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If this is so, and it eventually turns out that they don't have a legitimate claim, could they be sued for tortuous interference (or similar unfair/illegal interference in the business of others)?

it was Declassified before Shoji K started doing Macross, XB-70 was done in the mid-seventies "Done" as in finished. The XB-70 was already a museum piece by 1969. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/mf37.htm

Tried tacking the question onto a couple other discussions but no answer. Seems the term was used for Nichimo's 1/200 mecha and small-scale SDF-1 kits. What does it mean? Is it ever used with non-Macross stuff?

Some tread pics are here. More can be found at http://mospeada.free.fr and I think at http://www.toyarchive.com/

Probably to Westernize her name to appeal to an international audience, just as many Chinese film and recording stars have English names.

I like all the Macross songs and background music, including the theme song and the song over the ending credits ("Runner"). The only problem I have with the background music is in Do You Remember Love, particularly in the opening battle scene in space, where the music is allowed to just sort of ramble on behind the combat action, giving a sort of "routine" feel until the brassy "Zentradi attack" theme heralds the penetration of the Nousjadeul-Gers into the Macross. The Robotech theme song is catchy, and I think it sounds especially nice in the pumped up orchestral performance used in the BattleCry game intro. But it's far from the quality of John Williams' film compositions (and in fact the melody seems somewhat derivative of the theme to Superman, the 1978 motion picture). I also remember liking the "battle" background music for sounding desperate, chaotic and destructive, but I like the Macross battle music better, with its staccato opening bar. A lot of the other Robotech background music is okay but often overly bombastic. As for Minmay's songs in Robotech, they're all ruined by Reba West/Rebecca Forstadt's singing, but I think a couple of them might not be bad if they were performed by a real singer. For example, if Petula Clark sang "To Be in Love" and "It's You", they might both be pretty good.

Click on the individual pictures to see the categories: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/games/...essoft_menu.htm "Sometimes I wonder if we took down the rest of Macrossworld and just left the forums up..........would anybody even notice!" --Graham Edit: P.S. Welcome to MacrossWorld!

Personally, I'm underwhelmed. But (a) I'm not a big Mospeada fan and (b) it could just be the paint job. Let's see a comparison pic of a Gakken 1/35 and/or a 1/48 model. Well, here are all the Gakkens (from Valkyrie Factory):

Thanks for the pointer, Legioss. It's still a little more than I'm willing to pay at the moment, but maybe I'll break down after I complete my SDF Macross collection (and finish watching them).

Disney now has the rights to Totoro? Cool! I can't wait for their release of it. Fox never realized what a good thing they had. I thought the FOX dub of Totoro was one of the best I've ever seen/heard. Although I prefer subs, I may pick up a copy of the FOX DVD if I don't like the Disney dub of Totoro. (I remember disliking the dubs of Mononoke and Laputa, and not being too crazy either about Jiji done by Phil Hartman (R.I.P.--I'm a big fan of his otherwise).)

I'm willing to pay $30-$50 to see it, whether through rental or by waiting for it to show up at discounters or on eBay (or in the For Sale forum here). ANN reports a SRP of $99.98. Edit: But RT.com has it up for $79.99. I guess they changed their minds after that ANN report was released.

HCM is 1/72. Are there 1/72 legioss kits? On a related note, if anyone cares about Southern Cross mecha, it turns out they're all quite small. E.g., the Spartas hovertank is only 6.2 m in battloid mode. This is even smaller than the Alpha's 8.75 m. If it were done in 1/55 scale to be consistent with the Alphas and VF-1's, a hovertank would only be 4-5/8" tall! I hope Toynami isn't planning on charging $80 for that.

I'm glad you brought that up. I saw the auction and had no intention of bidding on it, but I was wondering what it was. Seems they deliberately chose an angle in the picture that makes the thing seem bigger than it really is--I thought it looked like one of those wooden museum-type models.

(Picks jaw up off the floor.) (Resolves to keep watching M7.) At episode 6 now. Must...endure...ridiculous...plot...

Yes, they were. Watch A Bridge Too Far for the movie version. Since a lot of the people here don't seem to be aware of it, there will be a domestic, subtitled release of Southern Cross on DVD, probably in the next few months. It's due October 21. Info: http://www.advfilms.com/catalog/index.asp?...s&f=&s=1&st=174 http://www.advfilms.com/catalog/catalog_it...s=1&i=174&v=956 I think the projected price (which doesn't appear on the ADV pages) is a bit high, but I hope to get it eventually... Edit: But if you want a sequel to SC, I'm afraid you're out of luck. There certainly won't be one made in Japan, and it's indeed doubtful that such a thing would appear stateside under the Robotech banner. Edit 2: Price projection for the ADV set is here.

