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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Hm... while I could absolutely see people raising one of the two following contradictions about it, which might inspire disbelief at the most, I'm baffled that that'd receive a hostile reaction from anyone except that one group we're not supposed to talk about. The potential contradictions I'm thinking of are: In Macross: Flashback 2012, the retrofitted Nupetiet Vergnitzs-class ship with that odd bridge tower that leaves with the SDF-2 Megaroad-01 is [supposed to be/generally believed to be] Britai's old ship. That opening bit in the first couple episodes of Macross Frontier shows the SDF moniker as belonging to the Megaroad-class (though I don't recall if it actually shows a SDF-3 there... I know it shows higher numbers). For the former case, it actually makes a fair amount of sense that it'd get a battleship/dreadnaught designation like SDF since Britai's ship was supposed to have been the first Zentradi battleship recommissioned into UN Spacy service. It'd be a nice gesture to the Zentradi living on Earth too. 'course, me bein' a big Macross II fan and all... the idea of the postwar UN Spacy using captured/defecting Zentradi ships as the center of their fleet isn't exactly something eyebrow-raising for me, y'know? Maybe part of it is that the "main" chronology Macross stories don't really show Zentradi ships being used in the UN Spacy's forces in any prominent way (except for that one Neo Nupetiet Vergnitzs-class ship with Macross-5 in Macross 7 and the 33rd NUNS Marines in Macross Frontier)?
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    There is nothing in this world quite as terrifying as having the trust of a multinational corporation.

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    They say it the same way it's written... クラン・クラン. There's no "Gu" (グ) there, so it should be "Klan Klan".
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    ... there's that, yes. Other great misconceptions they're responsible for include there being no VFs between the VF-1 and VF-2 in timeline, the Macross II VFs being decades older than they actually are (and unable to fly in battroid mode), gunpods holding tens of thousands of rounds, or the Mardook being "ancient aliens" responsible for the Babylonian civilization.
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    No problem! If you need my help with your project, I'm at your service. Pretty sure it's the US Renditions team we have to blame for that one.. though there are also a lot of misconceptions about the OVA that are on the head of Kevin Siembieda at Palladium Books.
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    I really hope not... the Havamal paint scheme was selectable for every non-character VF model in the game... that's a LOT of repaints.
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    Well, you automatically got major points with me for spelling "Mardook" correctly... almost nobody does. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any source that gives a glossary/dictionary of Mardook terms the way they did with some of the Zentradi language... though, to be fair, they're not really super-clear on whether Mardook is a distinct language from Zentradi or just a dialect thereof.
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    Nope! The TP you earn after you max out the tuning on a Level 1 blueprint craft continue to accumulate and can be used toward tuning the aircraft further once you get the Level 2 and/or Level 3 version built.
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    Hey all, I have kind of a random newbie question as someone who's only recently started to collect DX Chogokin VFs. (Curse you, Mr March... CURSE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!) 's there any consensus/recommendations on a suitable display case that can fit four or five normal-sized VFs and won't break the bank? I'd be excellent if it could fit the Macross Quarter. EDIT: Today is a bad spelling day.
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    Dunno. If I had to guess, I'd say Bandai killed two birds with one stone by keeping the YF-30 exclusive to Leon Sakaki in Macross 30 to make it special and give the YF-29 greater exposure than it got in Sayonara no Tsubasa by giving the rival and some of the more beloved legacy characters access to their own versions as late-game upgrades. Looking at it from an in-universe standpoint, I think it's probably because the YF-29 is still really new and there's at most a year between Macross Frontier's conclusion and Macross 30. You need some ridiculously huge pieces of fold quartz to build 'em as well (IINM, a piece in Great Mechanics.DX said it needed one chunk of ultra high-purity fold quartz around 1,000 carats?). The Havamal forces might've built theirs on the sly too... Either way, I'm cool with it... I like all three of the Macross 30 character variants more than the Alto version from the movie.
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    Eech... I'm sorry, I totally missed your second post where you clarified that. My bad. (Though you are right, I wasn't challenging you, I thought I'd missed an important tidbit that ought to go into my notes on the YF-29 for Mr March's use. Again, my apologies if I came off that way. I truly didn't mean to.) Yep! The YF-29B Percival is the signature mecha of Rod Baltemar, the Havamal ace pilot who fills the role of the main (player) character's rival in Macross 30. He's one of the last "boss" fights, a trench run-type level after the player (Leon Sakaki) gets his YF-30 Chronos. He's and some Ghosts are also the first fight in the game... pretty much the only time you use Leon's YF-25, and it's a "supposed to lose" fight. IIRC, it's New Game + that unlocks his YF-29B as a playable VF and his Havamal color scheme also becomes selectable on the VFs that aren't character-specific. That's the reason I wanna get it... I never really liked Alto's reddish YF-29 color scheme, but Rod's looks pretty good, and I liked him as a character enough that his YF-29B is totally a "MUST GET" for me.
