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Nope. According to the returns it's tanking pretty badly. It might not even break even. 70 million maybe a reachable mark(worldwide). And just so you know alot of people who own cellphones talk about the movie to their friends before they even leave the theather. Toss in the Internet and it doesn't even take 4 hours to 'spread the news' as it were. This movie is like any other movie. People go in with preconceived ideas, ie their own minds eye viewpoint, and are widely let down.

If it doesn't alot of Adams dry twisted humor I'll have to pass. The mini-series was good, but damn it after seeing the incredible trailer that makes hugh amounts of fun of itself nothing less will be toleratable. Oh and it's NOT surprising at all that they gave it a happy ending, it WAS american made and as we ALL know american movies DON'T sell well if they don't.

Gotta love these.... "I HATE HIM BECAUSE HE'S SUCCESSFUL!" .... types of threads. King Kong's only being remade because who would be the person in that studio to tell Peter Jackson 'No' after making them several hundred million dollars? Let's hope that he stays remaking era re-makes and avoids making a 're-imagned' comic book movie!!!

450 WOW! Though I can understand that for being in South Africa. I'd have to get confirmed compensation by the harddrive company before I sent that much. Unless I was running a business then it'd be a nessesity.

Huhn. I aways heard that that was the Vick Viper.

Datterboy, The best way to figure out a shape and to work out it's construction is to simply draw the shape. Not just once but several times from different views. After a little while the way you need to build it in 3D becomes much clearer. Best way to work on any BP is to get the intial bodyshape where it's VERY closer and then keep several separate saves as you build from the body outward. This way you can easly backtrack to an old mistake or carry something forward that was ruined somehow earlier. I'll get around to making a Regult soon enough.

Oh hell yeah! Man I SOOOOOOOO loved that movie! I nominate: Freddy He rates right up there with Pinhead, Jason(early), and Micheal Myers. But for me I'm split between 2: Crais and Scorpius.

The Major, You've got mail!

Datterboy, Worst thing about the Regult is the main body and it's area under the upper cannon. Also because of that Nanashi reference it's somwhat off.

Indeed a solid start. But you really need to start rounding your corners if you want added visual depth and accuracy.

I saw the second episode, but frankly found it very dry, not plodding along dry but boring dry. Some of the combat was mildly interesting in a technical sense and the characters nor the story grabbed my attention. Only thing actually interesting was the death of the workers. But hell you see enough Trek that you know red shirts are expendable. Heck I even find the name flat and underwhelming.

Actually I've emailed(twice) them using the forums email thingie. Nada response. I'll keep an eye on my email(spam catcher) and deal with it by Friday. *shrugs*

You know I'd like to but this forum has a protection scheme against directly contacting members.

It's abit early to give C&C and the shot angle isn't the best. Could you supply us with a straight on side view?

Thanks for the reply. Glad I didn't step on anyones toes. Anyways the leg and toes bits make sense. Now I do understand that that area of the body's shell is kinda complex with it wrapping over the top and the sides. And the picture isn't the best to compare by, that's why I asked. I'm interested mainly because I plan to eventually build my own Regult An image to illustrate what I was saying about the 'ridge' area.

Yep, gotta admire skill like this. Good stuff!!! I do find somethings kinda odd. Like the transistion between the side thrusters and the body and the somewhat 'sharp' ridge that seems to develop because of it. Always thought it was a smoother tranny. The 'toe' looks alittle undersized in a thicknesses type of way and not so much of a it's small type of way. I always thought that the front of the lower leg had a small egg-like taper(front-back) to it and not so much of a normal cylindrical-ness. Now I'm NOT trying to pop anyone bubble or start any agruements of these. I just thought I'd bring them up now since it's still VERY early in the build.

I've got to admit that is pretty durn cool look'n! Looks more like a movie prop that experimental tech.

So who do I send my model too? It's been well over a month since I asked.

GOD does that remind me of my StarSeige days!

The cover ships Oberth, D, P, and ARMD are all taken from the pages listed and are all keep to scale with each other. Check for yourself. So even knowing 1 length is enough to give you the measurement of any of the ships within the Perfect Memory book or within Macross itself. Now if we were to consider your analog to modern day navy's then the Macross herself would be considered a Super Carrier and the Oberth would most definatly be of the size of a modern Destroyer(more correctly over-sized PT boat). Oh and her over-sized weapons regardless of final size are totally offset by her massive engines. But now that you've got me looking at the PM book more throughly.... you don't even need any of the other ships to figure her length. Just find out the size of the missiles she launchs. honneamise In the end regardless of what her final size is keep her scaled within herself! MechTech is SOOOOOOOooooooo right on that point!!!

That's why you simply rescale until the D or P match the scale of the ones attached to the Macross. Just include the O in the image that is being rescaled and then crop it out later and then compare. This way you've automatically rescaled. If that's not enough then scan the O on page 166 along with the D & P on 148 and the Macross from page 138 and do the same thing! Scaling isn't rocket science.

Actually if you know the height of the Macross 1 then you should be able to round the number down in closeness to within 10 meters. Just scan the Perfect Memory cover and flip the Oberth and compare.

Storyline: Agreed it's a solid A-. Animation: Disagree, at most it's a C+ due to it's low overall quality and consistance. The first few episodes are fairly ok, but it takes a dumpster dive afterwards. Soundtrack: B, it simply doesn't strike any cord nor does it make itself a part of the anime. Not like the soundtrack in Crest of The Stars does. Sub vs. Dub: No comment because the entire issue is only for the PURIST of PURIST(ie complete and utter losers). The Bottom Line: Yeah the storyline is closer, unfortunatly 'growth' for the Belldandy character is even further reduced because of it. Shame the entire series is gonna only be 27 episodes at maximum. We can only hope that it goes 'The Slayers' route for anymore.

Hehe. Just picked-up my comic order for the last 2 1/2 months. Totally expected 3 Super Manga Blasts to be waiting. Low and behold I find a single copy dated January. Ummmm January.... WTF! I could understand the 3+ month previous gap because of the corporate merging, but to then take a 2 month vaction, within the space of 6 months(along with other projects being axed or slowly dealt out) tells me the DarkHorse as a manga source will be coming to close VERY soon.

Packing stuff like this is like mold building. Same premise except your using foam(rigid or Soft) and want extra space around the figure and use double wall cardboard boxs along with PLENTY of "FRAGILE" labels on all the surfaces.