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Actually JB0, it did come from his past training as well because if you rememeber that one scene in Sweet Sixteen, Hikaru was fascinated by Max's fighting skills because when he had asked him where did he learn to fight like that, Max told him that he had learned those techniques while he was in flight school. Unless he used that excuse to cover up for the supposed real reason why he's so good at dogfighting. Note that Kakizaki went to the exact same training facility and had a similar "skill ranking." But wasn't even in Max's league. Hikaru went through the same training too, minus basic aviation. But including combat aviation and VF-1-specific training, including GERWALK and Battroid modes. And augmented that training with signifigant real-world combat as a part of Skull Squadron. And HE didn't know those moves. Max may HAVE picked that up in training, but it certainly wasn't on the lesson plan. More likely he observed an experienced combat pilot doing it during practice or a demonstration, and worked it out from there. It was still learned in training, but not as an actual part of the curriculum. Hence Max isn't a liar, and there's a good reason Hikaru and Kakizaki can't do the same thing. So are you saying that Max had no idea that he was injected with alien DNA that gave him superior dogfighting skills or what by secretly telling him that he was receiving a booster shot when it turns out to be the DNA. I also thought he was 19 years old like Hikaru. 397989[/snapback] I'm saying genetic engineering is best done in childhood. The most logical point to engineer a being is actually at conception, when there's only a handful of cells to alter, and changes will cascade out from there. Hence, Max was superior from his first day as an embryo. You don't inject DNA anyways. You can inject a customized retrovirus that resequences the existing DNA, but that's not the same thing. And Hikaru wasn't 19. 16 at first appearnace in the TV show. Max and Hikaru are both 18 in DYRL, but the TV series is officially the "real" version of events. http://macross.anime.net/characters/index.html

***Quickly hides thumbs*** I for the most part have liked Sony's family of controllers going back to the original 1994 design. The one thing I think they could change is the shoulder button arrangement so that R2 and L2 become triggers like on the Xbox1 and 360 controllers... after 5 months of heavy use, the 360 controller has become my most favorite controller of any system. 397915[/snapback] I'm on the other side. I hate the original digital pad, the DualShock, and the DualShock 2.

Except for that scene where Greedo's gun shoots at a right angle...

Energon, aka Transformers: Homage Line, had Shockblast, though. Which is exactly what I was thinking about, sadly. I wanted to like that one so badly. They had the head, the chest shape, the gun arm... they clearly drew VERY heavily from the original toy. But something went horribly wrong along the way. His gun arm was WAY out of proportion to the rest of his body, and the transformation had a inescapable "crouched and looked sideways" feel to it. The neon green chest plate wasn't helping things either. If his left arm had been half as long, I'd probably own one today. I could get over the chest, and rationalize alt mode because I'd keep him in 'bot mode anyways. But that one arm dropping all the way to the ground ruined it for me. He's also got a Cybertron series micromaster/minicon out there. SR-71-inspired jet, it looks like. It's certainly a fitting Meggy alt. And supped-up means the sides wil have detail instead of being flat like the real thing. ... They should've builte a Ratte. A landship would've been awesome, even if it was the only prototype.

Yeah. History repeats, and Sony's been making all the mistakes of Atari, Nintendo, and Sega all over again. You don't need pics. Grab your existing DS1/2, and paint it silver. And I'm going to have to break your thumb if you don't put it back down.

DAMMIT! All you bitchy little kids that threw a fit about the "batarang" have just RUINED the PS3. I hope you're all happy.

The video was NOT restored for the Special Edition. It was restored for the "THX" release the year before SE hit theaters. Odds are very good that they ARE using the restored footage, and intentionally NOT saying it because of people that think restored = SE.

