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Looks too happy, like a guy dressed for halloween. Ghost rider should have a completely neutral look on his face with no emotion. Lots of shadows in the eyesockets and gritted together and rotted teeth are better. It should look as if the 'thing' was a dead person - no emotion, no indication that the enviroment itself has an effect on its mood. No sense that what we are seeing is even human. Plus the wheels aren't flaming on that, (only the road) indicating a bike that doesn't have a supernatural quality to it. I hope they just make the whole thing dirty and gritty. The character would look better if designed to give a feel more for a horror movie that would scare the crap out of you if it had been real, than something superheroic and comicbook like..(shiny and fake cg like spiderman 1) Will this movie have much gore or violence? I reckon if they could just make movies like it suitable for a nongenre movie person, the character will have a much more lasting impact. A lot of attention is paid to how it looks but the goal should be what impression are we trying to give off? Would the character care about style or grace? The appearance imo should be 'messy and disgusting', like you'd be afriad to even touch him since he looks like a corpse that has been unnaturally reanimated. The costume itself wouldn't look hollywood clean, but have an old worn ugly and aged appearance to it. Maybe even have dust and cobwebs on bits of the bike and the person. The thing you got to give todd mcfarlane credit for is that he at least wasn't afriad to make his characters really dirty. (I remember the original mcfarlane spiderman comics and how yucky everything looked. Even the spiderman cobwebs were disgusting it really set the mood) I wouldn't mind if they dirtied the bike a little and gave everything a crusty, ready-to-fall-apart-and-rot look to it. With a hint that how it is all put together is through being supernaturally strengthened rather than naturally robust. To me the shiny look gives off the feeling it is new with a manmade, organised structure, when the bike would be better off hiding that impression with broken lines, twists, curves and uneven surfaces as if pieces were chaotically welded together, not molded to exact specifications like how the chains looks neat and perfectly straight. Also the SFX shouldn't make things look too solid and hard and inflexible. They should allow for shock abosorbtion and flexibility between parts so when the bike is pysically being ridden upon, you can be convinced of the physics. When everything looks like it has been made of one material, you immediately believe the bike should be rigid without any give and would behave a certain way or weigh a certain amount. I think if they could make the character less demonic (it's not on any side - just on its own) and sadistic looking and more neutral in emotion (no enjoyment, no sense of high or low emotion) in the movie, it would be more scary and interesting. For those who don't read comics, it should be a complete mystery as to what 'it' is. They should think of it as 'the ghost rider' rather than "Ghost Rider TM" the marvel super hero, if you know what I mean..

I would prefer it if it wasn't so shiny. Just make it look like its been burnt and blackened.

So will yamato show us the special hands with extra-long articulated wrists so the poor battroid can actually hold a gunpod underneath that sumo outfit? Or was that just an unfounded rumor? What I'd like to see is the wrist plugging into an extension that is itself a large balljoint. (think of the heads on the alternators) The extension then plugs into where the wrist would normally go. Maybe they could give us individually articulated fingers this time, and an overall larger hand so it has bulkier fists? Basically I would love to see the valk with ham fists while it wears that armour to match the overall size of the rest of its body.

Holy crap, why didn't he help beat the aliens?

Thanks I must have forgot, been ages since I saw it. Arnie would not have lived in the first predator movie if it wasn't for the predator's own sense of "combat fairness". That's why it needed to prove to itself it was superior to him by shedding some of the gear first before it would try to take his skull as a trophy, or the kill wouldn't count and it would have to go back in shame to its homeworld. The humans are more like 'game', just like the aliens from "aliens", rather than an enemy on thier level of skill to be treated as a serious threat to them. In the second movie, there is a "Queen Alien's" skull on the wall of the ship with all the other 'trophies' - skulls of other species of animals and aliens it has hunted and fought in the past. If it did kill the pregnant woman or that little kid it would go back to its home the laughing stock of all preds for picking on weak defencless targets. As gruesome as the skinning of those soldiers was in the first movie, I still wouldn't say it was an evil alien.

