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Fwiw, I can somehow justify the pricing on the Tomahawk, but just cannot on the Defender. I don't think I can justify the pricing on the Spartan, either, if that ever gets out. I really think Yamato-Toys should significantly lower the pricing on the Defender and other upcoming Destroids.

yeah. I've been seeing a bunch of Acid Storms and Galvatrons for a couple of weeks now or so, and they just don't do it for me. Really meh, afaic. Hope I'll be lucky to find Iron Hide in one of the other wally's. I'm quite meh and not that interested in the Animated-series, but I've also yet to see their Ultra Magnus version.

huzzah!!! my warhammer dropped in today! woo hooo!!! pix!!! standby: alpha-strike: with his Valk-buddies from Macross: a Wolf's Dragoon Timberwolf! friend or foe?: melee with a Clanner, a Dragoon and a Star League mech(s)!: Yes! This Destroid Tomahawk is TEH AWESOMEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --- obtw, anybody doing or contemplating/planning to do the Black Widow paint-scheme for this mech?

heh! fwiw, I finally found and bought SideSwipe and SilverStreak today. still haven't seen IronHide, tho. --add-- here 'em pix with their bros: btw, i just read the instructions-sheet for Sideswipe and Hasbro's funny again by just recycling Sunstreaker's instruction, complete with the wrong chest-frontal for good ol' Sideswipe robot-mode.

well, ep4 debug actually didn't take long. anyway... dvd-version (ksnapshot): dvd-version (native/unscaled): the rest of the snapshots from kresphy's post remained the same in the dvd-version. jpg-snaps sux. only png-snaps from now on.

I'm gonna use kresphy's snaps from the bugs-thread: dvd-vesion: dvd-version: --- The Ranka-snaps from the Bugs-thread in ep3 were not animation-error since the stitches ("cross") were supposed to be covered by her ribbon that way per her swooning movement. --- I'll see if i can get the ep4-debugs when I get time today.

Philips players are very easy to make region-free like most china-brand players, but it is still a low-end player. May or may not be enough for you. If you want a higher-end dvd-player that's easy to make region-free, get the Oppo brand. A little pricey (avg of $170 and above), but it is one (if not the) best dvd-player right now.

I'm not sure where you got that idea, but Japanese R2-discs do require and enforce region-coding.

I was gonna post in the Total Bugs thread, but it'll just get lost since it already got too many pages on it and that thread is much suited to bug-discovery. So I'm starting the Macross F DEBUG-version!!! A thread where we can post the animation-corrections found in the dvd and/or bd versions. To start off, here's the infamous arm/no-arm shot of the VF-25 in ep2: tv/broadcast-version (prolly upscaled): R2J dvd (native-res/unscaled) version: R2J dvd (xineplayer-scaled) version: dvd time-stamp scene: 00:06:40 unfortunately, I'm not collecting the BD-version anymore, so somebody else has to post the much larger BD-version of this and other snapshots. at any rate, I highly encourage and totally appreciate other MW-members who are also collecting to the dvd/bd of Macross-F to join this snapshot-orgy.

for those interested... pic of the vol-2 of the R2J-dvd stuff (dvd/case/sms-pins): sample-pages of the liner-note: no scanner, so just camera-shots. oh, and i ain't gettin the BD-versions anymore, so somebody else will have to show you what stuff they got in the BD-release of vol-2 and beyond.

yeah. how much is the shipping/handling-cost to the US from HK-sellers for the yammies? from the few times I saw hk-sellers on ebay, the valk-price itself is sweetly low but the shipping/handling to the US is quite astronomically expensive, making HLJ and BBTS seems like bargain-stores in comparison.

that looks like a really malnourished 1/100 VF-25F, g-man.

oh noes! crooked crossbones! nice writeup, mang. obtw, anybody seen it locally (US), yet? read a post from kevin (VE) somewhere that the US-release has been delayed or something by Toynami for some reason.

hmmm, something ain't lining up right with that pic. Long shot, but could it be that the . Or it could be Weirdness.

found PowerGlide today at the local wally's. He actually ain't all that bad. Ugly bot-mode, but still not that bad: his plane-mode was pretty good, tho his Gatling messes up his front ground-clearance: alongside Classics Skyfire: His gimmick of electronic lights and sounds (including the classic Transformers sound effect) was ok enough. Oh, btw, the Transforming-sound effect is not activated by that obvious orange-button. It is triggered by another button somewhere.

lol! if things continues the way i'm seeing it, Sheryl will pull a Minmay/Mao combo, while Ranka will pull a Myung/Sara combo.

hey, uhh, you guys remember... ...in Zero, Shin was gonna . ain't it a little bit similar to what Alto is thinking of doing to Ranka if desperation happens? Isamu did it to Sharon, too, you know. In Plus, that is. just sayin...

too sleepy to do it properly, but here's a quickie battroid-shot: DYRL-pose!!!

the 1/60v2 doing some classic FP A-stance fer y'all:

++ NO on fighters. that would be so meh. however... definite YES YES YES YES YES YES on Q-Raus (TV/DYRL), Destroids, Nousjadeul-Gers (TV/DYRL/PLUS), Regults, and Glaugs!!!

more shots! how 'bout some FAST-packed super-1A: oh HAI thar! i iz Jetfire from the other show! i wanna join teh partay, too! time to park 'em on the shelf for the nite. Prime and Hikky on perpetual guard-duty, it seems. :

alrighty, then! pls do bear in mind that my old 1/48 Hikky-1A is still somehow retaining it's ghetto-lined (#2 pencils ftw!) self so it kinda stands out a bit from the shots, while the 1/60 has yet to find any pencil near it. so... enjoy!

oh, HAI! not sure if somebody already posted this, but cover-pic of vol-4 (dvd/bd): http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/images/...61958&s=dvd rejoice, Klan^2-fans!

well, i just got my Super-Hikky 1A today, so pix against the old 1/60... and juz coz the original 1/60 did not come with a pilot nor a FAST-Pack...

welp! Unfortunately, since HLJ has just opened up the pre-order for the Hikky-1A-FP for August-release, I will have to drop my preorders for the Chunky Max and Hikky 1A-FPs. Hope you guys don't clean out the Bandai-inventory so I can still buy both in the near future, tho.