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Those Alphas on a Card Glad you dig the site, it needs some major improving but it's getting there.

Those arms look like they might be a bit fragile.

See my review of the first edition on my website (it's on the front page, one of the last two most recent posts). I've had that toy for a couple years and as you can see in the pics, it's been used and abused and hasn't yellowed at all. It's also very white, not really grey-ish. There were a couple members here who did see some versions of the 1/48 yellow a bit but I think most admitted to having them in sunlight for displays of some sort.

LOL, everything except the 0S & 0A!!! Sorry, I haven't gotten around to those yet. I'm waiting on a reissue of the 0S because the first one apparently had some QC issues (although, even with those QC issues I'd wager it'd blow the Toynami out of the water... and I'm one of the people less hateful toward Toynami in these parts). I definitely recommend you check out my site to see the wealth of other options you have. There's a link to it in my signature if you wanna get there quick. I'm also in the midsts of a pretty exhaustive write-up to finally show people just how significant the differences are between the MPC, Yamato's 1/60, and Yamato's 1/48... that'll probably take another week or two to finish... but won't help you with the decision to buy a 0S though.

I posted a bunch more pics in an updated review of Yamato's 1/48 Super/Strike Parts (including Stealth). Check it out here. Here's a teaser:

Man, you pick some very odd combinations! I know black is supposed to go with everything but I gotta expect the Stealth in either GBP is going to be pretty hideous. I can do all of your requests (it's going to take some time) except for the 4th item. I don't collect DYRL color schemes. Closest I could do is Focker wearing the green GBP. In other news, more AngelBirds and pics of lots of other valks in the standard and stealth parts are up in my newest post (or "updated post" to be more precise): Just follow this white rabbit.

Was there some big video game event near SFO today? I saw a bunch of younger people dressed very oddly walking around the Marriot. There seemed to be an inordinate amount of people dressed as cats... There were also what appeared to be girls dressed in traditional Dutch attire (Okay, I have no idea what country the attire was from, but it was definitely traditional). I figured it might have been a comic or video game convention and lots of people were dressed up like stuff i was totally not familiar with.

I don't really get it (as far as the Neutron S missiles are being used and how they're ordered and when) from the brief write-up presented there. Rick ordered them, then had a change of heart after it was too late? Did I misread it or is that what it said?

So I went to check on my valk pilots and I was shocked to find Max & Miria doing unspeakable things! Apparently Max is wearing green protection... Eh, just foolin' around, I checked three valks that have had their pilots in them the entire time and no fudged pants. I wonder if it's just the CFs or somethin'?

I think someone on RT.com said this version (I think it's actually official, not a bootleg) worked great for them. I think I also remember hearing something about a wood box?? I think you can get RT: The complete edition for about $40 within the US also if you watch eBay.

Mitch, this is no way a criticism of you, but the forum has a search feature that you should use. There have been lots of long conversations about MacZero already and I'm sure you'll find many of the answers you're looking for.

Cool, thanks for the offer! At some point in the near future I'll pull it out and take a few transition shots so it would animate better. Don't be surprised if you get a random PM about this like a month from now!

Don't forget folks, this is Toynami. The fact wave 1 made it out when it did is a miracle. It was Toynami's FIRST product that didn't suffer a SIX month delay or greater. That's not anti-Toynami ramblings, it's fact.

I see, thank you for the heads-up in return

Just a heads-up Skull, there's a ban on animated avatars. I don't think there's any chance that this movie will not be released now that another company has a vested interest in it other than HG.

You know, I honestly never even considered that. Do you want to see it in the Blue or Brown GBP? I'm planning on putting up very revised review of the GBP soon (so that I could include the new release and better pics). Glad you guys are diggin' the gallery! I definitely agree about the Max armor. The color isn't quite a perfect match but it's definitely close enough. It's too bad the Miria armor is just a little too blood red. Unfortunately I'm very computer illiterate. Right now all it is is a sequence of like 8 photos of the Angelbird throwing punches (he didn't have his gun after all) that I just click "next photo" in my weak attempt of animating it.

LOL, yeah, I was having some fun and actually did a little stop-motion of it shadow-boxing.

Hey everybody, I did a huge spread on Yamato's Angelbird release on my site. I normally don't create a new topic as a redirect but I kinda went nuts on this one and I'm not sure how long I'll be able to keep this many pics up for. Here's some samples: I encourage you to go check it out here: the ULTIMATE ANGELBIRDS GALLERY. Mods, if this feels too spammy then feel free to delete it and I'll just post a less offensive link in the 1/48, 1/72, 1/60 thread. Thanks -

Imai did release some molded in color though. The kits are pretty terrible though. As to the size question, they're exactly the same size as the MPC as Toynami used these models in the development of their toy. In fact, the MPC is pretty much just a better version of what you see here. I wonder why these folks didn't pull the fins out?? EDIT - Yes, they are the same exact size even if Toynami says they're 1/55 and Imai says they're 1/48. Neither company has the scale exactly right. In fighter mode the toys are some whacky scale (too big) and in Battroid they're firmly between 1/48 and 1/55.

I'm doing some pretty exhaustive photo shoots of my entire collection right now, it's involved taking every pilot out at some point or another. So far no butts stuck to paint <knocking on wood>

The second screen shot from the top features a clearly over-exposed Hik VF-1S (as if he is direct line of a giant spot light from the SDF-1). As such, I wouldn't say it really supports a white head-laser argument. Basically, all discussion over what color the head lasers and shields are *supposed* to be aside, Yamato should have at least strived for consistency. We may never know if the head lasers should be white but we didn't need that debate driven home every time we pose the skull squadron toys with each other.

I'm in the process of re-working all the Yamato 1/48 stuff on my website. I just put this Updated Yammy 1/48 Review on the site. It might help you see why the 1/48 gets so much love. In the event it does not, I should be posting a bunch more 1/48 stuff in the next week or two to get some more experiences and pics out to everybody...

ghostbusters... nice

It still may be a minority opinion but I agree whole-heartedly.

I don't know why, but this seems like a good place to point out how cool Firefly was (especially on DVD with the other episodes and slightly altered dialogue). Serenity was a wonderful way of tying that story up also. Asian TV doesn't do the long drawn out series huh? No Simpsons in Asia? Well, on the one hand that saves you from the ridiculous "jump the shark" moments but some shows do go out gracefully over here too.