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The main guy worked for SNN. I'm sure there were other networks there.

I don't think its a character for character pseudo-reimaging of SDF Macross. Both female love interests are singers, and Alto, in my mind, totally comes off as Milia.

But isn't that what they are promoting him as? "Trainee student pilot (main character?). 16 years old. He was born in the lineage of Kabuki female role and is a genius pilot, so he went against his father's wish and hopes to become a pilot."

I thought Alto was supposed to be the genius pilot of this series, mecha color aside.

Makes me think of a VF-4 crossed with a Stampede. I just love the design, I think its even better than the YF-21. Just gorgeous.

Its looks like designs for a KotOR game (multiple outfits on several models, based on class), and it looks Sith influenced. Lightsaber and Sith eyes shown as well.

Outside of an original VF-1's, in my mind there is no other Macross toy that is more of a must have than a VF-25 in full armor.

From TheForce.net: ... KotOR III Artwork Uncovered? Posted By Mike on March 1, 2008 See the related links below for our ongoing coverage and hopes for a new KOTOR game. On that note, N4G.com is reporting that they have stumbled across a hidden folder at JZConcepts.com, website of LucasArts artist James Zhang that contains concept art for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic III. The source article mentions that this could be from an old canceled project or a new one. Naturally our hopes are for a new game, which would certianly fall in line with the rumors swirling around the good old interweb. Though nothing has been officially announced, this seems to comfirm that the game was at least in the works at some point. Click here for a look at some of the artwork. UPDATE: Our friends at EUCantina.Net did some following up with artist James Zhang and here is what he had to say about the KOTOR 3 artwork: “I’ve never used photobucket — those images were swiped off a private folder on my website, and certainly weren’t intended for public use.” “I can’t really comment on anything regarding the images.” Well, that's certainly not a denial about KOTOR 3. We still have hope until we hear something official one way or another. ...

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Not the place for this discussion, but I think you need to stop basing your knowledge of paramilitary forces on video games, movies, and comic books. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it mentioned somewhere that Ozma was either kicked out of or denied entry as a pilot into NUNS? I am curious to see exactly who these people who make up the SMS are, how did they end up there.

Here is a take: Rachel is the unicorn who let down her guard, having fallen asleep in Deckard's "lap", thus allowing Gaff, the hunter, to make his move. However, he let her live, and he let Deckard leave.

Of unicorns, Leonardo DiVinci said, "The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it." It's symbolic meaning in the film isn't anywhere near as clear as the chicken and the, uh, erect man.

Uh huh, independent contractors. Paramilitary force.

Somebody did, because its used in the mvk release.

What is Genius party? Looks like some sort of new Robot Carnival-ish deal.

The Unicorn to me always meant that Gaff had been there, he knows she is there, and he's let her live. He's basically telling Deckard he's free to go.

I mean, here's a guy who is dead inside. The demons from his years as a Blade Runner and living in that hell hole of a city totally drained any sense of life out of this guy. And it takes 2 Replicants, these synthetic beings he's supposed to be hunting and killing, to bring him back to life, so to speak. There is no story otherwise. Ridley Scott just has his head up his backside on this one.

So says Ridley Scott, but it was never the intention of the script writer for him to be so, and Harrinson Ford doesn't see him as one. Not only that, him being a Replicant totally ruins what this movie is about, a guy who has forgotten what its like to really live, to be human, who in the end comes to rediscover his humanity through people who are not human at all. His character works because, in the end, they are both searching for the same thing, and only through them can he find it. That's what makes the movie so powerful. Otherwise its just a sci-fi action flick with a cliched plot twist.

I'd like to buy this in the US, I really would. Just not an option for any of us here, hell, anyone outside of Japan.

Hurin's house.

Well, its based on the manga, not the anime, so that is a plus. And he's not directly involved, just his production company is.

The real winners are those who waited and didn't go with either format. Now we get to wait for Blu-ray player prices to drop over the next year, and we can transition over without any worry.

I want to push that thread for a sticky. I've discovered several wonderful anime series because of it, and I am sure others have as well.

The show was a convoluted mess. I don't know exactly what else there is to say about it. This stuff is never as hard to remake as they make it seem to be. And in the process, they hose it all up.

Talking game engine, LB.