They should introduce a convertible viper that turns into a giant humanoid cylon. That should help seal the show as a live action macross. Also have Starbuck fall in love with a black guy called Claude who has an afro and she dies from loss of blood unexpectedly. I wonder if the cylons themselves have built human slaves through knowledge of cloning, the way we humans have robots and machines to slave under us by mass producing the machines in factories and using them in everyday use? Maybe the whole point of the cylons guilt trip, is to make us live in equal harmony with the robots peacfully? (like the theme in AI where the robots were oppressed as they got too smart) Why else would they play all sorts of games instead of doing what they got to do and pissing off? Oh no, don't tell me the cylons think we are a culture that mustn't be destroyed because they "forgot love" and still need us to teach them this ancient ritual? (like the DYRL idea where the zentran and meltran forgot thier past I noticed that in the mini the chic in the red dress was interested in the little baby as if she never saw one. This could be a clue: the robots don't have sex anymore to breed like us humans, only recreational sex which isn't the same. Maybe this is the same with how the zentran and meltran split up and became warlike with each other because they no longer needed each other to create and raise babies due to thier knowledge of cloning. urgh that might be what they are trying to do: experience this thing called "love" so they don't need to be so warlike in everything they do like the zentradi aliens. But I can't remember much from the old BSG so it's probably something else, because I hear this is a reimagining of the old series.

We know why you enjoyed the super robo action, because it just looks.. Maybe with each episode as the robot gets more powerful and the other two pilots get more experienced, the orgasm gets better?

Get as many of your friends to convert to the valk cult. The more worshippers, the more money donated to the cause. The more money, the increased chance of seeing it happen. If everyone did that, the pyramid would get finished due to the strong foundations set by the few. Watch Conan: The villain who formed that snake cult realised not even his own power was enough to make him king so he turned to hypnotising the masses into submission. All macrossworld members go out and do your "great work". Bring in more followers to end this suffering lest you all die of old age before we can witness the sacred return of the valkyie king,: God of the sky I'm sure the 1/48 yf19fp is calling out to you all trying to make its appearance, but the followers are few and the religion is fading away, the legend of the bird with the power of transmutation being forgotten in time as people turn to worship other gods.

You could argue the predator wasn't really bad (even though they look bad ass) at all since it spares lives several times: 1. pregnant women in train in pred 2 2. does not harm the women because she is unarmed in pred 1 3. they reward danny glover for beating one in combat To me the preds are just hunters looking for someone to challenge them to toughen them up or "for sport". There is no evil in how they rip the spinal cord and keep the skull as trophies since the intent wasn't really to be cruel but to show off in front of other predators of what they defeated. Although the way they skin the bodies is very savage, even they have some kind of warrior code: only attacking strong opponents or those who might be threat to them because they only like to use close combat weapons. Unlike the kurgen they wouldn't just take pleaseure in seeing someone else suffering and so there is no reward for being cruel and evil. In fact, in one of the "Aliens vs Predator" arcade games the predators actualy help save the human race (along with the cyborgs from 'aliens') because they are afriad if the aliens (from the alien movie) have thier way with us, they will have no sport to challenge in the future.

