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What tactics? Did you miss the part about Aliens being bugs with a Hive mentality? Oops. I meant boy scouts having better tactics than the Colonial Marines, not the Aliens. The Aliens tactics were ok... kinda like Chinese human waves mixed in with a little concealment and crawling on the ceilings. Definately different but nothing sophisticated. Those things (at least as seen during Aliens) look pretty easy to lure into an ambush.

Not quite the way it went Hurin. A person who claimed contacts with Big West/Yamato claimed that an SDF-1 Macross had a tentative release date IIRC (amongst all the others that have been proven... inacurrate). I don't want to turn this into a bashfest, as I rather liked the input of that person, but wanted to state the way I recall things. I should hope it will be DYRL-scheme SDF-1 with optional updated Prometheus & Daedalus. Around the size of the Matchbox would be nice, but I'm imagining slightly smaller.

Bah Aliens is way overrated. Boy scouts had better grasp of tactics than those aliens. Current US Marines would do better than those undisciplined Colonial jokers. Go AvP. Just change everything I've heard bout it so far. Still should hopefully be some eye candy of Predators killing Aliens and a minimum on that blasted dialogue. A cameo by "Dutch" da'Governator would be nice, too.

That Yamato Q-rau is gonna get jumped big time when I get my hands on it. Hopefully not too pricey so I can get a couple "CF" versions and a Milia.

Heh, what is the difference in DYRL and SDF versions of the Q-rau gonna be explained by the continuity people? They claim the VF-1 differences are that between block numbers or the VF-1X model represented in the "movie in a movie" (ignoring the whole retcon that is...)... But maybe the "other [Zentran/Meltran] fleets" have done upgrades, too? Woo hoo. Info on the Yammie Q-rau... Wonder if this "pilot" is gonna be posable or not. What do you *think*, Graham? Don't have to reveal the skinny, but how would you *think* it would go? Though if you have skinny and are free to reveal it, then please by all means do so.

Wow that looks incredible. No way Yamato would give us a paint job and weathering like THAT. Nice!

I'd still like a Low-Viz 1J... but seeing that bare unpainted Yamato in another thread makes me really want one of THEM. Give us a choice of heads (if not all 3) and leave it unpainted, leaving it ripe for customization. Package in a plain cardboard box and price it around 10,000 Yen MSRP and I'd buy a couple! Along with some sets of Takatoys stickers. I'd much rather see that than a self-warming Max -1S, Kakizaki -1A, etc. And it would be something to show that Yamato is interesting in pleasing the customizers, too. It'd be great fan support with little risk for them (they dont' have to tool for special releases or make distinctive packaging)... just a matter of having the Chinese slav- ahem... labor pump out a few more parts.

Nothing concrete, but I always imagined any sequel trilogy would be about Luke trying to keep his own son from treading the Dark Side. Kinda like dealing with it from Obi-Wan's end with Anakin...

Now explain why people like the GBP-1S so much. Never appeared on screen. Just some Takatoku mistake that is really rare nowadays. Probably for a reason. The ultimate of chunkiness.

SW was always that way. SAAB was cheeseball. Everwhere from the pseudo-military "discipline" to using pilots for grunt-work.

Need to do a search of this forum, as it came up a couple times in the last couple months. There aren't real sticker instruction sheets. Your best bet is to buy a Hasegawa or browse the model section of MW and go off some of the pictures.

Yeah, but you are talking about the DYRL Max 1A. What we are alluding to are TV colors Max and Millia 1J's. I am sure we will see them before long. No that was in reply to the Max VF-1S (DYRL of course). Max TV 1J is obviously gonna happen, as is Milia. But I'm saying while Max DYRL -1A is warming shelves there won't be a DYRL -1S or a TV -1A.

Kinda makes u wish that Yamato would release a plain unpainted valkyrie for customizing purposes. Maybe even direct from their factory or through some Japanese intermediary. Woudln't even have to box/package it. Just put it in a plastic tray and plain cardboard box.

