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As a matter of fact, I think I do! Let me check and I'll PM you.

I did a comparison on www.anymoon.com that I suggest you read. I chose the CMs by a frickin' hair and I know a lot of people disagree with me whole-heartedly. So no, there's no "clear" winner, just the very strong possibility that the Beagle will be that winner.

I gotta say, while I'm a moderate fan of the CMs Mospeada toys I totally agree on these exclusives. I'll probalby buy them but these pics look horrible and even if they are rare I doubt they'll ever be all that prized.

Son of a... I gotta go send a PM.

When is/was Wonderfest? I thought that happened in January? Are they hyping their exclusives for the next Wonderfest??

HG knows they're up a creek as far as Macross goes, I highly doubt they'd ever try to contact anyone related to that branch of Robotech.

You know what really bugs me? It seemed like we were getting every indication that there was something other than a Vajra up to something on Galia IV. That big eye we saw screwing with Alto's mech seemed to me to be something akin to the Birdman from Macross Zero. Now Galia IV is destroyed and it seems any hope for whatever that thing was to be mentioned again is gone with it. Was that thing just the Queen Vajra's eye in super close-up for? That would make sense, she sensed Ranka and was trying to prevent her from leaving. Still, the art for the eye just doesn't seem to match the art for the Queen.

I don't know, seems like a reasonable rumor to me since it wouldn't be something really self-serving for HG to spread on its own. "None of the original artists wanted to help us so we had to wing it" isn't exactly a flattering rumor to spread.

Isn't this entire argument moot because the meaning is the same. If she's the "beetle queen" then she's a queen of the Vajra. If she's the "little queen" then she's a queen of the Vajra. What does it matter?

From what I understand, the people of HG have tried to contact members of the original Japanese talent for projects (most notably, the Shadow Chronicles). For a number of reasons HG has been unable to obtain these original maestros so they've been forced to make do with what they have. Now, you might all be thinking that sounds crazy but you'd be surprised how hard some of these Japanese artists can be to find, let alone engage in any sort of business discussion with. Rumor had it that HG was so desperate to get into contact with these people that they were sending some of their reps to Japan to attend things like signing events. The fact is the name Harmony Gold means nothing to these original artists since Harmony Gold hasn't had to cut any of them a check in the past (and probably doesn't have much of a budget to do so now) and you get HG scrounging to make something worthwhile through the collective efforts of a bunch of fans and amateurs. So, I've got little hope of HG doing much to be proud of but maybe WB will dump some resources into this. EDIT - Grammar

Just got a review of the YF-19 up on my site. I was fairly impressed with the GNU but I think it prices itself out of the international buyer's realm. Here's a nifty scale comparison for everyone though: Visit www.anymoon.com for the review. I'll be putting up a Revoltech review and then pitting them against each other soon(ish).

Did you watch this? It wasn't all that Macross-y.

I believe that's concept art for the mech that became the Inbit Gosu.

They should make the CF their first version of all toys so when it falls apart they can claim "That's a FEATURE!" and fix it for the hero releases.

The rainbow canopy was in full effect on the one I saw.

Has there been any further explanation of what will be needed to get these?

Well it legally can't be "accurate to the original Macross" and has already been stated to be a "re-imagining" so it looks like you're pretty much stuck hoping for shiny special effects. If this thing actually gets made that's pretty much a given.

Too much of this doesn't add up to me: 1) If LAI is in league with Grace why would the son of a prominent member be placed directly in the path of peril (Luca's position as a member of SMS). 2) The Vajra are an established threat and hence, weapons are needed to remain secure against them. Think of it like the Cold War. Just because the US and USSR weren't actively coming to blow doesn't mean there wasn't a very real and heated arms race being undergone. You would think that even without the Vajra attacking en masse the humans would be buying weapons to defend themselves. 3) Grace has access to a small squadron of VF-27s which means there's some for of NUNS affiliation in all of this as well. EDIT - also, on the V-Virus, the Vajra are clearly specifically engineered to be controlled in whatever manner they are controlled so I don't think we'll find the V-Virus being something that leads to mind control.

http://anymoon.com/blog/2007/09/16/yamato-...-superfold-set/ It's in the first section.

