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Dear Yamato, please push the release date back; the damn Euro just decided today to take another one of its plunges against the Yen.

Guys, I really like the Target Animated Shockwave. Think it will go down in price since Ebay is presently flooded with them or should I just get one with a decent shipping price to Europe now while they still last? Wish I could just have gone to a store and gotten him for 4,99

Damn! This is a nice surprise... So what to pick: model kit, 1/100 or DX?? :wacko:

Yep. The anime story was very crappy compared to the real story of the manga.

Good God, I didn't know this was a spoiler reel!!! The animation is classic gold but the story was sooo all over the place that I got bored half way. Last stand battles loose all their awesomeness if you chain a bunch of them together. The spoiler of some twists of the future series in a no built up way also subtract in my book. Damn thing has almost dried up all my interest in this new show

Downloading RAW now.

Got my Luca this morning. I felt kinda led down: I was expecting MP Grimlock but HLJ shipped Luca by EMS, so the latter arrived first. To further the RVF's bat timing, the baby woke up thanks to the mailman's constant ringing and last night I had transformed my DX Alto and felt like I was getting sick or the battroid mode. “Luca better deliver” I thought while I opened it. Well it did. First the green color... I don't notice any differences. That is until I take a picture or put it under artificial light. Don't know the chromatic phenomenon involved but I see a solid block of green. I have to look at it really hard to notice a slight difference. In the pics the difference becomes bigger. No missing color applications. Some of the white parts do seem to be easy to scratch off. It's like the toy is missing a protective coating in the white areas, which feel rough. Some overspray could have been avoid too. Don't know about the shoulders markings since I haven’t transformed it yet. The radome is fantastic. It looks great on and, as other members have noted, the turning mechanism feels very soothing. It’s like it belongs in a clockwork machine and not in a toy. The fast packs look great on Alto. Last night I had misstransformed the neck-chest area but now that I have it all positioned correctly I’m in love again with the deign. The DX VF-25 really shines with Fast Packs on. The hip armor parts do suck. They do click into place if you pull back the hip guns a bit to the back to make room for the tiny peg. But they still pop out really easy if you touch them to much. No problems with the groin or the missile pods. Bandai can choke on their web exclusive Alto packs. Green doesn’t look bad on the 25F. So far I really like it. The green scheme works very nice and the radome and antennae adds a really nice touch to the already great looking VF-25 fighter.

Good to hear that the Luca color problems aren't so big. Reminds me of Masterpiece Starscream; depending on the type of light, it goes from bluish to green. The head is also a win in my book. Can't wait for mine to arrive.

Maybe they'll use the kids song to fight the aliens in the movie Still, it would be a very big step (don't know if forward or backward) in Gundam to have aliens. Gundam was always about the stupid conflicts of human kind.

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The goofy waiter getup is what finally convinced me to get Grimlock HLJ shipped mine this morning, can’t wait to get it. Yesterday I received my MP Prime. Truly a beautiful (and heavy) thing to hold. All the detail with the working pistons is amazing. The articulations is great (a pity the elbows aren't double jointed) and the transformation is very fun. I still find THS Prime to be my favourite Optimus but the MP really is a must have. Now I feel like I need a Mp Megatron

Wow, missed it. I don’t know. I was also expecting something awesome after seeing how well they did the new Leader Prime and Voyager Starscream. Robot mode looks nice, but it almost looks like a simple shellformers with a lot of back kibble too. Need to see more pics.

Wow, nice!

I'd pick all of the characters that appeared in the first 5 minutes in a second.

Wow, very nice. Hasbro should really do something with all the steampunk designs from the hearts of Steal comic.

It was made by IMAI. It sometimes pops up in Ebay. I've thought about using the arms to make the Wave look more TV. http://www46.tok2.com/home2/miyako/mhk-macross-i-sdf-1.htm

And even more pics of MP Grimlock from the same place. http://www.tf08.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=263 Next to Prime, with all that back kible, Grimlock looks like a kid with a giant school bag.

Tons of pics of MP Grimlock. http://www.actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-342230.html Found here: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...ild-images.html I must say I like how the colors look in bot mode. This one is a must get for me.

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The ultimate douchebaggery would be for this "new detail design" to mean that the Armor will only fit a retooled DX mold...

Bundle? Good thing I passed on the DX Ozma and went for the 1/72 model kit version of the VF-25S. But if they release a stand alone DX Super Armor for Alto I'll just get that and skip the Ozma bundle.

Over at TFW2005 they are talking about a voyager animated Blackout and other stuff. Hope it doesn't get cancelled too. And I just though of something: No more animated means no animated Constructicons... not getting a toy version of at least Mixmaster would be a real shame.

Nice. I'll keep an eye on this one. Loved my old Phalanx as a kid. Is that a CF on the upper right corner? The head looks weird.

Any news on the HCM-Pro line? After the two Super Exia's there isn't any info.

Too bad about Animated. I really liked the toys and the cartoon was fun to watch.