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  2. Mog
    So, just finished up Lazarus. Definitely better to watch it as a binge, than a week to week watch. But the ending is definitely disappointing. The concept of Hapna was a great hook. And the idea of people kinda shrugging off the potential end of the world and not giving a damn (as a side-effect of the drug) made for an interesting concept and critique of our current world. But the ending felt tacked on and fell kinda flat.
  3. azrael
    FYI for Anime Expo 2025 attendees ==================== July 3, 2025 BIGWEST MACROSS Panel Panel Room: 511ABC START: 1:00 PM END: 1:50 PM Panel Description: Join us as we celebrate the journey of MACROSS — past, present, and future — with the fans at Anime Expo! Relive unforgettable memories, discover thrilling new projects, and embark on the next chapter of this legendary adventure together. ***This room will be cleared for the next panel.*** ==================== July 4, 2025 MACROSS NIGHT - Archive Screening presented by BIGWEST Panel Room: 402AB START: 7:30 PM END: 10:30 PM Panel Description: Join us for a special 3-hour MACROSS Night! We’ll screen the first episodes from 6 TV & OVA series in one unforgettable evening. Revisit each legendary beginning and celebrate the rich history of MACROSS with fans at Anime Expo!
  4. MKT

    Strike A Pose! revisted...

    MKT replied to dapro's topic in Toys

    That SDF-1 brick figure really is huge & imposing. Nice to see it can do a proper A-stance.
  5. MKT
    No it doesn’t. The KO is only as far as the figure itself. No chip inside.
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  7. sh9000
    Hot Wheels Premium Jurassic Park '92 Jeep Wrangler Sahara.
  8. sh9000
    Best of Superman.
  9. sh9000
    https://animethon.org/hidetaka-tenjin https://animethon.org/mayn https://animethon.org/junna
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  11. davidwhangchoi
    this is why i gave up on MB's. Bandai's always giving incomplete lines after a decade of waiting. can't even complete 00, the line they started MB's with. but we'll get another Exia, same old recycled figure.
  12. Big s
    I have the basic one and remember some fit issues with the legs, but more fun than I expected after completion
  13. 68whiskey
    I am in this same boat. I want the spears but I do not want any more Evas. This is also considering there is nothin new/special/updated about them. At least with the 2020 test type they had a unique coloration I have been holding out for GFFMC Heavy Arms as well. Considering Bandai already has so many Gunpla variants of it im really surprised we havent seen it yet. Im sure people would pay good money to complete a GFFMC EW set considering the big nostalgia factor behind Endless Waltz
  14. Big s
    I’m one of those holding out hope for Crossbone, but not holding my breath
  15. davidwhangchoi
  16. pengbuzz
    Yeah, that would be this (description of "Iron Type" in lower corner of four boxes): https://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/imai/imai_main.htm and this (main list): https://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/imai/imai_main.htm
  17. sketchley
    To add complexity to the エヴナ debate: be mindful that it may not be an English word, and that while ヴ may be "vu" in English, it may not represent "vu" in other languages. Random google search results for エヴナ: (more likely): エヴァン（エヴナ） in Tír na nÓg: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ティル・ナ・ノーグ (the land of eternal youth in Irish mythology): specifically in the section on ブランの航海 (The Voyage of Brân): "同作品では、エヴァン（エヴナ）はマナナーンの国とは別で、「女の国」である。" ⇒ In the work, Evan (Evna) is a "country of women" separate from the country of Mananaan. (less likely): Malick Evouna https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/マリク・エヴナ Interestingly, "Evna" is apparently the capital of the Land of Ev (https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Evna) Personally I think the Irish mythological connection is a better fit than the connection to "The Wizard of Oz". But one never knows. 🤷‍♂️
  18. Seto Kaiba
    That's the thing with general rules like that in language... they're true until they're not. Or to put it another way, they're always someone demanding an exception. Japanese is far from the worst offender among the languages I've studied over the years. 😆 There's only one reading for ヴ on its own, and that's "vu". They spell the ship's name エヴナ (e-vu-na) consistently, both in the Macross the Ride Visual Book (see Vol.2 Pg18) and in the light novel itself. On that basis, I'm inclined to assume it probably isn't a spelling error. Especially since it's a rather niche kana in the first place. (Not to say they didn't make spelling errors... though they tended to make them in romanizing katakana rather than the katakana itself. I can't find anything for "Evuna", apart from a chain of Spanish tapas bars in England. "Evna", however, presents a bunch of different options the most likely of which seems to be the Oz connection.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    All the usual suspects, I see. Akira has hopefully been spared the fate of joining that particularly inauspicious brotherhood.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Give it time. Bandai Namco Filmworks has been picking over Gundam's light novels for material to adapt for a decade or so now and they've already adapted a few higher-profile manga titles into animation like Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, and Mobile Suit Gundam-san. Eventually the light novel well will run dry and they'll start picking over the less-well received parts of their licensed manga catalog. Lots of fans are still holding out hope that, since we've seen Unicorn and Hathaway's Flash get animated, that Crossbone Gundam is next.
  21. Papa Rat
