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  1. Renato
    Yeah, there's always Shapeways, and there's always this book: http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E8%B6%85%E6%99%82%E7%A9%BA%E8%A6%81%E5%A1%9E%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9-SDF-1%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E8%89%A6-%E5%BE%B9%E5%BA%95%E8%A7%A3%E5%89%96-2400%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB-%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E8%89%A6%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E4%BB%98%E3%81%8D~/dp/4839955123
  2. Renato
    Details here: http://www.macrossworld.com/kazutaka-miyatake-exhibition-coming-in-october/ Discussion here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=42964
  3. Renato
    I figured if this doesn't deserve its own thread, nothing does. http://www.macrossworld.com/kazutaka-miyatake-exhibition-coming-in-october/ The City of Yokosuka will hold a Kazutaka Miyatake exhibition from next month — on an actual BATTLESHIP. Kazutaka Miyatake is a living legend. He, along with Kunio Okawara (who incidentally currently has his own exhibition running at the Ueno Royal Museum until the end of September), practically created the “mechanic designer” position in the animation industry. He is famous for having worked on the Powered Suit design for the Japanese editions of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers — immensely influential in the history of Japanese animation as it informed every robot design in anime thereafter including Mobile Suit Gundam. He is renowned for his design work on Space Cruiser Yamato, Super Dimension Century Orguss, Aura Battler Dunbine and of course, pretty much every Macross series: SDF, DYRL, Seven, Dynamite, Zero, Frontier, and most of the games (except Macross II ). As bonus trivia, his credit in Macross: Do You Remember Love was “Production Design” — in other words, he created the entire world of the theatrical Macross movie from scratch, a feat that traverses the boundaries of “mechanic design”. A talk show will be held on the 24th of October with guests Miyatake-sensei and fellow Studio Nue member, the legendary SF illustrator Naoyuki Kato! The Kazutaka Miyatake Gengaten will be held from October 24th to November 23rd at the HIJMS Memorial Battleship “Mikasa”. Info about the Mikasa in English here: http://www.kinenkan-mikasa.or.jp/en/build_of_mikasa.html Info on the event in Japanese here: http://www.city.yokosuka.kanagawa.jp/4450/nagekomi/20150911.html
  4. Renato
    OMG OMG OMG The City of Yokosuka will hold a Kazutaka Miyatake exhibition from next month! A talk show will be held on the 24th of October with guests Miyatake-sensei and fellow Studio Nue member, the legendary SF illustrator Naoyuki Kato! http://www.city.yokosuka.kanagawa.jp/4450/nagekomi/20150911.html Forgot to mention that the exhibition will be held aboard the actual BATTLESHIP MIKASA!! http://www.kinenkan-mikasa.or.jp/en/build_of_mikasa.html This calls for a celebration:
  5. Renato
    You'll find that the regular edition has actually gone down in price if you shop around. I only have the limited edition so I can't help with comparisons with the regular one, unfortunately. With regards to the 35mm opening sequence, though, the reason it looks so bad is because it comes from the film of the actual episodes. If you go to the bonus material and watch the title-less "clean" version of the openings/endings, you will find that they look absolutely stunning. They are perfect, from colour to contrast; as if you were looking at the cels right in front of you in 1982. If only the whole thing was like that. Maybe you can splice that into the actual episodes to replace the grainy version?
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    It's been done. Doyusha did a whole line of valks, just the way you are describing. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/news/_news_n047.htm
  7. Renato
    So in other words, what you guys are saying is that in 10 years, you basically want to be in the 1980s-90s garage kit land again? http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/_models_resin.htm Oh well... The key to the future is in the past, and all that.
  8. Renato
    From the front page -- http://www.macrossworld.com/why-are-arcadia-products-so-expensive-by-mr-k/ I put up the translation just now, but it's for some reason the fourth entry down and you have to scroll past a lot of stuff, so unfortunately it might not get seen by many.
  9. Renato
    Don't forget last year's two Shinichiro Watanabe animes -- Zankyou no Terror (Terror in Resonance), which she scored, as well as Space Dandy, which she composed the ending theme for, featuring Etsuko Yakushimaru on vocals. The last thing she has done AFAIK is the opening for Aquarion Logos, sung by May'n, which is airing now.
  10. Renato
    Um, this is all well and good, but we did do an "all-American episode" last year for MWCon 2014, didn't we (and we even had Hidetaka Tenjin as guest!!)? So this is technically the second 'Muricast, as I see it. Thanks! Please do go back and listen to the others, too! Taste the rainbow! By the way, Tochiro did do a whole episode in Sydney back in February or so, featuring MW's very own ScreamMan as guest.
  11. Renato
    What on earth was so bad with the second Frontier movie?? It was pretty much the only thing I liked about Frontier. It's not a masterpiece like DYRL, but it was highly entertaining. I watched it twice in the cinema.
  12. Renato
    MAKES ME WANNA SCREAM!!
  13. Renato
    [sigh..] Allow me to quote my own response to the exact same thing, just FIVE POSTS ABOVE THIS ONE, ATOP THIS VERY PAGE. Since we're on the topic, I will say that I finally got round to going to this exhibition, and the Itano Circus section is extremely impressive. It is very, very well done, with a lot of production materials such as the pencil genga, layouts and some cels. I got the accompanying book from the exhibition, but unfortunately the Itano Circus is not in any of its 375 pages (that I can find, anyway)...
  14. Renato
    http://www.freakygaming.com/gallery/game_art/guild_wars/bowman Cool, but he's not a Macross character.
  15. Renato
    The Karaoke Ninja!
  16. Renato
    He cannot do that, Dave.
  17. Renato
    No problem, he's alive and well in Macross 30. I'm sure he just stuck around.
  18. Renato
    Quick, get HG on the phone!!
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    Why do we have a better chance of seeing one from Bandai? Arcadia has confirmed they own the VF-4 mold, along with the M7 ones and the VF-1. They already brought out the VF-1 and Fire Valk, I think we could see the VF-4 back once they are done with the VF-0 series.
  20. Renato
    Ah, so he's got Quadrophenia! "♪ Can you see the reeeeaaal meee, Doctor? DOCTOR?? ♪"
  21. Renato
    Is this another instance of the "The stuff I like must have been made by people other than those who made the stuff I don't like" argument? It's all Macross.
  22. Renato
    Wow, it's funny how everyone is watching this again recently. Just the other day I finished the entire run -- one episode a day on average -- with my wife. She had not seen the whole thing before, despite obviously knowing what a hardcore fan I am. She really enjoyed it! We have a custom in my household where we watch a half hour of TV over tea after dinner. We're taking a break from anime for a while now (prior to Macross we went through the whole of Dirty Pair and Shirobako) and instead we're going to do one episode a day of Big Bang Theory. I do want to watch Macross7 again, though....
  23. Renato
    It might be the tenth anniversary but it is the 20th anniversary of "Star Wreck: Hopefully the Last Generation", my own comic strip parody of Star Trek, which is a segment in a comic book I made in 1995. Never published it, though. One of these days I might scan it and upload it, I'm sure a copy is still somewhere in my mum's house.... Actually, I just remembered -- in it, I have an in-joke where Picard is talking to Worf about how he once played Professor Egg-savier in the live-action X-Men movie: this of course was half a decade before Patrick Stewart did just that. Man, such visionary potential... what the hell happened?
  24. Renato
    Have you watched it? It's a start.
  25. Renato
    Well, I guess they were "approaching the galactic core" in M7, not actually there. It also served to show off the VF-17 without it blending into the background.
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