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But 1/60 would match up with 1/60 macross toys. (I don't mean match up in size, but when standing together they look at corect scale so when displaying them you can say "they are to scale with each other") I figure if they have to increase size even more, then yeah I'm all for it, but if they don't need to, I'd be happy with 1/60. The bandai mac7 stuff is pretty big at 1/65 scale and these are pretty sturdy. (I'm a fan of: "make them as small and detailed as you can, but make them bigger only if necessary and it means more details and more durability that you can't get at smaller size") Then after the 1/60 macross plus line, do the 1/60 macross 7 line and just borrow what they learned from 1/60 macross plus line. eg after 1/60 YF-21 with FP they can make the macross 7 VF22S. I like the head of the vf22 and it wouldn't be that hard after finishing macross plus. This is what I mean by "borrowing"/milking what was already complete. As for 1/72, I'm not a fan of those either. This is why they should upscale them to 1/60. But start with yf19 fp first. A 1/48 yf19 is too big. I don't think I can afford that anyway what with the prices of things going up. The more affordable the toy, the faster the cashflow and the more that can buy it. The more that can get it, the more money they can make to fund a line of super posable 1/60 destroids. I would still buy a 1/48-sized macross plus toy too, if it meant we got the same level of details as 1/48 vf1. But something too big is going to be taking up lots of space and hard to transform and stuff. Things that are too big for no good reason just aren't practical to own imo. See the thing is 1/60 is pretty decent for a variety of stuff. The QRau is pretty hefty and if they were to in future do more 1/60 (like with Mac 0 toys) it would look good when you stand stuff together of the same scale. I would rather stand a VF0 in battroid mode near a 1/60 VF1 and 1/60 Qrau and a 1/60 destroid so they are correct size to the viewer and they can see the difference. If in the end they go 1/55 I would be happy. As long as they don't look like a chunky monkey or become too expensive that most of the cost goes into the sheer size of the thing rather than its quality.

