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Techno Voyager / Boyager ThunderBirds 2086 Region 2 DVDs for pre-sale on Amazon Japan! I thought it would never happen. But, were all of the episodes dubbed in English? Will this set be released in Region 1 with English dub or subtitles? Miracles can happen.

I played around with Paint.net to come up with a name and logo for the MW fanzine. Now I would need to gather some articles together and organize them in a magazine format. I figured out where and how to upload images my MW account, but not post them in the forum yet.

That's what I'm talking about! Looks very good from the preview pics. So, issue 01 is out of print? No digital downloads? I'm likely to send you a pm soon with more questions about Macross related doujinshi publication.

I know what you're saying Sketchley. If the MW Insider magazine were up to me, then the main feature articles would be derived from the MW website and all of its past and current forum members and their Macross fan projects. I could only do 3-4 interviews with MW members in a 4 month time frame. All the information sources would have to be in English or google translated into English. Then the rest of the magazine would be made up of articles either copied from MW or from other English Macross fan websites with reprint permission. Interviews and Reviews of Macross fans and their projects: 1. Model build-ups / Dioramas e.g. wmcheng, etc. 2. Scratch built models (Resin / Plastic / Papercraft / Shapeways) e.g. Captain America, Mechtech, mslz22, etc. 3. Toy customizations and modifications e.g. kyekye, Kurt, etc. 4. Animation e.g. Macross Frontier Stop Motion Animation, Macross Aria 5. Music videos and fan editing e.g. Macross anthology 6. Music: covers songs / karaoke / lyrics 7. Fan dubbing e.g. Hikuro 8. Translations e.g. Sketchley, Gubaba, ? 9. Essay analyses / reviews on the Macross franchise from the forum or from other Macross fan websites e.g. Remember love defunct website 10. Fan fiction 11. Fan comics e.g. Remove before Flight 12. Video games and game mods e.g. Macross VO Plus or HW mod 13. Role playing games (2050 or Horizon MUSH) e.g. Sketchley 14. Drawings / Decals / Stickers e.g. Takatoys 15. Paintings e.g. Honneamise's Ghost painting 16. CGI models and animation e.g. Jay Lew, mac666er, etc. 17. Older translated Macross articles 18. Toy reviews i.e. from MW website or forum 19. Book reviews i.e. artbooks, manga, novels, etc. 20. Music / Drama CD reviews 21. Macross Collection: Other merchandise reviews new stuff: Masei DYRL Helmets, Cards, T-Shirts, Decals old stuff: e.g. jvmacross' Macross collection 22. Anime VHS / LD / DVD / BD reviews 23. Game reviews 24. Macross fan website admin interviews e.g. Shawn, Mr March, Egan Loo, Nanashi 25. Cosplay ! 26. MW Convention and Macross related convention reviews e.g. BlackAce's reports and previous MW conventions 27. Macross magazine and furoku reviews 28. MW forum Chronology i.e. looking though the forum to see what topics most forum members were keen on or what events made the MW forum the way it is today 29. Macross doujinshi reviews i.e. fan made publications Variable fighter master file or MAT #3 Sky Angels or ? 30. Macross production staff interviews i.e. reprints of old interviews 31. Macross fan photography i.e. toys / models set in realistic backgrounds 32. And then there's articles that could be made of all of the new Macross stuff ! I already have a some MW forum member interviews done and transcribed with a couple of more interviews to be done in the next few months. Magazine name and Logo ?: MW Insider M-World Insider Megaroad Works MW Chronology Gun Sight-2 MegaRoad Magazine Macross Attack! Super Dimension Fans Macross Insider And I need to pm Shawn and Graham about reprint permissions from the website or forum. I didn't see yellowlightman post more about his Anime Colony magazine experiences. I'll have to pm him to remind him.

