Phyrox

If those B-36 tails in the distance are what they look like, I'd say it's viintage. Plus the photo quality.

You're thinking ants, not bees. Honey Bees (the social structure most people think of when talking of bees) just have queens, and workers. There are no warriors. They do have males (drones) who don't do much of anything. Ant species often have different castes however. With some dedicated more to "soldiering" than working. Although now that I thing about it...termites might be a better analogy. Oh well, back to your usual Macross tech talk.

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I've got a recast of each of those, so I can verify that they're just resin garage kits. I think from wonderfest a few years ago.

Not the same one from the "REF field guide" lineart? The amazonian girls had a motorcycle that transformed into a chariot for the robot horse if I remember.

That eva -06 looks pretty uninspired/uninteresting. I won't even comment on how lame the little horns look on -02.

Relax, it was a list of "most memorable" not best or coolest. Even then I think I'd disagree with some of their choices, but to John Q. Public, the dumb and dumber van and the days of thunder car are way more well known than anything from vanishing point or le mans. Seriously.

Nothing much to add to the ongoing discussion. Just wanted to note that I just got Lockdown, and he rocks. This is my first transformer in 15...maybe 20 years (I was gonna get MP starscream but didn't), and I can't think of a better way to reintroduce myself to the line. This animated line is slick! This is the first time I've wanted a repaint to come out...I need an excuse to get another on these.

I gotta say, I watched the OVA a number of months ago and felt sort of the same thing. I disagree about the balance between action and drama, I liked that. But what action there was could have been improved, and the drama was flatter than I was expecting. The show gets talked up so much I was expecting something...yeah, epic. It was good, but not really impressive.

They had better pull off something better than that with the Tread's cockpit. Yikes.

The back is the key. Well, that and the chest tops...which will also cause a problem.

If you look at the lineart for the unmanned legioss, there are simply too many changes to allow it transform into fighter mode without serious reworking. That one isn't going to happen. The dark legioss itself requires far less alteration.

HGUC: S-gundam Ex-s gundam Zekueins MG: S-gundam EX-s gundam Zetaplus C Zetaplus A FAZZ non-HGUC 1/144: Zetaplus C S-gundam ex-s gundam S-gundam attacker

Too bad. I want the Red one more than the blue...but although I didn't even pay for the blue on (assuming I get it), I won't pay what their asking for this set. I just want the red legioss...don't even want the Tread. Here's to hoping someone wants to part their sets out.

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Thanks for the responses guys. I'll ask her about a confirmation email. She said that once she started getting "spam" ads from them pretty often she just deletes anything from them...so I was afraid she missed something important.

Hmm, question: It seems that although I am not willing to pay these prices for this toy, my GF read these forums a few months ago and saw that I liked it enough as a cheaper toy...so she bought me one for my B-day. The problem is she pre-ordered from that Toyntoys link that was posted way back when, and after her paypal went through hasn't heard anything from them but "new product" ads. And I don't have any toy. Did anyone else pre-order from them? If so, have you received yours? Did you have to do something else after the pre-order before they would ship (my girlfriend isn't so good at reading fine-print). I appreciate any info you all can lend me. I will be righteous pissed my my girlfriend ponied up this kinda cash for a toy that isn't worth it, and then ended up not get the damned thing!

About the two-tone Treat cockpit: does this look easy to remove? The blue paint I mean. I think there is only one or two scenes with it like that, and I think it might be an animation error. If it can be removed easily (i.e. stripped) I think it would improve the look a lot. As it is it makes the Tread look like he has a smiley face.

If you puss out, I won't: http://mchan.miotd.com/m2/res/16767.html

I'd have to agree. In that pic at least the Tread does indeed look pretty cheap. I imagine it'll look a bit better in more dynamic poses, but nostalgia aside NO ONE could say that looks like a better toy than a yamato 1/60...and the Treat alone is theoretically...what at least twice the cost? Don't get me wrong, the Tread and Legioss are among my favorite mecha ever, but that is not an impressive piece.

What do you think "ace" is? http://counter-x.net/gobots/reviews/series3/ace.html

For such an expensive toy, that sure is a shitty box. I wouldn't necessarily want toynami-level of boxitude, but that looks like something a fisher-price toy would come in.

Someone speaking sense about politico-military policy on the internet...? Has hell just frozen over?

British planes have nearly always been ugly. The spitfire and a few (few) others are the exception. From their WWI stable into the interwar years, to nearly everything they had in WWII...and all their coldwar stuff. Besides some of their raceplanes, the spit and its offshoots and...and...well, I can't think of any other exceptions. I'm just saying the Brits didn't go from making attractive planes to ugly ones, they made ugly planes all along and just so happened to create a few that broke that mold. Actually, I think the Victor (both in original form and it's later years as a tanker) is a great looking plane.

Finally an HGUC Zaku FZ! This is the first HGUC in a while I'm looking forward to.