southpaw Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 I haven't found one yet.. I got my macross fix at this site..macrossworld.com my super robot fix at robot-japan.com my transformers fix at tformers.com and remy's my action figure fix at http://www.action-figure.com/ and http://toynewsi.com/ but no gundam site.... Quote
Mechafan Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 Try these: http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/index.htm http://www.fantoysia.com/ http://www.gundamofficial.com/ Quote
yellowlightman Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 All good sites, but they just remind me of how great the Gundam Project used to be. Oh well, at least Mark Simmons is wirting for gundamofficial.com, so it's close. I doubt we'll ever see a Gundam site comparable to Macross World in terms of merchandise coverage because of the huge amount of Gundam crap thats been released in the past 20 years. A smaller series like Macross is easier to cover than suge a sprawling series like Gundam. Also check out http://aeug.blogspot.com/ for daily Gundam news. Quote
motley Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 i honestly don't think there is a really good gundam site equivilent to MacrossWorld. i personally frequent Gundam Watch, it has a fairly small population, but there are a goodly number of well informed fans. i've found that most of the boards with big populations are highly remeniscent of RT.com, ie full of juvenile, underinformed fans who like to argue and put each other down, much of the recent US fan base for gundam is too young to put together a good online community. ok, so maybe this is me being a little bitter about the really good gundam sites all closing over the last few years. as yellowlightman said http://aeug.blogspot.com/ is a good site for news. MAHQ is a good spot for information. hope this helps. Quote
Skippy438 Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 MAHQ, Fantoysia, the Gunota Headlines Blog is the only blog I've ever liked (I mean ever, I hate blogs). Or you could just go to archive.org and get the archives of Gundam Project to reminesce, or see what you missed out on, depending. Gundamofficial is getting much better, their glossaries are becomming more complete. But who knows what will happen when gundam.com comes back, if it comes back. Quote
Panon Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 I've found that most of the boards with big populations are highly remeniscent of RT.com, ie full of juvenile, underinformed fans who like to argue and put each other down, much of the recent US fan base for gundam is too young to put together a good online community. Unfortunately the older fans are even worse. The bulk of the Gundam fanbase sadly are just completely obnoxious, especially the UC elitists. Quote
Skippy438 Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 (edited) I've found that most of the boards with big populations are highly remeniscent of RT.com, ie full of juvenile, underinformed fans who like to argue and put each other down, much of the recent US fan base for gundam is too young to put together a good online community. Unfortunately the older fans are even worse. The bulk of the Gundam fanbase sadly are just completely obnoxious, especially the UC elitists. nothing wrong with being a UC elitist Edited January 12, 2004 by Skippy438 Quote
mikeszekely Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 I've found that most of the boards with big populations are highly remeniscent of RT.com, ie full of juvenile, underinformed fans who like to argue and put each other down, much of the recent US fan base for gundam is too young to put together a good online community. Unfortunately the older fans are even worse. The bulk of the Gundam fanbase sadly are just completely obnoxious, especially the UC elitists. nothing wrong with being a UC elitist I'm gonna go with Skippy, here. I mean, sure, I'll admit that it was Wing that got me into Gundam. And I'll admit that Wing isn't bad, per se. But by now, I've seen every Gundam except for V, Turn A, G, and Seed, and Wing was by far my least favorite. It (kinda) has the Gundam themes... but they take away the seriousness of UC Gundam and replace it with a boy band (minus the music). Not to mention that it's pretty irritating when the younger fans refer to Char as a lame ripoff of Zechs, no matter how many times you explain to them that Char came first. Quote
yellowlightman Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 I've found that most of the boards with big populations are highly remeniscent of RT.com, ie full of juvenile, underinformed fans who like to argue and put each other down, much of the recent US fan base for gundam is too young to put together a good online community. Unfortunately the older fans are even worse. The bulk of the Gundam fanbase sadly are just completely obnoxious, especially the UC elitists. Depends on what you mean by older fan. I think the oldest Gundam fans on the net are on the Gundam Mailing List, and while definately UC-biased (lots of these peopel grew up with Gundam or got into it in the early 90's) they're definately not obnoxious. A lot of the UC elitism comes from the tons of Wing fans that sprouted up, and annoyed the hell out of the older UC with their lack of comprehension about the history of Gundam before Wing and their general teenybopper crapulence. Robotech fandom encountered a similar situation after CN started playing Robotech. Quote
Mechamaniac Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 This is a pretty good Gundam Site: http://www.gundamw.net/ and they have some not half bad forums, I have lurked but not posted. http://216.74.117.244/forums/index.php Quote
GreenGuy42 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 This site is really funny... Amen to that. I'll admit to being a UC elitist. I mean, I guess I enjoyed the Gundam Wing movie's mech designs, but between its soundtrack and characters, I... I just couldn't finish watching it.... Quote
motley Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Unfortunately the older fans are even worse. The bulk of the Gundam fanbase sadly are just completely obnoxious, especially the UC elitists. nothing wrong with being a UC elitist I'm gonna go with Skippy, here. I mean, sure, I'll admit that it was Wing that got me into Gundam. And I'll admit that Wing isn't bad, per se. But by now, I've seen every Gundam except for V, Turn A, G, and Seed, and Wing was by far my least favorite. It (kinda) has the Gundam themes... but they take away the seriousness of UC Gundam and replace it with a boy band (minus the music). Not to mention that it's pretty irritating when the younger fans refer to Char as a lame ripoff of Zechs, no matter how many times you explain to them that Char came first. pardon me, but i made no comments about about a preference of one show over another. i was picking no sides, wing introduced me to gundam as well. i was simply refering to the behavior i observe at the big gundam sites. there was a reason gundam.com closed, for the last several months the site was up, the only threads that saw any real activity were the ones where two or three people were flaming each other. most of the big sites i've hit are full of "vs" threads and "who's your favorite ___" threads, which don't make for a good community. most of the gundam boards out there either have too much moderation and few members or lots of members and too little moderation, Macross World manages to tread the fine line between these two. Quote
Skippy438 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Very true, but I find that true of most other boards on the internet no matter the subject. And though I am a UC elitist, I do have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed wing the first time it was shown, I tried not to miss a single episode, but during this time I discovered the Gundam Project and what at the time was Burke's mecha website (That eventually became MAHQ). By the fifth or sixth showing of wing it was starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth. Quote
Blaine23 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Bah, nothing is on par with Macrossworld. Quote
bsu legato Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Bah, nothing is on par with Macrossworld. That depends...how much do they whine about the many toys Bandai produces? Quote
Blaine23 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Bah, nothing is on par with Macrossworld. That depends...how much do they whine about the many toys Bandai produces? Surely you jest? More products = more whining. Quote
Britai 7018 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 YEah... i miss gundam project. I think that the UC series are better, but seed isn't too bad. I wonder if everytime a new Master Grade model comes out, they post "i'll wait for the perfect grade" Quote
Agent ONE Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Oh look, there are a ton of Gundam sites... Totally disconnected from each other, not making sense, and full of conflicting information... Kinda like Gundam. Quote
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