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word. Vic. hey guys, i knew if i put the 1/55 up there, it would ruin the poll because no one would vote for the other two!

i was just wondering. now that i think about it, i think the way roy dies in the tv was done poorly. i'm actually a fan of the ungloryous death of the tv show as opposed to the drunken heroic death in the dyrl movie. BUT, heres my problem: i felt that they didn't properly work up to it. i realize they showed some ground crew looking wide eyed into the cockpit, but thats it? i mean, he was supposedly haveing massive internal bleeding or something right? that hurts ALOT to the point of incapasitateing someone. and he's just walkin around like its nothing till he drops dead. my opinion is that the writers wasted a great opprotunity for some good storytelling, what do you think?

ewwwwww mac 7 well considering the valk needs boosters to reach space and mac-engineers decided it needed FASTpacks, i'm going to say weight was ALREADY a problem. end of discussion. not really sure what you're getting at. well... for one, the gunpod has something like 300 rounds if i'm not mistaken, and that is limited no mater what its fireing, the head lazer has never once in the show proven to be really all that powerful, and as for war being about skill.. really war has usually been broken down like this: superior numbers, superior technology, superior tactics, superior moral, and finally, superiority of individual soldiers. anyone of those can make or break an army/navy/airforce, if war is anything, its random. do you think most veteran soldiers really are that much more skilled than the rookies getting killed? or were they just always lucky enough to be the guy NEXT to the guy who got it.

wow i think you managed to find a question that no one knows the answer to. congrats!

Anyone here on the city of heros beta test? im intrested in how its coming along.

word. they are a intresting thing to read for the hell of it, but searching through one for a specific tidbit of information is a chore like no other. iv'e been slowly working my way up the macross newbie thread for over a week now!

i don't know, if they upped the age to anything past 16 i dont' think it would work as f0cked up as things were for these kids, their ability to deal with stuff with even a few years age diffrence makes a huge impact on what you'd expect from them. a 19 yearold whos got hatred for his dad, it would be annoying to see him doing the childish things the kid does in eva, running away and just being all angsty, you'd expect more from a 19yold. a 14 year old is still in his formative years, i expect he'd be way more confused about things, and have no idea how to deal with it. the ages from birth to 20 see by far the largest changes in a person per year than the any time after those years. the diffrence between a 14 year old and a 16 year old are huge! 19 is out of the question. i don't see why 14 year olds couldn't be used in an american version of the movie... what exactly happens to them that is so wrong? its not like there is any graphic sex or anything. remember The Professional where the girl developes a sexual attraction to the 30+ assasin she lives with or dozens of movies with child stars that are raped and murdeded in the movie. Interview with the Vampire, the girl stares at a woman dressing/undressing herself and the girl desires a womans body she can't have. if they can do all that in american cinima, they can do anyting needed for eva. (except maybe the jerkoff scene in the movie... but really i don't think that was such an important scene to force it into the live action version)

looks neat, but would it be safe to drive? i've never ridden a motorcycle so i wouldn't know, seems like youd want to be able to turn the handlebars further than that would allow. any bikers know?

pretty dern cool, some of that was kinda lame though.

no, no no no, NO and now i've seen them, its too late to go back. as a car guy i support the notion that if it makes you happy, and doesn't put me or my friends/family in danger, then more power too you. but personally i find those things embarrissing (as both a car enthusiast and a starwars fan)

maybe something like the powerloader in aliens? i can't see a benifit of that as opposed to a forklift, but if they WERE gonna do it, it would probably be something like that.

just intrested in what you guys think. though i preffer just simple valks with no stuff on them, i have to admit the GBP(?) armor does look pretty damn cool. lets assume that the 1/48 WILL NOT get armor. would you rather get a 1/60 with armor or a 1/48 with no armor (assume they'd be about the same price)

it IS kind of a toss up, a 1/60 with the armor would look pretty damn sweet. but would it be sweeter than an unarmored 1/48 valk?? tough call. if it were me, i'd get the 1/48 and hope for the armor. but thats just me (i like my valks naked) actually i think i'll poll it.

