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Even so, I hope they add some more contrast to the colors by the time everything is final. Obviously it's a thing of beauty but I want it to POP a bit more.

I love hearing anyone within anime complaining about the direction it's going in because usually I agree with it. I can definitely see myself not watching any more anime at some point in the near future... then I'll have kids... then ten years from now I'll probably watch anime again because my kids will be into it.

Interviewer: So Mr. Itano, what do you think of Macross Frontier? Itano: They didn't pay me for it so it sucks. Interviewer: Oh, that's uh... Itano: Yeah, the whole industry sucks. Interviewer: But you work in the industry and you've worked on a bunch of stuff that sounds exactly like what you're complaining about Itano: Yeah but they paid me so those projects don't suck.

Seconded. I thoroughly enjoyed that film on several levels. First, Christopher Walken as a very bad angel was the perfect part for him. The quirky humor involved with his suicide slaves was great. Vigo Mortensen (I think that's who it was) also did a fantastic job as the devil. Some of the lines in that movie were perfect. The devil telling the detective to "leave a light on" is the kinda line that makes an audience member chuckle while simultaneously feeling a little scared. I'm not too sure what to make of this Legion film but the fact it has a similar vibe to Prophecy in the preview is a good thing to me. There were other Prophecy films but if I recall, even with Walken, they sucked. Constantine was another movie along those lines and much flashier than Prophecy and I seem to recall it being fairly enjoyable (if not as witty/creepy as Prophecy). Yes, you do have to have somewhat lowered expectations of angels to make these movies work. Obviously if they're invincible killing machines than any movie where humans were trying to fight against them would suck (probably the same reason I was never into Superman). Also, just as Physicists have to dumb themselves down for scifi movies, I'm sure people who are really into religion have to let themselves be willfully ignorant to really enjoy a film of this nature. If the movie is going to tell you "God decided to send angels to destroy man" you just have to accept that God, in the context of this movie, had a good reason for doing things that way. If you watch the movie and they never touch on what that reason was, then it's a good time to start bashing it.

If they don't think the Spartan is a stand-alone winner then i'd love to see them make it into some sort of giftset and package it with another toy that people might want. Make it a 1/60 Spartan and Vritai gift set featuring the Spartan toy and a Vritai toy with various points of articulation. Then people who want to have Vritai attacking Hikaru with a pipe will go ahead and buy the Spartan figure also.

This thread should be brought to life again soon... if not just for a moment. The CMs character figures should be coming out so that'll cause a tiny bit of action. My Aoshima Tread update to the Toynami review should also be happening soon although it will be one of my less exciting updates I'm sure. Being an accountant, I think the Ley/Ray figure was the only second toy that really made sense. The sales figures on the Ley/Ray toy are almost entirely bonus money from the Stick production run. It's a shame the line died but I don't think you can fault the release order. If Houquet had come out second it would have just been more lost money for Beagle, not a better shot of them completing the line.

I did a review of these on anymoon.com. Shameless plug and all, you should take a look and see if that helps you out.

No, that was said about Gamlin and it's still in stock at many stores. It's still a fair warning... maybe Max, Milia, or the 11C will prove to be more popular than Gamlin.

Ha, I remember watching both those episodes and at the end just thinking "Damn, that was really, really sad..." Not quite on the tears level but pretty surprising coming from Futurama.

On a whole there is no comparison, the V2 is a ridiculously better toy than the V1. That said, the V1 was a very good effort for fighter mode only if you don't care about transformation gimmicks and are a bigger stickler on the shape of the craft rather than its total appearance. From a total appearance standpoint, the extra details and uniform build qualities on the V2 are the easy winner. I'm hoping to do a review of the VT-1 soon so I should have lots of comparison pics for you to judge by (but that's only going to be useful to you if you can wait a couple weeks).

You gotta love the LV UN Spacy kite that couldn't dare be red on an LV bird... right next to the bright yellow trim.

New review is up at anymoon.com!

Wasn't it said that the VF100 line has already failed which prompted the creation of the Hi-Metal 1/100 line? I'm sure a Hi-Metal line will be decidedly less ambitious in terms of which mechs might appear than the VF100 line was.

