westfall

I'm translating the english subs to portuguese and until now AonE's subs, wich have been used by Blinx'01 in its upload of vol. 1 to 4 at asiandvdclub, seem to be the best. Still i've tweaked a lot of stuff. Where i still find myself compromising a lot is when it comes to military terminology. Ozma for example, is a Major in terms of rank and a squadron leader or flight commander in terms of position within Skull Squadron. In english using leader is good but in portuguese the word "lider" is used in other instances wich makes me call him "comandante" (commander). And the old Captain conumdrum, its a rank but its also the name given to the officer that commands a ship. Some fansubs call OZMA a captain but he is "Tai-sho" wich translates better to leader or commander, captain would be "Kan-cho". As for the "-chan" and "sempai" i'll just leave them. no matter how you translate them it never feels right and this way you get a more authentic flavor. I've already translated 5 or 6 episodes and i'll use these subs with the BDRip by [QYQ] to make my own DVDs. Biggest project i got my hands on yet. That is until i start Gundam 00, that will be the death of me.

Not aware if this has been posted but disc 1,2 and 3 from the remastered set are available for D/L at asiandvdclub.org. with english subtitles added. They comprise the OVA and the movie. Disc 4 has been requested to the uploader but is not yet available.

glad my wild theory about HLJ's pre-orders was correct. Just pre-ordered the super-pack and a couple SMS action bases. I think i'll only get Packs for Alto's VF-25. Luca's VF is a very different design and will look good as a stand-alone along with the ghosts - has anyone confirmed the number of ghosts that will come with it? - and hopefully an Armored pack will come for Ozma. That will be really sweet, i love the armored. IMO Alto's is the one that gains the most from having the Super Packs attached. Maybe in the future if Michael's VF looks too "naked" i'll get some for it too but for now 1 Pack will suffice. Save some cash for the Armored and for DX Macross Quarter. Not to mention i just bought the WHAM 1/5000 SDF-1 Movie Color at HLJ. I resisted for as long as i could but it won. Am i rambling? Guess so. LOL.

I'm not sure if this is the case with the new kits but i'll keep my eyes open at HLJ. When Luca's VF first appeared on the site it also had the indication "ORDER STOP" but when i went back a day or two after pre-orders were open. has anyone seen the pre-orders enabled? if not, it might just be the case of having something new posted on the site and, to allow people to know its there, they post it with "ORDER STOP" and leave it that way for some time and then start allowing pre-orders. I sure hope that's the case. But even if it isn't, the way these babies have been selling, i'm sure Bandai will re-stock quickly. On another topic, does anyone know if the Alto Costum VF-25 that comes with Super packs is different in any way from the original release or will it be the same exact model except, of course, having parts to build the Super-Packs? I already have the Messiah so i'll probably only get the stand alone Packs, but if there are differences, enginearing wise, to the model, i might have to start thinking of buying the bundle.

i´d rather buy a model if the quality is on par with the VF-25's but if DX is all that comes out i'll probably grab one. IF it's really 40cm long. The only reason that i haven't bought the reissued 1/5000 SDF-1 is because it's just too damn small.(Not to mention, from what i've seen on a video on youtube, quite flimsy despite having diecast parts.) Bandai shoul just step up and give the fans a good quality transformable model of SDF-1, Battle Frontier and Macross Quarter ( would asking for Battle Galaxy be too much?), along with some other ships. Who here would't buy a Zentraedi Battle Cruiser if it was 40 or 50 cm long? They've proven they can do it with the Messiahs. Sure, Gundams are their bread and butter but Frontier's models have been flying off the shelves. COME ON, BANDAI, GIVE US THE GOOD STUFF.

I got my VF-0S this week from HLJ and is in perfect shape, nothing broken or missing. I have one problem though. How in space-fire do you get the intake covers out? I tried pushing them like it says in the instructions but none of them moves. Any ideas???

I would like to know that too. Seing them on youtube is nice but having a better quality avi files would be awesome.