1/1 LowViz Lurker

Saw it. I loved it. More emotional than others since he has to deal with the loss of all the things he had. But the uplifting thing about the final rocky is he passes on all the things he knows to other underdogs out there struggling to keep going. The speech about taking a hit and still getting up is the key to all the rocky fights. In the first movie he didn't have to beat apollo but show his best despite apollo not taking him seriously and having a huge skill advantage. The fans like that kind of story of someone "coming from out of nowhere" and taking the crowd by surprise by refusing to give in despite the odds and taking advantage of as much opportunity as they can while they still have time to do it and the windows are still open. Even if you get beaten, you can at least say how much damage you did to the champion. Losing without a fight is always worse than losing but still continuing to put 100% effort into it. Retaining the fighting spirit is what's important which is what the original was about. The movie went back to the root of the rocky movies which is coming from the bottom as a nobody and then succeeding because you put your full heart into it, coming out even stronger for going through all that work. Even if nobody who you respect actually gives a poo, or apreciates the hard work, you can be proud of what you did for at least not wasting opportunities and then regretting years later..."what if I chose the other option?". If there was an alternate ending and Rocky DID die, it would have been as a hero because it takes balls to go in with barely any preparation or experience and then actually come back out alive. Now a Judge Dredd vs Rambo movie would be good. I think with the aliens vs predator movies people would still see it just so they could say how crap it was and warn other people who are going to see it anyway to not go to see it.

For real? That's a bummer. Keep it for a long time and maybe they will get hard to find again in future. As a general rule: if it isn't the Limited Edition, like the low vis 1 and credit card valk, it's best to assume they will just get reissued. When is yamato going to make the green alaska base valk?

They look good together. That's the cool thing about the tv series. Characters even have cutstom painted Fast Packs to make them stand out from the grunts. Here's what I think they should do for the next release:(if it's going to be a tv series valk) Make a grunt cannon fodder with brown tv fast packs combo. With brown leg armor to match the cannon fodder scheme and stuff, just like the max+milia FP. Then do a grey tv fast pack for the low vis. It wouldn't be grey to be low visible, just grey to match the colour of the lowvis the way the VF-11 has the grey FP. Grey leg armor FTW!

Looks good. Still it's going into robot mode for me though. Intakes stick out too much. It will be good to have a pope mecha for once in a big size. The black pope is its nickname. He will foreshadow the "end of the world" theme. Catholics everywhere are going to be scared.

I don't think I will mod mine. Just hope they release the shadow alpha with the claw. I wonder if they ever make a mospeada anime sequel with new ride armor and new alphas and stuff? (maybe to compete with the macross series since it clones the idea from so long ago?) Somebody interrogate graham with the Basara "Listen to my song ...or else" singing doll torture technique for any info he is withholding. Tie him to a chair and don't let him leave. The fans must know.

Why? You can just put them back together again as in the animated movie. Prime never really died anyway, he just had a "marvel comics" death. It's going to be weird having weaving as megs. But there is one line I want him to say: "Such heroic nonsense!"

I was thinking it might just be a little bit convenient if you were in space (caught napping and not moving very fast) and you want to keep one gun pointed above and behind, the usual guns for front, and guns for the rear, so then you have each area defending a 'zone'? Maybe it's just more energy efficient and less of a delay that way? So instead of turning the whole body of the 22 around to get the back guns lined up to hit something incoming from above, you just thrust forward and hope the head laser can shoot it down so you don't have to turn so much. This way it uses the least amount of effort required to get one gun lined up and the benefit is a possible increased reaction time to shoot the incoming object. In fighter I supposed the easiest thing to do is move forward. Not turn and then move forward. So if an object like a missile were to surprise you from above, then thrusting forward would be like "strafing" and the head laser would be like lining up the shot as you moved out of the way. Less need to line up weapons when you've got one right there. True in space you could just turn around and shoot while sliding in one direction, but that might introduce more delay as you struggle to constantly face the direction to line up the shot. When there is a swarm coming, maybe the simplest reaction (running away from the direction they came from while shooting them), buys you just that extra few moments of time needed to save you, as opposed to turning to face them and using a headlaser at the front. The plane is so fast in the anime that guld has time to transform into robot mode in the anime instead. But what if you wanted to maintain a high speed and not want to stop? I can see a little advantage of having the headlaser on the back in that instance.. No defence for attacks from below though.

