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Hello, Ok, I made some headway this past weekend. All the work is here: http://www.wwwmwww.com/Hasegawa/ I think I did everything I wanted to except alot of digging with the way back machine. My most up-to-date excel file is here: http://www.wwwmwww.com/Hasegawa/hasegawa.xls I also took Grayson72's file and turned it into this: http://www.wwwmwww.com/Hasegawa/Model_list.xls Which contains most of the questions I'll repeat below. (1) I've saved all the pictures I could find on the current Hasegawa website and HLJ. They are available at the first link above in sub directories by model number. The pics I have of the event only kits are in the "other" directory. Many of the HLJ pics I'm sure are low quality gifs made from higher quality jpegs that I'm sure were on the Hasegawa website at some time or another. If anyone has these or other pictures please let me know. (2) Base of the info I have I assume its safe to say the moldel numbers 65701 through 65750 are their normal macross releases. The model numbers 65751 through 65800 are reserved for their limited macross releases. And it appears their event only releases don't have model numbers at all. The odd ball at the moment is model number 72103. Is there a 72101 or 72102? (3) I believe the list I have of the 21 normal releases is complete. Of the limited releases I'm missing model number 65767 and these 3 in a row (65772, 65773, and 65774). Based on this thread http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=9583 I'd say the 3 in a row are the 3 Hasegawa Promotional Posters mentioned? Anyone have these posters or pictures of them? Do they have part numbers? How much were they? (4) What is model number 65767? In might be one of the kits mentioned below... I just don't know. (5) Regarding the kit called "Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1S "Metal Plated" Fighter Valkyrie, Limited Edition" in the Model_list file, I fould this quote from ChristopherB here at MacrossWorld, "The VF-1S non-Strike version is a different metal color (silver as opposed to champagne), and you could only get it via a mail away contest or something like that." Anyone here have this kit? Does it have a model number? Any details on the contest? How many were made? Dates for the contest? Etc... (6) Regarding the kit called "Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1(A/S) "Metal Plated" Strike Fighter Valkyrie" in the Model_list file, I believe this is kit number 65754. But I see no mention of the VF-1A option on the box art. Is that correct? (7) Regarding the kit called "Hasegawa 1/72 VF-0S "Metal Plated" Fighter Valkyrie, Limited Edition" in the Model_list file, I fould this quote from ChristopherB here at MacrossWorld, "apparently you could only get this kit by winning a contest. Does anyone have more information about the origin?" Let me second ChristopherB's question and add... Does this kit have a model number? Anyone here own this kit or have any pictures of it? Etc... ( Regarding the kit called "Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1(A/J) Super Fighter Valkyrie" in the Model_list file, Can 65704 be built as a VF-1J? Again I don't see mention of that option on the box. (9) Regarding the kit called "Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1(A/S) Super/Strike Fighter Valkyrie Version 1 or Version 2"... Can these kits (I believe we are talking about model number 65705) be built as a VF-1A? I see no mention of that option on the box. Plus the note here in the model section at MacrossWorld states this kit can't be built as a Super only a Strike. Also this link http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?s=&a...st&p=194585 talks about the difference between version 1 and version 2. Do they have different box art? I'm still not sure how one would tell the difference if they saw one of these kits on eBay for example. (10) Regarding "Hasegawa 1/72 Macross Option Decal #04 "Minmay Guard Version 2" in the Model_list file I fould this quote from xstoys "The seperate decal set was only available as an exclusive during one of those Japan only conventions, C3 I believe." Anyone here have this set? Does it have a part number? If released at C3 what were the dates of the event? Price? Etc... (11) Regarding "Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1(A/J/S) Battroid Valkyrie Upgrade Parts" in the Model_list file I found this quote from nemesis120 "There supposedly were some problems on the VF-1 Battroid Valkyrie kit (not the super or strike) that were corrected on the later ones, and Hasegawa released parts to correct this (supposedly event only parts)." Anyone here have this? I need pictures. Does it have a model or part number? What event were they released at? Price? Etc... (12) I have this kit "Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1(A/J/S) "Clear/Clear Event Only" Fighter Valkyrie" but I don't have any info on the event it was released at, or dates, or price? Were there any nice pictures of it released by Hasegawa? (13) I have the clear red/blue/green event only kits but again I don't have any info on the event they were released at, or dates, or price? Were there any nice pictures of these released by Hasegawa? (14) I also found this thread in my hunting http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=20366. Looks like ChristopherB had many of these kits and it looks like he sold them to another MacrossWorld member through ebay. Did anyone save the pictures that were posted for this auction? I can't tell exactly what was sold? Does anyone know who won the auction? I'd love to ask him (or her) for some pictures if they still have the stuff. (15) And as always if I missed anything PLEASE let me know. Thanks, Carl

