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  2. MKT
    Love this story & write-up @Shawn. I think the images are better in B/W, looks more realistic than in color.
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  4. Special Sauce started following Question regarding Bandai DX VF-1D and super packs
  5. Special Sauce
    Apologies if this question has already been addressed. Do the Super pack sets for the Bandai DX VF-1 Valks fit on the VF-1D as well?
  6. borgified
    Not joking here, Hot Toys is actually making it. Put it beside Grogu and see what happens next.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    I kind of figured the opposite... that they were bothering to show the fight in the trailer, so there was probably a lot more of it since it was being shown as a centerpeice of the next episode. My mistake, I suppose. That's not quite what I'm getting at. There's not really a sense of how much time has passed since the first episode, but Machu and Nyan have spent very little time with Shuji in the series thus far. What little they've had in terms of interactions has mostly been Shuji talking to/about the Red Gundam or watching him graffiti everything that isn't nailed down. It'd be one thing for them to both be so attached to him if the series had actually shown a developing relationship between them, but Machu and Nyan seem to jump straight from being strangers to a dangerous level of obsessed with him. Machu basically goes from treating him like a stranger to suddenly having a massive emotional breakdown over Nyan having seen the "kira kira" because it was just for her and him, to robbing the Pomeranians and threatening to shoot the team's sponsor to protect him... all in what's implied to be maybe a couple of weeks at most. It all seems to revolve around the "kira kira" too, which kind of suggests that this isn't natural... they're being brainwashed somehow.
  8. Big s
    The Hambrabi did look like there wasn’t much different, but I need a better look on that one. The gyan on the other hand looks very different. There’s a little bit of a facial similarity and just a bit in the lowered legs. Maybe the only thing that doesn’t look totally redesigned would be the backpack, other than that it looks very alien. But the joints aren’t weird and I kinda think it might be a favorite of mine for the show so far. I want a better look though at the Hambrabi before I make a judgement on it because sometimes something looks great in the show until you really see its details. anyway, here’s pics of the kit that I had put in the model pages. Again, I think it looks very alien compared to the original version just found a pic of the hambrabithis one probably has the most similar look to its original design, but also wild looking. Arms are a bit thinner than I would have liked, but I don’t really think it’s made for hand to hand. There’s face is totally creepy though and I might buy a kit if they make one
  9. Tking22
    Oh yeah I'm still expecting some tragedy, even The Losers didn't make it out completely unscathed, and they were the ones to eventually defeat IT.
  10. Gabe Q
    @Shawn Incredibly impressive! You tell the story well and I enjoyed reading it.
  11. Thom
    8 years later... FINALLY!! Agree here. The same team in place does not guarantee a success. Case in-point, Incredibles 2. The major goof they made was to not make it a new story. It was basically the same plot from the first film, just switched between Helen and Bob with just more supers added. Not retreading a story line is the first thing to do when doing a sequel.
  12. Big s
    I kinda figured that would get derailed fast since the team had been bought out and the preview showed the refrigeration unit in action. I don’t think it’s that weird of an obsession. Most girls when I was that age would rather go for the long haired oddball than a basic guy that’s got their stuff together. Shuji may or may not be exactly a love interest as much as the guy with something to offer. For one girl he’s the escape from boredom that she’s been desperately craving and his partnership offered that awakening to her. To the other girl, it’s basically necessity for basic survival. He can get her away from her financial responsibilities. A teenage girl and a good amount of adult women will always pick a mess of a guy that’s offers a hint of a dream over sensibility and stability, even if there’s a high chance of derailing their life
  13. Big s
    Seems to be happening with a lot of companies over the issue. Hopefully things straighten out soon. Not sure how different they’ll be running things though
  14. MechTech
    @Chas I think I used Super Lube (liquid) last time I stripped my old airbrush down. It has Teflon in it and coats nicely. @derex3592 Congrats on moving indoors! I lived in TX for a short bit and the heat and humidity can get bad! The Eagle looks good too! @Papa Rat Cool! Those will be a BIG improvement over the stock butcher block hands. - MT
