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Is it a bootleg or official R2 release? Interesting... sounds like it would be a bootleg. Course, doest Yamato's stickers say "Galdo" or something like that? I know the other pilot sticker is "Isam" or something like that. Also did u see the OVA or the movie edition? I like Macross Plus too. Greatest Macross animation quality yet, IMO, with a story second only to Macross 7's. The YF-21 and VF-22 is, so far, my favorite Valkyrie design. So... tell us what u think Guld actually did to Myung, if u would. Just curious.

Looks incredible. You need to do something about that pilot though. He doesn't do the valkyrie justice.

Yeah these things are great aren't they? I agee the they are as flawless as possible for a toy and w/o a big QC bugs for a change, which is nice. Now they do expose one of the weak points in the 1/48 design (namely the arm locking mechanism, which is weak in standard fighter mode but worse as a Super Valkyrie). I think they look great on the Low-Viz (especially mine ) and just a slight shade darker than the Low-Viz trim markings. IMO, the Low-Viz is what the cannon fodder should have been rather than brown. As far as the missiles, both micro and RMS, why would anyone use super glue? One, it's permanent, which is just bad, and two it will eat the plastic (which is worse). Third, u can use elmers glue as has been mentioned and it wont damage anything.

Interesting. What scale are they in?

TV or DYRL? I like this squadron. Hope Yamato will release some in 1/60! That or I'll have to gve a thought to buy some on the next HLJ sale to customize.

Negative. As a USMC M1A1 tanker, I can tell u that all US Abrams have depleted uranium. In addition, almost all (if not all) of our tanks these days have the "Heavy Armor" upgrade, which increased the thickness of the mesh. IIRC, the mesh (with depleted uranium) was on the original M1, as well. FTR, the export versions of the Abrams tank don't get the depleted uranium or the chobam layout but get the space filled in with concrete. As far as reactive, we were using that with the M60s... which some Marine units still had in the '91 Gulf War. Meh, I didnt think Roy would be a wussie to need an armor package.

Best I can suggest is to go to the model section of the main site (not the forums) and look at the closeup of this YF-21 and eyeball it. Unless someone would be kind of enough to scan a Hasegawa instruction sheet or something...

1/60. How much detail do we need on these things? These should be relatively cheap since they don't transform or anything. That said, one or two in 1/48 (especially a Phalanx - though I prefer the MII Phalanx-II - with removable missiles, etc.) would be cool too. The "main" line should remain 1/60. No way we're gonna see a 1/48 Q-rau.

They're at least around for Target practice in Plus (the Monster that the YF-19 takes out in one shot at the least). As far as 7... there were the M7 Police things. lol All they ever do is unfold their arms and then get blown up.

I know, I'm just impatient and want it NOW. B)

Exactly. I prefer the more seriously oriented Macross like Plus but I thoroughly enjoyed 7, too. They are not corny singing valks for the simple sake of being corny singing valks. There is a rationale behind it that conforms to the specific characters involved with the needs of creating and maintaining (and indeed intent to expand into a more "normal" military-type unit ala Jamming Birds). It's internally consistent with the story. That said, I believe it was a middle finger to the too serious minded of Macross fans, too. That dorky stuff has been with us since the beginning (notably in the form of the Zentran spies and the Petite cola vending machine, etc), just not as pronounced.

Thought 1/72 was already confirmed? Because it will be around same size as 1/60 VF-1? I had been hoping for 1/60 (to stay in scale with VF-1 and the Q-rau) with an occassional "perfect grade" 1/48, but thought that 1/72 was pretty much old news. Obviously there will be VF-0S, VF-0D and hopefully an SV-51.

I like half or partial gerwalk myself.

Damn that pic makes me wish I hadn't been a... well kid and destroyed my matchbox. Where's Yamato with theirs (or Bandai with at least a re-issue??)?

