Thread is still getting bumps so I'll just make this last info dump and let it rest.
1. New IBO radio content: "Tekkadan broadcasting station" CD with two dics to be sold at comiket, illustrated jacket, 3,240 yen:
Disc1: Mika, Chad, Takaki and Aston
Disc2: Shino and Yamagi
2. 45x45 cm Ryuseigo pillow sold at coimket
http://www.onsen.ag/sp/comike/3. Another Shino/Yamagi-only doujin event announced on February 18th.
4. Shino took 1st spot in a "Who would you most like to go to a Matsuri with" poll on
gundam.info site.
http://www.gundam.info/content/1904 These polls are pretty inconsequential although sometimes they attribute to how much attention a character is later gonna get in merch and such so Shino taking two first spots in a row is nice. He also accumulated well over 1100 votes, which is really a lot of votes for this kind of poll.
5. IBO took some spots in Animage's 39th Anime Grand Prix:
Male: 2nd: Mika 413 votes, 5th: Orga 230 votes, 6th: Yamagi 184 votes, 8th: Eugene 138 votes, 23rd: Sino 64 votes, 44th: McGillis 39 votes, 61th: Gaelio 21 votes
Female: 2nd: Kudelia 306 votes, 5th: Atra 184 votes, 6th: Lafter 168 votes
Anime: 1st with 967 votes
Seiyuu: 3rd: Hosoya 321 votes, 7th: Nobunaga 245 votes, 8th: Kawanishi 230 votes, 11th: Umehara 184 votes, 12th: Maeno 156 votes, 13th: Saito 148 votes, 16th place: Sakurai 135 votes, 17th place: Murata 130 votes, 37th place: Terasaki 50 votes, 47th place: M AO 37 votes, 51th: Hanae 30 votes
Song: 2nd: Freesia 295 votes, 4th: RAGE OF DUST 236 votes, 9th: Fighter 121 votes
6. Random info from BD commentaries, books and interviews:
>McGillis is the strongest pilot after Mika. All gundam frames are created equally in terms of strength/ability levels>Gaelio was only able to beat McG because of boosted ability of Kimaris combined with Ein's ability.>Ein has no 'conscious self and desire to fight', that part was covered by Gaelio when battling with Type-E mode.cont.