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The guy charges so much that I would have ended up paying double if I wanted the screw holes and seams filled. Graham Graham, sorry you didn't get exactly what you wanted for the price you paid, but I think it looks pretty good. Since this thread is about the VF-17, where does the gunpod go/rest/mount in fighter mode (a question I've had for a while but never asked)? Any pics would be great. Well I don't know about the toy since i don't own one (so i assume its the same), but in the anime its gunpod is stored in its right leg. In Battroid mode, it is ejected from the right leg and the battroid catches it in midair.

*whistles* Gawd...for that kinda money, one would at least expect him to follow the reference pictures and paint it to actual color. It looks great...but the blue really bothers me....

Good find, Bariaburu. On another note, maybe we should make it a poll....why do people not have the Low Viz? For me, I was still a student 2 years ago, so I couldn't afford the Low Viz then. Now that I can...its as rare as heck and expensive. How about others? Maybe you never knew macross then? You couldn't find any in your area?

Upclose photos of cosmic region impulse. Looks ok here.

That site takes from the RCB and some weird thing called CARDASS game or something...which is supposedly accepted as canon. Sorry....when i said single entity i meant singular or personal entity, not a giant hive mind like what I said in the later. I know AT Field seperate people from being a giant hive mind. Wrong usage of words. Yeh...I kinda assumed they'd look something like her by the end of it. ================================================== Your theories are interesting, but some of them seem to be just fan-speculation. Like for example: I think it is canon that they are both seperate from the beginning. And you said something about the Angels wanting to join with Lilith because they wanted the fruit of knowledge from her.....there was no clear intent of the Angels and why they wanted to rejoin Adam or Lilith, so I assume this is another fan-theory.

A tribute to the Gouf.

Getting to Adam wouldn't cause Third Impact. The Angels already had the Fruits of Life side from Adam. They needed the Fruits of Wisdom side from Lilith. And assumedly, whoever was in the position of control would be able to initiate Third Impact. Seele didn't cause it, Lilith didn't cause it, Gendo didn't cause it, it was Shinji's desire for everything to end that caused it. Quoted from evaotakus THe fruits theory is fruity at best. Shinji's choice wasn't the choice of ENDING or leaving it as it is. His choice was to accept or reject Instrumentality/Complementation which in the movie he rejected, causing all souls to be of a single entity with AT Fields, as opposed to ONE big Lilith being with no AT-Fields.

As noted by the Proffesor chick in Astray Red Frame OVA....gravity makes your boobs sag. So....i guess perky big boobies are a norm for coordinators and all space faring women.

Helpful link there memphis. Expains Golden's misconception as well. And that's basically what I thought it would be. Yes, I agree. But there are 2 ways to initiate the 3rd impact as shown by the website. They plan to initiate Third Impact - not with Angels, but by using the Eva series. Lilith would never initiate a 3rd Impact if the Angels got to it. But if angels got to Adam, then it would, which serves no purpose to SEELE. The difference SEELE did was to use EVA and Lilith to initiate the 3rd impact, that would be more fitting to their plans of human evolution.

Amen!

If this is the case, there's no reason why an angel attacked the fleet carrying Adam and EVA02. And though you can debate on the sequence of angels, since Adam was the 1st angel, Lilith being the 2nd, I doubt Adam and the other Angels came from Lilith. Kaworu meets Lilith thinking it was Adam and was about to unite with it....and then he senses something amiss....he says "Kore...Adam janai". "This is not Adam". And that's when he gave up his mission. This proves that the Angels goal was to unite with Adam and not Lilith.

I was hooked on this game yesterday. It has violence, action, nudity and sex. w00ts! You play the role of Kratos, some champion of the greeek Gods. In the intro you see yourself committing suicide as you jump off a cliff and then it backflashes 3 years ago.....where you start your game. Ares, God Of War has started to massacre the humans around ancient Greece. The gods ie Zeus/Poseidon etc cannot interfere as Gods are not allowed to wage war with each other. Thus you come into the picture.....a representative of the Gods to stop Ares. Well anyway....on to gameplay. The game plays pretty much like the PS2 LOTR games. Walk around, kill everything that moves with a flurry of moves upgradeable from orbs that come out of enemies when they are killed. The game system is interesting. On the surface it is just like the LOTR games, where you walk around killing things. But HOW you kill them would give you different combination of orbs. Red Orbs are XP. Blue orbs are basically mana and green orbs are health. If you tear an enemy apart with your bare hands, you get a green orb and some red orbs. If you stab him, you get mostly red orbs. If you behead a Medusa, you get blue orbs but if u kill her normally, youll get red orbs. Also the "vendetta" moves are nice to look at. When you get an enemy down to low health you grab them with the "o" button and a sequence of buttons will appear on top of the enemy which you must press when they flash. Each correct button will show the character do fantastic moves which kills the creature fantastically. Pretty much a very cool finishing move, especially when the creatures are much huger than you. The same applies to boss characters. Oh...and by the end of the 1st chapter, you get to bed some 2 slaves and get some red orbs at the climax.

