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From that pic it looks significantly bulkier too. Ah too bad there's not a semi-detailed toy with removable missiles flaps, detail ala Yamato 1/48 but non transforming F-14D. Maybe Yamato could do specials of the F-14 Kai (or whatever they called it) and Anti-UN MiG-29... as well as Dragon II and that K one (exact name escapes me at the moment and not that important IMO). If that happened, I'd want 1/48 and 1/60.

Heh, that looked pretty fun. Hopefully I'll be able to do one if this becomes semi-regular. Wow those are great prices. Do u guys have to pay customs or anything?

Heh, I just recently test drove a 04 S2000 (with the bigger 2.2l engine)and an Evolution. Will come down to whether I want a RWS roadster or an AWD sedan. Also test drove 350Z but Evo knocked that out of the picture. Also considering low end BMW and Rustang (wish F-bodies had changed a generation and upgraded tech instead of going the way of the DODO if i was gonna do USDM muscle car)... But anyways, they would both make good toys for Binaltech. YLM, u can have the last word. All I found this reply doing was reiterating what I've already said so just re-read page 5.

You were making an argument about bang for the buck and I noted it was a ridiculous comparison. Anyone buying a new NSX doesn't really care about a "deal" because they obviously don't need one. People spending 70k for a performing car don't look at 30k cars as competitors, even if their performance is similar. That's what i was talking about. The NSX *IS* still a faster car. Yes it's over twice as much. Just like a Murcielago is faster than a Z06 and costs much more than 2x as much. Is the Murcielago worth it? If you have the money it is. If you don't, then it probably isn't. Regarding price, I looked it up on MSN Carpoint before making the post. Not hard to do a little research instead of shooting from the hip. Speaking of price, the reason it's so expensive is due to two factors: 1) all aluminum body and 2) Honda insists on a minimally automated approach to building the NSX. It's this latter one particularly that is price intensive. Last issue regarding price... NOONE pays MSRP for an NSX. Look at the FAQ on NSX Prime and u'll see a new one today goes for mid to high 70s not its $89k MSRP. Many don't even pay invoice! The NSX is still here and the RX-7 is not. Toyota is more interested in luxury than performance these days and Mada (Ford?) is trying to stay alive, much like Nissan. And I let the overrated and overpriced comment on the S2000 go. Find another roadster from the same year that can beat it and u'll be paying a LOT more (hint: Porsche Boxter S) and revisit this same argument from the other side. Ob Alternators/Binaltech - They should do a car based on the new NSX-R.

THAT is a good argument. My point is not on the performance on the RX-7. It's undeniably a good performer and competitor on performance. Just as undeniably the 3rd gen's are maintenance nightmares for the vast majority of their owners, which is the reason they haven't been in production for the US since '95. Nothing that can't be handled but add the maintenance costs. My nit with him was on his math (1/3 vs 1/2) and categorization of cars and how some people want more than . To say someone in 1995 is looking at an NSX and then sees an RX-7 and says "hey, this car is just as fast but half the money, I'll get it" is like saying someone looks at a Lamborghini Murcielago and then a Z06 Vette and says something similar is ludicrous. Anyone buying a Murcielago is beyond the Vette and the horsepower and performance numbers do not enter the equation. I do NOT think the NSX is the end all and be all of cars. There are many many cheaper cars that can spank it. My point was that raw performance isn't the standard the NSX is being judged by (straight line performance isn't a trait of ANY Honda for that matter). If someone is just beating off to hp numbers or performance data and have no care to luxury features, build quality, and exclusivity, then there are cheaper alternatives to the RX-7 as well (which is where those hybrids come in). Straight line performance, in particular, is tied to one thing and that's $$$.

