David Hingtgen

I'm thinking "non-alcoholic" like hard lemonade or wine coolers---it can be sold as such, but it's still illegal for kids to drink, as it DOES have some alcohol, and if you guzzle down a lot like Sheryl, you can certainly get pretty drunk off it.

Paper airplanes are highly relevant to Frontier, especially the last couple eps. They're used more often as metaphors than fold quartz now... Surely someone's got some Freudian analysis of the the different planes made by the different characters...

Well, mainly, it was discussed in the Ep 15 thread about 3 secs after it aired in Japan... And of course, the main Frontier tech thread around the time ep 15 came out.

It's based more directly off the F-2 than the F-16. But the F-2 is itself based on the F-16.

I made Alto's last night, and IMHO it sucks. Seems to be VERY unpredictable, and generally has two options: 1. Nose dive right to the ground. 2. Make an immediate loop. Practically a boomerang, comes right back. I got ONE decent flight out of it.

I was really hoping that'd be Sheryl's valk too. We've never had a valk with purple stripes.

VP1 runs better on my PS2 than it did on my PSX, and my PSX was as well-running as anything I've ever owned. But VP1 was the one and only game that could make it have issues. If you've played it once normally, and are now going for an A---it is WELL worth it. It's not the "A ending", it's really the "A second half of the game". Chapter 4 is where it really changes. Unless you are one of those people who live by the FAQ, and "played 99% of the game as "A", but made an extra save and went and got the B ending and said it wasn't that different". That doesn't work, you then missed out on the B "second half of the game". So many people miss this. The A and B are completely different for the entire second half of the game. You can't "cheat" and see both in a single play through---you may see both ENDINGS, but you'll miss the STORY of one. IMHO, seeing a totally normal "B" game and ending, then going through and seeing an A game and ending, is the greatest replay, and "alternate story/ending" in the history of all video games. Nothing else comes close. (I'm a huge VP fan BTW, only Xenogears outranks it) IMHO, 95% of "PSX on PS2" issues are solved by simply running the game "normal" and not with fast-loading. (texture resampling always works and is always better, so always use it except on purely sprite-based games like Megaman X4/5/6 and VP)---but fast-loading is SLOWER half the time, and screws things up the other half)

Guess I'm glad I picked SAL then. I'm getting dark dirt. Light dirt is like white, it's for highlighting things on black, and isn't really for "panel lines" per se.

Just FYI, but far larger, $75-$125 diecast models usually don't have that. (moving stabs are an exception---they also happen unintentionally due to design) I doubt they'd show up in little plastic ones.

Alto's helmet clearly has a "rapidly retracting" visor, so I presume Brera's does as well.

::cough:: I'm trying to sell my Anasazi decal sheet for a 1/60 Roy, and it includes VF decals for the feet ::cough::

Talos--if your VF-11 is still "in progress", I'd suggest checking out all the other lineart for the tailfin shape---the much-publicized "side view" completely conflicts with every other drawing and animation. I did a quick variant showing "official sideview, vs how it looks in every other drawing and animation". (tailfin should be bigger too, but I didn't get around to rescaling it) PS--love your "all 4 Zero variants" drawing.

Valk Profile 2 has possibly the best final boss music of all time, FYI. Also one of the hardest/longest final bosses in a long time. How far along are you? Story keeps getting better as it goes on. Did you play the first? The further you get, the more you'll get out of it having played the first, ESPECIALLY if you got the A ending.

Thanks, that was enough for me to find it. Here: http://www.starwars.com/kids/read/cwspotte...822.html?page=7

Though I think whoever said it earlier wasn't being serious, I think they really are adjustable... (hey, makes it a lot easier to impersonate a guy for secret restaurant meetings with Leon)

Mod warning: The pic's already been quoted twice, no need to quote it again.

Ok, how has the Tetris movie trailer NOT been mentioned yet?

We need more Grace art. I was all hoping for a lot more "flightsuit Grace" in ep 23, but we didn't see it at all. Here's hoping for ep 24...

Based on the number of corpses, I think she fought her way out without a scratch. We are still only on "Grace body #2" IMHO.

Wow, I didn't see Sharon until she was pointed out.

This scene (and ep) would have been so much better if they'd simply drawn Grace as she actually is now (in her flightsuit) than in her "mental image" Grace-network incarnation. Also---hmmn, with how interested Grace is with Ranka, and being "connected" and the network and everything, is Grace going to try to "possess" Ranka or something?

Does anyone have a good guess for the kit's weight and box size? I'm trying to figure out how much it'd cost via EMS based on other MG kits of equal cost, but that's not working at all---there are Y3000 kits that cost 36 bucks to ship EMS, and Y4500 kits that cost less than 20. If it'd be like 15-18 I'd do it, but no way am I paying 36 bucks... ::edit: Is EMS based more on SIZE than weight in some cases? (because many Zoids cost a ton, despite being fairly light---just big)

I was re-watching ep 9, and capped these:

Remember people--the better this sells, the more likely we are to get a season 2, OVA, or movie of Frontier! TV shows are funded by their merchandise sales.

How tight is the friction in the pins holding the shoulder armor together? I'm thinking back to my YF-19 leg pins shearing apart rather than coming out of their holes (what a nightmare to fix that was). Is there one pin on each side of the shoulder? You use both "pin" and "peg" in your description---are these the same, or are there 2 different sets/things? Is it "pegs hold shoulder armor to shoulder, while pins hold shoulder armor together to itself?"