jenius

I can totally understand, for whatever reason, just not quite loving the color for whatever reason... it was just how violently some people seemed to react to what is really only a few subtle color differences in a universe of very bright colors that struck me as a bit much.

I still have a hard time following the criticism of the Mac Quarter's original colors. I have this image of people zooming around with Luca's Green RVF and Michael's Blue VF-25 and playing with their red Q-Rare then seeing the Quarter with some pale blue and going "WFT?? ZOMG NOZE!"

I think what we've seen kinda tells you whether or not you're right UXI... if you were right these companies almost certainly would have worked out some sort of deal. Companies have accountants, they review their options. BW/SN thinks HG should go fly a kite... I'm pretty sure they came to that conclusion after weighing their options. I think you also have to consider that HG brings almost nothing to the table besides the use of a name that BW/SN feels is their's anyway. It's not like HG has a rich distribution network, huge name brand recognition or loyalty, or any of the things you would want if you were sharing proceeds with someone. At best they could use Toynami's distribution network and would anyone really pay money for that? I'll bet you that'd be one more fee you could include in shipping things here. In the end, BW/SN knows it's better for them to let HG hang themselves with terrible merchandise and failing products... heck, that might be one more reason they choose not to do it. While Macross has had tons of success the name Robotech hasn't been relevant since 1985... why breathe life into a company who has done nothing but dick you when you can sit back and watch them die. As for "how many more valks would you own" even if I were to say "SIX more" when you think of the hundreds I have bought that BW collected 100% of the proceeds on it tells you BW is playing it right.

I think you're wrong Uxi. While they certainly would see some improved sales stateside, the vast majority of people who would buy Macross toys, especially the bread and butter of every company: the people who buy multiple toys and repaints, are already buying and importing from Japan. BW is not sharing any of those profits with anyone so why start splitting them up? They could easily add English subtitles to BluRay Frontier releases and accomplish the same sort of feat whereby English speakers can import them and BW gets 100% of its licensing fee. At this point, Macross is too strong of a name for Robotech to support. If Macross were going to be released here it'd be far more sensible for HG to release it as MACROSS Frontier and not bother with the shoe-horning. Why try to bring Robotech back after 24 years of failure when you can clear the table and start all over again.

LOL, I love your signature... you dropped a toy and that's Bandai's fault. You have a broken V2 VF-1 and that's just part of the hobby.

Is this thing going to get released? I've been looking forward to it since Comic-con where they showed us like a half hour of the film. Looks pretty good although anyone looking for them to keep it real to the book will probably find too much artistic license taken with the character.

Phew... it won't be released until after my wedding... I heart Civilization in the biggest way. Sounds like it's going to be more like Dark Wizard on the Sega CD My one gripe about Civ is that war, especially in the latter years, drags the game to a halt. It seems like I blow through the first 5000 years of my country's existence and then I'll have a huge war in the late 1800s and spend the rest of my time playing plodding forward. Unfortunately, it sounds like the plans for war won't make it go by any quicker.

You know, I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure if you've been advertising on HG's website for YEARS that you were making this show and HG did not act on it until now, you can argue pretty successfully that HG had to act sooner. Of course, since there was no money to be made from this project you can't really argue that HG's failure to act caused huge monetary loss but I'm sure there's an argument there to be had. HG is cute. They cling so hard to Robotech so the failure is their's alone. I'm guessing by Robotech's 30th anniversary HG will have a staff of one dedicated to the brand... one person to simply track where the occasional checks are coming from and calling obscure television networks and asking them to incorporate Robotech into 80s anime marathons. Robotech.com will simply be a redirect to robotechx.com... a site for the fans, paid for by someone else.

The Beta is in SC but it never transforms... it's just a booster and missile holder for the Alpha and gets a synchro cannon for the big end fight. There are other Alphas but they're almost all entirely non-descript with exception to Maia's... black with white trim, that sort of thing.

