David Hingtgen

I was right--he did several for Nickelodeon, including Maya the Bee, and Grimm's Fairy Tales. The latter has a quasi-Macross connection, as the voice cast for that is pretty much the Robotech cast.

Apparently VO:OT for 360 got an update/patch, and most issues were fixed.

Got a partial-----didn't connect for 60 secs, then it did on the second try. But it may be useful: Good/working: 1 4 ms 6 ms 5 ms 2 8 ms 5 ms 5 ms 3 12 ms 14 ms 13 ms 4 13 ms 13 ms 17 ms 5 12 ms 13 ms 14 ms 6 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 12.122.86.41 7 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms att-gw.chicago.savvis.net [192.205.35.42] 8 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms cr2-tengig-0-0-5-0.chicago.savvis.net [204.70.195.117] 9 38 ms 41 ms 43 ms cr2-tengig0-0-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.196.210] 10 39 ms 70 ms 40 ms dpr1-ge-4-0-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.196.30] 11 40 ms 39 ms 40 ms er1-te-2-1.dallasequinix.savvis.net [204.70.204.145] 12 39 ms 39 ms 40 ms te1-1.cer02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [208.175.175.10] 13 38 ms 39 ms 40 ms po2.dar01.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.205] 14 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms po1.fcr02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com [66.228.118.178] 15 40 ms 41 ms 40 ms macrossworld.com [74.86.23.244] Failed: 1 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 2 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 3 12 ms 12 ms 13 ms 4 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms 5 12 ms 13 ms 14 ms 6 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 12.122.86.41 7 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms att-gw.chicago.savvis.net [192.205.35.42] 8 13 ms 16 ms 13 ms cr2-tengig-0-0-5-0.chicago.savvis.net [204.70.195.117] 9 41 ms 40 ms 39 ms cr2-tengig0-0-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.196.210] 10

Wooo! Thanks a bunch! Though I'm not a "foot" guy, I think they're my fave part of the drawing. (really like the hands too)

My main concern is really "covering in one coat, without drips/runs". Black paint is in my experience, less opaque than you'd think.

A VF-19F/S/Kai with the intake/hip area done wrong, almost *has* to look wrong in fighter mode. Only a YF-19/19A can be done "incorrectly" and still look decent in fighter mode. The extended LERX on the F/S/Kai pretty much demands the hips/intakes be done as a separate piece from the LERX/aux intake.

Who knew the Draken could do a quasi-cobra?

Darn it, it was down but I forgot to do a trace...

Then you'll want the extended concert version of the intro: Thinking about it, I think I had more MASK stuff than anything but Transformers. (as a percentage of what all existed at least)

I'm surprised the battery boxes weren't painted---just like the Hasbro one, they're all-blue, with one face silver. I'm surprised Takara didn't make it all-silver, or at the very least, paint the steps.

The version up there of Jayce does seem longer to me. http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...0Warriors-1.mp3

...which is another theme Shuki Levy wrote. http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...-Man_Theme.html So many versions out there--this is like the 4th... However, for sheer "manliness" Iron Man season 2 is right up there with He-Man--he forges his own armor with hammer and molten metal.

Just check your browser cache for the MP3s.

I always knew Shuki Levy wrote quite a few cool theme songs, but never knew he wrote ALL of these: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...mpositions.html And he's got the FULL versions of the theme songs, and in way better quality than the standard "youtube ripped from VHS" ones you find. MASK: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Online/MASK_Theme.html Mysterious Cities of Gold: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...Gold_Theme.html Inspector Gadget: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Onli...dget_Theme.html And a zillion others---pretty much everything but GI Joe and Transformers.

Hmmn. I like the "abuse of mod-status" option, but I think I like the last option even more.

Do you want multiple copies of good ones? I could run one every day or so. I've only had the one outage this week, so I can't provide a bad one yet.

I have a chrome 07. The grill, front bumper, air cleaners, visors, tanks, tool boxes, and battery boxes are chromed. There's not much that isn't chromed. (stacks, mufflers, rear bumper).

Hmmn. Stacks still look like bare plastic, and most of it is just silver paint--only the grill looks to be actual chrome. Honestly I was hoping they'd chrome EVERYTHING, like the 07 one. Still, the most important thing IMHO--they painted the doors! The Hasbro one looks so cheap there, with the door being 80% clear with a blue strip at the bottom. PS---look how dynamically-posed, and properly-transformed Takara's displays are: http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/img/rbw/d...2/takara_26.jpg

Gah---I have Season 1-3 on DVD, never bought 4.0, now 4.5's coming on Blu-Ray. Don't really want to plunk down 200+ for the whole set on Blu-Ray, but it'd almost seem pointless to pay half that much just for season 4...

Complete series on Blu-Ray: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=5280 Season 4.5: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=5309

I like Tamiya too generally, and their silver is the best spray-paint ever, but my last gloss black spray-can session with Tamiya didn't go very well. (though I was going for a super-gloss finish then and probably sprayed too heavily)

Just the plane. Instructions and blueprints are nice, but not necessary. Nearly every complete or nearly so one comes with a Strato-Viper, but I actually don't need/want one. Though actually I'm wondering if I should buy an X-19 instead. No matter how much I may have liked a toy, I almost never think a "re-bought" toy from childhood is as good as I remember. The X-19 would be something actually new and different to me. And I think 25th figs fit the X-19 well without cutting. Of course, that's all countered by the original Night Raven simply being THE coolest Joe toy ever. Not just good, but the best. IMHO.

Any suggestions for a black spray-paint that's hard to screw up? I'd like it fairly glossy (but not TOO glossy), but almost anything that's not dead-flat will do. (glossy is evil IMHO, the glossier it is the harder it is to go on smooth without runs). I've considered everything from Tamiya to Krylon fusion, but I can't really do a test run as it's not like I have any spare nosecones or tailfins to experiment on, and every surface is different. And I'd really rather not screw up a $100 jet.

I'd rather have a VF-0D or VF-4, but a VF-5000 will be ok.

BeyondTheGrave--I can't tell if you're being serious or not. I think it should be obvious what scene I'm referring to. And "that one scene" in DYRL, too.