BlueMax

There are numerous instances, but don't have time time to really go through and verify all of them. I have my Mac 7 Dynamite DVD and just watching and going to the battle scenes and found one instance. Mac 7 Dynamite Episode1: 22min:20-30sec The Zolan Patrol launches in their VF-5000s towards the galactic whales and one of the patrol members laments that they don't have enough "valkyries" to protect the whales against the poachers. Anyway, as for the the "wierd" pronunciation, its actually quite common for the japanese to pronounce it in more syllables than english speakers do. Example: native english speakers pronounce "macross" as "MA-CROSS" and Japanese will pronounce it closer to "MAr-KOO-LOWS"

Yes, all UN Variable fighters are known generically as valkyries, (basically the japanese pronounce it as "ba-ru-kee-lee", and thats also part of the reason why the low vis 1 has the nickname "bulky lee" on these boards") You might have heard the VF-19Kai being referred to as the fire valkyrie. KJ

As always, a quality piece of art!

Thanks Graham for the review! man.... its really been a while once the last big review.... lemme see.... since the release of the 1/48 VF-1?

Don't think the box's that ugly... and I don't buy the 19 for the box!

This looks good!

Argh! Finally I see Shawn's post on the boards after about a year +?

Your Messers sure have got some talent! *bows"

Whoa..... the "G" man's totally right. The CAD pictures just don't do it any jusice. The 19 looks good enough to eat even without the paint coat!

I have a theory: Yamato is trying to squeeze all it can with the current tooling of the stock VF-1 moulds before making modifications to it. 1. Once this cash cow is milked, they can proceed with re-tooling: 2 seaters?! 2. Somethig wayyyy more awesome for presumably the 25th anniversary is on the way and they attempting a last ditch effort to milk us all of our hard earned cash. Yep... thats my theory..... but pt 2 and 1 can be considered linked!

hehe.... Ain't seen nothing yet eh? haha.. I'm sure its as torturing for the G man as well, since he has so much pent up knowledge but is unable to share his excitement... Hm... lets see....the 25th Anniversary will be next year.....

Looking great! Man... wish this was released tomorrow...

Amen to that... lol~!

Phew! this looks real... real!

ditto on the Tomahawk

Ah.... the master is back

Damn, its a good time to be alive...... I'm only away from the forums for about 4 hours (yes, I'm on this site anytime I'm on the web) and I come back to this! Phew!

Got mine a couple of days back. Someone was asking if the color tone compared to the CF is the same: The answer is NO.

Hm... i dunno, it sounds good to me though...

Yes, the Max DYRL? 1A ,and that was one of the earlier 1/48s, 3rd one I think. The Max and Millia TV 1Js came after that.

They are all 1/72 scale. BTW, I updated my count on page 3 of this thread: 401798[/snapback] Ah, I just remember a few people saying a while back that the 11 wasn't quite 1/72? Maybe I'm rememering wrong. 401863[/snapback] Nope, you did not remember wrongly. Some members ascertained that the scale was not exactly 1/72, more like something between 1/60 and 1/72

Just edited post#36 to update latest count Added: 1 X 1/60 VF-0S 1 X FP Stealth 1 X Hikaru VF-1S 1 X Roy VF-1S

I had my Hikky 1A perched on my (then) CRT monitor in battroid mode about 4.5 feet high. Then one of my pesky cousins had to shake my monitor and it fell, hit my keyboard table, bounched off and hit the ground, splattering the missles just about everywhere. I was totally gonna kill my cousin (that was my 1st and only 1/48 at that time, a penniless student and I had just exchanged my precious YF-19 ver 2 for it) Thank God it survived the fall with ZERO damage. Since then I've got a display case to keep all my valks in just to make sure I do not suffer a heart attack unnecessarily...erm..if it was ever necessary So, they are pretty durable, though I would never wanna tempt fate again.... lol~!

It can fold up till about 30 degress, but nothing more than that. Anything more, you have to pay for the consequences. I've learnt that the hard way, but managed to fix it after slight "surgery" , but some stress marks i can't remove no matter how much I try..

whoa.... really looking good!