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You going to Comicon? If my girlfriend has her way you're going to see one helluva norte americano Sheryl with a size 0 body with c/d cups. Sorry, I'm trying to convince her not to but she keeps hinting that I may not have a choice.

I don't think they can announce any news on a new Luca until the ones in stores have sold significantly through... it'd be terrible business sense otherwise. The new Alto has holes in his back for some accessory that the original Alto didn't have, I think that's it.

Got my Focker arm's yesterday from Overdrive with my Bandai DX toys. I'm pretty sure Overdrive just submits requests for parts and then doesn't do anything until they arrive. If Yamato never responds then I doubt you can expect Overdrive to respond.

He was talking about Gakken who had some sweet prototypes (like a deluxe Blow Superior and a Tread toy) but never managed to release them due to less than expected sales of the Mospeada line. MH hasn't gotten that far with their Bartley but it's definitely starting to give the vibe of a dead line.

tears... oh the tears. We will strike your rant about everything pertaining to this conversation and leave "laws are hard!"

Just got my Super parts, Michael, Luca box. After a dinner party tonight I'll start taking pictures. I did take Luca out and looked at him under normal day light conditions and couldn't see a color issue. We'll see how well he holds up under the bright lights of my photo set-up! Alto's parts go first though.

I'm actually very okay with that. After all the epic failures of companies to make removeable accessories that work well in small scales, and having these VF-100s be a billion parts already, having the armor fixed makes a lot of sense to me.

That's just silly. Yes, it's absolutely up to the owner of the trademark to be aware of their own trademarks and to keep them from being dismissed. That is common sense. If you're dealing with a litigious community all the more reason to be more aware of the legal ground you stand on. BW got lazy, probably figured there was no risk of HG being that big of a douche, and got burned.

Re-read the original translation: Which means that if the transformation were exactly the same the armor might have worked with the first release... and in order for that to happen you would need to be able to remove it and put it on the other toy.

I took some pics of VFC 2 over on my site, here's a sample: See all the pics by clicking here.

I would want to fly the VF-25 in that pic... at least the VF-25 can look left or right without staring directly into its own chest plate. Beyond that MacII designs (I suspect) are generally dismissed by many Mac fans for just being obvious re-works of existing designs. There's essentially nothing original about the VF-2SS, all it is is a simple 90s-ifying of the VF-1 design.

I sold bunches a while later Now I just have one of each... well, maybe a few of the blue one but those were already sold out when RT.com marked them down to $39.99.

They were on sale at Robotech.com for a long while for $39.99... I bought bunches then and that's how I managed to get a few that are nice. Now that the Beta is out I doubt you'll see another price drop.

I too prefer my mechs to look a bit beefy... and to lack faces and boobs. Beyond all that, meh. If you want more derivative attempts for your future mecha look at the (relatively) new mecha look of the MacII mech designs. Those were essentially just 90s-ified VF-1s and they turned out alright. Personally, I'm glad the canon stories involved fresher mechs (although there's certainly plenty of inbreeding from a design standpoint). I think a lot of what makes the VF-0 seem too modern for its era also comes from what the animators could do and think of now that we've got a bit of 1980s future behind us.

I hear my two new DX toys and Alto's super parts are on their way! I can't wait to play with 'em and picture 'em up. Of the DX toys, which should I do first? 1) Michel, 2) Luca, 3) Alto Super Parts?

Go to the upper right where it says options then click display mode.

I don't know Ravenhawk, i don't speak Japanese but it looks like the ad shows it handles the gun better, connects better to the tread (notice the big red box showing a tighter connection), and has larger intakes and new gun accessories. The bomb clusters would be a big bonus as they're the only thing really stopping a full representation of the art they emulated. Also, they should have changed the cradle so the big metal hubs didn't prevent the Tread's legs from being positioned correctly. Adrian, between the girlfriend and work I'm more of a lurker these days in many ways but I'm very happy to have both. Now tell Takashi to start shipping those new DX toys so I have a reason to ignore the gf and work for a day or two .

Didn't member Silverdragon make these?

I don't see a reason to think we'll see "resculpts" for a movie. Repaints? Quite possibly. DYRL VF-1 toys aren't resculpted... just another way to make money on existing sculpts.

You bought a version 1.0 1/60 VF-1J... it's heavy and has metal in it. Not the same as the new 1/60 you're seeing around here (commonly called the v2). You should visit the site in my sig and surf around for a bit.

Speaking of the bomb clusters, I do hope CMs includes clip-on bomb clusters for their Tread's wings so we can go the whole distance and recreate that picture. Also, I'm hoping they include the radar dish and hip guns of that other infamous Tread art.

I would add that the hip joints (that hold the ball) are often broken on 1/48s although many people don't even realize it so it's not a big deal. If that piece of plastic breaks the legs just tend to move a hole lot easier than they ought to but usually they'll still hold poses just fine.

My take on the MH and CMs is this: I don't find either one very fun. The CMs is a superior display piece (plus the line is hugely extensive at this point) but the MH is more forgiving and more of a toy (although I think both kinda suck as a toy since neither one stands very well). The MH looks uglier to me every time I look at it while the CMs is a constant act of very tiny tweaks to get it just how I want it. The CMs looks like they got the Dark paint scheme down better (more blacks, less flat grays).

I didn't mention them but I provided lots of pics. Honestly, I'm so let down with the MH Ride Armors now I was just kind of going through the paces.

The only thing that looks really Q-rau like about that vehicle though is the girly lower half. The transformation appears to be very similar to the VF-1. While it may be written that this is an attempt at a transforming Q-rau the designers did a terrible job of incorporating that thought into the drawing. Obviously a discussion of which is more aesthetically appealing would be a matter of pure subjectivity but I have to say SK did a much better job of realizing the melding of Zent/Human tech in his YF-21.