If enough people want it, and they can make money selling it, I don't see why not. Yamato has milked the vf-1 to death with all the non-canon paintschemes.

Collectors buy the toynami MPC for the box though not the thing inside. You are not supposed to open them or they will crack. This was done deliberately to prove whether or not the toy is mint in box. Very handy feature of the MPC. Sort of like the low viz "weathering mud" coming off on your hands if you touch it. Once you get your fingerprints on it, that proves you touched it.

I think someone should do a transformation guide like the konig monster showing the backpack hinge transformation. Things to look out for like: -make sure the spiky bit is not still sticking out from the hole in battroid mode or you will stress the hinge -how you need to have the back collar of the battroid "sunken in" and not flush with the back, to keep the FAST Packs straight. draw arrows pointing to the little bumps where it "clicks in". -how the shoulder piece must sit on the shoulders. (people always ask what that is for) If someone had pics, it would be much easier for noobs to the transformation to understand.

My thoughts exactly. Think of it this way: nobody really mentions the oversized hands of the yamato GBP armor, because in the anime, it has those beefy hands for aesthetic reasons (more manly looking this way) and due to being easy to draw. In toy form, with all that chunky armor and with all the skinny look of the chicken hands (which have to be perfect transformable to fit into the girl arms) people are happy to have a beefed up version of them to match the overall look of the robot. Without taking a bit of artistic license it might not even be practical for the toy to be able to handle the gunpod. People tend to accept the change if it looks nicer in that instance. This thing might look better in fighter mode at the expense of something in robot mode. But for me, the most important thing is those joints and how the bot mode can pose, because I tend to leave my transforming mecha in their bot modes in some kind of pose. I can see myself leaving these displayed both in robot form standing next to each other most of the time than docked in fighter.

