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That red/pink OO7S/G is rare variant, it's called 'inspection color' or something. I don't know if it ever appeared on sidestory or just color variation Bandai created out of nowhere. HG version of red OO7S/G is still event limited item, so red version of Metal Build or future MG very likely will follow that path too (being limited item). Personally I like that red color scheme too, if I ever pick HG OO7S/G someday I will paint it in that color, or if I can find that limited inspection color I'll grab it without 2nd thought. *if* I can find it in normal price that is

^Actually, if you look closely at the clear sensor on GN Sword IIs, they aren't correctly colored in light blue but green instead. This sparked some theories that it's intentionally made that way to make it easier for Seven Swords version later. That's because sensors of GN Sword II Seven Swords version are light green unlike normal OO version. So, in short, yes it's very likely Seven Swords will get MG treatment. Just a reminder, Metal Build OO Seven Sword will be released this month.

Few mecha-related questions: 1. Did Alto ever used armored pack for his VF-25F? Or YF-29 replaced both VF-171EX and Armored 25F role as his valk in final battle? 2. On that note, what about VF-171EX? Is it ever appeared or mentioned? 3. Any new 'movie exclusive' unit such as new Vajra type or never-seen before Vajra's ship

Oh, that's...interesting. I'll take that over vampire Sheryl anytime.

Now I'm getting curious. Tell us! What?! There's something worse than segway chase in the forest scene?

No news about MG O Gundam this far. This year MG seems to be focusing on Wing and Unicorn, kinda doubt O Gundam will come soon. Some pictures on UCHG Core Fighter: That's quite big Nice details, I wonder if it'll include photo-etch parts Sayla's decapitated head More pictures I'm not a fan of UCHG line or Core Fighter but that kinda tempting.

Not sure if this already posted before: I like the blue version. Without Sheryl decal, it reminds me to YF-21. Source EDIT: new review on green Ranka version, this one with parts breakdown: http://mecha-guy.blogspot.com/2011/03/1100-macross-f-movie-yf-29-ranka-ver.html

New images of MG OO Raiser and promotional poster May release, 6500 Yen. Will include 1 LED unit, but it said that there are 5 area where LED can be installed. Remaining LEDs are sold separately (not surprising). The proportion is far different than PG version; this MG is definitely not just a scaled-down PG.

So it could be someone else then . But he's using his valk...which brings another question why he's using a (very old) prototype instead of newer machine or at least production version of that. Balls and skimpy outfit. Must be beach volleyball; am I guessing it right?

Hey, you're here too? It's me, one of your customer . Anyway mon, you'll always have TV ending if this movie bothered you so much. You can think this movie as alternate plot. Not that I want to open another discussion on which one is canon. One question:

I brought that point because you denied the fact (that 'dialogue with another will') that came straight from the series own narrative. Yet you dismissed it just because it mentioned late in the series. It's not about how that cryptic hint well developed later or not, I just want to show you that even an important plot point can come out of nowhere, even without any hint like Innovators. So there's no reason to claim that aliens appearance is forced since a little or no hints existed. Seriously dude, you're in denial. Realistic, yes. But can you make it interesting and not getting stale after pointless conflicts? Go ahead, but I prefer a story with conclusive ending. Plus, as forced as it could be, OO ending is the most original among other universe. So now you use "OO should follow UC example" argument again, eh? Huh? No, that's not what I meant. We can understand each other fine without any help. It took time, but ELS arrival accelerate that process by forcing us to stop fighting between ourselves. I never said that ELS is our savior or something. After the war with ELS, humans aren't magically understand each other or solved every problem. It's just that ELS arrival only motivated humans to learn to understand each other. It's a necessary threat as wake-up call, with enough impact that no humans with god-complex like Corner or Ribbons can do. Now look dude, I don't care what Macross originated with or how it evolved into Macross 7 craziness. I just want to point out that even before all humans understand each other, they throw differences aside and working together after their experience of contact with another will. The spirit is same with Flashback 2012 but that's when similarity ends. While Megaroad launch is a door to a whole new story, the launch of Sumeragi marks the end of story. It all thanks how ELS portrayed as a symbol of successful attempt at understanding each other. NOT just a simplistic bad guy like Zentradi. Oh, it's not his first time. He's not afraid to experiment with an existing storyline. FYI, he's the one who directed Full Metal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shambala movie that took very drastic move from the manga. Fans' complaint isn't something new to him. At least he has more guts than SEED director who just succumb to fans' demand. And I just realized that we failed to understand each other. Contact me again via Quantum Brainwaves when you and I become Innovated someday. Maybe we can solve this then Okay then, so here's my final opinion: I didn't defend this movie as a whole, I do agree that it has some flaws on story telling and another things. This movie ended without any loose end as Celestial Being realized their mission and fulfilling Aeolia's plan perfectly up to the last part that is 'dialogue to come with another will'. Mission accomplished, what's better than that? I disagree with how you view aliens arrival as unnecessary and I don't like your idea on having OO universe plunged into endless conflicts, straying off from Aeolia's plan that shape the world of OO. I don't want OO ended up like Cosmic Era, or another UC. That's all.