Hypocrite. There were ruins in places such as the island MacZero took place on. And we know from Zero that there was research going on into their unique abilities before the ASS crashed. Captain America Anime-style! Nonsense. His skill came from his many years spent in video arcades. And his genetically-engineered reflexes. To come forward about it, he'd have to know about it. It was done in SECRET. You don't tell children big secrets(remember, he's only 16 when introduced in the show). And when all hell broke loose after the Macross' launch, everyone that knew was killed.

Twice as much. Depends on what you're doing, really. It's probably not going to be visible most of the time.

Ya know, there ARE fans of Robotech/Southern Cross and WE don't feel that way. So would you kindly not generalize..... 397834[/snapback] PART of the RT fanbase is raging morons that believes all Macross mecha fits into the RT timeline somewhere, usually during Southern Cross.

lol. well i hope the new dvds will be the equivalent to the THX VHS set as I believe that was the last edition to be 'intact' before the computers arrived and starting CGing the place up. 397826[/snapback] And the last version that Han shot first.

GBA: Now with 59% more crossdressing pirates.

Yay for politics. And I'm surprised Australian cops don't react to a toy gun being pointed at them. Given that there ARE illegally-owned guns in Australia, and likely more being smuggled in, I would think any responsible police organization would train it's officers on how to react when threatened with a firearm. Generally, they don't shoot people who are carrying what appears to be a gun, on sight. There's also much less of a gun culture here, so the occurance of weapons, real or not, appearing in public is much less. They don't here, either. As you noted, we have a larger gun culture, so it's more likely someone will have a gun out for reasons other than blasting someone. Overall, anyways. Things vary wildly from state to state(and even city to city in some cases). Australia's lesser gun culture means a visible gun is more likely to be a threat. Besides that, cops are by nature most likely to be where a gun IS a threat, regardless of geography. Which is why they're trained to assume a gun is real if they need to make a rapid decision. Doesn't matter if its one state or 50 states that have the neon gun laws. One state is enough for an image and public-relations concious company to make their toy gun product bright colours, or in the case of Classics Megatron, fake looking. Fair enough. Also lets them have one product nationwide instead of regular and California Special editions, which has obvious advantages in terms of production and distribution costs. Though fake-looking doesn't always cover it. The NES Zapper was recolored from gray to gray+orange when the initial laws went through. I think Cali changed the law recently, actually. I know the PS1 Time Crisis and Point Blank releases had big "not for sale in California" stickers slapped on them for a while. When the sticker disappeared, the GunCons had gone from gray with orange tip to orange all-over. But mainly, I was just pointing out it wasn't US law, and they COULD do a release that just wasn't available in California. But even if this DID seem like a good idea to someone, Megatron's one of the major players, so it'd be a bad idea to do it with him. I wish Megatron wasn't a gun, since a gun generally means a pretty crap robot with a non-sensical alt mode. Megatron has been a tank more times than gun by now. 397663[/snapback] Sure it's non-sensical, but Transformers as a whole is farily nonsensical. I've liked several of the modern Megatron designs, and admit they make a lot more sense than a handgun. But I've got some nostalgia for this particular form of retardedness. And a politically incorrect side that delights in seeing this sort of thing just because it annoys the people ranting about violent toys and trying to get Prime and Megatron to go into counseling and resolve their diffrences peacefully(Transformers: Therapy. Sounds exciting). Besides, it's a gateway 'bot. If gun Meggy works out, maybe they'll do a nostalgized version of the almighty Shockwave(with electronic light and sound!). Shockwave was always a personal favorite, and he HASN'T made the transition to political correctness anywhere near as successfully as Meg(outside of the Alternators line, which surprised me with how well it worked).

The DVDs aren't Special Edition. They're a THIRD version of the movie. 397573[/snapback] i asked this before but didn't get a clear answer. are the DVDs the same version as the VHS boxset i linked to? 397775[/snapback] The NEW DVDs will be. Probably. The CURRENT DVDs aren't.

I would hope not, since there ISN'T AN ARCADE JOYPAD. And I still don't see how you can move anywhere NEAR fast or precise enough for decent shooter performance with an analog stick.