You are obviously clueless on what my ideas are, so don't pretend to have brainpower you're obviously lacking (just FTR, I'd like an NSX for a daily driver and maybe a stripped R version for the track, but I'd have a Z06 first as a track machine). Performance (and its numerous subcategories) is ONE aspect of a car, but by far from the only one. Build quality, ride quality, handling, finish, luxury features are SOME of the others that all correlate with price. Good performance can be had cheap, as the SRT-4 shows. But you're either too obtuse, or just plain ignorant (if not both), to understand that. Ricer? Quoting stats from ONE site (and a bad one at that) instead of personal anecdotes makes YOU the ricer. You're worse than a mag racer. You should have just used RX-7.net or something... If you had an ounce of integrity you'd quote some personal times and u could compare them against other "enthusiasts" (in this case, NSX ones from maybe... NSXprime.com). But that's not how nutswinging ricers operate, I suppose. They instead resort to personal attacks when informed that their intelligence (particularly in simple math and categorization of modern automobiles) is lacking.

You DON'T. MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA! Jk. I advise holding the backpack firmly with one hand and using the other to slowly wiggle the booster out of the backpack. For some reason it seems the right booster is a tighter fit than the left... Hopefully the 1/48 VF-1 will get a revision and reinforced backpack hinge ala 1/72 VF-11B and its FP version... It's a really one of the only weak links in an otherwise fabulous piece.

We do this alot don't we? Old Skool: Jetfire. New: Roy VF-1S and Max VF-1A from an HLJ sale. Sadly never to receive their 1/60 FP upgrades which was part of the motivation for buying. <_<

Bang for the buck does not equate when you're talking about one car that costs more than twice as much as the other. The NSX and RX-7 are not aimed at the same people. The RX-7 is a poorer man's version, yes, capable of similar performance numbers, but need I trudge up internet references of Ford Festivas and Miatas with V8s or a certain Hyundai Tiburon that bears TWO V8s? Which is on the other end of the spectrum from of build quality, luxury features, and reliability. Sadly the RX-7 is towards the Festiva V8 end of the spectrum. In 95 an NSX was MSRP at $81,000. Same year RX-7 was $37,800. In 93, it was a similar ratio: $69,500 to $32,900. That's closer to half than 1/3. Such a price discrepency can NOT logically be attributed to a similarly marketed car. But that's nitpicking at this point. NSX, Supra, and Skyline GT-R are all in one tier. RX-7 is down another one or two rungs on the ladder. This is the apple. Performance is the orange. Even though the NSX still wins. The NSX doesn't have anything remotely approaching any aura of invincibility. Especially amongst Honda fans (who if you were talking about fanbois would be talking about the NSX-R, not the heavier NSX-T, which all the US has gotten for nearly all of the last decade). It's greatest quality is it's performance combined with its reliability. Something that can NOT be said of the 3rd gen RX-7... especially with a straight face.

Civil war doesn't have to be a rip off Gundam. Gundam didn't invent the concept or horror of bitter civil wars. For the alien element there could be rogue Zentran and Meltran fleets (certainly an opportunity to specify that they're NOT just an abberation of DYRL and M7 ) as well as the Supervision Army. I'd like both. For the latter (SA) there's an opportunity to turn music into something that was foreshadowed in M+ (as well as the advanced valkyries that saw production as VF-22S and VF-19)... music used as control. In two aspects. One from an increasingly corrupt and dictatorial UN Spacy and secondly as something used by the SA for its own Zentran Fleets. Nice doubly whammy and a turn on the usual use of music in Macross. The civil war elements could/would make for an interesting ambiguity over who exactly is good and who exactly is bad.

Damn double post. Oh yeah, Starscream should be an F-22 if Takara/Hasbro will break out of the "car only" schtick. Wasn't the original Starscream an F-15? Licensing would be nothing but trouble... MiG-29 would be cool, though... Jetfire? We already have a Masterpiece Jetfire. Yamato 1/48 Hikaru Super VF-1J. Just paint the fast packs red.

RX-8? Eh. S2000 ass rapes an RX-8. RX-7 vs NSX? 1/3 of the price? What crack are u smoking? Comparing these cars is equally ridiculous as they're NOT competitors. Neither in price nor performance, much less reliability and held value. Mazda and Fd fans might want it to be, but RX-7 is not in the NSX and Supra league. If those 2 are in the majors, RX-7 is a AA club. RX-7 is the car that nearly bankrupt Mazda with warranty work. But it's sure kewl for Japanese drifting. Plus Honda > Mazda.

