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Since I just watched the entire Nadesico series this has got me thinking. Maybe we should all follow the teachings of Gekiganger! just kidding What was interesting is the series take on what is the rightous path. The rightous path simply depends on the side your on. And the path that will best protect YOUR people. For instance, In WW2 the Japanese thought they were following their own rightous path while we followed our own. Even though these path collided whose to really say who was in fact rightous? As far as history goes generally the country or people who wins are the one's following the rightous path. Don't get me wrong I'm usually not very political. And I do believe we have to straighten out the problems in the middle east. I'm not against our part in any war this country has been in but then again this is what I believe is the rightous path.

I agree with everything your saying agent one. The shows today are giving kids an overly optomistic view of the world. Personally, even though GI Joe was a crap cartoon that reaked of an unrealistic military it did teach a couple of very valid things to kids. First to be brave, stand up for yourself, and fight for your country against terrorism. I pretty sure that hippy college paper bastard calling Tillman an idiot that deserved what he got comming didn't watch too much GI Joe. I do think there is one current kids cartoon though that surpasses GI Joe in most respects. You got to through realism out the window and catch the underlying meaning though. Dragonball and dragon ball Z are exceptional. Now before I get flamed to death hear me out. As a sport psychologist I teach kids to play sports with honer and integrity, sportspersonship, working hard and achieving one's goals and we try to premote high moral functioning (think golden rule in sports). The Dragon ball Z franchise (with the exception of GT) does a better job of showing kids how do to this in a better manner than any cartoon I have ever seen. Just think of all the times you hear Goku, or gohan say they must work hard to gain another technique. Or how many times that they showed great sportspersonship in letting piccalo or friza or vegeta live even though they were bad. My personal favorite for kids is dragonball. Look at the tourniment episodes...they go in as friends, fight hard and leave as friends. I have found other instances in this franchise that teach kids relaxation, imagery, goal setting, and positive task oriented goals. All in the context of learing to be strong and honorable. Yeah the cartoon is too drawn out and over the top but when I work with kids and learn that they enjoy dragon ball Z I can teach them to get over their performance problems using that cartoon as a reference.

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Why does the monster need a 3 man crew? I know that modern tanks have multi member crews but find it odd that the monster does. I can understand the pilot plus a man to run the main gun due to its trajectory but what the hell it the third man for? It's not like he's loading shells.

interesting discussion. I'm not hung up on beam sabres or heat axes...I was just curious about the lack of macross melee weapons. Especially since there are several occasions of Aces running out of ammo. Just think how often a panicky cannon fodder pilot would run out of ammo. I just think something simple like a bayonette or prog knife would be a simple and cheap alternative to simply dying. Yeah bullets are better and the safest option but you'd think they would have a backup besides the simple head lasers. I do like that the later valks have some "other" form of armorment like pin point fist punch (19 &21,22), and the shield spike of the vf11. Shields are another thing. Maybe not an obvious shield like the 11B but more like just the arm armors that were on the supper and strike valks. Those alone can withstand laser and missle hits from a battlepod or glaug. Yeah you sacrifice some speed but valks are already so much faster than pods and glaugs that a little more protection would be sensible. Think of the difference in cost. pay for a A little extra armor or an entire valk. Now for my next thought provoking question.

I ordered 2 Rei's friday from Animenation and they shipped today. Good price too. Now if I could just cancel the one on order from diamond I'd be happy.

I guess it could be the Marduk emulator. I can remember her name but she wares a cloak in some of macross 2. I could be minmay in disguise. Max's 1A in Zentradi trench coat Sharon's box with its cloak Not like I'll end up getting it anyway. I never get the chase figures. No luck!