-I agree love is the central theme. -I agree that technology and evolution may appear "like evil magic" to the primitives on the island. Eg where Mao does not belive sara's superstitions and tales of the birdhumans and is angry at her because technology can be used for good harmless activities too: like taking photographs of relatives, listening to music on the radio, watching tv, and transporting things quickly with trains etc. BUT.... -That the magic coming from Sara (and mao) IS REAL -That because of her powers to make rocks float, fly on a friggin pole using her her mind, she may have her own unique interpretation of some of the technology as being 'evil'. Like calling the weapons "fire Kaduns" instead of "fighter planes", "bombs", or "guns". Because they are "weapons of war that kill people", to her that interpretation is not entirely incorrect when you consider she lost loved ones in a previous bombing. Just as in some prophecies people have predicted the use of the car and the planes in ancient times to fly to other continents, and you see these rock drawings of cars and planes being depicted in the drawings that we use today. If thier culture is destroyed as a result of this progress, it must seem to these culture that the end of the world is near. AND... -That these kaduns may in fact be real entities that we just can't see, unless you are in the unique position that Sara was in when she went into the cockpit of the AFOS and could see the black Kaduns. You can argue it was just "presented" that way for audience convenience, but to me all of the series are canon (no matter whether you as a fan like it or not) except for macross II, and the subuniverse where the energy came from and entered into the universe became aware of our world, ...is real. Read the compendium. (note first line) I don't care that macross 7 is a different series, to me its the best way to help explain some of the more mysterious things (like humans with powers) in macross zero, which unlike macross plus, wasn't so wierd in its ending. Just accept it. Unless there was some footage that was cut showing a machine being used to heal sara and shin when they fell from a great height and should have died, then I'm going to continue to assume that part of it is technology (like the use of antigrvity to lift ships into the air) and the other part has to do with sara's real powers. (the scene with the floating rocks and the flying pole - which many people still wonder "WTF was that about??" in a normally sci-fi franchise such as macross.) Normal people can't lift rocks. Sara can. Normal people can't fall from a great height and survive. Sara and Shin did just that. If people can accept star wars' jedi mind tricks, force powers, etc in thier sci-fi, why not have an open mind and realise that main characters may have something similar? (precognition, limited telekinesis, ability to heal using powers, metaphysical levitation, making plants grow quickly, intuitively sensing danger in the water without seeing it with thier eyes but through some form of mental telpathy with animals, Astral projection etc)

I think there is more similarity with macross 7: namely power struggle in each episode: Macross 7 -mayor of city is whining for more information of the situation from captain. The mayor is a woman. BSG -president always whining to military about decisions. The president is a woman. enemy boarding ship: Macross 7 -the idea that the protodevlin got on board as vamps, and that furry guy could impersonate somebody or take over bodies. BSG -the way in which cylons are already aboard, sabotaging the human attempts but not killing us for whatever reason. (the same way the protodevlin wouldn't just kill us cause they need our lifeforce) Similarities with original tv series: With the original macross you could say it's the fact that the aliens are always on thier backs and that like BSG, humans are outnumbered, under-resourced and rely on a select few ace pilots, bridge crew and calm experienced leader to carry a big load of responsibility. Macross -The citizens of macross were unwilling participants who couldn't wait to get back to earth. They didn't want to be on macross. (until of course they discovered earth was a mess after they got back ) BSG -The civilians in bsg have no choice and wanted to go because the ship was thier last hope to survive. The main similarity is they are at war. The main difference is macross city is tiny and they all pull together because of a pop princess whom everyone loves. (even before minmay was famous she had a whole community who knew her (including the mayor) because of her cheery, bubbly, outgoing nature - well in the tv series anyway. Unlike other cities I think the citizens who worked near the crashed ship in the tv series were a special "type" of people, ones that enjoyed the business of being around a mysterious alien ship, but who got used to being next to the ship as if it were a part of thier town, since they wouldn't have moved there in the first place IF the ship wasn't there. And they probably saw the ship as a proud tourist attraction or something. ) I haven't seen much of Battlestar Galctica but the drama seems to revolve around mainly the crew itself rather than the civilians. It would be like if DYRL had a whole story about the bridge bunnies, gloval's past, the battroid repair crew, the scientists and techs, rather than just the love triangle of Hikaru/Misa/Minmay as DYRL was.

Doesn't the spartan have a baton or club? I'm thinking they could have a place on fighter to put this where the gunpod would normally go. In Battroid instead of the gunpod being conected to the forearm, the baton would be placed there. Amored hulk Hamfists + baton = great demolition/riot cop valk. Speed shouldn't be a problem, just add fast packs. It's just good enough that if a robot such as this was knocked off the ship, it could at least fly back home rather than drift helplessly in space. I doubt there would be as much use for fighter mode as an actual fighter but more as quick travel.

