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Thanks for the closeup on the on "A" sprue, as the manufacturer's name caught my eye: 뽀빠이 과학 (Popeye Science). Did some digging on the company and found this https://namu.wiki/w/뽀빠이(동음이의어) (translation in spoiler—seems to be the modelling arm of a larger company): That said, the Youtube results are intriguing—I see a couple of videos with knockoff Valkyries!: https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/뽀빠이과학

That was a great set! I really liked the extra details; especially the zipper on the back of Batsuit and the hint of a mustache on Joker! As I've been displaying the Batmobile without them, I've completely forgotten that it came with stud shooters! 😅

Well, for better or worse, the producers of Macross use different naming schemes (a la Delta's characters named after famous jets and pilots), and they seem to choose less silly names out of public suggestions*—such as "Messiah" in the Newtype mail-in promotion during the initial part of Frontier's run. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Sir_David_Attenborough#Naming_poll ... though, it would be great to see NUNS ships named "Boaty McBoatface" and "It's Bloody Cold Here"! 🤣

Yeah, that was where I was coming from when I brought it up. It's old and decrepit enough to look like it's been around much longer than the Macross 7 City Ship it's attached to, and Macross Chronicle's description is pretty suggestive... Thanks. I didn't really look at it that way—gotta break out those meme's about Macross 7 having everything, again! This adds so much. Not only the out-of-universe evolution of Fold Quartz, but also suggests so much about the in-universe discovery and initial exploration of the material's capabilities. The other line of thinking I had is "what real-world situation or country was Kawamori-san basing it off of?," as he is quite concerned about justifying fictitious things (E.g. the "dancing Battroids" in Macross Delta to justify manned transforming humanoid robots when a drone jet would suffice.) The coal-mines is admittedly a blink-and-you-miss-it, throw-away line that I'm probably overthinking, as it's goal was most likely only to justify the need for the YVF project in Macross Plus. Agreed. While the Master File books hold a bit more weight (as Kawamori-san was directly involved as a "supervisor"), ultimately they are glorified fan fic. And as Kawamori-san has said himself: each Macross production is a dramatization made in-universe about real events, the same holds true for the Master File books (as in-universe publications—that may or many not be fanciful extrapolations—about "real" events, technology, and equipment!)

That's kind of assuming that those ultra-high efficiency renewable energy sources and thermonuclear fusion power capabilities are being freely shared. As the Macross Galaxy Fleet suggests, not every government plays nice with its civilians. However, putting all that to the side, this could be a sign that Kawamori-san had the concept of Fold Coal and Fold Quartz in mind all along—akin to the Energy Conversion Armour idea that he purportedly had way back at the time of SDFM but didn't formally introduced until Macross Zero. It also goes a long way to justifying why there was a mining settlement on the planet Basara visited in The Galaxy Is Calling Me. (Perhaps a precursor or initial attempt at the idea that got refined and clarified in the Macross Frontier materials as Fold Carbon & Quartz?) I agree that those explanations are neat. However, due to some other oddities and unusual hangups in those books, I can't fully accept them into my head cannon... 😅

There is very little information on those short range fleets. Some supposition is that the SDFN class (from Macross F) and Akusho (from Macross 7) may have at one point been involved in those short range fleets. The Battleships Of The Galaxy Book 3: Zentrādi Military Vessels (a fan-made dojinshi) supposed that the Unified Government converted the Zentrādi Kirutora Keruēru into Environment Ships (the Kirutora Keruēru-class Environment Ships), but the write-up indicates they were for the Super Long-range Emigrant Fleets. Nevertheless, it does suggest that other converted Zentrādi ships could have been used in those short range fleets. Those short range fleets also appear to mostly have occurred only during the initial period shortly after the end of the First Interstellar War. The limited materials on them suggest that they started being launched before the completion of the Megaroad-01. So, the supposition that ships used in those fleets later returned to Earth and were repurposed to other roles or fleets makes a lot of sense. Macross Chronicle did have a poetic line about some Super Long-range Emigrant Fleets being fated to spend "half an eternity" looking for a habitable planet. Yeah. The production team really played fast and loose with continuity in that game. I'm glad that they were reined in a lot more with VF-X2!