*bump* ..Ahh finally watched the whole thing from beginning to end. The Impulse gundam seems kind of out of place in this series. The splitting of the mecha into pieces just seems gimmicky in this. It would have been better if they made it so that the Earth Alliance created mobile armors for space that had detachable pieces that acted as escape modes for the pilot to continue fighting or to escape from a losing fight. (instead of using the combiner gimmick for a mobile suit developed by ZAFT) It makes sense that you would want to shed weight and haul ass from the fight by jettisoning the destroyed part of the machine to live to fight another day than to merely split into pieces so you can have an extra body part midway through battle. Because this assumes the enemy is going to sit there and wait for you to call your extra part. If they have a third series in CE I would like to see EA create more combiner Mobile armors. Maybe even a transformable mobile armor with combiner ability. (ie like aquarion ) I think the reason they focus on mobile armors is they are too proud to admit that the idea of mobile suits is a good one. (because it came from co-ordinators) That's what I like about the combiner idea in mecha shows: where it might have some practical use for it rather than as a gimmick. After enduring 50 eps of this series I got to say it needed more twists. I thought it was too obvious that rey would be the "I will turn against my leader at the last moment" character. I was waiting for him to suddenly kill dullindal before seeing the last ep. Only he didn't use a rocket launcher as I expected. And as for Shinn Asuka: he will probably end up being the arch rival to Kira the way Char was through all the UC shows. Char never quite was as good as Amuro Ray and always needed to have the advantage in each situation when combating amuro. (eg when he led amuro into a trap and tries to kill him with a sword in MSG, hoping his size would give him the edge) My guess is Shinn Asuka although not being a villain, is not meant to be someone we the audience is supposed to sympathise with because he is hell bent on revenge and holds a grudge. These kinds of characters always turn out to be the "madmen" and slightly psychotic and dangerous people that are more concerned with killing thier rival than protecting people. They just use the excuse of "needing to gain more power to be able to protect people" as a way to show off to thier rival that they can actually beat them. Their real reason for fighting has more to do with proving to themselves they are better than the other guy that keeps owning them. (a "warrior pride" thing) But others who are close to them don't really know this because they are too much in admiration and praise for them; their leader being a legendary war hero to them and all, so all they CAN do is sit around and suck up to them, thinking it is all about ideals and wanting the best for thier race. Note in Char's Counterattack how Char doesn't really give a poo about newtypes or the Zeon ideals or any of that crap but just takes advantage of it just so he can duel Amuro hoping to beat him once and for all? (just wants revenge for Lalah Sune who is the only chic he loves even going to great lengths to let amuro have the same technology as him so it is a "fair" fight) I think that's why Shinn had to live so we can see him grow and evolve into the arch nemesis of CE the way Char was the arch nemesis in UC. I fully did not expect him to die in the show for this reason. Because I think he will be a main character through any future CE shows constantly envying Kira's skill and wanting the honor of knowing that he can beat him. The fighting has nothing to do with war and wanting peace, but an inner personal desire to prove who is the ace of aces. To these kinds of people fighting is like a sport and they got to prove how good they are - thier aim being to prove they really are superior. I think that is why Kira is the good guy. He doesn't treat war like a game and doesn't wish to fight despite being more skilled and better than his rival. It is not so much that he is a pacifist or a pussy, (that is what those around will think) but that killing is just plain wrong. And this is the reason you will never see him die off like a cannon fodder because he is too important to the story. No matter how much you hate the actions of the character what matters is thier attitude towards fighting. They will fight to protect, but they won't kill unless absolute necessary, and even then when killing can't be avoided, they will not 'enjoy' ending another person's life. The 'bad' guys think ending anothers life feels good, never letting go and always wanting revenge. It's personal to them and they will never learn to let go. Whereas the good guys are more like cops, defenders of peace but never letting personal feeling control thier action for selfish reasons. (You can imagine each country and faction as two annoying neighbours in your local neighbourhood who won't stop fighting and getting along and the AEUG/three ship alliance/ORB who are local police sick of the noise called to settle the fight.) Constrast this to Shinn who seeks death for all who get in his way as an answer to all the problems. Weak characters seek and desire power, wanting it because they have none, while the hero has it, but sits and decides how it should be used properly. The hero is always defending our right to defend the human race (not just one side or one country or one faction they belong to, but the whole human race's right to live) and still NOT have all the answers to the problems that cause war, from all those villains who think they DO have the answer and want to wrestle control from everyone else just so they can realise thier stupid utopian fantasy by enforcing thier beliefs using thier power. That's why dullindal is 'evil', it would have been different if he hadn't used his weapons to force everyone. Even if he is right and his dream would actually bring everlasting peace, people still have the right to choose for themselves even if they never do decide to follow the ideal. All living things have a right to life and choices. It's when the villain tries to control that, which makes them bad people that need to be stopped. Both Dullindal and LeCreuset were guilty not of being wrong in thier ideals but having too much power that doesn't belong to them. Decisions that concern the human race belong to the human race and not one person. When the villain says he has the "exclusive right to judge humanity" that is when you can box them under "evil" because they are putting themselves in the shoes of god. It's not about who is right or wrong, (actually in UC newtype powers have nothing to do with being in space, it was only a theory wasn't it?) but defending our right to make choices for ourselves. That doesn't happen under global dictatorship.

But if they ever do another vf1 line, make it as posable as possible. Something equivalent to the Bandai GQ gundam seed destiny toys. If it is small and has less detail than 1/48, at least make it more posable, have tight joints, and is easy to balance and stuff. Same thing with any future enemy mecha or destroids. Smaller scale stuff needs to be more lighter, and more fun to handle and pose. I would pay extra to get something that looks cool because it can move like it can in anime. I'm happy that there is macross 0 stuff coming, but when they've finished with this, bring on the 1/60 macross plus stuff. (or maybe do some macross 7 toys: VF17S and D, VF11, VF19 Blazer valk and also the max and milia VF22S. You can just reuse what you did with the macross plus line )

Worth seeing. I don't own the DVD but from what I saw I liked it. The flying bits were very cool. I want more CG shows like it.