WOW!!! Do you have a website? I'd love to see some of your other builds, even the non-macross ones. And I just had what I think is a great idea for a website. Maybe Brinklink does this already, I'm not sure as I'm not too familiar with that website. But I think someone should set up a website for lego set designers were they could submit a parts list and the site could offer all those parts as a package. That way cool8or and others who provide this great service could get more exposure for their great designs and those who buy their plans can easily get the parts needed in one simple package and quicky know how much it would cost. Is there something like this out there already? If not there should be. Thank You, Carl

Cool8or, Great build up of the Dragon II. Thanks for sharing the pictures. Carl

In principle, I agree. Still a company like Yamato has alot more resources then a group the size of IHP or SHE and I certainly appreciate their efforts to do what they can. Being an engineer I enjoy just knowing that it can be done even if it can't stand up to the playable or perfect accuracy or realism tests. With regards to the 1/32 Legioss, a kit that I agree would top any IHP or SHE kit I've seen, I certainly understand your desire to not incure a financial loss. I also remember some legal issues came up... to put in nicely. Still with the recent stuff from IHP/Liquid Stone/Experten selling for over $1000 a kit and I've seen the rarer SHE kits also selling for over $1000 a kit, I would like to hope there is some way you could find to make a profit with this kit down the road. Still even if so I imagine that profit could more easily be made spending the same amout of time on less complex projects so I do understand your perspective. Still, I keep some measure of hope alive. Thanks for the response, Carl

I agree with the spirit of that statement but as a fan if the IHP (Liquid Stone, Experten, or what ever else they are calling themselves today) and SHE (Studio Half Eye) I'm curious... have any of you released a variable kit yet. I'd include a kit that could be built in different modes if not truely variable. For example I'd certainly count this: http://www.macrossworld.com/mospeada/john_...ohn_moscato.htm if it were released. I'm not trying to open old wounds or anything but I'm honestly curious if any of you have released something I missed. My free time sure isn't what it used to be so I'm sure I've missed a few things. For those that have seen the IHP kits up close many of them wouldn't be too hard to beat in the quality department but I'm still a big fan of the engineering involved in actually making these kits variable. Just my 2 cents... Carl

