Shaorin
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i'd love that too... still, no MACROSS in this thread!! AAGGHH!! what was wrong with the YAMATO releases? -
boy, i can really see now why AnimEigo had decided to buddy RIDING BEAN up with MADOX on the old double-feature LASERDISC release i own a copy of; old-line U.S. Anime fans generally cannot seem to mention one of these OVAs without thinking immediately of the other...
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you guys... SO much Awesomeness that i could only dream to be so lucky to have...
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did BANDAI ever make a MG PATLABOR "HELLDIVER" ? i'd really love one of those... that... would be a dinky little thing, best realized, IMHO, as a courtesy accessory to a 1/6 YAMATO MADOX, with detail down to functional die-cast joint hydraulics, and with a "boarding mode" to accept a 1/6 Ellie Kusumoto doll... lavish, perhaps, but when Yammie would be likely to be asking well over $300 for it, LAVISH it damned well BETTER be, IMHO... you bet!!, THAT would be AWESOME. 10/12in. doll size, what scale would that factor out to? pure Awesomeness, in any degree...
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
Shaorin replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
well, if it can at least achieve parts-less transformation, then it's got the old IMAI/BANDAIs by the balls right then and there, IMHO. big bonus if it includes at least die-cast landing gear and rubber tires... -
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there's easy ways to fix that...
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you seem to have at least one; behaving like something that shouldn't be said in polite company...
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nice to know the old Yammie Russian Roulette is alive and well... also nice to know that it really isn't YAMATO's fault. indeed, as i have long feared, the bane of the 21st century world dependance on Chinese-manufactured goods; piss-poor QC, 24/7/365. really now, China has been world class purveyor of five-n-dime 3rd and fouth-class consumer goods for a very long time. and yet, today, the world suddenly expects the nation to suddenly re-invent is long-ingrained manufacturing habits practically overnight. Dream On, is all i really have to say, Dream On...
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how about tackling a 1/60v.II unassembled kit after you're done here?
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awww, now where would be the fun be in that? this wondrous little site ought to give the two of you fatal strokes; http://www.engrish.com/ i've long since finished my PG of the original ZETA...
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the tail fins on my long gone 1/60v.I VF-1A Hikaru DYRL began yellowing perhaps a year or two after purchase in 2001ish. by the time i sold off both my 1/48s a couple years back, they were beginning to show overall yellowing signs, too. i stand by my theory on sub-standard, poor chemical composition, chinese-made plastics...
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still grappling with that ERTL EXCELSIOR i started 6/8 moths back, desperately attempting to rend something halfway acceptable from it with my meager "skills" if only i could commission someone to do me one up something like this; dammit all!! why cant anyone release a fished high detail toy of this thing like they have for pretty much every damned NCC-1701 ever conceived and then some?
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ECHO!! ECHO!! ECHO!! ECHO!!
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that's got to be several $k worth of MAC goodies right there. Merry Xmas, you lucky SOB...
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while i'm very happy for you, and can fully appreciate your excitement, i advise you not to get constipated over it...
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
Shaorin replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
indeed; that's what a decade-long bountiful harvest of MACROSS goods, after 20+ years of deprivation and disappointment, will often do to a hard-core fan. you would not believe what us hard-cores were willing to settle for before the yammie 1/48 and 1/60v.II came along... the almighty line art does not appeal to me because it simply does not take into proper perspective what is required to make the VF-1 actually work in three-dimensional reality, physics, proportions and all that great stuff. after 15+ years of personal experience with Anime Magic, parts-forming and other various compromises with variable MACROSS VF products, i am only too thankful for YAMATO's CAD/CAM driven "PERFECT TRANSFORMATION" philosophy, and that Kawamori's great almighty line-art, while way ahead of it's time, was only a rough draft and first step in the grand scheme of the engineering process required to bring the VF-1 and it's transformation design into full physical reality as a scale mock-up. that said, i understand that BANDAI basically MUST do something different with a hypothetical variable VF-1 model to make it marketable in today's YAMATO-dominated MACROSS variable-VF market, but i honestly believe BANDAI was on a better track with their defunct HI-METAL VF-1 design than with this Chibi-bobble-headed 1/72 scale model kit... -
Anger Management, anyone?
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this is pretty much the bane of the cheap modern day chinese plastics that most every toy/collectible/etc. have been made with, all throughout the last 15 years or so, give or take...
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to put it nicely...
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i know... i paid $80 for mine, a flat out bargain compared to what seems available today...
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
Shaorin replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
that head is still stupidly big. any garden-variety fool can plainly observe that. i realize that the design team is after setting this iteration apart from all the rest out there, but they really should be eyeballing the 1/60v.II more for an example on getting those proportions massaged into balance... -
best of luck!! they're not easy to find these days, nor cheap, just so you know. look for "CM's GUTTO KURU Lynn Minmay"
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wow. i sure wish i could afford to join this exclusive little club. i mean, while i'm not exactly a die-hard fan of the VR-4 design, it doesn't take a genius to see that this is one exquisite piece of fine engineering art, to put it lightly...
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