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I'll bet every time you write "poor EXO" he wants to vomit. He has to have tough skin by now, I wouldn't worry so much about him. He let some whining happen and then said "Shut up and move on." so I'd have to say things are pretty much resolved.

A little late but my review of the VF-25G is finally up: See it here but don't expect any surprises if you've read my previous VF-25 reviews.

Here's my newest rig for shooting toys. It's 16"x16" and wouldn't work for above shots (but that's easy, just remove the tent and lay down some poster board). It also wouldn't work for large group shots but I'll never have a tent that can handle that. Also included is a quick snap (no camera adjustment) of the toy inside without any photo shop help. It's the full tent with a foam board under a dry erase poster board to form the floor (so there won't be any wrinkled fabric in my shots). This will probably be the rig I'm using for all future toy reviews on my site. I'm hoping this new rig will help me reduce the amount of post-shoot correcting I do (I rely heavily on Photoshop to make up for my less than amateur talent with the camera). EDIT - yes, I probably will be trimming the dry erase board that is currently spilling over all over the place... just haven't decided how much.

No offense Excillon but aren't you just adding to the stuff that you're complaining about: 1) An entire long running thread about objections to a members permaban 2) A thread that was only designed as a feeble attempt to passive aggresively bait a mod 3) A tattletale thread about a mods comment about fast food cuisine 4) Yet another not Macross-related thread commenting on members and the mods who have to deal with them I get where you're coming from but all this will pass. The mods were letting some venting get done and letting some people be playful, it's all just part of the natural cycle. Somebody start that Lion King song.

The original Macross had images slapped on anything you could imagine, it should be no surprise that MacF is doing the same. As Bri said, it's just how the business works (when something does well).

Growing up I always thought that part looked like a frog's face. Unfortunately, mine is tucked in storage so I can't take a look to help you out.

Darn, Wiki kills my work browser. If the point is that the original didn't have a v-stab then yeah, I know, but I just think it'd look cool. Having seen the one straight up though I'm not feeling it.

Your 1A is also the same or did you have one of the other types?

Yahoo Japan Auctions.

VF-11B

Once upon a time I had 4 Detolfs crammed with stuff... and when the collection was way too big for that I tore everything down and threw it into storage. These days I keep a closet full of boxes so I can do comparison pics for the website but everything else is in storage so I can't really take full collection pics. Some day I'm hoping to get all my Mospeada stuff into a display of some sort and show some pics but that definitely won't be any time soon.

Since it's Mospeada it goes in the Other Anime section, the Toy thread is Macross only zone.

That patlabor may be one of the coolest toys I've ever seen.

No genius aircraft designer but I always thought separating the boosters provided stability, not maneuverability. If you want something maneuverable you push all the the thrust into one point (uh, in a non-space environment) and pray to God you can develop sufficient enough controls every where else to keep it stable. Speaking of stability, how about a vertical stabilizer?

I blame Exo.

Overdrive isn't carrying the drone so I'll probably pass and hope to purchase it later down the road at a marked down price.

wow, very nice work! Thanks -

Mine all sat on their landing gears a tiny bit better than their MPC counterparts but any difference is very minimal. Most upward arched backs also involved slight problems with tolerances and those same issues wouldn't be any better with Aoshima.

From what I understand from a hospital working friend of mine, the current swine flu is not genetically different enough to be a truly massive pandemic. The swine flu responds to standard flu treatments... the pandemic everyone is afraid will happen is a flu that does NOT respond to the standard flu treatments. There are still lots of mysteries surrounding the current baddy but I'd gratefully accept late shipments from anywhere if it was understood that that was a prudent measure... from the sounds of what they've discovered so far though it looks like we may get through this one. EDIT - new flus deserve a lot of attention... history tells us they can decimate world populations.

I believe the Aoshima is due out in July. I've got an order in for a blue one so I can do a full post on any possible changes. There's a rumor that they might have changed something around the hip area but time will tell.

No, it's not a VF-1A because it has two seats... but it has a 1A head in the cartoon. For the purposes of the animation they just magically made Max's VF-1A a two seater temporarily but it magically growing a second seat doesn't make sense so later it was decided that it should have been a VF-1D painted the same as Max's 1A. So, ever since the series ended, the magic two-seat VF-1A has been properly reclassified as a VF-1D with the same paint scheme as Max's VF-1A... the head shown in the animation is to be ignored.

I would expect to hear a lot more about Toynami's 1/100 plans at the San Diego Comicon this July... I'd be surprised if we heard much before then, they're very slow with their 1/100 releases.

I wouldn't be surprised if Yamato hasn't gotten Overdrive their shipment yet. I know they want it ASAP so they can get them out before the holidays so if you haven't heard from them yet it's probably because the Yamato truck driver hasn't knocked on their door. I'm waiting for Overdrive also.

Whoa, seriously? Put your self in their shoes. You design something, you license it, you sell it, someone else tweaks it a bit, and then they sell many more of it. Now I know many Internet forum members like to say they're exceedingly noble and would think having their work pilfered was a compliment but in the real world that tends not to be how things are perceived. What if a year from now Yamato did want to revisit the fan jet and produce something else? Here Yamato had gone through the approval with Big West and made the appropriate concessions only to have other unlicensed people profit largely from their work... that doesn't tend to make business people happy. The question is, would they be making money from something that they had the rights to make but was being produced by someone else? If the answer is "no" then they're not happy. All that said, I get that Valk009 was essentially joking around (while putting out an idea many folks would be happy with).

Graham is back in touch with Yamato but I'm basing the sponsorship notion purely off the banner ad.