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Why would The Zentradi act with surprise? Because it was an unconventional tactic, i.e. something that as far as they knew "hadn't been done." We know from subsequent Macross series that inter-atmospheric folds are quite possible with no ill-effects. As for articles you've linked to, I just scrowled through this topic and don't seem to see any, or do you expect me to import & translate these articles Regardless, gonna have to go with the perfectly reasonable explanation that's in the animation on this one. Alright, just fished through the chronicle topic, and found this:http://www.macrossroleplay.org/forums/index.php?topic=2460.msg36659#msg36659 "Folds near atmosphere are dangerous, etc" Nowhere does it actually state that being within/Near the Earth's atmosphere was the cause of the size of the area folded, or the cause of the inaccurate defold coordinates. All it really says is that it's considered "dangerous." I could go over dozens of reasons that it would be considered dangerous, not the least of which would be making sure that the ships hull is secure/pressurized so that people don't accidentaly get sucked out into the vaccuume of space. Unlike "Global Report," there is no clear cause/effect correlation between what happened & why it happened. Britai & Exedor could just as easily been thinking "wow, that was really stupid of them, all their fighter craft could have been sucked out of their hanger." Hell, for all we know it could have been a lie that the Protoculture told the Zentradi so they wouldn't surprise fold into a colonized world. But hell, let's take a look at some atmosphereic/near atmospheric folds in Macross. Macross Zero: The AFOS folds right out of Earth's atmosphere to somewhere in space, then subsequently does the same with Shin. DYRL: Misa & Hikaru get caught in Britai's fold wake, and "luckily" find themselves folded back to Earth. No nasty effects. DYRL: Both Bodolza & Laplamiz fold close enough to the Earth's atmosphere to be seen from the ground, no nasty effects. DYRL (Saturn/PS1 game footage mind you): ONLY the ship folded with evacuated citizens & already built city inside. Macross Plus: Both Isamu & Guld fold just outside of Earth's defense net, not terribly far from the atmosphere. Considering that the satellites are within Earth's orbin, it can be asumed that they were as well. For that matter, they didn't fold very far from Eden either. Macross 7: The Protodevelin fold anywhere they damn well please, no ill side effects. Macross 7: Basara chases down Emilia's signal to a defold within that colony's atmosphere. Macross 7: Max actually folds from orbit to the surface of Varuta 7. Macross Dynamite 7: Liza folds from the pirate outpost to Zola's orbit. Macross Dynamite 7: The Ginga Kujira fold right from Zola's atmosphere/orbit. Macross Frontier: Both the Vajra & Michel fold out of Galia 4's atmosphere as the MDE is going off. Macross F - Sayonara no Tsubasa: The Vajra infested Battle Frontier folds with Alto right off the surface of their homeworld.

One character? You mean the Captain of the ship in question, who was aboard the ship, who would be the one person in the (Macross) universe to be privy to all the answers in that situation more than any other?

We all know Lion-o is going to get a hot Panther chick, it's just a matter of time.

Rightstuf is still getting all 4 current volumes directly from Bandai. When I asked them about it they basically said Bandai is continuing the release on bluray since it's being handled by Bandai Visual. While I currently have the import version of volume 5 on order, if they Irightstuf) list it before it's out, we can assume it'll finish out in the U.S.

lol.

Dub? Tony Oliver? I though were were trying to confince people to watch this show! As for Ryo-Ohki 3, guess I'm one of the few that actually enjoyed it. Especially after the mess that was the Tenchi TV canon's way over favoritism of Ryoko (mind you I really like Ryoko, but movie II's resolution was just wrong), seeing the way things were handled in Ryo-Ohki 3 seemed to be in direct response to all of that. Considering how many years it's been out I don't think it's much of a spoiler to talk about the revelations about just how big Tenchi's Earth Jurai family turned out to be, or the whole business with confusing his sister with his mother. Or dad basically saying "yeah, I knew about all of this the whole time." It all seemed to be in response to Tenchi Muyo In Love 1 & 2's over-dramatization of things. The resolution was also a lot more realistic, i.e. existing harem + and Tenchi not alienating any of the girls.

