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I could see Grievous as Maul...the two faces look similar, even excepting the eyes. That'd also tie together the three movies extremely well.

No. Movie bad. Movie no Jules Verne novel. Phineas Fogg eccentric businessman, not crazy inventor. Passeporteau French butler, not crazy Chinese martial artist. Movie make brain hurt, though it make Verne spin in grave fast enough to power Paris.

[Monty Python] "But don't take it out in public, or they'll put you in the dock, and you won't a-come a-back. Thank yew, thank yew..."[/Monty Python]

Good question, and one that I don't think was ever answered. Egan Loo's 1997 article about Macross in Animerica (which had a wrap-up of the major characters who survived) doesn't mention what happened to her. I think she most likely went off with Misa and Hikaru on the Megaroad.

UIMM, that part about mice going to the seashore is from Lewis Carroll...kinda cool that one classic references another

If I had kids, I probably wouldn't let them near my collection until they were at least 12 or so -- unless I had some Chonkey Monkeys for them to play with The 1/60s are too hard for a young child to transform (and there is the choking hazard witht he small parts), and I'd much sooner place my head in the care of Maximillien Robspierre than give a young kid my 1/48

You're assuming Bandai cares about Macross in the US. They seem to barely care about it in Japan(which is probably a reflection of Macross's status in Japan). However, they, as any business, probably cares that a potential revenue stream, however small, is being dammed and diverted to another company. And they (hopefully in Japan, but probably at least in the US) realize that if they let HG have its own way in this matter and they somewhere further down the road decide that Macross is coming back and want to make a big splash, they're SOL.

Well, if Robert Woodhead is still very interested, maybe that'll solve all the problems. Bug Animeigo to pick it up.

Mass-produced. http://www.anime.net/macross/mecha/zentrad...itzs/index.html Variants, however, do exist. Um, Azrael, I think he was asking about this ship http://www.anime.net/macross/mecha/zentrad...ntzs/index.html And, both versions were mass-produced. At the end of the movie, Exedore tells Britai that they still have a massive amount of work, since there are roughly 1000 Bodolza-class fortresses and their attendant fleets running around.

[Homer] Maybe, just once, someone will call me "sir" without adding, "you're making a scene." [/Homer]

This amuses me because all we have to do is change a couple words and... Verrrrrry funny.

Perchance, are you referring to a release of a new toy of Captain Harlock's (screw that "Herlock" spucatum tauri) ship, the Arcadia?

I'd suggest one of those wonky fur coats as well, but wouldn't that just be redundant?

Achem, they do have one on the main site, convinently labeled "Where to Buy." The site isn't just the message boards, of course.

Don't forget also: What looks cool in 1982 may look hokey by 1984 or 2004... But DYRL is forever

It looked to me like in the Ep. Blue Wind that the Macross was floating around its waist-lower chest, whereas in Macross City, the Macross was considerably higher (top of the legs). ICBW, of course

What about the German RammKommando? German squadrons in WW2 flying heavily-armored and reinforced FW-190s who were supposed to crash into Allied bombers and then (theoretically) fly off to their base? That one's been verified as true.

Aw, Phooey on Jubei. Here's the man -- Miyamoto Musashi!

It's In Alaska, AFAIK. The Macross set down in a crater not far from the Grand Cannon (where Misa and Hikaru were waiting to do the whole "Adam and Eve" thing ) and the crater probably filled up with water over the next two years through massive rainstorms that would have been caused by all the dust and smoke and watervapor kicked up by the Zentradi attack. Besides, Since at least 2/3 of the Macross is still out of the water (when it really WAS floating after breaking through the Zent blockade in "Blue Wind" it was more like 50/50 IIRC) , it should have fallen down -- being vertical and not horizontal like a naval vessel, it should have been way too top-heavy to independently float with that much above water.

If you want all the music from Macross Plus, you're probably going to have to get both OSTs. Although I can't think of any differences off the top of my head, I'd bet that some music was changed between the two versions.

Yes... and no. As far as chronology and DYRL are concerned, DYRL (the movie that was released in August '84 as a follow-up to the TV series) is NOT the same movie as DYRL (the fictionalized account of Space War One made in 2030 as recounted in Macross 7) Kawamori has been very cagey on how our DYRL fits into the scheme of things, and has hinted that, yes it is another movie version of SW1 events mader after the war, but also that it's also a valid replacement for the events of the Macross TV series (i.e. that it could be the REAL Space War One, and SDF Macross just a TV series ). As for Mac II, It's not canon. Although Kawamori et. al have embraced it as an "alternate universe," the events depicted did not and will not happen in the actual Macross storyline.

I didn't see this one here in the thread...I defy ANYONE, even the people who wrote it, to make heads or tails of THIS...

The Blow-Off stuff was pretty funny, but the Planters stuff, I don't get. Both of those were on Jay Leno the other night as part of a segment on "X-Rated 99-Cent Store Products." One of the funniest that they had was an energy drink called "Erectus" which, on the side of the can, had a figure of a guy with a...yep, you guessed it

PREPARE TO DIE, O IGNORANT ONE!!. Nah, seriously, for this kind of question now, they're just issuing traffic tickets. Therefore PREPARE FOR NIGHT COURT, AND NOT THE GOOD ONE WITH JOHN LARROQUETTE, O IGNORANT ONE! Run Sasaki played Vanessa (one of the bridge operators) on the original Macross.

I WANNA GO THERE! I WANNA GO THERE!