I'm doing a little research on "fan" magazines. Star Wars Insider Doctor Who magazine Wrapped in Plastic magazine (Twin Peaks) Colony Drop #1 MegaLord fanzine Protoculture Addicts Starlog magazine Then there is the problem of getting permissions for official or fan artwork and writing some new Macross articles and interviews and getting some old Macross articles / interviews. Has anybody had any good experiences with Scanning Pen translators for Japanese? Otherwise, a translator guy/gal would be needed for any old Macross articles / interviews or someone to just try to find an already translated Macross articles / interviews online. It might be a little easier if the magazine were more like a Macross World (tribute / promotional) Insider magazine. Then all the artwork and articles could be gathered from the forum and MW members. But I would also like to read more about the range and variety of Macross from initial productions, the creation of the shows and the mecha and merchandise, production staff interviews and ongoing careers and upcoming Macross projects.

Hi yellowlightman: I think I would prefer seeing a magazine style pdf first before any blog or website development. MW's forum, front webpage and forum do a very good job at posting the latest Macross news items. The Macross Speaker Podcasts are also an enjoyable way to keep current with the latest Macross developments. I guess I see the Macross fanzine as something not so much about the latest Macross series or toys or models or games or news, but more putting more detailed anlayses / essays or reviews or interviews on historical Macross stuff and production staff and Macross fan projects found on the MW forum and throughout the internet into context. I suppose I'm just getting my ideas by reading older Star Wars Insider magazines and not getting the sense that the SW magazines were trying to stay current and show all the other aspects of ongoing SW projects. But the SW magazine did look at older SW projects with interviews and essays to place the current stuff in context. SW Insider is an officially sponsored magazine that does have a lot of official access in English to Lucasfilm archives. The Macross fan magazine could only remain as unofficial and non-profit. If I were editor or contributor, then I would end up relying a lot on other websites / people for translated articles. So, yellowlightman, I would like to learn more about you have learned from putting together that fanzine. Thanks! How were your experiences in putting together that fanzine? Were a lot of other people involved in that fanzine and how were they involved? How did you work with so many other people around the world? What was your role? What software did you use? Was there a framework / guideline you used to organize, edit and design the fanzine? Were there any specific ways your fanzine worked at avoiding legal issues? Did you have translators on staff? How did you get the articles for the magazine? Were there difficulties involved in selecting or editing the articles? Any pros and cons to MagCloud? I downloaded the 1st issue of the Colony Drop fanzine, but I haven't read it just yet. Wow, that artwork in the fanzine looks really good! I thought that was official anime artwork. I sent a pm to Apollo Leader about this thread to see if he had any insights or experences he wanted to share about putting together the two Macross newsletters.

Sketchley: The magazine would be offered online for potentially world-wide distribution, so I can't say for certain which country's copyright law will be in effect. An official magazine has a lot of legal implications to consider. Here's what I found so far. http://www.magazinelaunch.com/how-to/legal-considerations/copyright-permission-and-copyrighted-intellectual-property-myths#comments http://www.magazinelaunch.com/how-to/legal-considerations/some-internet-legal-resources-magazine-publishers#comments Photograph legal implications Personally, I think copyrights have gotten beyond reasonable when every idea, potential idea or derivative of a potential idea can be copyrighted indefinitely and so would be considered illegal to use by anyone else. And yet Celestial Toyroom (Doctor Who fanzine produced by The Doctor Who Appreciation Society) has been around since the 1970s. Their fanzine has lots of doctor who artwork and screenshots and even a subscription service. How does that happen? They have several email addresses; maybe, they could answer how they do it? Also Colony Drop produced two "slick" fanzines in 2011/12 through HP Magcloud.com. MagCloud produces ebook or physical copies of the magazine for paypal purchase. Word doc and PDF files can now incorporate video and audio clips within the document, so I don't think html will be needed. But, the document file just gets that much bigger with the included video and audio. To save personal bandwidth, the magazine could be posted as a PDF on Scribd.com or shared via filelockers or thru a bittorrent sync folder. Then the magazine weblinks could be posted on the MW forum when available rather than create a blog. chillyche: A MW digest of past and current Macross World events? with more details might be useful / interesting. MW has its own history with interesting members and an ongoing forum tends to be focused on the current discussions. Also, I would like to read more details about the history of Macross that Japanese reading Macross fans would have access to. If only Pen Scanners with OCR translators could be more reliable, then so many Macross magazine articles could be made into English? After listening to the Macross Speaker Podcast crew talk about the ongoing events in Japan, I still like to hear about previous Macross history. I might be just getting old and nostalgic though. Sometimes, I have to do a lot of searching on the MW forum and the Legacy MW forum to find some older info. and even then the forum posts lack detail / specifics. A magazine could offer expanded descriptions / analyses / essays. ****** How is "Macross: Aria" progressing, chillyche? ******************* And another fanzine that is still going strong. Famous Monsters from Filmland

