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I bet you end up getting both ozuma and alto in the long run. It's like people saying "I will only get one 1/48". If you could only get one I would go for Ozuma. The licking lips scene where he is hungry to eat lobster and stabs it, is a classic moment. In macross frontier it is mentioned they don't waste any resources. He was probably hoping that once the bug was dead, that he could eat it sort of like the giant tuna in SDF:M when hikaru was stuck underneath the floor of the SDF-1. yummmm tuna.

Well I see it like this: this is similar to 1/48 VF-1A cannon fodder not having the proper tv head, but having the DYRL head. So you guys got used to it and now yamato thinks most people won't care..TV series gets the shaft once again.

I think the bigger vf-11 will mean better value for money so I like the change in size. It will be interesting the size of gunpod in relation to the valk though. They should always make the gunpod arm a little tighter than the non gunpod arm in case it gets heavy.

That's strange. It's like the gold ring in the lord of the rings movie which magically escaped by changing its size to slip off the finger of the wearer to go someplace else. Maybe yamato enchants the valks with evil spirits which possess the toy sort of like that horror movie "Child's Play" What I think is the plastic has the ability to morph into different shapes like the yf-21 skin in macross plus.

Well I think in one of the G1 episodes where the aerial bot guys go back in time explains the origin story of how prime came to be answers it all: Prime was just a normal robot humanoid-looking thing who didn't transform and whose job was loading stuff into a warehouse and one day megatron decided to go and steal all the energon cubes. (the decepticons were a "new type of robot that could fly". They must have seemed like superman to the younger generation.) Prime and the girlfriend gets killed and he is rebuilt as a battle robot by an old sagely guy. Robots back then relied on guardians to do all the defending. In ancient times before they used transformation as a stealth tactic (and it is explained in G1 the autobots were the first to come up with it) even though you see megatron looking exactly the same as megatron on earth in the cartoon, you just got to accept that transforming wasn't always around on cybertron. Sort of like DYRL thing where Minmay isn't a teenager like in the tv series but the movie uses a more adult minmay. And the transformation of the SDF-1 to a robot form just to shoot an enemy whilst killing the people onboard isn't explained rationally for the viewers who would normally expect the ship to just fire the gun in ship mode. Bottom line: they didn't always transform so if you didn't know the autobots by name or who 'they' were, the ability to hide as as vehicle and ram into them gives you an element of surprise. After all it's a resistance movement: they had to sneak and go underground or they would lose since the military-type robots has the best weapons until their own autobot scientists can invent better stuff. The cartoon of course contradicts itself in many other ways. But back then we were all just kids so they just assume we wouldn't care. Otherwise people would be posting questions asking about where primes trailer comes from when he transforms. Notice how in the newer cartoons they are trying to take out some of that stuff like the trailer. TFA has a trailerless prime. Megatron doesn't grow but is 'just big' like ALL THE TIME. etc Because as adults we are taking it more seriously now. Anyway the lesson of that episode is to illustrate that we as kids shouldn't hero-worship people based on their cool ability but on their actions. The Aerial bots think the decepticons are 'cooler' than the lousy car robots! By the end of the episode they learn that the decepticons are bad guys and shouldn't be trusted. Prime was just a weak teenage robot in the old days and was a gushing fanboy of the decepticons because they could fly. That is until megatron kills him. I think this might explain why he is a pacifist and cared for the weak and wanted to protect them, unlike grimlock who is always talking about stomping things and proving he is king through his toughness. Now when the Aerial bots get back to presnet day, prime remembers that it was the aerial bots that in fact saved his life in the past. haha. (even though they think the autobots sucked donkey balls in the beginning of the episode. And that episode basically sums up the reason they fight the decepticons, and what the resistance is all about - like the rebal alliance vs the empire in starwars where the empire seem to have the better tech at first and the alliance has to flee and sneak until they can finally hit back) So just because you see everyone transform into alt modes on cybertron in present day, that doesn't mean it was always around. It just became a fad kinda like wearing certain clothes to show who you are and it's part of your personality. Prime loaded stuff into a warhouse so I suppose the new body just had to be a truck which loads and unloads items into warehouses to whoever the old guy was that modded/remade him. In ghost in the shell, why does Mokoto choose to be a sexy athletic woman and not a fat heavy chic? Each person might have certain skills so they have a form that suits it. Soundwave is a spy, so he gets to record people's conversations. Megatron loves to destroy so he is a gun. Starscream is a scientist and like jetfire, wants to explore so he is given the ability to fly around and search etc.. So prime is a truck because he lifts heavy things. Hotrod is impatient and full of energy so he gets to be a flashy fast car. It might have thought they were too 'primitive'. When you look at ants moving around building an ant nest, it seems 'organised' but the behavior seems unintelligent. Just like when the zentradi thought humans were dumb because our war tactics and the arrangment of our city might not have been very tactically advantageous (assuming that war is the meaning of life). From their point of view, we are primitive. From our point of view they are the primitives because they can't think 'outside the box' and can't even repair stuff. Computers like teletraan 1 are not perfect either. It looked at the machines on earth and thought: god these are dumb robots! They don't seem to communicate to each other. Just as the znetradi thought we were dumb in macross for not having good warrior instincts. And why must teletraan 1 just assume humans exist? If teletraan 1 never heard of humans before or seen one, what makes it think of one to look for? If you were to stand on top of a bridge and view a bunch of cars moving around, what would make you think they were machines controlled by flesh and blood creatures that manipulate them? Any more than looking at a remote control car moving is actually being driven around by a tiny alien? People spot UFOs but rarely see the creatures inside them. If you were a robot race, you would just assume the UFO was the alien and not a craft controlled by one. So it's not even thinking about humans at that point. Just looking to hide from earthlings which it might mistakenly think are the primitives vehicles of planet earth. links: under american cartoon continuity: http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Orion_Pax ^showing the original teen prime. transformation: under animated series: http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Transformation ^ was an innovation by the autobots to add stealth, which decepticons copied, which would stay with them due to useful reasons later more than solely stealth reasons. (ie car robots can move quick and more energy efficient in alt mode)