What about the guy from cape fear? This movie scared the crap out of me when I first saw it. Deniro plays a great psycho.

Keyser Soze from the usual suspects..

Thier shape is so simplistic maybe you can make a papercraft gunpod?

Well in the end the aphos was 1 giant flower that bloomed. The song being "sung" by this giant flower takes the form of what mood it was in/what kind of tune it would play. Being worshipped as a god by the primitives: It could give life (creation song) or take it(destruction song) depending on the song being played. The song of destruction = judgment by the AFOS upon all the weapons responsbile for killing innocent life The song of Creation = love between two people from different cultures/worlds/species that produces or "creates" offspring: a product of the two people in love. The afos isn't interested in killing those who are "creative/productive/loving", only those who are destroying things. Now think of this "love" as being expressed in every insect, fish, mammel, plant etc which the afos is trying to "protect" from the villains and you can interpret the ancient myth based on what you are: 1. If you are an evil bad guy possessed by hate, (don't try to say that the un and anti-un are blameless because they are not - clearly the images of shin's brutally murdered parents, sara's village being bombed complete with unarmed mother and child, and nora's chest scar which shows her being sadistically tortured indicate they were both at each other's throats) willing to kill and murder life, and destroy nature (the burning of the forest which killed all those insects and animals producing) ...then the prophecy talks of your doom and death as the song of "destruction" because of your kaduns of fear, sadness and hate which you will not let go of and move on. however: 2. If you are a peaceful, loving person, wanting an end to violence, (because the aphos can sense your intent and emotions) then the prophecy talks to you as the song of "creation". (shin and sara who were destined to be lovers which cancelled out the destruction) Either way: both versions - song of creation and the song of destruction were played out. This is why Aries comes to the conclusion:"It is easy to save the world from extinction. Just love each other" ..before she dies in roy's arms. The bird DOES judge the kadun (which are the evil spirits inside the weapons or the "hate and fear" coming out of the people using them) but it also brings the two characters together because thier fate is intertwined by it; like the "wind and sea" love sticks (Shin's on a mission to help the UN in finding this thing, while Sara is trying to keep it secret) resulting in "love" when they met, the emotion that would cause the bird to spare the innocent. Even though from the get go, you can tell these two characters hate each other's guts, and they couldn't possibly fall in love, fate steps in and brings the two together because of thier entanglments with the afos. You'll note that the superstitions of the islanders have some merit. After all in episode 1 shin points the wooden stick at Sara, (joking later that he was supposed to be using the stick in a threatening manner) and by the end of episode 5 the two are in love with each other. The love stick was a foretelling of future events. Unfortunately I'd like to believe there was no magic but the shamanic magic is very real. (not superstition) Remember that scene where she was floating the rocks? (she didn't realise it until she opened her eyes) Rememeber that scene where she rode on a pole? Remember that scene where Shin and Sara fell off that pole and did not die? Uh, and what about the bit where the plane floats with that magical blue stuff in episode 5 not to mention the plants growing at an accelerated speed? Also remember when Shin says "even if I told them they wouldn't believe me anyway. Whites only believe what they can see." Are you sugesting it was all a halucination and shin was on drugs? Face it already, magic is part of it: macross 7 put us on the rode to something more spiritual than SDF:Macross and macross plus. Maybe there is a vague metaphysical scientific model for trying to explain it, but apart from the antigrav stuff, I find it hard to believe there wasn't something else going on in all those other bits that did not involve just machines but involved some real shamanic/protoculture magic. Maybe they are all in the matrix, and sharon apple went rogue in macross plus, escaped after wirlessly uploading her personality to some missing drone, and then after hypnotising all the people has created a false world, and macross zero is all just a dream... but I doubt it. You don't have to call it magic, but even the compendium mentions a sub universe of some sort where the original vampiric energy beings took control of the minds of the PC, some zentradi, and generally brought the downfall of the lost civilisation. I'll just say it was "the devil" (I think exedol even used the term) and that "the devil", once he was unleashed, got his wish of destruction of all living things when he wiped out the PC, until they found a way to magically seal them. But it was too late once the infrastructure, knowledge and high technology was gone, and all that was left of thier memory were us and some ancient ruins. (which I find kind of strange that they would still write stories on rocks instead of as a text file on a hardisk DYRL shows us they used computers with holograms at least..)