i think your asking a bit much. for one thing, who said the gun pod can't be used by either hand? maybe none of the mac characters happen to be left handed. two gun pods? well, it looks more realistic to have just one. remember this isn't real military, valk design is half "realizm" and half "cool looking" if we are taking this as a solely realistic approace to the vehicle, its ALREADY a jet that turns into a human shaped robot. IF this were a real vehicle, there are hundreds or thousands of limitations to take into account. machineguns are heavy, i'm sure lazers and the powerplant to run them are heavy too, you can't simply bristle something with guns and just expect it to work as good, same with extendable arms, you need all that extra material in the arm to make such a thing possible, more weight. as for non-human like reactions of the arms and legs, i already can't imagine running a machine that works just like a human, i REALLY don't know how to control something like the backwards bend of an elbow. i would assume limitations like these are simply pilot limitations, remember the knee CAN bend backwards, but really how useful would that be? i can't think of a paticularly great reason. now... if you wanted to get into the fact that it would have LOOKED cooler to have a bunch of extreem abilitys in the valks, perhaps the creators wanted to go as realistic as posible. macross is one of the only giant mech shows that gives a good reason for giant robots, the need for hand to hand combat with giant invaders. its not like gundam where for no apparent reason people desided to build big robots, as opposed to lower profile and much simpler tanks. sure it would have looked kinda neat to see guns busting out of hidden pannels and missles comeing out of everywhere, while the thing uses extendo arms to grab enemys and stuff, but it also would have seemed very childish and over indulgent, and macross goes for the older viewer. limitations are what make things intresting... take evangelion for example: bots have very limited powersourse, it offsets their amazing fighting ability and gives the story some edge. the valks too, they have amazing transformation and physical abilitys, they can go anywhere they want and engage in hand to hand combat, their lack of heavy firepower makes them more vunerable and much more intresting. whew...

if you don't like em i'll take em, yeesh indeed.

i for one am all about scale. i have my 1/55s and my 1/100s on the same shelf and it buggs me. i don't know why. its not a very rational thing to be bugged about. for that reason, i'd probably much preferrer the enemys to be the same scale as the valks, BUT i know thats totally not feesible. if they were available i'd probably just get all the enemys and destroids in banpresto scale so that they could all stand togeather and look cool, and have my 1/48 valk off to the side somewhere in all its solitary glory.

what kind of articulation was the milla you saw graham? like a gi-joe with joints? or soft rubber? hard rubber/plastic? i guess what i'm asking is, if you take her out can she stand on her own and look cool next to the suit, or will she be like the valk pilots, stuck in the cockpit position.

uh... from what i know you're kind of asking "the big question" i'm asuming you mean the GBP armor (or what ever) the real bulky stuff with all the missiles. i hope they release it. its not out now though, thats for sure, and no one knows if its ever gonna be out, there's been no news one way or the other (right?) as for your icon, go to "my controls", on the right you should see "edit avatar settings" then you just select one you like and go from there. if you want to make you're own you should be able to figure it out by reading the instructions. hope you like mac-world ***edit*** stupid moderators, typing all fast n stuff..

sorry but those spindly legs just don't do it for me. i like the vf-1 because changing to chicken mode substantialy changes the profile. and makes it look more balanced (like it was designed properly) this thing looks like the legs were an after thought. i guess to me it's just not sexy enough. sorry.

cuz i don't feel like reading an entire other thread, what are we looking for? the link provided takes us to a post with pictures of missles under the wings. am i missing something?

i really don't understand how this mistake came about. did they tell the animator "put missles on the plane" and did he just not have any clue as to how missles go on? notice the missle tray under each wing has nothing on it.. very weird.

how tall will the girl in that thing be?

what is minmay guard??

actually, if you down a enemy, you can pick up their M-16/ak-47 wich hs a diffrent rate of fire and doesn't jam as much. weird game i don't like it.

what show is this from? macross tv?