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Sorry, dude, but no. it's 2011 already. They better put something official out based on that interest, or it's just yet-another-shenanigan. at least BigWest had the balls to have announced Sunward back in the day, even if Sunward was still-born.

I may have to call bs on the programming/timing/etc/etc. When you have your production-facilities and stuff, those things are insignificant trivialities. so fwiw, Studio Ghibli's have always had english-subs on their DVD even before the massive influx of money from the Disney-licensing. Iirc, Studio Ghibli doesn't even do any subbing other than the actual dialogues and titles themselves. They don't even sell nor include much of any merchandising like Bandai does on their titles. Sure, SG only make movies/ova's, but so does Bandai, too. Has anyone seen an official english-sub on the Frontier-movie?

What's damn funny in all of these crap is that we got Blu-Ray tech now. Japan and US both are in region-A. So far, none of the Macross BDs have any english-subs. Bandai can just add them at minimal or even at no cost at all. There are english-translators/subbers in japan that they can pay peanuts for the subs. Yet, still no english-subs on Macross BDs. Most likely none planned for any future Macross-titles yet to be released in japan, either. They can't use the excuse that HG's got the trademark since it doesn't apply in Japan. What is up with that?

meh. If that's their official excuse, then they need better lawyers. There's a bunch of 'em. They prolly already have a lot of better lawyers in-house. They just didn't want to use 'em or go thru with it. And why only in 1999? II and Plus were out before then. Why not before or since? M-Zero even got a bunch of redesigns to distinguish it from previous Macross-properties, but Bandai just sat on it. They weren't making toys for it, anyway. Bandai just really didn't care about Macross. They were pushing the Gundam-platform into the US very hard into establishing that. To them, it makes more business sense. They're (still) Japan-centric, and the sad fact is, Macross just ain't that big in Japan compared to their other stuff. Macross was prolly deemed as a nightmare of an investment for them and a viable competition against their Gundam-US stuff. And that's even before any legal fights against HG. M-Frontier presents an interesting conundrum with Bandai. They've heavily invested on it (media, toys, concerts, etc) and from all indications, is a bonafide commercial hit in Japan. Will that be enough to push Bandai to finally bring a Macross property into the US and challenge the current Macross status quo? Who knows. For me, Frontier sucks rotten eggs, but more power to Bandai if they can get that title and its toys here in the States. Right now, HG sits rather cozy and pretty with the trademark. They don't have to do anything. They most likely can't be sued directly since they're just a sub-licensee, courtesy of Tatsunoko. At the same time, BigWest is most likely content of not having their properties here in the US at all just to spite HG. We fans still continue to import media and toys despite the horrid exchange-rate, anyway. Oh, well...

nothing to dream about. Bandai's just too chickenshit to do the right thing of finally distributing their Macross-license here in the States. They just won't challenge HG for the license, trademarks, etc. They're scared of any litigation coz it'll cost money either way. Bandai would rather and would vastly prefer to sell you their Gundams and other crapola titles/toys instead. BigWest can't do poo, either, since they don't have any distribution unit other than their contract with Bandai. Victor might have some logistics like Bandai, but Victor just care more about the more lucrative music-licensing gig.

roflmao! that's 1200 in pennies, right?

now we just need him and/or somebody else to paint and display another one in shiny proper Macross Plus style and colors! complete with a Sharon Apple, too! then another one in Macross-II style...

bummer! Anyway, yeah. Despite being floppy, the 0S is just damn awesome. Without even attaching the Ghost, even. In contrast, I think the 0A will only be ok (at least to me) if it has the Ghost attachment.

those look like the crappiest valks i'd ever seen... just joshing with yah, dude. anyway, setup-a should inflict the most damage since those are damn nukes on the wings. unless they're duds...

I guess you're really that serious, eh? sometimes, tho, it does help to check authors and publication dates of stuff to avoid inducing facepalm moments... anyway, back to the RT comedy-thread.

coz they really want to show man nipples in 3D!

wait, what? did you really just wrote that in all seriousness?

they're really even more awesome being posed on yammie-stands!

That's pretty normal for most of us. You're just not used to it, yet, but you'll get used to it soon. eh? not sure what you're talking about, but you can check out the pics from the manual first. just don't force nor rush anything on it. relax and figure out how and what needs to be turned and stuff. that said, there are prolly several vids from Graham and the others on how to handle your valk and stuff.

well, probably coz it's, uhh, "radioactive"...

well, rather than being scared of "radiation" crap, reckon you oughta be more scared about the horrid exchange-rate and any sudden jacking up of prices of importing from there. you never know. they might try to actually sell them "radioactive" stuff as "extremely limited editions, with free tentacles!"...

well, with the current hlj-sale and at the current exchange-rate (Yen->US$), the 0A will cost close to near US$140ish shipped using EMS (give or take US$5).

holy... THAT is DAMN SUPER AWESOME!

how much exactly is the pricing of the VF-0S that you found?

why? she's somehow not up to your standards or something?

well, it kinda went like this: Bandai's got a bunch of discarded and unusable Gundam parts and wanted them reused/recycled/re-sold as long as they're not called "Gundam", so they contacted Kawamori... srsly, tho. shouldn't you really be asking that in the Movies and TV Series section?

you have??? anyway, I like tv.com's guide: http://www.tv.com/your-everything-guide-to-wonder-womans-new-costume/story/25407.html

nice goal and all. it still would've been a nicer process if they'd just given some choices of however much % to donate during the checkout. oh, well. hope that 2%'s gonna be enough of a donation.

:sigh: just as the US$-Yen exchange-rate moved back up to last week's early 80s from the insane 70s yesterday, hlj's sale-price/discount-rate then goes down minus 2% in response... well, purchase yer stuff now before the sale-price become any more irritating to let the scalpers win. if you still got some money to spare, of course...

geezus! Yen-US$ exchange-rate going stupidly worse today...