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but this is robotech were talking about. the whole series is non-canon CRAP. it might have a chance to be better than it's source material at least. also sometimes fanfics can be good, it's just rare. :edit: having viewed some of the teaser material though, I think it's going to fail heavily

I think it was both. he really was funny, in an annoying kind of way.

hmm... I forget who it was then. (I remember him though, he was still here when I came on)

ok, time for another dump of personal favorite finds. some Sheryl/Ranka's: this one's really pretty... my current wallpaper... there is so much win in this picture... sheryl pics, (the last two are gorgeous) more TG alto pics (is it bad that I find these so entertaining? ) super pretty ranka (have I posted this one before?) YAY HARUKA! (I've never played IM@S, but she make for one bitchin' plane in AC6 ) I feel so sick posting this... but I'm going to anyways. OMFG lelouch!!! and finally... (this one DOES have something to do with macross, I promise, you just have to look for it. also it's just plane awesome)

you know what would be the coolest thing ever? if when the 1/60 monster comes out, the guns on the back were actual guns that could shoot real bullets. at that size they're about .22 caliber. that would be so cool showing up at the local range with a freakin' monster. [warning:the fallowing is a bad attempt at humor, weaponizing your toys is highly dangerous and probably illegal in you're area]

wasn't that agent one? he still posts from time to time, so he's not banned any more. and he still hasn't shown us his massive warehouse of valks.

first of all I put a lot of though into what I spend my money on, hence why I've only got a couple of valks. second I said both bandai and Yamato, and I bring it up here because were talking about the bandai/toynami deal HERE. it's been discused many times in the past whether yamato should make a deal with HG/Toynami. and doing so would more than likely result in Valks being sold in the US at cheaper prices. but sadly both sides have there heads too far up their callective asses to care about what's good for the consumer. and how the hell is Yamato or bandai partnering with toynami/HG going to effect you anyways? anywhere that HG has any ability to prevent importation they already are. and if they struck a deal wiht Yamato/bandai/BW, it would only make things cheaper since they could import in larger quantities direct from the manufacturer. you fail to understand the mentality of most Macross fans... were all going to buy them, though most of us will end up only getting 3 of each instead of 10.

the Real reason is (as I've stated before) is because this isn't gundam. but as for in universe, it's possible that the thrust is automatically limited in batroid mode. in fighter mode the legs are strait, close together, and locked in to the rest of the vehicle fairly tightly. in the batroid mode, the legs are hanging off the valk, pointing off in slightly different directions and basically in a relatively unstable arrangement. it's possible that if the valk was able to use its full thrust it would be uncontrollable. I'd imagine having all that thrust coming from the bottom of the legs would make it incredibly unstable and hard to keep oriented correctly. also high thrust could put extra stress on the joints of the legs/hips when they're in there expanded free moving batroid configuration. it would be rather bad if the valk suddenly started flipping end over end or had the its legs fly off in different directions when it tried to accelerate. another thing about Gundam, in Gundam the mechs always have the main thrusters are on the backpack, where as on Valks they're in the feet. the backpack is a much better place to put primary thrust since it's closer to the center of gravity. though it make's transforming into a jet more difficult. that being said, I would think that the YF-21/VF-22 would be more stable and able to fly faster in batroid mode than most other valks because of it's thruster placement.

that does sound a bit more like it.

don't wory, you'll be disappointed with the rest of us soon enough...

I already bitched about the Cockpit section being to massive in batroid mode and still stubby in fighter mode. the thing is I've already given up on the things that couldn't be done any better realisticly (the nose of the plane will always be a problem. if you get it right in batroid, the fighter looks like it hit a brick wall, if you get the nose right in fighter, the batroid ends up with VF-25 Doom-cock. they could have the wings better, but they don't. also, another thing that bothers me is the LERX's directly behind the canards. that part should is too strait, there should be a bit of a kink in it. if you look at the batroid of the 1/60 the part (which is behind the canards) is basically strait. on the GN-U figure the part has a change in angle, making it look pinched in. not only would it look better, it would also improve articulation. if you look at the pic the top of the intake hits that part, limiting the movment of the leg and producing the bow leg stance in the pic.

