JValk

My VF-1S Roy Super Bandai Reissue, and my Custom Minmay Guard - link below! http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/m...toms/55mg-4.jpg

Dude you broke the NERD COLLECTING CODE! Don't you know that married nerd collectors, like myself, hide our true stashes in the home of our birthplace, so as to not arouse suspicion in the family home? Didn't you notice how, even though the guy is 31, his room still looks like a teen lives there? Didn't you see how METICULOUSLY the boxed goodies were stashed? Believe me, the momma had NOTHING to do with that! Finally, didn't you notice how it took you three days to finally locate the mother lode, which you probably wouldn't have found even in a million years if it wasn't for your own nerd collecting spidey sense tingling? That nerd spent YEARS properly hiding that stuff from the parental units! Finally - did you really think all that swag was from his youth? If you do some digging you should find minty fresh Ebay reciepts in the boxes! Ok, the Orgroid and the GBP are tasty. But the CHOGOKIN. That is a MINT GA-51 GAIKING! And look at that Grandizer! The Chogokin alone blow everything else away in terms of worth. So I say - be a man-nerd and go approach that brother at thanksgiving, and bring him aside, and fess up. Do the nerd-collecting secret handshake, and beg forgiveness from the Grand Poobah. Believe me, when you get married, you want a resource like that on your side. Otherwise, some day when you host thanksgiving at your house, you might find your entire collection superglued together - except for the missing items that your brother-in-law took back.

i tread veryyyyyy lightly when i mention toys these days. usually it's like *our son would like this toy* not *i would like this toy for moi* little does she know, the obsession still burns...

i'd keep the Ipod hands down. i mean its your/planets entire music collection ready to go anywhere you go. bring a valk to play with on a road trip/flight is not the same as having some rocking tunes where ever you go, for the rest of your life. 40 gigs, thats how many songs? how many albums? if you'd like, i literally just got a 1/48 Super 1J hikaru yesterday if you want to trade for the IPOD. Yep i guess you are right. this thing is holding 1300+ songs of mine so far, and it only used up 2 gigs. what do i do with the rest of the 38 gigs? ugh!

hmm i only see one that says 100% - is that yours? if not, what is the listing title? i cant find it!

you want to hear the saddest thing ever? My wife surprised me on Father's Day (yep my first one, my boy is 3 months old) with a 40 gig IPod, and you know what I thought? "Man, I could have gotten BOTH Minmay Guard Types customized in 1/48! Maybe I'll return this Ipod for the cheap version, and still buy a VF-1J 1/48 for customizing into the Paris Moon Minmay..." Knock some sense into me, folks. Or am I preaching to the converted?

Yes, live on, Minmay threads! I swear I didn't graveyard bump this, it was still on the first page! Anyhow you all know my feelings. DYRL/TV Minmay>RT Minmei>Reba West.

I smell a Minmay revival on the boards... VIVA LA VIVERATOR!

Yep not Canon. That's why you won't ever see a Yamato version of it. On the other hand they DID do a Low Vis, and if Hasegawa followed through with it, who knows - a factory made Minmay Guard toy could be possible. But I personally love the work the fans do on the customs of it *hugs his commission, gets hurt by pointy plastic pieces*

hollywood better not forget- speed racer is NOT the star of the show. the Mach 5 is.

1) because someone decided to "pilot candidate" this series - bad idea. 2)because gunbuster wasn't embarassed enough, so they had to butcher the outfits too. 3)because they sucketh.

Hey! That's my synopsis! Where did you find it, other than here, the Gunbuster Fan Club, or on my Gunbuster 2 page? By the way, My Gunbuster 2 page can be seen here: http://www.toponeraegunbuster.com/Gunbuster-News.html. It's nothing more that a rehash of what has been said on the Japanese sites, but I just made the images, synopsis, and staff accessible from one page. Not the best looking page, but it gets the job done. that's probably where i found it! and oi i think that IS the buster machine...oh no....