Damn I wish I hadn't destroyed/lost/mangled the old Matchbox I got from KB's clearance all those years ago. Ah hindsight... Really makes me wish Yamato will come out with one. Though odds are the thing will be 300 bucks and have really weak hinges on the main cannon booms... <_<

What do u base that on? Is there any hard data on relative sales? M7 had a bunch of spinoffs and a full OVA that followed it... DYRL had what? Flashback 2012 (which included as much, if not more of SDF than DYRL)... Outside of its evolution of the technical lineart and such, DYRL is almost in MII territory ("movie in a movie" versus alternate universe, which are realistically the same thing).

Woudln't be Macross without music. Not that it coudln't relabel "music = power" as culture shock again, or maybe put it in yet another direction... maybe similar to what Macross II was doing as have a sort of "music = control" alternative. Yet another, less scruplous/consiracy type, derivate of Project M? It could tie in with the civil war idea, which I also like. "Music = control" could also feature the Supervision Army and detail them as well as getting into a Civil War/rebellion type deal that would nicely toss the good guy/bad guys thing on its head. Best yet make everything shades of gray with no clear cut good guys and bad guys (even including the main protagonists)... EDIT: Regarding Macross history the thing I like the best about M7 is that it pulled in the various elements of the various Macross productions (DYRL design, SDF story, M+ mecha evolution, etc) and used them all to advance the story.

We don't know for what, in story, reason the new Macross Battle vessel transforms. You certainly don't know that it doesn't have a "real" (in story) reason for it. Maybe the SDF showed them that the main weapons work better. Maybe the main weapon can be made more powerful/damaging at the cost of a radiation or something that necessitates it being held away from the crew areas of the ship. The real life reasons are because both anime are replete with transforming mecha and that's the ultimate. Battle 7 makes alot more sense than SDF. It's a pure military ship with no civilian housing, etc. Yes, having articulated fingers, etc isn't realistic, but it's quite so for a much smaller valkyrie as well. Realism and transforming hominid/jet mecha are almost (if not) an oxymoron anyways.

It's like a UMM-7 could mass more than even 2 RMS-1's anyway. So DYRL style it's not an issue. The issue would be with 6 RMS-1's... its more logical that the double-loaded missiles SHOULD logically be inboard. And yes, outer missiles would launch before the inner ones.

And M7 doesn't have any of that order of silliness does it? Don't remember Gamlin or Basara using a scarf in space, for ex.

What he said.

Wow, was never enough of a chunky monkey fan to know they used to fire missiles... I know my old Jetfire didn't. Pretty neat trick. The Yammie 1/48 should do that... especially since they bulked up the gunpod from the 1/60. Hmm... are the Takatoku missiles the same color as the Matsushiro? I imagine a missile from a Jetfire should've been black or red...

That's what I'm talking about. Still all white with more... Macross... detailing wouldn't be too bad. That thing is begging for a custom paintjob over what it's got... Hopefully that boot will show up as often as the blazer and fire bootlegs do.

Pilots? Eh, they could be articulated at least like SW action fleet figures. And there's plenty to whine about the 1/48 backpack hinge.

They hardly ever appear on ebay... and like u said weren't reissued so who knows? It would depend on condition, of course. MISB would probably fetch a pretty penny but loose with stickers applied substantially less... And FTR, it's VF-19S ("blazer") and VF-17D ("blue").

Damn... gotta check the trigger on that thing. Maybe next time I'll use Britney Spears as bait. That'll snare you but good! Heh, I'll snatch her before you know it. I'm not gonna be pre-ordering one of these things. But a good review could convince me to get one.... otherwise I'll be waiting to see if prices fall like they did for the VF-1. As far as customs... if the Max Q-rau is like the Max VF-1 (both 1/60 and 1/48) it will be pretty cheap and will be custom fodder for me... with a suitable female Meltran pilot.

Great piloting. Hopefully those guys got promotions/bonuses and/or raises to go with the "Safety Award." Someone needs to fire that snail-eating reporter out of a tube.