the problem with that though is THERE IS NO ONE ELSE that BW/Bandai/Yamato/ can work with when it comes to importing Macross toys into the US. Whether or not HG actually holds the rights that they say they do, and whether or not what they're doing is right or acceptable form a moral and/or legal standpoint is ultimately irrelevant, the fact is that HG has a stranglehold on all things macross in the US and Toynami is the only company that they've given distribution rights to. in other words, if Bandai/Yamato/anyone else making macross products wants to play ball in the US, then they either play HG's game or not at all. and if with that in mind your position is still the same, and you would prefer that we not be able to get Macross toys in the US cheaply and legally then bandai make a deal with HG/Toynami, then I applaud you for taking the moral high ground and sticking with it. But at the same time I have no choice but to say SCREW YOUR MORALITY! I want cheap macross merchandise, and I don't care how many people have to get stepped on for it to happen.

basically the Japanese yen is one of the few currencies that hasn't taken a huge hit in recent months. the exchange rate between the US Dollar and both euro and British pound is closer than it's been in quite some time. it's mostly that the value of the yen hasn't fallen nearly as much. I lucked out and ended up paying for mine about 2 or 3 days before the dollar dropped below 100 yen. (I've got some other stuff on preorder that are coming at the end of December though, hopefully the dollar will pick back up in the next month and a half) oh yeah, and mine finally arrived. I got 2 VF-25F's from the restock, hopefully I'll be able to start mine soon, though with school and all it may take a while.

well, the size comparison between the Nupetiet-Vergnitzs and the megaroad comes mostly from a scene in the animation where both ships are shown in profile, but it's possible that the Megaroad looks bigger do to perspective. there's this pic, but I'm not sure if they're actually drawn to the same scale, or if these two images were actually originally together. they may have been put together latter. one thing to think about though. if you look at the back part of the megaroad, you'll notice there's what apears to be a heavily modified ARMD integrated into the side of the ship at the base of the outboard engine Nacelles. on that part you can clearly make out the two big circles that are on the flight deck of the ARMD, and if you use them for scale then the whole ship works out to be about 1500 to 1700 meters in length. so at least they're not pulling the 1,600 meter length out of nowhere.

I've always absolutely despised those little 3-4 inch Star wars and GI Joe toys. they were always ugly, poorly articulated, and all the little guns and crap they came with were always getting lost. I don't see the apeal of tiny figures or GIANT valks. the toy's would be rather blagh, and the Valks would either be cheaply made, poorly detailed, and non transforming. or they would easily end up being over $1000. and where are you going to put something like that? the scale cap on any valk is probebly about 1/32 any bigger and it's going to be over 2 feet and absolutely ridiculousness. I'd rather everything was about a foot tall or so. 1/48th valks and 1/6th scale figures.

No, what I mean is that when the wings fold back, they should rotate in further. right now the toy looks like the wings rotate about 90 degrees, I think they should be able to rotate around 100 to 110 degrees. if they did, then it would bring the trailing edges of the wings together more. see how in the the trailing edges of the wings are basically parallel to to each other. on the toy aren't. if the wings were angled in more, the wing tips would be higher and from the front the wings wouldn't look so wide.

bandai could do it if they wanted to put the extra effort in, but they don't. and even if for some reason bandai couldn't do double printing well. they could at least give us a second set of stripes in all white to layer under the color decals.

as far as one can tell form the animation, no. in fighter mode, thrust is controlled by the throttle (on the pilots left). the foot pedals don't apear to move in fighter mode, and the main reason they function as throttles in batroid mode is because the conventional throttle probably changes function after transformation the English language definition of orbit is to circle around something. so just being in the air still doesn't put the plane "in orbit" by your choice of definition, because the plane isn't revolving around anything. and since were talking about aerospace vehicles here, we're clearly going to be talking about planetary orbit. planetary orbit is defined as revolving around a planetary body with sufficient velocity such that the vehicle in question falls around the planetary body, rather than into it. also reaching planetary orbit requires an acceleration of between 8km/s and 14km/s. Any slower and you'll eventually drop back down to earth, any faster and you'll actually escape earths gravity entirely and you'll fly away into space.

the face and hair look really good. I wouldn't say they look all that much like sheryl, but it does look good. this is the part that kills me, and that's the price, FOR JUST THE HEAD! I never understood the appeal of dolls like these. I mean For 1/4 the price I could get a 1/6th scale PVC figure that actually looks the way the character does in the animation, and it doesn't have all the ugly joints.