That's neither confusing nor a retcon, we just didn't have a proper (read non-robotech) translating until 12 years ago (animeigo release). Old software overriting new software and causing massive conflicts makes a lot more sense then "oops, we f^cked up when backwards engineering." Fact is, Claudia & co were genuinely suprrised things didn't work properly, they were all trained for several years on the new hardware. Field tested or not, gravity generators tearing away from the ship & accidentally folding an entire island to Pluto are well behind the realm of "miscalculations."

Read the quoted text, the film elements aren't around anymore! Not surprising considering the video editing techniques they used at the time. All we can hope is that they've been able to reasonably upscale from a high quality analog master. It won't look great, but it could look decent.

That's really good.

Nope, the gun firing "was" the booby trap. The rest of the system failures/errors were a cascading effect of the booby trap activating/conflicting with the new human OS. Seriously, watch "Global Report."

The only Wing Commander I ever played was the Sega CD port of the original. Used to love that game, and do playthrough's of trying to take out every single Kilrathi that moved without running. It was always rewarding to limp back to the Tiger's Claw with barely one functioning weapon, no shields, tore up engines, etc. And always hilarious taking out one of the Kilrathi carriers in the same condition, just popping away at it with my last functioning weapon for 10+ minutes. Ace Combat (pre-Assault Horizon) is the cloest thing I ever found to that.

Yeah, I wrote CDJapan 2 days ago, no response. Even tried begging AmazonJP to re-classify it as a bluray, no dice (but they were kind enough to respond). The fact that Amazon hasn't closed its pre-orders leads me to believe that A: They got the lions share of pre-orders from BV, or B: This item won't be as limited as every shop that ships to the U.S. is making it look. Regardless, those extra's are pretty freakin' sweet.

GXP definately didn't get the love it deserved when it was new. The whole "Unko" thing alone was hilarious.

I know they're doing it to tease me...

Wow, $70 markup over CDjapan, I wonder how if they'll actually be able to fill the order with that markup.

That's the thing, complaining about price would be great, if we could get freakin' pre-orders in!

Are you kidding, I missed it again?............definately getting annoyed with this.

Same problem, regular version can't be shipped through amazonjp because they catagorize it as a game. That version won't be hard to get though. Also, I'm thinking shops are limiting pre-orders right now because they have no idea what their fulfillment will be. And I'm going to stick with that delusion until I pre-order a copy...

AmazonJP has some crazy rule about selling anything software/game related internationally. No idea why, and all they have to do is "not" catagorize this freakin' thing as a game.

OMFG, WTF!! How can the pre-orders be selling out so freakin' fast everywhere!! I take a freakin' shower & CD Japan has both listed it & stopped taking orders. Guess I broke the cardinal otaku rule about bathing... ::goes to refresh several browser windows, comes back to rant:: Ok, I understand the whole point of LE items, but they shouldn't be LE THIS QUICK!! Hell, the Macross TV LE orders are still up, wtf is the problem with this...and yes, most of my anger is over missing out on FB 2012 on bluray, which I know isn't gonna look great, but I want it anyway!!

Only question, why was it a necessary move. Could syfy be so stupid as to try & bury it completely? Well, they did forgot how to spell their own name...

To be fair, Gatchaman is over 100 episodes, Mospeada being a quarter of that should hopefully be a quarter of the price.

You know, it'd kill syfy to make 1 or 2 "less" churned out sh!tfests and greenlight a 12-13 episode series. Looks like they're still blaming the fanbase even though they didn't know how to market Caprica. Sidenote: The more I look at that trailer, the more that Cylon reminds me of a Boomer from BGC.

Also, the loss of the fold drive, miss fold, gravity generators ripping out, and various other malfunctions weren't due to a lack hof understanding during backwards engineering. They were caused by cinflicts in the computers orimpfed by the activation of thr "bobytrap," as stated by Global in his flashback/clipshow episode.

As awesome as Sayonara no Tsubasa's box was, you definately want it.