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I bought a dvd at comicon. Not bad quality. Looked good on my 40" but far from blueray definition.

Fun flick. Kinda like the "independence day" of japan. A LOT of it echoed Galactica

amen.

my 1/60 tv max looks glorious on the mantle

what did you get at sdcc...ve-1, vt-1, vf-1d or the older valks? how much?

I got the VF-1S with attack packs. It was $30. Not the best price, but I NEVER see macross stuff around so I was a bit smitten. There were also a ton of yamato macross stuff around for sale (except at either the HLJ or the Yamato U.S. booths...not surprising) but it was all WAY overpriced.

Anyway, Other than the parts forming part of it all, I think it's a great little toy. Looks great in fighter mode!

I just bought my 1st 1/100. Got itat comicon. I like the look of it but wish the materials were a bit more heavy duty. Looks great in fighter mode with it's attack packs and stuff.

Man, i wish this thing existed when i was 10

I have one of these that I got when I was in hong kong.

it's a novelty piece of garbage. Great idea but they don't really stay together.....

I too live in Toronto and as I have mentioned before, in another thread our tax on imports is rather arbitrary. Now the toy is too rich for my blood and I can understand Americans having the cash but people in toronto??? Like I say a river of gold runs under this city. Ok back to topic.

Mr Graham... with your confirmation from Yamato on sales of this beast going well and me just checking internet retailers seeing short stock/Restock notifications will Yamato make the TV version and will it be the same price as the Movie version?

I also have NO idea why the tax system is so fickle. My VF-25f with armour parts just showed up on my doorstep one day from hlj...no taxes involved.

Then last week, my 1/72 fine molds millenium falcon showed up from hlj with a $30 tax bill!

(sorry for the derail. please continue raving about the macross!)

I've got a friend traveling in China this week and asked him to pick one of these up if he sees it - how much do they retail for the shops over these? HLJ has it for $157 USD. Thanks.

probably cheaper.

I bought a 1/48 cannon fodder valk for under $100 in hong kong a couple of years ago.

of mine? 1/60 tv max 1a

of one that they don't make? 1/48 tv roy

dunno if it is just me...but I kinda find the weathering too 'uniformed'...

no it's not you.

Factory weathering looks like crap. really. it's awful. relic'd guitars look better that this.

I was never big on the whole "sd" thing, but those look awesome!

thanks guys!

My wife can play it well but since we were the ones getting married, she couldn't do both tasks. Our pianist had a lot of music to learn for it an this fell through the cracks. So we just went with the DYRL? recording. It worked well, but seemed a little off considering everything else war live.

So the GF and I want to use "do you remember love?" as our recessional. Nerdy I know, but what the heck?

Anyway are there any resources out there for a piano arrangement? Our guy could figure it out, but we've given him a lot of music to learn already.

anyone?

Thanks!

I'm looking for the original version, not the ranka version

anyone know where I can find this?

thanks!

Off Topic :

Toy-Wave have Queadlunn Rau Max & Millia on sale for 40$ :

http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=11196&table=18e

http://www.toy-wave.com/eng/detail.php?id=11195&table=18e

Those things are like $80 over at over-drive.

But max is $32 at angolz.....

Hobby Search has the VF-1A movie Kakizaki for ¥5880! So I got it for just under $100 shipped EMS.

Hey, why not?

their prices are actually really great!

It's funny that the sales just keep rotating around. Each company always has at least one item that is significantly cheaper than the rest.

I got a 1/60 tv max from hlj recently. After shipping, it was like $80

WANT that bf-1j Hikaru.

DON'T want the possible shoulder problems....

Okay... for a completest, Gundam is probably a really bad franchise to attempt to get into. It's just too massive for anyone to try tackling all at once. I guarantee that if you attempt to marathon your way through any Gundam show more than 13 episodes long or, god forbid, attempt to watch multiple Gundam shows back-to-back, you'll quickly find yourself heartily sick of protagonist du jour's whining and the way the franchise treats endlessly recycling the same handful of plots and set pieces as an appropriate substitute for innovation.

