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Well, Carl could've been a nice guy. I met him a couple times, and he seemed OK. He was willing to talk, but it wasn't like I HAD TO TALK ABOUT ROBOTECH with him. I'm just not someone with RT licensed fan goggles that becomes like a whiny, squealie schoolgirl around their staff. And Darkwater, I totally agree. Carl wasn't the originator of the chop job anime to American television, and I'd even question the fact that he made Japanese anime popular in the U.S. It was already coming over, and coming over more frequent in the time before Robotech first aired. A lot of the fanboys won't want to admit that, as that would question their faith and belief in their almighty Carl. Don't kid yourselves. He was a producer, and put something out during the perfect storm, but that's it. To call him a visionary? I find it funny that Frank only has great things to say about Carl, as does Tommy, when it was HG who fired him because he couldn't produce anything with substance after using the original series. From what I do know, he was kinda the laughing stock with the RT staff, and seeing Tommy role his eyes when Carl would talk definitely confirms that. That would mean that they definitely are using his death as a marketing tool, even to this day. Seems like every which way I turn, HG's Robotech dept. is doing something stupid. I love pointing this stuff out.

I was going to say that kit is pretty cool, but the most fascinating part is the camera pod. I just preordered one for myself. I haven't built a good Macross kit in a lonnnnng time. Edit: To add, it seems that by 2059, U.N. Spacy made the VF-11 series available for civilian use. To me, doesn't that seem a bit odd? It'd almost be like a news agency being able to buy an F-14, or the F-20, hell, even an F-4, and I don't think that's ever going to happen.

It's been posted in several media sites over the past few years, that Harmony Gold haven't been very nice to Michael. It's been on Myspace, briefly talked about on Facebook https://www.facebook...s/187067344377/, and has been discussed by several fans who hang around the "Robotech" groups long enough. There were serious issues with Michael just being able to be able to put out his own CDs with the music he wrote because HG had such a strangle hold on the songs. Lately, this documentary that is on this A&E Robotech set has come and gone, and Michael was never asked to take part of any of it. Oddly, Carl's last day on this earth was on his way to see Michael's band perform, as he wanted to see Michael and hadn't done so in some time. Then, this side project has been talked about for over a year, and HG has known they were going to use LLA over that time. A story that focuses around a character that Michael Bradley helped make popular through his great music, and there's been nothing. You can also find a good synopsis of the basics on the rtx.com website, and of course, on the facebook link. I don't want to get into details about all of it, and I'm not the one to really talk about it, but like the mentioning of this RT project being LLA about a year ago, trust me on this. This stuff is why even if HG put out a good product, I'm not buying anything. For all I care, they can suck it until they rectify the issues they've caused. Michael has been there in the beginning of Robotech. Like I've said, whether you hate Robotech, or like it, or are indifferent, to treat someone who has done that much for that franchise, and truly loves the work he did for it, is just wrong.

Yeah, not looking forward to horror stories like that. I'm sure I'll start picking it up pretty soon, and I'll probably open up a whole new world.

No, and at first, I was thinking, if it had the original sound effects, I would have. Then, after all the B.S. with blacklisting Michael Bradley, and the seeming refusal to include him in the documentary, I wouldn't even buy it in that case. As a matter of fact, I'm not ever going to buy a single thing from that franchise until that gets fixed (even then, if the product sucks, still not going to buy it).

Yeah, it's definitely possible to do. To make it collapsible would take more time, but it's possible. Even better though, I may have one somewhere in my collection. I know I dismantled a couple beat up MPCs several years ago, and I think the parts are in some box either here at my place, at my mom's house, or at my in-law's house. Was going to keep it for a custom, but I can sell it to you if you're interested. PM me.

Thanks for the info. I was reading up on some of this, as I wanted to possibly texture it. I'm not much into creating these for any animation yet. For now, being able to create these, then get a toy made is very exciting. If I get asked to help out with something, I've been putting these good bits of knowledge away, so I do thank you for that information. I hope to be able to enhance these someday, and good textures would definitely be the path.

