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technically that's not the real VF-7 though (although it could fit as the VF-7 or maybe the VF-5 considering it's shape) none of the Advanced Valkyrie designs are cannon, there all from a non macross project SK did for a canned bandai model line. the only ones that would become official designs are the VF-3000 and VF-X-11 (after being renamed VF-9) which were used in the macross M3 video game. the VF-X-7 would totaly work as one of the as-yet unseen early valks, to bad it's not official. :edit: on an odd note, SK seems oddly partial to the design of the VF-9. after first conceiving of it in 1985 as part of the advanced Valkyrie series, he then resurrected it 5 years later as part of his Air cavalry chronicles series, and 11 years after that failed he brought the cutlass back again in Macross M3.

oh shi-?!?! I haven't turned my xbox on in almost a week, so I didn't even know there was an update.

dude, you're in the Bay area? I never noticed. if they do have copies let me know (like I said, I'm not going all the way down there if I don't know they have it) looks like this by the way http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/3513735

22nd's a weekend right? I had no idea people were thinking about doing something in the bay area.

:facepalm: we just went through this 2 hours ago. book's still in print, NO SCANS FOR YOU! go get you're own.

this is my impression of things based off everything we know so far: the after the end of project super nova, the VF-19 was accepted as the primary front line valk for spacy. and for the main spacy fleets (like the one in orbit around earth during mac+) the VF-19 is the primary valk that has replaced all VF-11's. the VF-22 is the new Special ops valk and has replaced the VF-17 in all the same fleets that the VF-19 replaced the VF-11. so what about the VF-171? well based on Frontier, we can surmise that Colony fleets (and possibly outlying colony worlds) operate with a fair amount of autonomy from NUN central command back on earth. as such, colonies choose which valks they want to use based on what there needs are. some fleets may have chosen to upgrade to the VF-19, others may still be soldiering on with the VF-11, and on Frontier uses the which is a VF-17 streamlined for mas production and general use. now the VF-25 and VF-27 both originate from the YF-24, the YF-24 is either an improvment over or a cheaper alternative to the VF-19. it hasn't been stated whether the YF-24 was adopted by the NUNS is it's main fighter, but the design was picked up by several colonies and improved upon. in the case of Frontier, they developed it into the VF-25 which they were going to use as a replacement to the VF-171 after SMS finished field testing it. and on galaxy they took the design and adapted it to there needs. so as to which is more advanced/powerful/versatile: in theory, the VF-25 is the best all around. it's performance is superior to the VF-19/-22, and because of multiple variants and the super/armor parts it's more versatile. as for most powerful/advanced valk, the VF-27 is top. the VF-27 can outperform even the super VF-25, it's got a miniature quantum beam gun, and it can interface with the pilots brain. the VF-27 is really only good as a heavy strike valk though, so it's not as versatile.

amazon Japan hates me, I don't know why but I have the worst time using that site. I'm giving HMV a try though.

oh damn, thread got bumped. I'm actually still working on this, I've been doing a number of sketches for some cool new stuff, but I haven't had time to scan them yet or write up any stats. give me a few hours...

oh damn, it's made it to 4chan... (I'm worried about the context)

that's arcee? what the F**k? what happend this being arcee? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcee#2007_Transformers_film

oh I would love to except I'm a broke, American college student who can't exactly run down to the local book store to check these out (I'd rather not spend 2 hours and 10 dollars on bart just to find out if the nearest Japanese bookstore actually has it, which the probably don't) and I'm not having any luck finding this (or Macross ace or macross Chronicles) online so my ability to afford buying these and the internal conflict between "supporting the cause" and eating is kind of a moot point. So can you at least throw me a bone and link me an English website that sells this (and Macross ace and Macross Chronicles) so I can go ahead and spend what little money I do have on magazines I can't read.

in official continuity, the united nations government and the UN spacy were reorganized into the New UN and NUNS either right after the end of SWI (and the fact it's still called UNS is an error in subsequent material) or in about 2051 right after VF-X2. in Macross II, which is in the 2090's, the UNS still exists, and the NUNS is a military news network. so the whole nuns thing in MacII is actually proof against MacII being cannon. and it's presence in a macross ace (a magazine full of Non-cannon stories) does not make it part of official cannon. it will only be official cannon when SK/Studio Nue says it is, and they aren't going to do it. it is still NOT cannon, and it never will be.

damn that's awesome. the SDF-1 really lends itself to legos.

the macrossy explanation would be that there some kind of fancy sensor or ECM antenna or something. but I'd like to think there just fancy shaped Formation lights

wow... I'm so glad I never new that

any way you could scan that page?

yeah, although when you put it that way, it is cool when you've got a 1/4 scale figure to loom over you're little 1/8-scale figs. I guess it would be cool to have one 24 inch (or maybe 25 inch ) Macross toy, just to dwarf everything else you own.

you mean 1 ghost per set? yeah, I forgot about that. the model gives you 3 ghosts, the Ghost set gives you one ghost and some missiles that presumably attach to the valk even though the wings have no hard points. the ghost isn't listed because it hasn't been released yet. the ghost and the Galia IV sets (the speakers and fold booster used by michel as well as a little ranka figure) were announced around the same time the first RVF-25/-25G prototypes were shown. so far we haven't even seen the actual parts, just CG renderings. pics and info are in this thread around page 63~64

a 1/35 battle frontier is going to be just under 140 feet. I like large scale, but not that large. I think everything should be around 14 inches. 14 inches is a good size for a high end collectors toy, big enough to have lots of detail while still being sturdy, but small enough that you can still play with them a little. so a 1/4000 scale battle Frontier, a 1/1200 Macross quarter, and 1/48 for VF's

did somebody say scantly clad girls? well at the time I testing out her cast-off-ability

maybe the sets will come with templates and a little hand drill, and you have to drill holes for the missiles and speakers to mount on yourself the model kit comes with 3 ghost and no armor or stand, the DX comes with armor and a stand but no ghosts. Bandai has a set of 3 ghosts as limited exclusives on there tamashii wep shop.

so was it devastator as in all of them together, or is it just one of them and that plus 6 more = devastator. (god that would be massive)

yes.

it's just your imagination. there was no retcon, Macross II isn't going to be made cannon, there is no conspiracy

thats kind of my point. it's totally plausable that you could fit that many people inside the SDF-1, I see nothing wrong with having the ship be 1.2 kilometers, and I don't think having 58,000 civilians and 20,000 military personnel is at all unreasonable. What I mean is that it is completely improbable that the city could be constructed the way it is depicted and still be able to support that many people in the ship. If they were to depict the civilian sections realistically there would be no outdoor stadium, no roads, no parks, it would be more like life on an ocean liner: small apartments and public areas that optimize space. you probably could get away with a small concert hall if you built it more like that, but then you wouldn't have room for mechs to be flying around blowing crap up inside the ship. there's just no way to have the city be that sprawling in the SDF-1. you could most likely get away with such a layout on the SDF-2