This keeps getting better and better. Thanks for sharing. Carl

Ok... I got a little done but not quite as much as I wanted. I dug out my personal Hasegawa collection. I was working on this before TI laid me off and I never picked it up again. I may someday but I think this is a complete set of their first 13 Macross kits includind the 4 event only releases you see on the top right. I also started on a spreadsheet. I don't have Excel on my new PC yet and a friend pointed me to OpenOffice so this was created with that and saved in the Excel format. If anyone has trouble opening this with Excel let me know but with OpenOffice being free it was too good a deal to pass up. Anyways, this excel file at the moment just contains what is in the model section here at MacrossWorld. http://www.wwwmwww.com/Hasegawa/hasegawa.xls I still need to: (1) Go through Valkyrie's and Grayson72's files and add anything not already here. (2) Check HLJ.com and add anything they have. (3) The 4 event only realease I have aren't on this list yet and I'm sure there are others. I'll propably need help getting this part complete. (4) I also want to see what I can find on the Hasegawa web site. So far I've found this: http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/zaikorisuto/VF-SZ.htm Does anyone know the site where they generally release the pictures of the completed kits at? I'd like to try to see if I could use TheWayBackMacine and see if I can get a set of pictures released by Hasegawa. For example, here is a link to a picture that is currently on the Hasegawa site: http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/VF/25TH/VF-1-1.jpg I got this link from another thread here at MacrossWorld and I can't seem to find the link to it if I start from here: http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/ If I can figure out how to find the above picture starting from the main page maybe I can find older pictures starting from here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp Oh well, its a start. I'll post another update next weekend if not before. Carl P.S. Two quick questions about this site: http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/zaikorisuto/VF-SZ.htm (1) Why do all the kits have 2 prices next to them? (2) What is that QG3 kit listed at the bottom? I see VF-1 in the description but its the only one listed without a picture of the box art.

Thank you Valkyrie and Grayson72. I've got both of your excel sheets. I started on a Hasegawa sheet yesterday and with luck I might have something worth posting later today. Thanks again, Carl

WOW!!! Very nice. Is this your first shot at something like this or do you have other instruction sets available? Very professional looking. Is it ok to ask how much publically or is that what the email address is for? Also I'm curious what a full set of all the pieces would cost at BrickLink. Has anyone figured that out? Do you have plans on doing any of the other Destroids? Carl

Grayson72 and Valkyrie, Yes, I'd love to see what you have. Could you attach the excel sheets to a post here in this thread? If you'd rather email them to me you can use carlDOTnDOThoff@gmailDOTcom. Just replace the capital leters what what they imply. Thanks, Carl

I don't have alot of free time either so I may be biting off more then I can chew. So for now, I want to limit the scope to the Hasegawa kits. I can start with HLJ for the normal releases but I don't think they have the event only releases and I'm not even sure what is meant by "lucky draw and price giveaway kits". As you can see my lack of free time has kept me a bit out of the loop. I think (as time permits) I'll start on an excel sheet that lists the kits. I'll have columns for kit name, model number, release date, type of release, pics if instructions, pic of box art, pics of parts, pics of completed kit release by Hasegawa, pics of completed kit submitted by fans, pics of decals, etc. And once I have that I'll post it here and you'll see what I need and you can let me know what I'm missing. I probably won't have time to work on this till next weekend but we'll see. Thanks, Carl

Guys, I was just looking here: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...wa/hasegawa.htm And was wondering if we could make this a complete list. I'd love for this to be a complete list of EVERY Macross kit Hasegawa has released. We could add the initial release date and for event only kits maybe we could add the event it was released at. What do you think? If it’s a limited release and there is any idea how limited I'd like to see that info as well. I understand the model section of MacrossWorld would be very hard to keep up to date with all the rare resin kits etc. that are out there but Hasegawa is a big company and I would think we should be able to keep this portion of it up to date at least. I haven't talked to Shawn in a while but maybe this is something I could talk him into showing me how to update. I just want to help keep MacrossWorld up to date and as models are my passion maybe this is something I could do to help. Time is very scarce these days but I don't think this is something that would be too hard to do. Is there a more complete list on-line someplace already? Any Hasegawa collectors out there keeping their own list up to date? If so let’s share it here. If you have any info [dates, pics, scans, etc.] please put them here and I'll give Shawn a call and see what I can do. If someone is already working on this please don't let me step on any toes. As I said, free time is scarce and I'm not able to keep up with the forums to the extent that I used to. It's just that I see posts like this one: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?show...mp;#entry499961 that in a few years no one will be able to find and new members won't even know to look for that I think would better benefit everyone if this type of info was saved in the model section. What do others think? Thanks, Carl

