Graham

Err........vaguely heard of it, but no idea what it's about. I'm guessing it's some sort of vampire movie, with a title like Van helsing? Graham

yamato doesnt have, and woudlnt pay for the rights to mospeada, from what ive heard there is very little interest in japan for mospeada merchandise and they obviously cant market it outside japan Toynami obviously has the license for Japan as it was announced a long time ago that there will be a 'Japan' version. Graham

The VF-0 is actually significantly longer than the VF-1 as this picture of the Hasegawa 1/72 scale kits from the March 2004 issue of Hobby Japan magazine shows. According to the magazine article, the Hasegawa VF-1 is 19.8cm long, whereas the VF-0S is 27.1cm long. So, if you pretend that the VF-1 in the photo below is a 1/48, you can imagine that a 1/48 VF-0 toy would take up a lot of shelf space! Graham

IMO the sculpts fairly decent in Armo-Soldier mode, but I agree it has quite a few issues in Armo-Fighter mode. That being said, it's not like we have a lot of choice as far as new Legioss/Alpha toys go, so I'll probably shell out the cash for one of these. Actually, I'll probably buy one green and one blue, not sure about the red though. And I don't think I'll be buying multiples either. Graham

Ughhh............. Graham

The subtitles are fair. Basically, they are understandable, but quite a lot of the fine points of the story are either skipped or mistranslated and some characters are misnamed. Video quality is good on eps # 1 and # 3, put is quite poor during the action scenes on ep # 2. Graham

Them be the levitating rocks for sure Graham

That's a pretty inaccurate sculpt IMO. The face is definitely not accurate to the line-art and the body is far too err....voluptuous Graham

Heh, heh.....agreed! And people like this toy.....why? Graham

What's all this 'Transfans'. The correct name is 'Trannies' damn it G-

Only seen a few eps of the TV series. Didn't like it. Those action/comedy anime are not my thing. Graham

Don't you remember Space Gundam V? Still haven't seen it. I missed out on getting the DVD a while back. Graham

M3 intro is just so cool IMO. I just wish they had included it on the 20th anniversery DVD Actually, even though the gameplay of M3 is poor, I still think the story would make an excellent OVA. I'd love to see VFs fighting giant bugs, especially if the battles were as well animated as in the M3 intro. Graham

LOL..........yeah, I'm in the same boat. I think I got 10 or 11 'S' grades than moved on to other games. Graham

Here it is: - http://www.bandaigames.channel.or.jp/list/macross/ Graham

As Capt America (John Moscato) mentioned earlier, those pics are obviously of a test shot, so as John said the toy shown in the pics is basically the toy we are going to get. If Toynami are at the stage where they can put out test shots, that means the tooling is complete and Toynami won't be making any major changes now. Oh we might get slightly smaller seem lines on the production toy, but that's it. As for the canopy, well I'm pretty sure that they just used the same blue plastic as the rest of the toy in the test shot and painted it a metalic blue. Maybe they just didn't have any clear plastic when they made that test shot. Actually, test shots are often just made using whatever color spare plastic the factory has laying around. I'm sure the production toy will have a clear canopy. Graham

Feb issue......LOL.....heck the March issue is out already! Graham

I notice that you have opened out the micro-missile ports on the FAST pack, to show the missiles.....nice Graham

I think that die-cast is pretty much being abandoned except for parts where it is absolutely necessary, i.e. the 1/48 swing bar. It's not a cost issue, it's just that with die-cast parts you inevitably get paint chipping, the detail is not as sharp as on ABS parts and it's often difficult to get a perfect color match between the plastic parts and the die-cast parts. Also, many toys with die-cast parts do have balance issues. I know this forum has a lot of die-cast addicts , but I'm not one of them and personally I prefer my Macross toys plastic, with metal only where necessary for strength. Graham

I fear they may be abandoning YF-19fp toys Don't worry. Graham

I hope there's some news like that to admit... OK, it's not dead. happy? Graham

I of course would also prefer a larger perfect transforming VF-0 toy. However, I'm still pretty excited about the smaller 1/100 version. Heck, when you only collect Macross toys, any new Macross toy is cause for excitment. And from what I've seen of the VF-0S so far, it's looking pretty sweet for the price. Graham

I had a thought the other day. What if the extra VFs (YF-19, YF-21, SV-51 & VF-0S) are actually still in the game and to unlock then it takes something that probably nobody has done yet, such as getting an 'S' grade in every mission using the VF-4 or using Hikaru or Roy's VF-1S. I mean most people quit playing once they unlock Max, Hikaru and Roy's VF-1S. I doubt anybody bothers to play through the game to get 'S' grades a second time. I'm probably dreaming. Graham

It has not been confirmed that a larger VF-0 is coming out. Graham

As I mentioned in another thread, from what I've been told it's just the nosecone that gets swapped and the battroid mode neck piece has to be removed for transformation from Battroid mode to Fighter or Gerwalk mode. The 1/100 version is plenty detailed based on the latest pics I've seen. Sure it's not covered in zillions of rivets like the Hasegawa kit, but the detail is still very good from what I've seen so far. I haven't handled the prototype toy yet, I've only seen pics, so I'm guessing here, but transformation should be pretty simple. Here's my guess as to how I think it goes, transforming from battroid to fighter mode: - 1) Detach battroid mode nose cone. 2) Detach head and neck peice. 2) Remove legs from battroid nosecone. 3) Unfold and connect chest and back plates together ala VF-1. 4) Attach gunpod to arm. 5) Fold arms together ala VF-1 6) Unfold tailfins & backpack ala VF-1. 7) Attach fighter nosecone. Attach legs. 9) Attach head to underside of fighter nosecone. Simple. Graham