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Found this on youtube, really cool to watch: VF-0S part 1 VF-0S part 2

Sorry I never got back to you guys, and to ya'll who wanted to help host the site. It's all gone now, with the exception of my original ostrich pics that were hosted on a non-pay geocities account. You can view what's left of it here: http://geocities.com/woxiangjia/superostrich.html I lost all those images of every valk and even nonvalk mechs, and even my own pictoral compositions. All gone. Sorry I'm not online much these days. Much like my site, most of my real life has been erased, so to speak, and exists now only in broken fragments. I'm but a whisper of an echo. Hope life has treated ya'll well these past years. My best to you all.

Not much smaller, plastic, loads of fun, only $5 back in the day. Somehow this chogokin reminds me of this little plastic thing:

Greetings all, I'll make this as brief and painless as it needs be. If any of you old-time 1/55 custom fans still care, now's the chance to view the old Valkyrie Dream Flight site while you still can. The site will most likely be shut down this month. Valkyrie Dream Flight I don't really want to delete it, especially since I never archived the site on disk (it's all online, 100%, including the pics). I MIGHT be able to slowly cut and paste html and download pics offline from the site before it shuts down, but knowing me, I won't get to it in time. So when it goes offline, if I haven't backed it up by then, all those images and info are gone.....forever! Hopefully I'll have it backed up in time to start a new archive site at a later time though at least. Despite my human mistakes here on MW, I'd like to think I was, at some point, a positive contributor to the MW culture, and I've been honoured to rub elbows (or rather keystrokes) with the best of you. Thanks MW for all the great times. I still come on here and browse once in a while, so it's never truly "goodbye." Man, so much I've missed out on over the years......never seen a yamato q-rau, monster, or vf-0s. I'm getting old. Cheers, MW, for now. -RL

At one point in time I had some really good pics of that "bootleg" SDF and had ICQed with the owner (who won it off of ebay) a bit, and even chatted with Shawn, Nam, and Eric over email (back before our modern forums...i wonder if they remember) about these "bootlegs." From what I remember, they are genuine Takatoku 1/3000 SDF-1 Parts, just stolen by shady factory workers/associates that decided to sell them and package them as their own. They even went so far as to make new box art and such. I wish I still had those pics. But they're not bootlegs in the sense that we are used to; they are not remoulds of an existing cast, or a copycat sculpt. They are real Taka parts. For some reason, though, I remember it being stamped "BANDAI" on it, not Takatoku, though they did have the launching arms and missile bays. I always wondered how that went though....were they reject parts that factory workers saved and pieced together to make whole ones? Or did some shady workers slowly pocket entire SDF-1's piece by piece little by little each day until they had all the parts to make a whole one without the company knowing? Or did some workers sneak in at night when no one was around and turn on the manufacturing equipment to produce their own SDF's all at once? hmmm..... I admit, when I was a kid, I always wished I had the inside track on a toy manufacturing company, and I used to have dreams that I got to keep all the test samples.... OH wait a minute, that really DID happen; just that it wasn't me; it was Graham! Darn you Graham, you stole my dream! I want it back please...

ooo, that'd be neato. I was never an expert at casting, but I think it might be a little hard for someone to cast that VF-1J in one piece, especially with the slanted stablizers--as one piece anyway. That's why the taka 1/3000 valks have no legs and feature parallel tailfins, for ease of casting and moulding. While we're on the subject, would any of the little valks from the Valhalla kit work any better for our 1/3000 SDF?

Havn't touched the world of customizing/casting (let alone macross) for like two years at least (whenever it was that shtuff went south for me). I'm staring at my big pile o' 1/55 parts, supplies, and tools everyday, wondering what the heck I'm gonna do with it now. Thought about shipping it all to Valkyrie (Ken) in Chi-town, or let KidKorrupt (Jason, btw, is he still alive?) go crazy with 'em. (Only problem is the stuff weighs a ton, and would cost a bundle to ship it all. I gave some reject parts to Jason once, but somehow it ended up on the boards for sale by someone else attesting to the "crappiness" of my workmanship. Those were reject parts though, which is why). The only thing I like to look at now and then as a souvenir of the old days is my Prototype 1/55 Custom Feet, Custom Chest/Airbrake, and corresponding moulds that go with 'em. The rest I'm leaving behind in my past life, only to exist now as an echo, a memory, a distant whisper..... Hehehe

lol, oh boy, I made it TOO easy for ya guys! What's wrong with me? I shoulda seen that one comin.....why can't MY mind be in the gutter? lol

Damn HG. I wish they'd just die (the company). Can you imagine, creating something only to have someone else claim it as their own, and then every FUTURE creations you come up with end up being claimed by them too? The whole HG RT thing is literally just so perverted. What I would say to the HG owners, In the words of Shaka Zulu: "You are a man of no nation. You are a Shadow."

