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    Basically Masterpiecing Classics Perceptor, then?
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    Well, that's an... odd... cross-license. Read the comic books. Bam, you're done. Also, that link doesn't work for me.
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    The first of the Bayformers movies?
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    Neo-ADV? I'm sorry. You guys all deserve better.
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    Oh no, not DIO! I think it might be safe to say it's pretty darn hot.
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    Basara as a Symphogear user... The gods themselves would know fear.
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    Pr'ly a big ball o' tinfoil or random assemblage of wires and hydraulics. Those seem to be the trends right now.
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    Wasn't Kawamori involved in AKB0048 anyways? This makes more sense than I'm comfortable with.
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    Was Hikaru in Transformers?
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    HG still has the Macross trademark. And whether they have a legal leg to stand on or not, the threat of them filing a lawsuit is well-known and makes the odds of someone licensing any Macross until such time as HG is put down like a rabid dog very unlikely.
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    I have a theory. What if the pointy thing in the new series logo is actually a stylized A? I figure it's the ensignia of one of those "covert" Valkyrie squadrons that they keep claiming exist that we never see. Angel Team, or Alpha Team, something like that. For narrative interest, it's a disgraced team. A mission went wrong, someone had to take the blame, and they were railroaded by the higher-ups, sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. The first episode, we see them breaking out of a military prison, stealing some Valks, and escaping. The rest of the series has them folding from colony to colony, one step ahead of the authorities, working to clear their name while doing random acts of goodness as mercenaries to make ends meet. Macross A-Team: Coming soon to a television near you.
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    I'd rather they cared enough to fix major bugs before they shipped, especially given both the industry's willingness to take a crap on it's customer base and my personal concerns as a bit of a game historian. I mean, sure, Batman was in a decent enough shape after the launch day patch(except on Windows!), but how many months did it take Ubisoft to get that one Assassin's Creed game into a playable state? My collection's 100% digital, and always has been. But it's spread over several media formats, and I prefer getting my digital data on a disk or embedded in silicon over downloading it from a transient server. Really, that's my biggest problem, the ephemeral nature of it all, and the aggressive way the game industry has moved to make it moreso every year. Not that I don't get cheesed off when I throw a game in and have twenty minutes of install delays and update downloads to wait through before I can get to the process of actually playing it, but that is secondary to the fact that the game is temporary and disposable by design. We live in a world where I can still play Phantasy Star any time I want, but I can't play Phantasy Star Online no matter how badly I want. After Burner will be in circulation decades to come, After Burner Climax can never be played by anyone that hasn't already bought it, and possibly not even by them in the future.
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    I actually remembered the book used a different vehicle for the tour car than the movie. A rare case of me omitting a detail for the sake of simplicity. I'd think that'd be a hard sell, really. Why would they keep the useless engine around after completely reworking the vehicle? It's off-track and running on batteries now?
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    And rural areas where broadband isn't available. Keith, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. The issue is not that it takes so long to download the patches. The issue is that they shipped a game that needs three gigs of updates on day one. The gold standard for shipping should not be "the game boots well enough to download the patches from the internet", it should be "the game exhibits no major flaws."
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    I think the Explorers were converted to run on electric power from the tour track. I know they were in the book. Not that this really helps the matter at all, but...
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    VF-191, then?
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    MP Metroplex or gtfo. In scale.
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    I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me it won't change a thing. Harmony Gold's status quo is grandfathered in. If it weren't for that, it would be a boon, as it seems it would prohibit HG from registering Macross trademarks.
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    And all "wandering" enemies will be raised to level 35 to ensure no one that isn't already overlevelled for a raid can have any fun. (One too many incidents with enemies that simply shouldn't be on the patrol map last night.)
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    He's probably spent his whole life playing Forza and Gran Turismo. All that PSLive practice payed off.
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    There is never more info. This is actually a cleverly-disguised "talk out of your backside" thread to get the noise out of the newbie question thread and somewhere less disruptive. (And I'm aware I'm one of the leading offenders.)
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    Needs more Sharon.
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    It's worth noting that in Macross 7, the VF-17 was also regularly launched from an electromagnetic catapult(read as: rail gun) towards combat, so it was already burning rubber on the space highway before the engines were lit(can I possibly make this metaphor more painful?). That's a significant factor for space combat, and without the EM catapult, it probably WOULD have used some sort of auxillary fuel/thruster assembly.
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    My understanding is that Orion wanted the movie shorter and cheaper. It seems they were trying to become a company that only did serious dramatic films at the time, and Terminator didn't fit with their new image. Cameron told them the movie wasn't finished, and they told him they wouldn't give him another penny, and he'd have to pay for any more shooting himself. I assume they didn't expect Cameron to actually DO it. By the time they got around to the car break-in scene(the final scene filmed), Cameron actually didn't have the cash to acquire a permit for filming on location. So they shot it fast and then got the hell out of Dodge.
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    Even the part about fighting an enemy with culture nearly destroying them? (I do remember the part about orders to not interfere with miclones. Exedol doesn't recognize it as an order, though. Just ancient history, from the era of legendary reaction weapons. )
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