Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0

What hasbro is doing with gijoe is the same as what they did with transformers, keeping the original character names, but making them different and adapting them for the new generation. Modernizing. However some characters get turned in a different direction in the process....like tunnel rat in S6 being a bishounen rather than a bad ass vietnam war like true tunnel rat. I too, followed the Hamaverse and the 80s marvel comics. I definitely agree about the age thing. So far the comic does follow the marvel verse but the comic by DDP is not the "best". It was not Brandon Jerwa's wish to kill off Lady Jaye by the craptacular and overhyped red shadows, it was the plan of Josh Blaylock, owner of DDP. To me there is not need to change what is not broken, and I do not care what any of these kids say about the new stuff, sure the in the modern storyline, things are different, but if you look at the filecards, even THOSE scream 80s hamaverse marvel run! There is no escaping the old stuff, and try as they may to revize everything, the filecards are very much like the old. Hell some of the new filecards are the same as the old ones with new art! Kamakura's name does split into the japanese sylabuls and characters ka-ma-ku-ra. I think the sole reason for snake eyes getting him as an apprentice was that snake eyes, lets face it, is old. And storm shadow is getting old too, so DDP figured someone needed to carry the torch, one of the new generation(which...can be countered by the fact that there was a whole ninja force in the early 90s who are still used every now and then in the DDP books). Bear in mind DDP does follow the marvel run...so snake eyes is definitely not the 30 yr old commando we thought he was. The best thing about kamakura is that he was the same guy who wrote snake eyes a letter that snake eyes responded to in the last marvel issue, #155. I thought that was a good tie in. *Though I do admit, for a while I thought he was going to be revealed as nunchuk*

Does anyone have a definite answer on this? 324607[/snapback] There was a rumor about that, eminating from some retailers overseas. So far, no solid information yet though man. 325252[/snapback] Thanks man. P.S. Is that Storm Shadow? 326010[/snapback] Yes it is storm shadow, I've been doing avatars for fun in my free time for joebattlelines.com I got a gallery of avatars in the avatar section to!

Kamakura(Sean Collins) is the son of Wade Collin's(the imposter cobra commander, and a friend of Snake eyes and Storm Shadow back in Vietnam.......Kamakura is the one who sent Snake eyes a letter about joining the army back in the last marvel issue(issue #155?). Kamakura was not the first apprentice, the first apprentice was someone named Ophelia, but Firefly killed her in cold blood, and Sean took her place. *This is the premise of AE issue 3 where Snake eyes and Firefly fight)*...btw zartan and storm shadow are set to fight in AE 4 or 5....

Guys I tend to think yamato is releasing the VF-0S first simply because it is the first VF-0 that appears in the anime. The VF-0D appears later on. Not to mention the VF-0S is more prominent on the magazine ads and the DVD covers. It also had the most screentime in the 1st episode. THe DYRL 1A Hikaru debatedly is the first one seen in the DYRL movie....and is also the one focused on first(got more camera time in the beginning). Roy's 1S sold a lot due to the fact that not only is it in DYRL, but it is also in the TV series and has a high level of relevance and importance in both movie and series.

Ok here we go with the pics. As you can see the thunderwing is a lot less in proportion to its real life counterpart. Slipstream(the former X-30 pilot who know is in the thunderwing) is one of the best gijoe sculpts I have ever seen...definitely the best pilot sculpt! *BTW the gijoe Ace figure is in the BBI A-10 cockpit....the BBI combat command pilot only has 4pts articulation so I threw him somewhere and let Ace steal his ride lol*

Does anyone have a definite answer on this? 324607[/snapback] There was a rumor about that, eminating from some retailers overseas. So far, no solid information yet though man.

Its really not too bad. Exceptionally fun to play with....had the vertical stabilizers been bigger I have no doubt a lot more people would have liked it. The chap mei one does have better proportions...but I have not heard anyone ever finding it in the USA...ever since last year when it was seen overseas. For what its worth the BBI plane is better than quite a few of the gijoe planes. Its more "accurate" to its "base" plane than the other toys, and the figures look like they are actually sitting in a plane. I'll post it later on to show you...it shows comparisons with the recent gijoe thunderwing.(now the thunderwing...fun and awesome it is, but hasbro did worse than BBI in the respect that the thunderwing looks like a bloated 2 seat F-22 with conventional engine nozzles slapped onto a rectangular rear end....the A-10 has ton better proportions).

