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I was actually turned off by it when I first saw the previews on some another Manga VHS. The preview just had music and characters scenes. No dialog, barely any mecha. Macross Plus look like some anime about a boy and girl with pointy noses being chased by a some ugly guy with a flat top mullet.

That trailer was what made me interested in Macross. While every other anime being released under the Manga label was over the top bullshit like Legend of The Overfiend suddenly there was this short trailer which, although it was about nothing, was something completely different.

Based on that i went and bought my first Macross Plus which was my real introduction into the world of Macross (i had previously seen Robotech but thought it was crap).

Sharon’s self awareness came from the use of some kind of illegal military AI chip in her hardware, along with the feelings she inherits from Myung.

Sharon wanting to kill Isamu isn’t that black and white. She knew (by way of having Myungs memories/emotions) that Isamu was an adrenalin junky and so lived for the thrill of being close to the edge – she simply sought to push him harder and further because that’s what he wanted, but she took it to the extreme.

You have to watch both the OVA and movie to get the full picture of what happened because i think some bits are explained better in one and not in the other.

yeah.. what do you mean with "gullet"

Same here, ive never understood what people are talking about when they refer to this issue.

Just assign each toy your own value and then purchase it based on that.

If I can get a toy that i want at a price i am willing to pay then i will buy it with teh intention of it making me happy. If you are buying anything based on the price fluctuating then 9 times out of 10 you will end up dissapointed because the price on most things will inevitably drop.

Macross toys are collectables but not necesssarily valuables.

Alto is showing off again

Alto is looking a bit camp in that pose

If you need proof of how they have improved, look to the topics about the YF-29 and the new v.2 VF-25.

Well yes, but those are quite recent - as in the last few months.

i think it would be fair to say that their track record up to the release of the VF-27 point pretty shitty.

I disagree. I think proper integrated landing gears are critical to the 1/60 Valkyrie toys and is a hygiene factor as far as satisfaction in the line, or the particular valk is concerned. Landing gear was always meant to be part of the valk in the series, even though it wasn't used much in the case of Macross 7 valks. Not having it integrated makes the toy incomplete in my opinion.

Totally agree - landing gear is a necessity.

Im surprised anyone cares about missile bays at all when they havent been included on most valk toys, i can live without them.

Is there any Love for the upcoming Warhammer 40000 games? There is Warhammer 40000: Kill Team that looks good and then Warhammer 40000 Space Marine. I am very excited for both and can't wait to buy and play them

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Im a 40k fan but i think Space Marine looks pretty bland. Kill team looks interesting for what it is but i cant seeing it keeping my attention long term.

When it comes to 40K then i think Dawn of War 2 is the best game going.

Never. Tried black ops, online was full of suck & randomness. MGO FOREVER!

Well to go from MGO to Blops is like going from the finest meal to eating your own turd but there are plenty of other decent games out there, Killzone 2 or Bad Comapny 2 are better FPS than COD.

I must admit though its hard these days to find a gme that grips me as much as MGO did. It wasnt just the gameplay its the full package of clan features with tournaments and survival mode, it seems that most games these days are dumbing down these features that build communities and i cannot understand why.

I might give it another whirl to see if the patch has made MGO playable again.

I'm pretty sure that most developers don't allow players to create their own emblems because they're afraid everyone will draw a bunch of d*cks and other offensive imagery.

Probably, but a few pixelated cocks and boobs are probably the least shocking thing you are going to see in a game were the primary theme is shooting people in the face. Also any game that is rated Mature should be able to account for whatever images its userbase might create, and if anyone does manage to come up with anything truly shocking then they could be reported just as racist/rude usernames are.

If anyone's still playing MGO, I just updated our clan emblem, mind you this is double size & it looks better in game, but at the very least, it's much more accurate than the previous verison.

The ability to create your own logo from scratchin that game is brilliant, im surprised more games didnt follow suit. MGO is probably one of my favourite multiplayer games but the glitches and cheaters killed it for me, shame.

I have an old Jetfire you can have for free. Its got a bit of yellowing and looks a bit tatty but its in one piece and has no cracks or damage. I have the gun but no fast packs.

