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I choose #4. We get 17 days of notice = orgies, boozing, drug usage. Safe sex, birth control? Eh, why bother???? If you have one of those "I've always wanted to do this before I die" you actually can make it happen before you die! Hopefully what you want to do doesn't involve anyone being at work though... I think everyone would be cashing in their vacation time.

It's been a really long time since I saw the thread with the YF-19 ball-bearing hips but I think it was linked to a "how-to." Try doing a search and if you can't come up with it hopefully another member will remember where it was much better than I do and point you in the right direction. I do do a lot of drinking though so maybe my memory is just playing tricks on me.

View this as an opportunity, not a disaster. There used to be a thread about adding ball-bearing style hip joints on this toy and, IIRC, it made for a nice looking upgrade. Perhaps if you're already going to have to tinker here you should look into the feasibility of improving the toy by using this technique.

Nice! 2 pts to you sir! Upon further review of the drawing... there is a resemblance to Keanu... but I would hate to see that play out in live action.

Another Takatoku oddity. This toy is ugly:

And Zeus harkened down from the heavens to this thread: Rise from your grave! (2pts if you can name the video game)

Me thinks your source is very wrong... it would make no sense. I would actually begin to appreciate Toynami more as a company... at least when they say something is "limited" they stick to it.

If AgentOne makes the following speech he can have my vote: "If I am elected as co-admin, I promise every thread shall contain more Southern Cross and no passing reference to Mac7 will go unpunished." So let it be written... so let it be done!

I understand the area you're referring to where the legs attach to the chest. I own several 1/48s and fortunately have encountered any problems in that area yet. Mine seem to lock in pretty nice and require a bit of pressure to unhinge for transformation. I do agree about the gun attachment being piss-poor to the arms. It's a major PITA to get that thing to stay like it should. Also, the fastpack variety 1/48s do not come together in super fighter mode as nice and tight as they do without the fast packs on. Without fastpacks the backpack/tail section keeps everything together but when it is folded up the rear of the toy gets a little loose. When the rear is loose it's a lot easier for the arms to sag... especially with the added weight of the fastpacks and the gun. You can rectify this by adding pressure on the outside of each legs to pinch the arms a bit when you're holding/positioning the toy.

Hikaru proved that the bicycle in space is a surefire way to get shot down quick. Now... if it were a motorcyle... you might be on to something. Wait, wasn't that in a Matthew Sweet video?

Yeah, that's good stuff! Wonder what the little blue lion is yelping... Look how cool that big Voltron is. I remember the sides of the yellow lion's head opened to reveal some sort of guns or rocket launchers or something. Anyone have a link to pictures of the old toy? There's no way I'm going to dig up mine but I feel like checking it out again.

Towards the end I think they had some frantic space battles featuring helicopters and tanks. I remember at least one instance of a cruiser being used as a battering ram to destroy one of the Zor's big ships.

Maybe it's just my childhood perception but wasn't the original Voltron one of the coolest toys ever? It had flaps and gizmos that could move to reveal weaponry all over the place. Not exactly the most poseable but man that thing was sturdy as a rock and super cool. How exactly is Toynami improving upon it?

OMG What did you do to that poor Elintseeker!?! Eh, I guess you need to do it.... Out of curiosity, when you do something like this does it destroy the original?

I've heard many people complain that the little missiles pop out of the fastpacks. I, for one, have never tried to attach them although now that I got a kit of the see-through covers i might look into it. Also, the missile tower of the fastpack does pop off pretty easily but it should take a lot more than a strong breeze. I know that whenever I try to transform a 1/48 with the fastpacks on a missile tower will eventually pop off before i make it completely to the next mode. I've never had a problem with them falling off in the display case though. As far as the legs go... I haven't had a problem there... especially in fighter mode...