My Wife and I love Studio Ghibli stuff. The box collection I have is the mac one. Disk1 Nausicaa of the valley of the Wind= 5 stars Only Yesterday = 3 stars, for mature audiences. Disk 2 mononoke hime =4 stars Whisper of the heart = 4stars Disk 3 My Neighbor totoro = 5stars Ponpoko = haven't watched it all yet but think racoons with big ballz Disk4 Porco Rosso = 5 stars Leputa: Castle in the sky = 5 stars Disk 5 Spirited away = 5 stars Kiki's Delivery service = 4 stars Disk6 Ocean Waves = 4 stars On your Mark video = 5 stars...quite violent. I'm still waiting to see the cat returns and some of the other lesser known titles. Can't wait for the new movie to come out.

Good answer. I forgot about the pin point barrior fists on the 19,21,& 22. Mainly it was the fight against bretai that made me think about this. I agree that the combat in macross is leaps and bounds closer to reality than that of gundam.

Considering that the whole reason for designing the transformable valkyrie was to counter the size of the Zentraidi why wouldn't they have melee weapons. I mean we finally get to see a shield in the VF-11, yf-19, yf-21 but why no beam sabres or heat axes. I mean the GU-11 is only good as an oversized club. Of course macross zero makes this whole arguement meaningless but I'd just like to know if there was a specefic reason behind it. Was the holy floating head just trying to distance it from Gundam.

It is a G-taste kit. I saw it on the hobbyfan store site.

Call her millia's BIG sister. Can you imagine the poor schmuck of a Zentradi man who gets a good look at her. Talk about culture shock.. I gotta get that Misato kit. Who makes it.

What kit did you make this out of.. And where did you get it. I like the kit. I agree that you need to dull the hair a bit. Cool idea.

Hobby on sale is selling these for like $20 for the entire set. I wouldn't pay more than that for these.

So what did you think of the first episode of Wolfs Rain? I don't it stacks up to bebop but it was pretty good. Anybody know how many episodes there will be of this.

MOst of the Gundam MG kits have extra parts when your done building the model. Or else you can order them from HLJ. I think one of the popular gundam shops has them too (U.S. shipping). Each set of parts usually runs like $5. T he companies that make them is kotobukiya and Wave. They make everything from all the rubbery joints (polycaps) for every gundam kit plus other things like nozzles for boosters and attachment arms. For the 1/55 recast elintseeker I got the maker suggested I use these type of parts rather than his recast one's for the attachment of the mini radar dish that attaches to the hand and underside of the valk. Haven't got around to buying them yet though. The U.S. store is Gundamshop.com

Please put me down for one of your sets when you decide to recast it. I love it.

Now that the cannon debate is over and wasted a ton of my time reading... Anybody else want to see a low viz color varient. After seeing some of those low viz paper monsters...I almost like them better. Wonder if Yamato would be willing to make them in low viz too? Do you think they would sell?

Sorry if I'm misleading. THe difference b/w the two is that the US release has the manga in english. No difference in the Rei toy.

Man I'm waiting on the 3 I have on order. 2 japanese and one US release. God I hope I'm not disappointed. I want to make some customs.

Can anybody tell me what are the better macross 7 cd's? I'm looking for songs rather than soundtrack stuff. Pretty much want all the best songs in the series. I'm about half way through the series and really like the music. Thanks

Does anybody else think that the fighter mode looks like one of those Zeon Command ships from Gundam? Also Graham do you think there will be any chance of a Koenig color variant? I'm thinking low viz since those low viz paper monsters looked so good why couldn't the toy. I'm really glad they are making this...I just hope they are concentrating on making the normal Moster (gerwalk) mode the most accurate. It would really suck if gerwalk looks bad since that's the mode most of us would probably display it in.

Bummer, I really like that series. Well I guess that maybe well finally see the rest of the episodes released in the states.

What channel is it airing on?

Out of all the PS2 gundam games I like encounters best. In order of favorites. Encounters (just about right, if they could add defense, better tracking of aces, online combat and ground misions it would be perfect) Feddy vs Zeon (tons of gameplay and missions) Zeonic Front (one shot deal though)...too slow Journey (sloppy controls)