I thought it said "spring"? Anyway, there are more photos in the new Figure Oh... 324998[/snapback] Are the pics better than dengeki hobbys? And do they show the battroid and gerwalk modes>?

Yep pretty big joefan man, I loved most of the joe and cobra planes(still miffed that my dumbass neighbor back then broke my Night Boomer(Black skystriker), phantom X-19, and many others...and for me not buying the ghost striker X-16 for x mas in 93(the gijoe F-16D). I did take pics of the BBI A-10 warthog and the Gijoe F-22 thunderwing...and of the pilot slipstream...let me know if you still want to see them!

2 for now...more to come later. Messed up the Milia one...grrr! Roy Roy profile And to Polidread and those others in the VF girls thread....yes I am still going to draw valk women as said before...heh I finally got things straight so it'll be soon! And I am adding more avatars here too, soon.

It;s pretty good, I like FSW's with canards and 2 vert stabilizers...kind of like the Gijoe X-30 Conquest, and the S-37 Berkut. Have you considered making a bubble canopy or one with good rearward vision>? I assume this may have a rear mounted camera ...so maybe it does not need a bubble canopy.

whoa....I totally missed this thread. Knight, those are some AWESOME designs! I am used to seeing your spaceship work...but these fighters here look awesome! I guess they are space and atmospheric? Nice! There is a ton of originality in these designs, quite beautiful and exquisite. I really really like the VF-11 and VF-84/103 fighters here.

The VF-0 design does not have retracting hands, they are enclosed in a "pocket" underneath the vertical stabilizer platform. Me I am glad....those skeleton hands of the 1/48 make the gun kind of hard to hold. I prefer fixed pose like the TV VF-1J 1/48 and bandai 1/55. I think it is almost a given at this point that we will get swappable hands. And I really love the design....this thing is so much farther along design wise than the 1/100 ever was in only a 2 month period. Its just magnificent. Remember when some of us wondered what happened to the 1/100? I really think yamato scrapped it and switched those working on the 1/100 to the 1/60. for the 1/100? BURN BABY BURN! Graham did Hobby japan have anything on it as well?

What improvement? There was always plently of space for a non-FAST Packed 1/48 VF-1 GU-11 Gunpod. I hope they improve the intakes in the final release. The to halves don't exactly fit together flush in the picture. But I like the look of the turbine. Nice! 323608[/snapback] IT is true that the 1/48 had good gun clearance, but one thing fans and the diehard aviation nuts pointed out here was that the 1/48s arms were lower than the 1/60, and in that respect the 1/60 was more accurate in terms of the flushness and placement of the arms.(The arms of the 1/60 do not stick out as much underneath than the arms of the 1/48). With the VF-0 1/60 has arms that are flush with the legs, not drooping lower than them...in this way the plane looks more aerodynamically flush...the arms mesh with the body underneath rather than sticking out like on the 1/48. Now the 1/48 ain't bad becase of that....but it could have been better had its arms been placed like that on the 1/60 VF-0 or VF-1.

Hmmm tokyo toy fest? The pics Noel took were from wonderfest. Maybe dengeki hobby got confused. Hmm. The rotating cockpit is pretty interesting. I am thinking there is a weight on it while the seat is mounted on a swivel..upon transformation perhaps a piece from the chest dislodges, enabling the seat to move and rotate on its own. I think this will be a better toy than the 1/48 VF-1....yamato gained a lot of experience with that one...and no doubt learned many ways of how to make better product in the future. I would not be surprised at all if the quality and durability of this time surpasses the 1/48 VF-1 line. And Renato, thank you very much for doing the translations! Beats the hell out of babelfish. Hopefully we see protos of the SV-51 and VF-0D/B soon. Heh, over the course of 5 months we saw the VF-0 1/100 slowly develop into a toy. In less than 2 months we have already seen a CAD drawing AND an actual prototype of the 1/60 VF-0. I love this toy!

Yep definitely perfect variable. I was about to point out that hinge as well.

naw dude, yamato does stuff way better. The magnets yamato will use will more than likely be a ton better than the ones toynami used...ya know, magnets that actually HOLD things together.

Shin, you're on crack... you can't kitbash VF-1 parts into VF-0. I think Noel lost something in translation. 323383[/snapback] From what I understand, basically the main "base" of the 1/60 VF-0@wonderfest was a 1/48 VF-1. with VF-0 pieces glued atop of it. It wasn't a definitive VF-0 just a mishmash since the 1/48 VF-1 is similar in size to the 1/60 VF-0. I only pointed out since a lot of folks here think the wonderfest version is the same as the dengeki hobby one....whereas I tend to think the one pictured in dengeki hobby is the "definitive" VF-0 1/60 prototype, not a kitbash/mishmash.

