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these two are by far the best, I think the Koning monster (how do I get the farting dots over the U) looks a bit better and more accurate, but it does help that the VA-6B is an inherently boxy design, (and the uniform Grey color looks cool)

I liked the robotech credit role. (I don't care what anyone says the opening BGM was better)

It's just SVD, or Dragunov sniper rife. not "SVD Dragunov" the D in SVD stands for Dragunova so your basically saying "Sniper Rifle Dragunov Dragunov" ok, I'm done being anal now.

OMG, ME WANT O.O

I'll just have to keep an eye out for when it pops up then. (macross take precedence over queen's blade)

which engine are you talking about by the way? the 1mm micro rotary engine there working on at Berkley, or the one that's a cube with a spiral channel cut into it that acts as a combustion chamber? (name of that one escapes me completely)

NO!!!! missed Sheryl again... now I'm going to be checking overdrive every 5 minutes until it comes back (if it comes back.... ) at least I got klan. by the way, does anyone know if/how you can cancel an order for an in stock item from HLJ? I just put in the order today so it's not even in their system yet... crap I'm going to be so broke... (if anyone's willing to part with a Sheryl figure, I'd gladly pay you for it)

something odd I noticed. the little blisters on the top of the 25F's head (in the black painted section) appear to be hinged for some reason. I have no idea why. anyone care to venture a guess?

Really, That's what you got from the pic? couse to me it looks like they could have made the landing gear at least 50% longer and doubled the diamitar of the tire if they just had the gear rotate and then fold (like on the 1/60 YF-21) and that without changing the leg at all. had they made the extending portion of the leg a little shorter, there would have been even more room, and you wouldn't have the stupid Urkel look. way to be lazy bandai ugh. I'm feeling nauseated just looking at these...

I get a little satisfaction out of beating him to the link.

that's kind of what I was trying to say.

it should go here: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=27475 now, IBTL

nitpicking, loudmouthed freaks only when it comes to toys.

in after IBTL.

...and the VF-0 was an older aircraft. more modern valks have stronger airframes and presumably can handle transformation at higher speeds and during more intense maneuvers..

when was it ever stated that the VF-25 is supposed to be a cheaper anything? I seem to recall somewhere in the first few episodes Roy Ozma mentions that the VF-25 is very expensive to produce. now the YF-24 is supposed to be a cheaper mass production alternative to the VF-19 family, the VF-25 however, is a ultra high performance derivative of it. also, here's a thought. maybe the valks have such high G ratings for transformation rather than actual maneuvering in one mode. if were comparing to real world planes, some modern planes (such as the F-22) can handle/generate more G's than the pilot can handle even with G-suits so the planes performance is electronically limited. the same is probably the case for Valks, the aircraft's computer limits the maneuverability to what the pilot can take. and if the VF-25 has better G-compensation for the pilot, the VF-25 will have better handling. but back to the G-rating. just because a plane has a higher maximum G rating doesn't mean it's going to be more maneuverable since for even the tightest turns at most speeds it's not going to be coming close to it's maximum G rating. the G rating is a measure of how strong the airframe is, the plane may not be able to turn fast enough to reach that G loading and it's just overbuilt. and as for what I said about the high G rating being for transformation. it could be that they rate the planes so high because sections of the valk are probably under enormous amounts of stress during transformation. (I would imagine having half the aircraft fold over itself while traveling at Mach 2 would put a lot of stress on certain parts)

well this is new to me. where did this come from?

yeah, they all come with the HDMI ports. but only the elite comes with the cables to use it. (though HDMI cables are only about 10~15 bucks). as for the NXE... I'm really liking it so far. the new layout is a little easier to navigate, though I'm still getting used to where they put everything. I really love the avatar function, though I was a little bummed about the limited selection of stuff. but they say new stuff will be forthcoming, so heres hoping. when I first made my avatar I tried to make it look like me: but I decided I'd rather look at something that doesn't look like me so I made this one: I think the avatar function's my new favorite time-waster. ANYWAYS... I've got high hopes for the new interface, the premium themes look cool, though a bit expensive. hopefully they'll be coming out with new stuff to go along with the NXE soon. I I've been playing mostly AC6 lately (though I'm getting world at war tomorrow) haven't had a chance to try out downloading games to my hard drive yet (I've got an Elite so I've got plenty of room). how do you do that and is it worth doing?

OH... MY... GOD.... *faints* I'm so happy right now, I need dates and prices on when I can get those figures... NOW! :edit: by the way, I think at the listed sizes, they're closer to 1/7~1/6 scale. (which is even better)

it's perfectly accurate when compared to the anime. beyond that, you be the judge.

oh, now I get what you were saying. I thought you meant that you needed a magnetic field to propel the plasma out the engine. also I'm still not convinced that the wing fuel tanks are connected to the main engines. it would be very impractical (almost impossible) to rout sufficient amounts of fuel from the wings to the engines in both figther and Batroid mode. in fighter mode only, maybe, but then that means that the mode with the smallest available fuel volume is also the mode that consumes the most fuel. I would think the wing tanks supply fuel for the vernier thrusters on the main body, and the leg tanks provide fuel for the engines. (at least on the VF-1)

whether the engines were emitting superheated plasma, superheated air, or conventional jet exhaust the person is still going to be instantly fried at that distance.

even using something as light and (potentially) highly compressible as hydrogen, I would have questions about fuel capacity. I'm not sure if we have any real way of determining what kind of efficiency you could get out of said engine, but it would need to be incredibly high to provide the kind of endurance valks are shown to exhibit. (realistically, all the valks fuel would have to be stored in the legs. the routing to get fuel from anywhere else would be almost impossible) I'm going to suggest that anti-mater production is much more cost effective thanks to protoculture tech. the anti-mater would provide for more efficient fusion (less initial energy consumption). also is a magnetic field really necessary? I would think that plasma forming in the enigne itself would be under enough pressure that you could more a less just vent it for thrust.

good question, well in the real world we've come up with two way's of powering vehicles with nuclear/thermonuclear energy. the first is the nuclear jet engine, which uses a reactor to superheat air in and replace the combustion component of a convnetional engine, and the alternate option is nuclear pulse propulsion where you detonate a nuclear weapon behind the vehicle and then the vehicle rides the pulse. clearly the TRT does not use either of these methods. the TRT, based on the name uses some form of fusion, possibly using fusion initiated by antimatter. beyond that I have no idea.