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Eh... I see the bar at that level with the 1/48's backpack strength. At least this sounds like Banpresto tricks (nail polish, etc) can keep the armor on. Can't wait to get mine! Long live 1/60, w00t!

The kicker is that Yamato themselves have scuplted the appropriate parts. I really wish they'd do a couple slight tweaks and release a VF-X2 VF-22S already. Or at least release a kit (ala the 1/60 FP upgrade vaporware) to let us do it ourselves. Ah well.

Ah irony is delicious, aint it?

I'm thinking of getting me another YF-21FP or two for customization. Definately get us clearer pics. What did you do for a canopy?

Ask for it? Not at all. To expect it or feel entiitled to it? Definately. Now I'm not saying you feel it's your God Given Right to own a copy of the original trilogy in their original cut. Or that Lucas has a sacred duty to anyone to produce what they want to buy. But there are those who feel that way.

Interesting thread. I was expecting it to go sideways like the Last Samurai thread did. The movie was ok. They weren't gonna stay true to the different (and not entirely complimentary) sources out there. Everyone should have known that going in. I woudln't have minded the gods being in there, but it's difficult to do so in a way that people don't laugh. Especially if they see a guy in a Toga throwing lightning bolts. My only real "beef" is with the ending. I would have liked to see Paris die and Helen back with Menelaus. These are important aspects IMO. I would have liked to have seen the sense of futility that the long war dragged out, but it'd be difficult to implement in a single movie. On the Greek side, they'd be facing desertion (amidst Achilles tantrums) and on the Trojan you'd see the initial favor towards Helen displaced by animosity and blame. I think it would have been best to have done a trilogy: 1st Movie, show why the Greeks (particularly Agammemnon) don't like the Trojans more. Have Agammemnon struggling to unify Greece or some such (again no need to stay strictly towards what we know of history... the surviving myths are foggy enough that there's plenty of room to play). I'd say have the Trojans nix a crucial conquest of Agammenon or something only to have it saved (kidna) by Achilles. Towards the middle have Paris go to Sparta and Menelaus decide for peace. Paris and Helen start doing their thing, etc. At the end, she decides to go with him and the war starts. Achilles gets Breisis. 2nd Movie starting with the tag that X years have passed. War is in the meatgrinder phase. Achilles is kicking ass and taking names here and there showing the vicious psychopath he is (he is far too sympathetic in the movie, at least as depicted by Homer). I think it's important they show that the Trojans screw up some of the attempts at peace (breaking the truce, etc), as they do in the Iliad. Have the Achilles and Agammemnon dispute over Breisis and Achilles leaves the war. War starts turning against the Greeks. Death of Patroclus and the return of Achilles to the fight. War edges back to the Greeks. Achilles kills Hector and Troy comes under siege. 3rd movie starting right after the 2nd. The siege of Troy drags on. Achilles should die about half way through the movie IMO. Could be very surprising if implemented right. War looks to bog down into an unbreakable stalemate. Odysseus rises as the main character. Troy is sacked. Scene set for possible Aneid and Odyssey sequels. OH well they ruined what could have been a franchise (prequel and sequel possibilities abound).

Lots of cool stuff in there. What scale were those Starship Troopers suits gonna be in? I like the Sulaco, too...

I'm mixed. Looks pretty nice, but it's also pretty small. I just wish they had done 1/72. I also hope 1/60 scale is coming!

Eh, everyone here is going to see it eventually. Surf's up! Seriously, think about it... I think at least part of the fight would be on these surf platforms, but all of it? It's supposed to be one long ass duel... Sounds like the Best Star Wars Movie evAr!

The first part is dead right. The second part is dead wrong. Do his jackbooted thugs (ex Federal agents fired for brutality, probably) gonna come over and force you to buy the new release?

Hmm... pretty sure I'll pass on the Max... at least if I can't find it cheap and on sale somewhere. But I still kinda want the red one. I DEFINATELY want green more than purple...

Ozone? What about "normal" fuel and ordinance burning up in a fire? What about the hypothetical pilot? Your priorities are all screwed up, dude!

I put the FAST packs on. Looks ok. But I took them off to put them on my Hikaru 1S. I definately like them as atmospheric valks. But IMO, if one was to "re-do" Macross, or at least feature a different squadron or whatever (like the PS2 game), the Low-Viz should be the CF.

I can't wait to get this thing, that's all I know. I'm thinking one or two 1/60 sets. I'll probably pass on 1/48 if/when it comes out.

Heh. Even A1 is too 'girly man' to be a King by His Own Hand. I really just wish the Governator would do it. My understanding was that King Conan was becomming "old and sodded" (like King Oscric from the first movie). There's also no questioning that the Destroyer and Red Sonja don't match up to the Barbarian, but they can still be entertaining.

Who's got the license? I kinda wish Bandai would do it in a big enough volume that they could have price lower than Yamato could manage. But realistically a VF-2SS (much less a Metal Siren) would be in low volume. Ah well.

Man I wish the TRU special could have been the lighter shade and the mass produced one the darker. I would so have at least 3 of them darker ones if they weren't so damned expensive. Be better yet if they were Bandai reissue color but the darker TRU 1/60 would work, too. I'm not feeling the lighter shade, though...

1/60's are definately better toys. Better sized (especially with FAST packs)... And you don't have to worry about breaking your backpack off, either.

I hear you. And may the Regult (with numerous variants) be in 1/60 scale.

Oh yeah, too bad they're no symbian port. My SE P900 would love this.

One of my favorite PC games evAr! And I liked the first one best of all. I always thought it would make a damned fun online/multiplayer game. Just have different factions of people (randomly or in turns select their countries), etc. Allow a max of tech development and have an option to have the aliens on, which could/would attack everyone equally. Maybe have a tech level slot that would allow you to colonize first the sea (from Terror of the Deep), then the moon and such. Move onto dimensional craft (from the Apocalypse).

Definately gonna be good. But the other 2 prequels have been good, too. We definately need more Jar-Jar. But yeah, this one is gonna be good. Just like the other 5.

1/60s. Then if he likes them, he can spring for a Super 1/48.

I'll take a 1J please. That seam line on the 1S just makes me wince.

I imagine the strike cannon (which I believed is referred as a "particle beam" or some such) is used like the M203 40mm grenade launcher is for the M16. IT's not used as an ueber/munchkin-powered super-weapon. It's used to mark targets so that the squad can see what the leader wants to designate as a target and what not. The VF-1 should have other means of doing so... but this would work nicely too, I imagine and easier to see than referencing one of them multi-display things...