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  1. And of course back in the day, Arii released a couple of plastic models of the Zentraedi cucumber ships. Graham
  2. While Bandai generally makes quite durable toys, they are not without their share of breakages also. Two breakage-prone Bandai toys that spring to mind are the hips on the first Soul of SPEC EVA and the extremely fragile shoulders on the New Material Model Turn A toy. Cross fingers the 1/60 DX VF-25 will be sturdy enough. Graham
  3. That 1/60 has obviously been eating a whole lotta pork chops then. (BTW, here in Hong Kong, 'Pork Chop', is slang for a fat ugly girl). Graham
  4. That's just a Test shot or painted resin sample in that pic, not the production version. The final production version will likely have tampo printed markings. We get this we every release. prototype pics turn up online showing the toy with stickers and people start complaining, then when the toy is released it has tampo printed markings. You guys should know the rountine after all these years! The only toy that Yamato really should have tampoed but didn't IMO was the Uran Camo 1/48 GBP. Graham
  5. No, no and no! As much as I love the original series, I don't want them to repeat what's been done before. IMO, there's no need to remake everything, just cus' it's a couple of decades old. Graham
  6. Sorry, I didn't quite catch that. So is it a toy, or a model? Graham
  7. No trust me, I would lose. I really, really suck at painting. Hey, perhaps we could run two contests, one for the pros like WM Cheng to see who can build the best model and one for people like us, to see who can do the crapiest build......LOL! Graham
  8. Agreed, but I'm still going to get one as a substitute toy, until the real toys come out. My craving for a VF-25 is too strong and I need my fix now man. Can't wait until December or January or whenever the damn 1/60 DX VF-25 Chunky is coming out. Graham
  9. Scan? Will try to pick up tomorrow. Hmm.....'Macross Begins'...........perhaps it will be a new TV series or OVA based on the 1999 to 2009 period, i.e. from when the ASS-1 crashes to the start of the orignal SDFM TV series. I'd still love a season 2 of Frontier though. Anway, unless Sketchley is pulling our collective legs about the writing on the back of the poster it sounds like Frontier was a big enough success that we may be getting some form of new Macross anime next year.....yippee! I do hope it's something set in the 2050s or beyond though. I'm personally not keen on retreading old ground with an origin story. Graham
  10. I usually use the terms 'TV games' (HK-English) or 'console games' for stuff like Playstation, X-Box etc. 'Handheld games' for PSP, gameboy etc 'Arcade games' for well, arcade games. And computer games for any game played on a computer. If you say 'video games' here in HK, most people would just look at you blankly. Graham
  11. Love that NT pic of Sheryl as Basara and Ranka as Minmay. Fantastic pic of the VF-171EX battroid as well. Graham
  12. While I haven't read a Marvel comic since my teens (except for Marvel Zombies), isn't Captain America supposed to be white, and Will Smith is err.......not? Mind you I've been wrong about the race thing before. I could have sworn that when I last read some Nick Fury stuff back in the 80s', he was a grizzled old white dude with an eyepatch, yet he was played by Samuel L. Jackson in the recent Iron Man movie. Not that there's anything wrong with using actors of a different race to portray a character, but I would have thought that most fans would have a reasonable expectation that a character be the same race in a movie adaptation as in the printed source material. Graham
  13. While I love the original TV series and OVAs, Pailsen files just leaves me cold. I only watched up to ep # 6, but just couldn't get into it at all. It's a shame, cus' I really wanted to like this OVA. Part of the problem for me anyway, is that ATs need to be cell animated. Unlike Valks, which actually look good in CG, ATs in Pailsen files look like they come from an early PS2 cut scene movie. Graham
  14. IMO, no video games should be made into movies. And why do we even call them 'video games'? I much prefer the HK-English term 'TV games', as we play them on our TVs, not on our VCRs. Graham
  15. At least they should come with a display stand and a good selection of accessories (FAST Packs, missiles etc). Perfect transformation may not necessarily be desirable at this scale. You need to remember that in toy design, especially at this scale and doubly especially with complex transforming toys there are a lot of trade-offs involved. If you want line-art accuracy, a high level of articulation AND perfect transformation, then these ideals while desirable are not necessarily compatible with durability. The more complex you make a toy, especially thre smaller the scale, the more potential there is for durability issues to arise. Graham
  16. I understand why people are extremely upset if their expensive toy breaks and there is no way to repair it, I'd be too. However, I'm surprised that some people are against the extra articulation that Yamato added to the shoulder. IMO, it really improves the poseablity of the toy. And I'd hardly describe the shoulder as flapping around. If we get no reported breaks on the VF-1A Hikaru, that makes me wonder how much of the problem is user error VS. design and material issues. Graham
  17. They are not both decal sheets. One sheet is water-slide decals and the other sheet is stickers. If you are a hard-core model builder and want to build it like a proper display model, i.e. puttty, sand and paint it's best to use the water slide decals for a professional looking result. If on the other hand, you just want to do a quick build and consider the kit more of a playable action figure, rather than a display model, you can just assemble it without paint, slap the stickers on and you are ready to go. I'm hopeless with paint and decals, so I will do the latter, with maybe some panel lioning as well. Basically, I just consider the 1/72 kit a stop-gap measure to give me a VF-25 to play with until the 1/60 and 1/100 toys come out. Graham
  18. +1 on the over-reacting thing. Graham
  19. Bandai's kits do tend to get floppy over time, especially the transformable kits. Graham
  20. I'm just surprised that Leon/NUNS let Alto and Luca fly in pursuit of SMS at all. I would have grounded them until there'd been sufficient time to prove their loyalty, not let them fly after the Macross Quarter. Heck for all Leon/NUNS knew they could just have been pretending to join NUNS and then flown off with their brand new VF-171EX to rejoin SMS. And what's with Klan? She didn't go with SMS, but didn't seem to be with NUNS either. Graham
  21. OK, email with pics sent to Yamato. Awaiting their response. In the meantime, perhaps Japan based retailers such as Overdrive or HLJ can order some replacement right shoulder hinges from Yamato. Graham
  22. He likes playing with 1/55 Chunkey Monkeys. I've given him my 2002 reisssue VF-1A CF and vF-1J Hikaru. He also likes the Bandai VF-17S/D, cus' he can transform them by himself. He's not into watching SDFM yet, too much talking, although he likes to watch the action scenes in Frontier. I gave him my SOC Combattler V about half a year ago and he loves it. Lots of paint chips now though and the 2 head antennas have long broken off. Graham
  23. I think can accept parts-formring for the VF100s line as long as they (a) look great, and (b) most importantly, they lock together well in all three modes. I really hope they are not like the transforming GFF toys, e.g Z-Plus, where they don't lock together real well and parts constantly fall off if you breath on them wrong. Graham
  24. Just checked several hobby and model shops during my lunch break but no sign of it yet. Here in HK, we usually get stuff within 1-2 days of the Japanese release date, or sometimes simultaneously or occasionally a few days earlier, due to the shorter distance from the the factories in southern China to HK, compared with to Japan. Graham
  25. There's none showing up on Yahoo Japan Auction yet, which is usually a reliable indicator that something is out. Usually with Japanese toys or models they are pretty good at keeping to the specified release date, although 2-3 days early is not too uncommon. Graham
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