Im in the UK so if you cover the shipping cost to wherever you are then you can have the item for free.

Let me know if you are interested.

i guess cos the vf-17 is the only valk design with guns at the elbows.

but it still can be extended like during the scene where gamlin catches mylene when she dropped from her valk that was crushed by guravil.

The YF-21 / VF-22 also has guns in the same elbow position.

They did. Michael Fassbender is German.

He was born in Germany but moved to Ireland when he was a child so he dosnt speak with a German accent. His accent is all over the place tbh and by the end of the film he just sounds Irish.

I gotta admit, I was pretty ambivalent about ME3 incorporating the Kinect but I'm liking how they chose to do it.

http://kotaku.com/5808993/mass-effect-3-gets-more-tactical-and-conversational-with-kinect

Its incorporating voice recognition - it can be done on any microphone or headset, its just that Microsoft are trying to brand it as a feature thats only possible because of Kinect when in reality there is nothing hi-tech about the microphone incorporated in the kinect device.

I'd be very surprised if the PS3 and PC versions also did not have this feature without the need for a £100 webcam.

Actually, I thought this was a much better effort than Thor. Sure, the special effects on Thor were better, but the script was a bit lacking on some parts. X-Men: First Class, on the other hand, really made up for the last two X-Men movies that were just horrible.

BTW, I didn't care much for Wolverine's cameo; Michael Ironside's appearance in the film made a bigger impact.

I dont see how an actor simply acting in a film has a bigger impact than a relevant character being tied into the story, unless you have some kind of crush on that actor ?

How does it compare to Thor?

Thor is a much better more well rounded movie in my opinion - its visually stunning, has a much tighter story due to it revolving around 1 main character, and is just a really enjoyable film.

For a film that could have been ridiculously silly Thor is pretty epic.

I saw it - its OK, nothing special but enjoyable.

A few little gripes. The guy who plays Magneto keeps slipping into his natural Irish accent especially near the end, and the mutants with more extreme make-up like Mystique and Azazel dont look as natural as they did in the original X-men movies.

It would be cool to see the gunpod shoot out...like with spring activation...like how it jets out of the leg in the show.

i'd like the gunpod to fit in to the leg compartment but i think a spring loaded mechanism thing would be pretty crap.

The one aspect that really concerns me with the VF-17 is getting the side profile sleek. All the side views I've ever seen have the upper legs impossibly slim. In fact, I think the VF-171 actually beefed up the nose significantly in order to make the leg structure a little more plausible.

That's of course ignoring that the VF-171 is (after looking closer at screenshots) apparently not a physically possible model. As cool and plausible as it looks, I think there's a lot of pieces of that plane that are physically taking up the same space in fighter mode. I hope I'm wrong about that, but it would help to explain why we haven't seen Bandai even try to make one yet.

I dont think Bandai would let a little detail like accurate proportions or a quality final product get in the way of them making a toy - its probably just that they cant be arsed making it

Besides, even if you hate it, there are still a ton of other Valks created by Yamato that should satisfy everyone's needs. No need to rain on other people's parade.

Its hardly raining on anyones parade - he is just stating an opinion and even put in some clearly defined reasons as to why he has that opinion.

I completely agree that M7 is the G Gundam of the Macross franchise - that dosnt mean its bad but it is certainly so different from any other Macross that it is bound to polarise viewers into those who enjoy the realistic looking military vlaks and those who like the super robots with OTT colour schemes and (ahem) boobs.

Im firmly in the YF-19 camp - it just looks more badass in my opinion in both fighter and battroid mode.

I'm gonna guess and say it's because Graham didn't like us speculating on whether he got a 17 prototype from yamato to play around with.

I doubt thats the case but if it is then its a really lame reason for locking a perfectly civil on-topic thread. The lack of explanation is quite rude tbh.

Will it have a compartment in the leg to stow away the gunpod and then another compartment in the other leg for the laser attachment ? – that’s what I wanna know

oh, btw:

No problem - It will look something like this

Great news...Where's the VF-4?

Its gone travelling with the VF-2, to see a bit of the world and get with some exotic girls and stuff.