Re: There are no old, bold anime fans...

Tsugumi wrote:
> "Justin Palmer" <justin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(snip - ZAMAC. Not what they call a Big Mac in France, apparently).
>>
>> http://www.cg-lair.co.uk/other/other_pic231.htm
>>
>> I must have seen it somewhere, possibly at Macross World. Apparently,
no, 
>> there wasn't a series, presumably because the Bandai
Death-Copyright-Star 
>> would have blown them off the face of Japan.
>>
>> Apparently, mecha design legend and head-of-Section-9-in-his-spare-time

>> ****nji Aramaki was involved.
>>
> 
> Ah thanks for the info. I remember the five pilots featured on the box
art 
> fitted the standerd "team", i.e. leader bloke, female, slightly
dangerous 
> bloke, wierd sqeaky of undetermined gender and hefty bloke. Having seen 
> "Battle of the Planets", at the time, I naturally assumed the kits must
be 
> based on a series.

	You're welcome. I wonder what the other designs looked like, and if 
they escaped to the West under different guises, like certain 
Transformers and Revells pre-Robotech "Convertors" kits...


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