Guys I'm gonna disagree, I don't think this is the same as the wonderfest one. For one thing the wonderfest version had no pilot, nor did it even look like it could open the canopy. Also in comparison, the wonderfest version looked messy in comparison...which is understandable since Mr. Tofu did point out to Noel that it was essentially a heavily kitbashed 1/48. The parts fit seems better in the dengeki photos, not to mention more refined. I think a bare minimum of 1/48 parts(landing gear to an extent, some hinges,missle pylons, turbine and covers, and gun handle) are used...but thats about it. This saves some money for yamato since the VF-0 would not consist of entirely new parts. Not to mention look at the arms.....now THOSE are all new. Those are not the ones on the VF-1! That and the vertical stabilizers and Bp8 parts....god I hope that back piece is diecast this time...either that or a copy of the 1/60 VF-1s backpack. NOT TO MENTION. I don't think any one pointed this out yet... Okay, the wonderfest VF-0 was a kitbash of a 1/48 with VF-0 pieces glued on presumably in resin... So that means that there was an existing 1/48 VF-1 toy laying in the office, and nishikawa or solid sculpted some parts out of resin, painted them, and smacked them onto the 1/48. Bear in mind the 1/48 toy laying in the office was most likely a production VF-1 made a while back that one of the workers had sitting on his desk. Yet the 1/60 prototype in dengeki shows ALL resin parts....in gray. If this is the same kitbash as the wonderfest, where are the painted 1/48 parts? Get my point? So yes folks, IMHO, this is definitely what dengeki says it is, the 1/60 prototype. If you stripped all the paint from the wonderfest kitbash, you'd see numerous plastic pieces and some gray resin. Yet the dengeki one shows no painted parts whatsoever.

wow.....I made this poll a year ago..... I guess even a year later it shows that perfect transformation still rules the day.

THe JASDF still flies them, same with greece, maybe turkey, and I think South Korea still flies it's F-4D's. A good number of nations still use it.

Well from what my lil bro has been following on the local tube back home, apparently the mayor of va beach has announced that they might close Oceana. I know its been back n forth but this is the first I have heard from the mayor. Residents near there always complain about the jet noise......and the super bugs are the loudest there...but still....a lot of the new residents coming should KNOW it won't be that quiet if they move into oceana. Its common sense...its an AIRBASE. IF they do close I imagine the navy can relocate some bug squadrons to norfolk where they still operate hawkeyes..and it was a former intruder and cat base anyways. Oceana was the "home" for tomcats at one point....so if it does go out, it goes out with its most famous bird. In other news I saw one of the new airplane magazines and the MIG-29 with bigger flaps is being flight tested. Also one with OVT all around thrust vectoring engines is being tested and proposed for India. Also the AIM-9X I think is going into either further testing or operational service on super hornets. Do you guys think the super bug will get much higher thrust engines later in its career? And I know it does have a lot of drag....would higher power engines put too much force on the airframe? That and do you think India will buy the F/A-18F super hornet? I hear its being offered in competition with other foreign planes like the gripen, and updated fulcrums.

Graham, no VF-0 love? Come on man! I'd rather see the VF-0 than VF-1.

For the most part they probably were not the ones responsible. One of the primary complaints is that a lot of the animation now is being sent to cheaper studios to do overseas. Disney is not new at laying off 2d animators, its gone on for quite some time. Bruce Timm who is not from disney, but is an animator nonetheless, tweaked his style and simplified it so that the overseas animators have less of a chance to screw up the DC cartoons. This is a growing source of frustation, the US' dependency to go overseas rather than let most of their own animators do their work. I'm not saying the US is relying on japan, BOTH are relying on other countries at increased rates. This is a problem over there in japan too. Cheaper rates=cheaper production=lesser quality. It makes sense but its not something I'd agree with.

You guys should not worry. A lot of the 2d animators that Disney laid off last year were hired BY Pixar. Pixar is going to a 2d direction and directly competing with Disney. I heard about this last sem in my film class. The trends in animation are all a cycle, hand animation pretty much started it, over time many will come back to it, and a lot will stick with it through and through. I wouldn't worry about anything, now as far as Disney, I am dissapointed but just because they are eliminating 2d sure as hell don't mean their competition will.