I know. I covered that in my "making money" bit. Personally I would not trust the eating of such food because I don't trust the people who make it. Watch the arnie movie "sixth day" where the cloners managed to deliberately put a timelimit on the poor clone which made them die early if they didn't buy more from the company. The company could leverage anyone after they took the first step into trusting them. Same thing with GM food: they probably have made it so diseases are created with this GM frankenstein food, and to make more money off the diseases, they would have created special drugs they could sell you to treat you of the diseases that they themselves created with the GM food in the first place - kind of like how microsoft can leverage anyone who relies on thier proprietary file formats and forces people and businesses to keep buying ONLY thier programs. (but not cure you of the disease completely. God forbid they would "cure" you of it when they can keep selling you "treatment" which is more profitable. It's all about money.) But I mean like if a giant corporation could do it and sell it as if it were a product. With garantees that it works etc. Like tommorow sony decides that they want to sell you a kadun as a weapon to protect you against intruders. That kind of thing. Sara uses the staff as a weapon as if the curse would work. IF sony decided to test this in a lab and try to harness the powr of sara's magic, and sold staffs which worked everytime like a lightswitch, then that would be an example of them being able to "get rich" through the use of beings from another dimension/spirits/invisible people/ghosts/whatever. Ok but not until the end of the show did this become apparent. I just think it took too long to get the idea across and the repetition of his singing the same stuff was wearing thin. I think the character was interesting but so was Priss from the knight sabers in bubble gum crisis, who did other interesting stuff besides just the singing of songs to cater to the fans who want some action too. ie using her abilities to protect innocents from bad people. At least in macross there were at least some characters who were hard to sympthise with because they were just plain evil: Kamjin. Not enough conflict amoungst characters, too much preachiness. I prefer the old school drama, tension between characters, inner conflict of the original macross more than macross 7. It doens't preach down to you as much, is far more grey, and shows the war from many different perspecitives. Basara still comes off as a type of superhero. I think Hikaru was more interesting for the fact that he had to make tough decisions and had no choice but to fight due to the danger that the aliens were to him and his friends and the civilians. Not a single point in macross 7 did you ever think basara was in any danger, or had to make any tough decisions to test his belief. It's not so much that I disagree with what his character does in the series, just that I don't think it was as entertaining to watch him each episode doing the same thing when they could have focused on other characters with equal importance and given them equal time and say. So it's not shin reincarnated into a new body? Good question. But I doubt that Sara's dad was trying to get rich by forbidding sara from giving blood. It would have been that sara was tempted to break the rule because she couldn't resist the bead necklce. Well women love jewlery, maybe that is thier weakness and by having it, it is like the corruption of the serpent in the garden. Promising nothing bad will happen by tempting eve to bite the forbidden fruit and that her tribe won't suffer as a consequence of her failure. Think of us current day humans as symoblising eve's/sara's mistakes. If she didn't screw up and let the tempter get thier way, none of us future generations would have to suffer. "If you wish to have a long life: follow my irrational rules. Wanna die early? Do the exact opposite - your choice". Note how her dad never stopped sara from accepting the bribe or intervened? People are not PERFECT. Even ones in positions of authority or high status. Mistakes made at this level cause BIGGER effects than if somebody of no importance made those same mistakes. Think of the biblical "fallen angels" whose job was to watch the human race but who decided to leave thier place and party with earthen women and pullote the genepool instead? Any mistake at the top causes massive ripple effects of corruption below because by setting a crap example, and showing how hypocritical you can be, it destroys whatever integrity and respect others had for you before you fell, and this leads to lawless behaviour amoungst those on the bottom. "Why should I listen to this guy who is allowed to do these things and he can get away with this crime, and I can't? Not fair!" If someone of a good repuation is involved in some scandal, then turns around and tells us to follow his rules, would you listen? Hell no. You would rather get them out of thier position of power and rightfully put someone else in charge. The problem is answered with the solution that if nobody is perfect then the only way is forgiving them and living and tolerating thier sins. (the story of the birdmech cutting its own head off so we could live for a bit longer) So if somebody genuinely fails and realises the gravity of thier errors, you give them a chance. If not, and they continue to be proud of thier behaviour and unapolegetic, and unwilling to change, then it is safer to kill them off (the birdmechs beams of death) to protect those who are suffering because of them. (only those possessed with kaduns were