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hey, what are these things anyway?

JESUS H. CHRIST! I think you're right!

ugh, please no. how big ARE sheryl's hopes and dreams?

the gunpod looks identical to the one the VF-17 used, I wonder why it isn't stored in the legs on the 171. not enough room now? and as for putting the gun on the arm the problem with having the gun there is that it's probably a little difficult for the gun to get from the right arm facing backwards to in the right hand. on the leg it's easier to draw and put away.

that looks like the plan as of now. if you're one of the people that get first release alto/ozma, you dont get fast packs, and will have to order them later. though that still better than coming out with the toy without fast packs, introducing a version with them a few months latter and then never releasing fast pack for the people who bought them early. here's an interesting thought. since the armor is removable, do you think that it can be assembled together off the valk the way it is in the show (when they leave it in orbit around Gallia 4)

I also wish they would do a PG VF-25... (anything happen yet?) the base is pritty cool all though it kind of sucks that they're showing them to us NOW, after i've alread ordered a bunch of white action bases for my 25F's. WOW, the Red Vajra looks so cool... MUST BUY. the Super packs look sweet, but I wonder if they'll actually be stand alone or if you have to buy the kit a second time to get the them with super parts, (I also wonder how they'll connect to the valk, the kit doesn't have clear points they plug into like the DX does) I want the Michel kit bad but would perfer it with armor, and I wasn't planing on buying too of them. if the armor is stand alone I can buy him when it first comes out and get the armor parts later. if the armor is removable I think it would be sweet if they threw in a fold booster and made it so the armor could be assembled together like in the show.

I would like some non-transforming kits, but at least with fighter mode I want them like the Hase kits: 1/72 scale kits that you glue and paint, no snap kits and no colored plastic please. also nothing in 1/144 scale, those would be TINY. 1/72 is small enough as it is (I wish they just made everything in 1/48). I suport the idea of a PG perfect transformation VF-25. if they ever did a pre-painted version it would probebly be that. it would probebly be 1/48th scale and hopefully it would have both super and armor parts bundled with it, though that might be a bit much to ask for.

the stand is a nice touch, also it looks like the markings will all be painted/tempo printed on which is nice. also WTF is up with ozma's head?!? all the valk's head sit a little low (probebly a design consesion to make the thing work, and I can live with that) but Ozma has like no neck at all. also, Tiny hands are TINY!

I don't really see the why it has to be explained IN THE ANIME, its rather superfluous to add all that info in to the show and it can start detracting from the story telling aspect of things. now I do agree with Mr. March on the point that they should give equally detailed statistics for all the valks.

ORLY? I thought that the slits things were just hinged plates that filled out the underside of the fuselage in fighter mode and stacked over each other to let the back part of the fuselage slide forward. the compendium is as close to official as we english speakers will ever get. and it is aproved by th HFH.

during the show while they were analyzing footage of the VF-27, they say that it performs maneuvers that a human pilot even with an EX-Gear couldn’t survive. the line implies that the EX-Gear is doing something to help the pilot survive high G loads. and what they have today is G suits that keep blood at you head to prevent you from blacking out, EX-Gear (or whatever is working in these things) is making it so the pilot doesn't turn to Jelly do to high G load. id doesn't remove the feeling of movment completely, just enough at the highest levels of acceleration/deceleration/turning, to keep you in one piece and not dead. if thats what they'er using. were talking about space though, no air in space. and the backpack thrusters are for propulsion. it's the future, they (through the magic of OverTech©) Figured out how to make the valks strong enough to handle these sorts of things. but starscream doesn't have a pilot, he's a maniacal sentient robot from a planet that itself is a giant sentient robot. Valk design has alway's tried to be at least somewhat realistic (excpet in 7) and having the cocpit (with a human pilot in it) right in front of the chest with just glass and a thing shield in to protect them seems rather unsafe. (they actually show this in MacII) the 21 is awsome, it's like a variable Q-Rau. and yes their ar thrusters in the feet that suplament the rear engines. and it's no more redundant than how on the VF-0/VF-1/VF-19/other valks I can't think of off the top of my head the backpack thrusters (which provide aditional thrust for propulsion) can't be used durring fighter mode. well I like Alto, he was cool so

but then you'd have a giant version of luca and his valk, and that would suck.

so, are you suposed to throw away the nozzle and cup when you finish using using that color? sounds like it would get incredibly expensive after a while

wow, that's "A" game for them... were screwed...

yeah, there's actually a lot of that going on, if you watch the transformation animations closely, you'll notice that the little part on front of the chest passes through the nose cone when it goes to batroid mode. also the hip lasers and frankly most of the parts on the hips tend to move into each other or float around not fully connected to each other.

I blame SDF-ONE, he started it! j/k seriously though... I think it would be cool if they came out with some regular non-snap kits of the non transforming aircraft? I'd like to see the different ghosts and that one fighter from galaxy fleet (the one that folds to frontier fleet to tell them that galaxy was attacked) in regular glue and paint model form.

so we'll get models, great. but that wont stop them form pulling the plug on aditional stuff. if the alto and ozma toy's don't sell well they may cut back the toy line. we may never see super parts or armor parts. we may never get a VF-27 toy or a VF-171. they may decide to cut the toy line short and not even release the luca/michel versions. also it's possible they may just give up on doing macross toy's and the only thing we'll get is models.

depending on what mode you're in you can utalize different weapons more effectively, and you probably have the mech's vainer thrusters better positioned in fighter mode allowing for better maneuverability. real reason, because if they spent all their time flying around in battroid mode and didn't constantly transform, it would be Gundam. alto in a VF-25 could beat brera in a VF-27 because he's the hero. the only weakness the VF-27 has is that it isn't a hero mech and therefore automatically vulnerable. not necessarily, if you've got enough altitude you can try and re-light the engine

OMG, SO PRETTY! you are so beautiful.

just rampant speculation on my part. the VF-25S Ozma is confirmed for next month, it it's most likely that Michel will be after that fallowed by luca. no word yet on super/armor parts. nor has there been any word on whether or not there will be any mechs other than the VF-25. (I'm hopeing for a 27 and a vajra mech myself) based on normal bandai practice with gundams though we can probably expect 1 new release every other month or so.

In a perfect world there would be a film adaptation of starship troopers that actually fallows the book and doesn't suck agreed with everything you said up till that point.

the hands dont retract on the VF-25 though, they're supposed to be open with the fingers together pointing strait out, tucked into the shield (which in of itself isn't PT). you can't get possable hands into the correct position for PT anyway's

it's elliptical discussion. It starts on topic and quickly starts drifting off, but it always comes back to topic eventually. in that case one trying to take out an arm/leg to block transformation would be secondary to getting a head shot/kill on the pilot.

considering there's a word after stand, and the fact that there is no "with" or "w/" on that sign I thing what it says is "VF-25F stand alone." which I think means there will be super and/or armor parts, but it won't be coming with them first run. but those are kits, they don't have to paint and assemble the tiny little cockpit on it, you do.