jenius

Do i get to say "I told you so!"?

I love the custom box for the 1D, the texture on the paint of the toy itself looks a little odd though. Maybe it's just a lighting thing.

I probably won't be able to respond until right before the event... I'm pretty busy with my own move, plus my girlfriend's move, and my brother just bought a house so I'm sure I'll be helping him move. Ugh.. throw keeping up with my website and what is becoming a golf obsession on top of all that and I don't have a lot of free time.

I own an Audi... one trip to the mechanic can easily cost several months' worth of toy purchases (and I purchase quite a few toys). Still, it's completely reasonable to choose one thing to throw your money at or another, I don't think any of us can argue that toy collecting is really a fiscally responsible hobby.

I think there's an interesting conversation to be had about what a Robotech movie based on The Macross Saga could be. I don't feel at all that it would have to be a failure and I'm absolutely convinced that it's the perception that it would be a failure that gets all the RT fans whipped up into a furor. Well, it's that and the overwhelming disappointment they feel when they're told that the movie wouldn't be at all a faithful representation of the cartoon. I guess it that's a one-two punch that hurts: "I want the Robotech Movie to be just like The Macross Saga." > "Uh, actually it's going to be a complete re-imagining." "What? That's lame.... well it better have the Zentraedi, Roy Fokker, and Minmay in it still!" > "Uh, actually, it can't... not without some seriously big re-imagining and renaming." "Screw you! You're wrong! I won't listen to reason! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!"

I don't think you can release a toy as large as a 1/60 YF-19 and have swappable landing gears and call it PT and not tick off a lot of collectors. A much smaller toy can probably get away with it but at some point expectations grow with the size.

WHERE IS MIRIA??? I want Miria, in her wedding dress, itching for me to make a woman of her.

Like I said, I can't swear to it. I believe the rumblings surfaced back when Robotech.com first came to be. Those were rough years for Robotech and any websites that might have been shut down might also have been acting as a portal for import or doing other obviously bad things like offering downloads. They do seem a bit more easy going these days so you're probably safe with doing the standard legal disclaimer bit. Just the same, it'd suck to invest a lot of time and effort on stuff that really ought to be on Robotech.com just to have your efforts taken down for any reason.

I can't swear to it but I seem to remember rumblings of HG shutting down Robotech fan sites for various reasons. That was one of the reasons I dedicated my website to just the toys. If you're not in the HG inner circle you may find yourself facing unwarranted resistance.

It does look like the 19 uses significantly less partsforming. I hope that's the case.

Now do a Mospeada one so we can all have a hearty laugh about Shadow Chronicle's CG.

I admit, I was cooking dinner while watching the review so it's completely possible I missed a bit. From experience I know how that back pack can really screw things up with the super parts if not locked so I figured that must have been the problem. Apparently I just got a bit lucky and got one that's stiffer.

What does that sentence mean? Are you saying that convention exclusives should never be non-canon? I'm not sure I follow what you were getting at.

I'm pretty sure the balance issues he had in Super/Strike battroid mode were because the backpack needed to be pushed up to lock it in place. If you don't lock it in place it falls backward which doesn't really affect a non super valk (it just looks like the backpack dangles loose a bit) but causes serious balance issues with the extra parts.

I feel like this is a Jeopardy answer waiting for someone to guess the right person... I'll continue it for the fun of the obscure reference... I made mountains of wealth on Italian marble which I also store in massive climate controlled warehouses located throughout Southern California. I used my incredible profits to help orchestrate an investment plan in partnership with Yamato that involves said shipments of Yamato toys directly to my warehouses which is why I can not take pictures of them... they are in shipping containers in my warehouse. Truthfully though, I flew to Japan and spent two weeks traveling the country. I wouldn't say that was all because of Macross though... it was a wonderful vacation though.

This sounds very similar to DND's old complaints that his pilots were leaving their butt paint in the seats of his 1/48 valks.

It's a beautiful pic, I just have one minor constructive criticism. The regult's positioning looks incorrect. It seems like it would have had to have just walked through a building to get where it's at and it looks like it intends to walk through another building. It seems like there needs to be an intersection where the Regult is walking or the regult should be walking up the street. Another solution might be to turn the left foot forward so it looks like it was walking up the street when it turned to look at something.

I'm not saying I support it but another line of thought is that the McKinney books were more true to the story of Robotech and that the animation should not be taken as Gospel as Macek had to use other people's animation to make his story whereas the book writers did not. Had Macek not been encumbered by pictures showing other events or an inability to add scenes what he might have created could have been more of what was done in the books. Again, I'm not saying that's my take on it but it's an opinion I've read.

Yep, it's 100% legit. It shipped back in the first quarter of 2009, right on time. Of course I'm being sarcastic. That info looks like a hybrid of the 2009 release schedule (produced by Toynami in early 2008) and actual MSRP of the Beagle/Toynami MPC. The original release schedule was for the Cyclones Toynami actually intended on making

That's a pretty crazy mid-transformation pose.

Why would you re-send an order? Save told you they only reply if an item comes in and seeing as the SV-51 is long out of production it seems doubtful that order would be filled any time soon.

I also got both. I heard that there were pretty much the same number made by Toynami/Beagle so I wouldn't choose based on rarity. If you're okay with the head sculpt, I'd get the Toynami.

Couldn't you just use the standard smaller neck rod at all times if you hate parts forming that much?

Like the Alphas, all the Betas have slightly different paint schemes (I think).

He's just a cross-dresser... and he does it as a clever disguise as to avoid detection. It's a bit far-fetched in reality but they were pretty straight forward with it in the show. He definitely had a human female love interest and then an alien female love interest. Homophobes have no reason to be uneasy with Yellow.