Yeah, as if Innovator (as in true innovator, not Ribbons version) thingy ever mentioned or even hinted in season 1. And that's very important. You know, you only strengthen my reasoning. Yes, you're right that even after eliminating the distortion of the plan (that is Ribbons) it's far from utopia that Aeolia visioned. The new governement has more pacifist stand than before, but as we saw early in the movie where Setsuna saved Marina's envoy, humans haven't changed that much. At this point, Setsuna must fought endless conflict and work hard to promote his 'understanding each other' ideal. Yes, that's an opening toward a new direction; but a messy direction that is. At this point, the story will keep repeating itself again and again until it getting pointless like Cosmic Era. And that's exactly why aliens required. Look no further than Macross. The whole unification of the world that CB did during season 1 & 2 is similar to unification war between UN and Anti-UN in Macross. Even if one faction emerges as a victor, the remnant of opposing force still intent to fight. Only when aliens arrived suddenly the war stop as humans concentrating their efforts to fight the invaders. Even after humans won, they chose to do something better (for the whole humanity) than just fighting between each other again. The event portrayed in the movie epilogue has the same message as Flashback 2012: that humans, now coexist with alien beings, decided to leave the war behind and now move on to explore the space. And that, all thanks to the aliens that accelerated our evolution and forced us the leave our ugly history of war. Way too convenient but at least it wraps up the story in a conclusive way. Eh, I doubt that it's due to fans demand to have aliens appeared in the movie. If you look back at season 2, you'll notice that it has a lot more traditional Gundam feel to it than season 1. Majority of Japanese fans (that Sunrise cared most than the rest of the world) dislike different aura of season 1 thus demanding the series to be "more Gundam". You see, they are less open to change than us. What Mizushima did is a gamble, trying to do something that Japanese traditional fandom will have a hard time to accept. If they want to play safe, they can just follow what fans want. And obviously, not something radical as aliens. And just like I said earlier in this thread, Bandai covered up the whole ELS existence up to only few weeks before premiere. If they really followed fans demand like you said, they should have hyped up 'aliens in gundam' factor since the beginning. But no, they're being cautious. They only hyped up things that they sure can sell: the Gundams.

Just watched Afro Samurai yesterday. That'd be the 2nd Japan-US collaboration anime I've watched after Highlander: Vengeance. I think I like Highlander better.

Aha, that's the problem. You think that by introducing aliens Sunrise opening new tales, but how? The epilogue shows us everything. Human and ELS coexist then they started to explore the space. That's sounds like a premise of an entirely new story, you think? I don't think so. Anything that happened after Aeolia plan fulfilled is not a part of OO saga anymore. It's an open ending that serves to show us everything ends well. But the main story ended as it is. Side materials hinted that Celestial Being is disbanded sometime before 2364 epilogue, so it's really the end. As for the aliens, they never meant to became a character much less a whole new plot point. It's the reason why Sunrise use "totally alien" concept instead of another civilization like Zentradi. They're just...there to prove the point (of how understanding can achieve something that force can't do). I just rewatched episode 24 of season 2, when Tieria unveiled Aeolia's plan he obtained from deep within Veda, here's what it says: -Our armed interventions were to push the world to unite despite our hypocrisy (obviously, referring to season 1) -Even if we were to be destroyed ourselsves, we would unite humanity's will(what they achieved at the end of season 2, that you considered 'as fine as it is' ending) -It was to prevent humanity from taking war into outer space;(ELS found us first somehow, but also implied to space exploration that took off after the movie timeline) -to prepare for the dialogue with another will that we would eventually encounter.("we" here means humanity as a whole, so "another will" is....) That "eventually" is just mere two years later. Way too convenient timing but eh, it's clearly not out of place. So that "dialogue" is always referring to contact with another will. The dialogue between ourselves like you proposed is actually a step before the real dialogue that Aeolia planned. You brought a good point about how ELS is entirely different from us but that's why they were used instead another human as the villain. We're entirely different, we live in different way, we can't use our methods of communication to contact them thus making them the ultimate test for the whole understanding theme. But we succeeded, we make peace and coexist with entirely different will thanks to understanding. Nothing can gives us much better impact, better example on the power of understanding than that.

