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I think they just said Hasbro wouldn't do it. Takara was always held out as a possibility.

Nope. Miclone is a zentradi term. It refers to zentradi which have been made smaller through the micloning process. It's also used to refer to races of "little people" when they aren't being mistaken for the protoculture.

That or it was a matter of perspective. Or an animation error. The poor guy Max jumped in the restroom was oversized too. Though we've yet to figure out how they got the uniform to hang believably on his 1A regardless of sizing. http://www.new-un-spacy.com/scalecharts/sizechart-1.gif Note the representative zent standing on the far right. Image jacked from http://www.new-un-spacy.com/forfansonly/fo...only-index.html Originally scanned from Macross Perfect Memory Alternatively, consider that the VF-1 size next to the Reguld and Glaug. A battroid is too big to fit the cockpit area of either mech. Therefore... a battroid is larger than a typical zentradi soldier.

A little bigger, actually. The "same size" argument(which is Rawbootech canon) comes from the brawl with Britai when Hikaru, Kakizaki, and Misa were captured. But Britai is larger than the average zentradi, so being his size makes a VF-1 larger than a zentradi soldier. </nitpick> Now everyone back to ogling Klan.

'Sa bit long for a filetype. 3-character extensions rule.

It IS implied by the term.

That was my assumption too, actually. Good thing she died, huh? (I largely stayed out of the Zero threads. Don't remember why anymore.) Well, it's a lot easier to do DYRL prequels, since DYRL has so much less in it. I'm pretty sure that's why the TV series was used as the core of the timeline. Of course, DYRL itself assumes you've seen the TV series. I don't think it works well as a standalone story. *chuckles* Now I'm remembering the PS2 game pre-release hype. They were claiming it would contain the "definitive" version of Space War 1... and it wound up with the TV and DYRL story arcs co-existing in the same game, on separate irreconcilable paths.

If I recall, the "TV series is real" point was only for purposes of constructing a timeline, and the "real" Space War 1 is supposed to be somewhere in between the two. I probably wasn't paying enough attention, but I don't see where Zero fails to fit, chronologically. Now, I DO see some problems, though. Focker has short hair, Focker has no booze, and Focker fails miserably at picking up a chick. The obvious conclusion is that the Roy Focker in Zero isn't OUR Focker, but someone else with the same name.

I was somewhat amazed that the VF-17 doesn't have an auto-eject like the VF-11. Of course, look at Basara. They actually title an episode "Basara Dies!" and then he... lives.

It would explain the giant chicken leg that Kamjin was eating in the original series.

1st rule of zentradi anatomy: It changes every year.

I have a strong suspicion that shaking the hand of anyone in this club would be unsanitary at best.

And, of course, they totally miss that the show is actively mocking the angsty prettyboy stereotype.

No, but I suspect it's only the hard vacuum of space that prevents them from doing so. They're fangirls of the worst sort.

I actually like 7. I probably won't watch it again, but it's a fun show with some interesting ideas(some of which are handled poorly, but...). But for an entire fleet of meltrandi to be reduced to screaming undewrwear-throwing fangirls with one song... it shatters my poor QRau-loving heart.

Well, we know she couldn't use the missile cloud that's so beloved by QRau pilots everywhere, since she still had live missiles in the launcher.That probably didn't help.

I approve of this thread. And I am now starting a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure to Miclone Syndrome, so that she may enjoy the full glory of her heritage no matter how tall she is.

*twitch* Fleet of the Strongest Women doesn't exist! It never happened! Seriously, there's a reason that one wound up on the cutting-room floor. It's BAD. Even by Macross 7's standards, it's just... horribly horribly stupid.

Sorta being the operative word. I can see it now that it's been pointed out, but I probably would've gone right by it and not noticed otherwise. But since it HAS been pointed out... Bot/altmode pix plzkthx!

I'm not sure "pleasure" is the right word. I've played VFX2, and it's not what I would call a great game. There's also significant differences between versions of VF-19(even ignoring Basara's custom 19).

Indeed. It's what prompted the gunpod grab discussion.

Because it's fun? That word should never be applied to a comic book movie. Ever. Iron Man was FUN, but about as far from realistic as possible without stretching suspension of disbelief well beyond the breaking point. Speaking of realism... The arc reactor's silly too. It certainly helps that we aren't inundated in techbabble though. And it helps even more that they aren't trying to pass it off as real-world tech behaving in a very unreal nature. (See also: The World Is Not Enough's repeated abuses of and outright inversions of fact when talking about fission, though Spidey had a lot more heart than Bond). Yeah, that wasn't pretty. Especially how the suit shattered around him without harming him. The same rules that should splatter Tony in that scene should splatter him equally effectively in many other scenes, though. Ladies and gentlemen, Newton has left the building. But... that was probably the most realistic piece of tech in the entire movie.

The seal. Definitely the seal.

As I understand it, repulsors don't spew smoke and fire. The glove beams are repulsors and the boot jets are something else. The big problem(at least for a basic powered exoskeleton) at this point is energy density. It's very difficult to get something that can carry a load AND use a compact power source. If you could make a multi-gigawatt can of beans like Stark did, we'd have powered armor now. Hell, they're small enough that if you run up against the limits of the "reactor", you can just add a second, and a third, and a fourth... A large backpack could carry enough electrical power to supply an entire nation(remember, EACH ONE outputs more electricity than the largest nuclear reactors on Earth.). Certainly flight and palm guns present other issues. But you could probably slap a small railgun along the forearm with a power supply like that(another tech on the verge of feasability, waiting for the right power supply). Or mount it on the shoulder(hello, War Machine), though that makes for more difficult aiming. You MIGHT could set up a Macross-style jet engine for flight. Use electricity from the arc reactor to create heat instead of combustion. But there's a lot more problems with humanoid flight that raw power just won't solve(hence why Stark needed the glove repulsors in the first place). That's part of what makes Iron Man so interesting. The concept is approaching the upper bounds of reality.

You forgot the computer virus. Oh, it certainly helps, and I'll readily roast movies for bad tech. Especially if it's done in a serious context. But comic book movies are pretty much technically unsound by definition. Spiderman 2 was one of the rare instances of me getting really worked up about comic-book-movie physics. Largely because their depiction of fusion was wrong on so very many levels. Though I thought Doc Ock's plot-device chip existed solely to avoid doing character development with him(there were plenty of perfectly good reasons for him to snap WITHOUT the robot arms taking over his brain). They still don't have any source of fuel, with the possible exception of Stark's booze breath. Or space for a reaction chamber or rocket nozzle. I give Rocketeer(and the long line of rocketpacks before him) more realism points just for that. It may cook the legs off, but it at least stands a chance of working(for a minute or so).