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Alcohol is good. In fact, it's what was in the cleaning kits. Generally, higher % is better. Because that which is not alcohol is water. Water is not your friend. Brasso is bad. It's abrasive, and actaully scrapes the metal off. Windex I dunno about. Water, ammonia, and food coloring, basically? A standard pink pencil eraser does wonders on heavy corrosion, but you may have to take the cart apart to deploy it. Also messy. Real, honest-to-Kawamori contact cleaner is probably the best thing you can use, but that's a lot more expensive and harder to find. Also, apparently Vic Ireland's got things off the ground and moving again. http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/03/04/mia...-founders-gaiji

It makes the cleanup harder, whether it impacts like a meteor(as we know some did), or vaporizes in the air. It just causes different problems(vaporized material doesn't disappear, it remains in the air. And no one wants to breathe space metal alloy). Large chunks of exterior armor probably wouldn't burn away totally. If you're still being pelted with stuff WHILE you're trying to rebuild, it undoes all your work. The zentradi were bombarding the entire Earth. That means the planet was surrounded. For any sort of explosion to take out the majority of the fleet, it have to go THROUGH the Earth, shattering it like a tiny blue marble. http://macross.anime.net/mecha/zentradi/index.html According to the Compendium, about 3 million ships survived. ... And the Grand Cannon accounted for almost 800k in one shot. DAMN, but that's a big gun. Whether or not Kamjin's fleet counts is kind of a moot point, since his fleet is probably under a thousand ships(Britia's is around 1200), but since his people were "contaminated by the protoculture" just like Britai's and Lap'lamiz' were, they'd be targets for termination, and probably don't count.. The Grand Cannon probably accelerated everything it hit to escape velocity. Though the size THOSE leftovers were, they could probably be taken care of by good ol' solar wind. Leaves us about a million ships worth of debris. Which is still a pretty impressive trash heap, really. The barrier's also not a magical weapon of kill everything. They actually take time out in Burst Point to describe what's going on. It absorbs the energy it can't deflect, and holds it. And when it overloads, it releases it all at once. It doesn't make a small explosion into a big one, though it COULD make a lot of small explosions into a single big one. Yup. Provided you can collect them before their orbit decays. Could be hard if you're trying to deal with the situation before they can make MORE problems for your battered and bruised planet. L'see... they showed one largely-complete zentradi ship, one quel-quallie fighter with a pilot that survived long enough to climb out of his fighter(Minmay doll in hand, so he was one of our heroes), and a VF-1 that I'm just going to assume was from the surface forces. You can probably scrounge parts from several of the crashed ships, if all zentradi hardware is that durable.

Face still looks like Sinistar to me. And... that's really the only reason I want it. I hate myself sometimes.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Beats the heck out of mining planets and shipping the raw materials up to the factory. Especially since the factory itself is mobile. Just park it near an asteroid belt and start shoving rocks in. ... Hmm... given the firepower available to the zentradi, you could blow up a moon and shovel that in as well. Haven't seen any planet-buster weapons aside from the Protodeviln... but it's kind of amusing to think of, given the Robotech novels claimed the zentradi were originally created as miners. I don't think that's QUITE what they had in mind, but I'm never gonna be able to shake the image now.

The lawsuit part? Way I heard things, the reason book 10 hasn't come out yet(despite book 9 ending on a cliffhanger), and season 2 was on hold for so long, is the author got into some sort of legal battle with Kadokawa Shoten. ... Of course, it's possible it was a baseless rumor and I got suckered into believing it... in which case I feel really stupid?

Is it actually any good?

Is that confirmed? Seriously, if they make me wait for the entire rest of the series to finish running before they move into Disappearance... I'm gonna have to buy a ticket to Japan so I can hurt someone. I suppose they could be doing Sighs instead. It's the second book, and would kick in after 3 more reruns instead of after the whole darn series. And the making of the movie was actually the story I most wanted to see done in season 2... until I read Disappearance. But the ending SCREAMS Disappearance. And it's the one I most want to see done NOW, as well as the one they were implying they were going to do after the first season*. So... Maybe they're doing BOTH? *(they actually "redesigned" their website to a 404 error, then replaced the 404 with a scene from Disappearance... and then nothing happened, apparently because the franchise got hung up in lawsuits)

Calling out the one concept Mako really illustrates that at least some of it is very likely parallel development. There's more than one person that's made hollow wheels and wheels on legs. I maen, I could make a convincing argument that one of those concept makos is a ripoff of the Sophia 3rd from Blaster Master.

