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I just got my sexy girly version of the Monster with a bunch of other toys... I'm going to be a very busy bee for a while.

1) DX Koenig is probably more like 1/120 scale than 1/100 and that's why it's not part of the Hi-Metal line but rather the Robot Spirits line 2) It's very silly to say "This company should make all the toys that aren't proven money makers since we already own the toys that are." If they're proven money-makers they're going to get made first. 3) Yamato and Bandai pull from the same statistics on toy sales and probably very similar market research to decide what gets made. If Bandai makes all the same toys as Yamato it's because that's what the market indicates people will buy, not because Bandai is copying Yamato.

I find it a little hard to believe that the three could have any interactions what-so-ever if Guld had actually gone through with raping Myung but the first couple times I watched Mac+ I was pretty sure that's where they were going with it. I mean, doesn't Myung actually hook up with Guld at one point after they're reunited? (been a long time since I watched M+). We know that Guld is the type of guy to "blow a fuse" so I like to believe he walked in and saw the girl he liked with his best friend so he assaulted his best friend and basically did the "you're a slurm" thing to Myung and treated her like trash and tore her top off and left it at that.

are the side view mirrors on all the Lotii cameras?

I've always been fond of the mid-60s Corvettes (and even the first few StingRays). Sometimes I still day dream about buying a big block 69 Corvette or, when I'm feeling a bit more tasteful, a 64ish. I think what has happened to the Corvette is one of the automobile industry's more sad stories (although they sell like hell so the world disagrees with me). I wish the Corvette was smaller and lighter and made some effort to get back to its original lines... to me that car looks like it's never fully recovered from its 1984 makeover. Full disclosure - I owned an 80s Vette in the 90s.

So, before Frontier came out who guessed the next Macross would: "Feature a man who looks like a woman, have a high school setting, and the bad guy will be space bugs!"

I also love the mystery of the Protoculture. I don't think my idea that they tell the distant history of the Protoculture that got this ball rolling would ruin the mystery. As long as the show ends with the hint that some Protoculture survived and may still be out there then all the better. It's a double-whammy of excellence because you could include the ProtoDevlin (hopefully toning down their ridiculousness) and show the creation of the Supervision Army, Inspection whatevers, blah blah blahs. Heck, you could even then set up a future Macross installment by showing a UN workshop that is trying to create the ultimate weapon based on Vajra technology and we can see the parallels to Protoculture and their creation of the ProtoDevlin.

It's been a long time since I've seen Macross7 but isn't the Varuta army the second-coming of the Supervision Army? I think we don't hear about the Supervision Army in its original form any more because the Zentraedi were going around stomping its remnants out of existence.

I wish mine had been shipped already... I'd definitely have done a full review by now. Instead I'm working on consolidating old posts into mega reviews.

They are definitely Gallardo-like but you have to remember that ever increasing safety standards are leading to heavier cars. By comparison, some of those are fairly light. Lamborghini's newest test project weighted in at 2500LBs and they did everything they could to make that light.

Those Lotii look great!

Ooh can we just start throwing out fun ideas? Here's what I'd like to see: The next Macross should show mankind at some absurdly advanced level. There can be Vajra interactions, superb new weapons, and political intrigue. There could be idols and huge concerts. There'd be friendly Zentran and Meltran interactions. Then, there'd be a war between these human factions with skirmishes. About 70% into the show you'd realize that you hadn't seen any English on any of the text and what you're actually witnessing is the fall of Protoculture. The last several episodes would be mecha pron involving massive war, including the advent and banishing of the Protodevlin, and the show would finally climax with the cast of Protoculture we were familiar with the whole show escaping on some sort of arch leaving the idea that they may have found a safe place out there somewhere. EDIT - I do realize that they might have to massage our understanding of the development of the Zentraedi a bit to make this work. Oh yeah, and of course the show has to involve the DYRL song in the final episode.

I wonder if it's a different color also? A gray/blue scheme might be pretty tastey.

1) Toynami MPC VF-1 2) Toynami 1/100 VF-1 3) Yamato 1/60 V1 VF-1 4) Yamato 1/72 First Edition YF-19 5) Yamato 1/60 V1 VF-0 Edit - I dedicate this post to all the people who ruin online satisfaction surveys thinking "1 out of 5" is the best possible score because it has the number 1 in it.

Sounds sooooooooo Robotech. That's not to say there isn't a precedent in Macross (Nome) but I kinda like that they don't do too much of that and instead have the music be what keeps popping up through generations.. it's kinda real. I think the Nome revival was Kawamori trying to make Macross Zero relevant since it was kind of awwkard and feels like a story he didn't have the time or resources to tell properly.