My impressions: 1) Roy sounds like he's drivin' a big rig. I can totally imagine he's the driver in that Sega acrade game where you drive a big rig around smashing things. He is the only voice so far I absolutely hate. 2) Hikaru - goes in-and-out from being acceptable to being to pipsqueak-ish. I think it fits though for that portion of the series so I'll not be too critical yet. NOTE - At times he sounds EXACTLY like Eddy Fuhrlong (sp?) from Terminator 2. 3) Minmay - Yeah, Mari's great and Reba West sucks but Mari's English sure doesn't help the flow of the dialogue. So far I think she's more of a problem than Hikaru but everyone is right, it makes sense that Minmay would have an accent so I can live with it. 4) Who calls Roy "lame?" Is that Claudia? If Claudia calls him lame i'm okay with it... if it's Misa I think its... well, lame. 5) PUDKNOCKER? Now my Hong Kong subs may be admittedly bad but I'm pretty sure PUDKNOCKER was never supposed to be in the script. Why not just "idiot?" Hell, why not "Dumbass" What the heck is PUDKNOCKER? PS - Keith, if you think the new Roy is preferable to Robotech's Roy than you need to put the glass pipe down before you pull a Richard Pryor

Yeah, I like it! I wanna do mock-ups of a bunch of different LowVis style paint jobs now.

Here's a quick mock-up in MSPaint of my Martian LowVis paint scheme. Obviously MSPaint would do a horrible rendition if I painted the whole toy so I just started doing one arm so you can get an idea for the color scheme I had envisioned.

Tom Cruise is the only 5'6" guy I can imagine that I am actually afraid of. Somebody once told me: "If you're ever in a fight with a guy you're sure is going to kill you... rip off your own lip. That'll make him think twice about trying to pummel you. Beating the snot out of a sane person is easy... but fighting a guy crazy enough to rip his own lip off? That takes more guts than most guys have... Always bet on crazy." Now I'm not sure if my buddy was quoting a movie, but I am sure that Tom Cruise is crazy. And as such, he's one little spunky man that I am afraid of. All that being said, I'd never interview him but I can still suspend my disbelief enough to watch him in a movie. I'll rent this when it comes out on DVD... just like I did the others.

Whoa now, Max is considered a stud in Macross. Hik even gets a bit jealous when Max threatens to swoop on Minmei. Doesn't he even boast he's a great singer or was that just in Robotech? Eh, regardless, while Max may look dorky I believe you're supposed to have the impression that he's a lady's man although not in the style of Roy. Then again, I'll bet any man on the Macross could be a lady's man eventually. The girl you like has a boyfriend? Just be patient... he'll be dead soon.

Nope, I'm just imagining it in my head. I was bored at work today and started thinking about how the LowVis wouldn't work at all on Mars... so it occured to me there should be a Mars style LowVis. I would mock it up on photoshop but I don't have photoshop or any computer skills beyond Word and Excel.

Okay, so I got a new BRILLIANT plan (as all my plans are. How about a LowVis Mars base style? Give it an orangey-brown color with the weather spots and off orange markings instead of light blue? Okay, that might also turn out to be the most god-awful looking valk ever... but it might be cool. Who knows??

I agree with the last two comments. First of all, I was astounded that we were seeing yet another Focker release. However, had they made it a TV gray version I woulda snatched one up in a heartbeat. As a matter of fact, I just watched DYRL again and I was thinking: In the scene where Max is skull leader in his blue VF-1S (which should be a toy) I'll bet Hikaru is actually flying a red 1J. So there you go, there's yet another toy that could be made. Then you could go up the ranks with Hikaru. Also, LE Kakazakis are a must. Personally though, I don't collect the DYRL paint schemes so I wish we'd get TV Max 1A and Hayao.

C'mon Kin, I know you have at least one floppy-knee Gakken lying around somewhere. Shaggy, you are in for a long drought . Next release probably won't be happening until this time next year. Hopefully at that point a third MPC thread will get created. In the meantime this thread isn't going to be much more than plaQue.

So I was cleaning my display cases today and decided I would rearrange some of the poses. As I was doing it I remember members around here telling me that the Toynami MPC isn't much more poseable than the Gakken 1/35. So, I started working with a shadow fighter I had in battloid. It's true these things could be more poseable (there were many times I only needed one more little twist to get a really cool pose and the toy wouldn't accomodate me) but the comparison to Gakken's poseability is just mean. Here's the pose I settled on: *Edit - So what is it the Gakken couldn't do? 1) Twist at the hips 2) pose its legs at all with any sort of lean 3) turn its head.