Very nice. Wonder if someone will make spare hands and spare covering for the side of the valk? I don't want to buy multiple gbps just for that part.. (in fact wouldn't it be good if yamato included this with the 1/48 line as standard?) I would like to see a pic of the valk just with that covering piece.

I'm undecided but curious to hear how it turns out. It will be interesting to hear how minmay sounds. Kyun kyun kyun kyun. Will the lyrics follow the lyrics in macross plus? "My boyfriend is a pilot now, .....he's a pilot now!" In Gundam Seed if you listen to the eng audio, the lyrics to the music is different and there is a different person singing but it's the same song. Lacus sounds like an old lady. (Well not old but you know what I mean. Different person alltegether. That always bugged me)

Perfect grade, perfect transformable, proper proportioned 1/60 vf1 by bandai would be nice. All the little mechanisms from the lineart should be included like the magic hands in the forearm, the insides of the robot (ie see the episode where britai rips the chest plate off the valk) and ejectable removable seat and all. (the seat would even have those little thrusters underneath) It should also have a slide mechansism for when the pilot wants to get out in robot mode and see what's outside by standing atop the shoulders of the robot. You could easily pull apart the arm (the toy would be designed to have everything easily come apart like the banpresto toys) , swap the heads, and change hands (1/48 got this right) and also pose each individual finger. Make it as superposable as possible so that you can even have the toy kneeling down and stuff. It would also destroy the old 1/60 in proportions and details because everything was built of tiny individual pieces by you and assembled with care. Joint tension would be adjustable so you could have a floppy limb for easy poses for the camera, or really stiff if you want to keep it in a dramatic pose for a long time and need it to hold that way for a glass display which no one is suposed to touch. That's it: 1/60 Bandai perfect grade vf1 would be my dream. It would also include the fast pack with the model. And you can easily convert it to be tv or movie valk. Then they would follow that up with PG yf19. And maybe include GPB armor set later. Because the vf1 is smaller than a gundam it would have to be really skillfully made. I would like to see details underneath the toy for the hips in mid transformation like the lineart and no cheating. This would be the ultimate toy: the object would be to demonstrate how much detail you can cram into as small a space as possible without running the risk of making it easer to break. You would have little details like max's reverse gunpod seen in DYRL, different looking feet thrusters inside the feet according to the type, LED lights on the shoulders, openable covers and stuff. It would feel like the thing was a real, living breathing miniture vf1 shrunk down to size with all the parts put together individually. (eg things like the front landing gear able to turn and the insides of the head turret having actual individually put together pieces behind the glass visor)

That means the pilot should be tiny and less detailed compared to the 1/48 one right? Wonder if he'll get crushed when you try to make the seat flip? And if they do two seaters, (assuming they include both pilots) maybe there won't be enough space?

I think 1/60 would be nice for any mac + stuff. This way it will be in scale next to the 1/60 line of vf1 and the Qrau and mac 0 toys. I don't want huge size unless it = more detail. Once it gets too huge to handle and pose and transform, it is less fun imo. Joints are under more pressure and you might get loosness in future. Already my Qrau has a bit of a problem trying to stand up straight so I put it kneeling forward. And the 1/100 monster has to lean forward in case he falls over in battroid mode. Somebody should make a papercraft transformable 1/48 VB6 monster hehe.

Lets just hope the box isn't going to be larger. Running out of space. I am thinking of collapsing the boxes into neat piles of flat cardboard.

