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Yea, the modelers really took a lot of liberty in making their kit, some of it just doesn't even follow line art at all... They just kinda wanted to do what they thought looked cool. The feet are entirely different for some reason. Not quite sure why, since you'd think that be one of the more direct transitions from fighter. I do like, however, the model's waist-mounted gunpod (totally reminds me of the FMP Arbalest) and the little turbine gear waist you see behind the nosecone in battroid. Line art sometimes bugs me with their shading that deliberately covers up the nitty-gritty mechanical detail that you'd see in a normal lighting condition. Sure it provides a much cleaner look that's more appealing, but it doesn't realistically reflect what even a non-transforming model would have to look like. I do think that Yamato can do a better job sticking to the lineart, but this will be one of their tougher challenges for sure.

Wrong section? Isnt that the Robot Damashi thing? Its not a model kit. I'm assuming just mistaken post.

.......................... I am both excited but also disappointed. I'm not a fan of chibi planes (reminds me of that crappy transforming super deformed vf-1) but I like having LS characters on it... Very torn. I was hoping they'd release full-body decals for the 1/72 VF-25 or an entirely new paintjob for the DX. Best case scenario was a mold plastic color change with tampoed characters on a Yamato bird >_>. I find the cosplay figures (omg Kagami as Klan) more interesting, despite their cheap mold. (Edit: Actually the mold isn't that bad. Kagami's pose just isn't hitting it off for me though.) Stop playing with my heartstrings, Japan.

Wait. Lucky Star VF-25s? Where???? Is there a Kagami version!!!?!

I'd rather not have my plane look like that Yamato variant with the chibi bridge bunny stickers, thanks. If its going to be custom, it's going to be entirely recolored in the theme and pattern of the girl who's presented on it.

I think I'd sacrifice all my valks to do that in a heartbeat. After all, you just rebuy them in their standard paint schemes. A good custom paintjob is hard to come by, especially if you aren't a modeler yourself. Although I admit I'm not as perverse as Mike is, so I'd get paint schemes of only decently clothed girls. =P

The correct answer was getting a job and earning the toys in a respectable manner that would lead you to respect and cherish your toys even until old age.

I love how much shorter the nosecone is in battroid than fighter. I mean the same problem existed even for the VF-1s, but sheesh.. You think they could exaggerate the difference any more in the lineart there? =/ The fan-built kit just shows off how blargh the fighter-length nose would look like in battroid. =/.

Uh... Really? If you were going to make a documentary to pay homage to a classic game... Wouldn't you start with BETTER and more CLASSIC games like Tetris or Pong or something? Asteroids is a good game and all, but I'm not in the slightest interested in how it was made.

Its gonna be some adventure inside the toy movie. Vermillion said it best.

Left. Robot looks straight ahead and eyes are level. Person on right has head tilted slightly forward and eyes angled up.

Did you mean Tamiya's acrylic clear X-22? That's what I'm about to use.. o_o". Or maybe you mean top coat spray can applications.

Its a shame, since I really don't see MF being an anime I'll remember fondly in 15-20 years. It just wasn't all that moving or awesome like M+ or DYRL was for me.

I dont think Prime would have said much no matter the situation. Prime was a cold-blooded murderer in this movie. He's going to get a hockey mask in the next movie.

Wow. 3 paragraphs of background. Thats already 2 paragraphs more than what Hollywood needs to make a movie.

Considering how decked GBPs were when they sacrificed the ability to transform.... The YF-19s non-transforming armor/weapon packs is quite underwhelming.

That is what I meant, but I didn't think the 1/60 VF-1 would be able to squeeze the legs over the fragile yamato arm swivels back into a locked position anyway. Shows what I know.

Yea, the YF-19 carries all its ammunition internally... Which is a pretty damn tall order once you see that ALL of the missiles comes out of the bottom half of its legs. In one scene though, you do see the YF-19 with arm-mounted cannons.... Which you never see again, btw.

I like the black paint scheme on the VF-22, but I really wish they'd be able to mount guns, even if it did it using the non-canon YF-21 method. Yamato, please issue a black paint scheme for the YF-21, thanks.

Eh... I would have thought that little bits of sound like that were part of much larger stock clips and were used all over the place in industry. I think the song in MZero just pulled from that stock clip bank really.

I dont know about that. Leave it to Hollywood to leave out the biggest characters: the asteroids.

It has anime-magic heatshielding.

More VF-1s... Great. >_>

LUKE! Nice choice for vader =P

Kind of like a scene out of Kill Bill or something