Yeah... Fold speeds are a grey area. The only "official" specifics we have are from material about Macross Plus (the distance and travel time—given as a broad time frame) or the doubly vague "20 years to the centre of the galaxy" from Macross F. While Macross Plus is great for nerding out over, it's also for an 'experimental and disposable' Fold Booster. So, erring on the side of caution, that's on the slower side of the scale and a ship-scale Fold drive ought to be significantly faster and/or traverse greater distances. Then we get statements like the Varōta High Speed Cruiser being able to travel even faster than a "normal" ship-scale Fold Drive... 😵 Ultimately, it seems to boil down to "speed of plot", and probably best not to get too deep in the weeds about. Especially as there are some stories that play fast and loose with the rules (the penultimate story beat in Macross Digital Mission VF-X to name 1 of many...)

Expanding on what Seto said: in the initial period, there were 2 types of Emigrant Fleet: close range (within 100 ly of Earth*), and long range. It makes sense that elements of the close range fleets would return to Earth and be reused due to the distances involved (E.g. parts of the fleet that discovered Planet Eden; located a mere 11.7 light years from Earth—about 1 day's travel. Isamu took around 18 hours* with the experimental Fold Booster). To give some numbers on the farthest flung Emigrant Fleets: the Macross F Fleet was described as having taken "20 years" to navigate to the vicinity of the centre of the galaxy, and it would take about half that time (10 years one-way) for a ship to return to Earth. So, I think the NUNS crews and civilians knew that they were on a one-way trip when they launched. The advent of the Super Fold Drive (in Macross F) reduced travel times to 1/10, but that would still take 1 year. Not impossible, but not really feasible. * back of the envelope math. 100 ly takes about 8.33 days to traverse with a standard Fold Drive.

There's two possibilities that I can think of: 1) they reused existing modelling assets and mashed them onto the MiG-29 (aren't the canards and micro-missile launchers directly ripped from the Sv-51?) 2) the publicity at the time of the remaster's release stated that they used AI to 'enhance' the images. Could this be an example of an "AI hallucination" during that process? Or could Kawamori-san possibly have used the tool to add additional details to the footage?

If I'm reading it correctly, this is the Blu-ray specs: Audio: Japanese Subtitles: Korean* ※ why the languages are like the only things written in English is beyond me... Source (image on the left side): https://www.miragemall.co.kr/m/product.html?branduid=3739813&xcode=003&mcode=000&scode=&type=P&sort=regdate&cur_code=003&search=&GfDT=a2d3UQ%3D%3D PS: I think the title should be changed. It's not a 25th anniversary release, just the Korean "Macross F: The Movie Steelbook Edition - Lenticular Version". [2월 26일 오후2시부터 예약시작][2026년 4월 24일 발매][블루레이] 극장판 마크로스 F 스틸북 에디션-렌티큘러 버전 [Pre-orders start at 2:00 PM on February 26] [Release date: April 24, 2026] [Blu-ray] Macross F: The Movie Steelbook Edition - Lenticular Version

Thanks for that description! I've also designed my own transforming jet fighters*, so it's neat seeing the similarities in our workflows. That going back and forth and refining the design as we do basic and test assemblies is a pain in the butt, isn't it? 😅 For step (5), I refer to that as "making it look cool." (cool being a combination of making it look like it could actually fly [refining the aerodynamic features, etc.], and artistic polish that makes a design pop.) * https://www.deviantart.com/studiootaking/art/CFs-Generation-3a-Master-File-Chronicle-767383491

I'd say it's worth a view—even if it's just to see a "what if Kawamori-san wasn't in charge of Macross". If memory serves, there is a massive drop off in animation quality in the last episode.

From the descriptions*, it sounds like the show runners are having their cake and eating it, too: they want an academy setting with cadets, but also want to do the standard Star Trek ship-doing-space-adventures. I'm not saying it's impossible (DS9 pulled off something similar), but from the sounds of things, this show's writers haven't figured out how to do it. * stopped watching nu-Trek at the end of the second season of Discovery, so my impressions may be biased...

Question is: will they release the missile pack equipped version in the near future? And what about the Quadoran-Nona? It would be a good way to milk those Quadoran-Ro molds!

Don't you mean the F-3000 version that showed up in Macross 7 Trash? 😉