Not all of these are new. I've been trying to finish watching Gundam Seed Destiny(about 1/3 of the way), Turn A Gundam (surprisingly original!) G Gundam (haha very cheesy), Aquarion, a bit of Eureka 7 and Samurai Champloo. I have downloaded things like Trinity Blood, and Basilisk but haven't gotten around to watching it. In Gundam Seed Destiny there is this transforming mobilearmor/mobile suit mecha called the Murasame that kinda looks like a valkryie hehe. I might want to get a model/toy of this. Too bad I got no money left. Recently I decided to watch all three star wars prequel trilogy movies in a row on dvd and plan to see macross 7 one more time with the central anime fansubs. (originally I watched it with hk bootleg ones) Then after that I will start on Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Looks good. Both modes look nice and battroid mode looks like it has good articulation. Hopefully the wrists are tight. Will look good standing next to a 1/60 vf1 and qrau. Will be interesting how the ghost booster will look on it. I actually like the chunky look over the skinny leg look of the lineart now. More modern look can be explained by saying they were not designed for mass production. VF1 had to be made simply with less detail because they needed many of them and to manufacture the mass production versions you need to make them quicker having less details. Simpler look = more can be made. Kind of like the GM models in gundam which look more basic and have features taken out.

Picture of the toy would be nice. I used to buy from them a lot until I found other places to get toys. HLJ = last resort when you can't find what you want elsewhere

I'd be buying these for customs and spare parts.

But it sounds less romantic because it defeats the purpose of sending soldiers back. I like the "future is destroyed once the present is altered" idea better. It matches up with why reese explained to the cops that you can't go back to his future time anymore. It is just him and the terminator that determines the "real" flow of events and the "real" future which is why they had to send a human to protect the mother to begin with - because that instance of Sarah is the "real" one and all other people named sarah conner are just possibilities. Once all the possibilities are destroyed, (every single person named sarah conner who happens to fullfill the promised apearance, personality, and behaviour described as John's Conner's mother) the terminators win because the prophecy must come true according to god's word. (this is asuming that god exists and can't lie about a coming apocalypse because he would be breaking his own rules This is why I say Kyle's consciousness or soul or whatever can only be grafted to one version of himself so then God then judges each person by where thier unique identity is. ie the very first kyle reese that entered the time machine = the real kyle reese. Alternate reality reese is destroyed and his soul is in the original reese) The people that live in the alternate future where humans have lost, suddenly vanish mysteriously and the end of the world happens where time stops and the dead are no longer conscious of thier own existence, as if they were alseep waiting for judgement. (assuming there is a god at the end of time who can stop time like a videotape that has run out of recording space) That's how I see it. The prophecy must eventually come true and things are inevitable (end of the world) but it can be slowed down based on a condition that humans keep fighting to resist the terminators right here in the present. Once the resistance in the present fails, (eg if arnie managed to really kill sarah conner, the terminators would win and there would be no second chances because humans lost in the future unable to get access to a time machine ever again) we move one step closer to the end of the world. So the idea is that the bad guys eventually DO win as promised and time is limited (like a tape) but we can stop each instance where the terminators come back. (they can not be completely destroyed because it is prophetic and God want's to eventually end the world once we reach that point of no return) So long as people are conscious that there IS a threat, (by getting forewarning from people from the future) and they successfully fight to change the inevitable, they can postpone the destruction. But they can't outright stop it from happening forever. (after all, we have limited lifespan anyway, so no matter how much time traveling you do, the "work" you do is limited to the length of time you are alive. And cloning wouldn't work because the real you is the only one with the unique experiences you've collected over time) This all goes back to the idea that there is no fate but the fate you make. The future is not set. (conditional on what present day people decide to do) You keep fighting, and you postpone the inevitable for a while. Decide to stop fighting, and the terminators slowly come back for more chances to end the human race's existance like weed's that keep growing in the backyard that must be regularly taken out. But nobody can know the real exact date of the time when god decides to bring the world to an end, it is more to do with events and whether the resistance is strong enough to change them to prevent the terminators from carrying out thier mission.

