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  1. Knight26
    Looks like it could be fun, but a Snake Eyes whose face we see all the time and who talks? Eh, I don't know about that.
  2. Knight26
    Definitely an evolution of the VF-4, VF-14 design lineage with some YF-30/VF-31 thrown in. I'm just really not loving those weird neon lines. On top of that, it looks rather spindly in battroid mode. I'll be interested to see what the big deal about it is. i.e. what it does special and why it was designed that way.
  3. Knight26
    Haven't seen tug concepts like that in a long while. Nice to know that someone is looking forward like that. That is a pretty low price for Su-75, sounds like it is intended for the same market as the USAF F-35/F-16 replacement concept. MiG is just barely holding on with those concepts.
  4. Knight26
    Weird Fish Eye on that lens, makes the nose look super long.
  5. Knight26
    Interesting commercial, definitely shows that they intend this bird to be for mass export.
  6. Knight26
    Sukhoi Su-75 “CheckMate” Composite image. Can't wait for more official shots, especially of those weapon's bays and inlet.
  7. Knight26
    First pictures.
  8. Knight26
    Giant glowing Neon Valkyie, that just seems to scream, "SHOOT HERE" to me. Maybe all those glowing bits have a purpose, but right now, I'm not loving it.
  9. Knight26
    That's awesome, I'd love to print a set. The backpacks, do they actually translate between fighter and battroid or do they have to be swapped out?
  10. Knight26
    Picked up the plush senpai to watch over my special needs kiddo during his surgery and recovery.
  11. Knight26
    I'm comparing those shots to this one from the YT channel with all the Macross animations, and maybe it is just my eyes, but these, even at 720p still look comparable to the RT BR, if not a little nicer. The Bandai one still looks to have superior color grading and noise reduction too.
  12. Knight26
    I agree that is a definite improvement, I was just hoping that we could get a western release of the Bandai Blu Rays. Those are far superior than this remaster looks. As others have pointed out, it is likely due to whatever master they had access to, which limits the quality of remaster they can create. One would think, that with the current truce HG might be able to access the Bandai BR source for their release, or at least let the Bandai BR through. That is my biggest gripe.
  13. Knight26
    Wake me when Funimation releases a Blu-Ray of SDF based on the Bandai release.
  14. Knight26
    Gerwalk being an unintentional, "hey look at this feature that we get mid transformation" would really mean that omitting it wouldn't save much, if any cost. The biggest savings there would be in control programming. However, as I said, the most complicated parts of the valkyrie (and therefore some of the most expensive) would be the arms, hands and hips, so getting rid of battroid mode would be the more economical route for a "low cost" VF. If the only think that moves are the legs, and maybe the gunpod on a flex mount, then the costs would be far lower.
  15. Knight26
    Looks great. Can barely see the Gundam in it anymore.
  16. Knight26
    Yes, but the SDFM streaming release be based on the RT BD or the Bandai BD?
  17. Knight26
    Who cares about a RoboCrap BD release? Let's get a stateside Macross BD/streaming release based on the Bandai masters.
  18. Knight26
    How accurate are the physics in this sim? i.e. If one could build these to scale and slap in the requisite hardware, would they actually fly? Or is this one of those sims that you feed in the stats and it follows them instead of the sim analyzing the design to real time simulate the performance (like X-Plane)?
  19. Knight26
    What book?
  20. Knight26
    I wonder what the chances are that we'll ever see the "lost valkyries" in some form of fashion. Things like the VF-5/6/7 etc... I'm not even saying as hero valks, but more like background craft, kind of like what we got in Macross Plus with the VF/A-14 and VF-17 (D/T) in the background. I remember years ago we even discussed whether one the line of VF-11 back ends in one shot were actually one of the single engine valkyies. I'd love to see some of those show up as characters were doing something like walking through an air museum or airpark at a base. On that note, what do we think of the idea that some of the "low cast" variable fighters might not be able to transform into battroid mode and be akin to the Mac-II Gerwalkroid, or the Orguss Bronco-II. It seems like the most complex features of any valkyrie would be the Hands/arms, hips, and heads. So if the VFs were limited to Fighter and Gerwalk mode only that would cut the development and maintenance costs significantly for the "poorer, and lower risk" colony worlds. Anyway, just a thought.
  21. Knight26
    Ugh, Brofessor. So, the idea that Zentraedi ships are based on sea creatures, whales especially, isn't that crazy an idea. Even the Croc example could be where the inspiration for the ship's overall shapes came from. Where it goes off the rails is with the Power Armors. Sure, they have some decidedly "masculine" and "feminine" features, but that is likely more due to their need to quickly differentiate them on a small screen. This theory also does not account for the Meltrandi Ships seen in DYRL and onwards, which had a decidedly more burtalist, hard lines and edges, appearance to them. Brofessor likes to look at things from a particular angle, a particularly modern angle, that doesn't necessarily represent the reality of the time in which the series was created. It is a failing of many young academics, in that they cannot remove themselves from the modern way of thinking to look at a subject from the time period in which was created. So much societal change has occurred between the inception of Macross and today, that adjusting ones thinking to fit the time and understanding the thinking of the time is almost akin to looking back 100 years or more. I say that, and I grew up in that time.,
  22. Knight26
    Oh boy did I open a can of worms here. Someone posted an early version of this on the Macross Fan Central FB Page, and I posted a later one, now everyone is asking me for the source file, despite saying that I pulled it from here. Ugh.
  23. Knight26
    I'm liking it.
  24. Knight26
    This is the seller, lucked out that he was local. He still has one. https://www.facebook.com/groups/macrossbuysell/permalink/3880705122024709/?sale_post_id=3880705122024709
  25. Knight26
    Especially when you consider it was a Limited Edition, I mean, how many were even produced? @Graham was there ever an official number given?
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