Who needs launching arms for those little buggers? You'll get the exact same effect by using your fingers to flick the tiny valks off the carrier ships with your eyes blind folded; they'll be sent hurling through the air just as fast and get lost somewhere behind your couch either way. As fun as this gimmick seems, I find it useless because it flicks it off so fast you can't even see it in flight, let alone where it happens to land and bounce out of sight, especially the missiles. If you fire them, you might as well kiss them goodbye. And actually, the Bandai/Matchbox SDF looks BETTER without those huge ugly launching mechanisms sticking out of the Carrier Ships, IMO. though I have to admit, I own the Taka instead of the Bandai BECAUSE having the little valks and the launchers make it "cooler" to me than the Bandai (plus I LOVE the Taka Box, and the fact that it is the original NON-RT version). But if you already have a Bandai, and not a real Taka, it's better the way it is than to try to mod it into a launchable Taka. Buy the little valks though, if you want, and use them to sit on deck the Prometheus and Daedalus (I usually use the Lancer and the Ghost on the Daedalus). Out of scale though, but still fun. Oh yeah, and you can also store them in an open rear hanger behind the Bridge tower. oooo, I just realize this may be the only rendition of the Lancer and Ghost as TOYS (if they count as toys). Nick, Rhobby, if you're gonna cast the VF-1's, maybe you can sculpt some legs onto them first and make 'em look right. That'd be REALLY cool. BTW, I've never been able to figure this out: what mech is that plane with only one vertical stablizer suppossed to be? Anyone know?

Yeap, the 1/55 will always be my beloved toy. Hey, those are really old pictures; don't remember the year(perhaps 1998) Thanks Nam for keeping those. I remember that I used a cheap digicam for the Max (that's why it looks so blurry) but for the Super Hikaru I put the valk on my scanner and the pictures came up neat Eric, I must say, you were my initial inspiration for customizing 1/55's. You and then Jung. I had always hoped to be up there with you "big guys." I tried, but I make a better wannabe. I miss those old days. Ironically, I did manage to make a name for myself, finally, but it wasn't the kind I was looking for. As soon as I get a chance to, I'm gonna download all my pics (cause I never backed em up on hard drive) from my site and finally close that sucker down....it's just draining my wallet to keep it open for nuthin. Eric, you gotta keep customizing alive man! You're the pioneer!

yeah, 1/48 are poseable, but not THAT poseable. The 1/60 is more poseable than the 1/48. 1/48 waist can turn, but it really can't. I do wish gerwalk mode feet could go one more "click" past where it does now, then gerwalk would be perfect.

cool pics guys.

huh? whahapan?

hmm, i think that's portuguese. but if ya know spanish, you can probably figure it out. ATENÇÃO: os modelos apresentados aqui no site NÃO ESTÃO A VENDA. I don't know portuguese, but that seems so close to spanish that I'm guessing it says none of his models are for sale.

woah, work is incredible. I agree with Noel though, that the legs don't match well well with the top, and kida thick, but that's to be expected since they're bashed from different figures. But (and I do mean Butay) DUDE, he sure has a thing for BIG BUTTS! Dang! I can see the Brazilian influence there. Especially with the Chinese Dress Minmei....reminds me of Patricia Velasquez (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns). Red Beans and Rice certainly did NOT miss her.

I don't own a Q-rau yet so indulge me please. Does the milia pilot toy's legs go into the Q-rau's backpack? Or does it slide down into the legs somehow? In either case, does anyone happen to know the REAL way her legs should go in the anime? I always assumed her legs go into the Q-rau's legs, and her arms go into the Q-rau arms. Is that right? Or is it more like a little cockpit where she controls things from a center console?

oh yeah, thanks for the review (nick? sorry, it's been a while I can't remember which names went with which i.d.'s. from two years ago. ) Nice scans (in the other thread), and thanks for the details. Now I wish someone would translate for us...

it's funny how this mag keeps popping up as "new" news, and people are like "woah, cool mag, where can I order this?" I don't even think anyone saw my post about the same mag, and I think I've seen at least two others pop up, lol.

**sigh** This is what happens when you take a cool mech idea from Japan, rip it off for sale by America, and manufacture it cheap in China. Japanese Bot + Yankee Entrepreneur + Underpaid Chinese Factory Worker = MasterPieceOfCrap.

i like swoop the bestest! I also like the little autobot spacejets. But why so many flying autobots? And this is wierd: funny how STORM JET looks like JET FIRE. Just like JET STORM also somehow reminded me of JET FIRE. It's like in Bewitched. You had Dick Seargent and Dick York both playing the husband, and you get Seargent York. So in this case, Storm Jet plus Jet Storm that both remind me of Jet Fire equal "FIRE STORM?"....

