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This jackass thinks yellowing is a rare color variant from the manufacturer. And some stupid bastard will probably believe it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

Hey, post pics of your Alex custom. It's my favorite MSIA and I have a small army of them, one of which I customed up.

You should cast it in Soft vinyl rather than resin so that it can be kitbashed into a full action figure. Now that would be something.

Very nice. I'm surprised that the Testors paint worked on the PVC material without either staying permanently tacky or melting it. Did it dry completely?

I see the GTR distinction now. Actaully they do make an all-wheel drive version of the G35 branded the G35x. I also saw an article in Road and Track about nissan's next supercar to replace the GTR which looked exactly like the G35 with a big ass spoiler added - which I thought was goofy.

I thought the Skyline was now the same car as the Infinity G35 sold here.

These monsters were selling for under 10,000 yen at Superfest according to Matt Alt over on ToyboxDX. That's like half price. If I had already paid full retail for one I'd feel raped right now. These may be available at heavy discount soon if that is any indication.

No way the real Tony Twist lost $15 million in personal income because they used his name in the comic. It's McFarlane's own fault, though, for being an arrogant ass and not paying the guy some reasonable amount in a settlement. Plus now that it's clear that all those homerun record items he bought were from players jacked up on steroids, it will probably drive down any value they would historicly achieve.

Updated original pic with tailfins and decals on.

Thanks, here's Battroid:

Yeah, it would probably look better white but I have a bad time trying to get white paint to come out well, especially on such a large amount of the plane. Also, it's still transformable and the white areas would just get chipped up badly. All the areas I made black are 'transform-friendly'. Plus the original Takatoku skull was grey too!

I picked up a few of these on discount due to their bad hipjoint press. None of mine have busted yet and they're good customs fodder. Here's my Skull type, still have to do the tail fins though. *updated with tail fins done*

Cool! I didn't know that.

Wouldn't it be cool if they mass produced 70's super robots like they did in mecha shows? Here is a concept shot of one with little "Caution" stickers and a number designation:

I don't think its really a fair question. I watched DYRL when I was 6 years old. It shaped my imagination in ways that most people couldn't understand (well maybe some of you can ). My favorite toy was a Bandai Super Deformed Hikaru VF-1. My views are tainted in that way. To be honest? Some aspects of M-0 that I like better, especially the realism aspect of VFs. To me now, I can understand how VFs work and how they fight compared to our modern fighters. I really couldn't do that at all before hand. As I said earlier, the helmet mounted sight they use actually is a derivative of the bleeding edge research that one of my best friend carries out. That makes it real. As an overall movie though, I like DYRL better (not by so much though). DYRL is a bit rushed to me, and it has some problems. The TV continuity makes more sense. However, that was never my point of my first post. I don't think Macross zero a bad movie or even close to one, I can see why people think so, but that because you EXPECT it to be a certain way. That was what I was getting at, not that DYRL or M-0 was better or worse. (sorry for editing everything, I'm just terrible at editing before I post) I think we agree more than we disagree. I dig the innovations of the Zero mechs for sure (even though they "disrupt" the timeline of the series). I like the thrust vectoring and the stealth design of the carrier and all that. DYRL benefits from fans knowing the series so they don't have to spend time backfilling the why and the what. Zero should have that same benefit to some extent but doesn't really connect the dots very well. Many people, including me, were expecting more of a direct prequel than it turned out to be. So sure I feel let down and didn't really like the overall story. Doesn't mean I'm a dunce or and A-hole.

I also don't see how you can compare the how much you like a character from a whole TV show and compare it to one of a 2 hour movie. I think if you wanted to compare something, watch DYRL ONLY, and then compare if you like Hikaru more than Shin. Do you really think that DYRL Hikaru is more developed than M-Zero Shin, or M+ guld? Actually I think he's less developed than most of these characters. ooooooh good one, hey let me try! Good on you for coming onto a web message board to talk about a 25 year old cartoon that features fighter planes in space that transform into robots and fight 60 foot tall aliens that get scared of their erection when they see girl sing a song. You've really proved your point haven't you? Yep! Do you like Zero better than DYRL? Be honest...

Thats exactly what SDF macross was, a synthesis of music characters ect, NOT just the valkyries. He later decided to use the Macross universe to tell the Advance Valkyrie story, however macross plus does not fit the pattern of the rest of the stories. Remove it, and you see a definate pattern between SDF, Macross 7, and Macross zero, going back to my original post months ago about japanese pacifism and the need for alternatives to war. I'm sorry that you don't get that, you might have a view on what Macross is about, but its wrong, and likely does not follow Kawamori's view. If you don't like it, tough, stop watching and groaning about it. This forum is littered with the detritus of countless Macross 7 threads that have explained it again and again. And still people persist in saying, Oh well its nothing like SDF macross. Hello, maybe thats because what you think SDF macross is, isnt what it was intended to be by Kawamori. I can think of countless famous pieces of literature that have been misintrepreted by scholars to mean one thing, when the author really meant something else, that get illuminated by later pieces of work. Macross Zero only cemented the themes that Kawamori wanted to present. I think it is quite clear what Kawamori is getting at now after these three series have been put out there. edited for clarity and typos Yeah, I know Macross is more than just the valkyries. I like the characters in the other shows very much. Can you say you care as much about Shin as say, Hikaru? So, the characters, music, and mech that Kawamori mentions, I'm all for that. Zero obviously goes beyond those elements, for me too far, and at the expense of good story and character development. Maybe if Zero was loonger, I'd have gotten more of that and liked it more. As it is, I think it sucks. Glad you like it though, and that it provides you hours of speculation about whether bird humans are flying fish that evolved from protoculture semen and spawned humans that disappear to the stars in barrier forcefield folds because they feel love and not Kundun anger while singing the song of life in a big floating flower

I just watched part 5 last night and I have to say this whole series really disappointed me. In fact I think it sucked balls. I hate the whole magic hooey-pooey crap. Macross, to me, was always about the tech and the mech. Flying rocks? Bird Humans? Come on. This was like a totally different show with valks and Fokker thrown in to make a Macross connection. I never liked Shin nor gave a poo what happened to him or Sara. Character development was very poor. Macross Plus had the right vein for a Macross sequel. If Kawamori wanted to do magic, he should have done Escaflowne Zero. Well, that's my opinion, commence the bombardment!

Thanks, I agree. I think it looks sort of like a poster scene they typically do for a series with the hero striking a pose as their mech looms behind them. The 0083 figure are indeed the ones Bandai put out. They released a large number of lesser known characters and they didn't sell well which is why you can sometimes still find them on clearance at TRU. I need to track down the Amuro Rey to display with my RX-93 Nu Gundam DX.

...more - Uraki with GP01, Gato with Zaku II, Van with Escaflowne:

So I've been on this kick to track down pilot figures to display with their respective machines. CMS is making this easy these days. Here are some of mine. Display yours if you got 'em.

I think it was indeed Ghostriders. Cool name.

So at the end of Jedi they replace the old actor of Anakin's force ghost with teh young Hayden Christiansen. So why didn't they replace Alec Guiness with Ewan McGregor? Why did ObiWan's ghost stay the old Ben? Why not throw QuiGon and Samuel Jackson in there too. Makes no sense.

I just got one and overall, I like it. To me the quality is no worse than any of the 1/60 Yamatos I've had.

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