Which is why I like his the best despite hikaru being the one to pwn the end-of-level boss.

The face sculpt is lot closer to ledger's face in that version.

I just want to see another marvel vs capcom game. Some video on youtube claims some guy at marvel said that it's coming sooner than you think. So anyone who works at marvel or in a comic shop or who attended the comic con can verify that rumour?

I'm not bothered much by the bubbleshape of the windshield. Shoji K probably approved it to modernise the vf-1 anyway I bet. Do you prefer the flat windshield or the rounded one more? Lack of the side parts are what piss me off more than that.

The ankle extending thing is something that was in the 1/72 yf-21. non-extended = fighter mode extended at one click = gerwalk mode extended all the way = battroid mode with long legs. SV-51 also has that too. The shoulder armor: that's in the sv-51 as well. You can click the shoulder armor which is seperate from the shoulder itself outwards or something to allow a bit of clearance.

Ok so what we are seeing is yamato standalone roy 0S fixed? hmmm...wonder if there is anything slightly different on the boxes to aid in knowing this from original releases? If so I plan to get one. Maybe we should make a poll similar to the 1/60 vf-1 v2 "Did anything break?" thread. Everyone who buys one from HLJ should post in it if the problem is still there or not. Would boost confidence in anyone planning on getting more vf-0S releases. I would especially like to hear from all those who already had the original ones to compare with the newer ones now that the new quality check guy is there.

We all want the japanese fans to buy them up first. Then complain. Then get their fixes, which finally allows numbers of the early releases to get to lower levels so we don't end up with it. Then have yamato re-release it with fixes. That's the vibe I am getting. We importers might have to pay HLJ for the fixed arms if ours do crack vs japanese customers getting it free. Did anyone who had their arm break, actually ask the place where you bought it from how much it would cost to get a fixed part? (assuming they have an ability to get replaced/fixed parts from yamato) What I'd like to do is see a comparison from store to store how much the replaced part will cost in the event it's not a fixed release vf-0, and then I can choose based on who has the best price on replaced fixed parts, and then buy from them. It's not easy to tell from ebay which are new releases. If you know it's going to be risky, that your might break, may as well go with the guys with cheapest price and best shipping. Paying for the extra replaced part is better than not having it fixed and whining forever. It's the past, not much can be done.. I just wish everyone from japan bought all the early releases up..

