Lonely Soldier Boy

As for wich version of BR I like the most, when I heard of the director's cut, I was affraid I might hate it because I loved the original version so much. I thought that Dekard's narration was fundamental to better understand the context, and that taking it out would be a mistake, but when I finally saw it I liked it even more. Now I think the narration is not nesessary.

My two cents.

Anyway, I'm a huge fan of Stanislaw Lem, who wrote the novel Solaris, and the film by Tarkovsky is an interesting, meditative film, but a little slow for my tastes. (Essentially the same reaction I had to his historical film Andrei Rublev.) (I haven't seen the Clooney version of Solaris yet.)

The US version tries to "fix" the slow-meditative part. Let's not forget that Solaris is a russian author film and it wasn't intended for wester audiences that need an explotion every five seconds to stay awake (I blame the Hollywood studios for this). Even darker motivations led director Steven Soderbergh think that George Cloonie's naked ass would also make he's a better version.

Edit: Change my mind. I just rememberd that scene of the car in the tunnel. That was SSSLLLOOOOOWWW

I agree with BR being the best Sci-Fi movie of all times. Despite it's age it's still ahead of us in many ways. I love 2001, but I know some scientists and most of them aren't thrilled by the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence.

I agree with rocco_77.

I didn't get my Alpha yet, but I've read every complain carefully and I'm still getting it.

Toynami is learning to make toys the hard way, but no one can say that the Alphas are just as bad as the VF-1 line (in fact most of the people here that bought the Alphas never bought a single VF-1 MPC). Seems that the main problem here is that Toynami (perhaps to save some bucks) entrusted the assembly of a complex toy to some cheapo chinese factory. That problem can be easily solved just by moving the operation to other manufacturer for future releases.

In case that the red Alpha keeps having all these issues somebody here will have to recast the entire toy for a MacrossWorld special edition Alpha bootleg. I mean it.

Thanks for those scans, man. Any pictures of the VF-0?

Fighter mode looks beautiful as always, battroid looks much better, but I'm not getting it 'till I see it in gerwalk mode. Remember that the knees could barely bend on the previous sculpt.

I've been away this thread 'cause my PayPal account won't work 'till next week and I envy all you proud owners of a MPC Alpha (specially Myerjesee).

Sorry Kevin, I'll send my payment as soon as possible.

I'm specting the inavitable QC problems so I'm taking notes of the flaws and how to solve them, but those "I'm happy with mine" and "mine has no problems" sentences are killing me! I can't wait to get mine.

Hey, Guys:

I preorder mine from Kevin in march but I can't get in touch with him to make the payment. Hey, Kev, if you're reading this please send me an e-mail. I want my Alpha very badly.

Oh and my condolences to EXO. Sorry, man.

Hey, fearyaks: How's the stickers quality? In the photos they look very "Yamatoish"

Hate to burst your bubbles, but what if that is only a down payment on a pre order? I mean, what if you need to put down 50% just to stake your name to it? That would mean that it's more like $254.00.

It's a toy, dude, not a car.

I don't think Yamato is thru with the Monster. They seem to have lost interest on it for the time being, but the Monster is a guarantee of sales, so IMO it's a matter of time (maybe a couple of years, but hey, it's the Monster). Same can be said of the YF-19 FP. Yamato is not gonna disappear tomorrow neither Macross fans, so there's hope.

By the way: I'm not trying to be a party pooper, but it doesn't seem that the Monster could bend his knee in batt mode at all. Is it supposed to be like this?

The destroid mode looking this good is all I need anyways.

thats actually a really good question....

is there anything else than what we've seen? any gimmicks? missiles? gunpod? something? anything?

don't get me wrong, i think its uber cool, but a little extra something wouldn't hurt. 

The center piece of each arm (the "elbow" in destroid mode) it's a moving piece. I think it reveals the machine guns that appear in the line art.

Since all the Mospeada eminences are here I'll take the opportunity to ask a question:

Which number is Ray/Rand's Legioss? Anyone has a picture of it? I might buy two blue Alphas and make a custom, but I'm not sure about it.

Thanks in advance, guys.

So there was a sequel?

If I understand well, Love Live Alive is not exactly a sequel, but kind of an epilogue to the series released as an OVA (I haven't see it yet tho'). I'm I right?

I knew it, I swear I knew it!

By the way, Graham. What kind of shipment do you commonly use when you order a toy from the US?

QUOTE (eyesonme78 @ Aug 1 2004, 08:30 PM)

Hi graham, possible for you to do so ? or could you recommend someone to do it? Thanks.

Eh.......what?

Graham

I think Eyesonme is talking about a review of the Alpha. I understand That you're not getting yours soon, but perhaps somebody here can post a review as soon as he gets the toy.

As eriku said: this'll be a loooong week

Is there a free version for Mac somewhere?

Thanks.

Edit: A chat between two Legioss'

You need an ftp program, then connect to imacross4 with the settings in that thread.

What, like Fetch?

C'mon, guys. I want to see LLA for myself. Were can I download it? I've never been on a imacross server

Ok, the Love Live Alive Soundtrack is up at Imacross4

Hey, Pat S. I've never been in an Imacross server. Can you give me the paths to get there and download the LLA and OST MP3's?

Thanks a bunch.

I'm in Mexico, so mine will be delayed a bit more, so as soon as someone here get it, please post a complete review of it.

Hey, I want to download it too. Where exactly is it? I've never heard of IMacross servers

Got it. Thanks, Hikuro-san.

Now where can I get the first two episodes on-line?

Is it likely for ADV to release a 3 disc boxed set after the third episode is released? Should I wait for it? and if not, where can I get the first two episodes online? Thanks ppl

What's LLA?

Now it gets clearer the claw thing. Thanks everybody. I just need to understand my toys to better play with them

Just spoke with Toynami: MPC Blue Alpha Release date 8/3/04..... 

-Kevin

Finally! Is that the date you'll be getting them?