Graham

The November issues of Dengeki Hobby magazine and Hobby Japan magazine should be out in the next 3 or 4 days (usually released here in Hong Kong on the 25th of each month), so hopefully there will be some new pics in them. Of course, I'll scan and post any new pics as soon as I pick up the magazines. Graham

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more. I keep trying to persuade my wife to try a bit of the old multiplayer, together with her cute elder and younger sister and preferably with a video camera to film it all, but no luck so far . Oh I see you are talking about video games........oh well never mind then . Graham

Of course, Roslin will turn out to be a Cylon, so even if she does die, there will be more copies. Graham

OK, if we're just talking epic sci-fi books (not movies), my choice is: - Iain M. Bank's Culture novels. Harry Turtledove's Worldwar & Colonization series. David Wingrove's Chung Kuo books. Ian Douglas's Heritage Trilogy Pattrick Tilley's Amtrack Wars. John Ringo's Posleen War books. Frank Herberts Dune series. (none of the books written by others after his death though). Graham

Any pics of the 'Stealth Viper'. Very curious. Graham

Just want to see if Renato or any of our other Japan based members are going to be at the Tokyo game Show 2005, which is being held from 16th to 18th September? Of course if anybody does go, please make sure to check for news on any new upcoming Macross games. It would be great if we could finally have a sequel to the Sega/AM2 DYRL PS2 game. Graham

Why do I think if Yamato were to come out with a SV-51, they will stuff it up? 327955[/snapback] If they get someone like Nishikawa (the guy who designed the 1/48) to do the sculpt, everything should be good and dandy. I've got confidence that they won't screw up the SV-51. But do you realize that a 1/60 SV-51 is going to be huge. I've got the Hasegawa 1/72 SV-51 and VF-0S and the SV-51 absolutely dwarfs the VF-0. Graham

Pretty difficult getting bootleg anime DVDs at the moment here in Hong Kong as the HK Customs authorities have been really stepping up their raids on the bootleg anime DVD shops recently and most of them are currently closed. Ands it's not like in the past, where Customs would just raid once a twice a year only and the shops would be back in business after a few days. Now, they are getting raided as soon as they try to reopen and most of them seem to have shut down for good. Graham

Saw the pre-production samples a couple of weeks ago together with Blackaces, Neova and Valk 009. The figures looked excellent. On seeing them, I immediately placed a preorder for Hicks, even though I don't collect or currently own a single 12" action figure. Graham

Gotta try to get hold of this somehow. Graham

When was the last time you saw an anime character of any age with hairy armpits? Graham

Awesome videos, although the crashes made me go ouch. Luke, you do realise that you are going to have to make a flyable APHOS as well now . It would be great if we could find some way for Kawamori to see these videos. I bet he'd get a real kick at seeing one of his creations fly for real. Graham

Wow, just looked at this thread for the first time. Absolutely amazing SV-51. Hope you can take and post some video clips of the thing in flight. Graham

Perhaps instead of those Valk icons, we could have a Spiritia level meter or something Graham

Not really keen on the pilot color . Mind you I've never really been a fan of the VF-1A Cannon Fodder anyway. Still going to pick up one, but only one. And that fugly box is going straight in the trash Graham

While space combats are great and all, it doesn't make sense to have them in every single episode just for the sake of having some space combat. The present story arcs don't require space combat and it woud be a bit out of place just to throw in some random space combat to please fans. I'm sure once these story arcs play out then we'll get some kick ass space combat. As Gaijin mentioned in an earlier post a little while ago, season 2 has had lots of CG effects already, just most of it has been in land battles with the mechanical Cylons. And you have to admit that some of those firefights were pretty cool. Graham

Regarding recaps, I can live with a maximum of 1 in a 26 ep series, none in a 13 ep series and an absolute maximum of 2 in a year long series. They have really ovrdone it with the high number recaps in GSD. Graham

Bah, it's already September 10th in this part of the world. You guys are like so yesterday . Graham

Heh, from the look of those pictures, if the Shadow Fighter tries firing it's gun in fighter mode, it's gone shoot itself in the back of the cockpit Graham

I notice at the recent Wonderfest, that Liquid Stone is also selling a 1/6 scale version of the Studio Nue Powered Armor. Here's the pics from Noel's Wonder Fest report thread in the toy forum. ToyboxDX also had some news about this kit recently and IIRC, I think a price of US$500 per kit was mentioned.....ouch! We all know that Liquid Stone is not known for being cheap . Not sure if the kit includes the 1/6 scale trooper figure or you need to supply your own 1/6 scale figure. Graham

Nope, no APCs anymore. The Dropships are still quite easy to find, but when we went shopping on Monday we didn't see a single APC and we looked in all the shops in Mong Kok. Graham

Went shopping with Blackaces, Valk009 & Neova on Monday evening and we found a couple of shops that had stock of the limited edition black version Aoshima Dropship (limited to 500pcs). Not sure why anybody would want a black version though? Graham

I'm betting that just like the Yamato 1/60, the Toynami Alpha was not designed using CAD, hence the poor parts fitting. Graham

But the SD Lunamaria is so cute Graham

Nah, this one reminds me more of a lobster . Graham