Graham

Been looking at the photos to try to figure out where the leg fins go in battroid mode. I looks like the partially slide into the lower leg, with the end of the fins still exposed. Graham

Yes it says the 1/72 VF-25 model is fully transformable. The price is posted on the sign as 4,200 yen. No, there has been no announcement from Bandai that they are making non-transforming Frontier kits. Graham

Anybody want to take a shot at translating the SMS theme - 'That Girl's an Alien' into English? I really like this song and would love to know what they are singing. Graham

Or likely at Tokyo Toy Show, which I think is coming soon. Graham

Yeah, I agree, they don't really look like beams, but they do seem to be firing from the wing rots IMO. Graham

I'm going by these screen shots, which seem to show two separate streams of fire, from the left and right side of the plane and also muzzle flash from what looks like the wing root area. Graham

Read all the spoliers about the Macross Quarter movinga around like a Valk, before finally getting to watch the episode on Saturday. When I actually watched it, I really didn't think it was as agile as people were saying. From all the comments, I thought we'd be seeing loop the loops, cartwheels and spinning kicks. No great suspension of disbelief needed on my part for what we saw it doing. It accelerated fast and weaved a bit, that's all. I guess all the crew have some sort of restraint system, like the bridge crew, to stoop them getting squished, especially the hanger crew. Graham

Wing root guns marked in red on the attached picture. In Battroid mode, they are on the hips. Graham

I don't think it's all recycled footage. While I haven't compared eps 1 & 7 side by side, I think there is some new fooootage in there not previously shown. Graham

Yah, let's burn them Gundam 00 fanboys (lights torch and gets out pitchfork)! Graham

The beam guns are on the hips in battroid and in the wing roots in fighter mode. They ar not the mid-wing protrusions. Yes, you can distiguish between them and the gunpod fire, if you watch in slow motion. Graham

I really wanna know who the 5 people who voted negative are. OK, I can just about understand a negative vote for episode 6, but certainly not for episode 7. My mind just can't grasp how any Macross fan cannot think that that was a kick-ass episode. Heh, I bet the haters are Robotekkies, disappointed that Admiral Lick Hunter hasn't showed up yet. Graham

The last release, the SV-51 was pretty much flawless. The YF-19 only had very minor issues. The new 1/60 VF-1 looks to be flawless (trust me on this). As far as I'm concerned, the only Yamato Macross toys with major issues have been the arms on the VF-0 (since fixed) and the hip joints on the VF-11B (fixed on the Fast pack release). Graham

I didn’t get the feeling that the Vajra were any less deadly in episode 7, just that SMS used better tactics and equipment. As far back as episode 1, it’s been show that the small yellow Vajra are vulnerable to VF-25 gunpod fire. It’s only the larger red guys that seem relatively invulnerable to gunpod fire and micro-missiles. We’ve already seen from episodes 2 and 3 that Michael’s sniper rifle is powerful enough to penetrate a Red Vajra’s energy-conversion armour with ease. In episode 7, we see the small yellow Vajra taken out by gunpod fire from Alto & Ozma and mass micro missiles from Ozma, which is consistent. We see red Vajra taken out by Michael’s sniper rifle, again consistent. We also see multiple Vajra destroyed by the fire from the Konig Monster, which is not surprising given the power of the VB-6's weapons. The red Vajra’s energy-conversion armor is tough, but not invulnerable. The yellow Vajra, while fast and deadly are not nearly so tough. Graham

Love the pic of Ranka wearing Minmay's DYRY dress and also the one of Sheyrl wearing Ranka's purple hippo-cow pajamas. I'm not a huge fan of Klan as I don't normally like overly busty girls, but the pics with Mikhail stuck between her breasts are great. Anyway, it's nice to see so much fan art. Graham

More questions are good at this early stage IMO. Keeps us guessing. Don't want things too predictable. As long as the questions get wrapped up by the end of the series though. It's a bit depressing to think we are already a quarter of the way through the series. It's so good, I just want it to go on and on for 100+ episodes! (if they can keep the same level of quality so far). Graham

Not really being a perfectionist. Just saying I think the exposed Revoltech joints, mostly the shoulder ones really spoil the look of these figures. It's perfectly possible to make an accurate looking, non-transforming mecha action figure with good articulation in the US$20-US$30 price range, without sticking these huge ball joints everywhere. Graham

Damn Macross, always copying off of Robotech! Graham

Hmm.......gotta study Luca's Ghosts in more detail and see if they are more than just cosmetically different to the NUNS Ghosts we saw in the Deculture edition. Here's a couple of screen captures of Luca's Ghosts. Don't have time to grab some pics of the NUNS Ghosts right now. Graham

Read this thread. Graham

Renato started a thread about this already, where he posted full scans of the pages from 'Animation Note' magazine. Rentato has already stated that these are only early draft designs and it is noted in the text that the Regult type mecha is not likely to be used in Frontier. Graham

The Regults are great, bought 2. The Revoltech ball joints are really well hidden and don't stand out at all, unlike the VF-1. The only bad thing I have to say about the Regults is I've found the dark grey(black) paint on the guns and a few other places comes off quite easily, exposing the white PVC underneath. I'm still hating the Revoltech VF-1 toys though. Sorry, I don't understand how you guys think they look nice. You can't pose the nose cone and chest in a straight line, which means the figure looks like it has a permanent spinal deformity. The worse thing is that the revoltech shoulder, elbow and neck joints really stand out and look out of place, espcially the shoulder joints. The shoulder joints also position the shoulders far too high, making the VF-1, look like it's always hunching it's shoulders up. I like Revoltech's where the Revoltech joints are fairly unobtrusive and not too noticable, a good example being the Helldiver, but on the VF-1, the huge balls just look fugly, fugly, fugly IMO. Graham

Don't you know about Renato? He walks around on his hands n' head 24/7! So for him, these are the right way up. Graham

Yeah, this episode showed us that the VF-25 is pretty tough. Alto's VF-25 had it's right(?) wing tip blown off when he was approaching the Vajra carrier in fighter mode. Then once inside the carrier, he took the hit to the back, which completely blew off both wings. Next, IIRC he may have taken some hits to the arm shield (just going by memory), when he was shooting at the first yellow Vajra, resulting in no additional damage. Then he took the hit to the right arm, which disabled it, but didn't blow it off. Then he took the hit which completely destroyed the head. Lastly, after he'd transformed to Gerwalk, the 2nd Yellow Vajra used it's tail spike to destroy the VF-25 Gerwalk. Graham

I think you could be right. Actually, Grace is pretty hot. Graham