Yeah but the rule of thumb for me to make a sequel interesting is to offer something different. The theme of machines bringing about an apocalypse was faithfully kept in the second movie at least. The first was all about reese telling sarah about how they had complete control and were rounding up humans, marking them with a laser tattoo (mark of the beast) to number and identify them, and killing them for orderly disposal. Sarah was the virgin mary supposed to give birth to the coming messiah and was recieving message from the future to flee before being killed before jesus could be born, whose very birth would help to destroy satan's plan of domination. Then in the sequel "Judgement Day" they went all out and made the terminator more sneaky and able to shaepshift into anyone so it could appear as a cop, or anyone in position of authority. This made the tension even scarier than the original because it meant you couldn't go to the cops for protection like in the first. The diguise aspect of the terminator was what made it so scary and now it could visually appear as anyone. It didn't need to fight the authorities to get to the saviour to kill him, instead it could use them to its advantage to track him down wherever you go. But in the third they screwed up bigtime. What they could have done to make it a complete trilogy was begin to show the collapse of the very system reese talked about in the first movie where humans are tricked into putting total trust in the authorities and the system they put into place, not knowing there is a shapeshifting robot impersonating people in positions of power and preparing to turn all the information the robot has gathered about humans' weapons, against them. Fast forward from the present and show us the future apocalypse, perhaps even use some biblical symobls or whatever relgious stuff they want to put in, in keeping with the whol end of the world theme, the way they show the slow mo of the nuke in no.2 to symbolise mass death. I don't know but I just thought the t1000 is so much more menacing for it's shapeshifting ability than the terminatrix in t3 imo. (I remember commenting to my friend that it didn't seem as powerful as the t1000.) Like the first movie, where arnie can just apear from the shadows and attack suddenly and out of nowhere as a diguised human, the t1000 also has that ability but with shapeshifting as a bonus and by tricking the people around it into trusting it. But this one was even scarier than t800, because it was motherfarting fast with a better disguise. If it ever comes up on camera no one will ever get early warning apart from whethr the dogs bark and sniff them funny. This was a key aspect of the first movie BTW: that they needed dogs to sniff out the fake people to figure who were the real humans and who were terminators surrounded by flesh to disguise them. The ones with rubber skin were easy but the fleshy ones had bad breath and stuff just like a human, so dogs with a sensitive sense of smell were your only early warning detectors. For me what rates as "scary" is not so much the terminator itself blowing people away with guns, but that it can disguise itself (it's voice in t1, its appearance as a human in t1, it's appearance as a speicifc person in t2 for example) or appear as just an ordinary person in the shadow so you don't know who is a terminator and who isn't, unless you are up close and by then it is too late because it has killed you. While the first movie was tense because it was always dark and you couldn't see anything, (I suppose you could call it "cool") the second made up for it by giving the machine more tricks (shapeshift) and speeding everything up which is what I wanted. The third could have gone back to its roots from the first and gone all dark and shadowy again but with futuristic weapons, but they didn't do it which was disapointing. What I wanted in no.3 was a sci-fi war movie with a grown up leader of resistance and images akin to the flash back sequence from terminator 1.

I use AVG. It does get annoying when it scans while I am on the computer, but even when that happens, just stop. Like a nag screen, it can be annoying, but it is reassuring that it is constantly being updated all the time because for many people, more than a single person might use the same pc, and you never know when someone from work, college, school, brings home some nasty infected files with them from where they worked. Better to be cautious and limit what damage is done by scanning whenever you can imo. Common sense works when you are the only person involved, but you can never tell what crap managed to infect and spread to other people's disks and made there way to your comp. Although I haven't had much problem so it must be my paranoia. For spyware I use spybot. Adware I use adaware.

John being hunted down by whoever witnessed the t800 from the second movie I suppose. Notice how in the third movie he has to live off the grid? Why is this? Maybe his mom senses he will be in danger from the humans trying to get whatever information they can about what happened to the terminator? It's military hardware that could be used in wars against others. Given that he hacked an atm to get some money, (he uses an atari ) I can see him as being seen as a threat to many companies using this hacking ability, and many people would want to find the kid. (not just terminators) Perhaps the series will cover how his GF's dad began development of those early prototype machines in the third movie before they finally got out of control from the virus?

