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I think someone is already looking into this, so it depends on how many we can seat, price, time, and how the list works. I think we just add people to a list, so if we can get this set up, we'll start rolling with it. Just out of curiosity, there's a couple ideas floating around. First is doing it in conjunction with another event to maximize people that'd like to go. It'd also help the event we piggyback off of. OR... We just do this separate and a loan project, in which it'd be local to SoCal, and those that are willing to travel, but it'd be it's own thing. In either case, off hand, if you had an opportunity to go to something like this, maybe even get a cool few little event memorabilia, how much would you be willing to pay for that (not knowing how much the theater cost)?

This is something I'll probably look at doing next year. I'd like to see this done. There's a few people looking at doing something in a new format for next year, so if they want to do this, I hope to look at them to organize this. The issue that I think was brought up was that since it's not something that anyone has done, we'd need to figure out a way to cover the expenses. We can't charge at the box office (at least I don't think so), so however that works out, we'd need to figure out seating capacity, and find a way to make it work. It wouldn't be a business doing it either, so we'd need to make it a thing that works to cover the costs. @Shawn, I think someone, if not myself, will probably get in contact with you soon about this idea. When you mentioned it to me at RTF, it sounded like a great idea. I've seen DYRL in theater once in Japan when the blu ray first came out, but that was back in 2014. It'd be a great time seeing it in that setting with a bucket of popcorn and a soda.

This is depressing, but doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility. At Wonderfest this past February, the VF-5000, nor the Minmay figurine wasn't on display from what I saw. Also, all they seemed to have was re-release stuff. There's so much potential, but it's just going nowhere. Has there even been news on the VF-5K? I don't use X.com

I definitely agree that it had things that I missed. It wasn't close to the definitive version, but the cost of that one and this isn't too far off. With that, I felt a bit more at ease being able to eventually pull the trigger on this. It may be sacrilege, but while I'm happy to be seeing this, I'm more excited for the MII release, even if I'm not the biggest fan of Kickstarter funded projects. I am looking forward to some of the cool little additions this will have as well.

I'll second this for a 1/60 version.

Ah man, don't give me goals. I have the Yamato helmets, so I guess if I'm gonna go that route, I might as well destroy it in one sitting.

I know I'm late to the party, simply because I wanted to not deal with the usual complaining that we all do on a number of things. At some point, I did dive in and get this limited edition thing, and while expensive, it's around the same price I believe I paid for the Japanese blu ray release that came out several years before. That one had almost everything we needed on that, and I was OK with that one. I really thought hard as to why I needed (which no one really does) to get this as part of my collection, but I think I did just out of the sheer fact that I am fortunate enough to be able to easily afford it now. That wasn't the case a few years ago when I got the Japanese blu ray. The other reason is that this will be the first release of a Macross blu ray going out legally since the blockade started way back when. I don't know if those LPs are a new edition that can be added, but to be direct here, I have no interest in them. I do buy LPs from time to time as a habit since my early DJ days when I had my 2 Technics 1200s and a mixer, but the records I usually buy are stuff that I would play if I were DJing, not to pretend I'm some posh Macross collector that only listens to Macross LP while sipping some SDF-1 whiskey (geez, I just pictured that, LOL). I have like 2 copies of each CD, and even then, this show didn't have a lot of music I cared for. I mean, I love Kanno's music and she made the music really work for this, but I've long since copied the CDs onto iTunes and then put them on my phone. LPs at this point for this genre make no sense at all.

Got me 2 copies as well. So far, this is my favorite issue because I absolutely love Patlabor. It's like mixing chocolate and peanut butter.

I pretty much finished it awhile ago. I made parts that were to compliment the set that was already made at the Wonderfest years ago. I may end up recasting them, which I can't sell, but I can sell the parts I created that make those parts actually work. The backpack piece actually works now, and will hold the lance in all modes, the lance, when using 3mm steel tubing, creates a solid base for the lance that now doesn't bend. Other than that, I was originally going to recreate all the original parts, but it just got to be too much to do things that were already done. I still have parts for it available, just haven't priced out the set of everything. Of course, anyone that wants it can just pm me, and I can talk about it with them. I gotta dig out those files. I have folders full of 3D parts, so I just need to find where I placed them.

Put me down for 1. I'm cool with getting an unfinished set.

