Thanks to the god-like skills of the amazing Monkey, we have an AWESOME new design for the Macross MUSH website . Thank you, Monkey! Also of note, the Macross MUSH mailing list is up and running! Send an email to majordomo@betterbox.net with "subscribe macross" in the body to join the list!

New article, folks! I'm sorry! I have no idea what happened to the update schedule.

I've just updated Macross MUSH's website with a new logo and logs for you to read! Yay!

Whew. Well, that was fun. That's it for the mailbag for now. Hope you guys found this amusing.

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:12:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Jason Schooling [midnightxpress77@yahoo.com]
Subject: Korean VS. Chinese?
To: bravesaga@masterforce.org

How's it going!-First,I would like to thank the shit
out of you guys for all the catalogues---an incredible
help.Second-I'm very concerned about these Korean
boxed Brave guys-why are we seeing so many of them all of a sudden? I am trying to find out the manufacturing history of the brave robots--I have the might gaine series in it's intirety-in the sealed origonal
boxes(at least the were sealed before I got my grubby
american hands on them)-on all of them it says:made in
korea--???!!!!!!????----now my friend has the Goldran
series---these say made in taiwan!!!!????????(also
origanal boxed guys) My paranoia has given me this
theory:Maybe for the first 5years the used a korean
factory to manufacture these first robots(cost cutting
reasons?)then maybe with Goldran in 95 they switched
to the taiwan maufacturer for some other buisness
reason--I don't know just write me back if you know
anything about this(I've also seen these korean boxed
guys& they are the exact same thing [golran
ambulance,mic sounders,fighbird)THanks! Jason Schooling

Hi Jason. Glad you enjoy our Brave shrine. I'm afraid I don't know where the individual toys were manufactured. I can tell you the Korean releases were manufactured in Korea by Sonokong under license from Takara. I don't recall where the Japanese releases were manufactured, but I would not be surprised if it was China or Taiwan. Very few Japanese toys are actually manufactured there these days. Anyway, my assumption is that you have the Korean releases of Might Gaine (which were all over eBay recently) seeing as Might Gaine wasn't shown all that long ago in Korea, and the toys came out there fairly recently. The Goldran toys made in Taiwan were probably the Japanese releases.

I had Hellbunny check her Sonokong Fighbird STD and it was manufactured in Korea just like the dragon brothers from Might Gaine that I used to have.

It's easy to tell the Korean releases from the Japanese ones... they have Korean writing on them, which is rounder and has more circles than Japanese. Look at our Korean Brave catalog scans for examples.

From: "Melfina Coen" [mmeellggiibbssoonn@hotmail.com]
To: ginrai@masterforce.org
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:14:07 -0600
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Mar 2003 14:14:08.0068 (UTC)

What ever happened to the 1993 mega-seller
PC game 'Ninja Barbie: Assault'? I cannot seem to find it anywhere. It was a collaberation work of 3-D Realms(C) & a Mattel(C) subsidiary company. Please! Let me know!

CARINTENASIS

... Are you a lunatic? I've never heard of any such thing and doubt strongly it exists. Maybe you should seek some professional help.

Even if this game did exist, why the hell do you think I'd know about it?

Jesus.

More fan mail! The mail don't stop!

From: "Andrew Chick" [andrew_chick@rogers.com]
To: ginrai@masterforce.org
Subject:
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:31:52 -0500
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106

do u have a close up pic of the VOLTREX.?? thanks

Well, not really. But here is the best I can do. I took it last summer when I was trying to get rid of some junk.

From: "Chris Brenes" [cbrenes@tamu.edu]
To: ginrai@masterforce.org
Subject: or exosquad?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:15:09 -0600
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024

Thanks!

Chris Brenes
Supply Chain Management
Graduation May '03

No, dammit! We're not selling Exo-Squad toys either! We're not selling toys at all!

From: "Chris Brenes" [cbrenes@tamu.edu]
To: ginrai@masterforce.org
Subject: Tech Wars figures for sale?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:15:09 -0600
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024

Do you have any tech wars figures for sale? Thanks!

Chris Brenes
Supply Chain Management
Graduation May '03

No. We do not have any Tech Wars figures for sale. This is not a dealer website. We do not sell things here. It's nice to know you're in supply chain management... not that I have any idea what the hell that means. And you're graduating in May 2003? Good for you. You also thoughtfully included your email address, but I left that out so you didn't get thousands of prank calls. I know, I know. I'm all heart.

Even more fan mail. This was sent to Hellbunny, God only knows why... Feel free to comment, MFOers.

