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I'll be transforming my new 0S for the first time this weekend. When I get it into battroid the first thing I'll do is remove the shoulder armors and investigate for cracking. So far I have already used the shoulders a bit since I put the gun on in fighter mode and that was an absolute female dog. Once again, the hole in the gun doesn't appear to be big enough for the peg in the arms .

This thing is going to read like the declassified reports we in the US get from the CIA "Well, I spoke with [blacked out text] today the [blacked out text] of 200[blacked out text]. I am very pleased to report that a bunch of new stuff is in the work like [blacked out text]. What I found most surprising was [blacked out text]. Obviously I am thrilled. I went through your guys' list of questions and below are the answers: 1) [blacked out text] 2) [blacked out text] ...

Can we make it so under the Member No there's a field that says "Responed to survey, Yes/No" and then we can hunt down with pitchforks and torches all the people that still have NO as the end of the survey approaches?

I definitely wouldn't plan on letting my hypothetical children near them too young. But I remember playing with my transformers as a kid and so at that point in development I think a kid could do fine with these. Knowing most children the missiles will never be on the plane and the heatshield will never get swapped anyway. The trickier part is finding the woman appropriate to carry my seed... keeping the inevitible genetic developments from choking hazards will hopefully be easier... hopefully

This actually isn't exactly true anymore. The 1/48 is now more complete for VF-1 than the 1/60 (Stealth, LVII, LVI, AngelBirds, DYRL Kakizake, DYRL Hik VF-1S). The only thing 1/48 is missing is the VF-1D (and VT and VE if you would like to include them). Obviously a few of the 1/48s I mentioned are non-canon).

There should be no hating to say it. It's a Macross toy on the cheap and not a half bad one. If I weren't at work 13 hours a day right now I think I would have totally bought these by now. There's something cool about a toy you can handle and not worry at all about the huge expense you'll incur should you accidentally break it... which is kind of the spirit of what a toy should be right? Once I breed successfully and my children are sufficiently aged I'm pretty sure these little buggers will be their indoctrination to Macross (I better have locking cabinets by then).

Darn, I really like it but I'm in CA so it seems i'm SOL.

1/60 DYRL Valks are the worst. They were the first ones Yamato made and it shows. The only exception is the strike 1S which had the upgrades of the second edition 1/60 Valks. If you need to know the differences visit the site in my sig.

Well I would presume that the most diehard MW members responded to the survey. I think it's pretty neat info. Is my Super Max more rare than a LVI?? Neat stuff... nice color coordinating also.

Yeah but wouldn't the SDF-1 be a prime target for the Anti-UN? While I agree that there'd be a need for lots of people around the ship you'd also think the constant potential for attack would mean fewer families and more solo-dudes working out of quarters rather than living in a town. Then again, next to the SDF-1 may also be the safest place imagineable as it'd probably be the most heavily fortified location within the UN.

I believe Rnurman is selling one in the for sale thread (1/48 that is)

I was thinking about that myself. You gotta love a vendor that doesn't need to charge state tax (CA 8.25%!) and doesn't want to tack on 4% in Paypal fees because he's wise enough to keep a non-premium account handy for those of us who do direct funds transfers. Now, if he'd only offer a kick back to those of use who bring up his name in threads occasionally! Did he ever even get people YF-19s? Seems like he's been on a hiatus for a long while now. When he comes back I might have a nice order waiting for him (provided he has the pricing right of course!).

You know, DYRL actually seems to cement this idea a bit (well, maybe not stretching it to the cathouse). remember Hikaru's date with Minmei. He tries to end it by going to the hotel and she shoots him down. That was what immediately came to my mind when you mentioned it so I think maybe that actually was what the creators intended... but were as subtle as humanly possible about it. We do see plenty of the pilots interacting with the civilian ladies and it's doubtful with all the destruction of property while all the people survived in shelters that people would have homes all to themselves. Now, getting around the "Oh my God, she's going to the hotel with that pilot!" issue is another matter entirely and it's not like you could get away with too much with a captive audience to sit there and gossip. Heck, it's a wonder the bridge bunnies didn't just sit out front of the hotels with a bag of popcorn.

Is the picture huge? I used to get problems when I tried to upload a really large pic. try using imageshack.

Graham, ask them to make clear parts for the GBP like they did for the strike set! It might take some work to install but I think it'd be coo'!

Where did you want the pilots to bang the civilian ladies? They sure as heck didn't seem to want that going on back at the soldiers' quarters.

I would like to see more paint schemes that are only slight alterations of existing ones... j/k

Yeah, that's what I mean by "playing" the better person. He tried to seem like this great guy with super high standards but deep down he just sucked.

LOL... but nah, I like his descent. For one, it's strikingly adult subject matter for a cartoon. For two, it shows that being a paficist and playing the better person doesn't equate to a whole lot unless there's a lot more behind it than attempting to be unabashedly contrarian. LOL, that's not a dig on Hurin... I was looking for the proper wording and boom, there was his title!

technically it's okay to quote that image since it's no longer on the same page...

MPC VF-1: $24.95 for Ben Dixon up to $99.99 for Rick Hunter MPC VF-1 Appendix: I think we're now at like $59.99 for a Rick Hunter and $99.99-$149.99 for a Max/Miriya (yes, that's insane).

I don't know if this is mentioned but it's a thought, I would like Yamato to stop skipping the details on non-canon paint schemes. I'd have to double-check, but didn't they leave everything on the Stealth black (like the area where the airbrake is? I think they also made the turbines black? Seems to me like they just kind of skipped it out of convenience. Heck, if you don't think shiny metal paint looks cool for a certain scheme then why not give us a flat gray or something? Yes, this is an uber nitpick but hey... why not?

I dig it in fighter mode but in battroid it looks like a black guy in a white suit. I have nothing against black guys, or white suits but I feel like something is missing in that mode. Obvioulsy good work and 100x better than I could ever do. Edit - Just looked at the close-ups, I really like the detail work and effects.

You don't find Egan Loo... he finds YOU. LOL, ignore that. It's pretty clear that the creators of Macross made efforts to copy military structures and nomenclatures outside of Japan but just used everything as a loose framework. So it's inconsistent but hardly out of an attempt to be clever in a confusing fashion. If it's an example of them just lifting the Japanese way of doing things it seems pretty odd since most aspects seem to emulate English-speaking/structured militaries. Now, if you're suggesting it was just poorly researched, they thought it sounded cooler, or they figured no one in Japan or anywhere else would ever care enough to dig into it, that I could totally understand.

There was a preorder for the Shin pack on eBay for $195 shipped to the US. I think that was a bit better than I have been seeing it elsewhere... still seems steep to me (but I'm getting more and more cheap). I really think people who preorder should get a break on these products, not just have the first opportunity to pay MSRP.