Graham

This is sorta off topic as this forum is for discussing Macross games. Graham

My most espensive single Macross toy purchase has been US$900 for a Bandai 1/55 VE-1. Graham

I'll get them added later today. Graham

Just added Jung's Minmay Guard custom as well. Graham

Excellent work. Graham

Outstanding work Jung. It's going up on the custom gallery right now. Graham

Just added Kurt's 1/48 VF-1A Enigma custom and also a couple of Solscud007's Joke Machine customs. I also moved some of the pics from page-1 of the 1/48 gallery to page-2, to make page-1 a bit shorter. Graham

Somebody else suggested that earlier in this thread and I've thought about it, but I'm not going to do it for the moment, as it would take a lot of time to change it that way and I just don't have that much free time. Maybe one day when I'm really bored and have absolutely nothing else to do I'll get round to it . Anyway, other pages on MW are organised the same way as the custom toy gallery, especially the magazine pages. Graham

The gallery is still a bit light on Yamato 1/72 and Bandai 1/65 customs. Send them in if you've got them please. Graham

Keep them coming Kurt. The more the merrier Graham

Ah....missed that one. I'll get Kurt's 1/48 VF-1A Enigma custom uploaded at the weekend. Graham

Where on the box does it say it? Picture? Graham

I put the gunpod w/hand from the VF-1S on the armored VF-1J. Looks better that way IMO. Graham

Thought it was ok, but nothing really special. A rental movie only IMO. Good for one watch. Glad I didn't see it at the cinema and not the sort of movie I'd bother buying on DVD. Different strokes for different folks I supose. Graham

Haven't seen it yet. Keep meaning to as several people have said good things about it, but the design of the main mecha puts me off. I'm the sort of person that even if an anime has an excellent story, characters, music etc, I still don't like to watch it if it has what I consider to be ugly mecha. Graham

Interesting articles, although a bit out of date now in some areas. Also, the author seems a bit misinformed about the capabilities of modern European Fighters (Typhoon, Rafale & Gripen) or Eurocanards as he refers to them. It's my opinion that he is severely underating them by placing them in the same league as US teen series fighters. Also, the author seems to rate the JSFs air-to-air capabilty far too highly IMO. Is he even aware that the F-35 can't use Sidewinders from internal bays? That's one advantage that the Boeing JSF contender had over the F-35. The author also makes reference to the JSF being used in the CAS role, a role for which I still think it is poorly suited. Graham

I love the VF-22, but I really wouldn't like to see one based on Yamato's existing YF-21. While not as bad IMO as Yamato's YF-19 in terms of accuracy of the sculpt, it could still benefit from a complete redesign. The YF-21's stubby plane nose really gets to me these days. The VF-22 is such a cool plane that it really deserves a nicer looking more accurate sculpt. And don't even get me started on that abomination that is the Yamato YF-21FP Of course what I most want to see is the VF-17D/S with FAST Packs in Diamond Force and Miria colors, probably won't happen tho Damn you Bandai, you had the Miria VF-17S ready to go, why did you cancel it.....Grrrrr!!!!!! And yes, like most fans, I'd also love a Macross 7 color VF-11C with FAST Packs and removeable Full Armor. I feel that the VF-11 is another VF that really deserves a total resculpt from Yamato. Will it happen, sigh I don't know. Graham

I'm a fan of Orguss, so if Yamato or any other Japanese toy manufacturer made a decent transforming toy, I probably buy it. Heck, I'd be happy if somebody just reissued the old Takatoku toys as I missed them the first time around and I'm not willing to pay ebay prices for the old toys Graham

Heh, there's no pilot in that VF-0S in the second pic. Beautiful wallpapers tho. Graham

Some if not all the Japanese Battletech designs are by Studio Nue / Kawamori. His destinctive style is easily recognisable. Plus, you can see the word 'Nue' and IIRC Kawamori's signature scrawled next to many of the designs. Graham

Looks like a Hasegawa 1/72 model kit. In fact next to the kit you can see the scale mentioned. I think what is being advertised and sold is not the YF-19, but the High-Manuever missiles mounted on the wings of the YF-19. Graham

I think rather than Yamato, I'd prefer Bandai made a non-transforming, prepainted snap fix, light up model kit of the DYRL SDF-1, similar in design to their Star Trek kits. Heck if Bandai released two kits, one in Cruiser mode and one in Storm-Attacker mode, I'd definitely buy both. However, being Bandai, we all know they would never make that sort of effort for Macross.....sigh. Graham

1/24 line........bah! It's all about the 1/12 line Graham

I don't think Yamato are really aware of the Battletech community. Also, doesn't Battletech in Japan feature completely different mecha designs by kawamori? Graham

Getting back on topic, the problem with an SDF-1 toy (either DYRL or TV ver) is as others have mentioned, there is only one paint variation to release. So given the reletively small fan base Macross has and the reletively small number of toys sold it is doubtful that Yamato could sell enough to recover the design, tooling and manufacturing costs, unless they sold it at an insanely high cost. Graham