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The thrust vectoring on the VF-1 is for pitch only (not yaw), since it's not three-dimensional vectoring. It does help tremendously, and it's even a common technique to switch to GERWALK for even better thrust vectoring (except it only works in one direction in the GERWALK case).

What VFs have three dimensional vectoring? VF-22 and VF-27? Am I missing any? SV-51, perhaps?

I thought I saw someone say that this is set in 2058? I see Ozma and the Pixies in that picture with the N-Ger firing on the 19. I suppose this would have taken place at the same time or before Michael joined up. I wonder if this Chelsea Scarlett will be a miclone or Meltran pilot? Would work well if she had something to do with the formation of the Pixies before MacF took place.

I must have missed that Plus addition when I watched M7. What episode did it follow?

I do want to point out that Colonel Millard was another example of someone who's gone through the same thing that the "brash and disrespectful" young soldiers do. Heck, even Global talks about how Admiral Hayase had to do some improvising of his own when he was just a young commander. The point is that many of the leaders in the military in Macross come from the same backgrounds as the series antagonists. You could just say that these "fly by the seat of their pants" characters are going to become the leaders of tomorrow because they can get sh!t done.

I was wondering when Eugimon would come on here to start preaching again... I just added my $.02 about the guy, I didn't need to hear a completely unrelated story about automotive industry conspiracies.

Moving back on the subject, what's with the recent trend of alien apocalypse movies? We all know that Independence Day has the market cornered on that... The only exception is that one movie or show where a race of giants comes looking for a ship that crash landed on Earth and they eventually bombard the surface of the Earth... What was it called again?

I also think that they may be waiting for the 2nd MF movie to come out before releasing new models. The Klan VF-25S in Macross Trial Frontier could very well mean that it will make an appearance in the 2nd movie. If so, I don't see why they wouldn't want to release a 25S with that paint scheme.

He can be right about many things and I think that he and his crew do a lot of great research and come up with some information that I find to be quite informative, but...

Glenn Beck sometimes comes off of the chain and just says and does poo that makes me want to pull my hair out. I wish he'd think about these things before he says them, to be honest.

Doesn't the SV-51 use disposable fuel tanks to increase its range?

Would it not cost more, though?

I can agree with you that the VF-0 was more versatile.

I could swear I had read a discussion on the highs and lows of the SV-51, but I cannot recall any details. At a glance, though... when I see the extra hinged joints on the wings, I think "more expensive both in manufacture and maintenance". Extra moving parts = more chances for failure of said moving parts. Also, isn't the SV-51 a meter or two longer than the VF-0? Pretty self-explanatory there, as to the reasons you could believe that it was more expensive. Just my $.02

Yeah, head-to-head, I'd say the SV-51 was the superior fighter. But as anime52k8 mentioned, that doesn't always mean it becomes the preferred choice. The VF-0's were probably easier to build and maintain and therefore, were the preferred design leading to the VF-1 line. The YF-21 was way ahead of its time, but its high cost and slight unreliability cost it the project. The VF-22 turned out to be used on a much smaller scale, and mostly served as a special operations fighter; since it was better than the 19, but more expensive to construct.

LOL! Oh man... I don't think I've ever laughed so loud from reading something off of a forum. Good one, Eugimon.

Atmospheric re-entry?

Just in case you didn't know how, you can set the spoiler tag with the

Just watch the trailer. You can already tell it's going to be a waste of time. First thing I thought when I saw the trailer was, "I've seen this movie before... is this Independence Day 2? No? Oh, okay..."

Good trailer!

The cinematography is on such a grand scale, you almost forget that the movie is taking place inside of a computer mainframe, so to speak...

Was it your photobucket account or something?

For me definately SDF Macross followed by DYRL then Macross Plus. Haven't had a chance to watch Zero, Frontier, 7 or Dynamite 7 yet - might get a chance to do that over the upcoming Thanksgiving holidays.

In a way, I almost envy you that you haven't seen them yet. I'm just gonna say that you're gonna love getting to watch those stories unfold for the first time. I hope you haven't seen too many spoilers so far on the forums, here.

I'm just saying that when you buy anything that requires installation or assembly instructions, the manuals usually come in at least 4 languages.

The fact that the manual for this toy, and probably all of the others, comes in Japanese is another little quirk... same as why there are never any subtitles for Macross releases.

I agree, though, that if you need instructions to build this figurine, you might have some other problems to deal with.

Let me guess... the assembly instructions are only in Japanese too??

Transfer student.

Good times! Thanks for finding those for us, Shiroth.

Jaleel White and Robert Picardo, I am disappoint.

Yeah, I thought you had made it that file size specifically to fit on a 4GB flash drive. I was like "Yes! Now I can watch this baby on my 48" HDTV!" Then I was disappoint....