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While Salvation wasn't a huge success, it did make a bit of money. Salvation Gross: $371 million (Cost $200 million to make) http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=te...orsalvation.htm For reference (yes I know about inflation)... T2 Gross: $519 million (Cost $109 million) http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htm T3 Gross: $433 million (Cost $200 million to make) http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator3.htm What they really need to do is hold these series for established directors. Still, I enjoyed T:S more than 99% of the movies I've seen this year, and it was definitely better than T3

Does anyone know if youtube compresses or has you compress the video to a certain format (.flv?) before uploading? I suspect so, as a HD .mkv file in the same length as this video would be several hundred megabytes, and I don't think youtube would have the bandwidth to upload that constantly for the trillions of videos they host. If there is compression, then this vid looks worse than it really is. I thought of that upscaling and color changing thing, as I remember a few years ago, there was a lot of that going on with decoders like ffdshow. People were sharing settings that really cleaned up anime video playback compression artifacts.

Edit: For people clicking the link, you might have to click the little HD button at the lower right of the video to see the HD version, then click fullscreen. I didn't think there was an HD release yet. This looked sharper than the DVD remaster I thought. What do you guys think?

Yeah, the F-104s do make an interesting sound...

I know I saw a fansub of OAV 1 before it was released in the US. 1994 or 1995, don't know. The rest I saw as they came out dubbed in the US one by one. I remember the 4th OAV took forever to come out, I kept checking every week at some shop in the mall in Spokane, WA (where I grew up). Anyways, Macross Plus is my favorite Macross. Great designs, music, action, and story. Love it!

New desktop background! Nice pic.

Arrived on 8/13. Only got 1/3 the way through it, not too many new things so far, but it's still pretty cool.

Me too. W00T

Just wanted to point out the amazingly well done "engrish" on John's regult kit here. LOL click Pic stolen from Vermillion One's current for sale thread.

Yeah, post up some of your builds. If John is reading, do you build any of your own kits? How about other kits? If so, post some pics!

Well, at least we got 2 fantastic toys out of it. I'll keep my hopes up for more though.

I think they're gigantic dual sports. They sort of have fairings like street bikes, but look a lot like dirt bikes from some angles. Though they are missing anything resembling a mud guard.

You forgot Street Hawk. I don't remember a Thunder Boat though.

Looks like this is the 6th maybe? First one... 2nd... 3rd... 4th... 5th... 6th...(This one.)

How many VF-1Ds have you done now? LOL. Looks great.

That's the first person that popped into my head when I read the topic question. I agree with you.

"McG" answers fans questions... http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/16...526/story.jhtml Christian Bale does the same... http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1612077/story.jhtml

What else do people expect for a future war movie? I saw it today, and liked it a lot. If anything, it was more exciting than T3. Not as good as T1 or T2, but it had tons of action at least. They did what they could with the plot considering the other movies outlined what would happen. I was pleasantly surprised by the changes. Arnold's cameo looked pretty good for CG.

If you really want to rip on something, Macross Plus had some major anime magic where Isamu was entering earth's atmosphere and the YF-19 started to tumble with no power (to keep from getting sighted by UN Spacy weapons). I think the ship would have burnt up immediately, and Isamu would have blacked out right then and there. They're sci-fi cartoons, give them some slack. I'm impressed that the radio control renditions fly at all.

True, I hope they're going this route.

I'm pretty excited to see this now. The only thing that's bugging me is the creation of all the new Skynet hardware. I guess if these are old models and will be replaced it's fine. So far there's some weird multi legged man-sized HK, as well as the giant headless HK that abducts people. We haven't seen the tank tread HK's from the old movies, and for some reason the aerial HK's have been revamped, and now there's a smaller type. Oh, and the mototerminators, don't know what to think about them.

The faction building the HK's and the power plant are one and the same. She killed them once she found out about them. They weren't working for her, which is what I thought when I first saw it.

The only place I've seen it for order is Overdrive, but I haven't checked into it that much. TMPAnime does not have it for order.

Yes, that's what I mean. An episode or two back, someone was tapping on the fishtank, and Weaver told them to stop disturbing the fish.

That blob was one of the eels in the fishtank. Kinda cool, wonder if it was intelligent and could carry on without her.