the ghosts as a web only exlusive would kind of suck, the Ranka+speakers not so much. (some of you may love the idea but personally I think it's a wast of paint and plastic) I'm probably the only one who thinks this, but I'd actually like it if they sold the RVF-25 in 3 versions. a set with the valk+super armor, a set with the valk, 3 ghosts and no armor for the same price. and then a more expensive set with everything. I'm not all that impressed with the armor on the RVF-25, and I'd rather just get the valk and the ghosts without having to spend the extra money. (all this of course would be if I was actually getting any of these)

no, I knew who you're quoting, and the pic I posted is something I got off /k/ that's regularly posted as a response to said quote. so it's not an insult it's more like responding to one (perceived) joke with another. I think it's pritty clear form the animation how the pedals are set up. only partially, the foot pedals do control pitch/role (through TVC only) but they do not as you suggested control pitch/role AND yaw at the same time. also the pedals are NOT shown to have 2 control axes on shins valk, the foot pedals are on a bar connected to the seat, but that is so the foot pedals move with the seat during transformation. we have no indication that they move out at all in fighter mode. and both foot pedals are linked together, meaning that they can't be pushed forwards or back independently of each other. Only Roy's 0S is shown to have the pedals capable of moving in and out independent of each other and in that case, they are being used as throttles in batroid mode. (It's possible that since the S model is meant to be higher performance and used by more experienced pilots, it's only on the S model that manual independent control of thrust from each leg is enabled, on the standard A models, you only have overall thrust control, and the flight computer controls specific thrust for balance.) from what's shown in the show, the most reasonable conclusion is that TVC maneuvering is controlled through the foot pedals and aerodynamic maneuvering is done through the stick. also, I don't see how putting yaw AND TVC control both on the foot pedal simplifies anything. the idea that separating the TVC control form the aerodynamic surface controls will be able to limit the maneuverability of the aircraft until absolutely necessary is dubious at best, and it would be much simpler and more practical to simply program limiters into the flight computer (writing a little bit of new coding is a lot easier than essentially reinventing the wheel) the only real benefit of having TVC separate from aerodynamic control is so that the pilot has greater Fine control over the maneuvering of the aircraft, allowing said pilot to perform maneuvers that wouldn't be possible in a conventional plane. now this is great for an experienced pilot, but rather than simplifying things for a rookie it would actually have the opposite effect. the rookie pilot is now burdened by multitasking even more because he has to remember to use two sets of controls in unison in order to perform even basic maneuvers effectively, and he won't be benefiting from that fine control because he probably lacks the skill necessary to execute what are probably very complex and taxing maneuvers. I don't recal it ever being stated that the YF/VF-19's were designed to be passively stealthy. only the YF-21 and VF-17 are designed with passive stealth in mind. also the need for internal weapons bays to maintain stealth is negated by the fact that the YF-21 (and presumably the YF-19) had active stealth systems which can mask any non-stealthy features. extra stealth may be a side benifit of internal bay's but I still feel that the main reason is to streamline the valk for transformation purposes. as I said before, the 0A's foot pedals are permanently connected together by a solid metal bar. they have no way of separating as shown in the animation. the only conclusion is that A) one of them is an animation error, it should be one or the other, and we won't be able to reach a satisfactory conclusion until this is remedied with HFH approved cockpit diagram/line art. Or B) as I stated earlier in this post, the pedal's can be pushed in and out in batroid mode to control thrust. and on standard valks (like the 0A) the throttles are linked and the pilot only has control over overall thrust, but on the 0S (which is reserved for more experienced pilots only) the throttles are seperated so the pilot can control exactly how much thrust each engine puts out.

lets see, when I got my first 1/48 it was a VF-1J stealth, and when it arrived I felt like I was 10 years old and it was Christmas and I had just gotten the Red Rider carbine action range model air rifle I wanted so bad but everyone said I would shoot my eye out (I hope some of you get this reference) then I felt pain, as in my over eagerness to get it out of the shipping box, I accidentaly cut myself with my own pocket knife. then I got it out of the box and I felt Joy and Love

maybe it's because it's 3AM, but I couldn't even tell it was a shoop. I'm not nearly good enough at building models to feel comfortable building for others. but I would totally buy a set of decals like that if anyone was willing to make them.

I will never understand why the video is so damn popular, and why people find it funny. I DON'T GET IT, WHY!!!! [cries uncontrollably] (it's 2AM and I'm in the middle of writing a paper. I'm a little unhinged right now)

daflip702, just a heads up, were not allowed to have pics in our sigs around here. that said... OH MY GOD I WANT ONE TO!!! does anyone on here still make custom decals?