X-Originating-IP: [65.30.155.51]
From: "The_Wolfen@hotmail.com" [the_wolfen@hotmail.com]
To:
Subject: A question.
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:20:04 -0600
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Mar 2003 00:20:03.0624 (UTC)

I was actually curious if I you might be able to link me to the email address of the fellow known as sarik, as in the one who wrote the fetish alert posted on masterforce,org. Or failing that at least relay a message to him. Awaiting your reply. Gabriel Patrick Svetnicka

Hi Gabe! Wow, aren't you that guy who draws those horrible, nasty furry hentai eating-each-other-during-sex pictures? Gross, man. You should see a shrink or something. If Sarik wants to talk to you, he knows how to email you now! Thanks!

More fan mail:

From: Soundguy1031@aol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:27:44 EST
Subject: Jetfire canopy?
To: jetfire@masterforce.org
X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 230

Greetings, i have a question regarding the canopy of the Jetfire. My friend recently noticed that the canopy one of his Jetfires is different than the one i have, they are both marked bandai on the inner chest/underside
but the canopy on one is kinda blue/grey , also one canopy has a seem/hinge line,while the other is '"longer" and more "single seater " looking, Just wondering, maybe you know. thomasp

Hmm. Well, I can't be absolutely certain without pictures, but there are a couple of possibilities. It could be just a Matsushiro canopy stuck on a Bandai Jetfire, or it could be just a odd variant of Matsu-Bandai. My bet's on the latter. Hope that helps a little!

This is another message from friendly and manic Edgar Lizarraga. It was actually sent to Hellbunny, but I figured it's okay if I post it here and any MFOers who want to comment on it can do so.

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:41:22 -0800 (PST)
From: edgar lizarraga [edgar16ma@yahoo.com]
Subject: with all my drunk love to ya guys
To: hellbunny@masterforce.org

hey man... this is drunkbum I'm complaining about a link ya' guys got to register to ez board . it doesn't work dude!!! Well at least I wrote something, well by the way I just recently discovered your site, and i got to say it KICK ASS!!!! specially by ginrai and hellbunny stuff, I 'm a fan of you both............well got to go, but is there a way I can become a member?.

see ya, by da way here is a picture i sent to ginrai, sorry this is the only one i have right now

You can't register for the BBS? Oh well. No one writes on it anyway. I'm glad you're a fan, but really... lay off the sugar. If you're asking if there's any way you can become a writer for MFO, uh, take an English class and get back to us.

Oh yeah, and that picture... I didn't think it was funny the first time, but Hellbunny did.

More lovely fan mail.

X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:43:56 -0800 (PST)
From: William Pratt [hitlerbitch@godisdead.com]
To: ginrai@masterforce.org, fuckblogs@masterforce.org
Subject: God was my co-pilot ...
Reply-To: hitlerbitch@hitlerbitch.com
X-Originating-Ip: [67.234.71.87]

... but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. You might enjoy a visit to my Humble Website. I am not selling anything.

=============
HITLERBITCH
http://www.hitlerbitch.com
The fool says in his heart, "There is no god."
The wise man says it to the whole world.
================

Wow. Way to toss yourself at me, buddy.

Comments: Hilterbitch is a really, really stupid handle. Your website is ugly. The content is boring, stupid, and anything but humorous. I don't care that your mommy didn't love you when you were growing up and you now blame it all on Jesus. Your sig is stupid. Hmm... did I forget anything? Oh yeah. Why the hell did you email me, again?

I'm cleaning out the old mailbox and going through the fan mail. Here's another one:

Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:30:47 -0800 (PST)
From: edgar lizarraga [edgar16ma@yahoo.com]
Subject: WAIT FOR MORE DUDE!!
To: gin@masterforce.org


HEY MAN!!!! I just recently discovered your site, and hell dude god damn cool thanks to you and hellbunny i'm a fan of you both damn it........well i'll send ya' some better pictures man some day

well see ya' dudes

I'm glad you enjoy the site and think it's wonderful and everything, but dude, take some downers or something. Relax, buddy.

Fan mail time!

From: "Jenn West" [jwest3233@yahoo.com]
To: jwest3233@yahoo.com
Subject: Hey !
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:03:29 +0200
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
Importance: Normal


Hi my name is Jenny. I came across your email when I was searching profiles on the internet. I am new to the area and am looking for someone to show me around town. If you're interested in learning more about me and maybe hanging out sometime, just email me back or visit my website here and we can talk or chat over instant messenger. If I don't here from you, I will assume you're not interested.

Hope to hear from you soon!

- Jenny

Thanks for writing, "Jenny". I really like how your header has this message addressed to yourself. I guess that means this is spam! But creative spam. "Her" website naturally has a URL with the word "sex" in it 85 times or so. Yawn.

The loveable Hellbunny made some new pictures with her tablet. Enjoy!

They are Soundwave from Transformers and
Frankenstein's monster's cat... Hello Kitty.

Booga!

I made a mad picture of Brad the hybrid. He will shoot yo ass down, mofo. Hellbunny's new tablet r0x0rz my s0x0rz.