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    I just got my hands on Chie's first album, "Loophole," and I was surprised to see in the liner notes that she thanks Tomo Sakurai, among others (though I didn't see any call-out to Fukuyama). The reason I was surprised was that I thought I had heard (from the SpeakerPODcast?) that - unlike May'n and Aya Endo - the two women didn't work closely together or even meet until after recording for their series was over. I'm not saying that's impossible (Loophole was released in late '95, around the same time the last M7 episode aired, so presumably recording for each wrapped up much earlier), but it just got me curious about the relationship between these two ladies I know Tomo was involved in one of the Mylene night events. What else have the two done together? Are they friends?
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    So, which holographic Disney princess do you think Yang would most want to hijack?
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    Macross II also had the civilian SNN valk with no battroid mode as well, right?
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    GP01 is one of three I've built (with RX-78-2 and Freedom), and I also adore it. Great look, excellent detail, and including the core fighter system borders on miraculous. But it doesn't get my vote as ambassador, due to posing issues. The darn thing cannot bring its legs together, so it can only manage these dynamic stances. Getting a neutral pose out of it confounds me, compared to the other two, which can look as casual as if they were standing around the water cooler. The RX-78-2 may be finicky as heck with shedding parts, but it would get my vote for its classic look and ability to assume so many human poses, dynamic or otherwise.
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    Regarding the aesthetics, couldn't that be explained by a difference in manufacturer and design philosophy, a la the SV-51? That mirrored real-world differences between east and west, but even within the western system, two aircraft designed for the same purpose with comparable technology can look radically different (e.g. the ATF competitors that inspired Plus, or the JSF competitors that could hardly have looked more dissimilar if they tried.) Personally, I see a huge aesthetic shift just between the VF-1 and VF-4, when that's a direct successorship within the same show. It's not without precedent for even valks that are closely related to appear very different. I'm not speaking to the specs here - maybe those could be retconned, maybe they couldn't - but just regarding the looks, I don't think they're a deal-breaker.
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    I couldn't tell from the question if you have built any Real Grades already. If you haven't, oh my god, do it. The detail, the articulation - they are simply amazing.
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    So, do you figure there was a time when her miclone form actually appeared older than her normal form, or were they in sync up to a certain age, and then the miclone got "stuck?" I ask just in good fun. I personally saw Klan's condition as semi-metaphorical for how Mikhail couldn't see her as the adult she had become (and as service to the Loli fans, of course). If the two of them were emotionally mature and in touch with their feelings, I think they would cope with it like any couple where someone has a physical disability, and there wouldn't be a tragedy at all.
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    So, since Klan is half of this doomed equation, can we talk about her condition a little? Is it specifically that her miclone form is locked into adolescent when miclonized, or just that it appears younger than her normal form? Meaning: When Klan was actually five years old, would her miclone form already have appeared 13 (or whatever juvenile age it appears in Frontier) as well? When Klan is 29, will her miclone form then be "adult" in appearance?
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    Transforming SOKO Orao = saddest valk ever.
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    Wait, so, if we go by DYRL, humans can be macronized. And if we go by Dynamite 7, zolans can be macronized. (I've never been real happy with either of those ideas, but whatever). But a human-zolan mix can't?
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    I love you people.
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    Moe harem prequel, with a shy and awkward Bruno Global as its high school age protagonist.
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    Thanks very much! I'm not familiar with anything past the animations, so I miss a lot of this info. I imagine what happened is that the VR pod experiment worked out so badly, with a whole "lost generation" of kids becoming rock star pilots instead of engineers and salarymen, that they went back to a traditional school system by the time of Frontier. And by "traditional," I mean a curriculm that is all about variable fighters (and panties).
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    Why isn't Mylene in school? I think Mylene tells Gamlin at one point that she goes to a prestigious girls school, but I took this to just be a fib that she or Milia made up to make her more presentable. Mylene seems to spend her time driving around in her own car, living in her own apartment, and playing in a rock band. Not that I want another school drama, but shouldn't a fourteen-year-old have classes?