I do. Look how good the vf-0 turned out even though it was a large PT toy? But yeah at that size it's a bit much to ask for PT. so er... When is megahouse (owned by bandai)going to give us a 1/100 mospeada perfect transforming legioss and Tread? hehe

I reckon more because it looks better as a bigger valk because small makes the arms skinny. In the anime it looked about the same size as 19 and 21. So I'm not angry. For the toy, you'd want thicker arms imo. So it's a good thing it went bigger. But my original question is "will the pilot also get bigger now?" hehe 1/60 vf-1 pilot sitting next to a 1/60 vf-11 pilot will make the vf-1 guy look like he is small now. Oh well. They DID have food rationing back in SW I due to the rain of death I suppose and this is mentioned in the anime when kaifun was complaining about lack of money from minmay concerts. They must have genetically modified pilots to be smaller than the ones in the future.

Yeah but with the toynami head. I'm going to wait for reviews before making solid decision on whether to get. Looks the best imo. Is the transformation going to be like CMs though?

Could catwoman be in the next film?: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...atman-film.html

The cowl should have always been seperate. People who make the action figures even know that. Turning your whole body sucks.

Do you think the pilot will look bigger now too?

Would prefer PT. but........ these are good for space-limited people. I'm most likely to get the 1/72 or 1/60.

Mine seems fine. I don't think it is supposed to click. I think it would be good if yamato releases the purple grunts.

Yeah but being GMs doesn't mean they are weak and that they only get blown up. There is a lot of stuff they do that you might not see. In DYRL the monster destroys a ship (similar looking one to the ones the three lolicon spies used in SDF:M) all by itself for example. Surely an emphasis on having heavy firepower to be able to kill something in a single shot and the ability to shoot far accurately and still be able to penetrate thick armor whilst being efficient without wasting ammo, has to count for something? The Qrau little wrist guns are great close combat but what about combat at distances? Not taking anything away from the valks, but if you are swarmed by many enemies all at once and who all fire their missiles from a long distance all at once, you are going to need large numbers to shoot it all down to defend the single lone ship. A valk can't be in more than one place at any time and defend a whole area singlehandedly, so large amounts of the cheaper more-dedicated robot might fill that role fine, just as you don't see the average joe driving to work in a ferrari because he has no need for it being stuck in peak hour traffic jams and never being able to take advantage of the high speed specs in the first place. Bottom line is that the valks are more useful but that is because majority of what you see is dogfighting due to the main character being a pilot and where speed is needed. Fighting in space means you are going to need to fly around. But that doesn't mean heavy firepower with no manipulators and attacking from the ground has no advantages. (see mars base episode of SDF:M for example - if your role is to just guard one spot and hold a position not run around why waste money? Especially if the cannon fodder might need more training in the valk before it's safe, whereas a destroid is a hell of a lot easier to learn to use and is slower and safer.) Space fights are going to be the bulk of macross since most of the fights are in space. Destroids were just unlucky to be in the series where the environment to fight in wasn't for them so they look helpless. But that is like saying the Valk is helpless when wearing GBP armor because it can't transform into fighter mode to escape a missile swarm. It's not designed to fight that way: it can eat damage and shoot the missiles down or throw its own swarm of missiles at the enemy instead of running away, because of the increased destructive power. 1. "Eat damage and kill your enemy quicker by dealing more damage so that you can move onto something else" vs 2. "chase light enemy for ages and dodge his missiles in a long-lasting-but-flashy duel whose real goal all-along is distracting your attention so you leave the area and leave open a hole in the defense for his friends to exploit". 1. allows defense against large numbers of enemies at once. High damage at long distance through more guns means quicker kills and more efficient defence. You can thin the numbers before they get close so there is less of them to kill later. They can't do as much damage if you get an early start by shooting them from afar. 2. allows quicker kills for faster lighter targets where huge damage isn't as important as being able to hit something. Destroids can't fly and are too slow for those guys. Destroids are the grunt mecha like GM, but if you have lot of them, it makes it easier to defend something than just having a fast guy with limited firepower moving quickly. Because the emphasis is on the ace pilots it just makes the destroid look helpless and weak, but I would imagine destroids would do well against killing the average enemies.

