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Sumdumgai

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  1. Now why would you have to worry about dropping legs into the toilet?
  2. I saw part of the show from old tapes from the old US release on video. It had an interesting premises, but I didn't get far in the series because the video rental place had only three or four, and the company that had been releasing it had already gone under... I liked Orguss 02, I prefer it over the original series (although I hadn't seen enough of Orguss). Sorry but give me Macross mecha anyday, although the Orguss mecha aren't that bad. Jeez, imagine if Focker's personality got switched with Manning from Orguss 02...
  3. Well, I'll wait and see how it turns out before beginning any real bitching on it. I'm just dissapointed at the small-ness of it. Yamato's learned a lot since their Macross Plus valkyries, and since working on the 1/60 and 1/48 line. So I'm gonna be expecting some damned good quality on this thing! CF18 my fiancée confirmed your translation more or less (she's a translator among many things) "Since VF-0S is big, it is the same size as a 1:72 VF-1." Since there is no 1/72 VF-1 yet, maybe this means we're in for another surprise? I can just hear the groans from everyone who's sick of the VF-1 line and wants fresh blood! Uxi, I hope they make the VF-0 in your 1/60 scale, and then in my 1/48 scale, that way we can all be happy... unless we collect everything in every scale, in which case your wallet has my sympathy.
  4. Okay, I haven't been able to find the answer in the compendium and am just going on memories, so please someone confirm whether I am correct or wrong. If memory serves me correctly, the enemy mecha are Zentraedi. Not Meltran since that is in DYRL (movie taking place in the Macross Universe) or in Macross II which is considered "another universe". They are renegade Zentraedi in power armor like an upgraded Nousjadeul-Ger (http://macross.anime.net/mecha/zentradi/aerospace_craft/nousjadeul_ger/index.html). I know that there is a more complicated background story to it, but I can't quite remember. You may want to check out the Macross timeline on the compendium, you might find some answers there. I'm just too damned lazy to sift through it myself... http://macross.anime.net/story/chronology/index.html
  5. The VF-0 is 18.69m long in fighter mode, the YF-19 is 18.62m long in fighter mode, and the VF-1 is 14.23m long in fighter mode. (according to Macross Compendium http://macross.anime.net/mecha/index.html ) So if the VF-0 was put in 1/72 scale it would be about the size of the YF-19 that has already been released. .......... 1/100 scale...... Give me a 1/48 scale!!!!! (yes, big and detailed, and bigger isn't necesarily better, but DAMNIT I want my valks in the same damn scale!!!!!! )
  6. Your son shall from henceforth be known as "Valkyrie Hunter D"!
  7. It's an animation mistake. HG counts it as an existing weapong system on the "veritech" in Robotech. Then again these are the same clowns that created the YF-1R from an animation mistake. "Stealth" fighter my ass... <_< edit: Oh yeah, Macross Compendium is probably as official as you'll get, confirm it with some other members though.
  8. Ewwwwwwwww, he "did it" with the candlestick?!
  9. Joons VF-1J was my first, and it's undergone many minor repairs, but is still in good working condition. The only thing is that it's sitting in its box in my old room back at my parents place. Damn the chunky monkeys are durable, that thing has gone through sooooo many crash landings...
  10. I got introduced to Macross through Robotech just before Macross Plus came out. I had to read the book version of the Robotech series in order to find out what happened, since the local rental place onlyhad a few tapes of the Macross part of Robotech, and the stores had stopped selling Robotech tapes. I'm happy I found Macross, but it didn't take Robotech to introduce me. I would have wound up watching Macross Plus anyway, since it took me a while to realize that Macross Plus and the first third of "robotech" was related. I hate butchered anime, and that's what Robotech is to me. I really hate HG, especially since their interference with the Macross Plus toys. In the end, I believe that this (along with Duke Togo) summarizes my opinion:
  11. No more HG, no more ADV, no more Saban, no more Disney, no more Nintendo. Or sit around depressed as the local government takes away my nice shiny squadron of Zentraedi power suits, since I'm a micro-human, and not Zentraedi sized, so thus wouldn't be able to make much use of them. If you can control zentraedi pilots who use the suits, then let's just say I could become filthy rich supplying pictures of Miria and other Zentraedi women to the many fans of Macross World... Could be cool also to make a human-scaled working version of the Q-rau by taking apart a full size one and replicating it on a smaller scale (if possible). edit: forgot to add "have a bad day VF-19pilot? "
  12. They better not go the way the Dune books went, and bring Roy back to life through cloning of his cells taken from his body that has been preserved since his death... And of course he would have all his memories and be able to help solve some unresolved problem/question left unanswered since Macross Zero. So 50 years after the events of Macross Zero, Roy Fokker comes back for some new adventures, probably helping out some new young hot-shot pilot. If by some chance this is what happens, you can please stone me to death! I myself wouldn't mind seeing something with VF-4s, VF-3000s, and VF-5000s. Could be cool to see some other "older" valkyries, like prototypes that didn't make it into production or only saw limited production. edit: Blerg, I forgot until you mentioned it!
  13. Welcome to "a-hole World"! Here, have a door knob! edit: Just checked out the YF-1R review... Then a review for a 1/60 Yamato CF. http://www.blueforgegames.com/ProductDescr...iption_VF1A.php This is a Macross Valk he's reviewing. WTF is this description about nose-cone lasers on veritechs when in the rest of the thing they write "valkyrie"?
  14. I can't believe that someone is putting one of those up for auction. Just on principle alone, if someone puts a serious bid on that I will have to stab them to death with my chin!
  15. Sumdumgai

