colorful but ultimately vague and shallow symbolism based on elements of the dreamer's own life. I'm one of those people who doesn't hold much stock in dream analysis. Angel's Egg is perhaps just a distillation of Oshii's favorite images and icons, the ones he's internalized and tends to apply as an artist on a regular basis, and they've all surfaced in this dream he's gotten the funding to put on film. How much character development is there in the typical dream? Simply impressionistic, perhaps? My film criticism skills and background are rather poor, but for lack of better terminology Angel's Egg sounds more like a "moving painting" than a motion picture. The films seems like its not really intended to tell a story, just convey impressions or offer a few things to puzzle over while entertaining the eye. Anyhow, I should really actually see the film. Maybe I'll just say 'this is crap!'.

Oh, this is gonna be good!

Does "All That Valkyrie" count? If not, I don't think I've built ANYTHING from any show that's been produced within the last 5 years...

Very, very nice! Thanks for the pics, guys!

You'd have probably had more fun cutting in a commentary track! I haven't seen it, but its to me amazing that the film would be so devoid of content or merit. Sounds like Oishii was perhaps high on his own new reputation. I'm even more intrigued to see it now than I was in my freshman year of college! The Avalon podcast was really excellent - and long, for those who haven't listened. I'm all motivated to see it now, too, while previously I'd just thought 'gad, another boring Oshii flick."

Is that a plug...? No... couldn't be!

There'd be the wreckage of a warehouse, with all this thick sandwiches of rusted metal in them... row upon row, in piles with rotten wood around them. What would the futuremen think of them? I expect Bandai still has the tooling, even if they're not usable due to wear, decay or obsolescene (older tools sometimes require older models of injection machines). They'd at least keep them for reference, and pantograph (or 3D scan and auto-lathe) new ones from them. If they were scrapped, they'd be crushed and melted down. Or the cavities would be cut out, filled and re-tooled into some other product. Sorry for the tangent.

Oh, man... I'm sorry, but I thought the podcast was really... um... horrible. I really loved the previous podcasts I'd listened to (Mac7, Avalon, the Robotech comics one) but I think your commentary in this thread was much better than the podcast, dude! (Maybe I'm just too old and my kids too young for Doug E. Funny - so that whole, long stream of analogy waskind 'a was lost on me...) Looking forward to the next one, though! Perhaps it was one of those situations where his previous work so charmed the folks holding the purse strings that they figured "Hey! He's a winner! Give him some cash and free reign and he'll cook up something really great for us!". I think your observation in the podcast that it was something a band would want playing on stage with them during their concert is an apt one. I usually liken works along the line of Angel's Egg to a video lava lamp.

Beautiful Dreamer is one of my all-time favorite anime films, and has been since I saw it back in the late 80s. I really disliked Oishii's GITS (haven't seen Innocence yet), but that was more in comparison to the much more lively character chemistry I loved in the manga. I thought the film was pretty to look at (I was fortunate enough to see it in a theater), but boring and not nearly as philosophically engaging as it seemed intended to be. I've found nearly all of his films that I've had the fortune or time to seeto be rather ponderous, and far more shallow than his works' rich technical merits suggest. Angel's Egg seemed like the quintessential example of his style being more about 'the journey' than 'the destination'. I'll give the podcast a listen on my way home from work tonight...!

A domestic release - and an associated lower price - was the factor that actually made me consider adding it to my 'wish list' at all... and at that it would only have been the 'new' DYRL Max Super. I've already got previous editions of the others. So, I supposed this might not be the answer you're looking for. But I was looking forward to Toynami managing a legitimate Macross Valk import. As you probably know of me, walking out of a US retailer with a domestic release of a Japanese product - be it a Disney Studio Ghibli release from Wal Mart or a Bandai Godzilla toy from KayBee - means a lot to my old-school otaku heart. I'm honestly really surprised MegaCorp Bandai hasn't managed to bully Tatsunoko and Big West into some sort of mutually amicable, money-making agreement in the matter. If anyone could, it would have to be Bandai. That is has failed to happen is personally very disappointing to me as a North American collector.

Earlier ones occasionally have poly-caps that split, allowing the associated limb to fall free in handling. But if you just display them and don't play with them much, you'll like 'em! Overall, its kind of like having a pre-assembled, transforming model kit. Here's my Milia in Battroid mode with FAST Pack, cropped from my Konig Monster shot from the Strike A Pose thread:

Nicely done, Vifam7! A classic kit done in a classic fashion! You've done the same build - in the same fashion - that countless Macross fans have done since the show's earliest days. Welcome to the "Macross Modelling World"!

Cool! I really enjoyed the Avalon podcast. Angel's Egg is something that has intrigued me since I read about it in the Baycon guide the C/FO sent me a couple of decades ago... Man, I'm feeling old.

Very nice! I did panel line work on my 1/100 Milia VF-1J, and it looked great. There is a lot of nice detail in these!