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Milia 1J was, is, and always will be the best Valk ever.

Mechagodzilla.

I had those too. And if the new Ninja Turtles came on at a time where I didn't think the whole world should be asleep, I'd follow it.

I find your lack of faith disturbing... Hey, I'm with Gui... I'd rather watch, at the least, Gundam TV, Z Gundam, and Gundam ZZ to Star Wars any day. *shrugs* I grew up on the original trilogy. It's always gonna hold a special place in my heart. As for the new ones... bleh.

Subliminal messages? Sorry about that. MOD YOUR PS2! IMPORT GAMES! Not just for SRWA3, either. The power of strange foreign games is not to be trifled with.

Yes. The Plus OVA was dubbed. The movie never was, not even for the DVD release.

I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Actually I *would* like to see a beam sabre. At least one more use -- I can either slice you, run you through, or slap you silly with it. A beam saber's can only do 2 of the 3. Hard to say about the origin of the lightsaber. It's probably a case of borrowing from each other... Lucas probably saw some poster or show with a energy weapon and refined it to the lightsaber, while Tomino probably saw Star Wars and refined his weapon into the beam saber. I fI recall, Tomino was inspired by Star Wars to the point where he wanted to do the Gundam in pure white so it would look like a stormtrooper. Mmmh... If memory serves, I believe Tomino wanted to make the RX-78 looks like the White Knight, the hero from the old traditional legends: I do not think the Stormtrooper design has a real link with this, all the more as imperial soldiers are supposed to be 'evil' and the Gundam on the 'good' side of the One-Year-War... Yeah, but the Empire had WAY cooler uniforms. Vader could whip Ackbar any day.

The force is strong in Mr. Spock.

Wasn't the Gundam SUPPOSED to be a one-off prototype?

I find a balance needs to be struck. Not too flashy, not too dull. *looks at pics of "original style Gundam"* ... Definitely too flat.

In the old days, red = cannon fodder. Or Scotty. scotty was going to die anyways all the drinking he does He outlived Kirk.

i call my toliet veritech. Mine slaps at me when I do that. that must hurt when you try to take a leak You have NO idea...

In the old days, red = cannon fodder. Or Scotty.

Fair enough...I had a flat sheet of paper image. It WAS probably stupid. I still maintain the accents on valks make it hard to class them as "white mechs". The big red stripe on Hikaru's 1J chest isn't as pronounced as making the whole dang chest plate solid color, but it breaks the white up very effectively. The doubled lines of the Skull 1 are even more effective. ... And my fav is Millia's 1J, which uses white for the accents. *shrugs*

i call my toliet veritech. Mine slaps at me when I do that.

The valks have accents. And are a more interesting design to start with. The pic I'm seeing has a fair bit of blue and black/gray. ... And I think it needs some extra color.

I got my green one for free several years ago. But many stickers are peeling or gone and the "stock" on the gun is broken. And I'm under the impression green is more common anyways. But still... Even yellowed, that red one is a beauty. ... If you could even it out(and get it off the gray intakes), that would actually make a neat custom color variant, since it's restricted to the torso area.

That was true but due to copy rights Tomino had to change the Gundam`s color. There`s another SW item in the first Gundam movie when the first time Amuro uses THE TRACKING or THE TARGETING SYSTEM in the RX-78-2 ! The way I heard it, they colorized the Gundam because the people funding the show wanted bright primary colors, because a solid white toy would look boring on the shelf. Yup. I you read the Gundam novels the Gundam is white until Amuro gets the second version G3 which is Grey. Tomino wanted it white but Bandai wanted more bright colors to sell more toys. Bandai made a good call, honestly. It would've been an UGLY mech in pure white.

I was thinking Xerox instead of copier. But it's all the same concept.

As has already been observed, they changed the color coding between the original series and Next Gen.

You mean it doesn't? </sarcasm>

That was true but due to copy rights Tomino had to change the Gundam`s color. There`s another SW item in the first Gundam movie when the first time Amuro uses THE TRACKING or THE TARGETING SYSTEM in the RX-78-2 ! The way I heard it, they colorized the Gundam because the people funding the show wanted bright primary colors, because a solid white toy would look boring on the shelf.

Actually I *would* like to see a beam sabre. At least one more use -- I can either slice you, run you through, or slap you silly with it. A beam saber's can only do 2 of the 3. Hard to say about the origin of the lightsaber. It's probably a case of borrowing from each other... Lucas probably saw some poster or show with a energy weapon and refined it to the lightsaber, while Tomino probably saw Star Wars and refined his weapon into the beam saber. I fI recall, Tomino was inspired by Star Wars to the point where he wanted to do the Gundam in pure white so it would look like a stormtrooper.

Make it a Gakken. Unless you think it'll scare the VFs...