Seriously?! Lucas is a major fool. He should have said yes. Yeah, he's crying all the way to the bank.

Doubtful while Max -1As are still warming etailer shelves (HLJ never went out of stock and other places have him for $89). Though I'm finding the thought of a trio/squad of all 1S Valkryies attractive (Roy, Hikaru, Max) for some reason.

It'd be hard to believe it could be anything but Max and Milia, especially giving Yamatos' pattern with the 1/60. Also hard to believe but we're almost in the dark now regarding what's coming out next.

I like RotJ the best for the culmination of the trilogy. The confrontation with the much rumored Emperor, the best space battle on screen to that time, and the Jedi duel. ANH looks horribly dated and is cornier than the rest. It's climatic scene, the dogfight over the Death Star looks bad (at least before the Special Edition improves it). Without the nostalgia it easily falls behind some other sci fi if it wasn't setting up the stage for 5 other movies. Of course, bigger space battles have been seen since (B5, if not others, put more ships on screen IIRC) but its arguable whether they're better. I like Jedi, I like space battles. The rest... eh. FTR, Ep 3 is supposed to start with the "biggest space battle ever seen in a SW movie." And it should see plenty of lightsaber, so it sounds promising to knock RotJ off the top for me personally.

Empire made the least money of any SW movie. And TPM the most. Before adjustment of inflation, but IIRC TPM put the most "butts in seats" (sold the most tickets)... at least if you don't count the Special Edition re-release. In any case, Lucas is obviously motivated by other things than money. And if it's not money... and not pleasing the fanboys, what does that leave? All of the SW movies are hokey homage to 50's serial schlock. Go to watch lightsabers, space battles, and LFL special effects not the acting.

Both whenever possible. And Yamato 1/60 are still miles ahead of the other alternatives.

A missile would have to maneuver like a small spacecraft. It would need manuevering jets and thrust vectoring, not control surfaces... So they'd either be fairly large and expensive (much moreso than something like the AMRAAM or Phoenix). And they need to carry all their reaction mass with them. So they'd probably be short ranged or they'd be so large that they would be prohibitively expensive. Plus, depending on the technology available any kinetic energy missile (that needs to make contact with its target) in space is gonna get pretty easy to hit assuming any decent lasers are available. An alternative is to make the missile dodge (but that will necessitate even more manueverability, and the reaction mass that goes with it) or armor it up. In either case, it gets larger and larger (and needs correspondingly larger engine and thus reaction mass, etc etc) and more and more expensive. To say nothing of the need for more advanced targetting system capable of dodging. In short, they'll probably become less and less viable, especially once directed energy weapons (lasers, etc) become common. Alternatives are nuclear pumped gamma or x-ray missiles (seen in the Niven & Pournelle's Footfall and the Traveller RPG) where the missiles are essentially laser carriers that only need to get within 30,000km or so and then fire off a small number (< 10) of lasers themselves.

BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY! I tell you! Yeah, but I'm not getting another 1/48 to display it like that. Low-Viz look best in normal fighter mode IMO. Hikaru VF-1S needs his Strike-FAST-pack... I'd rather buy two or three (maybe 4 or 5) 1/60s for the price of another 1/48 with GBP.

Hmm well that valkyrie pilots helmet is pretty big, but that might be stretching it... Who's gonna do some comparo pics?

What he said.

Nice. Not my thing, but definately doesn't look bad.

Excuse me? How is the new Sci-Fi version of Dune a POS when it's 100x closer to the book than that 80's movie called "dune" and didn't even have Sting in it to boot? Explain, please. Vostok 7 Because the movie was clearly superior. Frank Herbert even praised it. Um.... no. Sound guns. Kyle Mclaughlin? Frank who? I thought Sting did pretty good and the movie's Baron was better. And the production size/budget was obviously bigger with all the extras and what not. But everything else in teh Sci-Fi series was better. Which one was Frank Herberts name on it? It was specifically removed from the movie IIRC.