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Many countries are actually experiencing mild deflation (or completely stagnant inflation) right now. I think you're confusing inflation with the exchange rates.

How do ya figure? Without Tats there wouldn't be much of a Macross.

I had the same initial reaction. I think I like the Beagle one a little better but I don't think either one knocked it out of the park. I can understand why Toynami saw the Beagle one and said "You know, we'd like to try our own sculpt" and it makes me sad that THAT was the best effort they could come up with. I'm really curious to see what will happen with Rand/Ray. EDIT - Drifand, good work with the CMs Fuke, I'm afraid I've resigned myself to leaving her in bike mode going forward.

No, Overdrive is not shipping yet. It's officially holiday break time for them, I suspect they'll be back in the office on the 5th, unless that's some other holiday.

Mine are more loose than I would prefer but not broken... A piece of the knee broke off but that was as bad as it got. Ravenhawk, enjoy your first excellent Toynami product (the Beta) and good luck with your Alpha!

Seriously, Yamato is putting out a prolific number of toys right now to try to capture the Macross F wave. They haven't been this busy with releases in a LOOOOONG time.

Ah, thanks for clarifying, I was confused by the quote.

I hate to be critical of something like this, since I have no experience putting a podcast together, but I figured since I really enjoy my memories of Heavy Metal (I haven't seen it in eons) I'd give this a listen and... to be totally frank, it sounded like two really stoned high school kids who started having a conversation and decided to turn on the recorder because, at that moment, they thought their conversation was really deep. It seemed like people were sobering up toward the end. Maybe you could lay out some structure on an ink board next time and discuss your thoughts with each other for a bit before recording rather than contradicting each other while recording. I've listened to a few previous podcasts (the robotech or macross relevant ones) and it seemed like those offered better insight into some of the surrounding stuff that went into the creation of the show, original concepts that weren't used, in-jokes, etc. but that wasn't present here. I thought it would have been cool if you had given us some production history on how such an odd piece of film got made rather than stating how it's pretty fascinating that such a niche film was produced. Yes, Heavy Metal has scanitly clad women, ultra violence, drugs, zombies, monsters but what about themes (if any), history (of the film and the inspirations for the clips), etc.?

It's actually pretty tricky to go from the standard ride armors to the Bartley type. CMs seems to have rushed it and given us a flawed product. Hopefully the MH delay is due to them designing better ways around the difficulties.

Did you seriously just ignore my blatant ripping off of Terminator and Robocop and say it sounded like Gundam? I've never watched a single episode of Gundam but I'm hoping it's a bit more unique than that.

"In the year 993 of the Earthian Century, a gigantic alien satellite fell to Earth, and with its mass, delivered a new age of technology to the people of the blue planet. Researchers, scientists, and engineers from around the globe united as one to uncover the secrets of the vessel, and it was not long before the world itself was changed forever..." Humanity developed a new defense system, Earthnet using advanced alien technologies, but when Earthnet determined humanity was a danger to everyone it mobilized against its creators nearly wiping them out in a nuclear holocaust. Rebel bands of humans, led by one unifying great leader, rallied against Earthnet and threatened its grasp. That is, until Earthnet developed prototype technology and sent a humanoid cyborg back in time to kill that leader's mother and prevent his birth. Fortunately, humanity was able to send one human back to attempt to defeat that cyborg before destroying Earthnet's prototype machine. Back in the past, the human resistance fighter was severely beaten. Fortunately, one of the scientists who would some day work on the crashed satellite was able to restore the human resistance fighter by giving him a largely robotic body. This man, now known as Robosherrif, defeated Earthnet's cyborg and impregnated the woman it had been sent to destroy thus causing a time paradox that shall never be discussed.

I love that you made this seemingly sincere post in a thread that largely reads "ZOMG teh Bandai is teh SUXOR!!!!" I'm just going to go out on a limb and say you're probably not alone.

Thanks, here i thought I just didn't have my screw tightened enough. Oh well, I like the metal locks on the Yellow and the limited editions... too bad they messed them up on Fuke... I get the feeling I'll be more pleased with a Mega House version... should it ever be released.

Drifand, regarding the metal locks complaint, are you sure this isn't something unique to the Bartley? I had absolutely no problem with my Yellow figure and its metal locks but I too noticed problems keeping Fuke's wheels up.

If you don't reference things you're not allowed to discuss in the TOU then robotech.com will let you say whatever you want and not delete your post. Unfortunately, you can't discuss products not sold at rt.com or officially licensed by HG so if your complaint was "this VF-1 is balls, Yamato makes way better Macross products." you'll probably see your post deleted. If you just said "this vf-1 is balls" your post will stay.

It's a repaint of Rook's MPC Alpha and they've already reviewed the MPC Alphas. If you were hoping they made improvements, they didn't. You won't see any of the Aoshima improvements either. Sorry. -

I think someone really needs to get a tape measure out and solve this whole "out of scale" thing. It's just as possible that whatever Yamato toy Graham used for reference (i forget which one) is too large by one centimeter and the VF-25 is too small by one centimeter. You also should measure it in two modes, it may simply be small in fighter but the right size in battroid.... you see that sort of thing with EVERY Legioss/Alpha toy ever made.

HG wanted a Tommy Yune style face.

That won't be an issue, to get beyond the back plate you'll just have to pick the toy up, move the foot inward toward its center, push the hip back past the plate, and then pose.

C'mon guys, VF-1 toys always sell. Sure, we may all be sick of them, but the VF-1 is probably what makes Yamato the most money and allows us to get all those other VFs we want.

Ugh, people, you're confusing "perfect transformation" with "perfect design." The inability to hold a knife or a gun has NOTHING to do with the transformation process. Don't get me wrong, it's a totally valid complaint, it just doesn't have anything to do with transformation. Saying a Yamato isn't perfect transformation because of the guards for the intakes is also wrong because you could just always leave the guards in. Sure, you'd be concealing something, but you could do it. A 1/55 Chunky is perfect transformation but it doesn't even have a heat shield or intake covers, is that preferable? The hand swapping might be a valid argument against "perfect transformation" but I imagine you could also leave the chop suey hands on if you really wanted (and in the long run it's probably way better they went the hand swapping route instead of trying to incorporate all sort of articulation into something so small). So, this is pretty clearly a perfect transformation toy and pretty clearly NOT a perfectly designed toy.

Anyone have experience using the Windows Restore option with Vista? I have an HP and when I try to restore to factory default the system shows me the shutting down window and then the screen goes black and the computer stays on. Nothing else happens. I have an after market video card I've installed but I wouldn't think that'd matter since the computer screen is going blank apparently before anything happens. I let that go for 20 hours on the off chance it was working but I'm fairly certain at this point the computer was waiting on input from me that never came because I didn't see it. Anyway, any help would be appreciated... my computer isn't crippled or anything but I'd like to start clean.

If a Yamato head laser breaks it's normally because it fell from a display stand, a shelf, or what have you. Not because you were handling it roughly... but because it wasn't in your hands. I witnessed a VF-1A LV fall from my shelf and snap its head laser... it was very sad.

The one good thing about bendy head lasers... you'll never break them. that's been a very common complaint about VF toys over the years... especially S variants.

I don't think you're going to be bowled over by the detail on the back of the Toynami Beta. It's not unfinished by any means... I just don't see you finding something there that's going to make you want to display your toy ass end first.