You know what I mean by realism. Like how in macross you know a destroid moves slow and there is a sense of weight when a monster tries to step on something? Or how in macross zero they used claws to grip the floor so it would lessen recoil? (also reinforces the idea it is just an artillery mech) The opposite of that would be say gundam wing where a single shot of a beam rifle is enough to penetrate anything but no one else has that model of the robot. Plus its not a mega beam rifle, just a normal sized one. It's hard to believe an SDF-1 cannon could fit into robot's gun that way. Otherwise why not equip all the other robots with it? Just little considerations like that for balance. I mean macross wasn't real when you think about it but the way a robot would move around and stuff gave you a sense that there is some pseudo-level of realism in motion. (ie the valk skating on the ground or rolling to avoid fire - things that I can imagine being hard to do but looking at it and seeing the slow speed gives you the feeling that the robot isn't a human doing it but still a machine moving around. If it falls you will see it doing it slowly and crashing down with a loud "thud" and the ground or camera shakes with energy) These are only smallish mecha anyway. So maybe it won't matter. This is just a little nit pick of mine. What I mean is decide whether it is G gundam style arena type fighting with fictional special moves, and fancy robots or people or things with no weight (ie master asia being able to jump really high into the air cuz he is "soooo awesome" so there is no reason to explain) or....a robot show with consequences for getting it damaged and needing to be careful. (if parts get wrecked it is as if you can't use it anymore putting you out of the fight or having a handicap just like it was a real machine that can break down) Eg: No one died in Wing, the hero could withstand an explosion and not die, there was little need for a robot team if the single robot had a weapon that could just wipe a whole city block of robots with 1 shot. That kind of thing. Just realism stuff. They did it in 8th ms team when having them use the trees to hide, or shoot from long range to avoid alerting the enemy, and consider some kind of tactics because they are not super duper newtype people with super duper reflexes who can read minds. What appeals is HOW they overcome a challenge like that using skills as opposed to just being super duper people. It's not easy for me to explain but compare a fight of g-gundam (all kinds of crazy moves right out of a fantasy kung fu flick) to a fight in ghost in the shell tv series. One is all about fancy attacks, (street fighter?) the other is grounded in some level of believability. Kusanagi is able to jump down from a great height and cause a crack on the ground because she is heavy and won't break bones because she is a cyborg. But light enough to still flip around and stuff. There is no fancy super move to win, or a weapon the does all the work, just reliance on the skill/training or whatever. Her body is still destructible, which is realistic, like the robot that gets wrecked, but majority of the time you feel a sense that there is some kind of risk or danger associated with doing the crazy stuff. (no "Master Asia" level of magic physics in the show, or people that can survive an explosion and wake up without much injury. It sort of cheapens the idea of "death" when people don't actually die when they should have, reminding you that "its just a show" which forces you to not take it as seriously and then as a result you lose interest) What I want is a balance of stylistic action but with the realism we are used to from older shows that makes the world and situations believable. So a person outnumbered and surrounded can't just rely on super duper weapon that will kill anything and then that's it, end of fight. They would need to take them down considering limits of thier own machine like its speed, weapons of enemy, the range the weapons are effective at, thier own skill level vs everyone else, and what environment the battle is fought in. (a qrau in macross is clumsy in a corridor for example. A mech that can strafe in the open-ness of space might not be able to take advantage of this skill in a smaller confined area for example) You don't get that anymore these days.

Keep us all updated. Would have bought it if they didn't have the scary shoulders people have been reporting. I was thinking that when the second releases come out, someone does a video review transforming it 4 times in front of the camera to demonstrate how tough they are hehe. This reminds me of toynami balljoints problems with first release 1/100 valks.

Yamato will be forever known as the limp wrist, small hands, and small gun toy makers. It's their signature. In real life something like that would be too heavy to carry anyway. But does anyone remember the cops had thier own mecha too? Wouldn't mind seeing those made. But not before seeing how the motoslave turn out. (I'm scared from the fragility of the megazone toy they did so I'm playing wait and see)

If that's the kind of smoothness the new macross tv series will have it will be pretty cool. No pinpoint barrier on the glaug though. What if another glaug were to do that? It would be doomed. I wonder if other mecha will be named after game consoles? The megadrive, the super nintendo entertainment system, the turbografx etc..

Yeah but it also looks adventure-ish if you know what I mean? Dropping out of the plane like that and gerwalk boosting just before he touches ground yf-19 like. Hopefully they come up with interesting action within the confines of a realistic robot show that although done sytlistically, you can believe it would be possible. (ie no floaty rocks and stuff) Maybe Basara lives on planet kissdum as a monk and these character have got to find basara to save the universe again from some demonic army from another dimension before its too late so they are exploring planets with these glaugs? hah just kidding. But it does look like macross zero a little. Thanks for linking the trailer.. Edit: yeah those arms do remind me of outlaw star alittle now when I think about it. Maybe if they extended and acted as grappling arms but I get the feeling these arms are more like only to carry weapons not used for attaching to the hull of a ship to wrestle with it while the other ship tries to escape from the pirates who want to loot the cargo. Claws would be more suitable for that. The unerwater vehicles arms remind me of the octos.

It could change its look though. Maybe Graham can pass on all the fan criticism to slowly bring it to satisfactory standard in all modes. Still not enough pics in different modes though.. I have a feeling that even if it isn't perfect people have been dying to see it done finally combining with the beta. It might jst be a case of the oversized chest of the GBP armor on 1/48 vf-1 or the oversized big shoulders of the 1/100s and people complain while putting up with it, but still gladly fork over money by accepting the flaws.