    Came home from a short vacation to this funny little kit I got from Wise Guys eBay store. It’s the IMAI 1/100 Glaug “iron type” It looks like the runners are all painted with a thin metallic wash which I haven’t seen before. Oh, and It also included a lunar display base. Very cool. Excited to get this going. Juggling multiple builds right now. 🤪
  22. PointBlankSniper
    I fully understand how dead in the water Gundam mangas are. I'm not saying it will get a show. Just addressing that it is their next immediate venture into tropey themes that they are throwing money behind, yet not fully commiting to it, exactly in the way you described. Just tacking on personal hopes that the writing does something I want to see, so that it could turn into something worth animating, not saying that has anything to do with plans for the project actually going anywhere.
  23. JB0
    Yeah, I wish the trailer was designed to look like a generator or a portable office building or something. Even a giant portapotty!
  24. M'Kyuun
    Long Haul has always been my favorite of the individual Constructicons, followed by Scavenger, both of whom I owned as a kid. They were the only Constructicons I owned, however, which means I waited decades before buying Toyworld's version making them my first and only complete set of the team to date. That'll change by the end of the year, and I'm happy about that. While they have their warts, the SS86 toys overall have been pretty well executed. I wish more of the vehicle functionality was present among the various team members. A non-tipping bed has always been my biggest gripe for nearly every version of Long Haul, including my TW version, since the original G1 toy and unfortunately the trend continues with this guy. I'm also afraid that SS86 Scavenger's boom deck isn't going to rotate either, a downgrade from his G1 toy if so. I do, however, love how closely this Long Haul skews aesthetically towards his G1 toy, and I like the arm solution even if it does leave some ugly black openings on the sides of the front, which really affects the cab side more than the exhaust side. Shame they couldn't make a hinged panel to cover that, but oh well. The highly noticeable gap between his pretty obvious feet and the extended cab guard is also another unfortunate holdover from the G1 toy, although the original did a better job of hiding it. I wish they'd deviated from the OG design and incorporated that into the feet so that the bed at least looked like one solid piece. On the whole, though, this take on Long Haul is a definite improvement over the CW version, and that makes me very happy. I'll be happy to have him in hand. As for the kibble trailer, while I'm not opposed to making it look utilitarian for use with Long Haul or one of the other team members, I don't like that it required the use of two large folding panels to form a sort of tonneau cover for the thighs only to become an industrial sized butt plate for Devastator. If I had my druthers, I'd just rather they let the thighs be thighs and omit the superfluous panels and accompanying wheels. I will, say, however, that at least the wheels match Long Haul's, complete with silver painted rims, and that helps to sell it as a purposeful accessory for Long Haul. However, the big purple wings on the sides and the black missile pods made up of Devy's arms kinda ruin the illusion that this is just a piece of construction equipment. but at least it's storage! 🙄😄 One last niggle: I wish he had the dual back wheels like the OG toy. Dump trucks, by the laws of nature, should have dual back wheels. It's also the rule of cool, and probably in the ancient Sumerian texts, the Egyptian hieroglyphs, Archimedes' treatises, and somewhere in the Bible. " Before thou hitcheth thine ox unto thy dump cart, maketh certain to affix dual wheels to each side" or some such verbiage. Probably in the Proverbs; they say Solomon was a smart dude. 😜
  25. Old_Nash_II
    CBR made a list https://www.cbr.com/most-disrespectful-western-anime-adaptations-ranked/
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  27. Thom
    Oh dear Gawd, why?!?! His last few Transformers movies (ie all of them) were so full of infantile, over the top crap that it's a wonder anyone would give him another franchise to wreck. Or further wreck. Can you wreck a wreck..? Wreck on a wreck!? The only good one to come out of the franchise was Bumblebee and that wasn't even directed by him. I recall seeing that and thinking that, finally, it had turned away from his idiotic corner, but I guess whether someone has talent or not doesn't matter. Unless it is 980° from anything else he has ever made, this is probably something I will not watch for free. In fact, I will pay myself not to watch it.
  28. SebastianP
    Err...what? Really really confused by this, because... that doesn't make much sense. B and V are the second most infamous "Japanese does not make a distinction" pair of consonant sounds after R and L - and one of the first anime I ever watched in Japanese was Slayers, where Megumi Hayashibara's voice going "REBITEI-SHUN" and "DORAGON SUREIBU" are some of my stand-out memories. Especially since I just rewatched the the first episode the other day. When you said they have different kana, I tried to look them up, and not a single kana table - even the big ones, that cover Hiragana, Katakana, Dakuon, Handakuon and Yoon - have a "vu" sound listed. So I'm really most sincerly confused. What kana are they using in that name? Edit: OK, I googled the kana itself from your post, and found a wiktionary page. It's a real kana, used exclusively for transliteration, and it's noted to be a relatively recent addition, which is likely why it's not in my scanned-from-schoolbooks tables. But... as mentioned, Japanese itself does not make a distinction, and we have plenty of examples of Japanese natives, even working professionally, being *really careless* with B/V and R/L because it doesn't come naturally. If you're really sure it's specfically meant to be a V sound, then Evna from Oz sounds like the best fit.
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