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    I'm sure a catfish could fly a jet with the right effort. Some cybernetic enhancements, a bit of genetic engineering, maybe some esoteric drugs... I am not at all inspired by the running joke about a fictional ewok pilot in the X-Wing books(which eventually paid off in spades when a "real" gamorrean pilot with the ewok's background turned up)
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    Well, that much is obvious.
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    NOT MY SHUTTLE ROBO! If they do the Super GoBots version, I will be ALL over it. I think he's named Big Shuttle Robo in Japan, because of course he is.
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    I didn't say it would be reasonable. Sadly, Knight26 is right. HG can't go toe-to-toe with Dreamworks. And HG's traditional move is to pick fights with smaller people and ignore the ones they can't blow out of the water with their opening salvo.
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    And then HG sued for "trade dress and other intellectual property infringement"
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    Yeah. It isn't a great Blackbird, but it IS way better than most other recent attempts.
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    Capcom died during the great Clover exodus, and they buried the corpse when Inafune left. I have been ignoring all Capcom-developed software for years. Bafflingly, they are a weirdly competent PUBLISHER.
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    Honestly, I like the roads in DYRL, and that's why it stuck with me. Artificial gravity makes for interesting roadway possibilities(until something breaks down, then it is just terrifying).
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    In DYRL, the roads are three-dimensional as I recall. You can drive STRAIGHT UP! Tell me a sportscar buff wouldn't want to drive towards the sky. As far as the broader economy... I refuse to poke too hard at it. It is like trying to figure out why everyone has VFs when a destroid/fighter jet pair ought to be more economical and reliable. In the end, there is no good answer and you just destroy the show's credibility.
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    It looks like Basara's. I'm just sayin'.
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    I would swear it is more than two. But yeah, those two sequences you screencapped are using the same cels, just flipped and overlaid on a different background.
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    Oh my Primus, that is amazing.
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    The clip with Orguss Valk and the crushed Defender was used as stock animation. It shows up in like eight diffrent episodes.
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    Awww yeah! My favorite valk in SD form!
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    "Why" could most likely be answered as "because an alien warship done crashed itself in our hometown." It is a less dramatic illustration of the "everybody died in an orbital bombardment" impetus for the TV series immigration. If the wreckage of alien battleships are washing up on your shores, it is safe to say aliens are at war nearby and you stand a good chance of getting caught in the crossfire (which is exactly what happened in both the series and movie).+ "Where" can probably be deduced as "inside the solar system." If the launch of the Macross was more orderly than in the TV series*, the fold accident may not have happened. IF that assumption holds, then we can deduce their initial colonization target was most likely in the solar system. Even if the fold accident DID happen, their initial plan was likely not interstellar. Begin big wall of speculative contemplation! My logic is... if they are carrying civilians as a pre-planned colonization effort, it means the ship has finished the shakedown cruise, all the tests are done, and all the hardware works. Were they planning to colonize an extrasolar planet, they would've presumably already folded out of the system. But wait, there's more! For a species with exactly one working starship... the instant they colonize a world that requires fold travel to reach, then necessity dictates the Macross become a dedicated supply** and communications ship between that colony and Earth. This would be a LOT of defensive power stationed at neither Earth nor Extrasolar Colony One, because the ship spends a lot of time between those two ports. So humanity can't really start colonizing other star systems until a second vessel is ready.*** Likely the Macross would be scheduled to tour the solar system setting up colonies on every chunk of rock or ice reachable with rockets until more fold-capable vessels were operational. The moons of Saturn are prime interplanetary real estate, as are the more obvious targets of Mars and Venus. And, you know, good ol' Luna, but you don't need overtech to do THAT. It's only a couple days' flight by a conventional H2/O2-fueled rocket. *That the Macross docked with the ARMD-1 and ARMD-2 instead of jury-rigging the Daedalus and Prometheus, and contains a purpose-built city instead of a jury-rigged one, implies the launch did in fact go much smoother. Exactly how much smoother is unknown. I do seem to recall the movie saying they launched under fire, but I don't recall if they reference the fold accident. They probably do, rendering half of this moot. ** Certainly a colony is intended to be self-sufficient, but there needs to be a safety net while they are getting established. Otherwise they might all get ate by space dinosaurs after the ship leaves. And it seems like FTL communications didn't yet exist at the time of SDF and DYRL. *** The Megaroad, obviously, was not humanity's only fold-capable vessel when it launched, nor their only one with big freakin' space guns . Even ignoring the Macross, the captured/defected zentradi ships would leave humanity with HUNDREDS of the things. Earth and Extrasolar Colony One can both have a small defensive fleet and run supply/mail ships. End big wall of speculative contemplation. + And IRL there's a lot of good arguments for extraterrestrial colonization we DO know of. The Earth is not intrinsically safe. There are several major extinctions in the fossil record, some of which we can link to devastatingly powerful extraterrestrial events. It only takes one space rock going Yucatan Peninsula on our butts to wreck our entire civilization. But it is likely stretching things to think that the denizens of the Macross universe bear that much more foresight than the citizens of our own.
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    DAMMIT, JAPAN.
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    "Hey Ed, you see any craters in the runway?""Nope. Reckon that'll do for FOD."
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    Last news I heard was that the ewoks play a pivotal role in the handoff of the plans from JarJar to Princess Leia.
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    Basara x Scarfish OTP
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    I see Mirage cooks just as well as her grandmother. It must run in the family.
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    Man, Dragon's Trap is so friggin' awesome. Really lookin' forward to seeing the new version.
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    I like how we took half of the female list. Heck, Sheryl isn't even in a current program and she's still ranking. I almost feel bad for all the shows we are trampling. ... Almost.
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    That's fair. But they are far less useless than they used to be, since they DO have enough thrust to stay airborne and dodging. Combined with the much faster mode changes of modern valks mean one can "pop" into battroid mode briefly for 360° shooting and advanced evasive maneuvers(or showboating, depending on how you feel about the immelman dance), then drop back to fighter to get moving again. Granted, Hayate is a unique pilot and general atmospheric tactics do not seem to call for the pop-up battroid, but...
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    WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
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    Guyver II in the comics was very male. It has been years, but as I recall, he was the kind of male you often see in comics that look like they're wearing football shoulder pads ALL THE TIME. He was changed to female for Guyver: Out of Control, almost certainly to add a chance for some sexy drawings. At the time, there wasn't a lot of Guyver comics to adapt, so the show ends with the first appearance of Guyver III(no information as to who he is was available). MUCH later the manga added Guyver II F, which is a completely distinct character and mostly-distinct guyver unit from the original Guyver II. (And it would be a lot less confusing if she was named Guyver IV, though there are good plot reasons for her to not be Guyver IV.) The author reuses the decades-old OoC Guyver II design in a completely new context... and as an excuse to add some sexy drawings. The more things change, right? The "movie version" is being overlooked by most of the sites because OoC is largely forgotten. It was released before Guyver "got big". (Editor's note: I keep having to review these posts for consistency, as I flip between arabic and roman numerals more or less randomly on Guyver names.)
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