Keith

Nope, the Zeta box sets will ship first quarter! THEY WILL!!! The individual disc release however is another matter, I can see that not happening until after Seed.

Hmm, taking a look at the picture on rt.com, it looks like both sides are of the same size (i.e. not zoomed out like the AnimEigo remaster). Now that it's safely ruled out, I again would have to say that they remastered the tape sources (most likely scenario, seeing as they'd have to re-time, slow down animatin, etc, if they went back to the original source tapes), leaving for an odd looking remaster. All they can really do is a basic filtering, and try to re-adjust the color/contrast, which would still leaving it inferior to the AE disc's, as the detail has already been lost from the initial transfer. All in all, all I have to say is, WHERE THE HELL IS MY MEGAZONE 23 SET!

There's lots of great stuff out there. -Galaxy Express 999 -Space Cruiser Yamato (not the starblazers version) -Giant Robo (there's a great set that was put out in Korea with english subs) -Arcadia Of My Youth -Orguss -0079 Gundam movies set -Zeta Gundam -Victory Gundam -Gundam Seed -Macross 7 -Mahoromatic -Mospeada -Mazinkaiser -Cowboy Bebop -Another vote for Irresponsible Captain Tylor So much good stuff out right now.

Question is, just what the hell is going to be 5.1 about it? Even assuming they used stereo sources for the music, would they be bold enough to borrow the SFX only track that AnimEigo got from Big West? Or re-do their own sound effects ala Manga with MP Prt-4, or Rhino with the Transformers? Or will they just go the cheaper route of making a fake stereo mix. I'm actually interested in finding out what happens with this release, especially if they only re-insert scenes for "voilence," still leaving robotech edited for "video."

Remember when we all bought this all 3 years ago FROM ANIMEIGO! -New intro? $20 says it's the original Macross intro. -New Eyecatches? Bet they're the Macross eyecatches as well. -Extended scenes? Obvious Question being though, did they round up the robotech VA's to fill in those vocal gaps? Did they perhaps splice in some of the original music? This is all very interesting. Mayhaps I'll take this opportunity to e-mail ADV and see if I can purchase the sentinels DVD by istelf under the guise of not wanting to buy the old sets with the remaster coming up....

Call around to smaller retail stores, like Tower or Blockbuster, you may still be able to find the Fellowship box.

That wasn't fanservice, at least no more so than her fathers huge ass.

What's not fair is ignoring the massive popularity that Macross 7 had.

Probably the same guy Reba West gouged the eyes out of & slept with to get her job.

I enjoyed it immensly, enjoy both the TV & movie ending (as they're the same freakin' thing), and now after spending a year watching 260 episodes of Gundam (Z, ZZ, V, 0080, W, Seed), see a lot of similarities there.

Look whos talking If there were only a smilie symbolizing a hand job. Dude, I'm sorry, but what the hell is with that constant stick up your ass? I've done nothing to you, have no beef against you, and yet you're constantly a dick. Drop it.

Fanservice ranges anywhere from a little bit (or lot) of cleavage & bending over, to full on nudity (see Mahoromatic for a good sense of "fanservice.").

Kawamori has officially stated that he hasn't watched Macross II, doesn't get more blunt than that.

It makes perfect sense. The Sentinels was the pivotal travesty of Robotech showing just what a huge mistake the whole thing was. I repeat: -Buckethead Britai -Male-patter baldness Exedor -Flat-chested "That Girl" Misa -Shemale Milia -One-eyed Hikaru -Bad DYRL style knock-off flight suits -Robot cats made out of crackers -Santa Clause -Tribbles -The insane notion that a Legioss is superior to a VF-1 -Giant talking space slugs -etc, etc, etc It would go perfect with my copy of Space Gundam V!

Make up your mind which side of your hyprocracy you're going to stand on. Are you going to argue that lack of evidence isn't evidence in itself (and as such shut the hell up about trying to say there's a culture park in City 7 when there clearly is not, btw, doesn't matter what building Basara is standing on, it's just there),. Or are you going to argue that even if something isn't said to be there, it still can be.