Ok, I'll answer myself since I took the time now to browse the Compendium. Though lacking infamous Design Works and Gold Book (and the ability to read Japanese!) leaves me with more questions than answers with apparently contradictions between material. HMMP-02 IS apparently the FAST-pack missile pod. Whereas the Yamato stickers for 1/48 call it NP-BP-01. And the Compendium lists the strike cannon as "Mauler R0-X2A" (and the stickers have it has NP-BP-02). Maybe NP-BP-01 is the missile pods nomenclature while HMMP-02 applies to the micro-missiles? That would fit better with the UMM-7 micro-missiles being "HMM-01"... But would leave me completely stumped at R0-X2A.

Professional pride? Naaaaaah. Seriously, I snicker at the subs sometimes, but a slong as long as they get the point across who cares. The only time I'm a little irritated about it is when they are almost completely opposite to what was actually said... or when I hear something in Engrish but it's not in the sub at all. Then it's like "WTF? What's going on here??"

The Macross origins in Macross have always sounded... weird to me. Overpowered for its size compared to the Zentraedi ships. IOW, if the SA had small ships like that, what were their big ships like?? Of course, the Macross is protected by the plot, but that's not a good in-story reason. I know that the Zentraedi initially were going out of their way to capture instead of destroy but still... EDIT: And on topic, there WAS (or more appropriately was going to be) a continuity other than Studio Nue's, when they weren't doing Macross. It's possible the Alus could have sprang up from there. Me, I always like the idea that MII was an in-story fictional sequel to the retcon'ed in-story fictional movie "DYRL." Maybe something Basara, et al went to see after defeating the Protodevlin.

Yup. He had to die in the name of character development (for Hikaru).

< = s-video from PC to a big Sony 34" 16:9 HDTV. In fact, I'm using it as computer monitor as we speak... errr.... type. DSL with bittorrent helped with the d/l thing too. I still intend to buy (hopefully a good) bootleg set on DVD though once the series is complete (way too much money for such small content on dvd right now IMO). Well I'm hoping Bandai will lay the smack down on HG, but wouldn't mind if HG would play nice, kiss BW ass and become an undisputedly legit exporter of all things Macross, either. Seriously. Looks cool. Man, Shin seems to stink as bad as Hikaru. At least he hasn't been losing the arms (if not the whole valk), tho. heh.

Do the feet really open like that on takeoff when in fighter mode? I might have to leave some of my 1/48 feet telescoped out, then.

I don't think they would look good on a standard white/color stripe DYRL valk. Now on a cannon fodder they might look better... but I like low-viz for cannon fodder rather than brown anyways. Hopefully the Low-Viz isn't as limited as it's made out to be... or that there will be a different shade "mass production" low-viz later. I'd love it in 1/60, for example, as well as 1/48.

HMMP-02? Is that the missile pods for the FAST-pack boosters? I always thought those were NP-BP-01... what's the HMMP-02?

U might need to replay the game. I killed so many of these guys from heights (particularly Nar Shadaa) when i would simply Force Push them off the ledge or whatever. I used a fair amount of lightning, too. It's a Star Wars game that had Jedi in the title (not that many of those, try to list them!). I happen to like Star Wars for Jedi so this game was bliss and I have high expectations for Jedi Academy. Let's hope I'm not disapointed.

Haven't gotten Jedi Academy yet. Been busy. But Jedi Outcast rocks. I like the story of KotoR (on XBox) but the rpg based gameplay sucks IMO. I much prefer the Jedi Outcast/Academy engine. The story was pretty damned cool for Outcast. I thought multiplayer could be better implemented. Allow improved blaster skill, etc as an alternative to everyone having a lightsaber. "Mundane" melee weapons would be cool too. As far the lightsaber being too effective and regarding the Ep 2 Arena battle. Jedi can be killed by someone extraordinarily skilled (Jango vs dinosaur head) or by massed and/or concentrated fire. Which is how it is in the game. Plus the lightsaber was useless against the rocket launcher. They SHOULD use an upgraded/updated FPS engine instead of RPG crap and I'd pay for Galaxies (instead of using my friends occassionally)

It definately makes things sturdy. Still, you kind of wish such a thing could have been incorporated into the design of the valkyrie itself without being a seperate piece. Plus while the white piece might look nice on a DYRL-scheme valk, it sure sticks out on the low viz.