Shawn

I can't believe it took me almost 40 years to figure out the connection. I've always asked around but no one seemed to know who the artist was. I've especially loved this illustration. Just awesome talent.

I was not able to make the connection until today, but his wife was an artist under the name "L. Cat." !!!! https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/宮武一貴 https://100lightyear.hatenadiary.jp/entry/2017/07/10/140236 妻は「L.CAt。」（エルキャット）名義で活動していた同人作家で、雑誌「COMIC NOIZY」（1988-1989年）に宮武と連名でイラスト小説『アドバンスト・アプラサス』を連載したこともある。 His wife was a coterie writer who was active under the name of "L.CAt.", And also serialized the illustration novel "Advanced Apprasus" in the magazine "COMIC NOIZY" (1988-1989) under the joint name of Miyatake. be. I've ALWAYS wondered who this talented artist was, I absolutely loved her work!!! I'm simply blown away it was her. She was responsible for most of my favorite art pieces in the back of the books! Here are some of of the famous drawings you are all very aware of.

found some box images on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/133915914507 https://www.ebay.com/itm/133915917494

jvmacross-what scene is that from?

Not often you can BUY the cool items too! https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m1014238464 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h1014224594

a video was posted too, just insane! I just can't believe the amount of effort that went into this

yeah-it would be a Mercari 1500 yen, found in my dad's attic

Had to do the math on that-it seemed suspicious, but checks out...crazy! Add in shipping and it is $400 in today's dollars to your door. 1/48 VF-1J Valkyrie (Hikaru Ichijo Custom) (11/2003) – MSRP 14800円 1/48 GBP-1S Armor Parts for VF-1 Valkyrie (12/2005) – MSRP 12000円 26800 Yen combined Exchange rate in 2003 1 USD = 115 Yen 26800/115 = $233 USD (2003 rate) $233 USD in 2003 compared to 2021 USD $233 in 2003 is worth $347.36 today https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/2003?amount=233

So now we just need someone to offer up the bags!

and the pins (ignore the summer 84 in the middle)

and finally found the last shita I was missing, yay!

dug out the stickers (complete as far as I know)

Just found the 40th annivesary logo on the official site (super small)

In the netflix 'movies that made us series'...robocop episode, about 18m in, they talk about the ed-209 being inspired by the glaug

ok, I THINK I re-enabled the correct email settings...so let me know if I missed anything or its not working! S

I'll break into this discussion once to remind everyone- Our volunteer moderators do their best to keep posts from occasionally derailing, but the majority of the responsibility for the discussion quality here is on YOU. Not everything requires a comment back. Not everyon will agree with your opinions. Please stay on topic and respectful to other members here. S

What is the missile count of the GBP vs the Legioss (we can include the Imai arm missile box too) Who would win in a stand off

Found the issue and have corrected it. Does anyone care about the email notifications when following a post/getting notified? I re-enabled personal message emails, but was wondering about the rest...like is it too much noise S

no clue what it is doing, but whatever it is started was just a few days ago Sure it was some system update that threw something out of whack

there are apparently different levels of 'following a topic/member' I've turned them all off, so hopefully this will get things working again until I figure out what the heck happened to emails on the server

That is purty

Yeah...ditto Found the cause-the stupid email alerts For followed content and personal messages, it was getting errors and timing out I've temp disabled emails for posts and messages until I can sort it out this week Let me know if you see a difference now S

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another test

ok its normal again I think