Considering Zero isn't complete yet, and the fact that it's events have been sealed for 50 years, it's easy to assume that perhaps the VF-0 was also a portion of information that was sealed away, leaving the "official books" to refer to the VF-1 as the first variable fighter. City 7 is never shown to have multi-layers, just buildings which extend upwards of the roof. Its City is several times that of the one contained in the Macross, leaving no need for such multi-layering to fit inside the legs of a ship. If you've no proof, no hinting, or any remote implication of such things being there, then you've no grounds to say they are. I've seen Macross 7 over a dozen times, and never once was there a city under the city. I'm not being one dimensional, Im just paying attention to the continuity. Since when was the Eifel tower in Italy? The point is that the tower's (in real life) surve as radio/TV broadcasat towers, and coudl easily serve the same purpose in Macross 7. Still waiting.....! The lack of evidence is indeed evidence. Fact is, they aren't there, they're not hinted at being there, they're not referenced even remotely, and there is no written material placing them there. If you want to fanfic speculate, go right on ahead, but as far as the production is concerned, they're not there.

The fact that such things (colonization fleets, reaction weapons, etc), are never even remotely mentioned in Macross II prove that they're not there. You'll note they also say that magical flying lepricans are really controling the government in Macross II, but that doesn't mean they are. Don't be stupid. As for City 7, you want a map, watching the freakn' M7 intro, you get a whole city view. And just where the hell would a culture park be hidden? Factory Ship? The Einstein perhaps? As for the eiffel tower, I'd wager it's more akin to a recreation of Tokyo Tower, and irregardless, could easily serve as a television transmission tower. Besides which, there's a huge difference between that and the freakin' great wall of China, or leaning tower of Piza. Macross II only shares one thing in common with Roman Holiday, and that's the stupid gag they ripped off. Unless you have a directors cut of RH with a Marduk invasion that almost exactly mimics the Zentradi in DYRL.

There were actually a few love triangles in 7. -Basara, Sivil, & Gigil -Mylene's love for both Basara & Gamlin -Basara, Emilia's right breast, & Emilia's left breast -Ray, Akiko, & Stephen -Kinryu, Miho, & Sally -Max, Milia, & their careers -Physica, his cheating whore wife, & his cheating whore wife's new husband etc.

Better idea yet, how about a Macross World special edition set of TV DVD covers. I'm sure someone here has to have the R2 set, it'd just be a matter of getting them scanned, & going down to kinko's to get them on good paperstock. $10 + shipping wouldn't be out of the question. Hell, after Zeta comes out, I wouldn't mind forking out $40 for a nicely done Paul whatshisname metal box for Macross, maybe again a special edition set we could have done, perhaps get a bulk discount from him. We could have votes for what art is to be used, and the whole shebang.

Oh drop it already. Minmay was 15 during her shower scene in Macross TV & Macross DYRL, and you saw a hell of a lot more there than you ever see of Mylene at any point in M7.

Macross 7 had no culture parks, there was a recreation ship, that's not a freakin' culture park! There will be no more discussion of a culture park in Macross 7, because it simply "was not there." What was said was that the colony ships are equiped with City's, mountains, rivers, lakes, etc. As for the slum, that was a last minute addition to City 7, not a stock component, just somewhere out of the way for Ray to train Basara. It seems more to me like someone didn't read the text they were quoting, or hasn't seen the su btitled version of Macross II, otherwise you'd know that song wasn't originally in english for the second half, it was just a really bad idea on U.S. Renditions part while dubbing, that entirely trashed "that song." Never did I say I didn't like Macross II's music, I just don't like what happened to that song in the dub. Just like I don't like what Manga did to Voices in the Macross Plus dub. Lastly, the VF-1/VF-0 thing has been explained sufficiently well. The prototype testing still went as previously stated, only now we have a small production run of VF-0's with conventional turbine engines hypertuned to increase their performance, while the nuclear turbine engines are having the bugs worked out before the full production run of the VF-1. The Anti-U.N. pushing out their SV-51 is the source of necessity for the VF-0.

I doubt they'll give them that choice... Only the people that realize that they're in the Matrix, the rest are just batteries and food for future batteries. The whole point was that with the war over, they "would" then give them the choice irregardless.

Those who wish to waste time trying to rationalize Macross II are more than welcome too. I've made my devistating attacks showing why it just doesn't work, do with them what you will. Those of us who know there's no way to rationalize it are satisified with those arguments. And irregardless of it being 80 years, there's no sense to the change in the U.S. Spacy insignia, none whatsoever. We're not talking about large star vehicle markings, we're talking about a base military recognition symbol.

Honestly, I thought he said "of course we'll let them go," but I'm not about ot go pay to see it again, so wait 'til it comes out on DVD. But then they would have to give them a choice whether to stay or go too, and wait until they all become of age, etc.

Code = souls, souls = code.