Renato

Issue 6 cover is up on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B0042FYEMO/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=AN1VRQENFRJN5 Arghh!! It's tainted!! Gaargh!

Ah, the Dreamcast. My brother-in-law found his recently, and he knew I had wanted to borrow it for ages because I own the Macross M3 game but no console, so I was going to bring it back with me when I was in town, but it was just too heavy to carry back. Maybe next time. I really want to limit the effort I put into this endeavour seeing as I've heard nothing but bad things about M3. In other news, recently I've been playing Game Boy Donkey Kong (the one with Mario in it) on the PSP. I loved this game as a kid, and I'm finding it really addictive once again now. Recommended!

Thanks. It must've been one of the tracks I replaced because I haven't heard it in ages.

Well, the standard edition was in print for many years, like a decade until it got replaced by the "HD Remaster" edition recently (of which I also have the collector's edition with the storyboard and lineart collection). Thank god for that, because to be honest, I hated DYRL on DVD up until that point. I would go as far as calling the movie unwatchable due to the horrible interlacing. The new remastered version is like seeing the movie properly for the first time.

Hey, look what I found in a shop this afternoon! It's the first pressing of DYRL on DVD, circa 1998. It comes packaged in a record/laserdisc sized box, with an enormous poster. I have never, ever seen this item before, and I knew I had to have it.

There is a download available online. Good hunting!

Both of my hatches open, they just don't stay open. The missile is molded in there. It's pretty cool. Also, as I briefly mentioned a while back, I still haven't seen any pics of the new Koenig with the feet in the correct configuration. Check both the lineart and the Yamato toy, then compare it to the Bandai toy.

whats the music o n the promo for the movie? ive definitely heard it before. and thanks for the heads up! renato, on psp

Wow, I always heard good things about SCART, but never had a TV with an input socket. And I'm so glad this thread is back... again! OK, so right now I'm playing (on PSP): PC-Engine perfection Soldier Blade (which is either tough as nails or I'm just crap) and SNES lost wonder "Super Back to the Future Part II". Yeah, I love that the passwords are actual four-letter words (for the most part). I got stuck in one of the first few levels so I inputted some random word and now I'm halfway through the game. Well, I guess I will eventually go back and do the other levels.

Maybe if it is at a really tiny scale. But if you mean 1/60, based on track record, there is more chance of Yamato mass producing their enormous 1/60 MkII Destroid Monster prototype (or hell, even a 1/1 scale Minmay doll) than Bandai undertaking anything like that. No, seriously.

OK, translation time! I understand what you are saying. It is true that HG's new work, "The Shadow Chronicles" is inferior when compared to "Macross Frontier". I saw the Blu-Ray Collector's edition of Shadow Chronicles at the home of a friend stationed at the Okinawa US Army Base. Also, I questioned the man who lied to me many times. He avoided my questions and left. However, even if his information is all lies, I am committed to improving the situation to the point that I decided by myself to come to Tokyo. I understand that Harmony Gold is preoccupied with gaining profit from their real estate business so that they are not so passionate about Robotech. Instead of HG, who has more passion for real estate, I myself will start up my own company and try to do something about this situation. I am well aware that these complex legal trademark conflicts are not going to go away just by my own efforts. I am not negating the Macross universe nor the Macross series. I have praise for both Macross and Robotech. I have repeated this many times, but without an intervening third person, it will be impossible for the two companies to understand their "mutual differences", and form an agreement. It is true that my main passion is "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross", and it is for this reason that I raise this issue. Japanese fans do not understand what the content of Robotech is. That is to say, they only know of the debates, that "that American Carl Macek did such and such to the animation of Japan", that there was Korean stuff ("Tekkon V" and the crappy-looking VF-J's design in "Gandam V" portraying it as a "hero" not a "mecha"), plus the Chinese "Astro Plan", which are considered mere "imitations", totally devoid of content; they do not know what any of these things are actually about. That's it for the first one, I will do the second post later!

