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HG has the name Macross copyrighted and has licensed distribution rights of Macross merchandise to Toynami. So yeah, HG just gets a cut... nothing really fancy here as HG could care less where the toy comes from, that's Toynami's business. Toynami just has more fees to pay as they need to pay Tamashi who in turn needs to pay BW. I still wouldn't be at all surprised to see this whole thing get killed by BW at any minute. It's not really fair for Bandai to escape BW's glare. If Yamato's smart they'll just make a company structured EXACTLY like Tamashi and escape the licensing issues in the same way.

LOL, oh that poor stimulus. I wonder what tiny percentage will actually go to boosting OUR economy?

Every transformation works... at some scale.

This episode was uh... "cute" but boring. Hot on the heels of Star Date I think I had had my feel of dialogue and romantic bumbling only to get slammed with another full 22 minutes of it. Really, I might not have minded it so much but Star Date leaves you so primed for a good scramble order that Bye Bye Sheryl never delivers on. I get the feeling this will be an oft skipped episode when DVDs of this series are available. There are worse things than boring though and I'm sure the reward for this episode will be delivered in a later episode when this character development starts paying off.

Ugh, they're such a bad design. I really like the notion of a transformable tank (even if it's kind of tough to determine WHY such a thing would exist) but the Hovertank is poorly executed. It starts with the whole open "cockpit" in the first versions and extends through varoius aspects that just make it all kind of silly.

I thought component cables only go to 720P? Also, what is this sound lag from which you speak? I've never noticed a sound lag but I don't have a PS3 so if it's specific to Blu-Ray or the PS3 that'd explain why I'm lost. I've got no clue what might cause a hiss in the audio but typically a dirt cheap HDMI cable is everything a super expensive HDMI cable is. I've got an expensive one and a few dirt cheap ones from Amazon.com and I could never tell you where the cheap ones are versus the expensive one.

You'll always be your own worst critic on these. My prediction, you'll paint it but the slight differences in color will eventually drive you nuts... so then you'll strip the whole thing, primer it, repaint it, and buy some after market stickers. Regardless of whether or not my prediction holds true, you've already done a better job than I could.

While I really dislike Southern Cross, and HATE The Masters portion of Robotech (they stripped all the cool aspects of the mediocre show away and dissolved it into a glue to attach Macross to Mospeada) I believe the issue is really one of licensing. Didn't those podcasters (can't remember their names right now) say that Big West owns the rights to all the mechs and designs and that's why none of them appeared in Shadow Chronicles? If Tatsunoko owned it you'd have a chance but if this is a BW issue no dice.

Actually, if Monogram just repackaged Imai kits then YES, Toynami's toys are based off of those kits! The Toynami MPC is essentially the Imai 1/48 Legioss with some minor tweaks. Of course, the similarities are all superficial, the toys are built much sturdier than the models with different materials. Okay, I suppose "much" might be a bit strong given the MPC Alphas problems with falling apart for no good reason. We should also note that nobody here knows anything about the Toynami MPC Cyclone. They showed a prototype that appeared to be based on an old model kit but then they stopped showing the prototype and said they might just import Beagle's effort instead whilst telling retailers that they'd deliver them an MPC Cyclone by year end for $79.99. There's no way the Beagle will only be $79.99 so the speculation now is that Toynami might bring out their own Cyclone and the Beagle but that contradicts their statement from NYCTF where they said it'd be one or the other.

That link doesn't work for me but if you're looking at the Toynami I believe the place to post about it would be the "Mostly Mospeada" thread

The title could probably use a "NSFW" tag.

Exact same molds huh? That doesn't sound promising for rare/exotic!

It got licensed right quick (thus making it impossible for me to get torrents!).

How do you mean an "internal" perspective? How are we supposed to know that Ranka is going to skyrocket? Is that because we're supposed to know she's going to follow in Minmay's steps? Doesn't that thought necessitate us considering it from the "external" perspective where we only know what to expect because we know of the original series? How is it then "skill"ful to use an episode in such obvious fashion only to put a late twist on it? Isn't that what most people consider "lazy"? I do agree, it is skillful to play with a viewer's expectations but I'd disagree that mirroring an existing episode to do that is a sign of skill.

Hey, that's still the only Houquet Ride Armor to date! (for the moment)

Wow... you're actually modding it. A member here once made a mod that gave it a swiveling torso, maybe you'll want to take a stab at that!

I am so friggin' psychic... just you watch. You guys might say "But Jenius... the formula is one VF-1 toy, one Mac+ toy, and one almost never seen valk so obviously it'd be a VF-1, a VF-11B, and a VF-5000" and I say to you, "shut up, I'm psychic!"

That looks like the canon paint scheme to me.

So are we sure there's still going to be a chase with these? Who wants to bet Collection three will be a VF-1S Hikaru, a VF-11B, and a VF-5000? Takers?

I have all my CMs combos in hand and have been having a blast taking tons of pictures with them. I'm hoping to have a really cool all-inclusive posting up on my site in a couple weeks.

Don't worry, I'm not serious... but that's the story I'm making up in my head to be okay with it. It also makes my Christmas themed Green Legioss Red Tread combo look like they both may have originated from the same spot... er.. whatever.

Agreed... but it's not like they didn't see this moment coming. The idea for MacF must have been kicked around for quite some time. It seems they could have prepared something a bit more exciting than more of the same.

Seriously, the news would have been so great if Bandai was making a NEW 1/55 toy to go up against Yamato's NEW 1/60 toy. More reissues of a 20 year old toy? That's not nearly as exciting.

The red tread has both Jupiter and Mars base logos. Maybe Jupiter base met up with Mars Base before attacking Earth and adopted some of their logos -

I'm pretty sure Yamato did a photo-shoot using two right arm armors on one toy. The reason you see the screw is because that armor should be on the other arm (screw should be facing backward so you don't notice it.). I'd say the odds are 99% that the actual production model will come with individual right and left arm armors and when installed correctly the screws will only be visible from the back of the valk.