Here's my latest. 1/60 GU-11 prototype gun pod. Going to hollow it out, and adjust the barrel's insides to make it recastable, so 99.8% done. Comments welcomed.

Now that's Robotechnology...Protocultivating!

I'm definitely getting one. I wish this kit was going to be bigger, but nevertheless, it looks fantastic. The first shots of a completed one look a bit over weathered, but thus is the issues with smaller scales...any weathering often looks amplified with small scales.

Idiots should not be allowed to give reviews of anything, and should get an instant banhammer when they do. I'm almost willing to bet hat 90% of the review will be stuff that's already been said by, I don't know, EVERYBODY. 9% will probably be fanwank and fluff, and 1% will most likely be predictions, something like how A&E is so cutting edge because they put Robotech on DVD, and how they are on top of the entertainment industry, and how everyone should be quaking in their boots because they have a re-re-re-release of a 26 year old cartoon.

Well, we know they aren't really gaining anymore fans, but this definitely shows they are losing them. I know this is a stupid idea, and really shows the stupidity of the "creative team", but even moreso, the fact that they have this concept, and won't even approach the man who made Lancer/Yellow Dancer's music for the show, is an insult to him, and a disservice to the fans. It's been said around, but Michael Bradley has done more for Robotech, and keeping the music he did alive, than Tommy and co. have done in their whole career combined. Despite your view of what Robotech is/was/will be, to treat someone with talent who truly has a love for his work, to be treated with such disrespect, and to be excluded because HG shafted him long ago, is just another example of the lack of class they have. That has nothing to do with any Macross vs. Robotech, that is just classless, and I really have no respect for the crew at HG.

I will listen in tomorrow.

Which makes me ask even more, WHY??? Note to the Super RT fringe fanwanks, doing something just because it can, doesn't equate to a good idea, or a smart decision. When the "creative staff's" greatest idea is to mix and match new animation with some that are 25 years old, It's quite easy to criticize.

What I see funny here, is many are making comparisons on screen shot of the t.v. show, that has the anime magic, that makes certain parts bigger or smaller for aesthetics of the screen shot. It can't be everything it was in the cartoon, and while I'm sometimes guilty of that myself, I have to realize that it's a real toy, and is engineered to incorporate all we expect, and at the most line art accurate it can be. Not an easy task. All that said, I like it. I'll be getting one. I probably won't get the D, but it just depends on finances at the time.

Supposedly, it's going to be like the Robotech Invasion comic, where it's before the 21st Mars Division invasion. It supposedly showed Dana, probably leaving, and that was new animation. It's not a direct rip of LLA, just (again) taking footage, and chopping it to something they want. Hahaha, you can blame me, but I put the word out sometime after I heard it. I don't come up with stupid ideas like that, and I wouldn't think of doing that to LLA. Don't forget, this is supposed to be "Carl's Vision", which really means, Tommy's idea covered under a person who is no longer here, so if he needs to throw someone under the bus, Carl can't defend himself.

I can just picture it now, they're jumping in the air to chest slap each other with the song "Do the Homie" in the background (look up Boondocks for it on youtube). I know this isn't going to be LLA, but the fact that they're using it, just gives so many people, including Robotech fans, a bad taste in the mouth. Oh, and let's not kid ourselves here, this isn't "Carl's vision". Carl may have had an idea, but Tommy still runs that part of it, so this is all his idea. I do know, pretty much for a fact, that the "Carl's vision" thing, is going to be Tommy's excuse to revert to if people get pissed at it. Also, it is his way of diverting blame, and to lighten people's anger. "How can we be mad, when this was Carl's last idea?" BULL$HIT!

I heard genetically enhanced crops are great for this time of year (cropped and probably some color saturation, perhaps with some more cleanup to fit the new animation). Judging by what has been seen, and screen captures of what they seem to want to do, it looks like they will go that route. Then again, on that, it's speculation based on their ill-conceived actions. If you think about it though, if they decide to just keep this in 4:3 which I know Tommy loves, maybe they'll keep it like that, and use some lame excuse like, "they wanted to keep it close to Carl's vision for the time, so we didn't do it in Widescreen." I dunno, I'm indirectly giving them backhanded ideas here. Maybe their new Vice president of marketing can come up with a good spin on that. Now, that is funny.

