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    Do you mean the Turn-X Gundam or the Gundam-X. There is a difference... If its the former, I believe he did, and that originally it was actually intended to be the Turn-A design...
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    Okay, so it might not belong to the 1/60s at all. Thanks!
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    No, I know what those look like. Its a much larger piece than that. Heres a pic, sorry for the truly awful quality; the flash kept wiping out the image due to the white plastic of the piece...!
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    Sorry, I don't know. Its the VF-1S which came with the Strike and Super parts.
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    I have a couple of Yamato needle-nose 1/60 VF-1s I'm looking to get rid of shortly; I've been rounding up parts and have found a piece which I vaguely remember is a sort of "fill-in" piece for the torso. Trouble is, I can't remember if it came with the original, first release VF-1A (Hikaru) or the later VF-1S Roy with Strike parts. Any help, as always, appreciated!
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    Er... for Tomino, no-one dying is actually massively revolutionary story-telling, right?
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    Haibane Renmei final episode. I have no idea what happened, but whatever it was, it was happy sad. And Doctor Ben dying in Star Fleet. You don't kill main characters when you're eight in the 80s. It. Just. Does. Not. Happen!
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    Okay, sorry, I'm a bit tired at the moment and I'm probably not even sure what I'm thinking entirely... Yes, Tomino did Zambot 3. Where he first displayed his caring nature towards children...
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    VFTF-1, I thought I'd reply here to your comments about Tomino you made in the figures thread as it seems more on-topic here. One of the best comments I've read about Tomino is that he is awesome at creating worlds but somewhat less so at sustaining a narrative. It might be the J.K. Rowling problem - when you created your nations most famous popular culture product, there isn't an editor on the planet thats going to say "Uh, actually, maybe you want to trim a couple hundred pages here?"... Its also worth bearing in mind that the way in which we watch older anime shows is not the way Japanese audiences watched those shows when originally broadcast; Ideons battles get repetitive watched in four episode blocks (as I tend to do) but might have been less so for little Anno [1] who excitedly rushed home from class to see Cosmo afro-kickin' butt each week. Its your opinion, of course, and if you don't like him thats fine. I think going by your posts you admire his creations but not the way in which he uses them, in the same way that lots of people want to be a Jedi but want a word with George Lucas about Jar-Jar Binks... [1] No, I didn't choose that name by accident...
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    I never actually got that far. I've bought the damn game three times and still never completed it. Currently I don't own a suitable platform to play it on. Maybe when I'm old and grey and the grand kids ask what I did during the Console Wars... Also, Ghost Train, if you haven't seen Gunbuster - do so. Yesterday.
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    The original. And still the best. DAR-LING!
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    Its a cliché. The gaming cliché. But... Aerrriiisssssssss!
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    Cheaper, possibly. Allowed by environmental regulations? Doubtful.
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    New Who, new assistant, new producer, and now new logo! I like this one a lot, though I'm not so keen on the Tardis-ised version: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/a...c-riav6mghhfSTg
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    I presume Retracting Head means for ballast purposes.
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    If the next episode is the one I think it is, then it might just be the single best individual episode of anything Tominos ever done. So, possibly then. Also, I have seen recap episodes done well - Patlabor on TVs actually manages to be one of the funniest episodes of the entire series - but the trouble always is never knowing whether theres going to be something worthwhile during it or whether you should just skip to the end...
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    Nope. You can actually fit all the Turn-A merchandise ever released onto about two pages of A4 with room to spare - I have a Turn-A art book that actually does that! - though possibly now you could start a third page. Compare this with Gundam SEED, which when I last counted had over a hundred model kits available. In fact, I would be interested to know if this has ever been the result of some sort of fan hate, Bandai vendetta or something else. I know what my reaction to Turn-A was when I first saw the designs, and I have a little idea what other Western fans thought when they saw the images, but I've also assumed rather than known what the Japanese fan reaction was... There were some model kits of the Sumo and Flat released, I seem to recall. I've always felt that the animators had trouble with Syd Meads designs. I recently received the Turn-X Robot Spirits toy; I've never really liked the design but I have the Turn-A ordered and its got to fight something, right? But those feelings instantly changed when I actually got it; its actually a very nice piece of work and very "Halo", especially the weapons rack on the back.
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    Theres no "Water Margin" anime (or rather, not one that I'm aware of) but a 70s live action adaptation was popular in the UK in the early 80s, along with "Monkey"...
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    Tomino has always been one for rather restless narratives. MSG is actually a little bit of an exception...! Its almost like the guy can't bear not to have something happen... ("Dammit, Amuro, stop standing around moping! Don't you know theres a war on!" ). The Diana/Kiel thing does rely on a pretty huge coincidence (I can actually think of some explanations but they're right up there with Heisenberg Reality Compensators... ) but you tend to accept because... Turn-A is Indiana Jones with giant robots. If Indy can hide in a Nazi submarine for days without being detected, then I can also accept that two girls see pretty similar reflections in their mirrors.
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    I suspect I'm going to get yelled out as well, but support for the ether, or aether, was pretty much destroyed by Einsteins theories, which appeared before the 1930s. However, "Doc" Smith could either have been using it for narrative effect (as Hideki Anno does in Gunbuster) or simply didn't know what he was talking about... Many early experiments with rockets were taking place in the 30s, the Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky had theorised on many aspects of space travel before that (although at the time he was writing he would probably have remained largely unknown outside Russia) and the British Interplanetary Society had published designs for multi-stage rockets and a lunar lander, as well as space suits. However, the BIS was somewhat concerned about the costs of space exploration; why it might cost as much as a million pounds...!
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    303 Squadron. They had the benefit of prior experience plus an understandable ruthlessness when it came to fighting the Luftwaffe. Though it was actually a Czech pilot who got the highest individual kills during the Battle...
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    I stand corrected. Sorry, a book I read recently gave me the impression that the Canadian specific squadrons came later...
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    There was a time when the word "Elite" was spelt properly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8261272.stm Elite was, and is, one of the best and most important video games of all time. In just 32K of code - of which 10K was taken up by the screen and other computer operations - David Braben and Ian Bell created the first open universe game, where - within the limits of the game engine - your path through the game was up to you. Its space combat system has been a major influence on many of the space combat games that followed it. And it also had one of the best instruction manuals ever, too; chock full of details that weren't actually important - or even in - the game but which helped create a living Universe in the players imagination where the graphics couldn't. Right on, Commander!
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    The Eagle Squadrons were actually formed after the Battle, but there were several US pilots who volunteered to join the RAF and fought in it before the Eagle Squadrons were set up. Canadians - what I was trying to get across is that I can't name any names from 1940 off the top of my head; if I did some research I probably would find Canadian pilots who participated in the battle (and they wouldn't have to have been flying Hurricanes or Spitfires, either; Bomber Command had a role to play during that summer as well... ) I also can't say with absolute certainty, but the impression I've always had is that country-specific squadrons generally formed a little bit later than 1940, after the "panic" had died down a bit. Theres no doubt all the so-called "British" forces were truly multi-national, including Poles, South Africans, Czechs, Free French, New Zealanders, Australians, - heck, I think there was even an Austrian prince in the RAF at one point!
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    Well, Canadians made a huge contribution to the British war effort. I can't say off the top of my head if any participated in the Battle directly, but we definitely owe them our thanks. Eh?
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