There's a line in my DX review that was definitely inspired by the chatter here about "if you're having problems with armor check Youtube." Did your review actually show you putting the armor on though? I kinda just assumed some fan will put a how to guide up eventually.

Yeah, from what I hear Yamato is fantastic on Customer Service... if you live in Japan. If you live outside of Japan all they can do is shrug because technically they're not allowed to service internationally.

So because the SAP has two things at the end of the wings, the Tornado armor is INSPIRED by it? C'mon, now tell me how Robotech influences Macross... that's my next favorite argument. OOh, or tell me how, because the VF-25 pictured is red AND white it must be a rip off of that particular VF-2SS. Many others have pointed out similarities to Gundam designs in Kawamori's work also. So did Gundam rip off MacII? Wait, since MacII was an effort to make Kawamori's designs more futuristic, would he be ripping off a rip off? Obviously, the whole argument is silly and unless you really ARE going to argue that Robotech influenced Macross, it's not really an appropriate thread. The designs in question (the 41) cover pretty much everything you know and love about the original Macross, the major characters, and the mecha in their various modes. Essentially all those designs belong to Studio Nue (per Tommy in the clip) but since Tatsunoko was the one that made them into a production, Tatsunoko gets a share of any economic benefit derived from those designs. So, HG is set in that their rights to merchandising and distributing Macross are fine but they have no intellectual property rights over the 41 designs identified in the first lawsuit. It's always a muddled topic because he can say "Tatsunoko gave us all the rights" but the implied "to merchandising and distributing the original series" gets dropped off so Memo and others make the jump to mean that Tatsunoko some how magically gets IP rights and also gives them to HG.

LOL. Can we all just say both are fugly and move on? Man, I just checked RT.com and MEMO is pointing to a video where Tommy says "Studio Nue has the rights to the story, Tatsunoko has the economic rights to the TV show" as proof that Harmony Gold has rights to the story... sigh.

Did I say that Kawamori hates MacII? I don't remember saying that, although I may have to irritate you over at RT.com, but I believe the company line is still "Kawamori never bothered watching MacII." Also, don't we know that Kawamori had nothing to do with the music in Mac7 but that was some other guy who worked on both projects (name totally escapes me)? Another point, the SAP was just an adaptation of a Kawamori design as reimagined futuristically... wouldn't it make sense to you that when Kawamori later does his own futuristic adaptation of his own work it might bare some similarities to his own design, and thus, the design that was also derived from his work? Finally, the similarities are far over-shadowed by the differences. This thing is organic looking and seems integrated into the VF-25 like the way it extends the wings both outward and back. The SAP carried more of the original fast pack elements as big chunky add ons. I'm not really trying to disparrage the VF-2SS (which I'm not a fan of) or the SAP, I'm just saying it's a bit short-sighted to think that Kawamori is deriving his inspiration from the work inspired by his work rather than his own work. You're kind of starting to sound like those Robotech fans who think that Robotech helped shape Macross sequels.

Take a time out... stop fixating on MacII... then realize it looks almost nothing like the VF-2SS.

How does that heatshield even work in the world of anime? That thing is huge. The only way I can imagine it working is if it was tucked in somewhere beneath and behind the cockpit in fighter mode and then swung on top in front of the head during transformation.

Has OD raised their shipping prices or has the dollar taken a dump? I think it's the dollar since OD doesn't handle currency fluctuations as smoothly as HLJ.

I love Overdrive and use them nearly exclusively. The only exceptions I make are for items they end up not carrying like some of the CMs Mospeada products.

I know I'm way behind on the new releases but I just posted a review of the DX Armored Ozma. Here's a sample pic, head to anymoon.com for the full review:

Destroids are awesome but a bit pricey. If you haven't checked out my reviews on anymoon.com I highly encourage you to do so.

Forget the massive plot holes. What really pisses me off about the Haydonites is their terrible character and mecha designs. Okay, so Robotech has never had a good alien character design (Zents = humans, Masters = humans, only invid we see = humans) but hell, even the MASTERS had decent bad guy mecha designs. The Haydonite designs look totally budget minded. "Make the easiest to recreate enemies possible... we can't afford to animate anything else."