    Another Bootleg

    I was on Yahoo Japan when I came across this thing! yahoo japan auction I've seen bootlegs of M7 valks before, but I've never seen a bootleg with a completely new color scheme like this before! What would you guys nickname this thing? The Crusader Valkyrie? Paladin Valkyrie? (if the link doesn't work I could post the pics I saved from the auction)
  16. Yeah, it's one of those suspend your beliefs kind of thing. I mean, a bokken is as lethal a weapon as a katana (it may not be able to cut, but some people used them instead of katanas), a sakabatou would be just as lethal if not more so. Get a good hit in the head, a hit in the neck, cause some internal organ damage, you get the picture. If anyone is familiar with the Miyamoto Musashi story, in one of his duels he chose to use a bokken rather than a katana. It wasn't so that he wouldn't kill his opponent, it was for longer reach (he carved one out of an oar) while retaining the ability to kill. RK is one of my favorite series, but someone seriously needs to kick his ass. Saito could/would, Watsuki even said so at AX, with the only exception being if Kenshin were fighting to protect someone. Otherwise if it became duel time...
  17. Sumdumgai

    News Drought

    Here's a second mention: Live with it, Shawn and Graham didn't have to create Macross World, and they sure as hell aren't doing this because they're paid to. Thank them and live with the delay because Shawn and Graham do have lives off of this forum.
  18. Okay just in case: SPOILER (for those who haven't watched Episode 3 yet) Did anyone notice when Nora was trying to take down Shin and Deadgar, that when he started trying to shoot her down with his lasers, he got in like three or four hits that did absolutely NOTHING? I checked out that scene frame by frame, and damn, it looks like the lasers hit and just dispersed over the surface of the SV-51. Is this an effect from that armor thingy that seems to be incorporated into the variable fighters?
  19. I remember getting freaked out about pivoting the legs to swing them down in fighter mode, I was afraid of turning them the wrong direction and hearing a *crack*! After having read all the stories about this or that breaking on the 1/48 the first time I swung the legs down out of fighter mode, my heart kept stopping because of those cracking sounds the legs make!
  20. I got my gold book for about $200 with poster, but not with the film strip, and its an '84 print, not a reprint. I paid a bit more (with shipping included) than I would have if I had bought it at a local anime shop, but their copy looked liked it had belonged to a library in Japan or something. I mean it had stamps on it... I'm happy I dished out the money! Mine is definitely 19 years old, it's got that musty smell that old books get.
  21. Mechamaniac: So it's you! Elf: I want you to hit me as hard as you can. Mechamaniac: How 'bout if I give you a vaseline smeared cookie and a cup of Agent One's home-brew DNA! Elf:
  22. I'm thinking something along these lines! Forgot to add the picture! This is what happens the night before your last finals!
  23. I'm thinking something along these lines!
  24. Don't blame me, Graham brought up the topic once! Dunno if he meant it this way...
  25. I read just enough katakana to make out "Bandai gashapon HG series".
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