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Uh... yeah.. i can't take you seriously now. GitS had spotty animation on several episodes and Escaflowne used the same sketchy/fluid animation style during fight scenes that you guys are all complaining about in MF, even in the Movie. The ending of the movie had a wierd ass looking Van and hitomi and there's no way you can deny that. Spice and Wolf was consistent... consistently sub par. Simple chracter designs and stiff animation. And gundam 00? Talking/screaming heads for 70% of the time and battles consisting of nothing more than: 1. dynamic action pose! 2. screaming head shot 3. action lines around head 4. flying towards enemy in a static pose 5. cool posed shot of gundam while enemy falls apart, explodes. Yeah.. I'll take a full season of episode 6 level quality over that dreck any day. Sorry, but to me, you're sounding a lot like the anti-graham.. finding fault in everything unfairly. No offense Graham.. but you do tend to see the positive in nearly everything Macross.

no one is denying that the animation hasn't had problems... but problems worse than shows like GitS? Or Escaflowne? Or Gundam 00? Bad enough where we have to talk about it every episode? The animation in MF has been better than any of the animation for some current shows like Transformers or Spice and Wolf. The animation problems have been pointed out and yeah, there's merit in that.. but does evrey other post need to be about the same thing? Over and over again?

Feh, the guy says he wants to get a vf-1, not something that resembles a vf-1. 1/48 is the only vf-1 toy out of all the vf-1 toys around that actually looks like the line art. It has all the gimmicks (like an opening canopy, a pilot, missiles, and a gunpod that stows properly) that other people heavily modify a "chunky" to get and it's not a floppy POS like the MPC.

and I still can't believe you happily watch gundam 00 and then complain about the things you do about MF.

regarding the pizza hut MF wallpaper... They really need to figure out what the characters are supposed to look like. That looks like random anime characters cosplaying as sheryl, alto and ranka.

meh, bandai doesn't need that sort of funding. If anything it's just to drum up a little publicity that they're back in the Macross game and to stick it to yamato.

I'll second graham's second.

no, the tax rebates aren't taxable: http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_t...nt_taxable.html

I gotta disagree with you. Frontier ep 6 wasn't any worse than the entire run of a show like Spice and Wolf or some of the less then great episodes of Haruhi and it was much better than then some episodes of shows like Naruto and Bleach. Naruto and Bleach are particularly bad because when the episode is drawn by the "b" team, even the backgrounds take a hit.

AiA is up! ... sorry if this is old already

did you try: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=25638

Gotta go with the VF-1j... that's the reason I have 2. And no, you don't have to take off the nose cone. The 1/48 armor comes with two different pieces, one long for the nose cone, and smaller/anime accurate one for if you take the nose cone off.

I thought about that before I did it, there's no more noticable sag now then there was before. The magnets don't weigh that much. I'm not going to be doing this on my other valks though. I don't know if the swing wings on the vf-1/0 are thick enough and frankly, they're not needed. The existing mounts hold the missiles just fine.

True true.

Here's my DD SV-51 missiles won't stay on "fix" rare earth magnets from here: http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/detail-ID-121.html I used a philips jewelers screw driver to tap the existing wing mounts and then the 3.0 mm flat to widen and make a spot for the magnet. If you're careful the magnet will sit flush to and there will be enough friction to keep the magnet in place, otherwise a drop of guerrilla glue will keep it in place. For the missiles, I cut the center mount out with an x-acto and glued on the magnet with another bit of guerrilla glue. If you don't cut enough of the post off, the latches on either side won't catch and the missile will spin about. edit: This wasn't totally necessary for me, since my missiles stayed on... more or less. But now I can fiddle with the wings without worrying about the missiles falling off. It actually makes me wish yamato would adopt this in general.

the magnets work: http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/detail-ID-121.html Just tap out the missile mounts and sit the magnets in flush. Cut out the mounts on the missiles and epoxy away.

self contained half miclone chamber.

haha, wouldn't it be a turn if Ozma dies because he suddenly gets dizzy from an undiagnosed concussion from when Ranka nailed him with that wok?

wait. Wait for the new 1/60 to come out. If it's everything graham says it is, you'll be happy and if it's not, the 1/48s will always be there.

not going to happen, pineapples are really obvious when they go bad.

well, whenever you write yourself into a hole so deep you decide to kill off 90% of the A characters as your only way out, it's never a good thing. Worse is when you try to 'a-ha' the audience into thinking that the C characters were *really* the A characters all along. I guess my "fairly good" comment is really relative to the 1st half of the season... which I thought was close to unwatchable.

It's not that it's slow in the beginning, but the story is really disjointed. The story just meanders around and there's lots of attention paid to a whole lot of characters... some of which are only mildly interesting to begin with. A lot of the pacing problems do work themselves out by the middle of the season, the last half of the season is fairly good though.

haha, I like it well enough. I just find it amusing that people here will praise shows like T:A and gundam 00 and then knock MF for faults that those two show have in spades.

You mean, Teen Transfomers Titans?