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sweet! A sleek yf-21 is total wish fullfillment for me.

are you going to do another video as well?

my baby put a big dent in my valk purchasing power. My advice, buy your toys now, before the baby comes.

Well, since bandai isn't doing anything with it, I'm sure BW would rather have it go to yamato than renew with bandai. it may take a while, but I think eventually we'll see the M&M vf-22 set.

I think thats a strong possibility.

the actual location of the rear landing gears is not on the belly plates but on the underside of the wingroot. as shown here: http://starshipmodeler.com/mecha/tm_YF21.htm and from a previous post of Graham's, I think yamato is going to model it right this time.

Well, let's say the valk's power plant WAS a hydrogen fusion engine. The easiest way to get the deuterium and possibly tritium for the reaction engine would be to process water, so you would have large amounts of oxygen left over. The oxygen could be compressed into a liquid form and used as the reactant in the FAST packs. And yeah, it would make nice booms. But for reasons I've stated in my previous post, I don't think thermonuclear engines in a valk are hydrogen fusion reactors.. they're just too big and bulky and their radiation output when active makes them a less than ideal choice. But oxygen as a reactant seems fine, though it seems like an expensive fuel source (given that the macross and colony ships would no doubt need large and continuous supplies of it).

I too doubt they would release the VF-11 and VF-4 within months of each other. Yamato has been pretty consistent with 2 uniqge valks per year or so with various repaints and variations in between.

well, considering TF is the highest grossing movie to feature robots of all time, I think maybe the producers weren't as off base as people like to think.

I doubt the eninges on a valk burn hydrogen, much more likely they burn helium 3 which would allow for a far smaller eninge (less shielding) and would therefor contribute less mass to the valk, allowing for a better weight/thrust ratio. Helium 3 would also be easier to mine and easier to work with. But even if pressurized hydrogen was used, hydrogen, is such a light gas, that even if the tanks were catastrophically ruptured, the gas would burn up and cool, away from the valk. Hydrogen fires don't even get hot enough to melt glass. And they wouldn't produce the orange explosions depicted in macross, they would be a much cooler blue flame. The real problem with claiming a fusion based engine is just the size necessary and the constraint of the size and space of the leg. If we're talking about a hydrogen fusion reactor, you'll need some pretty extensive shielding to protect the people around the eninges from radiation. Real world fusion reactors have a meter's worth of shielding around them. Even if the engine were a helium fusion engine, the reactor would still be the size of a basketball. Then there's just the reality of having superheated plasma, at 100 million K, floating in a magentically levitated ring, in the what is aruguably, the part of the mech that will receive the most amount of shock and stress. I'm sorry, but even with magically OT, this is just preposterous. I find it just as far fetched as singing inducing vegetation growth and mineral levitation. I still maintain, mystery technology, real world name. Nothing in common other than the name.

Stop nosing in on my racket man!

it isn't shown on screen, but since guld follows isamu to earth, and since the yf-21 doesn't have an on-board fold booster, we can assume it can also accept the fold booster. I'm hoping yamato follows its own lead on the SV-51 and just releases the yf-21 with FP and fold booster.

I'm not sure what I was expecting from the WC game, but after seeing those screen shots, I'm kind of underwhelmed.

that's got to be one of the more impressive gundam/samurai mash ups I've ever seen. I love the ridiculously over sized tubing detail along the arms.

Post away. Nevermind sketch, he's been having an off week, he's usually more cheerful than this.

how long of a delay?

That was a crazy way to kick off the time skip! Man, i haven't dug an anime as much as this in a long time.

sv-51 should be out soon, and the yf-21 isn't coming out till 2008. so that's plenty of recovery time. unless you're planning on getting the nora type as well.

double post.

I don't think so, but it maybe too early to be sure. I don't think the 0s arms started cracking right away either. and by now, I'm sure most people have heard, so they're likely to be much more delicate with the arms than they would have been before. I hope that the arms have been improved. As for what HLJ says, like I said before, they were unwilling to ship two items together in one box for me because I ordered them on seperate days... even though the two packages shipped on same day. I'm therefore distrustful of how much leg work they actually put into finding out the answer.

not too early for you to start the "cycle" though.

Can I be officially recognized now for my startling prescient abilities? oh. and. WOOHOO!

He is in the regular universe, but in the ultimates universe, he's black. And in general, the various Marvel Comics movies haven't been too concerned with being overly faithful to either.

I pointed out the obvious because you were demanding a technical answer to what is obviously a dramatic effect, sketch. AND before I agreed with Dante, I gave multiple theories on why the FAST packs would explode when hit, which you completely ignored and came back with some obtuse, condescending link post. So no, it's not quid pro quo at all. I further find it odd and sad that 3 years ago you recognized that the technology and its effects were completely made up, and now, you're on some sort of pedantic which hunt for answers, no one can give because they don't exist. And yeah, we have had this discussion before. On this board even. In the end, kawamori and company don't describe their technology because it's fanciful and made up. They don't tell us what the fuel is, they don't tell us what they mean by a thermonuclear reactor, it's pretty obvious that they're not talking about any sort of fusion reactor. In the end, it's a work of fiction, it's a mystery technology that only shares a real world name, and nothing more.

I think they're worth tracking down. They have a great look to them and if you have the stealth 1j, they really make it come alive.