justvinnie

Does this series get better cuz I'm up to 20 and quite frankly I've had it with the teenage angst. Renton's an idiot. I feel like I just want to smack him hard. He's a pretty dumb and emo 14 year old. There are no characters that I can relate to nor any character that you can respect as a person. Pretty bad for a series that is trying so hard to focus on character development. The Japanese must have this obsession with teenage angst. If only teenage angst can power the world, then at least it would be useful. vinnie

Not true. Shaving the back of the calf allowed for a better stance in Gerwalk mode for me. Sometimes its good sometimes its bad. Just need to figure out which one. And like I said, the arms are more flushed but at a compromise... vinnie

Don't do it. While it does allow for the arms to be ever so more flush, it also makes it loose. The arms now have a tendency to rotate in and out from each other such that the gun doesn't stay on. The tabs are there to provide counter resistance with the leg bar and keep the arms stable. Oh well, someone had to do it. Live and learn. It just shows the tight tolerances the 1/48 was designed with. vinnie

It's a space only capital ship killer. Fully loaded, it has a GIANT ass nuclear warhead where the gun would go on the bottom of fighter mode.

Well after I posted, I decided to try it out on a VF-1A Hik that I was taking apart anyways... It indeed does allow the arms to rest about 1.5 mm more flush to the body... It doesn't make too much of a difference but still noticeable... vinnie EDIT IN: If only the shoulders had more play in terms of how they angle out then it really would make a difference, but the leg bar is in the way. As it stands there's just a litle improvement...

Does anyone know what its for? It's seems like if you shave it away, you can get the arms to rest 1.5 mm more flush with the body. I'm talking about that little tab right above the screw that the arms swivel out on. Has anyone tried this? vinnie EDIT IN: While it may allow it to sit more flush, I'm thinking it might get in the way of the leg bar and also prevent proper alignment of the locks.

It just seems to be the easiest of all the non mainstream valks to make from a base VF-1. Anyone planning on one? vinnie

it's been over a year since your original post??? My god, the time has flown! It doesn't feel like a year at all. I remember reading your original post and thinking what a funky restroom... vinnie

the non-pt of the yammie 1/60 vf-1 has to do with a lot of factors. first and foremost, this was yammies first attempt at an orignal design. the 1/72 M+ valks were more or less studio halfeye's models in toy format. the vf-1 was designed from the ground up. it lacks the sophistication found in each suceeding generation of toys. secondly was the fan fetish with diecast. the 1/60 literally can be used as a dart to kill someone. its got the highest diecast content of any vf-1 toy out there which shows in its heft for its size. the die cast content posed a problem in terms of balace and transformation. yammie decided in favor of more diecast than trying to get pt, imo. note how newer valkyries no longer feature diecast except in mission critcal areas for reinforcement. this made balance and pt a lot easier. quite frankly i thought the die cast fetish was silly. colors never match and paint always scraped. thirdly, fans were anti swingbars. it ruins the sleek jet aesthetics of the vf-1. toynami was severely critcized for their use of the swingbar. while yammie innovated, toynami merely copied existing designs (mostly from the HCM). yammies vf-1 was way more aggressive and sleek looking than the toynami, due to better sculpt and no swing bars. imagine a big honkin' swing bar on the 1/60 and imagine how it would ruin the aesthetics. vinnie

Beautiful! Yamato surely has matured as a company. Their toys contiune to show an increasing level of sophistication from product to product. If they keep this up, they will be around for a long time. Kawamori is a genuis at designing variable fighters. Seeing it in toy form, you just have to realize how beautiful and yet functional is designs are. vinnie EDIT IN: Will this be a problem? Or just a case of mistransformation?

I want to read the script. Where are people finding it? While I like the designs, I hate the vehicle to character choices, and so far the story doesn't sound engaging. vinnie

Call me crazy, but I like how these TF look. I've always imagined that if TF really existed they have much more complicated transformations than the toys we have. And definitely no kibble that would get in the way of bot mode. A streamlined and fluid feel to their bot mode kind of the way organic creatures are. vinnie

If they are doing both cybertron and earth vehicles modes, that's pretty cool! Otherwise that really screws up the RID concept if Megs was flying around as an alien jet. Prime robot looks better IMO. vinnie

