dr_vandermeer

Well done!!!

You should have no worries about this being your first 1/6" figure custom.

Looks great to me.

Impressive. MOST Impressive.

So you and you GF are toy dealers?

Culver City, CA.

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latitude 33.9948 / 33° 59' 41"

longitude -118.3991 / -118° 23' 56"

LOVE this shot.

NICE!

How is the "Funny CHinese" different from the standard Elintseeker? And what's the on his left arm? Looks like a bad ass plasma gun or something...nut i'm guessing its a laser painter or something?

I thought they were the same. Obviously they are not in the designation VE-1 vs. VEFR-1. Maybe the VEFR-1 has anti-radiation missiles or jammers but they look the same as the VE-1.

Aside from the minor differences I can tell from the drawings, like modifications on the wings and fins, a BIG difference I see is that there are no boosters and armor. How does the radome attach? Inquiring minds want to know!

Jason, I'll look around for badges over there, but I got to get your contact info around the time it happens.

ZorClone or anyone else. If there's anything you want checked out list it down. I can't promise anything. I might be too busy drooling at the models...

BOOTH BABES!!! YES!!! :D

I work in the ad industry. I just found out that this is a viral thing for MINI that their ad agency created. I dig it, it's cool.

I don't remember the prices offhand but there used to be a great place in Little Tokyo called Pony-Toy-Go-Round where I got my toy fix. It was in a plaza called Honda Plaza close to downtown LA. They even had a second store in Yaohan Plaza which was nearby. They both eventually closed, but I have really great memories of me and my pop going there to check out all the latest import toys from Japan. Anything and everything, that place was incredible. Macross, Gundam, Spiral Zone, MachineRobo, Godaikin, Scitex, Zoids, etc. That place truly warped my fragile little mind.

Anyways back on topic, the Macross stuff I got at retail back in the day was an Elintseeker, a Strike Valk, and an HCM VF-1J. Always regretted not getting a Super-O. But it was either that or the Elint, and the Elint just looked like it had more doohickeys going on with it, which of course is appealing to a kid. I mean the thing had a radar dish and arm accessories, man!

don't read the "super" first, "Ostrich" mean the one who far away from danger and trouble,

and the "VT-1 Ostrich" is just for training ,not suppost for real fighting,

so that's the meaning .

Super Ostrich is the VT-1 OSTRICH with super pack armed.

just like the "super valkyrie" /"strike valkyrie"

You know what? I've never thought of that, but you're right!

So the only right answer is that it sounds kinda cool? Is this written as scripture anywhere?

Never really understood the "elint" part of elintseeker either come to think about it.

What link? Can you post that link please? Thank you,

J.

here you go.

http://www3.animebox.com.hk/

whoa.

Let's all simmer down now.

Godzilla wants to do customs, Max is his fav, etc.

No need to try to bring the guy down.

Thanks to Soze and EXO I now have a Max 1J without having to depend on TIS.

Thanks guys!!!!

I love it!

yep. those 2 are good folks.

Best. Toy. Ever.

[sNL church lady] SATAN?! [/sNL church lady]

agreed! when i saw this guy, i just had to get him too.

Cool I got the second series today. 5 bucks each for the basic ones (Megatron, Thrust, Fire Sideswipe, and Prowl) at F&S. The guy I bought them from was really cool. Didnt even have to haggle. Cheapest place in F&S. Specially for megs. Jazz and Silverstreak were going for 25 each. Didnt see the Ultramagnus prime though.

Love Megs but no silencer or stock. However the handle has a connector that looks liek a stock could slide on. (no the 20th prime megs stock and silencer is jsut a tad too small so it wont fit.) Check the pics 20th megs and tiniest megs are slightly different sizes.

wow, they are so close in size!!!

seems like a great opportunity was missed to have the silencer and stock fit on the masterpiece prime megatron...

yay! this again!

let's sum it all up:

*1/48's are the bestest ever!

*no MPC are best in gerwalk

*<everyone else points and laughs>

*Yamato sucks! 1/48's are too expensive!

*Oh yeah? well, bandais are fugly and have a SWING BAR!

*Yeah... well, 1/48's have small floppy hands!

*1/48's have built in heat shields and knee guards!

*but the 1/48 are soooo fragile! unlike my sherman tank chunky monkey!

*No way, my 1/48 is super strong!

*Yamato is evil and are ripping us off! how come they keep making new toys???

*Shut yer pie hole, 7 years ago NO ONE was making new valks so yamato can do

no wrong!

*How come no one loves 1/60's???

*your mom is a 1/60, oooh, burn.

*how come the MPc convoy is cheaper, huh???

*does anyone know when the yf-19 fp is coming out?

there. all done.

i think this can be cut and pasted into practiacally every thread!!!

DAMN YOU EXO!!!

MUST...HAVE...B-CLUB...BGC...BOOK!!!

And just like that, Graham throws MW into the Toy Twilight Zone, where nothing is as it seems.

Agreed. Graham, PLEASE retract your last post. With that last comment, you've surely extended this thread another 20 pages.

anyone has a link or something to the original animation?

i remember enjoying it a lot.

GODDAMIT!

*update on my A.P.U. after my previous post saying my replacement to another broken one was great...*

So the thing has mostly been posed here and there on my shelf. Nothing too aggressive in terms of twists and turns in the arms, legs and torso. Well what happens the other night I decide to pick it up and get it in a new pose? I twist the torso a couple of times and the entire thing BREAKS IN HALF! I guess it was ratcheted too tightly, so basically this whole time I was twisting the waist, it wasn't turning at a swivel, but rather the plastic itself was being twisted back and forth until the whole thing finally came apart in my hands.

VERY VERY DISAPPOINTING. I really liked the design and engineering of it, but the materials and construction are just too piss-poor. I will not be getting another one. And if McFarlane ever decides to do a Power Loader from Aliens (which I USED to hope for), I won't be getting that either. STAY AWAY!!!

G1 Jetfire 

How can you say that G1 Jetfire is ugly?? It's arguably one of the best G1 out there. I can easily think of a dozen TF's that are much worse.

I do believe that was a joke...

Anyways, my vote for ugliest?

For some reason, Motormaster from the Stunticons line never really did it fot me.

And if there was a contest for ugliest Transformer in terms of box art, I think he'd also be one of the ones at the top of the list.

next time give ur topic the title, "please priase my collection" and ill gladly tell you how nice it is.

yikes!

let's play nice now...

No harm in that to me.

Glad you had good experiences with those retailers.

Positivity?! on MW?! has hell frozen over?!

Non-Macross - Vash's gun from Trigun made by Vice/ALPHA- $500

Macross - VF-1J (back in the day when i didn't know better) - $350

The March 2004 issue of ARMS magazine had a much nicer looking Kusanagi IMO.

Graham

Damn, you beat me to it. I saw this thread and thought "Haruka Nayuta did a much better job".

Is that the models name? Does she do a lot of cosplay work?

I don't know what else she has done. That's just the name they list for her in ARMS.

Actually, I had to look that up. What I really thought was "that arms chick did a better job"

Edit- A google search reveals that she, as far as I can tell, is an AV star. (AV being "adult video" for those not in the know).

i am not in the know...

but i know AV...

RUH-ROH!!!