Yamato cannot legally do any MF products, as we know. Thus Bandai has nothing to copy. Thus the VF-25 was an awful, awful toy. The VF-27 was apparently designed by FLEX, who also design for Yamato. And for argument's sake, let's go back to 2001. Hardly any VFs on the market until Yamato releases an original brand-new 1/60 VF-1. Bandai goes "oh, man! Bring out the reissues!" Which I bought, because I felt the quality is better on the vintage toys than the Yamatos of the time. But it still wasn't even Bandai, it was Takatoku I have to thank for that. 2003: Yamato 1/48 time. Bandai has nothing. 2004-Present: Kickass new molds every year from Yamato from here on in (INCLUDING the Koenig, to everybody's amazement), give or take a shoulder setback here and there. 2007/8: VF-1 1/60 version 2 from Yamato. Bandai Reissue time. Again. Snake eyes. This is starting to get ridiculous. Bandai's plan is to keep reissuing another company's toys, and not even the ones the fans want. 2009: Hi-metal VF-19: This is clearly reverse-engineered from a Yamato 1/60 YF-19. Development photos even show one of the legs and other areas looking identical to the Yamato YF-19. This is the biggest evidence for a case for plagiarism, essentially. 2010: Bandai Hi-metal VF-1. Wow. This is just a scaled down 1/60 with improvements, and we all know it. If this had come out before the 1/60 v2, what would it look like? And now we have the Koenig. It has the nose cannon. Well, that was worth waiting six years for, thank you, Bandai. OK, one thing: where is the VF-171? I wouldn't be surprised if we do not see it until after Yamato brings out a VF-17 of their own.

This is the "for sale" section of his site, NOT the page you mentioned. Notice the prices in euros. http://www.robotechcollections.fr/vente_collection.shtml You were too quick to jump to conclusions. Your photographs are not being used as false advertising. It was just his way of cataloguing bootlegs and rarities. Doesn't anyone but the Lone Wolf and I remember any French anymore? I wonder if Mr March was annoyed when he found that Bandai had used his coloured lineart for their poster promoting the VF-100s line last year.

OK, Wanzerfanboys, sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to say that Yui1107's is very interesting and I want to post a translation but since I'm currently out of town it will probably have to be sometime next week or so.

The pink paint on the sides of the head is scraping off on mine, because of the way the arms transform. Anyone else having this issue?

I think those are worth quite a bit now, especially in good condition. Incredible find. And that soccer game looks so cool, too.

?? You mean JuanRT = Shaloom??

I think TF the Movie, with all its faults, is really enjoyable and well-made. The series, however, in particular series 3, is just nostalgic for me. I was an enormous TF fan as a kid, and this show was my life. But as an adult, it's not something that I watch now or would ever bother nitpicking in terms of continuity errors and contradictions. In a way, I feel the same about the postwar arc of SDF Mac. I mean, the story was over; it just seems like they were dragging stuff on. Rodimus Prime's lack of confidence as leader in TF S3 and the post-apocalyptic trauma in Macross were both really mature themes that I'm glad are there, but they are not really fleshed out enough or are mired by other odd occurrences in the respective plots. At the end of the day, they are just cartoons, while DYRL and TFTM are for some reason cartoons that I can still enjoy on their own merits as movies, not just because of nostalgia. And Agent ONE, what the hell. I'm amazed that after 16 years, you still can't overcome your urge to get one random cheap shot at a show nobody even mentioned. Jeez, get over it. We're talking about Transformers here in this thread (oh, and about fifteen other threads, too. No, I haven't forgotten).

I think it's fair at this point in time to say that Bandai doesn't want to do anything Yamato didn't already do first, so if those things are included, I will be really surprised.

No, it was before his time. Keith was talking about Edo C. Andromedo, or Edo Andromedo C, I forget the correct order. And he used to be fascinated with "Ming-Mei"; I believe his reasons for not watching the movie were because they would ruin his impression of her from the TV show.

I would love to, but I'm not sure I understand it all myself. And that's saying something, as I've been following this for TEN YEARS.

Wow. By coincidence I randomly started watching The Wraith and suddenly she turns up out of nowhere. Didn't know she was in that! Does she still look anywhere near as good now?

OK. I guess I have to maximise the melee stats in the hangar, then. I say that because every time I have used melee attacks on any ships or bosses or anything large, it has never had any effect whatsoever.

I've always liked that one. I believe it was coloured by a member here, actually, but unfortunately I cannot remember who..

Huh. I beat it on normal Chronicle mode the other day just by doing my special melee move whenever it does its cheap trick of folding in front of you and firing up its main weapon. That way you're invincible for just the right length of time to avoid taking any damage. Apart from that, I kept shooting, dropping chaffs on its missiles, and eventually it's done. We'll see about Ultimate mode, though...