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Yes, both days will have events. In addition to the Dealer's Hall, Video Gaming Room and Video Screening Rooms, some event highlights are: Saturday USA Musume Opening Ceremonies Pre-Game Show Opening Ceremonies Random Ninjas Concert Mari Iijima Concert Introduction to Nihongo Workshop Sunday Costume Contest Akai Sky Concert Stephanie Yanez Concert So You Wanna Be a Voice Actor Workshop Depending on the Prize sponsors, we will have a scavenger hunt and raffle drawing for con attendees. Confirmed vendors at the 3rd Annual Japantown Anime Faire are: Yes Anime Tao Toys Anime V Broccoli International USA Animeish Japanimation.com Cartoon Passion Digital Discs (more coming....)

I completely agree!

Great work Wicked Ace... can we see some close ups of the decals in valk mode? Thanks!

Sound good, what about everyone else?

If you know which day in advance you might want to post the day and we can work on creating an advance ticket buyers list. If we get enough people we can get the group rate! Come on everyone if you are interested, post what day you plan on attending and I will create a listing. And even if we don't have enough people for a group rate buy, at least this way we will know the other MWers who will show up!

Well we cannot all be made of money now can we?

Lets hope the prices come down somewhat.

Since we are on the topic of the 1/48s... anyone know the release dates for ALL of the 1/48s including the FPs, reissues and the upcoming ones? I cannot seem to find it. Thanks!

For cels taking too many pics w/flashes can overtime negatively impact the tracelines and increase the chances of fading. But if you scan it once it should be ok and that way you won't have to redo it. I am in the process of doing just that.

You don't say...

What are the complete release dates for all of the 1/48s and the FPs?

Only IF you actually sell it, otherwise it is not worth that price. If it gets reissued the new price will most likely be the current value. 336943[/snapback] 14*89=$1246 USD 14*200=$2800 USD It is to me, and all the more reason to keep my VF-1A/S Hikkies too. Wouldn't want to rip anyone off with the current market value. 337003[/snapback] Again that holds true ONLY IF you actually sell some. So do you plan on doing it? 337377[/snapback] Nah mate, don't want to put you out of pocket. Best spend it on those animation cels. 337494[/snapback] No problem I can do both.

Nice new pic! And G, you know we all want to help, so let us know when we can.

Perhaps but it seems until this thread came along here in MW, some of the people from AP didn't post consistently especially concerning getting together. Based on the responses seems like this thread would've done better over at AP.

Wow seems more APers are now here at MW.

Honestly if there were anymore Macross series... I'll be grateful with whatever the hell we can get. I love mecha, especially old school ones like Mazinger, Iczer, Orguss, and Dangaioh (don't support the Manga Entertainment version hunt down the US Renditions VHS version). Check them out if haven't already or pm me for more info!

emajnthis, I understand where you are coming from but the "expectancies" if any, in todays anime market for mecha themed anime is close to nill. One of the last big anime series was EVA and that was quite a long time ago. Regardless if Macross II was redone with corrections globally it would not generate enough interest. Macross Zero was an excellent attempt to stir up interest and bring back older fans, but it did not do well. Series like Naruto, Full Metal Achelmist, Inuyasha are important comparisons b/c they clearly indicate what fans want and will support financially today! Equally important, without the increased fan interest, demand for mecha themed animes will continue to diminish; studio executives are not stupid, they will not continue to pour considerable monies into creating mecha animes that do not have strong demand, equalling low profits. Whether you like to want to acknowledge it or not, currently the mecha genre in anime is not profitable for companies.

Welcome SaveRobotech. Interesting posts everyone. As for the holy grails... already got the Gold Book and some production cels from DYRL and the tv series. For myself actual production cels are the holy grail, especially from Flashback. I can get most of the other stuff, i.e. toys, it all depends on how much I want to spend. Cels however are extremely rare and many have been destroyed or locked away imprisoned in private collections for decades... never to see the light or day and/or be shown online. To each their own....

You could always sell some of yours and raise the funds that way for a house. I am sure we'd all be glad to help out. Priorities, priorities.

Right now I don't know for certain, the vendors are still signing up. As for the guests and what specific days they will attend which ones are you interested in? Let me know and I can check for you.

