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I don't know that they're the *best* overall but I will say that the MPC is the most fun in Guardian/Gerwalk. I could definitely tweak it in ways for my photo shoot that I could not do with either the 1/60 or the 1/48. Still, I would rather have a toy try to compete more in either fighter or battl/roid mode and that's where the MPC gets instantly eclipsed.

I revised my review of the Toynami appendices for the VF-1 veritechs on my site. Here's some images:

"What do we do now?" "We die!" Dude, back off Last Starfighter... if that movie featured the Governator it'd be the greatest movie of all time. (bringing back some A1 humor in his absence)

Overall dimensions sound pretty good. I think a little more depth would probably help but otherwise that's fairly decent. It's affordable huh? Where would one get one like this and what's the price tag? I almost bought one just like it a year ago but it had an oak finish.

I can see your foot I like the paint scheme, spruces up the valk a little. I'm still diggin' the Max though.

I think they're the exact same DVDs. I don't own both, just the Rt.com version, but the inner-boxes look just like the Animeigo release so I imagine the DVDs inside are the same also.

I'm actually pretty surprised, from the random tidbits I'd caught from people who had seen it they all seemed generally impressed with the music (if nothing else). I haven't heard enough of it to comment myself. I will say that I did receive a free copy of the RT soundtrack at some point and it's pretty painful listening. I did like it during the actual show though, it's one of the things the people at HG actually did well to tie the three different series together (IMHO). PS - there is no such thing as a "mock" anime style, the idea itself strikes me as pretentious. It may be a "new" style, it may be overly-stylized, but mock? That requires an actual concrete definition of what anime style is and try finding one definition and going through the decades of anime and applying it... it'll never work. Then, once you have this impossible to obtain definition you'd have to come up with a concrete reason on how newer shows fail to accomplish this. Perhaps we could just deem it "Korean new-wave anime." Crap, I just argued semantics, I apologize.

That's a very nice display case. How tall is that? My problem with finding good pre-made display cases is that they tend to be a bit shorter than I'd like.

Let's see, 0S is froppy, 0A has fragile shoulders and doesn't really belong to any series since it's a quasi-canon paint scheme, I'm going with the VF-1 or the YF-19... and the VF-1 looks to be a bit better than the 19 to me.

If you stare directly into the sexy eye Visor of the VF-1S above and then let your eyes drift down just a bit and to your left of the center line you'll notice a little white pimple of sorts. That's the flaw that bugs people about the first edition 1S. Edit - Sorry, the lighting isn't ideal in that picture... I'll photoshop it at a later date to brighten it up a bit.

I'm fairly sure it was just the first edition Focker VF-1S that has the mole. I don't do DYRL paint schemes (other than Focker's) so I can't say I'm ABSOLUTELY certain but I'd say 90% sure on this. Edit - I see the arrows don't matter from your previous post. Painting I'd think could be done by just taping 'em off or something simple.

Yes Sir, just the first editions as noted above:

Note the little white bump of plastic.

1st edition Focker VF-1S has a mole, otherwise I believe they are all the same.

Darn, I don't recall this As to the Max thing, I don't doubt he's respected, I don't doubt he's a great pilot, I don't doubt that his heart is in the right place. After having watched Mac7 though I definitely had the impression that if someone walked up to him, told him he was walking excrement (not that anyone had reason to) he'd probably cower or maybe shrug. Sure, he's still gold in a valk, and yes, people really like and trust him, it just seemed to me that when dealing with people (mostly through Milia) the guy had no ability to stand for himself. Brave in the line of fire? Absolutely. Brave when face-to-face with anyone? Not-so-much. Again though, I should re-watch the original, maybe that's totally in line with his character. I seem to recall him totally oogling Milia in the arcade though, randomly asking her out, and fighting his way through a Chinese restaurant... none of which seem in line with the guy I saw in Mac7. Like you say though, maybe time has just mellowed him... but that sounds more accepting of what has happened rather than a disagreement. Perhaps saying he "lost his balls" goes too far, let's just say I felt he simmered down too much.

Also, the TV version of Hikaru's FP (sold in the bundle set) is a slightly lighter shade than the DYRL Fast/Strike Packs.

Guess I should have clarified, I just watched it again for the first time since I saw it in the theater as a child. I remember really liking it back then though which is what drove me to watch it again. Even then I was into the toys more than the shows so I guess the effect wasn't so profound on me.

Ya know... maybe another LV with panel lining wouldn't be bad though... But I still think NO in general

I just watched the original movie, I thought it was still pretty decent. Man, talk about a violent cartoon! I mean, here were all these characters we, as children, liked in the show, and the first half hour of the movie goes about finding new ways to kill most of them. NICE! StarScream's corronation was pretty funny, it was kind of like Ash with his boomstick. "WHO ELSE WANTS SOME??... YOU!? YOU WANT SOME??"

Honestly though, what about Gubaba? Gubaba causes me some internal conflict. At some points, I think Gubaba is excellent comic relief. Clearly cute and childish, downright outlandish at times, but for some reason I didn't really mind. Okay, that episode where Gubaba got lost on the planet was too much but otherwise I think, as much as I dislike myself for doing so, I actually liked Gubaba.

Good God, I can't believe Graham went there before any of the clearly less mature people did (like damn it, he beat me to it!). I don't know Spacy, you're whole argument against my statement that Max has no balls seems more apologist than anything else. It's kind of a "See, you gotta understand WHY Max has no balls" rather than "No, seriously, Max still has balls." I mean, I don't run a space ship, but I imagine it takes being rather assertive... I didn't see Max getting very assertive at all. Then again, maybe I should rewatch the original series, maybe Max was never all that assertive in the first place... but that'd make me wonder how he ended up in charge of anything... or how his marriage with Milia would have lasted this long in the first place.

From what I gather Shadow Chronicles begins with the return of the majority of the REF which is concurrent with the battle we saw at the end of the New Generation (it was the REF's return with Shadow Fighters that instigated the last two major battles). So, the first big battle in the Shadow Chronicles will actually be the battle we already saw at the end of the original Robotech series.

I said "no" 'cause it does strike me as one more reason to charge us more and one more thing they might mess up on. Also, depending on how they're done, it seems like something that might discourage people from handling their valks too much. The weathering on the LV1 is known to smudge off after all.

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Some do, some not so much. The Shadow is essentially the same as all the other MPCs so you have the same chance of getting one that won't sit on its chest as you do with any of the others (I'd say 50/50). Also, I've seen quite a few toys now that the people who complain the most about the arched backs of the Alphas haven't transformed them properly (it's absolutley essentially you get the crotch tabs all the way into the legs. Here's a pic of one of my Shadows, no matter what I did I couldn't get it any flatter than this: On a side note though, I don't have any of my vehicles posed sideways at exactly eye level. This is by far the least flattering angle to look at the Alpha. It looks decent from others: