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Atleast they brought back the core fighter.....I kinda miss that thing.... edit: Now that I have a chance to look at 'em...let's see: Impulse Gundam (Force, Sword and Blast included): So Okawara....you took Freedom and made it into Strike.....great......can't you think of any other protagonist mech to recycle....At least you made Launcher...I mean Blast look slightly different. As for Sword....You had to borrow Sword Calamity didn't you... Saviour Gundam: Aegis + Airmaster... Chaos Gundam: Aegis' legs + Freedom's hips + Gunbarrel Dagger + Forbidden. Those round boosters/engine blooks don't exactly go to well with the straight lines of the mech....especially when their mounted like that. Abyss Gundam: Those 2 dividing sections(which probably form the nose in MA mode) remind me of Forbidden Blue. This one actually looks decent. Only because we haven't had any marine-type Gundams. Gaia Gundam: You took Blitz and straightened out the curves. Oh well.

To look cool. Cuz they wanted it that way. Cuz it was neat. If you don't like mechs with heads or fingers, go look at a Destroid.

Okay kids, pull out your Yamatos. Now transform that VF-1 from fighter to Battroid. Now when yo get to here: STOP! Let's take a look at how things are at this point. Notice the brestplate. When you bring it down, it's going to cover part of the cockpit. In fact, it will cover right up to where the seat meets the back panels in the cockpit. If we complete the process, the breast plate would just past the seat. And when the seat rotates back, the pilot would be in the torso, where Quamzin hit Roy's VF. In fact, the monitor caves in right where it should, on Roy's upper body, IIRC. No, that's a bit too low. For the DYRL? VF-1, the seat rotates almost 90 degrees. Between 75-85 degrees is more appropriate (Roughly around 80). If it was 50-60, I could almost kiss the steering wheel. The VF-1 seat in SDF Macross, rotates a full 90 degrees. Downwards? The VF-11 seat does rotate. Isamu's seat just happened to have rotated already as his VF, was changing modes. I believed I went over this some pages back. The VF pilot is always sitting upwards/face forward/perpendicular the standing Battroid/parallel to flat ground or plane. It would be awkward if they didn't. Or a MSN-02 Zeong...

We don't know. Most likely, it was salvaged but there wasn't much story on the base afterwards.

Although the fact that the panels collapse into the arm may allow it to transform, let's assume it can't transform into fighter mode with that thing. You would waste fighter mode with that thing. To lose fighter mode for firepower.....I would not call that an equal tradeoff.

I think the key thing to remember here is that this is the prototype testing. Not production design. Look at the "morphing" wings of the YF-21. Nice on the prototype, not feasible for mass production. I doubt it would have been on any full-armor variant. To replace an entire forearm unit with the weapon system would take too much time and be more added weight to the fighter. It would also impede the use of the shield. With your gunpod in the left hand and the weapon system in your right, the shield can't be used. If you rely on the weapon system and stow the gunpod, you have a smaller rate of fire (assuming that thing has to build up a charge and fire). A gunpod would have a much higher sustained rate-of-fire and be more cost effective in the long run.

I'll hold off on this. The Superman project has been on a roller coaster ride since they day they said they wanted to do another Superman movie. The talkback on AICN is saying that Singer and co. are attached to X3 and Logan's Run so this is going to be quite a large amount of work. When the schedules come out for those movies, I'll comment.

http://www.anime.net/macross/production/an...zero/index.html We'll let you know when we have a street date.

Maybe 3....Or are we coming up on 4.....

I don't believe it would produce a plume that large if it was that small. If it was coming from the shoulder vernier, then yes, that plume is about the right size for that nozzle. If you guess the origin of where that plume is coming from, it would be right at the tip of the shoulder, right where that shoulder vernier is not the FAST pack.

No. That vernier is under the FAST pack. (courtesy of Steelfalcon.com) You can see the nozzle in the shoulder block. And if we look here: (again, courtesy of Steelfalcon.com) The nozzle has some clearance of the shoulder pack. There is no vernier on that shoulder pod.

This should go into the fan works section. Hey....how about a "Best looking SDF-1 in GERWALK" in the fanworks section?

Ummm....we've had the remastered DVDs for about 2 years now...

Just to cite some sources: http://www.anime.net/macross/story/encyclo...roduction_notes http://www.anime.net/macross/story/encyclo...love/index.html http://www.anime.net/macross/story/chronol...dex.html#203102

I don't think that episode would be a good comparison. IIRC, it was a dramatization of what happened. They were using VF-11Cs and they even mentioned it was a re-enactment of what happened. Oh and here's the eye-catch:

Exactly.

Spiritia Specialists.....no. Idol pop group, yes. http://www.anime.net/macross/production/so...gitalMissionVFX http://www.anime.net/macross/story/chronol...2040/index.html Yes, July release. It's only July 15th. We still half the month left. Patience my young padawan. You may start bitching on August 1st.

Yep. One way to use multiple OS on a computer would be to run an emulator (like Virtual PC for Mac). But you are still running 1 OS. You have modules controlling various functions of a VF. In Gundam Seed, I would say Kira altered the modules on the Gundam's OS so badly that it would not respond to "the general user" input (i.e. he tailored the OS to his use). Much like how we alter the functionality of programs running on our computers, Kira did it to the point where he probably created his own modules in place of the ones used originally by the OS. Programs talk to the OS which talk to the hardware. All those programs provide the user with functions which help fly the VF. When a pilot squeezes the trigger on the stick to fire the gunpod, a program takes that input, feeds it to the OS, which tells the hardware what to do.

No. They did do some shows in Japan but that's back in 1995 or 1998.

No mech/robot can work without some programming. Computers just don't work per say. Your OS talks to your hardware and then your hardware talks to the rest of the hardware. This is all done by programming. Even cars come with some computer which has programs in it. There's lots of programming in Macross. You just don't see it. Gundam Seed explored this issue so use that as a highlight. So yes, VFs use fly-by-wire in their controls. Look at the Mars rovers. Robotics with lots of programming. Without all those programs, we would be sending billion dollar pieces of metal, glass, rubber and silicon into space that would do nothing but look shiny and fancy. Another possiblity is that the targetting systems have improved over the years. As I see it, the eye-tracker was a manual multiple-tracking targetting system. Imagine if you had 2x the amount of missiles targeting you, I won't want to try to manually track all those missiles. I would try to let the computer track it. And in M+, we see that. In episode 1 of M+, that missile swarm coming at Isamu at the very beginning. The computer picked up and tracked each missile coming at him (see those orange dots/brackets above Isamu's head on the attached image). Imagine tracking that with the eye-tracker.

I do believe it is.

Hate to do an sorta Egan-Loo here but, did you look at where that FAST pack is listed? Maybe I should make it in more bold: VF-11D Custom Now...sure the lineart for the VF-11C atmospheric FAST packs says it is but you're using the wrong statement to prove a different point. I should also note that the Compendium still doesn't lists those atmospheric FAST packs... And that the VF-11D Custom uses a different style FAST pack than the VF-11C. Now as much as the lineart explains (and it does, that's a good find), you're using the wrong listing to prove it....

Exactly. The whole idea of mechs using guns with triggers is far fetched.... One could think of it this way, the triggers are there for other mechs. There's probably a plug/data port for the fighter to use. This way, you have access to the gunpod's diagnostic systems (temperature, ammo count, and other systems). But I'll leave the speculation and fun to you kids.

Roy or Ray? Cuz Roy isn't in M7. That's Ray in M7.

Just another race. Just as humans came from monkeys, Zolans came from marsupials.