Every magazine has a disclaimer to cover their liabilities (butt). The "Disclaimer" for the new fanzine could be the same as Apollo Leader's Gun Sight-1 disclaimer. "(name of magazine) is an unofficial magazine made by fans for fans. (name of magazine) is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Big West, Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd., Harmony Gold, or any other company with ownership of, license to, or claim to the Macross property." Protoculture Addicts #10 also has a disclaimer: "The writers / contributors are responsible for their views, which are not necessarily those of (name of magazine)..." So, if the magazine is unofficial, fan-produced and non-profit, then we could possibly use some Macross line art, anime screenshots or other Macross art supplement the articles as long as the art work is clearly shown who it was made or owned by? What other technical / legal parts of a magazine are needed? ****************************** I suppose the magazine could have a separate email address for contributors to submit articles or artwork or stories or feedback to submit to the regular staff to edit into the magazine. The regular staff could share a dropbox folder, so everybody could keep updated with the latest edits to the magazine. What software would be good to use for magazine page making? Word doc, Adobe Acrobat XI or treat every page like a photo with Paint.net?

Looking at SW Insider #148, it has some information on how a really good fan magazine is staffed. Star Wars Insider production staff: (4 regular staff) 1. Editor 2. Senior Editor 3. Art Editor 4. Editorial Assistant And most of the official SW material is provided by Lucasfilm: (9 regular staff, not including many 14 free-lance contributors) 1. Executive Editor : J. W. Rinzler 2. Brand Communications Manager 3. Image Archives (At least, 4 people searching for pictures and getting copyright permissions) 4. Art Director 5. Bantha Tracks (fan newsletter included with the SW Insider. The newsletter has its own production staff.) 6. Director of Publishing Titan Magazine A whole production staff for the physical marketing, production and distribution of the magazine. Then there's the Protoculture Addicts fan-zine that changed into one the longest running North American anime magazines. (6 - 9 regular staff at issue 16) 1. Publisher / Editor 2. Assistant Editor 3. Copy Editor 4. Contributing Editors 5. Art and Graphics 6. Proofreader 7. Marketing 8. Public Relations 9. Colourist for the front title page and adding some colour throughout the magazine. ********************************* So, a fanzine looks like it would need at least 3 - 4 people as regular staff, but who can be comfortable in changing roles in case someone gets sick or too busy or just gets tired. And then there is all the rest of the contributors who actually write the articles and do the interviews, etc! ********************************** Hi VF-15 Banshee: I did type in Macross Cosplay as idea # 7 20. Macross RPG Statistics / Short Stories 21. Editiorial Page 22. Letters Page / Emails for feedback on the magazine 23. Advertising for Ongoing or Upcoming Macross fan projects, e.g. Shapeways parts 24. Macross RPG Statistics 25. Short Stories based on Macross RPG 26. Whole magazine issue focused on one part of Macross (Cosplay or Macross M3 or DYRL? or ?) And then there's the fanzine name, logo and and front cover design. That's all I can think of for the magazine for now. ****************************** More Macross Magazine Titles: Gun Sight-2 MegaRoad Magazine Macross Attack! Macross World Insider

Actually, I was just putting this e-Magazine / newsletter idea out there and seeing if anybody would like to get this going. I am currently working on a project with Mechtech that could take me a few months to complete. I'm not likely to get the Macross fan magazine started just now. Besides, any substantial fan magazine is a lot of work for any one person to do. I suspect that's the reason why Apollo Leader was not able to put together Gunsight-1 issue 03. A fan magazine would likely need some regular staff and field reporters, etc. I'll have to check my copies of Star Wars Insider to see how the work is divvied up. And then there's the big problem of what to call the fanzine as well as how to present the fanzine without copyright lawsuits ensuing. I just don't know. The Super Dimensional Fanzine Macross FanZine Super Dimension Fans Macross Insider Superfly Macross Never Enough Love for Macross