targeted, which sounds fair-enough to me given that the weapons were only used to destroy things and the island itself. It would be seen as the villagers self defence as they were there first.) Her blood sample is all the anti-un and un needed to find this weapon so they could try to have the power for themselves. Her dad's warning that the end of the world would come if she let white people take her blood, may have seemed like a stupid irrational thing to you, (quite understandable at the time, if you don't understand the reasons for why certain rules were put there to forbid people from doing things as simple as giving blood) but the god/god/godess who gave the prophecy knew what was going to happen if they didn't listen - after all they were the creators: they would know us better than we do ourselves. To the islanders giving the blood sample is a very serious thing even if they don't know why. The technology advances would NOT be used for benevolent purposes but more so certain controllers could just do as they pleased and keep the power to themselves by creating more advanced weapons to make the killing of people easier. (the casualty of all this is that no matter who are the good guys in the war or whoever is "right", innocents who are on neither side and who want to be left alone are always the first to suffer. That means innocent women and children who suffer, not so much the soldiers who were already prepared to die from the begining by joining a side.) I know but that's what kids will probably be taught in schools. I made a comment about how I thought the next genreation of kids will be brainwashed by robotech (see the harmony gold teams up with UN thread) thanks to the publicity the un will get using robotech as a vehicle to pimp thier image of doing good works to children all over the world. What I meant by "shared" was that the public would be able to use the knowledge not just for weapons but for good things too. Rather than it being hidden to benefit a few, it could be used to benefit all. That kind of thing. But technology can be used for good and bad things and if you want to control it, ytou have to be willing to kill anyone that gets in your way, because like in an indiana jones movie, there will be many trying to take the goodie off you into thier own hands. The mayan's had thier land burnt, thier people killed by the two sides, just so each could try to control the other with it. When one side has the knowledge, you can bet it will be used to build more advanced weaponry that tips the scales in thier favour. If the un didn't destroy the birdmech through project iconoclasm, the anti-un might use it against them and win the war. It's more a struggle for power (which corrupts good people to do bad things) not a battle between pure good and pure evil. The real reason weapons are sold to "enemies" is probably because there is secret agreements to eventually move towards a world power where corporations themselves become the actual government and the common people don't have power to step in and control what corporations can do. In the future, corporations will control schools, and everything will be owned by an elite few to shape the world to how they see fit and the government won't really have much power to step in anymore - because they ARE the government. The real war is for markets. So long as the money made allows you to win in the end, what difference does it make who the buyer is? The agenda all along was to strengthen two sides so that they are roughly equal in strength 50/50 and then make money off the killong of those two sides as they buy more and more weapons off you. It's not like you have to sell the enemy your most advanced weapons, keep those to yourself to defend and control the conflicts like the way the zentradi restrict the size of thier grunts. For a glimpse into the future/now watch that movie Robocop and how Omni Consumer Products (OCP) basically owns the place. They probably manufacture absolutly everything. The cops themselves can't touch them! Them too. But given they have acess to armies, and the armies themselves are used by them. It makes no difference imo. whether you be guy pulling the trigger or just the guy pulling the strings that makes the puppet perform the action which makes the machine move, it's all the same. I don't think the mayan islanders really gave a crap about whether it was UN or anti-un, since all they wanted was for both of them to get off thier land and leave them alone. From thier perspective a valkyire is an evil spirit come to kill thier natural home which they rely on to be self-sufficient to survive. If given a choice most islanders would leave the island to live in a city but the important ones had a sacred mission that if ignored, could mean life or death that would spell doom for everyone. Her dad wasn't the leader of a group of nutcases, (sara herself demonstrate precognitive ability so its hardly superstition) who just followed orders because they were programmed to, it was because they were the spiritual elite of thier tribe and knew there were grave consequences if they were caught napping. Kind of like in star wars if a jedi decides to let the dark force 'corrupt' him when he is not "mindful of his thoughts", his own jedi skills can become a deadly weapon for the other side and mean the doom of all innocent people. It may be best NOT to train certain people who can't pass the test if it means you can prolong the inevitable. ("end of time" prophecy that hasford mentions in all the world legends and myths upon his death. Very similar to the Jedi prophecy of the kid who brings balance to the force in star wars.)

