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considering a growing portion of kids in the USA think we fought with the germans against the russians in WWII... I think that people think braveheart was an accurate depiction of Wallace and King Edward can be forgiven...

the reason behind the flying rocks tie into what's disclosed in mac 7 and the APHOS ties into the protoculture city in DYRL (that protoculture was on earth and messed around with our genes).... so no, it's not a continuity buster. again, mac II is so far in the future that anyone can justify anything they see there... stuff like, why the macross is in a theme park (they moved it), why the valks look the way they do (maybe nostalgia is big in 2080?). Mac II just takes the basic themes of macross and gives it a a good shine and make over. There's nothing to build on the existing story, nothing that explains the backstory, it doesn't even do a very good job of explaining its own story. Anyways, I don't think anyone is even arguing that it shouldn't belong anymore, looks like most people are interested in the differences between mac+ and macII... which is also kind of silly because again.. there's a 40 year gap between when those two events are supposed to take place.

indeed, a very imposing army!

well, recent historically "acurate" movies haven't done to well, but historic fiction has done fairly well... I think a more accurate 300 movie would do alright as well.

nicely said Keith.

Thanks for the update. it would be cool if yamato could release the replacements at the same time as the shin VF-0A or one of their other releases, so we can order them from HLJ together.

it could also be hundreds of episodes... with month long battles where pilots are about to fire missiles and have long flashbacks about when they were kids.

well, true enough. If bandai brings their 'A' game to the table, I'm all for Bandai getting involved. I'm just doubtful considering their past efforts.

sorry, but if macross toys go back to the dark ages and back to HCM quality sculpts, I'll find a new hobby. I know the HCM was good enough for toynami to rip off, but I wouldn't pay money for either.

well, they placed it 80 years later, so any differences can just be explained away with time. And there's also far less background information given in DYRL then compared to SDFM.

well, it wasn't as if people back then les such insular lives either. I'm sure people back then grew up with a much higher background level of violence and suffering. Those city states were contantly engaged in some level of warfare with one another, afterall.

OMG, you ruined this new series for me and made me remember southern cross. I hate you so much.

I would imagine you're right about this... or at the very least, I'm sure graham communicated how much displeasure there was here when he met with them. However it went, the SV-51 looks to be much more cost effective than the YF-19 and as long as the quality is there, I'll be quite happy.

yes, no one is debating that. We all recognize it's an official macross production.

agreed. I hope they don't release a monster 6 disc super set as well. I choose to ignore the prequels

yes for me as well... do we really need a run down of all the flubs in recent releases?

interesting idea, but given that Bandai's attempts at VF's have been big, chunky and kiddiefied, I'd rather they not produce "mainstream" valks. I want my YF-21 to be in line in looks and transformation with my YF-19, not my VF-17.

is this supposed to be a funny?

as far as the use of CG in tv shows and animated movies goes, it has less to do with what's budget friendly and more to do with what the studios think the audience wants. With the success of pixar and dreamworks CGI movies and the relative failure of 2D animated projects... like brother bear and the like, traditional 2D houses are abandoning hand drawn animation not because it's cheaper to do 3D but because that's what they think the audience wants. CG models are great for animating complex characters, or doing nifty things like camera rotations around the character (animated backgrounds) but to model everything and then animate it gets expensive very quickly. Especially when that character or object is not going to be on screen for very long. And sometimes it is cheaper just to build a new model. One example of this: a major network had a logo bumper where the network logo dissolved into a bunch of particles and flies off screen... to actually animate that would be pretty expensive, so the animators just made 2 models, one of the logo all solid and nice and another one of the particle blobs grouped together, ready to do particle type stuff. Then they just animated it so that the solid logo disappeared at the right time, replaced by the blobs. so it just depends, sometimes in order to achieve a particular shot, you need a whole new model, since reworking the old one is just not feasible.

This looks more and more interesting. and I like that the designs have a more industrial feel and less of the big wings and impossible weapons of other current mecha shows.

I wanna see that in one of these historical epics! dang, they should of had that in return of the king.. the elephants charge, obliterating the rohan calvary, when the gates open and a bunch of burning squealing pigs come running out, causing the elephants to go beserk and the goblins to break ranks as they run around trying to catch one to eat.

yeah, all the super sized stuff and the fanciful stuff, I take as part of the storytelling of one eye. The persians apparantly did have elephants, but I don't think they came to thermopylae.

true.. and ineffective probably isn't the best characterization... for the most part, elephants were the big bad on the battle field, but were notoriously hard to control. It was until scipio figure out formations that channeled elephants towards the back where they could be dealt with while not disrupting the front lines that elephants stopped being the be all and end all of ancient warfare.

I don't know about greek hoplites, but elephants were pretty ineffective against roman legionnaires... who reportedly just moved out of the way of charging elephants and later on, would hack the legs with axes as they ran past. Another claim is that elephants were scared of pigs... so apparantly, pgis were doused in oil, set aflame and set off running towards the elephants who would go all nuts from the sight and sound of burning squealing piggies.

eeew, it might have been his bones, but definitely his flesh was removed on his arms down to the elbow. pretty nasty.