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Totoro, there was one of those in the box on eBay about two months back with a BIN of $99 that got relisted with a BIN of $79. I don't know if it actually ever got bought though. It was the Focker type.

It's nice but I think you need to tear an arm off

I wish I could, unfortunately I only collect Macross and MOSPEADA gear... and even that makes my wallet sob. Very nice toys you got there. Would you believe I've never even seen a single episode of any Gundam series? I've seen almsot no anime other than what you can see on Adult Swim and my childhood stuff. Most the childhood stuff I don't even remember any more (a la Orguss, Captain Harlock, that era). So sad... I need to get Netflix and a ton more free time.

I was wondering the same thing as Godzilla but then I thought it might be them showing the progress from an earlier article that was in the magazine. Kinda a "We broke the news and showed it to you when it was this rough of a stage, take a look at now!"

is the Labor Core a custom or a model? The paint job looks really nice.

Ya know, the Toynami Alphas were an immediate heartbreak for me. My first one broke in two different places almost immediately. For some reason though, I couldn't stop thinking "I so wish you weren't broken 'cause you could be so cool." So I had it replaced and I really do love the ones I've gotten since (except the broken ones that needed replacing). I think they're pretty decent toys if you get 'em for half price, especially if you're lucky enough to get one of the random few that doesn't exhibit the arched back in fighter mode. I've also had good luck with my Yammy VF-11B. It's actually my favorite of the Mac7 Yamato toys. I've transformed it far more than the rest and it still looks brand spankin' new. It's even taken a big fall without breaking. My longest honeymoon has been my Taka SDF-1 though. It was my first pricey purchase and I love the thing and it's been quite a while. Shortest honeymoon? Any Yamato 1/60 valk. I take it, transform it, pose it, put it on display, collect all the screw covers that popped off in transformation and put them in the box, then hope to never touch the things again.

This thread needs more Southern Cross - First you arrive and abduct some humans and alter there brains enough so you can use them as pilots for your own mechanized terror. Then you sit in orbit and use them as inefficiently as possible until the day one of them finally turns against you and destroys you despite your clear tactical, physical, and scientific advantage. Wait, this thread needs more MOSPEADA First you arrive in a fiery hellfire blast of biblical proportions by morphing your entire population into pure energy. Use the blast to wipe out locations of strategic importance and any area using a high level of advanced energies but ignore areas of high population. Place bases, or hives, along major transit routes and then single out and destroy all remaining insurgents... no matter how small their group may be. Be sure to only send out your least capable and clumsy troops to fight the insurgents though as you never know when space-borne foes may arrive in massive numbers.

Do we KNOW that Shannon is dead though? I say it only seems 99% certain... but if it IS an island full of nano-robots that strive for balance maybe they'll repair her. Hey, it happened in Jason X.... Personally, i think telling the "tailies" story is just a convenient way to stretch things out forever. "Look, we're starting the show all over from another group's perspective. We're going to go back in time to when the plane crashed again so we almost will never have to answer any questions!" I'm losing my patience with this show.

If that mecha had a hard helmet, I would swear it was a construction worker with its lunchbox.

The price is ridiculous. I certainly won't be preordering one of these bad boys. The seams on the legs are also a bit Toynami-ish... but forgiveable.

I'm an accountant, I can certify that "negative profit" is not a commonly used term... but it does sound like a very peachy way of talking about losses. I think I'm going to start replacing the word "loss" in all my financials going forward with "negative profit." I wonder how that will go over with the big wigs. My dear Vandermeer, I think you're onto something!

where's a good place to get the Orguss series? I wouldn't mind watching it again. Seeing as its been so long since the first time I've seen it I have absolutely no recollection. Oh yes, and that was absolutely beautiful work... I wish i was talented with computers.

Double post, i'm sorry.

Umm, qui il est beige clair I think that's the first time I've ever spoken french... or typed it. It's tan, and it's not even that light of a beige.

EXTREMELY Doubtful... the hope now is that a future YF-19 would be in 1/60 scale.

Yes Sir, to my knowledge it is the only other 1/20 figure produced. There were plans for at least one other but I don't think it ever made it past the prototype and press-release stage. Very nice additional pics!

it looks like a takatoku 1/55 chunky that someone stripped of paint and then left to yellow.

I used the same technique to find the Gamestops with Alphas near me. The only crappy thing about that is they would take them off the website just before the first mark down (after Rook's was released) so you couldn't find out where they might still have some. There was one in San Jose and one in Daly City that seemed to get them pretty consistently. I think there was also one in SF but I never quite checked that out.

Man, all the stupid Gamestops near me got wise to the fact that everyone just waited until the were marked down to half price so they just stopped ordering them altogether. I scored four alphas for the half price and I very much feel that they are a good buy at $39.99. Now, $19.99???? I would have bought a truckload of 'em (and resold them whenever I was low on cash for a handsome profit )

I think you're missing the point. The fact truck tons of merchandise didn't make it out (MOSPEADA was supposedly also a failure but even it dominates in merchandise in comparsion to SDCSC) kinda points to its lack of success. The fact stuff was released post-humously doesn't rewrite the past. It's a CD with music from that era, success or failure, SDCSC was of that era. I'm not saying this to knock that particular show, you love it and that's your business, but it was a resounding failure regardless of the couple of items that managed to make it into production. I love some stuff that failed also though, that's just the breaks.

Very well spoken Kanata

This just in, based on these facts history has been revised to reflect that Super Dimensional Calvary: Southern Cross was not a dismal failure in Japan. Good Job Red Devil! It's been a while since I watched it but I vaguely recall enjoying some of the music in comparison to some of the other music that was out at the time.

Has anyone ever seen a bootleg 1/60 valk? Were any ever made? 344235[/snapback] That's about as likely as a Toynami MPC bootleg.

That's $150 US before shipping. Man, that's not cheap... Do people pay more for ver 1 than ver 2?

white? Mine is definitely tan.