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Sumdumgai

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  1. Alto = most likeable male main character in Macross for me, Sheryl = most likeable female main character for me. Ranka = most likeable other main female character for me. The Frontier trio is my favorite triangle. Followed by Hikaru-Misa-Minmay. Shin-Sara-Mao comes third. Poor Mao, if only she were older, maybe things would have worked out differently. Then again we wouldn't have Macross Frontier the way it turned out, if it did. (Besides Sara probably would have gone off the deep end again and killed them both with a machete, that psycho. :p ).The M7 trio wasn't much of a love triangle, especially since I hated Mylene. The Isamu-Myung-Guld triangle was interesting for their past history, but it was a triangle of screwed up people...

  2. Unlikely Bandai would make DX VF-25s past Lucca. Maybe a cannon fodder if you're lucky. Bandai doesn't seem to exploit a franchise with chogoukins like they do with model kits. Not even Gundam.

    Even if it's unlikely, the possibility is still open to Bandai, especially if it looks like they'd be able to make money off of it. But yeah, judging from the way Bandai is, it's not likely.

  3. Really? what would those look like, I would love to see those. (were would you get all that VF, by the way)

    Just look up "all that VF" on youtube and you'll find the "version F" that has the 25th Anniversary VF-25 (white with a red and gold streak going from nose to tail), as well as the Sheryl and Ranka schemed VF-25s (purple with an image of the singer taking up the entire top back of the body and some of the wings.

    If the VF-25 was fixed up or a version 2 came out, I'd love to get a VF-25 Sheryl scheme...

  4. Its a similar price point, but the VF-25 is in the same size class as the YF-21, YF-19, VF-0, et al.

    Ah, but like the VF-1 the VF-25 has a lot of color schemes that can be produced to milk the mold. Not as many as with the VF-1, but still a fair amount: Alto, Ozma, Michel, Lucca, Cannon Fodder, M-zero stand in, Sheryl scheme (All that VF), Ranka scheme (All that VF), and 25th Anniversary (All that VF). Being much larger of a company, I think the cost of materials would be negligible for Bandai concerning the size of the VF-25.

  5. DX team has no excuse for us to cut them any slack. Bandai has been in the business for a long time, they have teams that have made mecha for a long time, and they have had teams that have made transforming mecha.

    Bandai has produced toys with smaller joints and thinner looking limbs that have been durable (Saint Cloth Myth line for example). Model kits are made of a less durable plastic anyway, and the 1/60 is going to have metal parts as well. According to Bandai fanboys in the past, Bandai were supposed to be able to put out something that would not only kick Yamato's ass in terms of looks, but also be super durable with no QC problems. From what I've seen of other Bandai stuff, I know they have the ability to make a good VF-25. They're either:

    A) Not trying.

    or

    B) Purposefully making the 1/60 this way to cut costs on development or because marketing believes that funky-chunky=looks robust=will sell better.

    For the price point the 1/60 is going at, it's similar to the price point of Yamato's VF-1 V2. And Yamato is a smaller company that puts out valkyries with LOTS of parts to be assembled. I don't buy the easy to assemble bit. Especially with the power that Bandai has. If that is the case, then like many people worried about, Bandai cheaped out on us.

    I'm still hoping Bandai will miraculously solve all the proportion problems, have transparent plastic nose sensors, and have some good landing gear. But I sure as hell am not holding my breath on it.

  6. I haven't purchased a VF-1 1/60 v.2 yet, so I am out of the loop a bit... Are we having the VF-0 effect again!!??

    Come on Yamato get this VF-1D right, No more SNAFU's!!! <_<

    Not quite the same. The folding joint that folds the shoulder area out in gerwalk and battroid, that has been suffering from cracks on the VF-1S. Dunno about the VF-1A yet, but I haven't heard any mentions of cracks on that one from the times I pop in the 1/60 V2 threads.

  7. The 1/72 definitely looks better in all modes, and has the fighter looking way better than the 1/60, as the legs are correctly positioned (or much more so than the 1/60).

    The sad thing is that the 1/72 is our only option of a good VF-25 representation, unless the 1/60 or 1/100 somehow miraculously get fixed before release. And models were not meant to survive repeated transformations or posing.

  8. yes... something about the pic of minmay in bilrer's ring tells me that we may at some point see a macross series set around finding out the fate of the megaroad. such a tale would not have to deal with the original characters much at all beyond brief flashbacks or log entries. perhaps we will find the megaroad colony, or perhaps the roles will be reversed, with the megaroad colony coming back to find us, as some point in the future when all the original characters can be presumed to have passed into legend.

    heh think about it... a character from the megaroad colony recalling his first history lessons about hikaru, misa and minmay from when he was in 3rd grade...