That actually causes problems. Most of that scrap isn't in a stable orbit. And we know that Zentradi ships can survive re-entry, since their wreckage has been shown on Earth. So the Earth was razed by ray guns and afterwards gets a steady pelting of large meteors from all directions. An early part of the recovery project should've been dedicated to stabilizing or safely disposing of debris. (Though most of those 4 million ships didn't get wrecked. They folded out with the destruction of the flag ship and presumably connected with other fleets.)

True story: The only combiner set I ever had was Monstructor.

You're ahead of me. I MIGHT have downloaded the disk image. I honestly don't remember. I know I never played it, though I beat 2036.

And now we come to the burning question of "Do we tell him to watch broadcast order or chronological order?" Personally, I don't care what order. As long as you get the original broadcast previews. BOMBA!

The real question is... WHY DIDN'T WE GET A BATTLE-MODE SARI TOY?!?!?!

Man, I remember when I was young and foolish, and I was on the RT.com forums. And people were discussing the Yamato and Bandai Valks left and right. Now the rules explicitly include "Posting commercial info is not allowed. This includes info about other stores, prices or products, or auction info (except if it's a store exclusive that's featured in the Robotech News). " That's just sad. You can't talk about other people's products, and you can't even talk about THEIR products unless they're already talking about it officially. Just to clarify, I KNEW they started deleting import merchandise discussions a long time ago, but not that they'd actually made it officially against the rules to discuss.

And the core body is entirely kibble. The limbs don't connect to the core bot, they connect to the non-transforming jet. That just screams "cop-out" to me, personally. I mean, if there was leg articulation and they hid the combiner head, I'd cut 'em some slack. But there isn't and they didn't. ... Actually, what'd be AWESOME is if the core kibble was a full-size Transformer with a team of Micromaster sidekicks. Sure it wouldn't be the prettiest TF ever, but... well, Micromasters aren't exactly shining beacons of sexiness.

Eternal Love Song, on the TurboGrafx/PC Engine. You don't get the shiny graphics and the cut-ins, but... it's a 100% Macross SRPG.

That's the second pack, I thought. The first was JUST a jetpack.

I don't think "nice" can be applied to an HD file that's smaller than most SD files. It's certainly high-resolution, but it's not high-definition. Not in the literal sense anyways.

You DARE to question the official story that Tatsunoko losing a major legal battle over ownership of those the whatever-the-heck-HG-licensed could in any way have repercussions for HG? YOU SHALL BE DESTROYED! ... Wait, HG hasn't updated the copyright on the bottom of the RT website in 2 years?

'S been done for a few console/handheld games. Usually much older ones. Giving RType Command/Tactics a complete conversion would involve a LOT of work. Text and resprite shouldn't be absurdly difficult. Not more than any other hack. The cutscenes are rendered in real-time, which ... probably makes the convert+fire-back animation impossible without a large-scale rewrite of that portion of the code. The hard part of just swapping models would be making the models. But the game doesn't have any sort of advanced animation for the cut-in sequences that I've seen(I admit to not getting really far into it). I doubt transformation is possible in the cut-ins with the current code. It's not IMPOSSIBLE, but... writing a new game from the ground up would almost certainly be easier. Which is why it won't happen. Besides, the Macross and ROMhacking communities don't seem to have a large degree of overlap. Otherwise we'd have english PCEngine games, right?

I actually thought about that. I suspect Hmmm... Actually, I was pretty sure they weren't planning to end it from the way the season played out(I mean, they go out of their way to preserve Soundwave for future chaos). Shame that it got canned. Cartoon Network sucks. Actually, I thought it looked like the G1 Jetfire/Skyfire backpack...

There IS an ending. TWO endings, even! A. The final battle of Space War 1. Hikaru and Minmay go their separate ways, Hikaru and Misa finally get together. B. The battle of Macross City. Hikaru rebuffs Minmay and goes off with Misa again. Minmay gets invited along on the Megaroad. What would they do for a sequel? Have Hikaru break it off with Misa to chase Minmay AGAIN, only to realize AGAIN that he wants Misa?

It'd be a very Haruhi thing to advertise a season of reruns(their official stance until now WAS that it was just reruns) and then shift into an entirely new season(I'm assuming the previous episodes carried the original ending sequence). Especially given the plot of Disappearance, and the new ending(with the big H from the first ending "digitizing" out). I need to rebuy the series anyways, though. Albeit in a different media. Hey, Bandai, can we get a BluRay release?

I believe the appropriate response to this is "Quoted for truth." ? RETURN OF MEGANEKKO NAGATO!

*BUMP!* The heavily-advertised Haruhi reruns began this week. With the NEW episode Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody. And a new ending theme, that seems to imply the new season will have The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi as it's primary arc. Yuki fans rejoice!