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Renato

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  1. Where are all these comparisons to Mazinkaiser coming from? You guys expect a hell of a lot from Nicktoons.
  2. I wonder if my DOB was 1900.
  3. I have a PSN account which I made for the sole purpose of downloading stupid free T-shirts to use on characters in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker about a year ago. I don't think I've logged on since, and my Firmware is out of date anyway so I can't access it without updating even if I wanted to. I don't even remember my user name, certainly not my password. I'm sure that I didn't put my credit card details, though, since I knew I wasn't going to use PSN for buying crap. My question is, what kind of details are stored? Are names and addresses required fields when signing up? Are there any other categories aside from those? I honestly don't remember anything, but I'd like to make sure just in case.
  4. Wow, that was quick.
  5. My thoughts exactly. That was the first thing that sent alarm bells ringing in my head. The other thing is that I think Arnie might look too old for this now. By the way, Graham, isn't it time to take off the Santa cap now?
  6. Did anyone play the Votoms video games? There was a supposedly really good one on the PS2 a couple of years back which follows the main series plus a couple of the OVAs. I tried to play the PS1 game called "Woodo/Kummen", but I really have no idea what to do, I can't even kill the first enemy.
  7. They sampled, without crediting, directly from the film itself. It is not jut "a sound effect", it is an entire couple of seconds worth of segment from the actual audio track of the movie. If they had taken a sound effect from a generic library, there would probably be no problem. Well, then, maybe Hikuro can tell Bandai to look in the mirror before casting the first stone...
  8. Yeah, often Audric and Jayce missed each other by a hair's breadth, kind of like An American Tail! Oh, and I thought Arm-Force was the best of the lot in terms of the mecha. Also, I remember there was one episode where they did meet the orginal Lightning League, and it turned out that they were a bunch of lazy losers now, who just played games (fighting robots etc) to amuse themselves, instead of actually doing anything heroic. I always liked that the main characters were not a "dream team" of heroes, like the X-Men or Avengers or something, but that they had been inspired by legendary heroes and did their best just to live up to that ideal. Then when they did meet up, they were shocked to learn the truth. But their inspiration was still real, and their causes were just. That was a good episode animation-wise, too.
  9. I love this custom and I love this thread, especially the way you explain in detail each and every step. I think this should be on the front page of the main site.
  10. Did they leave in the scene where they explode the giant bomb and use the sound of Slimer getting "busted" from the movie Ghostbusters? Because that one is obviously a sample directly taken from the film, thus a way more serious infringement than BGM which sounds similar to Chariots of Fire (which could be used for the sake of parody, which is what that scene obviously was).
  11. Sounds pretty cool! I noticed on that site that they are also selling batches of 50 reproduction genga from the movie. Now that sounds really interesting!
  12. Thanks for taking the time to write about this. Could I ask what in particular Bandai/Toei told you? Was it a straight-up cease-and-desist with threats of legal action? Or were you notified indirectly through Youtube, pointing to a general claim filed by the Bandai et al? Now that Youtube is getting rid of time-limits on upload for some accounts, I can imagine copyright holders becoming more anxious to shut stuff down, without even watching it properly. I wonder if Bandai even realized that Hikuro's work was not the work of professionals, but fans doing it for love of the craft.
  13. Renato

