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It's a very good movie but incredibly sad, almost depressing in parts, for a kid's feature. My wife was balling through half of it, especially the first part. My little girl did not seem as affected by the sad parts so maybe it will go over most kids' heads.

Absolutely agree and I can't believe it hasn't occurred to Yamato. It seems to be one of the most common and wished for custom schemes. I believe they would sell like gangbusters for them.

I was reading one of those 'making of' books on this movie today and they say they hope to break new digital FX ground with the final battle of the movie which will be John Connor and the good cyborg guy against a photo-realistic digital recreation of a person from 25 years ago. Which pretty much tells you it is a Schwarzenegger T-800. And I think that's F'n awesome!!!!

Mikimoto must spend most of his time churning out DYRL character group shots these days. Look at all of 'em on these cards, and then you have the wall scrolls and posters and game ads, etc!

I took it to mean that since hera was the first hybrid, she would be the first and therefore oldest woman to have both human and cylon dna. Since all modern day humans would be descendants of such matings by now, she would be the Eve.

Happywell packaged and sold this toy in the Galaxy Defender line at walmarts some years back. They also packaged and sold it in a line called Soldier Bear Toys, which was distributed to US Military Base stores. That's why you saw it on military tv. Same toy, different boxes.

Am I mistaken or did Baltar drop an actual F-bomb instead of Frak when he first started cursing in his dad's house. He said "I don't f-ing believe this." I think right after the nurse left.

Yamato's 1/60 YF-19 Fold Booster set had the lightup feature, so they do sometimes engage in that gimmick.

Because Toynami was going to release variants with new head sculpts. Also, having them easily available to 'Robotech' fans here and in other outside-Japan markets would lead to higher global sales. Therefore Bandai would have been more inclined to invest in the reproduction of more variants and create the new VF-1D. They would have been cheaper for us - $88 shipped in the US for a 1/55 with Super packs is a lot better than $150 shipped from Hong Kong. As it is there have been no displays of 1/55s even by Bandai at the various Japanese shows since last year, which would seem to indicate they have killed the reissues yet again.

Ok, why do all the people in the trailer seem so shocked by the humanoid terminator infiltrators, wouldn't John have warned everyone about what was coming? Even he seems surprised by it in some of the shots. I know some things are different than he expected, as the voice over says, but the endos should be old hat for him.

It doesn't matter what mech you choose because you would never pilot it for fear of scratches and damages. It must remain MIB!! Even the smallest dent would make you piss your pants in aguish and cry HOT TEARS OF SHAME. The only possible solution would be to have TWO of them, one to pilot and one to keep mint in the Hangar. And if it was a variable mech, then you would additionally need one to store in each mode. Plus another one to sell at a profit

The Tamashii nations setup at the Toynami booth at the NYComicon has no 1/55 valks on display or any mention of them. Not sure if this means the distribution deal and future reissues are canned, but it's not a hopeful sign. http://toyfair09.figures.com/showgallery.php?cat=677

This was pretty entertaining. I actually did try to work a huge invisible penis into the story but Antarctic wouldn't let me!!! I will wait to share other fascinating anecdotes in the interview.

I would love to have one of those full-scale R/C T-1's they built for the T3 movie. That and the big ass Robot from the Lost in Space movie. I saw a 'making of' feature on that Robot and it was freakin' awesome.

So it looked like the next week preview showed

I haven't had any published work since RoboDojo. I'm just too busy with my "real job" and family. I do commission work here and there. But I do have a couple of ideas that I may try to get out there soon. By the way, if anyone wants signed copies of my Antarctic books PM me, I have a few left for cover price plus shipping. Some original art pages as well.

