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Ah. Could've just changed the extension on the tmp, if I had to bet. I think it was a GIF originally, but Im not sure. Either way, you got it out, and that's the important part.

If you saved the page, the image is sitting unprotected in a directory with the name of the HTML file. He employed a few "cute" tricks with his pages that provided minimal deterrent and signifigant annoyance. Heck, worse comes to worst, you can just print-screen the page and paste it into Paint or something. There's really no effective way to stop someone from "stealing" images off your site. If they can be viewed, they can be "stolen."

I haven't. But really, they're Micromasters. I don't see how it matters.

I feel that way about most of the monster threads. Past a certain point, they cease to be useful except as "chatrooms."

Yah. He's darn spiffy. I debated it for a bit because of the price tag(I'm cheap, what can I say), but he's just too neat. The big thing was the face. I didn't know there was a flip-up faceplate for a while, and he looks stupid with a mouth. As-is, I just wish he could grab the Matrix with both hands at once. Almost full. The matrix chamber can't be opened while combined with Wing Saber or the "trailer." I wanted to do a super-mode Matrix pose is the only reason I mention it. Cybertron Prime's US instructions actually put the wings pointing down, even though everyone else has them angled up(including Hasbro's photographer). Both versions have their ups and downs.

I immediatly thought QRau when I saw that scene. Admittedly, I didn't look really close. I just saw a lot of butt-hauling and a missile swarm.

MAHQ is notoriously bad outside of their Gundam sections.

Well, a '53 'Vette doesn't look a lot like an '06 Camaro, either. The "NosGer Kai" has a VERY similar style and weapons loadout to the QRau. Big shoulders packs, forearm cannons, twin chest cannons, metric buttloads of missiles, "high heel" feet... Looking at pics(MAHQ is good for that, if nothing else), the DYRL NosGer had antennae added to the head and a totally redesigned foot, giving it a more QRau look(ironic given the DYRL plot should have caused mech designs to diverge further, like the ships and character designs did, instead of becoming more closely related). The "Kai" foot looks more like the QRau foot than the DYRL NosGer, though(higher heel and a "bell-bottom" flare on the front of the leg). The head and hands are the only really NosGer parts about the NosGer Kai. If it IS a NosGer descendant, the implication is they discarded the original design and developed a new one based on the QRau.

In that case, I'll take the disk off your hands. Seriously, I recommend giving it a play if you haven't already done so through some less-legal means. It's a pretty good game, as franchise shooters go. Looks like a good page. I just thought I'd offer corrections on the introductory paragraph, since ... well, since I know way more about games than I should. "In 1992, Masaya released Macross 2036 on the PC Engine (known in the US as the Turbo Duo)" PCEngine is the TurboGrafx16. Or the entire hardware family. The PCEngine Duo is the TurboDuo, which is equivalent to a PCEngine + Super CD-ROM^2. Or PCEngine/TurboGrafX + original CDROM/TurboCD with System Card 3(which makes the original CD expansion a SuperCD). The PCEngine Macross games are SuperCD titles, if you want to ID specific hardware variant. And yes, the PCEngine family is a confusing trainwreck. "Macross 2036 was planned to be released in the US, but due to the lukewarm response the Turbo Duo received here, the project was shelved." The TurboGrafX as a whole received very little attention. Not really relevant to the article, but much of it was NEC's fault. They didn't really understand what the american market wanted to see in an ad, and chose some of the worst possibhle games to bring over. I wasn't aware a localization was actually planned, though. I thought it just made it into the import section of a few game mags as "A Robotech game!11" And "schmup" isn't the normal abbreviation. I'd actually just spell it out as "shoot 'em up" because it looks less silly.

Yah... there's some neat toys in the line. I've only got Prime and Scrapmetal due to recently-fixed budget issues. And now I'm cursing at all the people in this area that don't respect the pure awesomeness of transforming robots. No one here has a good Transformers section. And dammit, I want Soundwave!

