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You know, you might be right...Is this their way of tellign us the REAL truth about devolution? "Well, It all started 50,000 years ago, when aliens built this big city in the Pacific...but you really wanna hear 'Whip It,' right?"

It means that somebody made a serious boo-boo in the continuity dept.

The answer is: Why not? Yeah, there's a lot of characer history beween "Ai Wa Nagereru" and "My Album" that we're mising, but it let them pick up the characters fresh.

yeah, i think originally it was supposed to be Artland. IIRC, it was both Artland and Studio Nue originally. What had happened was Haruhiko Mikimoto wanted to join onto the Macross project that Kawamori was starting (and Mikimoto had been a SN staffer for a short time), and so when he signed on, someone involvedn in the project invited Artland in as well.

Nah, it's getting to be more of a "So, I Married an Axe Murderer" thread, looks like... Still waiting for my sharks with frickin' laser beams attached (Yes, I know that's from Austin Powers...)

Not to sound like I'm running you down, 1BRD, but the odds of them ever doing a sequel to Southern Cross under any circumstances are dramatically low. It's not a bad show, but it did so poorly in the ratings (in the same timeslot as the hit Macross and the moderate success Orguss, no less) that it was essentially cancelled. Then again...Police Squad! did come back as The Naked Gun, so who knows?

Either you have had too many drugs, or not enough...I don't know which...

A good way to start is do WW2 aircraft first. They tend to be very simple constructions (as long as you're not tackling something like a Fairey Swordfish biplane) and move up from there. As for painting, try taking a fairly well-documented (read:done to death) aircraft, like the Mustang or Zero, and track down paint schemes for them.

Although I've never had a Banpresto Valk, they sound a little like the early MSIA RX-78s...floppy little bastards whose limbs flew off at the slightest opportunity...

I didn't say that. There's no DUB of the Macross series. And much of the interest in the series in the US comes IIRC from three sources: 1) those of us who watched Robotech in the '80s, liked it and wanted to seek out the source material, 2) anime fans of the '90s who saw Macross Plus and wanted to see the show that inspired it, and 3) anime fans from way back who were able to score a copy of Macross or Macross DYRL back in the day. As for people knowing that Robotech is distinct from Macross/Mospeada/SC, although HG didn't give credit to the individual creators (a big no-no, in my book), it was pretty much an open secret. HG themselves had even advertised a mail-order dub for Macross back in 1983-84, but that fell through to become you-know-what.

1) Go to AnimEigo's website (www.animeigo.com), or visit your local video store. Or failing that, find a reputable Japanese distributor and prepare to pay through the nose for the Bandai Emotion box. Or find one of the very rare legit (NOT Anime International Inc., Anime Cartoon or FX Animation--they're bootlegs) VCD sets floating around the web. 2) No. Harmony Gold demanded that there be none so there wouldn't be competition with Robotech. 3) And?!? This ain't a complete question. 4) Somebody soon will probably put up the link for Leb's site (don't have it off the top of my head myself), but long story short, HG used the original footage, just splicing it together with a new story and animation from botrh Mospeada and Southern Cross. BTW, this really belongs in the Newb thread.

Could you be just a touch less subtle? I don't quite get what you're saying Seriously, though, although I like the 1/60, they have some serious issues (such as, a damn difficult GERWALK mode), and so I'd just go for the 1/48 and hope that they do a GPB for that one (they will, most likely).

But still... wouldn't someone else on the ship have noticed three large ragged holes in his back?

Because calling it the "SDF-1" is like calling the USS Enterprise the "CVAN-65"

1. Macross: DYRL 2. Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro 3. SDF Macross 4. Urusei Yatsura 5. Project A-Ko 6. Excel Saga 7. Rurouni Kenshin 8. Lupin III TV Series 9. Phantom Quest Corp. 10. Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 movies 1, 2, 3 11. You're Under Arrest 12. Arcadia of my Youth 13. Grave of the Fireflies (Beautiful, touching movie, but extremely sad -- only watched it once) 13. Sen to Chihiro no Kamimakushi (Spirited Away) 14. Captain Tylor 15. Lupin III: Plot of the Fuma Clan 16. Macross Plus 17. Cowboy Bebop Honorable Mention: Dr. Slump (Seen only the manga, but love the characters)

That's the other gag missile in the sequence--the "octopus highball." It's a anthropomorphic octopus with the word "tako" next to it. The Budweiser can isn't hard to miss--it fills the entire frame for one frame.

In both TV show and movie, it's assumed that the ship that would become the Macross was a derelict from the force that the Zentradi consider their enemy (TV: Supervision Army, Movie: Meltrandi) left ont he planet to serve as a "booby trap" for any Zentradi forces coming to investigate.

There's also the Duke's autogyro from Castle of Cagliostro there.

*cough, cough*ArcadiaofmyYouth*cough, cough, cough*GraveoftheFireflies*cough,cough,hack, cough*CastleofCagliostrio*wheeze,cough,hack,lung*Akira*phlegm,cough,hack*theaforementionedDYRL*hack,wheeze,other lung,occasional skull,cough*

Oh, come on... It's not like we haven't seen that "topless Misa" pic uncensored 25 times over...

The one that I always notice and wonder about is in "Pinapple Salad": In the Animeigo sub, they point out a sign during the Max-Millia fight that says something like "Keiko Hondoh." Does anyone know who she is?

That's the one. That's also why all the TF Jetfires had missiles, but nothing to put them into.

For me, it was the Transformers Jetfire (and a Roy joke machine), back in 1986. Sadly, I kept calling it a Veritech, because at age 6, I didn't know better...

I'm totally mesmerized by it...

None at all. About that time, there was a furor over Battlestar Galactica toys that had firing missiles that put out kids' eyes. After that, most toys with firing missiles either had to be weakened or the missiles removed. IIRC, that's what happened with the original SW (1980) Boba Fett toy. They were going to have firing missiles in the backpack, but after the BSG toy problems, Kenner retrofitted the toys before they left the factory. And I have a Matchbox Prometheus (used to have the SDF-1 itself -- kicking myself for the way I treated toys at age six), and there's no fittings whatsoever for the catapults. It looks like they completely remolded the carriers when they Americanized the toys.