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Chapter 3, page 10. Panties and bra! Graham

Chapter 3, page 9. Graham

Chapter 3, page 8. Graham

Chapter 3, page 7. Graham

Chapter 3, page 6. Mecha push ups.........LOL! Graham

Chapter 3, page 5. Graham

Chapter 3, page 4. Graham

Chapter 3, page 3. Graham

Chapter 3, page 2. Graham

Chapter 3, page 1. Graham

OK, here's the first 15 pages of chaper 3 scanned in. Here's the color intro page. Graham

Guys, just picked up the April 2008 issue of Shonen Ace, containing chapter 3 of the Macross Frontier manga. This is a really kick ass issue. Spoilers: - Graham

That's hillarious. Graham

I've owened many Bandai toys over the years, including several of the SOC line (Various Mazingers, Getter, Combatler V, Grendizer). Also, more recently the SPEC Dragonar, which is an amazing toy. But I still don't want to see painted diecast in a Bandai Macross Frontier toy for the following reasons: - 1) Die-cast metal toys will suffer from paint chips sooner or later, no matter how careful you are, especially transforming or combining toys. 2) It's never possible to match the color of die cast cast painted parts and ABS parts exactly. 3) Weight may not be such an issue with non-transforming toys, but too much weight can cause serious issues with parts locking on transforming toys. Bandai hasn't proved themselves to me that they can make high die-cast content transforming toys. Toys like Voltes V, don't really count IMO, as they are combiners, not transformers, with relatively simple combining function. The only really complex die-cast transforming toy I can think of from Bandai with complexity on par with VFs is the SOC Gunbuster, but I don't own that personally, so can't really comment. Graham

If Bandai's 1/100 line turns out to be HCM-Pro type toys and they make the VF-171 with all the markings Tampo printed on, I will be as happy as a pig in crap. For their 1/60 DX line, as long as they keep the die-cast metal parts to only where needed for strength (i.e. swing bars), make the rest of the toy out of ABS, have nice tight joints, parts that fit and lock together well and have at least a similar level of detail as Yamato's 1/60 toys, I will be happy. I'm just preying they stay away from unecessary painted die-cast metal exterior parts. IMO, die-cast and transforming toys just don't mix. Graham

Had some time free this aternoon, after a meeting finished earlier that expected, so I headed of to the toy shops of Mong Kok district to try and track down the Mega House offerings. Now, I only wanted to buy one, probably the Stick, but every single damn shop was only seeing both together as a set and for about HK$850 (US$109) a set. This was a bit more than I was willing to pay, so in the end I went home empty handed. Graham

But seriously, now that we know that Bandai have the licene, really hope they treat it with respect and do their best to give us some kick ass toys. Graham

LOL....It's all true I tell you...................NOoooooooooo! Graham

Chapter 1, page 73. And that concludes chapter 1. Chapter 3, is out in Japan since Feb 26, but I haven't been able to find it here in HK yet. As soon as I do find it, I'll start the scans in a new thread. Graham

Chapter 1, page 72. Graham

Chapter 1, page 71. Graham

Chapter 1, page 70. Graham

Chapter 1, page 69. Graham

Chapter 1, page 68. Graham

Final batch of scans. Chapter 1, page 67. Graham