I looked up burusera and found: http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Burusera That is hilarious. I bet there is a dirty panty underground blackmarket anda special dirty underpants sniffer taskforce to hunt down the sellers. I can see cops going around kicking doors in to bust people selling used underpants the way you would see a drug bust. lol What's funny is that the law has made it even more rewarding for the naughty school girls because they can charge the buyer for more money. http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0406/0619sniff.html I'll never look at another anime like macross 7 the same way again. Eww I feel like the show was aimed at dirty old men.. *shivers*

If some toy company actually made that I'd really want one.

You can pay to sniff used ones too :D Culture shocked no matter how many times I read that it makes me laugh.

Hmm mine opens up fine. 1. telescope the gunpod like usual for vf1 gunpods. The black parts of the gunpod are revealed. 2. flick the grey stealth covering downwards on the bottom of the gunpod. 3. get a fingernail or pin to act as leverage to push the little handle out. (this I have trouble with: seems like there is no clearance for it to swing out and it has to scrape the edge and be forced to swing down) 4. place the gunpod in the crappy hands of the yf21. (you'll need to curve the finger up unnaturally)

A tv cannon fodder w gbp would be cool. Kill two birds with 1 stone. If they did only release a bundle, it could put the gbp out of the price range of the poorer-but-equally dedicated fans. Lets hope they release as many different combos as possible. There may be fans who have enough 1j's that they only want the gbp, but if yamato can entice the fan who has several 1j, by packaging the GBP with CF, it may boost sales of the gbp even more if fans think CF can only be had by buying this bundle. More money for yamato as they sell the bundles. What I think: -release bundle with 1j and release standalone simultaneously. -release bundle with CF hoping to use the CF as an incentive for rich ppl to buy a second set of gbp. And given that new customers would view the cf as the least popular, the CF would need a vehicle to boost it's liklihood of a sale by being bundled. -release cf by itself. This to me would be the last thing a collector or a first-time customer would buy if they wanted a naked valk. Or maybe this would be bought for those who can't afford a bundle. No point taking up space when people will ignore it amoungst the more well known valks. -release dyrl kakizaki. Desperate attempt to milk the 1/48 teat. He may not be the most popular pilot but it would be bought by the collector who wants the complete skull team. -release DX bundle with everything including a grey "weathered and smoky" 1s. jk(roy's grey tv flight suit with grey tv battle-damaged valk )

What about max blowing that guy's face off with the gunpod at close range? Eeeewww... I actually thought guld's violent death from plus was the most dramatic though. One of his eyeballs pops and he is like still screaming in pain just so he can kill the ghost. What a tough bastard!

