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I'd go 1/60 V2 by a hair... and just a hair. I much prefer its size as owning multiple 1/48s sucked up way too much free space (I'm glad I sold off so many of my 1/48s... it's like a got a whole new closet out of it). The way the reflex missiles fit perfectly on the 1/60 V2 and, if you don't have shoulder issues, the 1/60 V2 just feels like a more polished product.

Maybe just a rough spot for me finding good anime.

I liked Ninja Scroll and consider it a bright spot in a rough period.

Only six episodes, no reduction in size.

I'm limiting scores to only unique toys so as I update some of the old posts the scores will be removed. It seemed silly to have a nearly identical toy and re-score it because it was limited and had a different paint job or something like that. With the Dark Legioss, if you like the CMs Legioss then you shouldn't expect much of a difference and I think I did a decent job of detailing the little differences you'll see. I don't summarize scores any where or put them at the front because I don't think the scores are very important.

My Dark Legioss post went up today. Check it out -

I don't have Mac7 on my laptop, or desktop. I have it on DVD and it would take me forever to find the right episode. It exists though but I can't remember the plot at all. Mylene finds guys selling pictures of her panties so she gets upset, that's all I remember about it. I think it might have been the episode with the little kid? I dunno, been a long time and I refuse to watch Mac7 again.

Mac7 features an episode dedicated to Mylene's panties and photos of them... hardly any high ground there.

Nice little video there, I'm convinced, she can be my Minmay.

Cockpit canopies on prototypes seldom resemble the finished product.

LOL, no really, you guys are right, BW is Christ on the cross! My bad.

The chase was a repaint VF-1 in the first set (low vis). I imagine we'll see something similar in the second set.

Now THAT makes for a silly argument. This is a legal debacle with two companies refusing to make any concessions, there are no defenseless moms and pops or big scary mobsters involved. Both companies are being greedy and thinking of only their best interests, it's capitalism, the results of which have been unfortunate but them's the breaks. I don't see it happening but maybe WB will throw a big wad of cash at BW to help solve this issue.

Right, so I'm right, both BW and HG. Entitlement would be a subject for the licensing topic where we could enjoy the circle jerk of "But BW won a lawsuit!" "But HG has a Macross copyright!" "But BW owns the IP rights!" "But if BW is so secure why don't they just move forward without HG?" Legal matters are no fun, for now it's best summed up as both BW and HG got in a pissing match and everyone else got hosed.

HG & BW right? It takes two to tango. BW doesn't want to give HG money and HG isn't inclined to sit quietly unless paid.

Also note there's a Mospeada book being released next year.

Some Focker 1S' have Yamato's exploding shoulders. Some members found loosening the screws in the shoulders helped but it seems like you have a small chance of getting hosed... Many of us have perfectly fine Focker 1S strikes... for now.

Paint chips>Broken parts That said, the Toynami MPC Alpha is the best example of why diecast and a modern transforming toy don't always mix. Too much diecast to fathom and all it does is cause strain on already weak joints since all of those are made of terrible grade plastic. One thing to note though, Yamato was always the WORST company I ever witnessed when it came to putting paint on metal. I've handled many other painted metal toys that saw some wear without nearly the destruction that Yamato's products always showed if you breathed on them funny. I forgave Yamato for this since the toys they used painted metal on were amongst their first. I suspect we'll find Bandai a whole lot better at color matching and avoiding excessive paint chipping. I also suspect Bandai knows not to make the lousy engineering decisions Toynami made (but this is an industry that always surprises me).

Technically Toynami's "Wave 3" of the 1/100s was the stand alone armors. Wave 4 will come with the DYRL armor pack (and I pray it will also come with improved missile connectors). I paid less than $60 shipped (each) for both waves when they were released and I think the armors cost me less than $10 each shipped so the price point is definitely low. It's simply way to soon to try to come up with any comparison between these products, it wouldn't really be appropriate until we're handling Bandai's effort at the 1/100 VF-1. In the meantime the Toynami 1/100s are cheap in every sense of the word but they can also be pretty fun and at near knock-off prices they're pretty much the best bang for your buck in the Macross toy universe. I doubt even Toynami knows the answer to that question. (wave 4)

Seriously though, if a movie gets made and flops, it doesn't really hurt HG all that bad. Sure, it doesn't catapult them like a successful movie would but they've gotten some money from selling the rights already and even if it flops it goes to the old addage of "there's no such thing as 'bad' press." It's not like HG stands to lose money from a flop, just WB.

That's what I get for not reading more closely. It seems odd that there'd be an interview with someone saying they're working hard on Robotech the LAM and then see the speculation here that it was stuck in development hell... he didn't mention anything about "other priorities" or "back burners" or "legal difficulties" or "production issues." Oh well, I love wild and baseless speculation as much as the next person.

I wonder if Toynami will now push the Beta back even further as to not compete with the MPC Cyclone. I'm sure they're aware that many people can't pony up for both a $200 Cyclone and a $150 Tread in the same month. If it's going to be 4 or 5 months between each Ride Armor release then maybe we'll see Tread releases on a staggered schedule at the gap between Cyclones. If that's the case Toynami won't drop the blue Beta until February. That'd be my speculation at least.

RT.com has an interview up with some guy (Chuck Rove) saying they're still working on the script but he really hopes they start going to film next year. He also states that Tobey is currently still only a producer for the movie and when asked if it takes place on Earth he says just that the impetus to all the action will be an attack on Earth.

It's predominantly English... note all the writing.

It gets a little crazy but the essential idea is that the Protoculture came to Earth, did something with the life they found to mold it into a life form not too unlike the Protoculture (this is the whole Bird Man, creation myth that gets repeated a few times), and left a fail safe (the AFOS) to make sure that the life form (humans) wouldn't be torn apart by war like the Protoculture were being when they discovered Earth. The M'yans have been segregated forever on an island so they're the most like the original tweaked by Protoculture state and thus the most in tune with the Protoculture relics. Opinion-wise it's application is extremely uneven with some real peaks of heavy handedness (flying rocks, plants being brought back to life, feathers flying off a valk, etc.).