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Well, as it happens, I will be on my travels again in a couple of months and will be in Tokyo a couple of weeks after this is released. Time and opportunity permitting, we'll have to see...

I just found out about this today - wow, its about time! Another image from the "Mecha Damashii" website, taken at this years "Winter Wonderfest" exhibition:http://www.mechadamashii.com/wp-cont.....14.jpg

Except in Japan, where family names are often given first... (not sure how it works for doctors, though!) Could have been a cross-cultural mix-up...

Which is a neat trick in itself, considering that as far as anyone knows, Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface (except perhaps right at the core, but if you're that far into its atmosphere you'll have other worries, like being about a micron thick... Reminds me a little of a "Battle of the Plan...

Crash beat me to it by suggesting its a possible astronomical reference; theres a bit of a tradition in anime of mixing up astronomical terms (galaxy for solar system etc) - 70s/80s Leeji Matsumoto originating series like "Captain Harlock" are especially good/bad at that.

Wow, thats a great kit - the sort of thing I always dreamt of making as a kid watching the show, but out of washing-up bottles and double-sided tape...! Thanks for sharing!Just another thought about mecha dimensions - the "on-screen" dimensions are often variable for story reasons; "T...

You have to be careful with Gundams and dimensions - the original RX-78s proportions are based off it being a x10 scale proportionally compared to an "average" human, which is where its mass of approx. 72 tonnes comes from. The Gundams from "Wing", on the other hand, weigh about ...

Ah, sorry, didn't realise you were in the US.

Twenty years ago that would have been such an easy one to solve...! Only thing I can recommend is haunting second-hand shops and the like - theres a place in Reading near the railway station that has all kinds of SF-related items (including an Airwolf colouring book!) and which has a collection of s...

Well, each to his own I guess - I don't know how old that interview is, possibly they were influenced by designs around at the time they were making "Terrahawks" or when they were interviewed. Like everything, theres good and bad mecha design...