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Ahh, good point.

I totally agree; there's no reason a Destroid should be more than half of the price of a Valkyrie. Same with the Regult unless it has a removable pilot.

Those drawings are amazing! I knew Japan could still draw characters...they just need sh*t-tons of money to do it.

Any reason why Yamato won't make toys for these? Did they learn their lesson with bad-guy mechs after the Q-Rau? If they could keep these at destroid prices I think they'd sell...or are destroids even selling?

I HATE the new style of transformers.

I got in on Amazon. I paid $200. I really wish I had gotten the original Japanese version since I prefer that head. I took that pic with the webcam on my Mac, which I guess is why it's kinda blurry. Yeah, I doubt I'll ever own the Scott/Stik, but I prefer the Rand/Rey type anyway. Though I wouldn't mind having that beam cannon.

Thanks. I was afraid to transform it when I saw all 100 steps in the booklet, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. The more I look at it, the better it gets -- it just looks incredibe. It's one amazing feat of engineering.

Finally got one of these bad boys.

That looks hot!

They're losing money if you count all the people like you and I who would be collecting this line if the toys were possible to find.

Holy crap, I think Fili and Kili look bad-ass!

That's not the answer I wanted.

Wait, is the Elint being reissued?

Whoa, that's interesting. Glad to see they're keeping the SDFM guys around. What did you think of Zero?

I actually like Macross 7 the most after the original. Zero and Frontier are garbage in my opinion, and Plus is extremely overrated -- ugly as hell character designs, unlikeable and unrelatable characters, a stupid story based on flashbacks. I mean, yeah, the mecha fight scenes were cool. Macross 7 was flawed, and too long, but it had the charm that the other sequels were missing. It also felt more like Macross with the Mikimoto character designs and all. Thanks for all the info by the way.

I really want to disagree with you, but then I look at Gundam, where the only thing holding the franchise together is the robots. They make all the merchandising cash as well. So it isn't very unrealistic to say that the mecha is really what matters. At least Macross has two other constants: the music and the love triangle. And of course Miyatake designed the titular Macross itself, as well as the Zentraedi mecha & destroids. It's funny how Kawamori includes Miyatake in all of the Macross shows, but not Mikimoto. I think Kawamori considered Mikimoto's work in Macross II a betrayal and is still upset about it. Why on earth else would Mikimoto not be included in Macross Plus? Those Plus character designs are fugly.

The source for the key quote in the article (about the original ideas coming from Kawamori) is the Perfect Memory book. I don't have it nor do I speak Japanese, unfortunately. It'd be nice to see a translation of that page. Is there a translation of Perfect Memory online? While SDF Macross was definitely a collaborative effort, it's looking more to me now that Kawamori was truly the "original concept" guy, so I won't be as perturbed when he is referred to as the "creator" of Macross. However, since none of the later Macross works were nearly as good (not counting DYRL, which was awesome), I'm not crediting Kawamori with the all the glory. The collaboration is what made SDF so great.

One thing I keep hearing lately is that Shoji Kawamori is the "creator" of Macross, which sounds like a bunch of baloney to me. I know that he has become sort of a figurehead of the Macross franchise, but from what I remember, he was simply the mecha designer for the original Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. Anime News Network lists the credits like I remember them: Kawamori was merely a mecha guy, while others were in charge of scenario and direction. Wikipedia lists Kawamori as the writer of SDF:Macross, which seems completely wrong. Is this some sort of historical ret-con so shows like Macross Frontier seem more legit even though it has almost none of the original talent behind it? I know Kawamori directed Macross Plus and became the grand master of Macross after that (story supervisor for Macross 7 and director/storyboard for Frontier), but I don't think he's the "creator" of Macross by any means.

For real. I bought the Angel Bird solely because of how bad-ass the head looked. I just opened mine and saw that the head was just white. God damn it, I don't like to put stickers on my valks, but I'm going to have to put those on, and I know I won't get them perfectly symmetrical!

I would die of joy if Yamato made a MAXL. Bring on the robo-boobies!

Thanks Mog, it's nice to see that someone understands. Speaking of Low Light, you can get him for $30 from Amazon sellers.

I've seen a crap-ton of Macross line art, but I'd never come across this until today. I figured it'd be worth posting here. (I didn't see a dedicated line art thread.)

Anyone know why it's hard as f*ck to buy new GI Joes for retail online? If I want new Legos or Valkyries or video games or DVDs, I just buy them online for retail price, no markup, no availability issues, no problems. But if I want some new Joes, I have to pay like 150% retail or more at specialty stores, because no major retail websites (Amazon, Target.com, Walmart.com, Toysrus.com) sell them. Hell, even CVS pharmacy sells these guys for $12 each. For the first time since the 90's Hasbro makes some Joes that don't look like sh*t, but I can't seem to get them online unless I want to get gouged.

I'm so damn jelly.

The hand is permanently attached to the gunpod?