In practice, I suppose it's really more the protagonists who ruin attempts to marathon the Gundam shows than it is the recycled plot devices. After all, if you've got yourself a winning formula, why screw with it? The problem is that, with very VERY few exceptions, the Gundam protagonists are basically cast from the same three basic molds. You've got your whining, naive, immature pubescent boys with daddy issues who'll fall into the cockpit of a super prototype and then whine about how tough their life is afterward (basically a proto-Shinji, ex.: Amuro Ray, Camille Bidan); personality-less, gun-toting, stoic child soldiers (Setsuna F. Seiei, Heero Yuy); and pointlessly badass robot action heros who do six impossible things before breakfast just because, and who really just underline how depressing everyone else is (Domon Kasshu, Tobia Arronax).

To be frank, what I'd recommend is that you go in production order (start with the 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam or the compilation movies), and watch at most two episodes a day. That way the grimdark, the whining, and everything else won't have a chance to get to the threshold where watching the show feels more like a chore than a leisure time activity.

While I'm sure the completest in you will rebel against this idea, I would say that you could probably skip several shows as superfluous or just plain not worth watching. For starters, if you didn't like Macross 7, you'll probably want to skip Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam, the first half of which is painfully dull and kinda stupid. You'll probably also do yourself a favor by skipping the whole Cosmic Era (Gundam SEED), since it's basically "Universal Century for Dummies" brimming with implied bromance for the yaoi crowd. You can skip Gundam Wing for similar reasons... LOTS of implied bromance and you can get the same basic story without most of the suck by watching the Gundam 00 TV series instead. If you're down on super robots, you might wanna give Mobile Fighter G Gundam a wide berth too... since it's the domain of manly men with long sideburns who shout a lot and wear spandex to pilot their giant robots. (If that's your bag, or you just have an anarchic sense of humor, you may find Mobile Fighter G Gundam weirdly compelling)

To paraphrase Gioacchino Rossini, Gundam has some good moments... and some bad halves of an hour.

Good response.

I have to say, one of the things I grown to hate in anime is winy emo protagonists. I tried to watch both evangelion and patlabor and i couldn't deal.

Truthfully, if I want to get get into Gundam, I should start with the first series.

Which is why you should take my advice and just watch Gundam 0080. It's a nicely animated, short, 6-episode side-story that anyone can enjoy without knowing anything about Gundam and without being daunted by the enormity of exposition from the franchise. You posted because you wanted some distillation of all the numerous options and because you wanted some sound advice, so why not take mine. Gundam 0080 is the least amount of time and effort you can spend on any Gundam show without the need for back story. "Do it. Do it now! Kill me! Come on, I'm here! Kill me! Get to da choppa!"

thanks!

Thanks guys!

Now I'm even MORE intimidated.

maybe I'll check out space battleship yamato instead.

(and no, I don't mind older animation.)

I loved it. Totally.

And My GF who HATES gratuitous violence, also loved it. She actually thought the violence was justified in the film.

And everything involving hit-girl challenged the audience and their sensibilities. Which is a good thing.

I'm a bit of a completest...which would be the series to start with?

Is Gundam like macross in the sense that it's all part of one universe? Or could I start with a later series. Is there a user friendly movie?

Oh dear god...that's beautiful

Bravo Yamato!!!

I would get the hardest to come by ones first....as long as they have great shoulders.

Maybe start with tv kakizaki. Or Max/Milia 1J

Don't bother with a dyrl roy or a 1J hikaru until you're certain the shoulders will hold.

The amount of parts on this thing is the reason why it is so expensive too...well more like internal parts. Compared to Toynami's 1/100 VF-1, the VF HI METAL VF-1 has exponentially more parts needed and tooled for the mold.

Never thought about shorter battroid wings..I knew the wings were swappable for a clean pylon port-less look, but not for battroid. That's pretty cool. I just hope that if Tamashii makes a stand, it has spots to store all of the swappable gear of this toy.

I'm still trying to understand the whole wing swap thing. The yamatos don't do it? Am I missing something here?

Hey,

I just picked up a 1/48 TV max from Ebay and I was wondering if anyone has come across the 1/48 TV Kakizaki for sale anywhere?

Thanks...

did they even make one?

btw...PICS OF THE MAX!!!