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We'd better hope no aliens are planning to invade, because whos going to write a song to save the Universe for us now?

That blue one - its Basaras VF-19 with the head on backwards! It is!

I'm going to go out on a limb here... ...yes, they're different Gundam designs. Yes, they're probably going to cause similar comments/debate/furious uproar about the designs. I don't think they're anything like the Turn-A designs. I'm prepared to eat my words, but I have a feeling the designs aren't going to be nearly as radical a break as the Turn-A ones were...

I've seen tank - even locomotive - markings on World War II aircraft, but not modern ones that I can recall. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, I just haven't seen any personally.

Song was perhaps a touch too long - I'd have liked to see them switch to a second - but otherwise, neat!

For once, don't listen to Graham. Turn-A turn, Turn-A turn, TURN-AAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

I have a couple of anime cels and I've noticed dust appaearing to build up between the frame I've mounted them in and the cel itself; this causes "splotches" to appear (much to my alarm the first time I noticed this, it looked like the cel was disintergrating!). In the past, I've got round this just by opening up the picture frame and cleaning the dust off the glass, but its made me wonder... is there anything else I should/could be doing to protect the cels? Any big no-nos? Any advice appreciated...

If thats the guy think it was, I did hear him one time. I was much less familar with anime and Macross 7 at the time, but if memory is not betraying me, he was bloody good...! Rick-someone...?

Heh. I bet everyone thought they were as nuts as they thought Tomino must have been when the Turn-A design first appeared, too...

Daleks vs. Terminator.

Thanks, David - I've been curious about that for a while. I had read that on one of the early flight tests that the chase planes had trouble keeping up on mil power.

Did they ever release the speed figures for the YF-23? Last I heard, they'd been classified because... well, it was quick.

Tell me about it, Transformers trailer-Beagle-2-probe...

Forgive for missing this - what did they get right?

The .50 cartridge was originally based on a German round designed to go through tanks [1]. You do the math. [1] Okay, the made-of-tin World War I type-tank.

Dredd In Name Only, thank you.

Oh good - if they are thinking of a short 'tache, the least they could do is include a long pointy one as well. Mind you, this is Bandai, who wouldn't spring for green plastic for the MG Ingram visors... ...and a joke plastic moustache as well, for the owner.

Hmm. Slightly less excited now, if the images doing the rounds are the ones of the actual MG - they appear to have trimmed the 'tache. The moustache is the point, dammit!

Oh, yeah. The Turn-A designs look odd still, but once they start moving, they work. Really well, too. The Flat looks distinctly stupid, until you see how it works in the series. Also, the Turn-A designs will, by and large, still seem bold and striking decades from now, long after the last Strike Freedom Justice Providence Blitz Wing Zero Custom has been consigned to the bargain bin...

Correct this problem as soon as possible. Turn-A is quite possibly the all-round best Gundam and among the best work Tomino has ever done. And Bandai? You rock.

That is nice.

I know that one was inspired by the other, but I think thats the most Valkyrie-like shot of a real aircraft I have ever seen...

Shin: "Did you know you have a funny fuzzy circle where your crotch should be?"

Someone said that they wanted to see the Brave Gokin Ingram in a shot with a 1/48 Yammie. Well, this isn't quite what they wanted... In case no-one gets the reference, Stirling Moss is a famous British racing driver who once completed a 1,000 mile long road race at an average speed of 100 miles an hour. (and these were 1950s miles per hour, too, which count double). He has since become the yardstick by which speeding drivers in the UK are measured by police officers - the quote from Ota is the coppers famous deadpan comment to offenders, only with someone else replacing "Stirling Moss"... HCM, by the way, is taking the standard "walk the line" test... And, oh, thats not a really small Brave Gokin at the back - its Bandais Labor in Action Alphonse...

I recently got to see VOTOMS all the way through for the first time. What impressed me the most is how mature it is. Many mecha heroes sit around whining about their lot; Chirico instead gets up an punches Trouble in the face. He gives every impression of being harder than nails. Nails made of neutronium. I finally get now why all these VOTOMs toys keep coming out.