Dante74

BTW: No need to discuss the toy here, just answer the damn questions.

From reading the Official Bandai 1/60 Scale DX Toy Thread Ver.3 thread, it seems like you either love it or hate it. Good old Macross World, where there's no middle ground.

So, like the title says, are you a fanboy or a hater?

oh yeah, about the third poll option; The forum allows three questions and I didn't want to waste any so I guessed I might as well try and answer one of the more important questions in life while I'm at it.

heres what i got

Nice! I'm saving up for a 70-200 mm f2.8 IS myself.

Box art for the OD Tomahawk.

1/60 VF-1A Hikaru v2 allready on sale at HLJ.

link

Damn! That thing is looking sweeeet!

With the going excange rates, this thing is just ridiculously expensive.

I got a hangover.

Nice! I think it would've looked better if the white parts were the same color as the VF-0 bust that's just my opinion. Great idea!

Anyone else notice the little orange piece just in front of the canopy? Must be a part of the heatshield, maybe the entire heatshield isn't stored in the nosecone but part of it is.

My OD Tomahawk and Defender just shipped! HLJ even put them in ONE package. Never seen 'em do that before.

That's what I thought oo - Sukhoi Variable would make sense.

But then again so would Satan's Vicar.

Pete

LOL! Has a nice christmas theme to it too.

The X-1 did the exact same thing as this guy. It dropped from a plane, flew, ran out of fuel and landed. What's so different with this guy, the fact that the X-1 went up under its own power before going full speed?

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Anyone know what the Sv in Sv-51 stands for?

VF means Variable Fighter but what the heck does Sv mean?

Ummm.. there have been many, many, planes in the history of flight that launch using a detachable undercarriage that drops away once airborne. So you're first point is moot.

Again, those are planes with a fuselage to attach an undercarriage to, not a guy with wings and jets strapped to his back. Even if he was crazy enough to put on some rollerskates and try to gain enough speed for take off, he'd probably break his ankles before getting airborne. Which would make for a pretty painfull landing.

He stays airborne but, except for quick maneuvers, constantly drops. Every "sensational" article you read yells out "Man flies!!!" But articles that are a little more realistic will also describe how far he goes vs. how for he drops.

Also, the reason for the parachute is because he has no way to land. Like you said, he has no undercarriage, so he can't land on his feets, and if he cuts out the thrust he drops like a rock because his wings do not provide enough lift to glide. That is why he parachutes down. If he could carry enough fuel to keep going, he would eventually ht the ground no matter what because he is always descending.

Remember the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter? Once it lost thust, it dropped out of the sky like a brick because the wings did not provide enough lift to glide.

He lands using a parachute because he'd be going too fast for his legs to support the landing. He doesn't have an undercarriage remember?

With that in mind, I'm not implying that this guy doesn't have balls of steel, and what he does is truly awesome. It's just that what he does doesn't constitute as true flight.

Like Woody said, and Lord_Breetai reminded us, it's more like falling... with style.

So he fell across the English Channel, and he fell over the Alps?

No, it's not. His jets and wings do not provide him with enough lift to launch from thee ground, nor do they do enough to keep him airborne.

You think his legs would be able to keep up with the speed he'd be going to get airborne? If he would launch from the ground he would need an undercarriage which would mean he'd need a fuselage which would mean he'd be flying a plane. Without undercarriage, a normal jet can't get airborne either, only rockets can do that.

Now if the jets provided enough thrust to keep him up until they ran out of fuel, that would be different. But that is not the case here.

Yes it is. He stays airborne untill the jets run out of fuel at which point he parachutes down.

What's a Quadrono?

Do you mean a Q-Rau?

With "live action project", do you mean the live action Robotech project?

Are you Toby Maguire?

Oh. My. God. You're Toby Maguire aren't you? That's so kewl! Hi Toby, love you're work. You did an excellent job in the Lord of the Ring movies. No wait, that wasn't you was it? Loved your work in Sin City. Ah shoot, that was the other guy too wasn't it? Well anyway, good luck with the Robotech movie, hope it works out for ya!

Just kidding around Szpectre, welcome to MW. Can't help you with the Quadrono though, sorry.

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By Quadrono, do you mean this thing?

Real life has kept me away from MW for too long so, I hope I can use this thread to get up-to-speed on these. Is the super pack a limited release -- thought I read it in one of the other threads.

Yep, avaibale only from a couple of Japanese sites IIRC.

Would anyone care to translate?

Sexy! I might have to get two at the first release.

Nice catch on the weathered 1:60 Roy there!

*crashes into thread with a pitchfork* BUUURRRNNNN THE BLASPHEMER!!!!!111 one one...

*looks around confused, reads rest of thread* oops, sorry... looks like things have settled down.

Welcome to Macross World Astrobunny!

Awesome job Dobber! I want one, please Yamato, make one!

Rest assured the M3 is remaining Macross only, for better or worse.

Good, cause this just doesn't work for me.

I find it highly unlikely that we are doomed. If anything, we will simply begin on the path to the next step in evolution.

Asimov wrote a very moving short story once - Eyes, I think it was called? - in any event, it was about two people who, in the far future, had become immortal via a process by which humans transfered their brain waves into light beams which traversed the universe throughout infinity.

Two such beams met, and one of them said he feels terrible; so the other asks why, to which the first replies:

"Because long ago, I thought about something which made me sad, but then, because I have no eyes, I couldn't cry, so I have been carrying this sad thought in me forever and have no way to let it out."

Well.... who knows what the future holds? Maybe something like Skynet will destroy us all...

But from what I think I know about humans, they would sooner push the button than would a computer system...

Truly we are on the verge of a very very different world from the one I was born into. Wow.

Pete

You haven't seen The Terminator yet have you?

I read this thread before reading the article.

WTF this guy has three degrees, and is unemployed.

Cant help thinking he's a little sad, but with parents that threw out his creations when he was a kid you cant entirely blame him.

Got to hand it to him for dedication and spending 20k on Ccards while unemployed, that takes some effort.

He might have three degrees, but I don't hink he's very smart spending 20k by maxing out several credit cards. The CC companies will want to get their money+interest someday.

NOOOOOooooo!!!!111 *crumbles up into fetal position and cries himself to sleep*