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The '19 is also in the Kawamori Design Works book. Pretty cut away.

That's better than Macross Zero was.

I'm not sure I really buy this. 0079 was a dramatic failure, despite how much I love it. I think it hurt the momentum Gundam had going for it quite a lot.

I said AVERAGE. Star Wars and Transformer are stunning success stories, far better than the average.

The issue is actually that the average lifespan for a popular boy's toy line is 3-4 years, and Gundam totally lived that and was successful for a while, but it just died down. It had a decent run.

Boy, you can sure tell that Kakinuma designed the Inbit while Shinji Aramaki designed the Legioss. Let him do it. Even for a quick little sketch that is not up to Aramaki's standards. In their design partnership, Kakinuma always did the cool, rounded bug-looking things (see also the Paranoids in Gall Force, the Diezalg in Megazone), while Aramaki did the square transforming robots (Legioss, Garland, et cetera). And then they would clean each others' work up!

Oh. Well, guess MAHQ is wrong: http://www.mahq.net/mecha/macross/sdfmacross/glaug.htm Do they have a method for submitting corrections? Also interesting is: http://www.zincpanic.com/view_series.phtml?characters=464 Which says Kawamori designed the Glaug, and Miyatake designed the Regult.

"Chrome" is an interesting way to describe "white".

Oh, so it's the Glaug that's Miyatake?

Why are you cursing Kawamori? Isn't the Regult a Miyatake design?

What? Car brake lights are bulbs, not LEDs.

Wait, what? Did you read Trash? I have four volumes of the manga and for like two pages I saw VF-11's, and what do you mean by a "less sporty theme", considering it's all about a guy competing in rocket powered rollerblade races?

My replacement shoulders also had sloppy paint. I couldn't really figure out how to get that part off? Any advice?

Good luck! I installed the new arms and the toy seems fine. Happy again. Good show, Yamato.

So I guess the second email did the trick because I just received a box marked "GARLAND REPLACEMENT". YAY! I'm happy. Let me just open it up and disassemble the big G.

Well, I sent another email, so I guess we will see what happens.

Okay, I have still not received any kind of response to either email at either address, nor have I received replacement shoulders for my Garland. That's 19 days with no reply from the info@yamatotoysusa.com email address, and 14 days from when I emailed Garner directly about my Garland with no reply. Is there some kind of secret password to get my replacement shoulders?

Ooops, double post.

Dude, you are totally full of it. Art 1 has 81 pages of lineart. It has lineart of almost every character with any amount of screen time, 4 pages of the SDF-1, 4 pages of Valkyrie, a page on Britai's flagship, a page on the Regult, a page on the Glaug, a age on the Nousjadel-Ger, a page on the hovercycle, a page on the Spartas, a page on the Auroran, two pages on the Bioroid, several pages of Southern Cross armor, a page on the Mospeda, two pages on Inbits, two pages on the Legioss. Not, it is not comprehensive and it does not have every mecha or every character, and it is not Macross Perfect Memory, but it was serving three different shows in a book that had a limited page count and had to also summerize every episode of the entire show in the days when the whole show was NOT available on video, as well a section on the the history of anime/manga, which was totally uncommon in the US at this time. 81 pages of lineart. Absolutely none of it is fan art. Robotech Art 3 has 73 pages of line art, none of fan art. Again, it is not totally comprehensive. The RPGs have like 15 volumes to give you art of everything and a lot of it is bad American intrepretations of the Japanese line art, like they were looking at it and drawing it with thick ink lines but weren't allowed to trace it. Yuck. Granted, there are some exceptions where it is just the Japanese line art (REF Field Guide is pretty much all Japanese Mospeada art), but it is absolutely not correct to say they have "barely any line art". And we have no idea how comprehensive the new Art of Shadow Chronicles book will be yet, so it's hardly fair to say a product released 20 years ago is indicative of the current Robotech projects. Say what you will about Shadow Chronicles, but it is a far cry from Robotech The Movie: The Untold Stories or Robotech II: The Sentinels.

What are you talking about? Both Robotech Art 1 and 3 are full of line art. I don't have Robotech Art 2, but the entire purpose of that book was fan art as I recall.

I emailed info@yamatotoysusa.com and when they didn't respond there after a few days, I emailed Garner directly, who also did not respond. I guess I will wait a couple of more days and then try again.

Oh yeah, because SDF Macross, DYRL, Macross II, Macross Plus, and Macross 7 were all about terrorists.

I still have gotten no reply whatsoever from Yamato, nor have I gotten any package. I guess they don't like me.

Obviously this is a joke, but for the record, most garage kit manufacturers DO get small limited licenses, like the Wonder Fest one day licenses.

"Patience is a virtua."