David Hingtgen

It DOES have a red LED. Right in the middle. RDOD---red dot of death.

No, see, it's foreshadowing. Mecha-with-boobs and Grace are closely related. It's quite possible that Grace's "version 3.0" body would have been a VF-27 with boobs or something. It's the underlying theme in Macross---"the power of song" is the obvious one, but the merging of humanity with technology is the other. First they introduce much more "human" valks in 7. Now in Frontier, we have very mechanical people (Brera and Grace).

Jedi-Sith fights do seem to degenerate to that often. For all their training/powers, that often seems to be the winning move. "Boot to the head!"

Page 2 and 3 of this thread discusses that issue (or at least I do). In short---they were too cheap to model up a new CG head for 10 secs of animation of a way-in-the-background valk. Kind of like how the one cannon-fodder VF-25 with armor, clearly has Michael's armor--since it was only seen for 2 secs, if that.

Well according to Bandai, #302 has a different (normal) head than Grace's customized commander(Brera)-type head.

Thanks for the link. Hey, it DOES say "Grace O'Connor custom" on the box: Actually, it says "Grace O'Connor custom/normal type". Which is kinda misleading--it can't be both normal AND custom (nor even normal OR custom), as implied by the slash. It should be more like "Grace's slightly customized version of the normal type".

Darker? Yes, but many plot elements are recycled from the first two. At one point, I literally thought to myself "this is just like that one part in Toy Story 2". Kinda disappointed, considering how much I liked the first 2. This really was just "more" IMHO. Not really "new/better". I will say I probably laughed more during this one than the first 2.

Well, since we only just now got good, accurate F-22 models in 1/48 and 1/72, it might be a while... (however, the Russian kit industry has made leaps and bounds in the past couple years, and is capable of making some very nice kits---Zvezda's 787 and 767 kits are the best you can buy---I wouldn't be surprised it you could buy a T-50 from them within a year)

Excelsior shouldn't have been in a "poll" it should have had the highest priority after Ent-A and Ent-D for being in from the start. That'd be like leaving the TIE Inteceptor or B-wing out of a SW game. It may not be THE most famous ship, but it's WAY up there. Way higher than the fan-made stuff they did put in the game...

You mean like the Excelsior, the most common ship in the fleet for most of Starfleet's existence? And the Ambassador class, its successor?

Part of the problem is that the tailfins of the V2 just don't fold as flat over each other as on the V1. It's like Yamato "forgot" how to make them fold correctly.

I personally like to display my valks in fighter mode, with 'everything opened up'---airbrakes, canopies, etc. Thus, I like having the correct pilot. (Milia only gets a proper mold like 1/2 of the time--I'm still surprised they molded a Nora figure)

Personally, I love how they act like HOTAS is something new and big...

Describe the pilots, please. Same as what comes with Brera's? Same paint colors?

From Reuters: Putin boasts new jet fighter better than U.S. plane MOSCOW Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:26pm EDTMOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into the cockpit of Russia's newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a U.S.-built rival, the F-22 Raptor. Politics | Russia Putin watched a test flight of a "fifth-generation" stealth fighter, dubbed the T-50 and billed as Russia's first all-new warplane since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. "This machine will be superior to our main competitor, the F-22, in terms of maneuverability, weaponry and range," Putin told the pilot after the flight, according to an account on the government website. Putin said the plane would cost up to three times less than similar aircraft in the West and could remain in service for 30 to 35 years with upgrades, according to the report. Successful development of the fighter, built by Sukhoi, is crucial to showing Russia can challenge U.S. technology and modernize its military after a period of post-Soviet decay. Russia also plans to manufacture T-50s jointly with India. The F-22 raptor stealth fighter first flew in 1997 and is the only fifth-generation fighter in service. Fifth-generation aircraft have advanced flight and weapons control systems and can cruise at supersonic speeds. According to the government website, the test pilot told Putin the controls of the T-50 allowed the pilot to operate most of the plane's systems without taking his hands off the joystick, which he said would be very useful under high forces of gravity. "I know, I've flown," Putin replied. Sukhoi has said the plane should be ready for use in 2015.

From Reuters: Putin boasts new jet fighter better than U.S. plane MOSCOW Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:26pm EDTMOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into the cockpit of Russia's newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a U.S.-built rival, the F-22 Raptor. Politics | Russia Putin watched a test flight of a "fifth-generation" stealth fighter, dubbed the T-50 and billed as Russia's first all-new warplane since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. "This machine will be superior to our main competitor, the F-22, in terms of maneuverability, weaponry and range," Putin told the pilot after the flight, according to an account on the government website. Putin said the plane would cost up to three times less than similar aircraft in the West and could remain in service for 30 to 35 years with upgrades, according to the report. Successful development of the fighter, built by Sukhoi, is crucial to showing Russia can challenge U.S. technology and modernize its military after a period of post-Soviet decay. Russia also plans to manufacture T-50s jointly with India. The F-22 raptor stealth fighter first flew in 1997 and is the only fifth-generation fighter in service. Fifth-generation aircraft have advanced flight and weapons control systems and can cruise at supersonic speeds. According to the government website, the test pilot told Putin the controls of the T-50 allowed the pilot to operate most of the plane's systems without taking his hands off the joystick, which he said would be very useful under high forces of gravity. "I know, I've flown," Putin replied. Sukhoi has said the plane should be ready for use in 2015.

Hey, I'd pay someone for that... (it's still mind-boggling that of all the merchandise that anime shows normally get, and the type of 1:6 figure/statues that are normally made in Japan--that there's NOTHING out there for flightsuit Grace)

It's been said several times that due to the vast numbers of Sith in the Old Republic era, both side's saber-fighting skills are far superior to "current" Republic-era. (and that way WAY back when, Sith were even better than Old Republic ones) Thus, it may be fairly common for a Jedi of that era to know/practice a very difficult saber-blocking force-power.

Blatantly taken from TFW, which themselves were from Sgcollect.com: (that's not Grace) I'm thinking that the missing "stickers" are actually my much-desired "102" modex numbers on the legs and tailfins. I think there's a slight "holdover" from Brera's---the ankles and fingers look purplish.

I sure hope "missing stickers" isn't the same as "missing tampo printing". Stickers are not a replacement for missing paint... Did Brera's come with a sticker sheet? Or maybe the fold booster has stickers?

I touched stingrays earlier this month. (cownose stingrays are actually kinda cute and very playful) (at least the ones in touch-pools at aquariums are)

Everything I read keeps skipping on WHY they move to China.

Penny Arcade summed it up pretty well: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/903426984_Tg2it-L.jpg

Epic Mickey had the potentional to truly be epic, if you look at the original concept art. Would have been amazing, far beyond what Kingdom Hearts does--a "dark" Disney action-RPG. But it seems to have been watered down into kind of a Zelda knock-off or something.

I think twin v.stabs like that would seriously hamper a shark's swimming ability.