Maybe this apprentice is familiar with the engine room on an ISD and all he did was use the force to flip the off switch. Gravity could have done all the rest of the work. In that sense Yoda LIFTING an X-Wing would have been harder. Just a thought... Carl

I found some more info here: http://community-2.webtv.net/bobrady2/speedracermach5/ That I wanted to share. Here is a nice picture of the underside of the Club-M model: And here is another picture and some more info on the real Y2K car: Enjoy, Carl

I agree... too many of the curves have really been flattened out. My favorite rendition of the Mach 5 in 3D is the Club-M model. Then again I'm also a fan of the 1997 remake of Speed Racer so I would have been happy to see this one used as the movie car too... Carl

There is now a trailer for The Lost Tales posted here: http://www.babylon5.com Enjoy, Carl

There is a picture of the Mach 5 for the upcoming movie in USAToday: http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2...eed-racer_N.htm Enjoy, Carl

I just picked up UFO:Extraterrestrials last Friday. The last PC game I had the time or the desire to play all the way through was the original X-Com. So I can't really comment about how the game lives up to today's standards but so far I'm enjoying the game and if I can find the time hope to finish this one. Regarding the above... Everything is not flat. There is certainly use of different ground elevations in this game however it is hard to see at times. When you drive your tank around you can clearly see it going up and down hills. After you know there is a hill there you can see a shading effect that is intended to make it look like a hill. However from walking the troops around it is hard to notice as the shading effect is subtle and there is no obvious indication when they are walking up or down as there is with the tank like thing. Also so far I've had a few missions with 3 story buildings. If you click up from the 3rd story you can seen the top of the roof so the map I know has 4 levels atleast. I have yet to find a way to get anyone to the 4th level though. Maybe there is flying armor later on in the game. Also the buildings have these glowing spots that work like elevators. I have yet to come across a UFO that is more then one story but I'm sure they'd fit well in that setting. However why don't the human buildings make use of stairs? Or maybe even something that looked a bit more like real elevators? Now a question... I just built my third base. I have yet to figure out if there is a way to station troops at anything but my main base. Can they? If so how? I also currently can't build labs or shops at anything but my main base. Again... why? Am I doing something wrong?

I'm not as sure about that. Look at the metal pin at the base of the jaw seen here: It looks like the lower part (what I called the jaw above) could be able to pivot down. Carl

I thought FH had stabbed Sylar and thought Sylar had surived because he assumed Sylar had absorbed Claire's power. Thus leading to his message to CP. Are you saying FH never stabbed Sylar? Maybe I need to watch "Five Years Gone" again myself. Carl

Questions about Generations... (1) In the future episode we saw that Claire was still alive. This meant that Sylar didn't have Claire's power and survived being stabbed by Hiro the 'first time'. So why should everyone expect him to die now, why the need to keep Sylar from getting Claire's power? (2) Peter should be able to fly on his own... even more so after Nathan showed up? Why would Peter let Nathan put himself in harms way like that when he shouldn't have had to. (3) I missed the first few minutes but I did see a credit for George Takei at the beginning. I don't remember seeing him in this episode (unless it was in the first few minutes). Since the name of the episode is Generations what do you want to bet that the lone samurai at the end is Hiro's dad? Carl

What are the odds Aoshima releases the Beta/Tread before Toynami? Yes, I meant to leave CM's out of that question. Carl

Here are two YouTube videos I just uploaded. The original closing credits: And the Englishing opening: Enjoy, Carl

Well I've only seen one episode and I really really want to see more. There were 34 episides seen in Japan and the original Mach GoGoGo was released on DVD. I would think at some point this series would see a DVD release as well. Maybe it already was and I missed it... I would just really like to find out more. Carl

I'm still looking for this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmBeLT5caGM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xrg59v0jrw Anyone know if this has been released to DVD in Japan yet? Also I once thought I saw an art book for this version of Mach GoGoGo on Yahoo Japan. Does anyone know if there is an official art book for this series and if so where one might be able to find it? Thanks, Carl