As you can see in the instructions from the link in my post above, the shoulder "ball" unfolds flatter and makes the jet more streamlined. vinnie Edit in: here's a picture of it

someone post the D"Stance pictures of the the YF-21 in all three modes. I believe the sides of the jet conceal the fact that they are the batrroid arms really well. vinnie EDIT IN: SO can we assume that Yamato's 1/60 YF-21 is heavily based on SHE's version? For the Shoulder transformation here is the link: D'Stance YF-21 Shoulder

Nice! This is much better than the art they have in the RT comics, IMO. I really don't know what the difference is since I'm no artist, but it seems more... real. Maybe its the proportions and perspectives. Should do a Macross comic series... vinnie

actually, if I was bioengineering a sterile race of giants, this would make some sense. Inherently we all start out as females at conception. Maleness doesn't develop until later on. So it is easier to make ALL hybrid children female than than it is to make them male. On top of that females can only bear one child (normally) at a time. So one female can only get impregnated by one male. The opposite is not true. One male can impregnate many females. By suppressing the child bearing ability of females, you have much more control over birth rates. That's why some methods of pest control targets only females. This is all moot since we know that male Zentraedi-human hybrids do exists (Guld). So there's a dysjunct in continuity somewhere. Unless SK wants it to be that the gender of whatever the Zentraedi parent is will be the gender of the hybrid offspring. vinnie

Cloned "meat" would look and taste nothing like real meat. It lwould ack the vascular substructure of real meat. Instead it is just composed of one type of cell clumped together... vinnie Given that humans and Zentradi are related closely enough to interbreed it is cannibalism. Besides I'm told that human flesh is more like pork than beef, so Hayo's steak couldn't have been Zentradi. Cloned beef grown in a vat (not even a whole cow just the muscle tissue) is my bet. 427692[/snapback]

I was going to say that... Being XY is no garantee you'll be male. It's all about hormone balance. That's why steroids can be a problem. It throws that natural balance off. Max's kids may in fact be XY females based on Zentraedi dominance of the X chromosome. They are also sterile. I have never heard of an XY female giving birth. Jamie Lee Curtis is a an XY female. vinnie

Wow, don't we have a double standard? MPC SS is too kibbly with parts of his jet hanging off of him, yet apparently Prime doesn't have enough truck pieces hanging off of him? Personally, I like the designs. They aren't blocky nor are they kibbly. It makes it seem much more believable that something like that could interact more fluidly with the real world. Same way I hate padding when I spar. Just gets in the way, so less kibble equlas better IMO. After all they ARE an advanced race of sentient robots. The issue I have is, does this transformation require magic? If it does then it defeats the point of robots that transform. But if they can pull of a feasible transformation, no matter how complex then kudos for getting a truck to turn into something that would actually be useful as battle robot.

I was curious , so I checked out the reviews. Reading them, you'd think this was the greatest thing ever and the next evolution of animation. Everwhere else people have said the animation is subpar, but these reviews claim the animation is better than Yukikaze and M0. I'll believe that when I see it. I don't have high expectations, so when I see this, there's no where to go but up. Unlike Superman, which was a total let down. vinnie

So when the Macross folded out to Pluto's orbital and found itself with almost 50,000 civilians, food would be a priority. We know that the Macross was about to launch so it is probably fully stocked. I'm going to presume that the Daedalus and Prometheus were both fully stocked since they are at dock. Is that still enough to support that large of a population for several months? Assuming that they decide to grow their own food right away since they obviously had available room (hydro or aeroponics whatnots), it would still take a few months till harvest. On top of that were the hell did Hayao get his beef steak? Surely there are no cows on board. If it was frozen as part of the food stock, man, it must have costed a fortune. So how did that steakhouse stay in business? Meat can't be grown like veggies. vinnie

422162[/snapback] LMAO! That's classic! HG (and affiliates) may not be able to infuse substance into their products (as of yet), but they sure now how to put a great PR spin on things. vinnie EDIT IN: More importantly, I want to know how you have enough time to browse the RT.com forums to know this???

However Ep3 has much more pop culture significance than some dying 20 year old hack job of a show that most people don't give a damn. vinnie

oh come on, you know you're all going to watch it, even if it is just to laugh at the idiots making, well bigger idiots of themselves. But you know what? I wouldn't do this for immortality. Give me a cool couple of millions, and I'll do JUST about anything on TV cause in the end who's laughing all the way to the bank? The promo picture reminds of Mystery Men. vinnie PS: Incidentally, I won't watch this since I have no TV and therefore never watch any TV any ways.