Have you tried doing a google search on no-solder ps2 or no-solder ps2 import ? Using the second, I came up with an ad/description of a slide card after a few clicks: http://www.modchip.com/ps2/slidecard.htm I also did some more searches and came up with a discussion of how a slide card works. Read it here. These instructions give a little more detail. (Looks like they're hosted by Treasure Island Sports, but I'll bet they're the same all over the net.) Another description is here. Basically, it looks like the "slide card" method involves using a special disc (such as the Swap Magic disc) to fool the PS2 into thinking it has a legitimate disc in the tray. You then use the "slide card" to open the tray and put in the disc you want to play. Edit: looking on Usenet (google groups) I see varying reports of success. Here's one example. The guy was able to get DVD-based games to work, but not CD's. This thread points out a likely hazard: damaging the disc tray by manually pulling it in and out.

Basically, what I was thinking was, if you sweep the wings of a VF-1 all the way back, you have a configuration where if you could bend the tips of the wings up/down, you'd have something that resembles the elevons of a delta and you might conceivably achieve pitch/roll control that way. But this would do no good for the unswept configuration, since the wingtips would then be both pointing the wrong way and be near the center of gravity. Also, this may be a stupid question, but for variable geometry planes where the horizontal tailplane and the wings are in the same plane, isn't a fully-swept configuration with tailerons similar to a delta with elevons?

May also have had something to do with making some money (and/or some learning experience) for the local defense industry. I think something similar happened with Israel (the Lavi?) Edit: I found the oddity I was referring to earlier--not a 50's jet, but a 40's pusher: the Northrop XP-56 had a bellows-operated rudder system in the wingtips (not thrusters). Another aircraft of the same era which had rudders on its wings was the Curtiss XP-55.

I don't know if that's referring to one of my posts, but what I was thinking was that a Valkyrie with its wings fully swept is basically a delta-winged plane, but since it's variable-geometry, it couldn't use elevons--they'd be useless when the wings weren't swept. I think the F-7U Cutlass comes close to having rudders on its wings. And wasn't there something in the 1950's that used wingtip thrusters instead of a rudder?

They're listed under "Flying Controls" in the Compendium as "one ventral fin under each engine nacelle" but I don't think they actually move or have hinged surfaces in any toys or models. I'd suppose they mainly assist stability, although they could assist maneuvering if the legs are moved slightly while in fighter mode.

Desirable: I dunno, maybe the Valkyrie launching scene at the beginning. It's so...iconic. Collectible: Probably Minmay's shower.

If you're gonna unite all over the place... try to form some sort of mighty robot like Voltron, would ya? Otherwise... it just sounds a bit frilly. EDITED because spelling things correctly is fun. And I'll form... the head! Go! Voltro... uh, Macross Snob force! It's not Voltron. It's Golion and Dairugger XV, you pathetic ignoramuses. B) Edit: And although most of us prefer Macross as Macross, not Robotech, some (many?) of us do like Superdimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada--possibly moreso than some of the Macross sequels.

For anyone who's wondering (like me), 200 rounds in the gunpod may or may not be a small capacity. I just checked and found the following at the FAS site. F-14: 676 rounds F-15A-D: 940 rounds F-15E: 500 rounds F-16:500 rounds (located the info on a different page) F/A-18: 578 rounds (elsewhere it says 520 rounds) However, the GU-11 gunpod on the Valkyrie probably has much greater hitting power since it uses 55 mm rounds vs. 20 mm for the Vulcan carried on modern US jets. The GU-11 also has a much lower rate of fire than the Vulcan: 1200 rounds per minute vs. 6000-7200 rpm for the Vulcan. So a 1-second burst of the GU-11 will use up 20 rounds, or about 1/10 the capacity; a 1-second burst of the Vulcan will use 100-120 rounds--a greater percentage of the capacity of any US fighter. One point about the Vulcan is that due to the design, it takes 0.3-0.4 seconds to begin firing after the trigger is pulled--arguably it needs its high rate of fire to compensate. (Because of this spinup delay, the actual # of rounds fired in a short burst will be less than 100--maybe just 47 or 72.) Other comparisons: the Tornado carries two 27 mm Mauser BK 27 cannon with 180 rounds each, firing at 1700 rpm. The Mig-29 and Su-27 use the GSh-30-1 30 mm cannon, 1800 rpm, and only about 150 rounds carried in each model. http://www.f-16.net/reference/armament/m61a1.html is a good article on the Vulcan. Check out the sound clip of a Vulcan firing! http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Han...un/fgun-po.html is another good article on jet fighter cannons. http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/text...xt/akandata.htm and http://www.adl.gatech.edu/classes/dci/aero...ghter_data.html are other sources I used.

Interesting. Seems that only some models with the Bonanza name have the V tail--apparently just the "35" series. (A35, K35, C35, etc.) I don't know what the angle of the tail surfaces is, but it does look like it's closer to horizontal than vertical, as with the YF-23. The F-117 also has a V or butterfly tail, but (according to what I just found on the web) it uses elevons on the wings to control pitch. I also turned up information on an experimental aircraft, the X-31, which has been used to test "quasi-tailless" flight, using thrust vectoring to maintain stability and to control (or at least assist) pitch and yaw.

I see your point, cwbrown, and I agree with it. I guess we'll have to rely on the customizers.