Fine, so we agreed that aliens in gundam is not a bad thing. Also, yes, I agree that the story telling could be better. I don't mind people noticed a flaw in something I like and making said flaw as a huge negative aspect. I do that sometimes, for example I nitpicking CCA simply because Quess and Hathaway is annoying. However, I still believe that this movie and aliens inside are necessary to end the whole OO saga. It fits the whole theme of understanding AND fulfilling Aeolia's prophecy at the same time. By having "dialogues to come", the last chapter of Aeolia's plan, as the end of the story is a brilliant move. If you look it that way, the whole flashback scene of young Aeolia talking to Ribbons look-alike have much bigger impact. So you said that this movie is unnecessary and prefer to have different outcome. Do you have any idea how to continue the story of season 2 then? Without losing the whole understanding theme and keeping Aeolia's plan relevant including "dialogues to come" part? Just a reminder, in season 1 CB followed that plan faithfully like a religion. And later Ribbons plotting everything just to take over the plan for himself. Making a new story without having reference to oh-so-important plan, now that's what I'll call continuity break.

While it's nice to have full 50 episode of Unicorn epicness, I don't think it will retain the same quality if the production team rushed to complete one episode per week. Not to mention fillers and unnecessary plot that may result from having to filling 50 episodes quota. What made Unicorn as good as it now can be contributed to long production time and of course, bigger budget than weekly shows.

I can't defend this movie further without sounding like a fanboy. I like the movie, but it's not the best ever and could be better. Still it's not bad enough to entirely hate or despise the movie. I know that fans' opinion will split in two about introducing aliens into gundam. As for myself, I really don't mind. There's a lot of reasons I can think of but I can't express it effectively (also due to my bad english hence my posts didn't get my points across effectively) So pardon me to quote people from other forum, they summed it much better than I am Mind you, I know nothing about Star Trek but I do agree with that last statement . I really don't know anything about Star Trek so I can't comment on that. EDIT: ok, after I took a rest for awhile I think about this over and finally collect my thoughts. First of all, if you really think that aliens don't belong in gundam, look all those I quoted above. Secondly, you can't just judge "gundam is all about this and that and never that". Gundam is a franchise that still evolving and I'm sure in the future we will get something far more unexpected than just aliens. You just have to break that barrier of tradition. You can argue that "00 which has never been based upon aliens after two entire seasons", but you can't just conclude OO for only those two season of TV series. Why? Simply because the movie is already planned when season 2 is under production. Thus, the ending of 2nd season is made with upcoming movie in mind. To put it simply, the movie is a part of the whole OO story. It's never a shameless plug-in to ride OO popularity. Refusing to accept the movie and content with just 2nd season is the same as you watched a whole series but not the final episode. You have to put the movie in consideration when you summed up OO as "about this and that". Lastly, this talk about aliens make us forgot the whole theme of OO (not just the movie).Hopefully you still remember, it's about UNDERSTANDING. I admit it's preachy, but OO sticks to it to the very end. ELS is just a medium to tell us that even we can make peace with something like that through understanding. In the end, OO is about human and always centered on human.

