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My Fiance is still in Japan and I can just ship it to her using local JP Post Nearly Free Shipping, woot!

I disagree that only the VF-1 needed fast packs. The VF-0's are supposedly an older less advanced design and their Conformal Leg Tanks are the best example of Conventional Fast Packs in the Macross World. If I remember Correctly, VF-0's weren't running on Nuke Engines thus needed buttloads of fuel to get around. Now the Ghost Booster? uh.. wtf is all i gotta say lol

I don't see why they don't just make some parallel storylines to the original macross like Bandai has done with Gundam. A story of a few green pilots rushed from the training ground to the battlefield during Space War 1 could work. They wouldn't even have to be cannon fodders, they could be in a unique squadron similiar to the one featured in the macross PS2 game. A good pacing and mix of of crew drama and combat as seen in Battlestar Galactica could serve the series quite well. Anyone may say "omg what an unoriginal idea", but hey.. i'd rather be watching a dark, gritty rehashed BSG-like Macross than...say... "super hippy wtf-ing hell am I watching" catastrofrak known as Macross Zero.

I haven't bought any new products since they aren't 1/48 scale. If the destroids weren't in 1/48, it'd be a travesty

Sorry, Anyone that says Hirkaru > Roy isn't a true macross fan.

You have your shoes, I have my valks I get away with buying a valk every 2 months 50 dollars of "fun money" per paycheck, 2 paychecks a week x 2 months = 1/48 valk Kinda wish Yamato Released all the 1/48's before I got married so that I could splurge on like 4-5 valks a month and as a result live paycheck to paycheck again

"Clash of the bionoids" rocks because: Roy sounds like Roy, and his lines are so hilariously bad and memorable that they rock. Minmay doesn't sound like an annoying dink Without Clash of the bionoids, I would never have learned about Macross. "Now watch jet-Jockey in action"

Do rub-on decals ala Bandais Master Grade Gundam series. Looks a whole lot purtier and they stay on just great with a dull-coat and don't have that cheap sticker look. OR... For God's Sake print Decal Sheets with a BLUE background. Do you know how many cuts I got carving out the Itty bitty white line GPB decals (ie the Elbow Vent Line Decal). Carving them would be no problem if it weren't for carving White off of SHINY WHITE. Yeesh O_o

Has anyone tried to make Vaccumform Canopy Replacements for 1/72 Hase VF-1 kits? Reason i ask is I'm looking at making a lot of open-canopy vf's and the current canopy seems a lil on the thick side

Just finished reading up HLJ's Sci-fi report and it looks like Wave is going to release a VF-0 Battroid. Funny thing is Hasegawa is also going to release their vf-0 battroid heh heh. I wonder if they'll both be 1/72 scale and which one will be better. Wave's previous offerings have been pretty great in terms of Macross Battroids. I particularly liked their re-released vf-17 kit that came out quite a bit ago. Perhaps with the experience they've had they may be able to top Hasegawa's offering, despite hasegawa releasing a very nice, if not suepr fragile vf-1 battroid heh heh. ;D ANywho... I think I'll be buying 1 of each just cuz heh heh

I use two different glues. Mainly for small parts and such I use Tamiya liquid cement (with the brush). I use it simply because it sticks really really fast since its acetone based. FOr really really large joints that need to be glued, I use testors liquid cement (non toxic type) that comes in a black bottle with its own pipette applicator. It works much better for me than the tamiya for big parts simply beacuse the tamiya reacts way too fast and by the time you finish brushing the end of one piece the starting end is already reacted and non-sticky. Super glue is a last resort for some crazy pieces.