Prices of MPCs are going to go waaay down after these come out with thier proper joints and non-floppy posability. Love the pics of the toynami mpcs but too scared to buy them. Planning on buying toynami series 2 1/100 vf-1j though.. *awaits pics of other modes* The robotech community should be pissing themselves for paying so much for alphas once they see these. Too bad they've been censored from the outside world. I bet these get toy of the year just because mospeada is such a neglected show and the nostalgia of seeing a new toy for this series. It just seems like something that should have been done ages ago.

But if you think about it: they can fly away from them at high speed getting them all lined up in a straight line to chase them and then keep flying while shooting them one by one now that the laser is backwards. No need to stop like roy in macross zero if you can just keep the distance at get easy shots. This would be easy if the pinpoint barrier thing wasn't enough to cover the whole body against a swarm of missiles.

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It's going to be about Gubaba all grown up and angry at the world. He is going to search for his lost family and get revenge on those who kidnapped them.

Same here. Although I wouldn't mind a YF19 grey cannon fodder scheme to fit in with the vf-11. Who is to say they didn't test the 19 against some zentradi rogues one day that wasn't covered in the anime? The grey could be blended amongst all the space junk so it would be like a "camo valk" for fighting around space debris.

All I know is that I wouldn't mind a 1/48 scale vf-4. Yamato is crazy for not making it. I have no idea how it would transform or how good it would look in battroid, but it looks so nice in fighter mode that I probably wouldn't transform it much anyway.

Basara didn't really care if the band failed commercially or what the other band members thought. I thought that was pretty funny but the thing about it, was you tend to respect him more for not compromising on his way of doing things. Like Dyson, he is "hard-headed" and stubborn. Yang is the weak one for being too careful, Dyson is the strong one for not caring if something is dangerous. Whether you like him is more to personal taste though. I can understand that. The thing that puzzles me is how people associate "going against the grain", "ignoring authority figures", ....with ONLY being characters that appeal to westerners. What about Shogo in megazone 23, or the main character in Zeta Gundam who can't stand the Titans? Seems a bit discriminatory to assume people only go for that to me. The main character in zeta gundam did understand discipline but that didn't mean he automatically gave into authority if his elders' beliefs clashed with his own beliefs. The uniforms, badges, respect, status doesn't mean too much unless it is earned. In fact I like to think that the older the character is, the more potential for the main character to be manipulated by the older character. A healthy mistrust of the authority makes the character more street smart and able to survive. Think of the old guy in ninja scroll, that old guy is a spy. Can you trust a spy just because he lectures you on wasting your life and choosing not to do anything about fighting some stupid demons which have nothing to do with you? What do you know about him? Imagine all the people he tricked and manipulated before meeting Jubei? Can we assume he isn't using you for his own interests? Maybe he is just using the characters youth and ignorance to his advantage because he is too weak to do it himself so he has to poison and blackmail people for help? A good example is in how macross plus the old black guy mentions he was just like dyson and is just playing with his mind to get him angry. Old people/adults = people with more tricks. I'm pretty sure these are characters that are interesting to the japanese for thier boldness and willingness to do the right thing and defy the authority if given good reason. It's just that I wish they didn't have to make them like the kid in evangelion because I think it would be boring having a character who people feel is a bit too much like them. (ie can't communicate well, his dad is neglectful, the parents are divorced, whines a lot and is depressed and potentially psychotic - I'm sick of that to be honest. Angsty teens has been done to death) Imagine if say, homer simpson (balding, overweight, drunken, donut eating, loud and obnoxious) was the main character in an american super hero comic and you'll get the idea. You don't want the main character to have to be a loser (even if the creator is deliberately making fun of that audience) all the time do you? Move on and do something different.

If true, hopefully the booster looks more like the anime this time. The boxy 1/72 FP really spoiled the thin look of the fighter mode imo.