I kinda knew what it was going to be, but at the same time, I wanted to be wrong. They're way late in the game, doing the same chop job to old animation and making it into something else. New animation? Fine, whatever, but then you're going to add stuff that was fine as is? President of animation my a$$! Sad for Mospeada fans IMO, a frakking joke to the RT fans. I didn't go to it, but I also heard from a friend who did, that the entire documentary was shot in Standard Definition, they used the same generic background for all the interviewees, AND, they mistitled Richard Epcar's roles he did in Robotech. From what I heard hanging out with friends afterward, was that if you saw it at the panels at conventions, you pretty much saw the entire thing. The GOOD thing that was mentioned about it, was that it was a true look back from the voice actors at the history in making it. Politics and asinine, narcissistic tendencies aside from the "creative staff", that seems to be the the only good thing out of that 30-40 minutes, and the bar and food. LOVE, LIVE, ALIVE....Yeah, saw that coming and damn...WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

A couple of us were saying this last year, and people thought we were nucking futs. Told ya! And yeah, that's pretty bad.

So, people are coming out to HG tonight in the fancy garb, to watch a DVD extra about Robotech, then have a after party "Tommy-wank" fest. I so frakkin' wish I could just spill the proverbial beans on some of the issues, and idiot decisions. Some will be obvious after people get this, some I'm not sure if it'll come out, but very interesting stuff. Then, there's the stuff, that even if you don't necessarily like Robotech, you wish it was OK to just shoot spitwads at them. Some amount of ridicule will come, as they almost ask for it with their "direction".

Ahhh, I hate this new board, as it jumbles all the mulitquotes together. Anyways, They'll always use it in merchandising, which comics, video games, and that sort, fall under. Even though story can be told via those types of media, I think HG wants to stay away from that, as the comics that told the Tommy story were crap beyond crap. The art was better than comico and the other comics previous, but if that's the only plus to them, then again, the lack of impact with their ability to tell a decent story rears its head again. I remember Tommy and co. saying something that had verified this a long time ago. I'm sure one of the moron minions will start pouting and saying "show me proof". Hmmm, I would reply, "show me proof that it isn't the case". I wonder if all the people realize that they are going to a theater to watch a documentary that is an extra in a DVD that runs about 30 minutes, and they have to dress formal for the event. There's some interesting facts about this documentary that I know will pop up later. Some of it is things that are just so incredibly stupid, you have to shake your head at, to things that just don't make sense, and a lot of tell tale signs of incompetency. Good stuff on our end, I guess.

HG could do whatever they want to the footage they have, except make anything derivative from the designs. TAside from rearranging the footage, HG is pretty much stuck in a rut with it. So far, it seems that all they can do (and not all that well IMO) is repackage, and resell the same ol' stuff. All HG can really do with the Macross episodes, is cleanup the picture, which has already been done. A reboot of Robotech would be cool, but it wouldn't have Macross in it at all. And, as has been said many times as well, do you think HG really has the right staff for that? They barely know their head from their stinky parts, so there you go.

Thanks, buddy, been going through the online tutorials for some more difficult processes, and anything you got would be cool. BTW, I started work on the prototype GU-11 gunpod in 1/60 scale. It's the gun that is on the front cover of the Shoji Kawamori Design Works book. Should be done hopefully saturday, and I sent these pieces in to get printed. Should get them next week or early week after.

It probably works out better to hold off the "official" MW con till next year. Afterall, next year is the 30th anniv. Perhaps if I can get some people to help out, I'll see if the location that we were going to use this year will be available next year, and I'll do the coordinating. I figured the life change might've been part of it, and you don't need to apologize for that at all. You've definitely done some great work with the previous several.