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Funny that's what people "in the know" said after Korea, then we got our asses handed to us by a bunch of low-tech peasents over Vietnam. Angel: The A-6 was "replaced" by the F/A-18 They might have been low-tech, but we were equally low. I still believe the Mig-15 was superior to the F-86. Hell, MiG's are still superior, but who can afford them? Not even Russia can. A few countries still have MiG-29's but can't afford to maintain them or the or buy the fuel to keep them in the air.

The world is a very different place now. Back then US and the USSR were neck and neck. Communists were dogging us at every turn. Now, there are very few countries who can muster any sort of air based defense against an aerial assault from US forces and more often than not, they are our allies. Nowadays, pilots are mainly afraid of SAM's as they are much cheaper than maintaining an air force. Dog-fighting has gone the way of the do-do, and thus an internal cannon (to a high-altitude fighter) is pretty much the thing of the past. The hoo-haa over stealth is IMO very smart. I'm not sure of the cost of a SAM vs. the cost of an airplane but I'm sure you can buy a whole lot of missiles for the price of one MiG-29. Okay, based on this webpage a single sparrow costs $170,000. An F-35 which is moderately cheap, costs $40,000,000. Now say I bought $40,000,000 worth of sparrows inside of a single F-35. With the price of one airplane, I could potentially shoot down 235. Hell, throw in another $40 million and I could take out the entire United States air force. Stealth works. Why do you think an F-117 is so good at what it does? If you still think aerial encounters at close range still take place, you've been watching too much Macross.

Hmm, but if you look at the MW section on toys, and all the other pictures everywhere, the prototype is almost 99% the finished toy. Don't expect the finished product to look that much different. Now that I look at it, if they're going with part swap, they should make a bigger head too. *editedit: Too Yamato's credit, that's a much nicer shade of blue than they have shown previously for Max's 1J.

Battroid on the VF0 is sweet. Plane is mad fugly. Something about the nose area looks squashed. Maybe they forgot to swap the correct nose back into place. The SV-51 however, is looking as beautiful as usual. Bonus points for Hasegawa, minus points for Yamato.

tsuzuite: 704: Most likely, the 1/48 was a bigger hit than they had imagined, so they decided to postpone the release of the 19. 705: They're going to look at the 1/48 armored after the sales of the 1/60. I forgot to ask about the 19FP. They talk about it so much at MW, I'm sure it's still planned. 706: I was at WF, and I asked one of the Yamato guys, "You're going to release a Max Q-rau now, right?" I got some crazy reply like, "With Yamato you never know. Yamato loves their money." I had hoped to see the 1/60 armored, but they didn't have it there. I totally forgot to ask about the 19FP and the Monster, too. 708 Yamato loves their money = If Millia sells, there will be different color versions. They did the same with the 1/48. To tell you the truth, I always thought it was bizarre that Yamato would be releasing Q-rau's, but I'd still rather have M&M Q-rau's than M&M 1J's. 714: That's wrong. Yamato had planned from the start to release different variants of the 1/48, regardless of how they sold. 709: Clip from the newsletter: Q: When will the 1/60 Armored Valkyrie go on sale? A: Around May. 713: May!? What happened to February!? For once, why can't they announce a release date that they can actually hold to!? 718: >Q: When will the 1/60 Armored Valkyrie go on sale? >A: Around May. That kind of answer pisses me off. Yamato is trying to make us look like idiots.

694: I went to Wonderfestival and asked one of the Yamato staffers there. Q: Do you have any plans to sell a Green Q-Rau? A: No Q: When are you selling the Armored VF-1 1/48 A: We have no such plans Q: Will you be selling the M&M set without armor? A: No, they will be sold with armor. I've always asked them when I've gone to previous events and it seemed they always intended to release an armored 1/48, but I'm not so sure now. Would be a waste for them not to release different color versions of the Q-rau as well. This time though, I talked to someone different. I received a real business-like reponse because everytime I asked him about things that haven't been announced, the only answer I received was, "We have no such plans." crap, I forgot to tell them to update their damn webpage. 695: Screw Yamato 696: ASK THEM ABOUT THE YF-19! 697: I've talked to some people inside Yamato. Apparently they have plans to create a larger VF-0, but they're trying to add a scaled Tomahawk to their lineup, so they decided to go with the smaller part-swapping version. I also aired my personal grievances about them releasing decals for the 1/48 and they told me that it's something they will consider, but not anytime soon. If it wasn't possible, the least they could do was let us know on their website. 698: They're probably not going to release the YF-19FP. If they wanted to, they'd have done so by now.

I'd prefer to just blow him up while he transforms. Um... that's considered in the universal code of space warfare as time-outties. No fair blowing up while transforming or combining. ADDED: combining Well, if he's going to give me the bird, I get to throw my little jabs in there too.

I think the GI's would have more fun with a bunch of Xbox's and Halo.

I'd prefer to just blow him up while he transforms.

Now the question is, does any of this really make any difference in space?

2/28 - Q-rau Millia Type 2/28 - Ghost in the Shell Collection Figures May - 1/60 Armored Valkyrie

When we were blaring Billy Ray Cyrus at David Koresh, we were actually assaulting them with Spritia~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!

Any reason why there's Macross 7 on the front page, or is it just a "nice change" ?

Bu-b-b-but you're a girl! Stand aside ma'am. Leave the fan service to the professionals! Really though, the guys wouldn't look half so femme if they had better fashion sense. I dunno what's going on with those mid-riff jackets they've got going on nowadays.

Because female looking male characters are cool. Ahh, if only I had the willpower to scratch my own eyes out! ! !

Cloud used to look cool with that big head, small body and that stupidly huge sword. Now he just looks kinda stupid......................................................................... What's up with Square making all their male characters look so amazingly femme-tastic nowadays?

Where'd this thread come from?

That VF-0 is beautiful! Except for the decals... what's goin on there?

Hahah, was down in Kuftal tonight. I got owned by a wyvern. We're fighting crabs in this big hall, and all of a sudden this huge wyvern comes up behind me and knocks me dead in two hits. Mages all went down in one hit. Paladin threw up invincible, but after it wore off he was torn to pieces. Here's a pic from very far away. After the first encounter, we made sure not to go near the middle of the room again.

I really liked Voyager and and DS9 right before they ended. The shows were only semi-decent during most of their lives, but when they started introducing the borg more often into Voyager and the Dominion into DS9, I couldn't pull myself away.

Just my 2cents, but I think something with one large overall wrap around image (like the existing case) would be nicer than something with 4 different images on every side. The proposed images seem far too busy for my tastes.

Lift the pillow then click under the pillow's shadow.

I'd say the opposite. The movie version removed so many parts to fit the time that it seemed disjointed and didn't flow as well as the OVA did.

Did you know, when selecting your equipment, there's an underwear slot

I'd take that big booby bikergang chick.