David Hingtgen

MG would be almost pointless IMHO compared to this, go all the way to PG if there's to be a bigger/better one.

I actually like the new Cyclonus a bit less than I initially did from the early pics---jet mode looks too "bumpy" for no apparent reason. The old one had a crappy robot mode, but fighter mode was undoubtedly sleek.

::Vader:: Most impressive.

Black landing gear? That sucks. Why couldn't that have been molded in white like the armor? It's a whole lot easier to paint white plastic tires black, than to paint the entire black plastic strut white...

The fins fold/flip forward into the leg, not down/back. The pivot point is at the middle or rear of the base of the fin. (Yamato's first toy was wrong in that regard) Big thing to consider--the FINS ARE CANTED OUTWARDS. Sharply. They can't fold straight down into the leg. When retracted, they must angle across, crossing from the outside of the leg to the inside. Yet still not get in the way of the gear bay inside the leg. The fins do not sit just barely inside the outer edge of the leg, between the side of the gear bay wall and the outer wall of the leg. They fit angled, above the gear bay. Bad rough drawing showing fins extended and retracted, and how they have to avoid the gear bay. Also, most valk toys have the gear bay taking up about 90% of the space inside the legs, so it's much worse than what I drew. I've fiddled with photoshopping various VF-11 fin shapes into the legs, with different pivot points as well as sliding--none work that I could find. As I said--you can't use the entire interior of the legs because of the landing gear, and the fin must go in at an angle. It's a 3D problem, a simple side-view won't account for the angling of the fin or the bay inside the leg.

HLJ's "random shipping priority" strikes again. I ordered just before the "early bird" discount was stopped, and got my shipping notice. People who ordered much earlier didn't get theirs, and people who ordered only very recently got one.

It's just plain physically impossible. The fins are bigger than the legs they fold into. How would a real-life 15ft fin fit inside a real-life 10ft thick leg?

http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/F14_1_3v.jpg 62ft, 8in long. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm..._FALCON.svg.png 49ft, 5in long (F-16 is a better choice to have a smaller plane to compare to an F-14)

I'm doing Shin's shoulder mod tonight, and took a pic to show people the post that holds the armor on the shoulder----it's very shallow, around 1mm. You only need to just barely pry the shoulder armor halves outwards a bit to allow it to slip off. Note that there's a post on each side of the shoulder. (excuse the grain, I'm photographing by chandelier light) ::edit:: left arm armor was harder to get on and off--I think the posts are like 0.2mm longer on that side or something::

That's a myth. And mainly because it used old aerodynamic theories/calculations. (not surprisingly, since even most colleges today still teach theories of flight that are utter BS and easily disprovable)

From the link posted a few posts ago: "Canada – Loblaws, No-Frills, Sobeys, Canadian Tire, Wal-Mart, Valu-Mart."

I think the pic is culled from 3 separate pics, each squished a different way, to make one weird pic that is squished assymetrically all around.

I think the pic is squished. I mean, c'mon---look at the wings in the overhead view. WAY too high of an aspect ratio, and the fuselage is way too short. There is no way the new one has worse proportions than the old one.

I have bigger copies of the transformation sequence, attached at bottom of post. Also, check the SHE kit's instructions: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?act=...st&id=36537 http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?act=...st&id=36538 http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?act=...st&id=36539

Anything can fly, some things are just better than others. A barn door produces pretty good lift with the right alpha--it just has very high drag. (and most drag problems can be solved with thrust) If you've got more lift than weight, and more thrust than drag, anything can fly well enough. And there's always "semi-lifting" surfaces. Notably the B-1 and F-14, where half their lift can be derived from their gloves and surrounding fuselage, which do not have "recognized" aerodynamic/lifting cross-sections.

Clear---I'm currently planning on "hand-brushed flattened Future" if needed. I suspect it'll be needed, or there'll be "weathering dust" constantly coming off.

That's almost 100 miles per minute...

Watching the GG version of Ep 15 for the first time, I get the impression that LAI developed the VF-25 from the "whoever" YF-24, and it's unique to the Frontier fleet. And that "someone else" developed the 27 from the 24, etc. So that in essence, multiple fleets have planes derived from the 24, but all are variations, and some are more like the 24 than others, etc, and some might even have a production VF-24. Whoever made the 27 just guessed what the 25 would be like, but since all 24-derivatives are unique, they really didn't know how the 25 would be---but it was a surprisingly good variation, better than the assumed VF-24+, VF-26, VF-28 etc in other fleets. Of course, that's reading into and assuming way too much.

Bandai is remarkably good about the cleanliness of their molds etc---if there's any you don't NEED to wash, it'd be Bandai. Personally, I'd just wash the white parts.

The problem is, there's WAY more than 200 people who'd buy this. Heck, NeoGaf alone would account for 200... I'd love one, but have low expectations of actually getting one.

Yup. A one or two paragraph plot summary should do for Season 2.

What about the knives?

It's not that the YF-24 is bad, it's that the VF-25 is so much better. Generally, production models are pretty comparable to prototypes---or often worse due to trying to cut costs/features for mass production. To be notably superior is very rare---and they didn't plan for that.

I think the plan is to include a code to download the game for free, for whatever one you buy the set for.

How awesome? Only 200 to be made though.