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How about for us cheatskates who want to buy it as a Todd Mcfarlane-style toy, all assembled and prepainted...and cheap? Probably not going to happen....oh well, I'll just gawk at the pictures you guys post here.

I'm glad to see this thread brought back to life. I think one of these days, I'll bring my valk to work and take pictures of it in a real airplane hangar..

I wonder if this movie will end Jamie Foxx's career.

Haha, no kidding. I think Travolta said it best in Pulp Fiction when he'd pay money just to catch the son of a b**** messing with his car.

Let's get some more pics of 1/72 stuff together!

Besides, its not like you can drive it to the grocery store. You'd be inside for 20 seconds before some jealous a-hole keyed it. I had a buddy with a Testarosa he used as a daily driver. Thing got keyed once a week at least. If I had a Vanquish, I'd drive it anytime it's sunny. Who cares about value if you never plan to sell it? The money's gone anyway. And about getting your car keyed, I think it really depends on where you live and what kind of places you park it. Depending on how nice the car is, it doesn't matter much. Other than the Marina in SF or Newport beach in Orange County, your exotic will be messed with. That's crappy. Knock on wood, my car's never been keyed....but then again, I live no where near those places.

I'm going to sound like an @$$hole for saying this, but I'd change the opening music to Ai, Oboete Masuka? instead of that little bit from the Robotech version. The rest of the site is kick-@$$.

HA! I first watched it raw on a VHS copy made from the LD. That was the exact same way I watched DYRL. I was a huge fan of Macross back then, and in anime in general. I'd watch any anime I could get my hands on. Usually dubbed VHS tapes from friends (who were rich enough to own LD players and copy from them). My friend lent me this tape with some other HK movies on it, along with "a movie with giant robots in it". I thought it would be Gundam or something When I started watching the opening scene I just about $hit my pants because I had no idea they made a movie. Breetai (sp?) and Exodol looked different so I still hadn't clued in it was Macross, but when the SDF-1 came into view I couldn't beleive my eyes. I thought I hit the jackpot. I never gave VHS copy back to my friend.

Besides, its not like you can drive it to the grocery store. You'd be inside for 20 seconds before some jealous a-hole keyed it. I had a buddy with a Testarosa he used as a daily driver. Thing got keyed once a week at least. If I had a Vanquish, I'd drive it anytime it's sunny. Who cares about value if you never plan to sell it? The money's gone anyway. And about getting your car keyed, I think it really depends on where you live and what kind of places you park it.

That's awesome.

Damn it!! I hate it when car people screw around with a good thing, they had it perfect with the previous model, this new one looks like an Alfa Romeo wannabe on sedatives... I was so happy with the Impreza when they finally canned those Dodge Neon headlights, they had it perfect then, why go and screw it up again??? I've seen that magazine. They always print pictures of cars and what they think they will look like, not what manufactures have actually released. About 3 or 4 years ago, they printed pictures of the all-new 3.5 litre V8 2003 NSX, and here it is 2005 and it still looks the same as in 2002.

Any pictures of the painted model?

The smog-era may be over, but the horsepower war is alive and well. You know the world is going to hell when four-door family sedans have more horse power than your sports car. Don't BMW and Benz both respectively have their flagship V12s pushing over 500 hp, quarter-mile in 12 seconds? Back in the early 90's, late 80's (when I started getting into cars), your car was something if it had 280-320 hp. That was the standard for a fast car, not necessarily an exotic, but fast. Now, if you don't have 500 hp stock, you're nothing. About 4-5 years ago, I raced against my friend's 400hp M5 (BMW's 4-door family "sports" sedan) and after 220 km/hr , I had my ass handed to me. And now the new one's got 500hp. It really hit home that there will always be something newer, and faster out there.

Different strokes for different folks. I will admit to having had a good time whipping around on back roads in my dad's old Z (Z31)... But I will say that I will probably always have an old muscle car (or kin) as my daily driver. Once you go that route...it is really hard to imagine giving it up. Even my friends, who were mostly into contemporary cars, were awed and impressed by my old chevelle (to the point that a muscle car is now on his "to buy" list). That feel...there is something addictive about it. I have driven my friend's 50th anniversary 'vette, and sure it is fast, but something felt missing. It was so antisceptic, NOTHING like my 454. It may be faster (top speed certainly, acceleration...I'm not sure), but it doesn't feel anywhere near as fast, or fun, or brutal. I see the merits of these little-engined wonders that are so popular. I really do, but for my part I have to side with Lightning 06...Give me torque, and lots of it, wrapped up in a massive, inefficient v8, please. a semi-convert! at last we can have these people and their imports appreciate V8's! Why convert when you can like both?

Has anyone seen DYRL trading cards?

There was a hilarious article in this old magazine called PC Acellerator. I think the title was Red Shirt Application Form....too bad it's not archived somewhere.

Holy cow, it's been so long, I thought it was a new thread!

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They've caused me nothing but grief here in Canada....I was forced to take French in grade 6,7 and 8. My youth was violated.

Need more pictures of completed model! Damn she's hot.

I love the old boxes! Styrofoam is awesome, to hell with the environment! I only wish the 1/48's came in such cool boxes.

If she asked me nicely, I would buy it.

It'd be nice to see a fleet of Valkries on that thing!

If anyone can read Japanese, there's info here on this site on a 1/10 scale Yamato model displayed at this museum http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~kureship/index1.htm

Me too, I can't wait to see it finished. Keep uploading pictures!