Precisely. They're not really defined beyond "the zentradi's ancient enemy." There's no official statements I know of on the intricate details. It's a safe bet they made LOTS of clones from one person, as otherwise it wouldn't have been an effective means of population expansion. I don't recall anyone saying it was a 1+1 process. There's no documented overtech genetic engineering. And the fact that they had to abandon cloning due to rise in birth defects implies inbreeding boosts, which implies they weren't tweaking the genes. Given the final production VF-7 wasn't a drone, I doubt it. Probably just parallel naming.

On the other hand... [attachmentid=37616] The game's actual title screen says Scrambled Valkyrie in english. It's header says "Shooting Macross" though. Thank goodness THAT didn't make it as an official title.

I never really cared for that plot. The "war between the sexes" wasn't very interesting, elegant, or satisfying to me. And I don't see how it's alien. Personally, I thought it was simple to the point of being cliche. I preferred the undefined enemy the zentradi were set against in the ancient past, lost to the mists of times presented in the original series.

Ah, so that's where MAHQ got that idea. I need more books.

If I recall, zentradi/meltrandi is the race, zentran/meltran is the individual beings. Meltrandi isn't considered a seperate race outside of DYRL, though.

I'm pretty sure it's just MAHQ being Gundam-y. I can't think of any Macross "kai" mecha aside from Sound Force. 'Sides, it bears more resemblance to the QRau than the NosGer in the first place(in that there IS a visible relationship). So "Queadluun Rau Kai" is probably less inaccurate.

And many people would have been less happy, too.

I dunno if it's confirmed, but there's not much point if it's not a P38(or at least a close knockoff). If they make him something else... say, a Desert Eagle(big gun, easier to fit robot parts in), there's no nostalgia. He may as well be Gen2 Meggie.

Fans are apparently pretty fickle. Masterpiece Prime sucked because his truck wasn't accurate to a real truck, even though his 'bot was naer-perfect and his truck was fairly decent. And a bunch of people griped really loudly that the sacrifices to the truck were inexcusable. MP Starscream sucked because his robot wasn't wholely accurate to either the show or the toy, even though his jet was near-perfect(as toy jets go), and his 'bot was pretty decent. And a bunch of people griped really loudly that the sacrifices to the robot were inexcusable. Now Megatron's focusing on the robot like Prime did. And people are griping about the gun, before there's even prototype shots.

Oh, c'mon... you think they can pass up the opportunity to use the character-inappropriate, no, anatomically IMPOSSIBLE "These pretzels are making me thirsty"?

I've got G2 Prime, a (relatively mildly) abused Jetfire... but no 1/48. This will likely change when/if Yamato reissues Millia.

Y're welcome. And HELL YES! How about gun Megatron with a My Little Pony accessory/target dummy?

'S another bot I don't have. I have some guns that'll fit, though. Sludge's rocket launcher seems to use the exact same handle size as Hot Rod's flamethrower.

Indeed it was the point. But it was ALSO the point that you could rip in as a fighter, unload a swarm of missiles, flip to robot and drop down on someone gunpod blazing as the missiles flew in in a scene of supreme awesomeness and carnage. Can't do that here most of the time. I do agree it's heckuva fun a lot of the time. You can even kill Minmei by dropping a stadium on her!

Don't have Armada Prime. I've got G2, Powermaster, Classic, and Cybertron. I'm tempted to make a crappy photocomic of them arguing about which one's the "real" Prime. But it'd be crappy. I did notice his gun looked better if his arm was twisted around. But shoulder interference limits that to straight-arm poses. I waited years for transformers with joints, I'm not going back now. I enjoy the flame in auto mode. And by enjoy, I mean I keep going "nana nana BATMAN!" every time I look at it. In robot mode, I put the flame to the side. ... And debate drilling out the cross-shaped restrictor so I can load an old dinobot missile into it. It'd look better, even though it's too short to latch. They can tilt down, but they can't swing back while staying vertical. So there's a workaround, but not an optimum solution. And yah, for the price they kick ass.