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I'm just here for the point. I wasn't a fan of the book.

Thread needs more Robot Alchemic Drive. Vavel, come forth!

This bump is a masterpiece of nerd-dom, and a major milestone for internet civilization. I just want to take the time to applaud, and become a part of history. The fact that it was wasted on Jason VS Freddy makes it vaguely trollish, but... can't win 'em all.

I think the Eclipse was a little shorter for as long as they've had official numbers. It's just many times more massive.

Grace could have been playing her cards close to her chest. Maybe they only knew about the "dominate the universe with the vajra" part of her plan and not the "make myself into a cybergod" part. Or they were told that they would have top-tier access as well as Grace.

Ditto. I looked at some of the reissues, and went "It's kinda neat, but... I like joints." I gather that's why Hasbro killed the reissue line. They weren't selling very well at all. Now.... there's a few reissues I WOULD pick up. If Sky Lynx was available for a reasonable price... Or if they reissued the original Shockwave... If I'd ever SEEN a Soundwave reissue, I'd've grabbed it. I never owned the original(though I DO own a cassette player in the shape of Soundwave's robot mode!).

I'll never tell!

Sheryl is the chosen one, destined to unite Macross 7 fans and haters under a common banner with her song of love, as prophesized many ages ago.

Yeah, sure. Until Mokona gets pissed, and you get beat by a Pikachu clone.

I actually like the Macross Cannon, in a "scavenged jury-rig" kind of way. Which isn't really how it's sold, but.... No Saturn V(largest REAL space ship) on that size chart. I'm sad. ... Or IS it there, and I just can't see it because it's so short?

Mmmm, Weissy... That was a contender too. Maybe an R-Blade or a Grungust 2... mmmmm... I could add mechs to the list forever.

YF-21. As if you had to ask. Runners-up include: VF-25. Powered armor cockpit! <3 Gunbuster. I think I can share something that awesome. Gaogaigar. Gear Fighter Dendoh. Single-pilot version. And theef me a complete set of data weapons while you're at it. The Ordog. Whip out my bullgut and start the missile-spam, then flip to the Red Riot and show the GP-02 what's up. Mmmm, how much time did I waste playing Shogo back in the day anyways? Some other stuff that escapes me at the moment.

Sega shouldn't get credit for MadWorld and Bayonetta. They're just the publisher. Platinum Games(AKA darn near every talented person Capcom ever had) is the developer. It's like giving Atari credit for Ikaruga.

I'm fairly certain, ESPECIALLY now that Endless Frontier's been announced, that they wanted OGs and OG Gaiden but were blocked by SCEA's licensing board. This shows that A. SRW is profitable for them, B. They haven't had any sort of falling-out with Bandamco, and C. They WANT to do more SRW.

You all know that if I get time travel I'm going to go back in time and make myself filthy stinking rich, right? And then I will buy Macross rights. TV series and movie and sequels. I'll negotiate a clear franchise mandate for myself, and get it in writing. Verbal contracts are for wusses. They may wonder why I'm being so nitpicky and lawyer-ese about a children's show, but.... we'll see who's laughing 20 years later!

Well, I'd say that the Valk's software should be coded so you aren't ALLOWED to point your gun at your own mech, but.... DYRL.

I was actually thinking of starting one. You snooze, you lose, I guess. Put me down for Sheryl. Aside from liking her singing, she was just an awesome character. Couldn't stand her at the beginning of Frontier, but she wound up being one of my favorites in the franchise.

I've only seen the SRWAlpha Dreamcast version of the ARMD attack, which was a simple mechaslap. It has it's own moments of hilarity, though. The DC version's camera had some issues with horrible size mismatches. So you'd get a closeup of the Macross' "foot" before the attack began. Then you'd see the ARMD come down and slap some poor fool silly.

Kakizaki Steak: Can only be ordered 5 minutes before closing. Seriously, Kakizaki never got to EAT his steak. That's the greatest tragedy. As I recall, he was about to take his first bite when the alarm sounded.

The VF-19 may've wound up like the VF-4. Just too expensive for most of the colony fleets. And the VF-171 is the VF-5, 5000, 6, 7, and 9. It's the cheaper "good enough" plane(actually, the 9 is supposed to be better). http://macross.anime.net/wiki/Category:Variable_vehicles It's kinda funny how the 5, 6, and 7 are all basically the same thing from a text perspective. Clearly we need a story about a colony world flying VF-5 through 7s.

TI is short for Texas Instruments. In the early 80s, they had a computer called the 99/4a. Units in this case means the computer. Was possibly not the best choice of words. The "p-box" is a fairly odd accessory, and was a retrofit intended to replace the original expansion scheme. The original expansion plan for the 99/4 and 4a(which replaced the 99/4 very rapidly) was dubbed the "choo-choo train" approach. There was an expansion port on the side of the system, and add-ons were standalone boxes. You plugged one into the side of the system, and it had a passthrough, so successive boxes could plug into each other. There were no clips or screws to anchor boxes to each other, or to the base computer itself. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm.../Ti994_long.jpg is what a 99/4 looked like fully loaded with speech synthesizer, thermal rrinter, RAM expansion, RS-232 expansion, and disk controller expansion. (I feel obliged to note that the modem and disk drive are not actually part of the chain, and are connected to the back of the RS-232 and floppy disk controller modules by cables). ... It was as unreliable as you think it was. The Peripheral Expansion Box was the solution. It was a big metal box with a power supply, one floppy disk bay, and 8 card slots in it. It plugged into the 99/4a through a REALLY THICK ribbon cable, and the expansion boxes were replaced by accessory cards that went into the "p-box." With the sole exception of the Speech Synthesizer, which was a really tiny expansion box in the first place. http://www.ardenwebsales.com/general_store.../ticomputer.JPG is what a fully-loaded 99/4a looks like with a P-Box Sans thermal printer, because really, who used that? TI had a very active military business at the time, and it really shows here. The P-box weighs 50 pounds when empty. Literally. It's made almost entirely of thick steel. The individual cards were contained in aluminum shells. CAST aluminum, not sheet metal. Probably an eighth of an inch of metal on all sides of the card. If nuclear war were to break out today, and all life on Earth died except cockroaches, the roaches would take up residence in old p-boxes, and rent the expansion cards out to other roaches. Sadly, the P-Box came out late in the system's life, and was expensive, so they don't exist in huge numbers. It was never a hugely successful computer, but it's what I grew up playing with. And it's WAY sexier than any Commodore!

"Published by Microsoft and developed by Tozai Games and SouthEnd Interactive, “R-Type Dimensions” will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points worldwide on February 4. The game is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. " MS' own page says Tozai is the publisher. And it seems odd to not see irem mentioned ANYWHERE. Have I mentioned I love gaming blogs? Ooooh, Tozai's got a 360 version of Lode Runner going...

Apollo 13 was the same way. Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are both big NASA fans, if I recall. Get them together, and who in Hollywood could possibly say no? Even when they started filming in the Vomit Comet.

I dispute Kaifun. Yot-chan is CLEARLY the worse pilot. I mean, c'mon... he can't even reach the pedals!

Actually, if I recall, there's a few different blocks of Valkyrie in the original. It's the excuse for different cockpit designs in different episodes. They're just all pre-block 6.