Oh no....after reading about the link to Pilot Candidate and the text below, TOPLESS could really, really, suck. Big ones. Supernatural powers is a freaking cop-out. Noriko had innate ability, but dammit it was about HARD WORK! AIM FOR THE FREAKING TOP! ---- SYNOPSIS The war between mankind and the Uchuu Kaiju (space monsters) didn't end after Noriko had gone off. The military conflict between both combatants has been continuing on. No one can match the Uchuu Kaiju (space monsters) in battle. The only exception to this is "TOPLESS", the fighter group consisting of only children having supernatural powers, and Buster Machines operated by them. Nono is a young girl fresh from the countryside and a candidate for the space force pilot. She meets Raruku who is the strongest member of TOPLESS. Nono adores her as "Oneesama" (senior sister). The Uchuu Kaiju are closing in on Mankind's home planet. Nono fights them in order to aim for the top together with her teammates, Nicola and Chiko.

OK... 1)WHERE ARE YOU MIKIMOTO! 2)Please don't tell me that thing with the Michelin Man arms is supposed to be the Buster Machine. Let's hope it's a cheesy robot sidekick - not that it validates that thing's existence here, but it would be a slight improvement. 3)Um, where's the skin? Show some leg! Gunbuster was famous for inventing the Bouncing boob in anime, among other groundbreaking fanservices. Cater to the fanboy in all of us and help me relive my pubescent past by allowing me to leer at some leg flesh, at least! And no, I don't mean that male character's bodysuit short-shorts. 4)Finally, the plot. Heck if Babelfish shed any light on it - although "Topless" technology sounds promising, it's probably a red herring. Also, don't you think the plot would have been better served with the protagonists from the first Gunbuster acclimating themselves to the future, and having to strap on the old Buster when things heat up with the aliens again? Yeah it's derivative, but at this point the sequel is SO overdue, you might as well make it an homage rather than anything else.

There are only two reasons why it wouldn't be funny - 1)The viewer cannot relate, because they aren't familiar with the "world of otaku" enough to appreciate the inside humor. 2)The viewer IS an otaku, or uncomfortably close to one, so the defensive mechanism kicks in to either belittle the parody or just find it unfunny. Personally I find it funny except for the bits that I go "hey....um, that's me."

I think it's too early to intro Lois, IMHO. Let Lana have the spotlight for a bit more. Lois shouldn't be around until Clark settles on a journalism career and meets lois at some news meet and greet, at the earliest.

Congrats on the baby! A full head of hair too - that's always fun! Get ready for alot of sleepless nites - and hide alllll your models and toys once he starts to crawl - they'll have to stay in storage until he's 21 (not 18, because he might try to sell your stuff behind your back to buy a cheap silver locket to impress his girlfriend, darn sneaky teens)

My desire for the poster has not yet waned.

Mystical force with a layer of technology? Minmay's voice with old protoculture song broadcast from the SDF-1? Basara's Spirita with a jazzed-up guitar/valk? Sara's mayan roots hardwired into a jerry-rigged VF-0 busting up the Anti-UN? Could happen!

this has to rate up there with that rant on the Daily Show a while back by Lord whoever about Everquest - an inside geek look of rage. You have to admit, if you just walk into a store and look for something with the Macross Kite symbol on it, you are going to get flummoxed fast. Conan, you have hit the nail on the head. Poor Macross.

Nah, Eps. 5 will have more pre-pubescent fan service. Yeah yeah, I know National Geographic shows kids without clothes on all the time, but a young Sara without her top? "The creators were just trying to be authentic as to the tropical native context..." Yeah right.

Ah, finally, some more graphic sketches on fanworks! It's nice to get away from the screencaptures with MSPaint scribbles on them once in a while =)

Ah, Mikimoto Minmay on the big screen, just the way I like it. Curses, I want more Mikimoto anime! Oh yeah, nice valk too.

yamato must be ashamed that they still cant beat the tank-like badassness of the chunkymonkey gbp!

thanks for the review graham. long live the chunkey monkey, and i'll wait for a 1/48 gbp!