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? The stands that work with all the current 1/60's are still plenty available: http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT34696 http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT34698 http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT34700 Every toy released since they stopped making the old launch arm has come with adapters for these stands.

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The show was animated in the 80's on a shoestring budget, Just because they didn't show the engine nozzles moving doesn't mean they don't. all it means is that they had a low animation budget and they didn't bother animating all the control surfaces moving correctly. Anyways, notice how the nozzles move before takeoff. also the Nozzles are shown being used for maneuvering in Mac+, Mac0 and I think MacF; subsequent shows with better quality animation than the original series. Of course, when it comes to keeping the plane stable during level flight, it's really not worth animating anyways. On a modern plane, the control surfaces are constantly making adjustments of maybe 1 degree at a time in order to keep the plane stable, it would be a pain in the ass to animate this, and it's not like anyone would notice anyways.

Remember how in Robotech Kamjin was a "Protoculture addict" instead of an alcoholic. well, when they kissed, Dolza thought that they were high on protoculture and it had made them all horny. see, it all makes sense now, doesn't it.

because the VF-25 was introduced over 50 years after the VF-1. it's along the lines of comparing an F-86 to an F-22 (Although considering the rate of technological development appears to be much faster in Macross than in the real world it's probably more like comparing an F-22 to a Sopwith Camel) why would you design the top of the line variable fighter with less power than it's predecessors? The point of making new generations of fighters is to improve over the previous generation. and I don't see the VF-25 as being primarily a space fighter. Sure it's used mostly in space during the show but just going by the design's appearance it's much more of an atmospheric fighter (The naked VF-25 is easily one of the cleanest design aerodynamically of all the Valks) that can be optimized for space via adding extra bits. And with those extra bit's you take care of the Fuel issue (conformal fuel tanks etc.), and in space Variable fighters tend to use the majority of there available power for only short periods of time relatively close to the carriers they deploy from. probably not. Every valk after the VF-1 has been larger, so first they'd need new engines from the ground up that can actually fit in the VF-1's tiny legs. But you couldn't just slap super powerful engines into a 50 year old design, the airframe probably wouldn't be able to handle that kind of thrust and would break up during acceleration. you'd need to redesign the airframe from the ground up to handle the power. then you'd need to upgrade the all the avionics and cockpit system so that the pilot could effectively pilot the plane. they could probably build a plane that looks like a VF-1 that has near VF-25 performance, but why would they want to? for all the effort they'd have to go through they'd be better off just designing a new plane from the ground up. (as an aside, in the VF-X video game they had an upgraded VF-1X, and it had a T-W ratio of 3.14)

somehow I don't see this happening so soon if at all. I think a good indication of what they're going to do in the future is what the do with the VF-27. a VF-27 would require about as much new development to make as a redesigned VF-25 would, If we don't see a VF-27 out, we're not going to see a completely redesigned VF-25. If the VF-27 does come out and it's as meh as the current VF-25's then I doubt they'll go back and release an all new improved VF-25. now if the VF-27 comes out and it's a major improvement over the existing DX's then I would not be surprised if the make an improved VF-25. so lets hope for a VF-27 DX.

well right when the kissed, he realized that he had left his oven on and that when he got home his protoculture bill was going to be HUGE.

I get most of them, but what's with cowgirl Sheryl and the fish?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGo041te08 (at 3:55)

Well first at maximum speed the pilot would still be experiencing 1G in the cockpit. you only experience G's when you accelerate remember. Now if were talking strait line acceleration... well, the VF-1 has a T-W ratio of 2.49 with standard takeoff weight, the space shuttle at take off has a T-W ratio of 3.39. It would need a ridiculously high T-W ratio before you have to worry about fatal G-loads during strait line acceleration (i.e. the VF-25 with it's 39.09 T-W ratio) And if we're talking about G-loads during a turn, modern aircraft are already capable of executing maneuvers that exceed the G-loads that the average person can handle. A variable fighter would do the same thing modern fighters do, have the flight computer prevent the plane from performing any maneuvers that would kill the pilot.

CANNOT UNSEE

So, how's the build quality on the garland army color? (broken shoulders, floppiness, etc...) HLJ has it for about $70, and I want the fixed pose Yui figure.

I've always believed that the reason VF-1 has such a high (by real world standards) T-W ratio in the first place is to counteract all the parasitic drag.

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ok, what do I win?

well, no accounting for taste then.

I was planing to make a thread about this after I had a chance to see it. I'll try to catch it Wednesday evening, although I may have to wait till Thursday or Friday. it's going to be awesome though

OH MY GOD... CANNOT UNSEE!

I hate Tarantino so f*cking much, I hope he gets choked to death by a Taiwanese transvestite hooker.

regarding the arms: there are circular panel lines on the sides of the arms that aren't there on the VF-1's and as for the heat shield, that's how ti's supposed to be. If you don't like it take it up with SK himself.

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this is the worst f*cking thread ever....

it's a 1/60 v.1, nobody likes them anyways.