Wow, all three of the DYRL VF-1A toys huh? They should sell them as a gift set (yes I know that would never happen).

They give the impression that the turbines are pushing the car forward by stating that the force from the air is pushed out against the rear venier to create downforce. That makes it seem to me like a lot of air must be getting pushed out.

Thanks for the video card input, valid points and I'm sure I probably wouldn't even notice any slight dip in processing power. Yeah, the power supply made me a little nervous and I guess the rule of thumb with power supplies shoudl be to never be a little nervous about them. I'm not going with the multiple video cards off the bat... I figure that will be my form of scalability. This time next year I may add a second card and hope to keep up with technology a little bit. Right now I think I'm actually leaning toward that Gateway. It has a few specs that are a little less desirable but I'm just not sure I trust Cyberpower.

Yep, definitely a 1A DYRL Hikaru.

Ebay completed auctions are a start. After that, you list things, if they don't sell you drop the price a bit. Then you keep dropping until someone buys it.

I'm looking for a beefy new system that will last a few years and do decently playing a few games, editing photos, and might even work if I ever have the time to get into some 3D design. So, I went to Cyberpower and built this PC from their "Mega Special IV": *BASE_PRICE: [+1189] CAS: Apevia X-Dreamer 3 Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ Side-Panel Window & Temperature Display (Black Color with Black Ring & Blue LED Fan) CD: Asus BR-04B2T 4X Blu-Ray Player [+44] (BLACK COLOR) CD2: 24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive [+21] (BLACK COLOR) CPU: [special] Intel® Core™ i7-950 3.06 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA1366 CS_FAN: Maximum 120MM Case Cooling Fans for your selected case [+9] FAN: NZXT Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (BLACK COLOR) HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) MEMORY: 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Module (A Data) +27 MOTHERBOARD: * (3-Way SLI Support) GigaByte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Ultra Durable™3 Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 Dolby Audio, eSATA, GbLAN, USB3.0, 2 x SATA-III RAID, IEEE1394a, 4 Gen2 PCIe, 2 PCIe X1 & 1 PCI NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network OS: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium [+104] (64-bit Edition) POWERSUPPLY: * 800 Watts - XtremeGear Gaming Power Supply - Quad SLI Ready SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 1GB 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA) _PRICE: (+1441) That seems like a pretty good bruiser but I've read bad things about Cyberpower. I've added another $19 for "pro wiring" because I've heard otherwise they connect your system very poorly. Anyway, they have a B+ with the BBB so I think it's a case where the complainers are much louder than the happy people. I also read a review that Cyberpower will let you build a PC with incompatible parts and will ship it to you without caring and I'm not sure of myself enough to think I nailed it (although I varied only very slightly from a stock set up they offer). The other choice is the Gateway FX6803-35 which is almost the same price, has a better video card and more memory (9gigs @ 1333) and slightly slower CPU (2.. I have no idea if there is a difference between the FX6803-25 and the -35 so if anyone knows of one I'd like to hear it. Yes, I know I'd be world's better off building my own system... but that's just not in the cards. As I said, I'm not slick with hardware and I'm only good with the software I use regularly. Any opinions about the computer rig would be great to hear - EDIT - lots of errors are fixed now

DX is "non-scale" (meaning we won't know its scale until someone busts out a tape measure and does some math), that's why it's also considered part of the Robots Damashii (Robot Spirits) line. The Yamato is allegedly 1/100 (I've never done the math on that one either). It looks like the Robot Spirits/DX Koenig may at least be in scale with the Robots Spirits VF-25 toys (which are a bit smaller than 1/100 also).

I know I'm in the minority here but I like the shiny plastic... makes it feel like a toy. Still, I love me some SV-51 and some YF-21 but this argument could be taken silly and compare the VF-27 to Yamato's YF-19 offerings or the detachable arm V2s and suddenly the VF-27 seems a lot better. Each company makes their so-so (or lousy) toys and their good ones. In a little bit here we'll be able to compare Yamato's Koenig to Bandai's, that should be interesting.

Ugh, put up a "mega" review on all the CMs ride armors on anymoon.com last night. Check it out... and let me know if you spot any problems, it was pretty late when I was getting it all online. There is some new content there in the form of line art comparisons in both modes... I also made some of the existing pics bigger with higher resolution.

That's not entirely fair... seeing as the VF-27 has some sort of floating in a translucent bubble of doom cockpit which would be really hard to emulate (although they kinda did with the color of the canopy on the inside). Still, the VF-27 is a bit less like a model than Yamato's SV-51 but if memory serves it also MSRP'ed at $50ish less per unit.