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Okay, werd up to paintbrush. The square piece that closes around the ball joint simply slides into the leg. The screw keeps the two halves together squeezing tightly on the joint.

This is quite easy to fix, although the problem will continue to rear its ugly head. Just remove the legs from the swingbar. Takes a bit of force, but they are not screwed on. (However, if you break it, don't blame me!) What you'll have is 2 halves of retangular plastic that encase the ball joint at the end of the swingbar. Get a screw driver and remove the screw and make extra sure the screw driver is a good fit. You don't want to end up mutlilating the screw head. Once you seperate the two pieces, you can reposition the little black rubber cap, then screw everything back together and slide the leg back on. Does anyone have pictures that could illustrate it a little clearer? If it has to come to that, I'd like to know as much as possible before taking apart a $130 toy... Also, if the black seal does fall out, what does that mean for my Valk's leg? Sorry, no pictures. But the Ball join is encased within two halves of a rectangular plastic "join" which is held to the leg with nothing else but friction. Constant and repeated removal will most like make it loose, but 1 time shouldn't hurt unless you end up breaking it.

Its cel animated alright.... its probably because that scene would be way too hard to animate in CG and still get it to look good. They did that before a couple times in the first 2 episodes. Most notably when Shin was firing at Nora using that crashed VF-0 and she flys down and kicks his arm off. Almost that entire sequence, including the walking gerwalk scene all the way to where Roy jumps in and saves his ass was all cel animation. Makes me just think about what could have been...

Out already and I'm stuck at work!! I should have taken the friday off!

This is quite easy to fix, although the problem will continue to rear its ugly head. Just remove the legs from the swingbar. Takes a bit of force, but they are not screwed on. (However, if you break it, don't blame me!) What you'll have is 2 halves of retangular plastic that encase the ball joint at the end of the swingbar. Get a screw driver and remove the screw and make extra sure the screw driver is a good fit. You don't want to end up mutlilating the screw head. Once you seperate the two pieces, you can reposition the little black rubber cap, then screw everything back together and slide the leg back on.

Yeah , but at the end we´re getting 1 episode more than Plus , with better animation (than plus AND current series). Of course I would love 15 mins more per episode , but with the current quality of the episodes I´m certainly satysfied. Let's not try to compare with other things. 6 months between releases is just slow. I don't expect one OVA week after week, because I know that the standards are higher than that of a regular TV show. However, that still doesn't make 6 months go any faster.

Yay! I think we all finally see eye to eye!

The animation isn't crummy per se, but having only 30 minutes of it certainly is.

Okay... http://members.tripod.com/~aajjaa/mrsparkl...parklefiles.htm That didn't help! hahaha I'll guess it was supposed to be "PAWAA KURIIIN!" and they just messed it up

Try snagging an audio clip

Most likely just a fancier audio format perhaps? A lot of times, I play something and it doesn't have any audio. Then when I check the audio track, it's in a higher khz rating than the standard divx, xvid files. That's when I know i have to install AC3.

Nice to know I'm not alone here )

Haehaeha, I love it!~

There's already thread to vent your feelings in the Other anime and Sci Fi section.

Why would he hope Yamato doesn't make them if they're the ones he really wants? I think I get the fact that EXO wants model quality or nothing for the VE/VT, but I'm not sure I understand why he'd have anything to do with the line as a whole if that were the case. Nonon, he doesn't want Yamato to pull a Bandai and make them in tiny little production runs. He wants lots and lots so he's guaranteed to get his.

The compendium doesn't ever mention a G variant of the VF-11, but i suppose if there was one, it wouldn't be very different than the others. http://www.anime.net/macross/mecha/united_...vf11/index.html Look for the section labeled armament.

I haven't seen M7, so I can't really comment, but guitars for control sticks sounds pretty stupid to me. Valkyries with human features in the face don't bother me too much, but it is contrary to the norm where Macross is concerned. What exactly do you consider "wrong reasons" for disliking M7? I'm refering directly to the "Faces" comment. That's why I quoted it. It was the whole reason for my posting. I thought I had been pretty clear, but I guess I was not. For that, I must apologize. Heh, so far the only show I'll let have faces on robots is transformers because they were actually closer to people except made out of metal. I'd love to hear a good explanation as to why a VF needs a face on it.