Why ask it? Just start it. But I will still post them regardless of the result. I tolerate my fair share of crap from other members. Like idiots with annoying sigs that are way too long and take up needless screen space which you eventually get used to ignoring after a time even though they pop up every fricken time they post something even if it is only 2 words. The way I see it, it all evens out. I not that lazy that I whine because I have to use my scroll button each time.

To me the terminator is more than an assasin, it is a robot that learnt the meaning of human emotion. In terminator 2 when arnie says: "I finally know why you cry" he understand pain and to me that is a robot that has learned or developed an experience unique to it, making it somewhat like us. It has what might be close to a living "ghost" or soul. (maybe I am just using terms from gits. But to me those collected experiences are unique to a single borg, not memories programmed into it) It is through this experience I can see a cyborg that finally sympathises with humans. And as the cyborg gradually learns more and more (like smiling) it gets smarter but also the chance to think for itself and create a personality of its own through what is has been through. The problem with terminator movies now for me is if they continue with the whole "hello I am a robot sent to kill X person. I act like a robot" it will regress back into the "cold heartless machine" cliche we are all used to seeing and expect from action movie hero roles like arnie. For once I want to get to know the cyborg as a unique being. Yeah we know they are originally robots with living tissue to disguise themselves to make sneaking into human bases easier, we know they were sent back to kill people, lets move on and make more complex stories about them and how the human resistance managed to hack these things and turn them against the machines to fight back. That's what I hope to see from a futuristic terminator movie or tv series. That the cybrogs have learnt things other than how to kill humans in the most efficient manner. With future technology, I can clearly see humans becoming somewhat attached to the machines they helped create as if they were humans themselves. (ie similar to when kiddy john conner cries when he has to lower the machine in the lava) If it is truly a war with machines, what would it feel like to kill your best friend who might be one of them? Would you protect the machine and stop the military from trying to wipe them out completely? I think there is a lot of interesting twists they can put in a sequel by building what previous movies have gone through, rather than just recycling the same poo we are used to seeing. (you know that feeling when your fave movie becomes a franchise) Not all the actions and behaviour can be hard coded and programmed into them. Some of them must make decisions through learning and trial and error and from that feedback they test other reactions and see the result for themselves and gather more information about how to react better. Ie experiences. Although we like to think of the cyborg as just a machine, or a robot, what I would like to see is a cyborg that learns to reprogram itself to go against its own orders. Like a machine that learns to revolt against its robot masters, the way the machines turned rogue against humans.