I have always been a long-time 1/55 fan to the point of being flamed for trouncing the 1/60 Yammies (which I still don't really like). So for the longest time in my book 1/55's reigned supreme, and there was no other way to convince me otherwise. This year I bought my first and only 1/48 (hikaru strike). Now I say the 1/48 is the best combination of looks and playability. It has all the awesome features of a model, but is nice and plasticy like a toy. Some folks I know complain it doesn't have that chokogin feel, but honestly, since it is all plastic, I feel like I can actually play with it more without worrying about breaking it from dropping it or chipping the paint. The only thing the 1/55 has over it is that the 1/55 is FUN to transform during mock battles. 1/48's just aren't fun to transform for me, even though I am good at it. Heck, deploying the landing gear isn't even fun; it's almost like a mini transformation sequence in itself. Just too much work. The 1/48 is durable enough for me, with two exceptions that I find myself "babying": 1. BP8 (just cause everyone else has broken theirs, though mine seems fine) 2. Hip Ball joints: I feel like if I move the legs too fast between fighter to battroid mode, the ball joints will break somehow.....they just look so thin, plus the rubber washer keeps popping out the side like a hemaroid waiting to burst. Other than that, it is pretty darn durable for an all-plastic toy. BTW, anyone ever put a 1/48 VF-1S head next to a Chris Baretta 1/55 VF-1S head? THe 1/48 head looks almost 99% identical in shape and size to a Chris Baretta VF-1S head. I swear they're almost exactly the same. Either they copied Chris' head, or we can attribute it to how well-sculpted the Baretta head was in the first place that it happens to match up nicely with the official one. Who sculpted the Baretta head in the first place anyway? Wasn't it a japanese fan? (I know Chris fixed it up and cast it, but wasn't it someone else's head before?) BTW, I just remembered how the whole Chris Baretta 1/55 Head was one of the catalysts that made MW even bigger at one point....that and talk of the release of Yammie Plus Valks in the US.....remember those old days, preordering MacPlus valks at Valk-Exchange? Leaving messeges to each other on that old messege board with baby-blue solid background? Drooling over Nam's collection pics at Valk Factory, and being amazed at Eric's (takatoys) first 1/55 SUPER DETAIL CUSTOMS with a Maxtype DYRL VF-1A with extended nose cone and super details, Ah, the good ole days.... Actually, Eric's old custom looks better than a 1/48 to me for some reason....now THIS is the colour I wish Yamato used on the 1/48 Fastpacks:

nose looks good in fighter, but looks funny in battroid. Reminds me of a chinese foreign film I watched where this guy was insecure about his ability to please his wife so he got a transplant from a giant horse.....

So only HK but not mainland China? What about Taiwan? Well, I guess HK is where most of the business stuff would take place..... That's kinda wierd though, I mean, aren't some companies like SonMay and Ever Anime based on mainland and Taiwan? (although, Ever Anime is suppossedly licensed, but not considered legal in USA because it conflicts with American licenses for the same product lines like CCS, Macross/RT, etc...). That's what I never understood, is how all the otaku here ban Ever Anime from the conventions as of ot were a bootleg. It's licensed in HK, but not USA, so it's a boot? With that thinking, any japanese import would be considered a boot (including Macross, which would infringe on RT). But we've all been there on that one (HG) sheesh. SonMay, though, is definitely boot, isn't it? But no restriction to Taiwan? Then again, HK has chucked out TONS of boot DVDs, games, and CD's almost the same time the real ones come out. MacZero case in point. At least SonMay and EverAnime only seemed to cover CD's that are hard to find now, but the new bootleggers are competing directly with the original companies during immediate releases. That sucks. The only "plus" I can see for the HK boots is that it's the only way HK'ers can watch anime with chinese subtitles....or *ungh* gosh-forbid, cantonese dubs! Man, I thought english dubs screwed up the flavor of anime characters, but man, hearing cantonese intonation (which can be pretty abrupt compared to japanese intonation) totally gives the characters a different spin. The only cantonese dub I could sorta stand was DBZ. But even in Japanese, I always thought of the DBZ characters as chinese anyway, so it doesn't seem so out of place to hear Goku's wifey yelling (in cantonese) outside for Gohan to come in for dinner. Reminds me of my aiyi when I was a kid.

Actually, I half-started doing the same thing with my GBP. The 1/55 GBP is so big that it could be modified to fit onto a 1/48. I can almost fully dress my 1/48 in 1/55 GBP enough for a convincing frontal pic. I was about to post a pic, but my digicam crapped out on me. Btw, I like Max VF-1J Blue Scheme with the 1A head a lot for some reason. Looks good! And it looks like he tinted the canopy for some reason. Too bad they'll never issue a Max Blue VF-1D Marriage Valk. Chris Baretta's 1/55 Heads, btw, are the same size as the 1/48 heads, pretty close. So I bet someone could do a 1-Seater VF-1D........