No need to be mr encyclopedia :P and I believe I mentioned it or it's common knowledge G2 was mostly repacked G1 stuff. Common knowledge is typically wrong. While the first year of G2 was indeed mostly G1 redeos (well, entirely, if you realize the Skyscorchers, Color Changers, and Axelerators were ...

armada reverted to brick formers because people complained about the origami shellformers in RID Not really. Armada's toy design was heavily hampered by the minicon gimmick, with many toys (most notably Hot Shot and Stepper) suffering from 'the gimmick blocks absolutely frackin' everything). Also, ...

Something that bugged me or made me wonder recently. In Beast Wars and all that, how the heck could the Japanese mistake Air Razor as a male instead of a female Maximal? They didn't 'innocently mistake' her gender. They outright changed it out of fear that a female toy wouldn't sell. So, obviously,...

I take it you haven't seen ZZ Gundam. Which is, you know, the series the Capule/Kapool is from. I don't actually remember it being in there (not saying it isn't, just that I don't remember where it showed up). I do know it shows up heavily in Turn A, though, which was my point. The fact that it app...

Going to start Mechanix's move to mecha.com this week, which will be its long-term home. Adding a few new suits for pieces this week as well, as well as some needed code-cleaning. Zero Kai: http://mecha.com/~jaynz/mechanix/?cl_paint=White&cl_paint2=Blue&cl_paint3=Red&cl_paint4=White&...

Aren't you forgetting Gundam X? I guess I was. Okay, so Gundam AGE is the second-most closest AU show to the UC timeline. I'm not sure, but wouldn't the inclusion of the Kapool in Unicorn pretty much cinch Turn A as the 'far ahead future' of the UC? (I can't say if this wouldn't mean AGE wouldn't f...

They simply wanted the Archangel to go down as a 'valiant sacrifice' with all hands and neatly 'clean up' all the potential political embarrassment that the ship, crew, prisoners, and mobiles suits represented. Basically, since discovering Kira was a coordinator, Blue Cosmos just wrote off the whole...

More updates (mostly requests), from Gundam Tequila Gundam: http://www.mecha.com/~jaynz/mechanix/index.php?cl_paint=Beige&cl_paint2=Brown&cl_paint3=Dark+Gray&cl_paint4=Black&cl_joint=Gray&cl_trim=Red&cl_glass=Glass-Blue&pt_chest=MS_Tequila&pt_torso=MS_Tequila&pt_a...

Okay, the poll's over with... damn that's depressing for votes. Oh well. Double Impulse will start Monday as part of my '1000 words a day writing challenge'. It will be broken up into 39 'phases' which will roughly be analogous to a chapter of a novel. These won't be heavily edited at first... just ...

blind_dead_mcjones wrote:ditto for the justice, plus the gold frame/amatu...

I would expect the Justice (either version) to come well before the Amatsu or the Providence. Bandai has to go with what's popular and therefore sells.. Providence never got the major popularity and the Amatsu is obscure as hell.

Sume Gai wrote:THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I FEEL 00 WAS FAR SUPERIOR TO DESTINY IN TERMS OF FULFILLING ITS POTENTIAL

You know, I was on the fence about this discussion. But your use of all caps really changed my perspective. Now I accept that 00 (despite my not having seen it all) is the best series everzors!

Not quite sure how this can be a spoiler, but... Worse than Athrun only using the Saviour as transforming-practice, it's even more bewildering that ZAFT never rebuilt it AND Terminal never bothered to steal it. I mean, seriously, you mean that Terminal thought that stealing the Gaia was a better dea...

That's because the writers don't know their own show's science. Sadly true, particularly when Destiny came around and started inventing new 'science' every other episode for 'dramatic purposes'. If they had just black-boxed it, or at least didn't use real world terms for their super-science, it wou...

Quite contrary of Jaynz , AD is my one of my most favorite Gundam AU, and I enjoyed the show during its run. Oh, BTW, don't miss out the 00 movie too when you finished the TV series, Burke , I think the movie bring a good conclusion to the AD universe. :) Oh, I know there are 00 fans out there, and...

The Saviour is bloody awesome, Athrun should get shot for not using it to its full potential. One of the Hobby Japan magazines had a beautiful article where someone customized the Saviour into the CE's Zeta Gundam. It was an absolutely stunning work that actually made me want to see it as a HG mode...

Gundam 00 remains, in all honesty, the only Gundam series that I couldn't get through. I'm not exactly sure where it failed for me, but I completely lost interest in it. I don't want to color your amusing and usually upbeat reviews, though... I'm just wondering if I can see some of the reasons my in...

This goes into the realm of pure speculation (ie, making stuff up that has no basis in the animation), but I've always liked the idea that Neo is actually a clone. Given all the scars, etc., it's somewhat more plausible that survivors of the Dominion picked up him as they were leaving the battle-sc...

I think the question is, were the characters "warped", or was it just that previously hidden aspects of them were revealed as the plot moved forward? I don't think any of the characters in Destiny actually changed much during the show's run, it's just that their actions and personalities ...

Okay, something more cheery about SEED Destiny. My top five favorite suits from the series. 1) ZAKU. Yes, this may be a surprise since it's an homage/revisit of the classic design. In this case, though, the updated ZAKU really does work. The overall design makes perfect sense in an update, with adde...

I say go with the first one. The second one doesn't make much sense and I have a feeling the third idea would end up being too much like Macross Plus. Man, I have got to do better with these blurbs, don't I? The second one is basically "What if Gundam Wing was set in the CE universe?" and...