I have a question to ask: Could the Qrau actually punch a big hole into the monster the way milia did it to the SDF1's armor in the tv series when she delivered the spies? I thought that this whole "let's punch holes into things rather than shoot them" was a little overused. I think Milia could have been a Knight Saber reject from Bubble Gum Crisis and this was not a normal technique. Edit: just looked at it then, it was in the side of one of the carriers. She even went to all of the trouble to bend it back in place. Oh well..Maybe it was a weak spot being targeted. Nevermind.

whups sorry I misread: yeah there probably would be single piloted tanks. I was talking about the conventional ones. In the tv series it shows that tanks are still around, but no indication that OT was applied to them at the time which is why the reliance on valks. If OT was aplied to them (and I don't think it was) they could be more useful against destroids on an open plain with no assistance from support, but the tanks wouldn't be any more useful imo against zentradi flying around in space and hopping around attacking at various angles. I'm not convinced an armoured bot with various anti-air and ground-to-ground weapons to fight with as well as the use of close combat (spartan) ability would be any less useful, so why bother changing? You get all the advantages of the tank but less crew, and faster respones for up close attacks. The zentradi are giants and have giant hand carried weapons that would eat the tanks so its not like a tank is going to provide any extra protection that a robot wouldnt. The advantages you gain by being level with them outweigh any advantages of being low to the ground. And as I mentioned now that the zentradi are micronised with us humans, they have all the advantages of being small like us with antitank/antimecha weaponry. Even if they weren't, thier regult and glaug would outclass the tanks as would the Qrau. The monster isn't seen moving around that much and just sits there in one spot while other destroids may stand with thier body behind a protected armoured area of the ship to avoid exposure. In some cases being in tank form would be less useful in situations where your vehicle had been tipped onto its side and the pilot was stuck like that until people arrived to help. As ammunition ran low in the tv series you see zentradi fighting hand to hand against mechs after the holocaust, so I'm thinking the UN knew they might run low on resources one day and would rely on robots for more than taking down vehicles, but also as physical guards from giant men. In a situation like this where unarmed giants are present and thier sheer size itself is a threat, a machine that couldn't change into a robot form would be as helpless as shin was against the underwater octos if he didn't change forms from fighter to prevent being grabbed and crushed to death. The sheer height of the robot has a psycological effect too. The crushing weight from a robot smashing its fist would be enough to floor a single giant. If UN spacy needed tanks they could have easily brought the existing ones on earth with them but I think they were focusing more on anti-air and space fighter superiority imo. The valks, then being so successful made the destroids (which are more like "extra guns with legs" for ship defence) and any ground vehicles almost obsolete because they were multipurpose in thier method of attacks. Mass producing these would be enough. By the time consideration for upgraded tanks came along, tactics for using valks got advanced enough that it was probably better to rely on transforming fighters for thier speed in getting to a location in time than tanks or other ground vehicles because a majoty of fighting would be in enviroments where the soldiers are floating around in space alot of the time. You would waste so much time transporting it all that just using what already worked, sufficed. If the battles *only* ever took place on ground and humans took the offensive rather than just defending areas of a ship, then maybe we might have seen OT tanks and stuff but my guess is that UN spacy expected to be attacked by the aliens who wanted thier ship back. And these aliens would force them to fight in space with the soldiers defending the ship using fighters and robots rather than invading enemy territory by bringing tanks to thier homeworld. I stick to the idea that having a robot would suit a close combat defensive advantage versus a vehicle that is helpless up close. Range shouldn't be an issue since we have stuff like the monster on the ship which isn't going to be moving around that much anyway due to its sheer weight disadvantage in exchange for power and strong armor. When you have destroid that can transform (koenig) and even hover in gerwalk mode, you got to question the reason for thier use anymore when all your fights are going to be space-based. Especially when you consider the speed of some of the enemy mecha like the Qrau which can get in extemely close with its quick speed, dodge fire by fly-strafing, punch the crap out of the armour enough to make a hole in the mech, and shoot the pilot within. All this costs money but I would say is worth spending it on if the robot mode really works as a detterent in close range.