Maybe I'm being thick here, but when you say "these are probably the only ones..." are you referring to Max/Miria? And is the "build it" thing due to your distaste for funky heads and "the VT-1 shouldn't transform" mindset? I think he meands the 1D, the VT and the VE. I'd love to have a VT. I didn't buy the 1/60 version, not because I was holding out for a 1/48 but because I thought it looked like ***. If they 1/48 it up, I'll be there.

My curiosity is piqued. Care to share (or is it addressed already in the forums somewhere?). Addressed in the spare parts thread a month back or so. Just wondering, but that's an awfully cheap price. Looks like they're only giving away the clear parts and not the entire FP.

I'm reminded of the Yao Ming, Mini-me powerbook commercial

I'm agreeing with you here. Go back to my post and read a little more carefully. Hehe, huh? Okay. We should go and outfit our military aircraft with guitars instead of joystick and throttle. G major hits the afterburners and E minor drops the bomb. Because there's absolutely no point to having mounts and noses on a robot. At least with the VF-1's you can argue that it has different sensor arrays and laser arrangements. With M7, it jus t becomes a circus. Well, anime is first and foremost something we watch. If it looks and feels like absolute crap, then really, what point is there to watching it? Apparently, you're a little TOO diehard-m7 for me, so there's really no point in arguing my point any further when we'll probably never see eye to eye over the issue.

Well, I for one perfectly understand what I'm asking for. I'm mainly in it for consistency. I don't ask that Yamato make anything larger than a VF. I'm not screaming for them to make the Monster or Q-rau in 1/48 because I understand that those would just be incredibly stupidly large. Say for example, I bought a 1/72 F-14 model. It's cool. It's nice. It's detailed. Spanky. Then, I go out, and just to get them the same size, I go buy a 1/48 Me-109. It's cool. It's nice. It's detailed. It's also horribly out of proportion with the F-14. So I buy a 1/48 F-14 model instead. While it's larger, the F-14 is by no means unmanagable. I don't know how many of you have handled 1/48 F-14 models, but I personally don't find them to be so large. 1/32 however is another matter, and I won't go there. I also hope you realize that most of us know that a 1/48 will not necessarily have more detail than the 1/60, although the fact remains that the larger size allows you to do different things. Just think how small those little pegs in the 1/48's nose would be if the same transformation was applied to a 1/60. Larger size doesn't have to mean better detail. Larger size can also mean more overall accuracy and aesthetics in all 3-modes. You keep telling us about detail, and I think we get the picture already. Your 1/32 arguement is interesting, but doesn't quite work. It's like the law of diminishing returns. The more you make of something, the less you get out of it. Likewise, the bigger and more expensive the toy, the less people are going to buy it. This logic holds true for the 1/48, but the 1/48 line was meant to be for the high-spending collectors in the first place and thus Yamato made limited product runs (I don't care what Monkey Nugget claims he saw in Japan). It surged in popularity due to the somewhat lackadaisical construction of the 1/60 and thus we've seen Yamato decide to go for a second run. It's as if they've found their Valkyrie "sweet-spot." High spending collectors shell out thousands to buy them, and the toys are cheap enough so that even casual purchasers such as myself have been suckered into buying half a dozen or so. So yes, 1/32 would have been ridiculous. 1/48 found a nice happy median which increased their profits far more than a simple "limited edition" toy could ever have.

Planned February release.

Amen, amen! 100% exactly my thoughts on the subject. No doubt. Plus, if they use a different attachment process, like a snap-around and slip-on pieces rather than the fasten-to type, you can GBP any VF all the way back to the TRU.

I can buy into the whole converting sound energy into a weapon bit and the spiritia stuff. That part's not too far fetched. But a peace-loving valkyrie ace? Planes piloted by guitar? Faces on battroids?! BOOBIES ON PINK VF'S?!! I know you love, 7, as I can tell from your avatar and your sig, but come on... 7 may have had its serious moments, but overall, it was far too much.