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Here's Battler's death from Mospeada. There's some green blood spurting out of the cockpit area.

There was a website attached to this message board once

Basara wears cuban heels. also as a preview for the next episode ELGAZORENE KICK!

His name is Battler. Corg sounds like Torg from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

Or you could do some research and confirm it yourself. It's not like you can't watch all of this stuff in its original form and you can download rips of the Robotech movie. Stop pretending something is true just because you think it happened. When I was a wee lad I used to think there was a Mega Man X anime but that was never true.

Bandai is pretty late to the game. Yamato has effectively finished the VF-1.

Who wants to hear your stupid repetitive hate again?

Shadow Chronicles had a few weird homages to Macross. They more or less tried to make Mospeada more Macross like (than it already is) by doing things such as having the Garfish ships open up like Zentradi ships and having Maia's Legioss eject its nose section like the VF-1D does in Macross. There's probably a few others but it's kind of sick how they're trying to turn Mospeada into Macross-lite. It's a dead show, let it be. Music is Mospeada is kind of incidental. While its a nice distraction at times, it seemed pretty clear they were just letting Yellow sing random pop songs so they could cash in on the J-Pop in mecha craze. It's actually a little strong in Southern Cross since two characters bridge the cultural gap through music.

"The clip starts off with a classic VF-1 Valkyrie rising on the launch deck of the Macross Quarter. The VF-1 is fitted with Fast Packs and is covered in a red and orange color scheme similar to Bassar’s Fire Valkyrie from “Macross 7.”" I must see this now.

Stop posting in this thread.

You type too much. Macross 7 has pretty good artwork and animation, which manages to be far more consistent than the original TV series. And its on equal footing to its contemporaries like G-Gundam. I don't even know why I have to keep repeating this. If anything, Macross 7 benefited greatly from being planned out rather than constantly fluctuating between episode count. You may like the chaotic production aspect of the other two TV series, but don't pretend Macross 7 looks like a bad episode out of a '82 anime.

Well there's a difference between filler and padding. Stock footage launch sequences and battles can be used to pad the episode a bit. But mostly they are used as transitions into a battle scene or something for characters to narrate over.

I find you can watch up to the four episodes a day provided you take a break in between. This really isn't that unique to Macross 7. Trying to marathon any show is a bad idea because you aren't giving your brain time to process what you've seen. And really, Macross 7 isn't paced any differently than other year long mecha shows. I find it delightfully uncompressed.

the toy appears to be mostly plastic

I love those early episodes. Lots of fun stuff happens in each one and some cool mecha scenes inside or near City 7.

As long as we're talking about unrealistic expectations, let's wish for an in scale Zentradi recon ship with poseable pilots.

Right and Gamlin would never fire on a civilian, no matter how annoying or deadly in the case of the 40 armed terrorists.

I question the appeal of three dire wars all in a row. Yeah it can get kind of silly when one franchise has each interation face a new dire threat (then again Macross is kind of silly) but trying to do it serious business style using someone else's materials is asking for failure. You can't turn Captain Planet into Warhammer 40k no matter how much you try.

As for the novels and comics, you know guys there's a lot of generic sci-fi material out there. It's just that most of them aren't tied to vaguely successful franchises. You want a crappy bug war with some mysticism and transforming robots you could always read Starcraft/Trasformers fanfic.

Isn't that basically what Robotech "proper" did anyways? It's not like going from Gundam to Zeta Gundam where several characters return or even Macross to Macross 7. Take away all the filler material (which we established matters as much as fanfic at this point) and its arguably a lot worse than any Japanese series even with regards any kind of continuity. Honestly I think Robotech grafted the worse parts of the American comic and tie-in novel industry as they tried to overextend the plot and characters of shows with basically complete stories. As a result, Robotech just looks dead a dryer because of all that. Even at the start of the Macross franchise proper, one four episode OVA managed to make Macross look more alive than a decade of Robotech material.

what's up with Gamlin and wearing orange

Someone else is reviewing that. I'm doing the VF-11C.

I did a review for collectiondx a while back.

It's only unpopular on this stupid BBS.

Hah. District 9 and the new Star Trek are pretty far from being space operas. Both were just action or adventure type films with a sci-fi setting.