One would think so, but if you check the gengas he did for the latter OVAs they were not as good as the earlier ones. Even with a reduced budget the "quality" of his own work should not have an unexplained decline. Just like with DYRL Mikimoto worked on the key gengas scenes, settei and oversaw the key animation. IMO the budget wouldn't effect the quality of his work, unless he himself reduced it. 341609[/snapback] That's not always true because as an office manager i oversee all of my employees work, and if i knew that someones pay was getting cut (even my own) i probably would a) not work as hard, or b) not demand as much in quality of work (considering the budget cuts). Since he knew the series had to be summed up quick, he probably just wanted the madness to end. 341623[/snapback] You are forgetting that Mikimoto was dead set against MII, he was forced to lend his skills. While it is true he wanted it to end, the quality of his own work clearly diminished as production continued. Reduced production funding or not, he still did not have to do an half assed effort. Don't believe me, research the gengas he did and look at how the quality just dropped, it was deliberate.

I beg to differ. Anime (even bad anime) has a better chance of surviving in today's market than it did 10 or so years ago. Many people are willing to watch something no matter how bad it is at least once, and i think since there is such a limited amount of mecha anime on the market today, a remake, (and it would have to be a hell of a remake, kinda like what happened to appleseed) would probably be well accepted by the public. But that's just an opinion, maybe if there were more bad mecha series out there to test the waters it would be better to judge. 341577[/snapback] I respectfully disagree because the average anime viewer is not interested in a)mecha in comparison to other anime genres, and b)searching for old anime when newer anime is readily available on tv. Middle school kids and teenagers are lazy, and even if MII was rereleased today it wouldn't stand a chance against popular titles such as Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto, and certainly not a snowballs chance in hell against Inuyasha. And as for mecha, I believe the lack thereof is an excellent indicator of the poor "demand". 341608[/snapback] But then there's also deep considerations of nostalgia among fans (regardless of if they're fans of macross II, macross in general). I'm pretty sure even if a crap series like Macross II was remade to the level of a remake like appleseed then anime fans (macross or not) would definitely watch it IF it was done with a real budget. As was stated before, the biggest downfall of this series wasn't the lack of good designs or even story (though i found it a bit thin) it was mainly the drop off in budget. Though, i'd have to admit, i'd prefer that there be a new macross movie/ova that follows the current timeline (regardless of how sorted it is) than have a remake of a died out series. 341620[/snapback] Perhaps but you are missing out the entire point if it was redone or created anew today. If it was redone for todays audiences, the studio and the execs would hope to bring in new viewers moreso than please existing viewers. The marketplace for existing Macross fans in comparison to the wider anime market both in JP and in the USA is small. Internationally Macross while popular still does not out sell in dvds or merchandising series like Inuyasha or Naruto. We are dealing with a different audience that is much more demanding. As for Appleseed domestically in the US sales of the dvd were not great, the GITS first and second films did considerably better.

One would think so, but if you check the gengas he did for the latter OVAs they were not as good as the earlier ones. Even with a reduced budget the "quality" of his own work should not have an unexplained decline. Just like with DYRL Mikimoto worked on the key gengas scenes, settei and oversaw the key animation. IMO the budget wouldn't effect the quality of his work, unless he himself reduced it.

I beg to differ. Anime (even bad anime) has a better chance of surviving in today's market than it did 10 or so years ago. Many people are willing to watch something no matter how bad it is at least once, and i think since there is such a limited amount of mecha anime on the market today, a remake, (and it would have to be a hell of a remake, kinda like what happened to appleseed) would probably be well accepted by the public. But that's just an opinion, maybe if there were more bad mecha series out there to test the waters it would be better to judge. 341577[/snapback] I respectfully disagree because the average anime viewer is not interested in a)mecha in comparison to other anime genres, and b)searching for old anime when newer anime is readily available on tv. Middle school kids and teenagers are lazy, and even if MII was rereleased today it wouldn't stand a chance against popular titles such as Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto, and certainly not a snowballs chance in hell against Inuyasha. And as for mecha, I believe the lack thereof is an excellent indicator of the poor "demand".

As OVAs go Macross II wasn't even 100% supported by the primary character designer Mikimoto. He was against working on this series and while I am certain part of the reason why the quality declined was due to poor reception of the first OVA, I wouldn't be surprised of Mikimoto himself didn't make as much of an effort. Fans then were fickle, but just imagine how badly MII would do today. It'd bomb horribly!