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Personally, i think she looks too good to be Lisa and y'all are bashing her for looking bad... I find the idea that a character needs to be designed by Mikimoto to be downright laughable and I'm not even an RT fanatic (although I do admit that I hope this series will turn out good... I need some new anime to come out that I can like again). I think the idea of facial scars is interesting but I'm kinda glad it didn't happen as she might turn out looking like some space pirate or just not very feminine. I think what she's missing is a wrinkle or two... how old is she supposed to be??

Lisa is supposed to be older than Rick... but it looks like she has aged MUCH more gracefully. I'm not saying Rick looks haggard or anything but Lisa looks all of about 25...

That's the same kid on the "why dad's shouldn't babysit" email foward going around. In that he's on the hood of a car and a radar detector in the background says the car is going 99MPH. In both cases I thought the kid should be upside down... he'd have to be flying on a plane going in reverse to be in that position... and his hair would have to be blowing. Crap... i'm way over-analyzing again aren't I?

Interesting note, one of the few things from the review that the guy actually liked was its color...

It's sounds very much like you need a hug. It also sounds like you have a conspiracy theory involving something as inane as a scan of an RT comic book... Maybe they put the purple one on MW.com just to see what people thought and then changed it when it got bad feedback! Right... seriously, it was a screwy scan that somehow (how exactly doesn't really matter) got altered and ended up here... let it go. As for "pinky" I still think his build is more unreasonably than his skin tone.

Huh? I posted the correct version. The one that was featured here on MW was indeed a bad scan with massive color saturation... go a few pages back. In the original post here he's all purple and bright, in the one from other websites he has a normal skin-tone and the green of the background is far more subdued. If he seems too pink to you still just imagine what most white people look like when exerting a lot of energy. They tend to become flushed. Certainly his skin-tone is far from ridiculous. Here's what I don't get, how did Rick go from a scrawny tiny pilot to a huge admiral? It looks like he's taken up prolific steroid use while in deep space.

I would guess we don't see many valks that color because you wouldn't be able to see them in space.

uh.... Dean, I wouldn't worry, I'm sure there will be plenty of hotties in the new RT. Lisa should be like 50 so I doubt she's gonna be hot... (although I hope she hasn't totally hit the wall). PS - does anyone else think the characters all look like someone else's head drawn on to A1's body?

wow, he's old I'm more curious to see what Lisa looks like.

For the love of all that is holy... I've seen this thing not go for this much MISB. It's going for more than the Toynami, Yamato 1/60s, and Bandai (heck, as much as the takatokus if you look for loose and incomplete ones). What are people thinking? How come these people don't bid on my stupid auctions??? Crapbox VF-1S NOTE- it's missing the fast packs and missiles also...

PS - maybe someone should start a new thread asking "Who's more believable, Max Jenius or Nekki Basara.

Nah, Basara was ridiculous in every way, it's not just his own personal bias. That being said, do we ever learn why he's sooooooo good in combat? Where'd he get his training? Oh man, remember when Gamlin was discussing how Basara routinely breaks some logical performance barrier making Basara a superior pilot... Oh crud... this is supposed to be a "What I like...." forum. So instead of summing this little debate up with "I like Basara and you're wrong" and "I think Basara is a joke and you're wrong" why don't we just leave it at "Some people like Basara and some don't." I, for one, would rather Mr Hanky star in an outer space sci fi flick than Basara but instead of discussing it in this thread (other than covertly.. as I am now) I simply left him off my list of what I liked about the series. Nobody needs to have the last word here folks, it is clear who likes him and who doesn't.

Actually... if you look at the one I stole and compare it to the one posted here... the purple face's color does look oversaturated. I think it has to be just a bad scan... I don't think anyone in RT is gonna be purple...

This is it... does it look different or am I tripping?

I know everyone enjoys ripping on this picture but I actually saw a copy somewhere else where the face wasn't purple. Soooo, it's safe to assume one of the pictures underwent some difficulty in the scanning process... either that or the other website fixed it to avoid exactly these comments

Can someone remind me what the history of the Varuta fighters was supposed to be? If the Varuta are all brainwashed zents from a previous colonization attempt then it would stand to reason that the Varuta are using Earth fighters right? Are they modified VF-4s? Those mechs really did peak my interest but it was tough to admire them on my copy of the series because they don't really stand out well in space battles.

Posts soooo long.... thread being derailed from what we like to another argument about why Mac7 is sooooo incredibly bad. Basara is sooooo not realistic.... Max not having him hung is sooooo unrealistic. Gamlin's near death was soooooo horrible... I'm astounded that someone referenced it as something done well. I cheered when Gamlin died... I thought it was the first attempt in M7 to be more than silly rubbish... and then he was magically alive again affirming my belief the entire series was silly rubbish. Let's get this back on topic though and just stick to what we like. Stuff like Max kicking butt or the Protodevlin folding the bomb back to his ship. That made me smile and then laugh. Good stuff.

Wow, I remember these got really rare at one point but then Yamato re-released 'em so I thought they'd be everywhere. I guess they must have done a pretty limited re-release.

Do we know that's supposed to be Rick? I thought it was TR Edwards when I saw it initially.

In the word's of the Howard Stern Show's Casey... "NICE!" For the love of GOD, why doesn't ANYONE release a TV 1A Max???

Man, this is like the hundredth person I've read about having this happen. I feel extremely fortunate, I got mine on a blind whim for next to nothing and I was kinda rough with it at first and never had it break. Thank goodness the toy stayed together long enough for me to realize how fragile it was and stop touching it altogether Just be happy this didn't happen to a YF-19 (although, IIRC you really just have to worry about all the paint chipping off of those).

In preparation for the impending arrival of my 1/48 CF I decided to prepare my CF display case. I pulled the guys out and tried to figure out some good looking poses. Here's what I've come up with -

I think it's just "limited" for now. If demand doesn't warrant a second release then this bad boy will be pretty rare. By not specifically labeling it "limited" they reserve the right to dump thousands more on the market when they notice secondary market going through the roof like it did with the LV. For now, it's just a gamble.

Nice weathering on the Milia 1/48 fast packs. Looks like you panel lined the 1/60 Hikkie 1J also. Did you do any weathering or panel lines to the Milia valk?

As crammed as I can get my Milia cube... I finally got a minty Milia JM! *Edit - it occurs to me that this is supposed to be a yamato display thread so this post is really in the wrong spot since it's just a random display case pic. My apologies.