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WHAt??? I thought they were a non profit. i've been writing off my yamato purchases for years now as contributions. oh crap, I hope the IRS doesn't audit me.

and notice we're back to killing... they're not singing those pilots to death.

we should start a "I pre-ordered my sv-51 and I STILL don't have it yet" support group.

nice, lots of action, pretty good animation and return of wing mounted ordinance. not caring for the gundam inspired wonky ass hair cuts for the guys though. and all the sailor moon esque floating sparklies? WTF?

love to join you guys but I'll be trying to put the baby to sleep around that time.

when I read this, I ran to my window to see if the feral cats in my neighborhood were hanging out with the neighbor's dogs... but they weren't, so I think we're still safe as I didn't notice the dead rising from their graves either.

from the articles i've read, the Chinese military is pretty ambivalent on the whole carrier thing. It's the chinese public who wants them as a status symbol... a kind of wanting to join the big boys club or something. apparantly, there's even grass root campaigns in china where people are donating money to a "buy us a carrier" fund. but I agree, even if china does put together a "keeping it real fake" carrier, their lack of naval experience, plus the lack of real support ships, experienced fighter pilots and just crewing in general won't make them much of a threat. Besides, their ostensible military targets are so close to them anyways, there's no need for a carrier at this point.

bah, I want the 5000 because of Fighter mode and this doesn't look much like it. gimmie both!

meh, for 200 bucks, I'm expecting a finished project. It should look fantastic out of the box. As it is, yamato products often need a surgeon to fix their materials/engineering mistakes, now they need a makeup artist? no thanks.

non rapist FTW

yeah, it's crap to know that when episodes are "aired' on official websites like scifi and nbc.com, the writers don't get squat for it. The sad thing, most of these guys are not millionaires, they're not contracted to the studios, they work job to job. If their show goes off the air because some executive big shot can't get his head out of his own ass and properly market a show, or not FRAK around with the schedule, guess who gets the can? Of course, the spind doctors are trying to make this about high profile writers like Tina Fey playing Prima Donna, but it's about everyday working folk, trying to get a fair paycheck for their contribution.

maybe they're just continuing the trend started in M7, make minor mission specific variations of a common frame (the myriad vf-19 versions) rather than produce many limited run/role specific fighters. That could account for the fewer fighters developed between M7 and MF.

[sarcasm] Oh, when are we going to get to see the "OVA versions?" [/sarcasm]

I know I do. I was going to pass on the nora and pick up the CF and dobber... but that shade of brown is so hideously wrong that I'm passing on it as well. So Dobber, here's hoping you get you scheme made and I do hope that they put your name down on the sticker sheet at the very least.

thats just one of the things I appreciate about macross. lasers are useful for specific tasks and don't cause things to blow up "just because." If you think about it, a laser has relatively little stopping power and would be more useful for taking down smaller objects (more likely to hit something important). But so often in these type of shows, some giant building sized mech/vehicle gets shot with somthing the width of a pencil and it just explodes like the whole thing was made out dynamite.

I won't post the shop's name publicly, and I know the owner, he's a pretty nice/honest guy. And I understand the reason for the delay.... I just don't like it.

I wonder if putting the tail fins on the wing root, instead of on the legs, is SK's way of being nicer to the toy people? Will these mean an end to all the "wings not big e-nuf!" complaints?

I'd just like to say, I'm STILL waiting on my PRE-ORDER to arrive.

meh, I think the Vf-1 has aged very well and continues to set the benchmark for "realistic" mecha in terms of looks versus functionality. Personally, I find the vf-4 so butt-ugly in anything other than fighter mode I wonder what I'm not seeing every time I see a "yamato make me a VF-4" post.

I would have preferred Mr. March's take as well. As it is, this is a sure pass for me. I'll wait for the Dobber scheme.

Thank GOD the Vf-1 CF didn't get the nudie color, I would have been too embarrassed to pose it in battroid mode...

It's Not schizophrenia, it's pretty clearly Multiple Personality Disorder and the two conditions are not similar at all. Schizophrenics experience visual and auditory hallucinations and many times the victims of the condition are not able to differentiate between those hallucinations and reality. MPD is where the victim suffers from a fractured personality, they are often distinct and independent and sometimes have physical manifestations such as different habits or voices for each personality.

could someone explain to me why people keep comparing this new valk to the VF-1? Other than the wings and the hikaru paint scheme, the two have very little in common. The head placement in fighter mode, the transformation, and the way Battroid mode looks doesn't seem to me to be similar to the VF-1 at all.

ew... nudie sv-51 does not look good at all.

doesn't look anything like the vf-0. looks like an sv-51 with vf-1 wings.