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I wouldnt' trust it, but that's me. I made my own DVDs of the show, and they look awesome.

Unfortunately, I don't know it, but they were able to order it for me based on the title alone. They've been pretty good to me, based on the fact that I've ordered many products via email from them, and they've always come through.

I had this debate awhile back ago with someone who was on the "buy Robotech toy only" bandwagon. I've heard his arguments and others about how Yamato is chalk full of defective parts and pieces that break, trying to sell me on how Toynami's MPCs are better. The fiasco with the Maia MPC and the alpha line in general is what I'll always refer to. Knowing the first alphas had defects, they never attempted to fix the initial issues (crumbling hands, floppy legs, poor paint, overglue, landing gear clearance, etc.) Then when the Maia came out with all the brittle plastic and poor craftsmanship, it was just more problems on top of the original problems. Any problem I've heard from Yamato, has been handled, and they try to rectify the issues with their later issues and re-releases. I never vilified Toynami, some of their other toys are fantastic, but it's almost obvious that they don't make their money off of the MPC stuff.

Just ordered 2 copies of #5 from Kinokuniya to be picked up. Can't wait.

I'm sure they are profitable. If they weren't, Toynami/George wouldn't have continued with the Alphas or the betas as far as they did. Now, how much of a profit margin is something we can only guess at without him or someone in his company saying, but to just say they aren't is more on the side of Macross fan speculation(?). If you take all the items Robotech that they sell/sold, it seems like they've done alright. Toynami is a business afterall. In one of their most recent of Macross/robotech projects, their Regult seems to have done well. Even the 1/100 line seems to have endured well enough. Going by initial sales, not collector or 3rd party sales, it seems like Toynami is profitable, but how much is anyone's guess. I'm pretty confident that the Maia Sterling MPC was probably the money pit, but it seems they padded well enough to attempt to fix it at least. Doesn't seem like that was the case with that mess.

For the MPC "Cyclones", there were the 2 only. Apparently, Beagle prototyped the Fuke (Rook Bartley), but the first 2 sold so poorly in Japan and in the U.S., Beagle decided to drop out of the Mospeada game. HG blames Beagle, but in reality, it was both Japanese and U.S. markets that sold poorly. In regards to the Tread/Beta, the sales were poor, not because of quality from what I understand, but because of cost and the economy. I've had nothing but good things to say about mine (with the exception of the heavy, floppy legs), but $150 for an item that is more niche than Macross is kinda obvious. I don't think it's still a for sure thing about the Tread/Betas, but I think the Beagle Ride armors are gone the way of the dinosaur. Oh, and on the Legioss/Alpha, those were the epic failure. I doubt they're gonna run back to those ever again. Poor manufacturing standards, and then going to a less poor manufacturer will kill anything it seems. And I think the MPC version of the cyclones didn't pass 5000, but if so, I think they started off with high numbers to pad the numbers. That's my opinion though.

I have to wonder how much work they'll do before HG gives them the "give it to us, or give it up" speech and letter, in the form of a C&D. Clearly, another mosquito flying towards the blue light. I must admit, their character designs are pretty darn good, but the "mecha" designs are atrocious. I think the head design is decent.

I have no idea how many people are coming, since everyone's been replying here. Some seem still unsure, and of course, the bad news of Tochiro having to drop out. BTW, buddy, get better, and hopefully we can at least film something for you. Back on topic, I'm thinking since the concert is over at 3p.m. we should have all those that wanna attend the Yardhouse dinner afterparty to meet in front of Yardhouse approx 30 mins after, so we can get a headcount. those that are attending the dinner later, let us know to add you, and we'll go from there. It can be a quick meet, and we can all go off from there, wherever, and just meet up at 7 or 7:30. Really up to you all. I know there will be about 5-7 others not posting here that are part of the group that are meeting at the dinner, so it's already a decent group.

There are a couple in there somewhere, but they've already been posted up in here.

From what I've seen, the v.2 is way better than the v.1. Why would you want to fit a v.1 onto a v.2?

Is it going to be possible to pick up tickets during pre-registration on Wednesday? I'm going Wednesday afternoon/night to pickup passes. If doing that is possible, I'm hoping I can get my tickets early.

The cool thing about the ADV dub (and really the only thing) is that they do have it in the original Japanese as well. So, you can at least try watching the first episode in both and see which one she prefers. If she just prefers the english only, she may not appreciate it as much in English, but the option is there.

I have to admit, while I do like a lot of the music of Macross in general, Macross Frontier music is up there with some of the best of it. Add the fact that there's a good gathering of MW fans attending this, and it's set to be a good afternoon/evening. I'm looking forward to this concert, as it's probably the only time in the U.S. they might be here, and hanging out with Macrossworld fans from all over is gonna be a great time.

If I could find some gunbuster books, I'd get a couple. Actually, I have one that's got Gunbuster and Diebuster art, but that's it, and it's not really art intensive. I have quite a lot of other books, but those are just the Macross/Robotech books I have.