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    ... don't recall anyone saying that in the Macross 30 game itself, and the print sources only say that it's an improved version of the YF-29 used by the aces of Havamal, a rogue New UN Forces special forces unit who are the principal antagonists of Macross 30. Can you source that statement? Edit: My bad. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna get one of these to go with my YF-29 Isamu and YF-30. (Man, ever since Mr March helped me get a YF-30, it's been hard to turn down some of these... I was never a toy collector before.) Actually, it IS supposed to have a bayonet... that's Rod Baltemar's YF-29B from Macross 30, which does have a bayonet on the gun pod in the game's 3D model for the fighter.
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    Macross Chronicle. Edit: Sorry... I really shouldn't try to post from my phone while in the lab. It occurred to me this morning that I'd given you a vague and useless answer. The specific source is Macross Chronicle Worldguide 22A (same # in both editions) "Super Dimension Restaurant Nyan-Nyan". The sheet has a "Related Matter" section about the Yocchan's (Yoshio's) having grown up in the neighborhood around Nyan-Nyan before and after the first space war, become its manager, and grown it into an interstellar restaurant chain. It's a very bare-bones explanation, but there you have it. As far as Kaifun goes, you'd think he would've eventually settled down and inherited his parents restaurant in the wake of being dumped by Minmay, but he stayed in the music biz and eventually moved to the Macross-11 colony fleet and became the manager of an unauthorized English-language Fire Bomber cover band... Fire Bomber American.
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    *nods* Though he does, IIRC, become the one to take over Nyan Nyan and turn it into an interstellar restaurant franchise... (The show-which-shall-not-be-named does identify them as relatives in its version of events.)
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    Same as the others... it's just a different paint job. http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/variant-vf-1a-darkbird.htm
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    Well... as I am reliably informed, the giant-ness of the giant tuna is not actually unrealistic... there really are tuna species that can get that large, up to 4.6m (15 feet) and can weigh over 600kg (1322lb). As far as Hikaru's survival goes... holding your breath the way he did is a stupendously bad idea if you plan to live through having jumped out into a vacuum (burst lungs are a real deal-breaker), but his flightsuit and helmet probably did a bit to protect him from vacuum exposure. You wouldn't exactly walk away from the experience unhurt, but it could be survivable.
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    As far as I am aware, no official information exists... though I would assume the number would be roughly comparable to what the Stargazer was able to carry in Macross 7. That would be about thirty-six planes. Who's Henry?
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    If anything, Mr March seems more miffed about it than I am... he was really hoping we'd get some clarity on the VF-22's gun pods and other hard details. It's weird that they felt compelled to invent a bunch of new, bizarre variants for this when they didn't even cover one of the official variants that existed in the time period... YF-21-1, YF-21-2, VF-22, and VF-22S, but no VF-22HG?
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    I'm more disappointed that they didn't even make an attempt to give information on the VF-22's gun pods... this book is depressingly light on useful trivia. Lovely art, but with so few variants of the VF-22 out there in Macross proper, you'd think they could've spared more thought for the details.
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    Don't think we've been told that one...
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    So... the one on the left is for Kamen Rider, and the one on the right is for a Gundam fan who's compensating for something?
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    Well... we know her surname changed, at the very least, when Ozma adopted her. Ranka seems to be her genuine given name, if the series is anything to go by. Her mother was Ranshe Mei, so that's probably Ranka's true surname there.
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    Hm... going to have to grab that. Thanks for the heads-up. That art's been printed in a bunch of places before though.
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    Pretty sweet stuff there... I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to kitbash a proper YF-24 if they ever did a YF-30 Chronos kit. Parts from that and a VF-25 should be enough.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Nope, HLJ had it listed as pushed back to October for a few days... and then it suddenly jumped to Backordered for about an hour, then September Restock (because it'd come in and they'd exhausted their inventory filling preorders). So if you had it preordered on there, odds are it's sitting in your Private Warehouse. Mine's currently en route to me via customs in Memphis. So... a stretch, two-seater delta wing type? Don't suppose they named that one Jagdvogel, did they? (There was a modeler who did exactly that in the same old issue of Model Graphix that first mentioned a VF-19E.)
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