To further add on to what JB0 said, Macross II is not considered part of the "canon" Macross universe because Shoji Kawamorii didn't write it. Which isn't really relevant. It's non-canon because Kawamori banished it when he created the current continuity. If he hadn't come back to the license after Mac2 and laid out an official chronology(or if he'd decided to keep it anyways), Big West's initial stance that it was a sequel to DYRL would have stood, and Mac2 WOULD be canon.

Ohh, OK. I didn't know that at first. I just assumed that she dyed it because she wasn't fond of her natural teal hair. Maybe a slight genetic defect perhaps? Or maybe your theory has more holes than a collander full of swiss cheese being shot up by a machine gun? Translation: Focker's hair was okay, but Max and Hikaru had to cut it all off.

Hmm, that's interesting... I've seen BD-Rs for sale, and I'd just sort of ASSUMED the PC drives were available already. But I just checked, and it seems only the media has shipped. It's marketing. People seem to think that if famous person X does something, it's worth noticing, and if famous person X says something, they know what they're talking about. So if famous person X has a PS3, that means the PS3 is worth having. ... People are dumb.

*shuts off the BS meter* Thanks for the warning. Thing sent shrapnel everywhere last time they talked about hte PS3. Cool. Would be cooler if it didn't sound almost like plagiarism of discussions back when the "Revolution" controller was revealed.

A protoculture generator.

Yay for politics. And I'm surprised Australian cops don't react to a toy gun being pointed at them. Given that there ARE illegally-owned guns in Australia, and likely more being smuggled in, I would think any responsible police organization would train it's officers on how to react when threatened with a firearm. Only in California. Most areas merely require an orange tip. The US laws requiring toy guns to be easily identifiable, for the record, came about after some dimwit in California pretended to shoot a cop, who reacted as he was trained to do when someone pointed a gun at him. The time it takes to evaluate the whole situation when a gun is being pointed at you is enough to get you killed if it's a real gun. Adding neon orange helps a LOT, as it's a highly visible color that is used on very few real guns. California, being California, decided to take things a step farther than everyone else. I hate super threads, for the record. Too hard to keep track of all the diffrent topics, and not even the most noteworthy stuff makes it out of them. I see something about Masterpiece Starscream pop up, peek in here for details, and find out that Starscream's getting the Kawamori and MEGATRON IS A GUN AGAIN.

The DVDs aren't Special Edition. They're a THIRD version of the movie.

Well that's because Miria's genes are more dominant that human genes since she's a Meltraedi so this epitomizes why their children have green or teal colored hair. Mylene just dyed her hair pink as a seemingly obvious clue that that's her favorite color since most women like pink as their favorite color. 397512[/snapback] ...You hurt my head.

Your position, as I read it, was "the battroid lasers are marketing flash with no actual utility." My response was DIRECTLY relevant according to that reading, as they ARE actually useful in combat. Gunpods run out of ammo. They run out fas. And when they do, it's nice to have something else to use. In other words, I said they had actual utility. Blow up? When? You may be confusing my naturally abrasive personality with genuine annoyance. Believe me, if I blow up, you'll know it. And I'm sorry, but we're on a message board dedicated to a cartoon about transforming jetplanes and 30-foot aliens, discussing the relative merits of a specific model of cartoon transforming jetplane. Where exactly does professional behavior become relevant in this equation? I had no intention of entering into a discussion on the level where words like "fallacy" were useful. If I did, I'd be participating in a formal debate. But I'm not, am I? I reiterate my belief that you're throwing fancy words around to make yourself look smart. You COULD have just said "that's got nothing to do with what I said." It gets the message across a LOT clearer than "You're quoting me, but you're talking along a very different vector and in so doing basically conducting a strawman." And yet, it means the same thing.

Put your pants back on. You at least wait until you have a date with the girl before you start stripping.