Graham

Not good sculpt = not good toy. Graham

Only a couple of days til' the new issues of Hobby Japan & Dengeki Hobby come out. Hopefully, we'll get some new progress pics and release dates for the Frontier toys. Ya' know, I was thinking today it would be great if Bandai released some Frontier gashapon toys. Not, because I really like or want gashapons, but just beacuse it would be so cool to be able to walk into a 7-11 and see Frrontier toys in their gashapon machines, instead of the same old Gundam and Eva stuff. Graham

I was immediately gonna jump on the bandwagon and say Brera Sterne must be guy, but after looking at Aegis's picture analysis, I'm not so sure any more. Graham

Are we all looking at the same toys? They look terrible IMO! Still will probably pick up one of each just for fun though. Graham

Great job as always Steve. Graham

Good screen capture Ironside. I'm going to go with the port you have circled in red as the more likely candidate for a micro-missile port, just because it does look more like what we have come to expect a traditional micro-missile port in the Macross universe to look like. Of course for the large missiles, there is the possibility that they may launch from more tradional bays mounted in the sides of the lower legs, with hinged opening doors, like on the VF-19Kai's legs. Or as I've suggested before, those two missiles may have just been a continuity screw up. Graham

Never! I tried getting into 00 a few months ago, but just couldn't. There was nothing about it I found likeable or attention grabbing. After the Macross Frontier Deculture episode aired last December (and after watching it about 20 times), I found myself wanting a mecha anime fix to get me through until April when the Frontier TV series started. So despite not liking what I'd seen of the 00 mecha or character designs in the hobby mags, I decided to give it a shot and downloaded the first 5 fansubbed episodes. After all, quite a lot of members of this forum had praised the series. I think the Deculture edition really spolied me, as 00 by comparison seemed just so average and dull. Apart from my namesake character, I didn't find any of the characters interesting. Neither did I care what happened to them next. I really disliked the mecha designs. The story didn't draw me in at all. The action scenes were really dull, with boring fight choreography IMO and the music was nothing special. I also thought the animation quality only deserved a 'poor-to-average' rating. Last Gundam show I really liked was 08th MST. Graham

I've always thought that Valks have needed some sort of melee weapon, better than a pin point barier punch for hand to hand (hand to claw?) combat. Sure seems that way. Graham

Well, if the anime follows the manga, which it has been we still at least one more homage episode to go next week. I don't see this as a bad thing myself. Graham

I'm also of the opinion that the VF-25 does have the capability to carry at least some internal ordnance. however, in episode 1 and the Deculture edition it may actually be carrying larger, what look like medium range missiles, not micro-missiles. We discussed this back in December when the Deculture edition first aired. Gilliam's VF-25 launches what appears to be a pair of medium range type missiles, not micro-missiles. See the attached screen capture which shows the first of Gilliam's missiles about to strike the red Vajra. From it's size it's definitely too large to be a micro missile. I'm also curious as to why we have not seen any of the VF-25 armed with wing-mounted missiles yet. The opening animation clearly shows 3 hard points per wing and the early trailers also showed a VF-25, carrying wing-mounted ordnance. Graham

Hmm......there's a big potential difference in meaning between:- and I think we really need a native speaker to clear this up. Graham

One of the many things that’s really impressing me about this series so far is the extremely high level of detail that they are putting not just into the mecha, but also into the backgrounds and spaceships. Some of the exterior spaceship shots in episode 3 really blew me away. Graham

Hmm........., I forget was it confirmed that the total number of discs to be released is 9? If so, it looks like it is going to be a 26 episode show as previously rumored. Graham

Interesting. I don't recall seeing that post from azrael before. Graham

I've just been searching through azrael's posts, but haven't been able to find anything so far about the VF-25 having equivalent performance to the VF-19 and VF-22. Mind you, I only searched back through 10 pages of his posts. I did however find this translation of a magazine article by MWer Cyde01: - and While I think this should still be treated as speculation, the key sentence above is: Graham

No pics in signatures. Please take it down. Graham

Err..........no we don't. While I don't want to re-ignite the whole "Armored VF-25 can/can't fly in an atmosphere" arguement, I do feel I need to say say that I personally disagree with the above quoted statement. As, as far as I know and I'm open to being corrected, there is nothing officially published or nothing shown so far in the anime to back up this statement. At the momen't about the only official hard data we have about the VF-25 are it's height, length and wingspan. Ironside, I freely admit I am arguing semantics here, but if you had written "I think the VF-25 has performance similar to the VF-19", I wouldn't be writting this post. For all we know, the VF-25 may be as much of an improvement performance-wise over the VF-19 as the VF-19 was over the VF-11. Until we get some hard stats from Kawamori, anything else is just pure fan-based supposition, nothing more, nothing less and should not be presented as fact. This is just pure conjecture on my part, but I'm going to go out on a limb and make a guess that the VF-25 with have around 30%-40% higher thrust than the VF-19 and be of a similar weight, or even slightly lighter without Super or Armored Packs, thus likely having a far higher thrust to weight ratio. Again, just pure guesswork on my part. Heck for all we know it may even have some sort of gravity control system, inertial cancelling system and other fancy new tech. Graham

I'm going to go with rail gun for the moment, or possible some sort of plasma cannon. Graham

1) Alto transfered to pilot training mid-year and so missed the SMS selection process. 2) SMS is a private military company (like Blackwater), not part of the military. Graham

Grabbed some more pics of Mikhail's VF-25 in an effort to get a better look at the head. Also, the shot of the VB-6. Heh, everytime I type a post about Mikhail, I have to consciously stop myself from typing 'Max' instead of 'Mikhail'. Graham

Guys, please stop with the spoiler tags. It's already over 24 hours since the episode aired. If you haven't seen the raw and don't want to be spoiled, then why the frak are you looking at page 7 of a thread about episode 3!!!!!!! Graham

He, if I can get that much for it, maybe I should put mine up for auction on Yahoo Japan. Maybe then I can afford one of those Experten VF-17. Graham

I actually like it that Kawamori created a reason for Ranka's moving hair. I always prefer to have an explanation, rather than putting things down to anime magic. Graham

I didn't get that feeling at all. Quite the opposite actually. I really got the feeling he wants to fly Valks. He seems to have an interest in them and even knew that the VF-25 was a new fighter still in testing. I also got the feeling that he quite likes Ranka. Hopefully, Alto will be a quite normal character that likes valks, girls and flying and not a typical angsty whiny anime brat. Graham

Hang on, I thought her name is Klan Klein. First time I've seen it as Kuu Klaan. Graham