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    Thanks for the clarifications. I didn't see that "exploded" pic - it really lays out what's going on. Looks like a bigger scale HG to me. This is exactly the opposite of what I was expecting (introducing a higher-complexity division of MG), but I guess it accomplishes much the same thing, by splitting 1/100 into more and less complex/expensive lines. Interesting that the blue polycap substitutes all seen to be of identical design, whereas a traditional polycap kit might have a dozen or more different kinds used throughout. I wonder if they are really pushing a "one size fits all" joint connector, or if they just carefully chose a simple example for their display.
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    Just don't fall asleep! The bridge bunnies cannot be trusted with a sleeping captain.
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    Holy moly, that is a ton of stuff. I must be dense, though, because I'm not getting what sets RE/100 apart from MG. I'm pretty new to gunpla - can anybody explain it to me like I was a child?
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    Season 2! Fingers crossed for MG Beargguy San ver. Ka
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    I wonder if the new category is going to be retroactive to a degree, i.e. Bandai is recognizing a division in the Master Grade line that already exists. If you compare certain 2013 releases, like the Tallgeese vs the Sazabi ver. Ka, there is already a massive range in detail, complexity, and price within the MG line.
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    Ooh, good call. I have no background with archery; I'd seen stabilizers on competition bows, but never understood what they did. Reading about it a little more, it sounds like an equivalent system isn't used on heavy-barreled rifles because the weapon's own weight distribution serves much the same effect. But I guess they are used in some cases on lightweight guns like pellet rifles. I'm not sure how applicable this would be to a valkyrie-class rifle, but that seems to me like a good answer for at least the "what were they thinking" question.
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    But is blue thing-watermelon-bell CANON?
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    Holy mackerel, that interview! Thanks, Gubaba! Like I mentioned with the defense shells, there's always a point in jets-with-arms land (or humanoid mecha land in general) where the answer becomes "because it's cool." But once you get beyond that point, you have a bunch of smart, technically savvy guys working out all the details as realistically as they can from a given premise. It's really cool to get inside their heads. It feels like Itano might be so close to the material that he didn't realize how arbitrary that point is. It apparently doesn't bother his sense of realism that the solution to "we need to destroy something in space" is to engineer a jet plane that turns into a giant robot-man and give it a colossal rifle, but it really irks him when the robot braces that rifle on an asteroid, or uses it in a tactically unsound way. Those are valid criticisms, but only within a context that inherently accepts a certain level of absurdity and no more. Tweak the dial just slightly, and you brace the rifle because it's thematically appropriate, and you shoot at close range because it's dramatic - no questions asked. Anyways, Seto Kaiba, the "we're not sure" answers (and speculation) are great and I really appreciate them, because they help me feel I'm not just missing the obvious. It was such a relief, for example, reading how little clarity there is around the Plus "switch the ammo and shoot him with his own gun" scene. So, thank you again!
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    Thanks again! I'm gonna keep going. How do the stabilizers on Mikhail's "sniper" gunpod function? I recall in at least one scene he leans it sideways against an asteroid, making them seem like some kind of omnidirectional bipod. But other times they are deployed in open space, making me think they might be arms with verniers on them that actively stabilize the weapon without physical support. Bottom line - I don't get what's supposed to be happening there.
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    Sorry to be unclear. I mean I can picture the scene in my memory of the shields rolling up the tube-shaped ships, but I had forgotten it. I don't remember anything about the repulsion fields, though. Unless you mean - wasn't there some kind of energy that would close over dome breaches? I guess I have to go watch some more - oh no!
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    Thanks, Veef and sketchley! So, is it fair to say that all that "wear it on your left hand" and "diamond because I'm in Diamond Force" stuff was just typical Gamlin awkwardness?
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