This not true. There can only be one Rei at any one time. Otherwise they'd just let them all loose and make evas for every one of them. Instead they developed the dummy plug system for the EVAs which have proven to be more effective than normal human pilots. Ritsuko Akagi did mention that xxx room (forgot the name) which is supposedly the room where all souls are kept before they are born into babies are empty. This explains why no babies were born after the 2nd Impact. Rei's soul is something that is debatable. It was not explained if Rei has a soul or if it is actually Lilith's soul. Nonetheless, there can only be one Rei. Whenever a Rei dies, her soul is recycled and "reincarnated" into another one of her "spare bodies".Ritsuko did say that those bodies were nothing more than containers for Rei. They aren't alive or anything. Then where does Adam stand? Angels come from Adam and humans from Lilith. Kaworou stopped because he found out that it wasn't Adam at the bottom of Central Dogma. If he were to unite with Lilith, it would cause some kind of paradox, 3rd impact happens without instrumentality. He doesn't want this as it would be unfair to the humans who were given a choice of instrumentality. He tells this to Shinji and asks him to kill him. (after long long pause while Beethoven's 9th Symphony plays on)

Also Mikimoto was completely against it but the executives strong armed him into it. Mikimoto has voiced his opinion on this and other Macross matters before. Mikimoto was the character designer and art director...did he have much authority to be for or against any of the projects? Actually I didn't imagine Hory Froating Head had that much authority as well until the current "no yamato toys situation".

What's the minifilm supposed to be? ANd wth is the deal with those sailormoon dresses?

Sadly enough, it's a style of story that has been copied and copied and copied ad nauseum by a large number of shows since that are trying to capitalize on Eva's success. However, I draw the line at shows that more or less openly copy elements of Evangelion. Those I avoid on general principle. Like what? Rahxephon? Argento Soma? Gasaraki? and more recently, Fafner Of The Blue Azure: Dead Aggressor (which i thought was pretty good. Its eva minus the pseudo-religious references)

I think i'll give up on Lunar and get Anbu's. How's Anbu's translation anyway?

There's a misconception that the pilot's mothers NEED to be "absorbed" into the EVA to allow it to be piloted. I think logically that this isn't the case. It JUST SO HAPPENED that Asuka and Shinji's mom got synced/partially synced into those EVAs...and due to that reason, as finding pilots that can sync at least 50% with the EVA was hard (as shown by Rei and her difficulty syncing with EVA00), chances of syncing were found to be better when anomalies like EVA01 and EVA02 happened..ie moms get sucked in. Remember that all students in class 2-A are potential pilots which probably have higher sync-rates than other students in the school or all over the world. Thus the idea that every eva has to have a soul of its pilot's mother is not accurate. More or less what I meant. By having Instrumentality, the person gets to shape the world to his wishes...well not REALLY to his wishes...but more like a choice of objective answers. 1.) everyone dies 2.) everyone becomes this big Lilith human evolution thing (opposite to shinji's choice) 3.) only I exist 4.) I am who I am (shinji's choice)

We really don't neeed another EVA thread. You can search google and get 1001 sites that tell you the same answers. Not really hard in looking. No digging required even. Anyway to refine mechamaniac's answers: Angels are beings which need to return to their source which is Adam (human's source is Lilith). They attack NERV HQ because Adam is in it. Once they come in contact with Adam, the 3RD Impact will happen. 2nd impact happened in 1999 IIRC which decimated most of the world. Now you might ask why did the 1st 4-5 angels attacked NERV HQ when Adamn wasn't even in the base. Some people have a theory that they faked Adam's presence in Dogma Sigma with Lilith and the Spear....when Adam was actually in another NERV base in Germany. Thus why Kaoworu (Tabris) only found out that Lilith isn't Adam just when he's face to face with her. I think it just so happened that EVA01 had his mom's soul, which Shinji's mom synced with during a training exercise. I don't think EVA02 had Asuka's mom's soul thus why EVA01 was the only EVA to seem to have a life of its own....much to the amazement of Gendou and the rest of NERV command. Uhhh...Shinji's mother IS Gendou's dead wife. I think you meant to say that Rei was cloned from cells of Yui Ikari and Lilith. The rest about covers it....except i doubt the "couldn't live without her" part. Gendou wanted Instrumentality, and he'll get there sacrificing anybody he has to. Yui, Shinji, the world. Not quite. 2nd Impact is the one where Adam appeared in the antartic, then he was shrunk to Embryo size. In that process, a huge amount of energy was released since Adam's new vessel couldn't contain the power he had. What resulted was a catastrophic explosion which decimated the world. This is the 2nd impact. The 1st impact is believed to be the 1st catastrophic event of the world, which was the flooding of the world during the time of Noah's Ark. Gendou was originally part of SEELE, trying to realise the 3rd Impact by defeating all 17 angels, and raise humans to the next level of evolution. But Gendou had other plans from SEELE's. He wanted to initiate instrumentality by himself. He wanted to guide humanity's ascension. Selfish bastard. Ultimately he was rejected instrumentality, and that "honour" was given to Shinji...which he rejected right at the end.

They probably just wanted some way to show off the Gouf. And get us to say, whoa cool I want a kit of that. Could be true.... and later they find out that ZAFT is making an army of Gouf Igniteds with lots of Heines, ala Jango Fett Clone Wars.....all better than the average "Zaku" pilot.

From the looks of the CAD picture, looks like the nose cone will have to be removed, as per initial speculation.

Yeah, for Basara' singing voice. Not the normal voice.

Something like this., but only smaller. I just used my computer and printer to get the screenshots that I want and print it out. Then I use tape to hang it in the background. Nice setup! What kinda printer you using? Looks high quality.

It feeds on Mylene's fleas. We don't see Mylene bathing really much either.

Oh...its just that I always see it with its arm cannons up. I know the transformation only so vaguely.