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Gundam sells itself... Robotech does not.

Hopefully Yamato waits a long while on the VF-19A so that they can find out a bunch of little tweaks to make people a bit happier with it. I know plenty of folks are stoked with the YF-19 as it is but for those who will be buying both it's nice to know that the second item is an actual improvement and not just a simple re-paint.

The Sentinels would just be an extended transition piece. By starting at the end of the third war you can transition quickly into something entirely new. The Sentinels never would have been anything entirely new. The Sentinels made sense in the time it was being made. It would have sold more existing toys. The time when the Sentinels was necessary has come and gone and Robotech's only hope now is to get to new ground. So, segue with the Shadow Chronicles OVA then get somewhere new with new bad guys and hopefully new Earth mechs and hopefully new heroes (with plenty of cameos from the old favorites).

My, the honeymoon seems to rapidly ending with the YF-19. I'm kind of okay with GERWALK being a bit sloppy... let's face it, the design of the 19's GERWALK is entirely sloppy to begin with. I've also found that sloppiness in GERWALK often leads to better pose-ability in GERWALK (the VF-0S is a nice example of this). Battroid though, that thing being sloppy is just sad. When I first picked up my 1/72 VF-19A out of its box I thought "crap, this piece of junk is broken" because nothing clamped the chest down. To hear it still works this way on the 1/60 makes me sad . So with the breaking parts deal when transforming, is there a part everyone should immediately loosen the screws on to make transformation easier or do you not even see those screws until you've managed to transform it?

I love the "a lot worse" link to Jar Jar!

Didn't Graham say March? Or maybe it was the March issue of some mag...

So I'm handling my 0S and I drop it and catch it and in the process I must have bumped the backpack just a hair up higher than I had felt comfortable doing before and voila! No more sloppy backpack and nothing was broken at all. I'm not recommending others try this though. I'm gonna go ahead and pre-order the standalone ghost but it won't be delivered until the shin comes in also

The subs are understandable and better then some others I've muddled through. The biggest problem is the characters names... they seem to change the names of the characters quite often. I think in one episode the names change half way through. It really seems like they just gave the show to like 5 different people and told them to subtitle their own chunks and didn't do anything to make sure anything would be coherent the whole way through. Even the term for what the two major characters are changes a few times. It sounds worse than it is though, you'll know who the characters are and what makes them special without the words/names always being the same.

Do you own a 0S? 'Cause, I like my 0S and all, but if you're saying a 19 feels more sloppy that gives me more than a little reservation.

Note: Your 1/60 will not have a gunstrap.

ridiculously cheap

There are very few items in the Macross universe that work well in a 1/48 scale. Macross favors very large items (just like the original bad guys themselves) so 1/60 is a much more sensible choice for most future releases. Someone once listed the items that made sense in a 1/48 and I think it was like three fighters long with only the VF-11 making sense at any scale between 1/60 and 1/48. Basically, you go with a 1/48 if you want the ultimate representation of the VF-1. You go with a 1/60 if you want toys to play with in line scale-wise with likely most future Macross toys. The fact so many MWers want a re-issued 1/60 that isn't so lame and that most people who disagree with that thinking only do so out of economical or selfish concerns (and that's not to say I don't entirely empathize with them) ought to tell you the prevailing opinion on the 1/60 VF-1.

LOL Kyp, that almost looks like the type of picture someone takes of their pets.

Mospeada had an OVA too

It's my understanding that you can kinda force the CM figure in but not close it up if you do. I don't own one so I've never tried. I think you'll be alright, there are lots of joints on the Q-Rau that start off super stiff (but can get loose pretty quick). Sounds like it could have just been part of the toy settling a bit. Other than getting loose I haven't heard of many people breaking Q-Raus.

From an RT perspective I hope this is a necessary transition piece. People wanted a series that connected firmly to the original. Shadow Chronicles, if nothing else, does that. That ties things down a bit because you can't have all new mechs, all new spaceships, and all new characters when you're trying to build the gluing piece fans are clamoring for. So, here we have the transition piece that will hopefully need RT to somewhere new where it can develop into something of its own. Maybe SC will start as being some terrible amalgamation and end up being a half decent series. If it ends here it's just gonna be that amalgamation and lead to no where.

I think I paid $75 each for my supers and $85 for my strike (and it came in a beat-up box after the post office got done their apparent game of soccer with it... d'oh!). Speaking of my site, I'm pretty sure I'll be updating many of these 1/60 reviews now that I have launch arms and am busting out the 1/60s for my launch arm review anyway. My first reviews didn't do the subtle differences between them justice. My advice? Eh, if Yamato weren't doing everything else in 1/60 I'd say steer clear of 'em. There really isn't a single aspect to them I find very endearing other than their size and level of detail considering the size. That's not to say they're terrible in anyway, I could just think of better ways of spending $75-$85 (for supers). Since Yamato is making everything in 1/60 scale though it's pretty easy to get the completist bug.

Count me in for a set.

a 1/60 scale hovertank really would be about 4". I did the math on it at 1/55 over at RT.com in their threads and it was far too small at 1/55.

go to the link in my sig Luke... search the content Luke.

you mean Cy-KILL!

at the time his avatar was the broken shoulder.

No no Dafunguy, he wanted a pic of the broken shoulder so he could show Yamato.

Keith, fresh from a trip to Macross7 fansites has determined that many people actually like Macross7. Nobody is saying that everyone hates Macross7 but I can honestly say that everyone I have actually met in person who is familiar with anime and has watched Mac7 has passionately disliked it. Before I ever saw it I was warned to avoid it like the plague because it might kill my passion for Macross. I've seen a few people on message boards defend it but have never run into one at a video store or anywhere I might be (although honestly, I don't know many people into anime at all). That said, those same people that hated Mac7 have always known MacII and just like DestroidDefender says, the typical reaction is either indifference or a "that one scene was cool" refering to something in particular they liked.

NOT MY AUCTION - Super Stealth Saw that on eBay and thought of you. I'm completely unrelated but thought I'd point it out in case no one has been able to help ya. EDIT- if you care you might want to double-check that it's the Special Edition double-pack and that this guy isn't just selling the two individual sets as one item.