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  1. Roger
    What is this, the personals section? The topic title asks if there's no love for Southern Cross. I confess that I never really felt love for Southern Cross. I liked her, I had fun with her, if I didn't I wouldn't have dated her for four months, but I never had a mental image of me and Southern Cross sharing a future together. Once I finally figured out what was missing, I understood why. What made it worse was that Southern Cross was apparently nuts about me. Eventually I had to tell Southern Cross that I really didn't feel about her the way she did about me. That didn't go over too well. Haven't heard from her since then, and honestly I think that's for the best. If there was love for Southern Cross, you wouldn't see auctions like this lot of five vintage model kits for around $5: http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/120757215 If there was love for Southern Cross, you'd see CM's Corporation make a Spartas before they made a Calibur. If there was love for Southern cross, you wouldn't see threads on BBSes asking, "No love for Southern Cross?"
  2. Roger
    NO LOVE.
  3. Roger
    The info about Big West purchasing the Japanese merchandising rights from Tatsunoko came from Tom Bateman and/or Tommy Yune, a couple of years ago. This is speculation, but the only reason I can think of is that it was done as a "cock block" by Big West. In the past, Toynami has sold things like their Super Poseable Alphas and Masterpiece Alphas (MOSPEADA-based designs) to companies in Japan who obtained a license from Tatsunoko to sell them there. Ideally Toynami would want to keep doing this, because the more toys you make, the less you pay to make each one. Let's say Toynami decided to make Southern Cross toys. Now if a Japanese company wanted to sell them there, they'd have to get a license from Big West. And how willing do you think they'd be to grant a license that would make more profit for a Harmony Gold licensee? (That's a rhetorical question. I think they wouldn't be too willing, but again, I'm speculating.) I don't blame Tatsunoko for selling the rights. It was probably more money than they expected to make off of granting the license fees themselves, which is zero, because there is NO LOVE for Southern Cross.
  4. Roger
    Getting back to the unloved Southern Cross... Has anyone ever mentioned how most of the background music sounds like 80s pop music? There's one track that sounds like George Michael's Faith, another that's really reminiscent of Synchronicity II, etc. Watch a random episode, you'll hear these tracks two or three times every episode.
  5. Roger
    After the "LONELY CHAAASEEAAAAHHHH!" theme it really goes downhill. The animation is incredibly lousy and most of the the episodes tell standalone tales rather than a continuous story (Southern Cross gets points for this). Like Dorvack, It feels a lot like watching MASK.
  6. Roger
    Sorry: http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?1,75051,75051
  7. Roger
    Tatsunoko has the rights to license the animation, but Big West purchased the merchandising rights from them a while back.
  8. Roger
    Uh, no.
  9. Roger
    My suggestions for making a new Southern Cross: - Replace the lackluster transforming tanks and helicopters with nifty transforming jets and motorcycles. - Remove the boring old men aliens and instead add cool giant crab aliens. - Change the story from a tale of angsty army teenagers and turn it into a tale about a group of freedom fighters roaming the countryside. Then you have a start. ;p (Seriously, we're going to see another Dorvack series before we see more Southern Cross.)
  10. Roger
    My answer is "none of them," because this thread has thoroughly demonstrated that there is NO LOVE for Southern Cross.
  11. Roger
    No, there have never been any Robotech products released in Japan because HG's license doesn't include that territory. There is a Japanese fansub .SRT file that's available, though. I believe you can find it on Yaco's site.
  12. Roger
    "Getting?" They killed a baby in the first ten minutes of the show. I like where things are going with Baltar, because it's showing how building a religion around a living person is doomed to failure. People change their minds, and they deteriorate mentally and physically. Better to build up a myth around people and things you can't see every day, it lasts longer. ;p
  13. Roger
    No, I'm actually asking how one can tell whether or not a toy is designed via CAD or not. I'd like to know how Graham came to that conclusion without any info from Toynami, because I don't think the quality of the final product is a reliable indicator. After all, we were getting great transforming robot toys and models long before CAD became commonly used.
  14. Roger
    Do we know for a fact that one was sculpted by hand and the other was developed using CAD, or are we just assuming this?
  15. Roger
    Just wondering, what are the earmarks one can look for to identify whether a toy has been designed with CAD or sculpted by hand?
  16. Roger
    The Algae Planet (it never had a name aside from that) was destroyed in that supernova. Kobol is inhabitable, but it would take two years, maybe more, of travel to get back there, including crossing that radioactive expanse. The fleet wouldn't go for that. They could also go back to New Caprica, but again, it would take a year or more, and I'd say their chances of running into Cavil, Doral, and Simon were much higher there. Their best bet is to look for another system close to Sol that had an Earth-type planet (non-radioactive, of course), and that's what Adama tasked Gaeta with at the end of last week's episode. The podcast commentary confirms that D'anna is staying on Earth to die and that was Lucy Lawless' last episode. How did D'anna know that Ellen Tigh was dead? The only explanation I can come up with is that the cylons found her body in the resistance's underground lair before they departed from New Caprica. Unless, of course, the knowledge was part of her divine revelation.
  17. Roger
    I think it's a Photoshopped image from one of their reviews. You can see the hinge for the Beta's cockpit.
  18. Roger
    It's not. I think it's from Acrobunch.
  19. Roger
    I have some of those (thanks to George?), they're fun.
  20. Roger
    They did, it was called "Futurama" and it rocked.
  21. Roger
    Every one I see at shows is like that, whether they're on display or in the box.
  22. Roger
    Guess that stuff from Aaron Douglas in September wasn't disinformation: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38471
  23. Roger
    I knew that Last Supper pic was a load of poo. Those Diamond statues are poo, too. They come out of the packaging pre-chipped, like candy canes.
  24. Roger
    People here seem to be interested, but I don't think it's for the same reasons you are.
  25. Roger
    I don't get it, if the piece doesn't ride along attached to the intake from fighter to battloid, where does it go? Where is there room to put it?
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