I think the idea was that they must have thought the machines were the native people of earth. They made themselves resemble the machines enough to disguise themselves but were not knowledgeable about humans who are flesh and blood people driving the machines, and that we'd even easily spot the difference. (even if we are flesh and blood, that doesn't mean we should expect them to know we are intelligent) They might not have expected humans to be evolved highly enough. And then it was just a coincidence that robot mode was human-shaped because the cybertronians themselves looked like that before using transformation as a stealth ability to get the jump on the decepticons before having that trick copied by them. Short of it: aliens are not perfect even though they are more sophisticated than us. Autobots don't know earth history so what might look ridiculous as a disguise to us, seems close enough for them. My way of looking at the diguise thing is that autobots used it against the decepticons, the decepticons used it against the autobots too, then they used it when fleeing their home planet whose energy was running low due to war? And then because they already got used to taking advantage of the alt modes usefulness (for example the beast wars characters might be more sneaky as animals and not scare the animals around them which might give away their position when enemies can see animals acting strangely due to being scared) they forgot about the sneaking part altogether as they got to know each other personally. But then why scrap the disguise if you can take advantage of it in other ways? Cars are faster and more efficient than feet to move. So that's my take on it. Transformation to the TF originally is like what camouflage would be to us humans I guess. Blend in if you can. But don't expect it to be perfect. Maybe up close the disguise isn't good enough, but in a city full of cars, or trucks and at a long distance? The enemy isn't going to shoot all the cars around it to find out which is the real one, that would waste ammo and give away his position. "It's not perfect, but better than not having it" is my thinking.

Another thing to consider is: they may be useless at fighting faster enemy mecha, but good at taking out other things. So a row of cheap destroids armed with lots of missiles can deal with mass attacks better than a more expensive valkyrie can. The idea is that having large numbers of people all shooting at once increases chance of hitting something or shooting down an incoming missile. So you trade speed for more attempts at hitting objects. It's interesting that in macross plus isamu was vulnerable during his time to reload the yf-19 gunpod. If there was a mass of enemies rushing towards you, then things like that can lead to wasted opportunities to kill something. (obviously that wasn't what the yf-19 was designed for though - it was more for missions where you sneak in and then sneak out) Being able to kill as many things in as short a time as possible is the key when the enemy *outnumbers you, so the destroids may have that advantage over valks in terms of defending things. The vf-1 in robot mode is seen having to take cover behind buildings and stuff, but if you have to defend a zone and can't leave that area, then I see having 'safety in numbers' as a better way of dealing with it. Cheap robots can still fullfill that one important role of defence on the basis that "more guns is better for the large battles" but where they wouldn't be good at other things. (no ability to move freely in space) It is more the weapons on the destroids that make them what they are, than the actual robot itself. *once an enemy surrounds you and your escape is closed and there is no where to run, the solution is just kill them faster than they can kill you - eat the damage but make sure you do more damage to them (having more guns) than they can do to you. More guns, and more people shooting means more enemy targets being taken out at any one time. In a scenario like this maybe moving around isn't going to make much of a difference in the long run if your goal is to just defend a limited space and where you are 90% shooting shooting shooting and 10% moving because the enemies are at a distance where they can't make accurate kills or the damage they do at that range just isn't enough to be worth the effort attacking from?

At the end of dark knight batman is on the run. (second season of prison break ) So that's why I think it would be cool to make a third movie about him doing some more training in learning how to escape from things. See it would be like batman begins where he got his training in martial arts from League of shadows. But this is where he starts inventing more low tech gimmicks like the smoke balls to escape being seen, or the usage of tracers to plant in people's pockets (to spy on them) or in an enemies hideout. In dark knight we already saw he had to modify his suit to allow more mobility and speed. (downgrade in armor but a boost in sneakiness and movement) He's going to need to use his brain more.

Wow still not sure if I want to get this or the 1/60. Bandai seem to have gone for the chunky style. Would be interesting if they did revisit older macross shows like mac7. I want a transforming vf-22 kit.