Mr. Surfacer 1000 or 1200 are the best ever. Before I used to use Tamiya primer from a can but after switching over I'm never going back

Am I the only one that thinks this is a tad bit too much and it ruins the lines of the VF-0? I'm still trying to get used to the look of the VF-0 but this sucker suffers from some of that super extreme omg wtf pwn gundam syndrome and it just looks ugly with all that crap tacked on. Some simple conformal fuel tanks on the top ala F-16 block 60-style instead of the ghost would have looked better imho. The leg fastpacks were done just right though. And about those micromissile pods... they look ugly As far as I can tell Kawamori based them off the Lau 3 or Lau 10 rockets the US used to use. Those rocket pods had fairings that would pop off and expose the rockets inside. These pods, however, seem to have taken another rocket-pod design found in many european airforces, BUt also added the fairing on the back.... ;p Imho it wouldal looked better if the micro missiles were just like the Lau 3/10 rocket pods in design. At least then we would have that ugly front pod-part if we wanted to show the missiles, and It would be more true to the Standard macross micromissiles with their removable covers on each side (this is going off the Tanmen 1/48 uum-7 pods)

Do what I did and just buy a japanese PS2 It wasn't so expensive, only around 150 dollars ;D No more worrying about stupid mod chipcs that might burn out or become obsolete

Oh, the dub wasn't that bad. It was the first version of DYRL that I got to see so I'm still happy with it... Clash of the bionoids brings back so many memories. I remember we used to try to pause the VHS right at the part where Hikaru fires away to kill the bag bad guy who's name I forgot how to spell. When I watch it today, I still think it's cool and Roy Fokker's English voice totally cracks me up. "Deploy and form the suit!" "Just watch Jet Jockey in Action!" "You call yourself a man?" :D

Poor Snake... we knew him well. MGS1 and 3 rocked. Part 2 was..er.. blagh ;0 I feel sorry for Snake... he's still trying to pull that McGuyver look at 60 when instead he should try to go for the "older but still badass" look of Sam Fischer from Splinter Cell.....

I will forgive all if they make Scott just like his Mospeada counterpart...as in turn him into the same absolute ballziest hard-headed bad-ass character in any of the 3 original series that turned into Robotech.(well.. Roy comes a close second imho). "I will never forgive the inbit!" gar!

I don't know why but I'm not psyched about this release at all. For me the whole allure of Macross was how real it could be. The 1970's style 4th generation design of the body, the old-school riveting all over and even having different blocks of aircraft like the real ones of today made me love it so much. Actually, I've pretty much had trouble liking any macross design past the vf-1 series.... but I think a lot of other people have the same opinion as me.. why else would there be a billion VF-1 variations on the market in comparison to the other designs ;0

Bandai already pooped out a gundam seed game. It sucks because it only goes up to like the Alaska incident. It's also a side scroller and painfully easy. Controls are clunky too THankfully I only paid 2380 yen for it at the used shop so I don't feel horribly bad about it. As for Gundam DX 2, woot! It's already on sale here but I'll wait a few weeks for the price to go down or for some used versions ot trickle into the used shop. 5980 yen is a rad steep.

Okinawan Shorei ryu here, but only Brown Belt First Degree. At my uni we have kyuudo which is Archery with old-school yumis. Hard as heck if you're used to easy to use western hunting bows that actually have...er.. a grip Funny thing is... the university I'm at has a Tae kwon do club but not a Karate club... kinda weird for a Japanese University you'd think...

Yeah I was wondering why they never brought lost war chronicles over. When I arrived here in August I was trying to figure out what the hell it was until I ended up buying it Lost war Chronicles is like 10x better than that JtJ crap they brought out in AMerica

I don't know why but to me it doens't look like Sara..just a busty babe wearing her clothes

I miss the glint too The shinies are probably why DYRL still looks better to me than today's macross offerings Today's animation is flat at practical

The old Machine robo is like a million times cooler than the refurbed machine robo that's showing these days BTW poor Zeta gundam I liked the gundam MkII more anyways

It's kinda hard to tell if it's a "ku" or a "wa" in Katakana. The way it is written in the ad makes it hard to tell . ƒ -wa ƒN -ku The characters look more like a "wa" to me, but judging by the way "ri" was written it may be "ku" ;p *shrug* @