Yeah, and donkeys are flying in the sky w/ wings of gold. I know for a fact that they aren't working on that. Without going into details, there isn't much of anything that's going on over there, but then again, I don't think you need to be any Robotech fan to figure that out. Their big panels for AX and SDCC are on thursday, not on saturday, so it doesn't seem like they're getting the slots of priority. I don't blame that guy for wanting to see something from the franchise. If I cared about what was/wasn't coming out at this time from them, I'd be pretty much grasping for something, too. Do you think that it helps HG at all to wait forever to put out something new? I mean, for fans, they get starved for something, to the point where it doesn't matter the quality, so long as it's something new.

I see how this is going to go from a mile away. They're gonna bring them in, because they're gonna want them to work on Robotech fan projects because they 1)don't have the talent or 2) don't wanna do the work. Somehow when I saw that thread several weeks ago, I kinda had that inclination. We'll see though. I'm sure it'll get brought up sometime, unless me mentioning it here exposed that, and they decide to change the tactic. BTW, what happened to their fan LAM they were doing. We heard of that for what, 2 days? Then it went silent. I know one of the guys from that, and he's got talent for sure, but everything else seemed really half-@ssed. I'm just saying. Also wanted to throw in though, that if these guys do any fan work (on their own) without getting harassed by the people trying to bring them in, if they show that quality, it would be pretty cool. Saying that, it would make shadow chronicles look like garbage, I'm sure. They'd probably get shut down, too.

At least you played it at your wedding. Congrats! When my wife and I got married, we were thinking of all sorts of things we could do to relate our interests to our wedding. We are pretty good friends with Michael Bradley (singer/songwriter for a lot of Robotech and the singing voice of Lancer). He was willing to do a live performance of "The Way to Love" at the ceremony end, and another song "When you say nothing at all" for our dance. As for DYRL, I don't have the music at all, but I've been able to figure out the chords by guitar, and depending on which version you listen to, can sound more or less like accompany sound to the piano. Piano is something I know very little of.

Does that have anything to do with Robotech, or are they associating it with Robotech because they're looking for something to latch onto? It looks pretty cool though.

Fire the feet missiles!!! Hahaha, nice catch. I thought that was a pretty funny observation. But these are pretty cool items. They'd make great game pieces.

Of all the things, my younger brother asked if he could borrow my Robotech DVDs today, so I drove them over to his house. He grew up with me watching the series back in the day, and while not an anime fan or hardcore forum posting robotech fan, he did like the show back then. He was asking a lot of questions about where the cartoons came from (the robotech 101 questions) and I filled him in. Needless to say, he's interested in the originals now, and wants to see Dyrl. It struck me funny that supposedly this show is more popular now than ever, but all the people I know that watched it back then, only remember bits and pieces of The Macross Saga and The New Generation. I'm sure he'll definitely like the Macross story arcs as much, if not more though. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

If you're looking for original SDF:Macross (what Robotech was based off of) only ADV had an english dub version of it, and to be honest, it isn't good. You may get more enjoyment out of the original Japanese language, but if you have to have the english dub, goto rightstuf.com and see if they have the ADV set. For the other Macross stuff, only Macross II and Macross Plus can be found with english, and you can probably get those at www.rightstuf.com as well.

This is a small sidenote I've noticed after last years AX2009. The only "Robotech" cosplay I saw was SDF:Macross cosplay, and then tons of Mac Frontier cosplayers. Even the girl hosting the Battle of the Bands was dressed as Sheryl, which was quite hot. Funny how you don't see people cosplaying as Robotech Shadow Chronicles characters, especially since the perception fans and staff like to suggest is that it's one of the most popular animes of the decade. Apparently, the anime community as a whole doesn't agree with that assumption. I don't even consider it anime, to be honest. I don't think that would even happen. HG would basically ruin their chances of having any sort of decent presence at AX in the future. They'd really have no basis for sending one out, especially since the venue, as stated, is promoting music, and isn't Macross specific.

I was listening to that one podcast with Tommy's interview, where someone mentions Dr. Lang dying, and the answer that fan got back was, "did you see a body?" All the fanboys who don't think about stuff like that were lauging, and you heard the "EHH?", the "Ohhhhh" and the "Ahhhhhhs". Any normal persons reaction would've been, "WTF?" The hint was that perhaps he's not dead, which is simply strange. Then the comment of "In sci-fi, just about everything is possible." That's true, but why would you suggest to kill off a character, then bring him back for no reason at all? Then, to make a comment like "did you see a body", I almost wanna say, "Would you really work on making the story even more lame and convoluted than it already is?" If the answer is no, then yeah, he's dead as per PTTSC, and Chronicles of the Shadow. I was also thinking, if the idea was to kill him off, why not just own the idea that you killed off the character. My response would've been much simpler. It would've gone more like "Well, he wasn't a big character, and in the scope of what Shadow Chronicles is, there just isn't a place for many of the characters, so we decided to end their stories." Plain, simple, clear cut, and out of the way.

My guess is he's probably in some back alley getting his proto-fix.

There's this really cool Doctor named Dr. Lang. I'm sure he's familiar with this problem. He's probably also familiar with the Chronicles of the Effin' Shadow.