    Miku Ichijo and the Megaroad 1 descendants could be found or come back. Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay could be retired now (or have passed on). They would have aged enough that the original seiyuu wouldn't have to be used (especially in Hikaru's case since his seiyuu is gone).

    Wouldn't that be a twist, the Megaroad 1 descendants come back as villains... :ph34r:

  9. Here, does this make you feel better?

    ... or do we need to keep foaming about the gap? It's probably not closed in any of the photos because the proto is so caked with layers of primer that the locking pegs don't fit into the holes, and I doubt there are any ratchets in the knees yet to keep the heavy resin legs from sagging. The photographer probably doesn't want to deal with an overly tight peg on a photomodel he probably doesn't want to break, either.

    (Yes, I checked to make sure that was a DX photo and not a model)

    EDIT: Just realized that one of these photos is even in the first page of this thread

    Until there is a picture without a big gap, I will continue to complain about it. Same goes with the rest of the problems with this toy.

    Even in this picture there's a big gap and the legs aren't up properly. Still doesn't look remotely integrated. And the more recent test pictures still doesn't have the legs sticking up. As stated previously they should be sticking up well above the wings and shield, like the YF-19's legs.

    If they fix this problem I will whole heartedly clap my hands, then say "good job, fix the rest of it".

  10. The attacking Hydra scene was bad animation, just like the knife fight between Max and Miria was bad animation, just like a great deal of Flame of Rekka was chock full of bad animation (especially the final episode of that series). Calling it artsy to me just seems like an excuse to not admit that there were some negative things in the series that took away from the whole. But artsy is some peoples' opinion, bad animation is mine.

    And most of the rest of the series had overall fantastic animation, though distant character shots could have been better a number of times (missing faces or deformed faces).

  11. It's Lucca we're talking about, of course it's a bad idea. :p

    In all seriousness though, there's a lot that's gone on since Macross Plus and Macross 7. Perhaps there have been advances in AI technology that makes bioneural chips no longer so dangerous, or maybe they use a different AI system.

    And I don't recall ever hearing anything about a Judah system in Macross Plus.

  12. yeah I gotta agree, not very seamless in it's execution, but it's a prototype which is the easy explanation.

    Nuh-uh, prototype does not explain why the rear of the legs do not stick out well above the wings while in fighter mode. They should be sticking out above the height of the shield, similar to the YF-19's legs in fighter mode. There's a big gap where the legs should be sticking out. So now you look through this big gap and say "gee, that's where the legs should be but I've got a big gaping gap in fighter mode."

    It's been like this on every prototype picture we've seen. It's not mistransformed or a prototype issue if it's been like that in all the pictures.

    May I add that the model doesn't have this problem in fighter mode.

    Unforunately Bandai is the only game in town for Macross Frontier toys and models. So if you want a good looking VF-25 you have to settle for the model kit, because the 1/60 just isn't cutting it at looking like a good representation of the VF-25. Originally I had wrote that you'd have to settle for "a model kit or partsformer" but then I remembered that the 1/100 has the same leg problem in fighter mode as the 1/60. Pretty sad. The toy team could learn a lot from the model team at Bandai.

  13. Part of Sumdumgai's post: Ozma survived a pineapple dish and got to eat it, Roy didn't.

    Ummmm, Roy was shot a few times in the back by a Meltrandi pilot, Pretty sure the pineapple salad didn't get him. :rolleyes:

    Ah, but both were waiting to eat a pineapple dish before they went out to battle and got injured. Pineapple salad is a killer, while pineapple cake is not. :) Hence why a lot of people were going "oh $hit Ozma is going to die this episode" when all the pineapple references came up. :rolleyes:

  14. Hehe, I knew they wouldn't completely throw away the Ghost X-9 tech. It's far too useful for absolute emergencies (or for cyborgs to use too I guess).

    BTW, I wonder how Battle Frontier took on a hit from Battle Galaxy's Macross Cannon. Not a full powered shot?

    The Battle Frontier gunship took the hit and exploded. It probably helped that the beam took a chunk out of the Macross Quarter's gunship as well.

    Battle Galaxy took a hit from the Quarter's gunship, but I guess it wasn't powerful enough to break through its ppb.

    Loved how the turrets on Frontier chewed Battle Galaxy to crap before delivering that punch to its midsection.

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