jenius

Yes, .mkv on VLC was exactly the set up on a PC. I think I have Media Player Classic somewhere so I'll give that a go.

It's just another idea. I don't see any reason why a group of creatures in space would have to resemble earth-borne hives.

I put this in the 16 thread but I'll reiterate it here. Maybe there's a super Vajra we haven't seen yet. A king to the queen. Galaxy needs to find this King and have it killed to eliminate fold irregularities and so they're using Frontier to do the dirty work for them. Frontier will engage in war with the Vajra that will cause the emotion index to peak at some point which will awaken the king vajra. When it appears to lay the deathblow to Frontier, Galaxy will show up and eliminate the king thus ending all fold disturbances. If the plot were to go this direction at all, I would think Galaxy's plan would be undone by Ranka finding a peaceful way to reach the king vajra.

Can someone tell me how to (or if it is possible) fix an issue I'm having with subs? It seems like whenever a song is playing the subtitles of the song's lyrics get layered right on top (or below) the subtitles of the dialogue. The result is a stack of letters right on top of each other that is utterly illegible. This was especially annoying in Lunar's subtitles for episode 15.

If my subs are right there's a line that says something to the effect of: "We will accomplish what the protoculture hadn't in 500K years" so I don't think we're working up to a big protoculture reveal. We also have some odd emotion index thing that Grace appears to be monitoring. Her desire to see raging hate likely has something to do with this emotion index. Maybe all fold distortions eminate from one thing in the universe. Maybe that thing is related to the Vajra. Maybe Galaxy wants to eliminate that thing but the only way to do it is to wake it up by generating a certain level of emotion. They create the rouse that they are under heavy attack so that they can go somewhere safe and then ensure that Frontier gets dragged into a nasty war with the Vajra. At some point Galaxy would then be hoping to sacrifice Frontier to get their hands on the real target whose elimination will put humanity beyond the technological reaches of the Protoculture.

I see now that you've come to reailze that I wasn't taking a jab at you but instead of just apologizing for your misunderstanding you're going on the offensive. The fact of the matter is that if you actually read the reply from the person my comment was directed most at there was no issue for you to get riled up about in the first place. Stop lashing out, relax, drink a cold one, and know that if I ever do feel like picking a fight with you I'll call you out directly.

The statement is made immediately following Miriya's statement. Instead of making a direct response to Miriya I made a more broad response as to say that the whole board needs to get over that sort of thing. Stop being so defensive.

Wow, a little sensitive? It was a general statement not meant to single out any member or mod or even this instance of a person having their opinion returned with insinuation.

jeebus, can we kill that kind of comment already. MW is pro-Yamato enough without everytime someone says something positive about another manufacturer members and mods here trying to undercut that person for their opinion accusing them of having some sort of ulterior motive.

clearly not legitimate, note all the Japanese...

I also don't agree with ShaggyDog on this one. I will note that the Toynami 1/100 seems to borrow a lot (engineering-wise) from the Kaiyodo Gashapon Regult (not the Revoltech). The Gashapon figure isn't all that bad to pose so while it may not be as insanely fun (or frustrating depending on your POV) as the Revoltech it probably isn't as bad as some may suspect.

They didn't really "shelve" that old MPC, it came out years and years ago now and its product lifecycle has expired. I'd say it is smart they didn't try to go Yamato's version 2.0 route and make an MPC 2 and instead are just pushing the chunkies. Good ol' chunkies.

i like that they put a fin on top of the red Beta's head... although I'm sure some will hate it. Hey, we never saw one in the anime, why not have fun with it?

I hope you mean to ask if I'm buying *just* one. Of course I'm buying one. There's a friggin' avalanche of new crap right now but I'm planning on keeping up with the hobby and working on lots of new stuff for the blog.

The funny thing about the pink Alpha is they just repainted an Aoshima Zeta Legioss toy. Isn't it supposed to have the the Shadow Fighter chest intakes like the Marcus version does next to it?

It looks like the Beagle might have serious shoulder articulation issues... I hope not. The way it *should* work, yes, the domestic release will be cheaper and you'll have a shot at customer service if something goes wrong. This hasn't really held true of Toynami's redistribution gig so far. At the very least you should save on shipping. Instead of it being $199 + $30 to ship it to you it'll be $199 + $15 to ship it to you.

Wow, Toynami 1/100 Max TV VF-1A, 1/100 Regult/Battle Pod, POSSIBLY 1/100 Cannon Fodder GBP, and MPC Betas that look like they're made of plastic instead of resin? Some day Toynami might actually start producing toys again! If this were by any other company I'd be thrilled but as it is, I'm just very curious. Note - no shoulder missiles on the MPC Beta, just chest missiles.

I always thought the planes were Alpha and Omega respectively.

It's probably good to have a healthy bit of skepticism. Lots of toys are conceived that never get made so I'm just hoping for the best. Thanks for the props. I'm editing a ton of comparison pics as I type (well, nearly). SOoooooooo many toys to review and pictures to edit... it's a good time to be into these shows. I've preordered the MH Yellow and the CMs Yellow so we'll see if either company made enough tweaks to change my mind on anything.

Like I said over on my site, there's one company I spoke with who is pretty serious about making an Inbit Gosu. If people are receptive to Inbit toys it seems very possible we'll get them.

If you can move in minutes then you sir need to start a moving company! LA is good for Macross collecting, I'll say that much.

My opinion on the CMs: Still a decent toy but still not worth nearly what they charged. CMs apparently made a very small production run of them. Here's my advice: wait about six months buy it for $100 or so less than MSRP but don't wait much longer than that. There may come a time when all of these are in collectors' hands and the price will start to edge upward. If Toynami does release their Beta you may actually see some people bored with their CMs toys sell them off kinda cheap... but you may also see some people buy the Toynami Beta, realize it sucks, and hunt down the CMs toy.

I refuse to believe those are the heads that will be packaged with the toys until I open my CMs Blow Superior and see them staring up at me. They did so well with the first heads.

Shouldn't the Supervision Army have all become confused and eventually returned to their former selves after the Protodevlin went back to that other dimension... Hey, maybe the freed Protoculture from the Supervision Army would now begin reorganizing their own empire. Nah, I probably have all this Mac7 stuff screwed up.

I liked this episode a lot. I don't watch a lot of anime and typically dread recap episodes. It was nice to have this recap done by beings (?) other than the characters whose POV we had it from the first time. If this had been narrated by Alto or Ranka it would have been horrible. Since it was mostly a recap from Grace who is quickly becoming the most interesting character it really helped open the show up. Tons of new info all while recapping... very good stuff.