    Lego DesignByMe

    There's a Japanese builder in Tokyo called "Gimlet" who does stuff like this:
  14. I agree with you in principle but what I wanted to highlight was that the case of Macross 7 may be an exceptional one precisely because around half of the music featured in the show was NOT written and produced specifically for the show, but for previously existing movies, OVAs, TV shows, etc, and thus each are already catalogued in previous JASRACarchives, and may be subject to license fees per usage. The song the Jammingbirds sing, the Flaschakaya song that Mylene listens to in her car and Walkman, the Sharon Apple songs on the radio, the Yoko Kanno stuff playing through the speakers on Planet Zola: these tracks are all taken from other soundtracks. I heard that one of the issues preventing the release of The Wonder Years on DVD was music licensing. I wonder if a similar issue is involved in Macross 7. The only similar instances of BGM from another show being used in Macross Frontier that I can think of are in the Pineapple Cake episode where you can hear two Fire Bomber songs, and another one in Miss Macross when Ranka sings the Mylene arrangement version of My Boyfriend is a Pilot from the "Mylene sings Minmay" album.
  15. I loved this show as a kid. Growing up in Peru, my uncle in New York sent me Beta cassettes taped off TV before I could speak any English. Same with Transformers, I saw this show before its domestic broadcast, in a language I couldn't understand, but the visuals were so amazing I didn't care. Then later all these shows were shown in Spanish, and later still when I moved to the UK I caught the re-runs on satellite for years afterward. Good memories. That said, I personally think this is yet another of those shows like Transformers, Thundercats, Voltron, etc., that has little re-watch value outside of nostalgia, unless you have kids. I just can't get back into those shows now. I'll watch the odd episode on Youtube or something, but I'm not surprised that they only released the first half of the show on DVD. It's a shame, really, but not unexpected. However, I still do think that relatively speaking it is a much better-written show than those others I listed, and I heard that the writers went on to do Babylon 5 or something like that. Overall, I like the characters, the concept, the music, and it was a cool show for its time. I put it alongside Dungeons & Dragons, but just below Ulysses 31 (because I can watch that one as an adult with hardly any issues whatsoever). Did anyone else have a crush on Flora (I think that was her name)?
  16. I was under the impression that one complication with Macross 7 was that the show uses music from various other Macross shows: Macross II, Macross Plus, DYRL, etc. Effectively would one not need to also license the music from those separate works for international distribution?
  17. Yeah, it's "♪SEARCHING FOR ODIN, MY LOVE!♪"
  18. As far as I was aware, the voice actor for Cobra was always Nachi Nozawa, who recently passed away. He was only played by a different actor in the movie, and that was by that guy who sang the title song. Then again, I've been proven wrong before, so nothing I say about this show has any value anymore. About the movie, I don't hate it, visually I love it. But it just doesn't seem as "fun" as the TV show, and the newer stuff also seems to take itself too seriously. The movie itself came out in the UK precisely at the height of "manga mania" in the mid-90s, are you sure it didn't come out in Australia? I never saw it but I know they replaced a lot of the music with stuff by Yello. As in, the guys who did that "Oh yyyyyyyeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhh... Boom-boom, shukuh-shukaaahhh..." 'song' from "Secret of my Success" (I defy ANYBODY who claims they don't have a clue what I'm on about). Overall, that movie really reminds me a lot of the fantasy atmosphere of "Heavy Metal". And that's no bad thing. TV Cobra, though, is just amazing on another level. Yeah, you keep mixing up your Y's and T's, man. I would gloss over it, but it was so funny reading you write about "Michael Bat" in another thread. EDIT -- as for the DVD: It's one of those odd things published by Takarajima, so you won't find it in the video stores, rather at bookshops and convenience stores. As I said, I found it at Family Mart. Just a heads-up.
  19. I get this: "The uploader has not made this video available in your country. Sorry about that."
  20. Oh yeah. Oops. Sorry!
  21. He'd be a robot in disguise for sure. I never understood why they totally forgot that concept. I know they're toys, but some of the garish colours they brought out during the G2 years... ugh. It's like they were dipped in a vat of Day-Glo and Global Hypercolor mix. And don't get me started on G2 Optimus Prime, with his name emblazoned in huge letters all along the length of the trailer. Many people over the years have brought up the "Toy versus model" debate, but let's face the fact that the line has blurred so much over the years that now we don't even bat an eyelid when we see Yamato producing kit forms of their toys.
  22. Hmm. The irony of that is, that the Sky Angels book, despite it being a doujinshi, was in fact compiled at least in part by Masahiro Chiba (often credited as "Dr Chiba" and the inspiration for the Macross 7 character of the same name), who is the guy in charge of all of the mechanical settings in the Macross universe, as well as a long-time friend of Kawamori. As I say I don't have the Master File book, but I think I read somewhere that he was involved in that, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least. I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's quite close to "creator approval", I'd say. Of course, the indisputable fact still stands that none of the books are canonical. I think it's only natural for everything to be inconsistent, though, since the visuals are inconsistent to begin with, through no fault of anybody.
  23. Don't forget the DYRL-inspired flight suits at the start, though.
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