I'm sure George thinks: "I knew this Beta was going to be risky, I really wish I hadn't invested all the time and money into it" since it probably was a break even project at best. Of course he really should be thinking "I shouldn't have spent 5 years hemming and hawing over whether or not we'd make it and released this a long time ago when the economy was a lot better and every line of toys was selling." We should also point out that this bodes very poorly for the WB movie. The current license holders are abandoning the license for lack of sales... I'm sure that's going to look great to WB.

I wonder if Tommy is going to keep touting the upcoming "Synchro" Shadow Chronicles Beta. I imagine if the shadow is cancelled than the Synchro version is also. Too bad... I think that was the one I was looking forward to the most after the blue one. EDIT - Maiden Japan, let me know if you want to sell a prototype EDIT II - Happy 25th Anniversary Robotech Fans! The license is dead!

Hindsight being 20/20 I'm sure we could all come up with a pretty healthy littany of how Toynami failed and what they could have done to have been more successful. In the end it's all the Robotech fans who have lost. Toynami should have never gotten the Robotech license, Harmony Gold and Tatsunoko should have never pulled the douche card, and we should all be playing with our Robotech branded Yamato toys right now.

I've only done one video review so far, it's in my DX Macross Quarter Review and that was basically just a practice run to see if I understood how to use my little video recorder. I'm hoping to do more, especially when I get high dollar complex toys to review. I suspect my next video review will be the DX VF-27.

Review is up on anymoon.com... come see pretty pics! Sadly I'm pulling 60 hour weeks right now at work so no time for a video review and I only had time to put together one of the three comparison pics I had planned.

editing photos as we speak....

They also had some mock-ups of Shadow Chronicles Super Poseables.

I don't care that the hands are bubbly... it's just that they're so bright white the only valk they go with is Hikaru... and they're even brighter and whiter than his VF-1J.

I'm going to buy the Tornado pack, which will come with the movie color version, then i'm going to compare it to my TV version and make my decision then. I suspect I'll buy the Tornado pack, review it, and then opt to keep my TV Alto with TV Super parts.

Toynami has never grown beyond that early stage where they can afford to take risks and the Robotech license hasn't proven profitable enough for them to pour in a ton of effort. Honestly, Robotech toys are probably amongst their most expensive to make with a very limited return, a ton of complaining, and really they're probably quite happy to be moving further and further away from that license.

I'll post at least one pic in my upcoming review (should be posted at some point in the next 48 hours). Sadly, the super bleached white of the V2 GBP doesn't go all that great with the VF-1S and it's off white. Fortunately, since most of the VF-1S is covered it's not a huge deal... but the hands definitely look funny.

Still doesn't work for me from home....

Thanks for all the pointers. I still haven't decided what to do to fix the amp issue but it was good to know where to start. Next weekend I'm going to rip the back of my car apart in search fo the amp to see if it's not just a cold solder joint issue in the current amp. THen I'm going to measure up the current amp and check out my after market situation. It looks like a previous owner (car was 2 years old when I bought it) removed the 8" woofer from the back housing, replaced it with two 4" speakers (and left the wood he used to make it work) and then took the 2 4" speakers when he sold the car. Now I understand why my stereo has always sounded so flat to me. I drive a 1.8T Quattro. I'm not looking to hop up the speed, I bought this car specifically because it was a 4 door tank and I was sick of ending up with faster wrecked cars.

My computer at home clears the cache after every IE session and it didn't work there. At work, where I would think I've never been to M3 it works... so, maybe it started working again while I've been at work?

When rhade is speaking on behalf of the RT.com boards you know the RT.com boards have issues. I am absolutely certain he would have banned me from those boards had he been a mod.... he wasn't exactly the best at walking down a logical path.

I sent Mr. March a message a while ago asking him if he'd mind if I used his line art and directed people to his site in my reviews. I didn't get a response either way so I started doing it assuming if he got back to me with a negative I'd just take those parts down. I hope it does go back up, I really enjoyed it and was hoping I could push more traffic there.