After reading many issues of "Protoculture Addict", "Star Wars Insider" and the two issues of Apollo Leader's "Gunsight-1" Macross fanzine, I think a new Macross fanzine would be a good thing! Gunsight-1 Issue 01 and 02 are available! You can see just by reading the two issues that quite a lot has changed for Macross in terms of toys, models and the series itself. The Gunsight-1 fanzine was made when Macross Zero was being released. The Macross fan magazine could focus as much on fan works and as the ongoing Macross series. A quarterly publication schedule might be reasonable. Here are some unorganized ideas thatt could be included in a new Macross fanzine. 1. Macross interviews a. translations of older interviews of the original production staff b. interviews of Macross fans about their macross projects or personal experiences 2. Macross Essays / Editorials a. Some Macross fan websites that are not frequently visited have long essays about Macross episodes or movies. I think that those essays need to be "preserved" before the websites vanish. b. any new Macross fan essays that people would like to share, but are a little too long for Macross World forum posts. 3. Macross fan fiction I know there is a lot of fan fiction out there. I would like to see some of these stories nicely presented and even reviewed. 4. Macross fan art a. 2D - painted, drawn b. 3D CGI c. posters d. statues e. decals? 5. Macross World : The ongoing saga a. past and present Macross World convention articles b. Interesting past MW forum posts c. Interviews from the founding members d. looking at specific sections of the Macross World legacy front page 6. Macross music reviews a. past b. current c. upcoming I know VF5SS and Gubaba have done a very good series of Macross music reviews. A transcript of the podcast could be done if permission was given. 7. Macross cosplay 8. Macross merchandise reviews 9. Macross book reviews a. past b. current c. upcoming 10. Macross World Current Events 11. Upcoming Macross projects a. new series b. concerts 12. Macross game reviews a. past b. current c. upcoming 13. Macross fan music compositions I have seen some Macross fan made music videos and even Macross Frontier cover songs all done by electronic organ. PDF and Word doc files now can have video and audio incorporated, so that is a possibility for the online fan-zine. 14. Macross model reviews a. past b. current c. upcoming 15. Macross fan projects a. models b. toy customs c. Macross Aria anime project d. ? 15. Macross DVD / Bluray / LD reviews 16. Macross fan comics 17. Toy / Model / Anime convention Reviews that have Macross in them 18. Macross toy reviews 19. Macross model reviews What else do might be good in a fan magazine? Just as many boys/men and girls/women are now interested in Macross. What makes Macross fun for everybody? Then again, Macross Ace magazine didn't do that well in Japan.

Macrosshare Radio Episode 04 The continuing John Moscato Interview is now online! And you can listen to the previous three interview segments as well. You might need to look at the 1/48 Inbit Gurab and the 1/32 Legioss production model diaries to see what John is talking about in the interview. Comments, questions and suggestions for the interview can be posted here in this thread. Thanks for listening!

The John Moscato interview is now being broadcast and it sounds okay ! You can listen to the interview now in progress by going to the Macrosshare.com blog and use the Mixlr appr or click on this weblink here. Otherwise, in the next two hours, the interview will be available on the Mixlr Macrosshare Radio channel.

boinger: Oh no! The Macrosshare interview audio file has some sort of weird repetitve feedback loop that messed up the audio?! boinger: I left the Mixlr webpage open and the uploaded interview audio was broadcasting at the same time and recording the audio from both the windows media player and the audio that was broadcast through the Mixlr website radio web app! Let me try again! Technical difficulties!

1/48 Inbit Gurab Production Model Diary by John Moscato is now available on Scribd ! John and I had a 1 hour 3 minute interview about his latest modelling work, some questions from his fans, his thoughts on the modeling design process and about hobby modeling in general. I will be posting the Mixlr audio broadcast at 3 pm CST in the next half hour, so you can listen to this interview. If you miss the interview broadcast, then that's not a problem because the interview will be recorded onto the Mixlr Macrosshare channel, so you can listen to it at any time that is convenient for you. *************************** I will be posting here with weblinks when I get the Mixlr broadcast software to start recording the interview.

