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I've only seen the anime version, and even then, only a few episodes, but "Touch" is of the same era as Orange Road. The pace is somewhat slow - continental drift possibly happens faster - but it has "something" that makes you keep watching. Like Urusei Yatsura? Pick anything where a jerk somehow lands himself the hottest girl in his sector of the Galaxy... Love! Hina, Please! Teacher, Magister Negi Magi... "His and Hers Circumstances" is an intersting take on romatic anime by Hideki "Evangelion" Anno. "Childs Toy" (aka Kodocha) is more generally zany but has romantic elements, although with a somewhat younger cast (it will also melt your brain).

What always gets me about this sort of thing is I remember years ago a cousin of mine got the Lego fan-club magazine, and someone had sent in a Lego armoured car they had made. Lego noted that they liked the work but that they didn't normally like to promote warfare and fighting in their products. Now, they're talking about "taking out" things with the long-range laser rifle...

I don't know why they're using it in a Macross/Robotech context (other than as a possible Zentraedi reference), but "Standing Upon the Shoulder of Giants" is a quote attributed to Sir Issac Newton, discoverer of gravity, all-round scientific genius, possible pyschopath, and crime-buster. Although often assumed to mean that Sir Issac was acknowledging great minds of the past, its more likely to have been a barbed aside to Robert Hooke, a rival of Newtons who suffered from a hunched back. The quotation also appears on the edge of some versions of the British 2 pound coin.

Fort Max, thanks very much!

Cat-girls and bishies. The entire population will be too busy fawning over them to notice me occupying No. 10 Downing Street.

As expectedfrom SHE. Damn it looks cooL! 345554[/snapback] Nuts, you all beat me to the punch! Oh. My. God. This is kind of cross between a toy and a resin model kit, yes? I know that they did a Getter Robo toy like this - what was it like? Fragile display piece? Cool but fiddly? Just trying to get an idea of what this puppy might be like...

I suspect Kensei is either a) exaggerating for effect or b) has misplaced the comma.

My average has been between about three - four weeks. I'm from whinging pom land.

You have got to read the Aphrodai-A (normal version) review - its the best toy review I've ever read, even better than Anime Jumps infamous bootleg Dragonball Z flyer review... talking nonsense missiles indeed!

And the winner is...

Watching the opening of Macross Plus OAV... tracking shot of the asteroids, friend says "Hmm... looks like Battle of the Planets so far... " Then Isamu kicked off, and there was nothing but stunned silence beside me.

Yep, those are the tail hooks all right. The HCM, like the real Valkyrie, has two. They go inside each rear landing gear bay. Hopefully the attached photo will help:

Having got over the intial shock... I think I've come up for the perfect name for the Cannon Fodder squadron you're building... "Brown Sugar" squadron...!

338123[/snapback] Well for me it would be expensive since I bought 32 of these CFs... 338301[/snapback] You did what?!

We don't know that. Guld had mental problems, and that's as likely to have caused issues as the actual hardware. 336829[/snapback] Its an untested prototype with a thought control system in a science fiction setting. Of course the BDI and BCS are to blame!

No need to cheat but Black Valkyrie got there ahead of me! This one probably isn't such a mystery for UK-based MWers as going by previous threads here we seem to have got a lot more of Gerry Anderson than the US. Incidentally, this year is the 40th anniversary of Thunderbirds. F.A.B!

Now for one that should need no introduction, but here it is anyway! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... the PAIN! The FURY! The WUSS that pilots it! The Soul of Chogokin Evangelion Unit 1!

Heres one of my all time favourites - the Big Dai-X DX, from X-Bomber/Star Fleet. Believe or not, hes a Valkyrie cousin - by Takatoku! (and it even transforms, too!).

I will post some images as soon as I can get attachments to work! Is there a temporary problem at the moment or am I missing something extremely obvious? Edit: Mods, please remove. Worked it out for myself - replace user and insert new brain!

Funnily enough, the US - I think the Navy - used Kfirs for aggressor-style training for a while. I think the US desigination was "F-21"!

I was lucky enough to visit the AsoBit City store in Akihabara when it was open. That was big enough, but this... this... makes that look like a small corner shop!

NATO was worried about the quality of Russian tanks for a while; they were smaller, relatively high performance, and had things like auto-loaders. Until the M1 came along, American tank designers had a little bit of an inferiority complex. But, yes, numbers was the big worry. However, the Gulf War showed up quite a few flaws in Russian tanks. The T-72 has a fuel line that goes across the front of the turret; this caused some interesting examples of unpowered turret flight after hits by 120mm rounds; also, there are some horror stories about gunners getting limbs loaded into the gun by the auto-loaders! I understand that after the Gulf War, the Russians reviewed why so much of their equipment failed so badly; a lot of interesting equipment started turning up on Russian tanks afterwards, such as improved reactive armour, anti-missile systems and even on one modified prototype, a couple of 20mm AA guns...!

Ummm, that how you write Japan in French. The writing on that label other than Japanse is French, so everything has to match up. Nothing unusual on that label. 333184[/snapback] So why they write French on postal stamp in Japan? 333299[/snapback] Its a historical thing. I can't remember exactly what, but possibly some international convention like the one that settled on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). In the UK, when you send something by airmail, you get a little sticker with "par avion" on it. Quite possibly the only example of the British adopting something French you will ever find...

Its an aircraft, it can do just that and a tanks armour is typically weakest there. However, the side is also less well armoured - you can't armour a tank everywhere, because then it can't move! - and the engine on most tanks is typically at the rear (the Israeli Merkeva is an exception; they treat the engine as additional armour and place it at the front), so that is also a good place to hit.

Slight correction - the GAU-8 is 7 barrels, not 9. Also, its designed to hit tanks from their more vunerable sides and rear, not the front - traditionally the most heavily armoured part of a tank; there are reports of modern American tanks surviving direct hits from Russian-type 125 mm guns on the front. British tanks of World war II mostly used a "2 pounder" - roughly 40mm. German panzers started the war with 37mm guns - slightly contrary to the widely-held belief that German tanks were automatically superior; it was only later that the true monsters like the Tiger appeared. At the start of the war, it was German tactics that did a lot of the work. Mind you, British tanks did tend to suck quite a bit...