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cool!

yep... LOL, just teasing that it's my fave ep coz of the fanservice ... for me ep 1 was the most epic, then the last ep, and next is the Ankoku Dai Shogun OVA...

it looks nice... any info on the size/height? helmet removable? alternate head?

wow! nice job there... you're one very brave dude, dude!

photon beam is badass!... seems like Dr. Hell and Mistress Tsubasa Nishikiori have some kind of history... that's for the next ep. if you like this new Mazinger anime series (and in case you haven't watched it yet)... you should check out the Mazinkaiser OVAs... my fave is ep.4

so here is where all the new stuff is... hope there'll be some new stuff for the "other" forum... that 1/48 looks frakin' huge! LOL beat me to it...

finally... ep6 is out... EP6

nice story... thanks for sharing that... yeah, "scarcity", i get that... granted that business IS business, and w/ toys it doesn't really sound too evil ... but say we change the "3 Bome figures" w/ "3M++++ barrels of oil"... and thus here we are... LOL yeah, pretty much the same here...

just throwing this out there... i'm just wondering, what people's opinions are on this so-called "collector's value" of their toys? is this appropriate only for MISB collections? what of collectors who open their toys and have no plans on selling any of their stuff for whatever reason? do people really constantly think about the value of their collection as if they're going to sell it the next day? i do admit to doing this a good while back, but i always remember somebody who said that it doesn't feel like a hobby (w/c is supposed to be fun) when you always think about what you've spent and what the value of your collection currently is... 2¢

this is the best i could do... the left hand can't really reach the underside of the gunpod when pointed straight forward and if you point the gunpod to the left the strike cannon can't point in the same direction (i wish they made the Stike cannon so it could swiver l-r...)

http://www.new-un-spacy.com/macross7/vf-1a-whalehunter.htm

nope... Hik 1S pins still have the knurling... so does the 1D.

there was already a fixed re-issue of the 0S last dec.... +1 on the fixed re-issue of the 0A... the Shin Kudo one w/ the white stripes... and i don't care if it's a standalone w/o the ghost pack...

yep, got me one last year... no crooked gunpod, properly canted rear landing gears... the standalone 19 plus the FPs only cost me less than $150. although it is floppy mid-transformation, it does hold reasonably well in all three modes... not nearly as tight as my YF-21, but good enough to be displayed on a flexy (gotta angle it downwards though in f-mode to hide that gullet ).

LOL, so you got swayed by the vote! congrats... i absolutely love my 1D and it's color/s... although, personally, i would display the 1D in fighter or gerwalk and the Hik 1S in fully-decked Battroid...

if you don't mind me asking, how're those replacement hinges? last i heard was somebody got em and they cracked too... seems like these replacement hinges are as susceptible to cracking as the one's on a lot of Fockers, some Hik 1As and a few 1Js. on topic - i'm down to just getting the re-issue 25F (from planning to get all four ). like some, i do want to have something from MacF. hopefully this will tide me over until Bandai releases a better version or when Yamato gets a crack at it.

news of these RD Side LFO figures have been out for quite some time, although it was posted on the Gundam Figure thread. the TypeEND is due out this month and the Spec2 next month... here's a link to a proto of the RD Devilfish that was shown at the Tamashii Nation show - RD Devilfish here's a link to the RD releases - http://tamashii.jp/special/robot_damashii/lineup/index.php

LOL, it almost seems like you're happy about the yellowing. ... not too many people here would put a smiling smiley after saying their valk is starting to yellow... cool

cool... when i did this mod, it really gave me some peace of mind... not having to support the hinge while veeerrrry gingerly posing and/or moving the arms during transformation... now i can be as rough as i can w/ my v.2 VF-1's w/out having to worry about something breaking... but still, bad Yamato...

v.2 1/60 1J or 1/48 1J??? well, both my v.2 1J and 1/48 1J are still fine... no discoloration so far that i've noticed...

awesome pics! love the 11B battroid pose and the weathered 21 fighter mode...

sorry man, i thought you weren't serious w/ the smiley. first i removed the shoulder hinge by disassembling the backplate of the valk. remove the 3 screws - 2 for the wings, 1 for the swingbar. backplate not glued together. unscrew off the shoulder hinge. remove the whole arm assembly by removing the shoulder armor and loosening the 2 screws that were previously covered. i dipped the area of the hinge where the pin is in some oil/lubricant (btw, i removed the pin from uncracked hinges. if it's already cracked, the pin might come out even w/out the oil)... i used the smallest pointy precision screwdriver i could find to push out the pin, fat end out first. i found that the easiest way to hold the hinge is to open it up and hold one piece/side of the hinge with your thumb and middle finger and use your index finger to counteract the force from the screwdriver pushing the pin out. after i removed the pin, i sanded down the knurling... i remember somebody posted that they used a dremel... i just used cheap sandpaper. the hardest part is pushing out the pin... just make sure its well lubricated and the oil has had the chance to seep into the pin. after the first one, i found it relatively easy to push the pin out of the other hinges that i did. good luck... though i've found that there are a lot of people who are uncomfortable doing surgery or even simply disassembling their $100+ toys...

how do you distinguish the 1st issue 25F from the re-issue? how're the stores' stocks of the re-issue? i'm really praying that there would be some left by the time i go there next mo.

it was just so obvious that he was gonna die... if not this ep., maybe the next and so on... and i figured it was bound to happen soon so as to motivate Kouji to kick ass... also to become a factor in Kouji walking the fine line between becoming a god or a devil... Shiro's tears were more than enough...

finally found time to watch ep 5... cool, Groizer x-10 sighting... Garada turned into dust and Doublas got fried ...