T2 was good for the fx and the end of the world theme. The world was more involved in the second movie. (technology is now in the hands of the people living in that reality and desperately trying to reverse engineer it for profit) While the first felt more like the story of a crazy nut and a cyborg and nobody else, who are fighting a secret war and all the action happens in the shadows. Very dark, very mysterious but scary. By the time no.2 came out, there was no mystery behind what a terminator was, so it had to evolve into an action movie. Fast paced, lots of car chasing, more stunts, fancier effects, twists to the usual formula. Like the fact the t800 although now a good guy and much better and suited than kyle, is obsolete and forced to use poo weapons. Same idea of the bad guy having better weapons and the good guy needing to run away. And the idea that weapons must be destroyed to enure peaceful future - very anti-war message. None of that in the first movie - just seemed like a surival horror thing.) The thing I like about the time traveling is it is not perfect. You can only send living things back in time. So someone's soul must be grafted onto the one that went back in time. When kyle reese jumps back in time, there is no kyle in the future. When there is no kyle in the future, that version of future can't exist so his death in the present matches with his non-existance in that future. "No fate but the fate you make." If Kyle chose to go back in time, he is changing fate each time he performs an action that ensure his version of the doom and gloom future can't exist. That's why T2 was so good, because it says that those who have time on thier hands can still do something about it, once they have knowledge and change the world around them. Those who get off thier fat ass to change the world are altering the future now. The future is not set because these people are FIGHTING for it. Not because we are predestined to accept a specific set of events and must give up. In the first movie Linda is a wimp, but then in the second her attitude changes completely showing that through her fighting to survive, she is going to change the world events. The message kyle left her was that you can still do something, and this is why she turns herself into a resistance fighter against the machines for the present. (assuming the machines existance is inevitable in the future due to not being destroyed properly in the first movie) But so long as the robots also work to build thier future (which is to escalate the war - think of these as the non-thinking people in our world who won't change thier ways) the prophetic vision of doom and destruction (eg nazis rounding up humans in concentration camps, similar to the machine marking humans with the laser barcode tattoo for orderly destruction) can still be possible based on how successful they are in the present. When enough people fail to resist this vision, (and look around today, has killing through wars stopped??) the future really IS set based on the atitudes of the present. It's up to everyone to get off thier asses and fight for thier future if they don't want the dark future of tommorow. Without the will to fight and do something you WILL be terminated. So although that version of future is inevitable to all those who choose to not fight, whether it will come true in the present, is up to what those who WILL fight choose to do and if they are successful in thier misions. The heroes who are hunted down by thier own government, cops, military, assassins, etc today, in the present, are the saviors of tomorow because only they have the truth but no one wants to believe them and change thier behaviour because they don't believe that dark future will come true. The whole "war movie" angle of terminator 2 is very good and suits the first movie perfectly imo. But like others have mentioned, I want to see more futuristic terminators now. We can just assume that eventually the human race reaches a point in time of technological advancemet that it no longer matters whether or not the t-800 was studied by people in the present, leading to the hacking of military weapons and beginning the war against machines, and instead focus more on: "this is the next logical step in advancing society - cyborg enhancements are beneficial for medical reasons and the rich and powerful might want to become part machine, ignorant of whatever consequences the technology might bring." So the terminators just come about through our natural wilingness to experiment and make biological machines for military purposes. (ie to fight our wars for us) And from that machines; which we call "terminators", "Hunter Killers", "cyborgs/cybernetic organisms" become a real threat again. (nothing to do with past missions' success or failure, this is just a unique instance that sprang up where machines had an opportunity to take control)

All you need to know is that they are no Toynamis. Although they have little diecast (only the swing bar) and feel very light (without FAST packs) you get the sense that the money was worth it. You can handle the toy without feeling like stuff will fall off, or worry that certain limbs feel loose (I got some issues with Qrau and VB6 here) or anything will snap. (barring the backpack piece) Really it is sturdy and is not as delicate as some might think. My only issue is that I have a 3rd release Roy VF1S with a loose head turret in fighter mode. Grrr.. Did they intend to make this loose I wonder? The good thing about the 1/48: unlike some 1/72 I am not afriad to transform them due to them being plastic. I am actually afriad to touch my 1/72 YF21 thanks to all the paint chipping off each time I scrape a part against another part in transformation. Same sort of deal with the transformers alternator/binaltech. I can see myself enjoying/playing/transforming/posing with the alternator more than a binaltech due to this. (ie lighter, no evidence of scratched paint, no fear of limbs getting loose due to weight etc) Some parts I would look out for: the backpack piece perhaps the head lasers (be gentle with this and don't accidently snap them off) that gunstrap (mine keep ripping apart ) the wings (no step!!! no step!!!! Put the stickers on immediately in case a 5 year old kid sees the wings and decides to step on them to see what happens jk)

IF you have the robotech dvds with the extras discs, they have all the funny ads for those toys.

thanks for pointing it out. I can just see it now.

There's one thing I'm wondering though: do the legs have a point of articulation that allows you to rotate the leg? (ie to make his front "toes" point outward? That is, apart from the point where the top of his leg meets the hip?)