1/48 Inbit Gurab Production Model Diary by John Moscato is now available on Scribd ! John and I had a 1 hour 3 minute interview about his latest modeling work, some questions from his fans, his thoughts on the modeling design process and about hobby modeling in general. I will be posting the Mixlr audio broadcast at 3 pm CST in the next half hour, so you can listen to this interview. If you miss the interview broadcast, then that's not a problem because the interview will be recorded onto the Mixlr Macrosshare channel, so you can listen to it at any time that is convenient for you.

Today at approximately 1 pm CST, John Moscato will be interviewed about his latest completed Inbit model. The audio interview will be posted later today "barring any unforeseen circumstances". If you have any questions for John about his models, then send me a message through the forum or post the question on the Macrosshare blog shoutbox, thanks!

Today at approximately 1 pm CST, John Moscato will be interviewed about his latest completed Inbit model. The audio interview will be posted later today "barring any unforeseen circumstances". If you have any questions for John about his models, then send me a message through the forum or post the question on the Macrosshare blog shoutbox, thanks!

I think if I present to the other admin alternate Macross website names then he'll be okay with letting go the blog name. Macross commerce website name game: 1. The Exsedol Folmo Shopping Mall 2. The Super Dimension ( Shopper / Exchange / Depot ) 3. The Valkyrie Flight Bay / VF-Bay? 4. Something something Macross 5. Macross Etc.? 6. Macross ? Profit

I posted up an "ebook" of the current forum thread on my Scribd account. http://www.scribd.com/doc/208579442/John-Moscato-November-2013 I am likely to put together an ebook for John's recently completed Inbit resin model and post that ebook on Scribd as well. John and I are going to be finishing up the interview this week. We could just get the audio interview done first and then we can set a date for John to be present on the MW forum to take any questions once some people have actually listened to the latest interview.

I just received his email yesterday. So, what I understand is that he would like to keep the 'Macrosshare' name and create a new website with Aspi.net software. He is okay with me running the blog and taking over over the responsibility of the old blog. I haven't heard from the other Macrosshare administrators for a few months, since they have started up non-Macross blogs of their own . So, it looks like it's just a discussion between me and the URL owner. His initial plan is that the new 'Macrosshare' website would be "an intermediary distributor maybe for stuff being sold over the internet/ebay". Maybe, he means to be a reseller from HLJ.com or some other retailer / distributor? I looked into being a reseller years ago and I could not justify the costs and all the work, for example the old Valkyrie Exchange commerce website. I can imagine the proposed website could be like the Yoko Kanno fan blog with posts about all the upcoming Macross merchandise with affiliate advertising revenue or possible a proxy buying service? I'm not sure exactly. In any case, he would like to go his own way, but with the 'Macrosshare' name. And I just opened up the Macrosshare Scribd account and I was going to work on some more podcasts this week! But, it's likely I will have to think up a new name for the old blog, create a new banner, update all the references to Macrosshare with the new blog name and change settings on the Scribd and Mixlr accounts. Any suggestions for a Macross blog name without being too overtly Macross? ******************************** This year, my plans for Macrosshare posts were to update the OST section with pictures and CD / LP info. as well as do maintenance to tidy up some posts. I have some more out of print Macross books that I can forward to Archive Scans, so you can look forward to at least two more years of rare Macross books. Since we will be patiently awaiting Shoji Kawamori's next inspiring Macross OVA / series, I would like to focus on Macross fan projects for the Macrosshare blog.

Macrosshare Update: The owner and one of the other administrators of the blog URL is going to start up a new commercial Macross website with the 'Macrosshare' name. So, either two new blogs will be have to be established with a new blog name for the old Macrosshare blog or the old Macrosshare blog will be abandoned along with all the posts. The administrators of Macrosshare are currently in discussion.

English literal transcripts of the John Moscato audio interview parts 1 to 3 are now available on Scribd! Part 01 Part 02 Part 03 You can now see why a Spanish translation of this interview would be a little difficult. The dialogue would need to be cleaned up and re-written to avoid colloquialisms and speech quirks that mostly make sense in English, but would not make any sense in Espanol. ********** I have been having a wicked chest cold for the last month when I went to go visit my mom and her dog and cat. So, the final part of the Moscato interview has been delayed.