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You know, Macross has an alternate universe, maybe we'll get an MIII some day, a sequel to MII that happens in that alternate universe. I'd be down for that.

I've tinkered with all my DXs a bit now. Unfortunately my Michel has the loosest crotch connector of the group. It poses well enough but definitely doesn't handle nearly as well as my other three DX toys. Getting him to stick together at the hip AND use the waist swivel takes a bit of dedication.

The fanliner is the plane Minmay wins and that Hikaru uses to escort her around Earth before the UN orders the SDF-1 back into orbit.

That mech we see for a split second having something in common with the VF-2SS, sure. The VF-25? No. If you look at the VF-1 and the VF-2SS you can see exactly where the VF-2SS comes from. If you look at the VF-1 and the VF-25 you can see a few little similariites. I think what you're seeing is some VF-1 in the VF-25 and attributing it to the VF-2SS instead of the proper source.

The crotch armor can stay on during transformation. I found that every time I left it on though I had a lot harder time getting things settled in fighter mode. Since it's completely concealed, I recommend just removing it in all non battroid modes. EDIT - since a number of people are having a hard time with it, I'm guessing it's one of those things where the clearances are so tight it might just be next to impossible to get it to work on some toys. Certainly if you're having problems keeping everything together in fighter mode, step one is to remove the crotch armor.

Great, now somebody at Yamato has fired up the airbrush machine to make an exclusive "weathering edition" VF-1D after seeing how well yours turned out.

NO! It's not the tail fins that need to be adjusted, it's the boosters on the wings. If it looks like your tail fins are behind the boosters than your boosters aren't attached properly to the spike.

Glad you liked the post. I do have Luca and Michael and am just about done putting Luca through his paces. I was thinking I'd post some other toy before Luca though so people didn't complain I was bludgeoning them with VF-25 reviews... Maybe I'll do Luca next and then do something else before putting Michael up.

Glad I could help! My review for the Alto parts just got published, here's a teaser pic: You can go directly to my post by clicking here.

You're thinking too hard about the Transformers. The original cartoon was about as dumb as it got and it was such a hit we're now getting dumb movies for it. If the movie was incredibly smart it probably would have been a failure.

Did HG ride the Transformers momentum to get their deal signed? If so, a big showing for Transformers 2 might help them keep it on life support.

This is not how it's supposed to be. The boosters are attached improperly on the wings in these photos causing them to angle in a tiny bit. It's a very very easy mistake to make. You have to push the booster in on the spike a bit, it's a little scary and hard to explain, but if you do things properly that part becomes very hard to pop off or move left or right and the fins also are clear of the boosters. When my review goes up i have one pic of Alto's parts on with the fins clear (although there's a bit of a camera angle issue making it look as if one fin might be getting hit by the imaginary boost). My Luca review will also have a picture from behind of the GERWALK where you can clearly see there is no issue with the fins being behind the boosters.

You painted Luca wrong... he's supposed to have at least three different shades of green randomly over various parts. That's a joke. Love that Luca with ghosts display, everything is very nice.

I should be posting a review on mine tomorrow. I hadn't heard anything about a missing triangle though, what piece are you talking about and how many people have had a problem with it?

I don't think scrapping it makes much sense because it would continually need to be rebuilt as shoulders will continue to break the longer people have the toys. If we scrapped it, everyone voted again, then once again six months later we'd be right back in this perdicament. I think we should just trust David's efforts to get this to as close to accurate as possible.

I think you're shoe-horning. Ranka isn't being used for culture shock (so definitely not the same function), she's being used as a control method like how Sharon controlled the masses. Again, the combination of a big trippy hologram and Luca setting the Ghosts free is a pretty tight parallel. The Minmay Defense was also a tired defensive system humanity had come to over rely on which contextually is about as far as we can get from what happens with Ranka. What happens with Ranka at first seems damn near magical which is again, Sharon territory.

I definitely would go with Mac Plus on the Ranka hologram... then we get Luca letting his Ghosts go in Mac Plus mode to boot.

Just an FYI, I got Overdrive replacement arms a week or so ago for my Roy 1S and they were fine. Still, I do half expect I'll be ordering another pair in another six months and hopefully those will be the "fixed" version.

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.