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The chestplate is dramatically different.  The longer cockpit needs extra space.

Here's a quick comparison using 1/60s.

i stand corrected. i didn't have valks next to me to compare, being at work and all.

i never realized there was such a HUGE difference so scratch my idea. i just thought a detachable nose cone would be cool cause then we could come up with some way to attach it to the forearm of a valk. yes i'm dreamin.....

I hear ya. I had the same thought. That's what propted me to scrutinize the differences. It doesn't mean the new nose couldn't come with optional parts to make a detached nose for Roy to tote about. ActuallyI think I'd almost rather have that than a complete D.

The chestplate is dramatically different. The longer cockpit needs extra space.

Here's a quick comparison using 1/60s.

If you look at his past auctions it appears he sold a Bandai strike with only the skull heatshield so thats probably where the amber canopy came from.

The MW main site has pics of them all:  http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/takatoku.htm

Are you sure that third one you speak of isn't the Bandai reissue?

YEs I am sure.

Takatoku only released two vertions of the VF 1S, the White that comes with the super Pack and the Grey that comes without nothing but a gun and missiles.

The GBP 1S armor gift set only included the same 1S sold before without FP.

So Takatoku only made two vertions, white and grey.

LAter Bandai took over the license and the Taka molds, this because our good ol Takatoku went under due to the Lack of MW and their avid collectors,

BAndai then released the DYRL Valks (VF 1s Strike, VF 1A, Elint, Ostrich)

And that is the fast story, Taka was Macross, Bandai DYRL.

Later BAnadi released their TV VF 1S Focker in the 1990s featuring a crappy ABS plastic, new head and landing gears sculps with the Super Armor.

That is as far as I know for VF 1S in 1/55.

EDIT>> Well, there are also the Taiwanese VF 1S from the 1990s, the Bandai Reissue, the Chinese Boots... but those are newer stuff.

Taka... only two.

Sorry I should have used the quote button. My question was aimed at the starter of the thread.

Yo Hater I've got those stickers, you can have em. I still have your addy I'll drop em in the mail for ya tommorow.

The MW main site has pics of them all: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/takatoku.htm

Are you sure that third one you speak of isn't the Bandai reissue?

A detachable heatshield would be fine with me. Especially since it'll probably have to be painted and therefore prone to scratching.

It looks like she's farting into her helmet.

There's a red Joons with a 1A head but they're so increadibly rare that you shouldn't even bother.

They're kind of tight but not too bad. I take mine off whenever it's in fighter mode so that the arms can close up better.

I couldn't get a better pic so I drew a diagram so you can see exactly where the action is.

haha maybe yours was one of the first ...

note to all: BE CAREFUL when removing the hands! don't pry the arm too far apart ... i pulled the arm clean into half by accident!!!! i've glued everything back now ... but structurally, the toy is weaker there now ...

in short: it's not worth losing an arm to save a hand!

also: might be a good idea to paint the bottom of the replacement hand before putting it on ... the replacement hands have orange-reddish bases (instead of the standard off-white).

Is that how Toynami told you to put on the replacements? The hands attach to the rotating piece by little pegs. You shouldn't need to take the arm apart at all.

I took a pic but my antique digi-cam doesn't do macro very well.

Oh stop hitting it already! I got a question. The new BSG is a remake of the original, right? Naturally they want to do it deifferent a bit. I remember the original show, but I was 4 or 5 years old, and I don't think I ever saw it since.

So in the original, was there already a Cylon war in the past? As in the new show where there was a Cylon war 40(?) years earlier, and the present is the RETURN of the Cylons. Am I making sense? In other words, the remake seems like a sequel in the story line, but then there's Adama, Starbuck and Apollo... so it is a remake.? I confused myself, what's the answer?

On that point, was the Viper in the old show, an OLD design as it is in the new?(if you know what I mean). I don't remember it being old.

IIRC The original starts at the end of the Cylon war. The Galactica was escorting the council of 12 to the Cylon homeworld to sign a peace treaty when they attacked.

I just saw it. Prime was funny but the Cylons were even funnier.