I'm still hoping we don't get a capitalism = evil storyline here. That's storyline is as old as capitalism itself. I'm still holding out hope that the 117th stumbled upon something and now someone is either out to discover it or bury it permanently. There are lots of issues though. Do we know if the VF-27 is also a LAI product?

yes, all fixes included. The only thing with the YF-19 that gives me a hard time these days is getting all the seams tight.

Did the queen die though or just get really ticked off? didn't the queen in Aliens get banged up and she just shed her egg making equipment?

Yeah, that goes with the: line of thinking. I'm glad it wasn't supposed to be the Global's main cannon firing 'cause that'd be strange. So, does the sleeping Birdman on Galia IV save Alto?? Something has to happen with that BirdMan after all....

Alright, so i'm rewatching it and trying to make better sense of the subs. Correct me where I'm wrong: 1) After Ranka is taken by the Vajra Brera contacts Grace to tell her of what has happened. 2) Grace says this changes the plan and that capturing Ranka will no longer be absolutely necessary. 3) Grace says that she would still like Ranka captured but if that's impossible Brera should not let it bother him. 4) I believe when Brera protests Grace says something to the effect of "While she was our major objective here, she's still a secondary objective in the grand scheme. Still, if you witness something that confirms our suspicions so much the better but don't go too far out of your way to make that happen." She ends communications with Brera by stating she's going to blow up the whole planet. What's definitely NOT said in this conversation is "what exactly is Brera's number one objective now?" since all we really know is that he's no longer required to kidnap Ranka in the process. 5) She then hops up to gain a vantage point and locates where the Dimension Eater is located on a map (either that or confirms that the Dimension Eater will kill everyone on the planet with its blast radius although at the end of the episode this would seem silly since the blast radius is practically everywhere) 6) Brera shows up in the Vajra hive complex. Since his primary objective no longer involves kdinapping Ranka; he sets about accomplishing the grander plan which I guess we can deduce was for him to cause the Vajra armada to get on the move by pissing the Vajra queen off as he comes in with guns blazing after non-chalantly drifting down. Fortunately for him, an errant shot hits a crystal and everything gets all crazy. It seems like the crystal is something the Vajra queen is really sensitive about and when she's suffering she is able to make Ranka suffer. The how of this all could go lots of ways but then all the crystals start glowing and the Global fires its main cannon. You know what might make more sense? Maybe just the Vajra mothership built into the Global fired a main cannon up and through the Global to free itself so that it could launch. 7) Grace sees the main cannon's burst and smiles saying "It has awoken" which, in context, is an odd word choice. It does make some sense if my conjecture above is right and that Grace just realized that the Vajra would need to blast the Global free if they wanted to take off so the "it" becomes the Vajra armada she would know to be taking off. Brera is now inexplicably fighting Alto with some dialogue that seems to imply Brera has a personal dislike of Alto, "You don't suit her." Maybe whatever Ranka's fate is, her having a strong love for someone could mess it up. Either that or Brera is just a homicidal prick, figures he might as well kill Alto now since Alto will probably get in the way of his kidnapping her in the future (pretty optimistic since the girl was abducted by the Vajra), or Grace told him at some point killing Alto is another objective. 9) Grace calls her dog Brera off and tells him to go back and "wait for my orders" which seems to imply she'll survive the explosion she's creating in some way. 10) Grace then has an evil monologue which tells us that her killing Sheryl (whom she assumes is in bed) and all these Zentrans will cause a tremendous amount of hate. The Zentrans hurried mayday calls will be "their" guidepost but I'm not sure if the "their" is Frontier or the Vajra. She then wishes Frontier luck so it would seem like she's saying the Vajra are going to somehow follow the mayday calls to the Frontier. Did I sum it all up right?

I think Dr Mao was a scientist and Brera and Ranka are her creations more than her children