Graham

In the PS2 BSG game, does your Viper have missiles or only Turbo Lasers? Graham

Oh yeah, that's good enough reasons. Vostok 7 yeah, but Frank's dead. i bet if he were alive, He'd praise the mini-series. the movie was straight up David Lynch non-sense. Herbert said he liked what Lynch did with the movie. He wrote the books, I'd say his opinion mattered more than yours. obviously, but what i'm saying is Lynch's version was all he had seen at that pointi think had he lived to see the SciFi series, he would have loved them even more than lynch's version. Personally, I hated the mini-series. I thought all the actors were horribly miscast and looked nothing at all like how they are described in the books. Also, a lot of the acting in the mini-series was extremely wooden. IMO, Lynch did a much better job with his casting choices and the characters actually looked fairly close to how they are described and how I imagined them. Of course, both the movie and the mini-series took a lot of liberties with the story, the movie more so than the series. Out of the two, I far prefer the movie for it's superior acting and visuals. Graham

Guys, spoke with Shawn and unfortunately due to work commitments, he will not be able to attend the HK Shopathon Graham

I have fond memories of The Last Starfighter. Haven't seen it since it first came out tho. Hmm....have to see if I can pick up the DVD. Awesome Lego Gunstar. Graham

I quite liked the original BSG, except for when the got to Earth that was just so bad. I remember in UK back in 1979 they showed the pilot as a theatrical release. It was great seeing it on the big screen. I recently rewatched the orginal BSG pilot on an old VHS tape I dug up from my collection and one thing struck me as really hokey is that there is one scene where I think Apollo and Zack are flying in space and Apollo tells Zack to apply reverse thrust and apply maximum air brakes...yeah right, air brakes in space! Graham

Insanely cute, lapdancing cosplayers would probably be much more effective........trust me on this. Graham

So, it's come down to ursine torture tactics.....eh? You damn dirty bears, you'll never get me to talk. Graham

At age 9 studied Judo for a Year. At age 14, did Field Archery and Sabre Fencing for 2 years. At age 24, took up IPSC shooting for 5 years. At age 32, studied Wing Chun for 1.5 years. Now I'm studying 'Arnis', a type of Philippine stick fighting (similar to kali & Escrima). Just got my yellow belt a few weeks ago. Graham

LOL.....sounds like a Philip K. Dick book..... 'Do Destroids dream of magnetic feet?' Graham

Personally, I love the character cell animation in Mac Zero. I also love the CG Valk animation. About the only animation in Mac Zero I don't like is when they cell animate the Valks, it's just so badly done IMO, looks like something from Anime Fiend. I say keep all the VFs in Zero CG only! I'm also getting to like the BGM in Mac Zero more. I still can't remember it well enough to hum it yet, but at least my OST CD is getting more of a playing now. While I like the BGM and songs of Mac Plus, I've gotta say I also prefer the music of SDF/DYRL and Mac 7 more than Plus. Graham

Heh, this is at least the third or fourth 'how old is everybody' thread we've had on these forums. Anyway, 34, but feel like 50. Graham

Haven't really been into Star Wars since I was about 13, and that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. I guess my favorite is still ANH (can't beat the original), with ESB being second. Don't really care for any of the others. Graham

Anything's possible, but I doubt it. Graham

So I guess Monster and upgrade parts are comming. Wow, its tempting to know that the upgrades are comming. Thanks G vic Whoops, sorry my mistake no 1/60 upgrade parts AFAIK. Graham

Wonder if we will ever get this here in HK? Even though it's probably really bad, I still want to see it just to see how awful it is and well, because I'm a masochist I'm still really pissed at the local TV stations for only showing up to season 4 of Babylon 5 and never showing season 5.....grrrrrrrrr. Guess I'll have to bite the bullet and buy the DVD set when it's released so I can find out what happened. Graham

It's very old news. It's been know for about a year IIRC, although I forget exactly where and when it was first announced. As Harmony Gold has the uncontested worldwide licencing for Mospeada, it makes sense to market products overseas, not just limit themselves to the US market. I don't think there will be any difference between the US and Japan versions except for hopefully packing. I really hope that the Japan packing is smaller and features original art from the series rather than that awful (IMO) Tommy Yune art and those oversized book/boxes which I can't stand. Graham

OK, technically they were blocked and couldn't post, but I'd forgotten to change the group profile from 'members' to 'banned'. I'd assumed that the board software would do that automatically. Anyway, I've now changed their status to banned. Graham

Wohooo , at last ! someone that agrees with me I've also always thought that the VF-0 has far superior capabilities to the VF-1. Graham

Actually, I've done a fair bit of ebay selling in the past and I found that Gundam merchandise can be pretty difficult to resell. The Bandai Soul of Chogokin toys sell pretty well, as do Yamato 1/48 VF-1 toys and the older Yamato Macross Plus 1/72 YF-19 & YF-21. Yamato 1/60 VF-1 are a dead item and you can hardly give them away these days Graham

Q-Rau should be early 2004. As for the other two, they are definitely coming, but I'm just not sure when Graham

Looking good. I'll definitely buy one, although I'll probably wait for the Japan version, which will most likely be cheaper for me here in HK, rather than importing the US version. Graham

Yeah, I thought Hikaru's voice actor in the new PS2 game was pretty good. Graham

I think there is a high chance that Claudia will show up and perhaps Gloval and Misa as well. As for mecha, I think we will probably see the SDF-1 in the last episode and perhaps the VF-1 as well. However, I don't know why so many people here are automatically assuming that the VF-1 will kick the SV-51's ass. Unless Kawamori redesigns the VF-1 to improve the specs, then the VF-0 is actually superior in a number of areas, at least according to the information presented on the Macross Compendium. The VF-0 has active stealth, the VF-1 does not. The VF-0 has flare and chaff launchers, the VF-1 does not. The VF-0 has ECM, the VF-1 does not. The VF-0 carries more gunpod ammo than the VF-1 (550rds vs 200 rds). The VF-0 can carry two spare gunpod magazine in the leg FAST packs. The VF-1 has no spare magazines. In fact the VF-1's gunpod cannot even be reloaded in the field and has to be taken back to base to be reloaded. The VF-0 has leg mounted atmospheric FAST packs that hold 24 micro-missiles each. the VF-1 does not. This means that including the wing missiles, the VF-0 carries more missiles than a standard VF-1 with just 12 x AMM-1. The VF-0 has better rear visibility from it's cockpit. Both the VF-0 and VF-1 have a similar max speed in atmosphere. About the only area where the VF-1 is superior to the VF-0, is of course that it has the thermonuclear turbines, giving it virtually unlimited range in the atmosphere and making it cabable of operation in space. Give the VF-0 the thermonuclear turbines and it would be superior in every way to the VF-1. Graham

Of course. It's scheduled for 2004. Hasegawa have had a poster up at all the recent toy/model shows in Japan saying 'SV-51, 2004' and showing a pic of Nora's SV-51. Graham

Just wondering if the VF-0 is fitted with a Cyclops radar or only a conventional radar. I've also been wondering what exactly a Cyclops radar does? Graham