Thanks, very glad you liked it. That was my goal with the new Cyclone design was to tweak it enough so the reader could tell who was who when they were all armored up, but not to go beyond what was reasonable. I really did want to grey-tone the artwork but they digitized the artwork for lettering and it would not have transferred well to print. Probably would have been unreadable. Plus this book was on a super rush as I mentioned before and so it really suffered from some of the inkers they farmed it out to. One of them put the 'NICK' on that trooper, I guess as some inside message to his friends. The original plan was for a 3 issue series so you would have gotten to see poor Aaron after the experiments. But the license thing made me shorten it to an oversized single issue in order to get it out before the end of that year.

Thanks, I appreciate it. I have xeroxes of the pencils somewhere. I will try and find them and post a comparison of pre and post inks on some of the more egregious pages. I was pretty disappointed not to get the color series but there was nothing to be done. It was actually a year or so later before Tommy Yune took over the Robotech brand. I was actually slated to work on a second Speed Racer series with him at Wildstorm and he left that project to go to Robotech. I ended up doing a book called RoboDojo instead. I've talked with him a couple times since then. He contacted me about doing the cover art for the first Robotech Playstation game but I was too busy to meet the deadline, so Udon got it. He gets a bad rap sometimes but he's really a nice guy.

That was me. I wrote and penciled these 3 Robotech books for Antarctic. I also penciled the last 4 issues (11-12) of Malcontent Uprisings for Eternity. As to why I used DYRL designs in Covert Ops, well, several reasons. First, they had already used some here and there, and made no objection when I turned in the pre-production art and script. Second, they had already monkeyed with the continuity and there were other people doing side stories that I had no information on, so I just did my own thing and left it to the editor to sort out any continuity they wanted to try to maintain. Finally, I always liked those designs over the series and wanted to use them in the book. I would say consider it an alt-universe story. Now on the 48 page New Gen story Class Reunion, I tried to stay within the bounds of cannon and it is even placed into the series timeline on the last page. That was the last Robotech book AP put out before the license was pulled by HG for their Cartoon Network deal, so it was rush inked by 5 or 6 different people (some inept) in order to meet their legal deadline. As a result a lot of the pages suffered, unfortunately. Also, they were about to hand me control of their main color Robotech series before the license was lost, which tells me that my books must have sold pretty well for them among their various Robotech offerings.

I have the LED bootlegs. They are based off the 1/55 2002 VF-1A head reissue with the swappable canopies. There is an all red version and a white version with a blue back hatch, each blister carded. They come with the gun pod and an alternate light green transparent canopy. I'll try to get some pics up.

I fear that Yamato may be done with the MegaZone license. I was really hoping for a Hargun and a GR-2 green hover Garland. But no news of any upcoming figures in such a long time....

Am I mistaken or in the trailer were they building the Enterprise out in a friggin field somewhere? I would think any vessel of that size and shape would have to be built in orbit due to laws of aerodynamics and gravity and all that crap.

Totally agree with you. I like Brosnan, but not as Bond (nor as a singer, if you've heard the Mama Mia soundtrack). Casino Royale is the first bond film I've watched in years because Daniel Craig actually looks like someone who could, and would, kick the poo out of you. He's a devious, hugely intelligent thug with little conscience - which is exactly what a double-0 should be. Brosnan is great for films like The Thomas Crown Affair remake, which is really a great movie. Regarding gadgets, most of the stuff that used to be fantasy in the old films is today's reality. Technology is so common and embedded in our society today, does he really need a Q?

True, but current Peter uses Hiro's powers quite often and even does so in the very next scene, so he appears to be proficient with them. The only way I could see Claire's shooting him be fatal (at least temporarily) would be if she shot him in the head and left the bullets in the brain. Kind of the same way the splinter in her head kept her dead until it was removed. But it was clear that she had shot him in the chest. And considering she once came back to life while being half dissected on an autopsy table, a chest wound should not keep him down.

Maybe they realized that having the future savior of mankind forced to attend school by a mom who breaks any law to protect him is frigging ridiculous. Especially when that has been the method by which he has been previously tracked down by a terminator. Reminds me of how in anime they will have the robo pilots attending school by day and saving the world in the afternoon (Evangelion, Macross Frontier). Which is also quite insanely stupid.