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Good to know. I think I'll see how the joints fit to the styrene first before undertaking that, but if they are really secure, that's good news. Coat of primer is on the parts already, so tomorrow, I'll be off to find a good green to go with it as well as the other colors. The gry primer is a good color for the gry pieces of the soldier. May not need anything else.

What size styrene rods are those? I just started on my kit, getting it ready. I'm actually gonna paint mine to make it a bit more color correct to the show.

That is awesome. I'm surprised I never saw this before. Now, that's how a redub should be done. People using more realistic verbage (if you can call it that). Max was classic. There are others there as well from Indep. Day. All are pretty damn good.

If the venue allows, our band Boobytrap will have several FireBomber songs done and ready. We have some that are 80% practiced and worked out, but it's that 20% that is the difference between "why are these guys up there" and "I'm glad these guys are rockin'". We'll probably also do a live band karaoke, so if anyone had a Macross song that we can do and wanted to sing it, they could. Working out the logistics of that.

That's good to hear. Just make sure you do a thorough parts check. The first few pages of the instruction book have all parts listed. I've already started sanding and dry fitting pieces. The pieces need almost no extra work. They're made pretty damn well. I fit the entire body together, and needed just minor sanding with a soft sandpaper. Good stuff.

That's never been stated by any of the VAs on why they didn't use their real names. It's been no secret and fairly easy to access knowledge that they didn't use their real names because of the Screen Actors Guild, and they were kinda working under the table, so in order to get paid, and not get in trouble with SAG, they used aliases.

If it takes a contract to do so, that's a pretty $h!tty company to begin with. So far, this is spelling out HG's character pretty well. Not that they've done everything bad, cause Robotech was a good thing back in the day, but this seems to be what it's all about now. "What does the contract say", "What can we get away with?" Not like it would've costed money to put up the names in the opening and/or end credits.

The VAs will tell everyone that they didn't have their names in the credits due to SAG and those issues. It seems like they knew the deal when they picked what fake names to put on the end credits. And in seeing that ending of how it should've been, is great. It's unfortunate that it won't be a reality to the original artists and such. In anycase, I'm kinda on the agreement that this back and forth with people that don't get it, is kinda over and done. Then to see it go into the realm of spellcheck??? Good Effin' Grief!!!

Just did a parts check on mine...All parts accounted for (with those extra sprue pieces). Anyways, I took a couple snapshots of the body piece dry fit so you can get an idea of size. This thing is quite big. The legs are huge. As for the quality of the parts, it's actually quite good. Anybody have any suggestions on type of paint and sealer to use on this material?

I seem to be missing one of the mini missiles. Is there any way I can get another one?

I will open the box up tomorrow. Got the camera charged up. I don't expect to see much more than what has already been posted, so if it is underwhelming, not much I can say about that.

Thus the reason why I mentioned just some of the character designers and artists. They should've gotten more credit than they did.

It sounds like most of these comments are generalizations of the law, and are missing more of the details that are involved in this murky issue. I'm not exactly sure if HG ever had to really give credit to the creators and designers, but even if they didn't, it's still bad form not to. If anime hadn't exploded like it did back when, I don't think they would've ever mentioned names like Mikimoto, Kawamori, Miyatake, Kakinuma, and all the others. Kinda sad.

Just came in. Hello, Regult, I'm Jason. Nice to meet you. I'll put up pics tomorrow.

That's gonna be the one thing people notice in this epic sidestory of Robotech...gotta be the tits. Sorry, I laughed pretty hard when I read that. That discrepency just throws all of Robotech into a nosedive straight to hell. Maybe Tommy can photoshop bigger boobs, or at least hire DR Movie to do it, since he knows their style and how they operate.

At this point, they could mean anything by side story. HG seems to be under the impression that any definition of anything can change to fit their will (remember the term hiatus?). They could butcher up Love Live Alive to death to fit anything they want. Don't get me wrong either. I know there are several here that don't wanna see that happen, but I've heard and seen a bit too much, and unless they change things base on people finding out certain things, it is going to be this obscure anime. I do like the show as well, but we'll see what they do with it. It can either be a decent thing, or one hellofa disaster waiting to happen. I'm still not sold on them using this as a Robotech side story, but then again, I think only the original stuff that came from back when is the only stuff that HG might be able to have any success with. For them, it's a double edge sword for them. It provides short lived success, but also proves yet again that their current staff lacks the skill or fortitude to write anything that can stand on its own. Steve Yun once asked me how I'd feel if people criticized my work and called it stupid or bad. Well, at least I put my all into my own stuff, and at least it is "my" stuff, if you can call it that. Using Love Live Alive, what excuse can they use for that? Oh yeah, it's "Carl's Vision".

They have said countless times that it doesn't follow Shadow Chronicles at all, more of a "side story". I'll be severely disappointed when it is announced that it's Love Live Alive. Again, my only solice will be if they attach the original to it, so that at least we get that on DVD or something, and generate part of the proceeds to a charity, since afterall, they are doing the documentary on Carl's life and all. Capitalizing on someone's death is really not cool. That's how I see it.

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REGULT ON THE WAY!!! Got my shipping notice yesterday, just too lazy to post it here when it came in.

I'm pretty sure it is Love Live Alive. I think everyone is coming to that conclusion, and based on what Tommy has hinted at in past, I think they're gonna package that and Carl's documentary together. I think that's he was talking about when he mentioned it being "movie length". Also, in the first announcements of this animated project, they specifically said (summed up) that even though they were waiting on WB and had obligations to them, Macek said that there are other venues and ways to get Robotech out. I wouldn't necessarily call that a "vision", but more of a logical idea. It went from that, to having this whole new animated project something that Carl pretty much created in a vision. Talk about inflating the facts. I think they're using that, so that if it pans, it doesn't look badly on the people who's idea this really is. I think the only thing that would generate less of a disrespect for HG, is if they use some of the proceeds of the productions to go to a good charity, and have the original Love Live Alive attached with the reworked version.

Based on all the info Tommy has hinted at, I'm pretty sure that this "new" project is actually old animation that just needs redubbing and mixing of sound. If I am correct in my research, it's probably gonna be brought with many more questions than answers.

No Mylene??? Awww, I would definitely go for that as well. But, priorities. Let's see this, then a VF-2SS

What's really sad, is going all the way to NY comicon, and not a peep of anything Robotech from it. Just more on the news that Robotech is not all the hype that they've been making it to be. Just wait till this project coming out next year comes out.

Exactly, being able to see new Mikimoto work on Macross is very exciting, and almost sells itself. The detail in the work is spectacular. I buy the Macross Ace magazine, and this is always the highlight of it.

The Regult was 38,800 yen, then I had some item on hold that was 400 yen, then shipping was like 2800 yen. To be honest, after this product, I'm a bit yenned out, and I still have two more items that are coming later this year. Should see this beginning of next week I think.