I think that prime might have been the robotmasters Convoy.

I like the unmasked Storm Shadow exclusive, how and where do you get it? Is it the 3 3/4" size? Gotta love ninjas.

It's a mail in.

http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/pl/page.storms.../dn/default.cfm

Everything you ever wanted to know about Destro, and then some.

http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/destro.html

Well since were still playing this game, Yet another president says:

Say Cap'n, you could dye them blue for an instant Max and Millia wedding valk.

From comparing a 1/60D to a single seater it looks like the bottom half of the fuselage is the same and only the top is a little longer so that'd be one less piece to make. The only problem is there's nowhere for the heatshield to go.

Damn, some of you guys have pretty high standards.......

Even though she has a boney ass and chipmunk cheeks:

for the love of god, someone please give her boney ass a cheeseburger! eeewww

I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't like it don't watch it. Nobody is forcing you.

Why do the stortroopers have nipples on thier armor?

George Lucas as Baron Papanoida in Episode III. No I am not joking, and yes this is real.

I've always wondered what a gay nazi would look like.

I always found this strange though, the Emperor referred to Vader as 'old friend' etc in the OT. I guess I have much to learn about the sith.

Palps and Anakin were friends before Anakin turned, and Palps revealed himself. That's what the PT has taught us.

Yeah, but in the OT he's like "Yo, old buddy." and Vader is all "sup dawg?"

I thought the sith lord master/apprentice relationship was more antagonistic.

Yeah, but in ESB Vader asks Luke to help him kill the Emperor. That what being evil is all about selfish ambition and betrayal.

It's just like that time in the 6th grade when my buddies talked me into playing a game of D&D with all evil characters and the first thing I did was kill them all off..

I don't really give a crap about either one.

Mecha featured in VOTOMS, Gasaraki, and the like would be too small to carry arms of any significance that would make the units more useful than current light vehicles. Armed jeeps, assault armor, and other light attack vehicles would be infinitely more versatile, cheap, and useful than small mecha.

I have to disagree with this statement. Mechs of that size would be able to go places a jeep couldn't. I doesn't take much to stop a wheeled vehicle and the current gulf war has taught the army just how vunerable helos are. I can't really speak for the Gasaraki but the scopedog can carry a buttload of heavy weapons.

The whole point of a feasable small mecha would be to provide a significant military resource that could go places a light vehicle could not, while at the same time possessing more advantages over conventional infantry that can go anywhere. In this list of criteria would as be such oft-forgotten considerations like cost-benefit of the mecha unit, operational endurance compared to conventional units, unforseen vulnerabilites of an unconvetional humanoid mecha, worth of the mecha unit as compared to the combined arms of the military, etc.

From where I stand, a realistic analysis of those anime mecha within the scope of our foreseeable future technological abilities would not provide a viable result.

It's OK if we don't agree but to in my opinion the scopedog meets all of your criteria. It's capable of carring a multitude of weaponsystems. It's able to handle enviroments where conventional vehicles can not operate, including zero-G. cost is irrelevant to thics discussion since these are fantasy designs it's impossible to put a pricetag on them except to say that the fact that they exist in thier respective universes means that they must be cost effective to produce.

Actually, no it isn't. The only way to begin questioning whether one mecha is more plausible than another is to take our current understanding and apply it to the supposed reality of such vehicles. Otherwise, where can a comparison even begin? If we accept the physics and economics unique to each individual anime series while silmultaneously we suspend our disbeleif indiscriminantly, one mecha is EQUALLY as plausible as the next. In that case, the more outrageous, fantastic, or magical the abilities of the mecha, the better it is as the mecha of choice.

Obviously, this is a ridiculous and dead-end way in which to analyze "plausibility".

So we return to my original assesment and the reasoning behind it. This makes the afformentioned Patlabor and GITS mecha the more plausible.

I think you're confusing practical with plauible. There are tons of mechs that could be plausibly made but none of them are practical. If they were they'd have been made.

That's all I'm going to say on the subject. There's no point in arguing over which made up robot is more realistic than the other. Were both set in our opinions so just leave it at that.