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  16. jvmacross
    Nice...so more diorama style pics, than the usual boring static poses....
  17. jvmacross
    Wait...so that probably means many of those b/w pics are actually in color?
  18. seti88
    Awesome artwork! What a memory trip to an amazing time! You can sense the passion of macross in the art and explanation even after all these years....Worth as much or more than any official macross book.... thanks for sharing @Shawn!
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  21. Seto Kaiba
    Caught today's episode of GQuuuuuuX over lunch... it was pretty disappointing. Last episode sold us the idea that there was going to be a big, climactic confrontation between the Twelve Olympians and Pomeranians for first place in Clan Battle and a possible double assassination attempt on Kycilia Zabi. We get none of that. The Gundams don't even fight. The writing in this episode is back to being a hot mess... particularly when it comes to the two main girls weird obsession with Shuji, a personality-less character they've spent almost no onscreen time with. Their sudden devotion to him and willingness to both fight over him and kill for him comes off as downright psychotic. The new designs being introduced are getting progressively less fugly. However, that appears to be a function of Studio Khara's ham-handed designer having to divide their limited time across multiple machines and therefore not having enough time to ruin each classic machine to the same extent as the Gundam and Zaku. The Psycho Gundam Mark II looks fine and almost UC-like until it starts dropping its armor and becomes an off-brand Evangelion in a maroon banana hammock for some reason, but the Gyan and Hambrabi made it past Khara's designer seemingly without more than a very minor aesthetic overhaul.
  22. Big s
    Saw some pics for the new Gyan At tag hobby. I still prefer some of the older designs, but for the new show, it’s one of the few so far I might actually buy a kit of. I do want to see that new Hambrabidefinitely a little on the odd side, but I actually kinda like this one
  23. davidwhangchoi
    i filed down the pegs so they won't scratch the canopy. the Vf-0S Arcadia filed them down at factory. sold my 0A copy to a MW user years ago so i no longer have it. I'm holding out for a premium edition or going to pass on it totally.
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  25. Shawn
    One more small addition. In Vol 4 they gather various other doujinshi from other circles and do a small review/comment. For L.Cat.'s "Notice" they were amazed at the quality (she eventually married Miyatake) I've always been a fan of her work, and so were they at the time! I have a copy of her Notice #6, I'll dig in the archives and scan it up here soon. I guess that could be the next quest...find all her earlier volumes! "NOTICE" published by L Cato (Yamagata) The more I read it, the more I can only praise it. Published in Yamagata. Even Captain Chiba was amazed by this amazing fanzine. It's still a bit tame because it's a thin paper, but if it were to be published in book form, it would likely sell better than MAT. It is not a magazine specializing in Macross, but covers all the hot topics of anime, comics, science fiction, fantasy, and aviation. The drawing skills are outstanding, and the sense is superb. It's hard to believe that the mecha, characters, and sharp writing were all done by a single woman. It's one of the ideal anime fanzines. You can see intelligence in the way they "find it entertaining." (MAT's constant complaining is just stupidity...) In issue 4, "Macross Journal" shows a glimpse of its hardcore side, casually pointing out that "because Prometheus is the left arm, the angled deck is unusable," and finishing off with "Nah, never mind, never mind, that's just the ramblings of a geek." They really get it. It's a big difference from a certain THQ that is "a bit of a horizontal stabilizer idiot." (As an aside, THQ's special feature on Macross was incredibly entertaining.) By the time I got to the fifth issue of the comic, "R-Gyo Irregular Use," I was completely blown away. It's amazing how such a highbrow way of watching anime can still be "interesting." "S-sign please!"
  26. Valkyrie Hunter D
    While it is a brand new game, Nitro Express certainly has the retro vibe going on:
  27. Big s
    This week had an entertaining episode. Things will probably be very different from this point on. Really looking forward to how things might end up
  28. sh9000

    Macross Books

    sh9000 replied to Penguin's topic in Collectors

  29. sh9000
    Season 2.
  30. sh9000
    Amongst the newer mainline, Wildrider is one of my favorites. Love the red windows.
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