Yes, that is true. It'd be a matter of actually having something I made from scratch licensed as a sellable product. I haven't even thought about it, and probably won't until I get closer to finishing it.

I just got mine yesterday from BBTS, and I'm mostly happy to say that the antenna on mine was ever so slightly bent. I could easily put a sponge around it, clip it tight, and it'll straighten out. I do like the way the legs extend during the transformation, as it makes them much sturdier, but this thing, having lots of little parts to move around, take out, etc. is quite excessive. I guess it has to do that to make it transform and look as well as it does, but it's a lot.

I use the Kiki fix loose joints stuff for loose joints on my 25 series. Well, it's the same as floor polish and all, so it's basically the same thing, but anything like that water based polyurethane will help make those joints nice and tight. On one of my junk 25s, I've been thinking of trying a thin layer of aluminum foil to see how that does as far as stiffening the joints. Not a complete wrap, as that means technically doubling the layer around a ball, but just enough to test it out with a lot (and I mean A LOT) of movement. I have a feeling it'll fail over time due to metal vs. plastic, but I could also look into thin ear bud like rubber that is found in earphone pieces. Sadly, all these great toys will suffer from this problem at some point.

For my stuff, I will probably sell a .stl file of it, but will also offer a high quality print using an engineering resin that can print with all the same qualities as ABS (Form Labs Tough 2000, V.5 clear, and maybe Tough 1500 with elastic properties). Printing them wouldn't be cheap by any means, but I really have to look into it. The other option is I may sell it at Wonder Festival Japan once it's done.

Yeah, I'll definitely get it. Not the best sculpt, but it definitely has a unique cuteness to it.

This 1000% I can never have enough Sheryl Nome figures.

I appreciate it. I've been a bit inundated with fixing some 3D print files that I've been printing on the new printer. After testing it quite thoroughly, this print when done should print a solid toy like kit. As of now, I'm working on the canopy.

I actually like this fashion. Kinda a Kpop dark style. I'm digging these.

My thoughts on the mixture of resin? If that's what you're asking, it works just fine. It provides great detail, and helps out a lot with making parts not so brittle. You just have to plan ahead on what the parts you're printing are going to do. If you need them to be stiff, then mix them maybe at 9:1 ratio (90% ABS-like, 10% Tenacious). If it's a figure or something you want to be more durable, you can go to like a 75:25% mixture, and it'll help the part be able to bend a bit more, and add some strength and elasticity if you drop it. Most likely you won't feel it in your hands, but it does work. If you're asking about the Form4 prints, I honestly can't get enough of how great this thing, and its materials are. It's everything one would want for printing ABS parts, as well as ceramic, and glass bead parts. It has resin that can make permanent molds of parts for recasting as well.

I got mine last night, and I must say that it is quite beautiful looking. I do like the 2 sets of figures. I saw in the instructions that it has the page of the tent to copy onto an A4 paper and instructions on how to make it. Not the route I would've gone it, but for papercraft, it's pretty cool (I'll just at least say that).

I have this issue with standard water washable and ABS like resin. Anycubic makes a resin called Tenacious that add more flexural modulus strength, and can add a slight rubber (depending on ratio) feel. It's about $70-80/liter, but if you mix 15-20% of it in your resin, it'll fix a lot of that issue.

That definitely sounds like a promising part. If you get it to work, please let us know. I will probably need a set. as well.

Honestly? No, not really. I mean, Sunrise does know what they're doing, and I don't doubt that they can make a great series. My only concern, and maybe I'm a minority here, is that they may take too much of the love story and music out of it. Yeah, I know many criticize it, and to some degree, I can agree with it, but it is what made it different than any other mecha show. If Sunrise can find a way to dial it back a little, and create a balance that say, Frontier had (give or take a little), I think it'll be a good thing. For all we know, Kawamorisan may also be advising as the series comes with a lot of lore, so I can easily see him doing a lot of that. A new series may be great and may have the right formula for attracting new and older fans, but if the story is not connecting to the timeline and all the preceding series in lore, it can throw a giant wrench in that. I know this is not that conversation here though. It is strange that he went to AX, and while I'm sure getting autographs from him was great, I haven't heard much except for that scooter thing.

I don't think he really has much of a part in the new series, as it's a different company doing it. If anything, he may just be mecha designer.

Those would probably be best as SLS parts in Nylon 12. Those are definitely needed in some of the older versions of the V.2