Well I'm not Bandai insider,and all those things I said are something that Bandai or production crew likely won't confirm. I didn't try to convince you, just my theories that I conclude from what I've seen and gather since the first ever trailer. Honestly, I don't understand what you mean with continuity break, it's actually flow much better than SEED to Destiny. The challenges that CB faces are different on both season and this movie. They progressively moving on to different kind of conflict, not repeating the same conflict again and again. Is it too hasty to introduce aliens? Looking back to season 1, we didn't know that there will be this "innovator" thing complete with glowing eyes. We thought we won't have newtype-ism phenomenon like that but then we have it. Without any hints. At that point, we should've ready for anything. Even aliens. It's not surprising that aliens appeared on OO universe (cause anything can happen there). Yes it looks like a hasty move to end OO just like that but that's what makes this movie necessary. To end OO universe entirely. Endless Waltz ended Wing by having the pilots sever the ties with their gundams forever. Char's Counterattack kills both Amuro and Char so we can move on to F91 and leave that Amuro-Char rivalry behind. This movie ended up OO story when humans finally contacted and coexisted with aliens so they can move on to other things like exploring the universe instead of, say, fighting each other endlessly. Or do you prefer the movie ended with CB solving another human conflict then disbanded without being assured that humans won't get into another conflict again? Now that's what I called hasty.

Maybe it's within his plan all along. But hey, look at the outcome. At least humans now have overtechnology similar to Macross thanks to contact with aliens. No, what I mean is that the trailers and promotional stuff are misleading. Just watching the movie alone is fine. Materials released after the movie probably can help us understand the story better. But not all that stuff before premiere. Probably because during season 2 production they haven't finalized the concept of aliens that will appeared on the movie. "We'll have aliens for the movie, but we haven't thought about how they look like. Giant human? Space bugs? Nah, it's done before," . Indeed it was. It's just that Bandai/Sunrise didn't confirm from the beginning about aliens existence in the movie. They kept giving us hints but misleading us with Descartes Shaman .

Well, you may not know his name just looking at the trailers, but it's easy to see that they put heavy emphasis on that new character. From that sinister eyes and huge red Mobile Armor he piloted, it's easy to assume he will be the villain. Also, many artwork promoting the movie made Descartes looks like the main baddie or even Setsuna's rival. Turns out they never met at all. Mizushima is trolling us It's true that ELS timing is way too convenient. However, having them in season 2 would make the season even messier than it is. Major complain of season 2 is lack of characters development due to having too many of them and too many plot to cram too. Adding a whole new plot like ELS arrival will make things worse. The earliest trailer shows OOQ blocking a purple beam, it's a hint but nothing mentioned about aliens. People thought that new villain faction have somewhat different GN Drive or something. The world ELS itself is revealed not too long before premiere. And in complicated way. IIRC, there's some sort of code on magazine or something then when the code matched with a string of numbers that flashes in The Back Horn (the band that sings the opening song) video clip, "Extraterrestrial Living Shapeshifters" appeared. Only in latest trailer we saw ELS in their metallic glory.

Probably they think "dialogue to come" from Aeolia's plan is enough hint. I agree that it's better if they give us less cryptic hint. But "alien in gundam?!" surprise will have less impact then. Remember that they hyped up Descartes Shaman so much that we thought he's going to be main villain of the movie. If I remember correctly, revelation about ELS was not made until just one month before premiere.

^There is OO movie thread here, my posts are moved there (and most likely yours and mine here too). But anyway, regarding how is it related to the series, it is related. Remember Aeolia's grand plan: to eradicate war and unite humanity with Celestial Being, then making humans understand each other better (by the rise of Innovators)so they will ready for "upcoming dialogue". And that "dialogue" is ELS contact we saw on the movie. The movie is a wrap up of the whole CB campaign, that's why Sumeragi called it "our last mission".They won't succeed without all the efforts they did back in season 1 & 2. That's the relation I can think of.

Smartphone for army? It's not complete without "gun function"

I remember not a long ago when Kojima production said they're going to release a new game. Fans excited and speculated it's ZOE 3. But then it's ended up as something else (MGS Rising, or something). Well, hopefully this year's E3 or TGS will bring us some good news. Riobot line clearly mentioned the 2nd game title on their promotional poster, while Revoltech Jehuty seems to have those bits that only powered-up Jehuty from 2nd game have. I think they just choose the latest one.

Eh, why it's "ETA 2007" ?