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For all our CollectionDX readers going to Anime Boston 2013, I will be hosting a panel on my favorite subject: Macross! This panel is called Flight of the Valkyries: A Guide to the Mecha of Macross and will be held in Panel 206 on Friday May 24th at 4:00 PM. In this panel I will be going over the real life history of the various Valkyries using information graciously provided by Renato from the Macross Speaker Podcast as well as relating these fictional aircraft back to the real world airplanes they are based on. The panel is set to last for an hour and I hope it will be very informative for those who attend!

I am joined once again by Carl aka SDshamshel of Ogiue Maniax to discuss the recent anime AKB0048, which was directed by Shoji Kawamori with Mari Okada as the head writer.

Check out his post on how actual AKB48 songs are used in AKB0048.

If I had to sum up AKB0048 in one image it would be this:

Freedom fighting idol singers just doing their thing.

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Beware of spoilers and the No Fun police.

I am joined once again by Renato from the Macross Speaker Podcast to discuss the history of Yamato Toys and their dedication to making some of the best Macross toys that (lots) of money can buy!

You can click here to see all the Yamato Toys products we have reviewed here at CollectionDX. I will also point out links to key reviews in the notes.

In the first part of the podcast we covered their original Macross Plus toys from way back in the year 2000 to their first VF-1 toys.

Josh's review of the 1/72nd scale YF-19 Alpha One toy.

Josh's review of the 1/72nd scale VF-11B Thunderbolt toy.

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sky High.

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C-C-Catch the wave! Catch it if you can, can!

The fan favorite Valkyrie known as the VF-4 Lightning III had a rough journey to being a machine with scant seconds worth of screen time to a fully realized transforming fighter.

It began humbly enough with the VF-X-4 prototype seen briefly as a scale model in the last episode of Super Dimension Fortress Macross. This served only as a tease for what was to come. The VF-X-4 possesses a similar layout and overall design as the final VF-4 but still differs in some of the finer details.

I am joined by fellow CollectionDX reviewer Anavel to discuss Eureka 7 AO in all of its strange glory.

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PUT IN THE CYBER CYCLE DISKS YOU DAMN DIRTY DOG!

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Arshad and I discuss the muddled mess of pixie dust known as the second season of Gundam 00.

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Fellow CDX reviewer Arshad aka AceWhatever and I discuss the maddening world of Votoms spinoffs.

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Become an AC repairman in the harsh future of CRASH AND BURN

Aquarion EVOL is a very silly show and myself and Sdshamshel from Ogiue Maniax enjoy discussing with some spoilers.

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