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It's okay. Tokyo gets razed weekly, so their mobile suit never gets finished.

No, it doesn't. The BluRay Disc Association says that. Or the DVD Forum in the case of DVD and HD-DVD. And it's not copyright protection, it's copy protection. WTF? How would a company not putting copy protection on their own material open them to lawsuits? Actually, most companies don't use copy-protection. The number of DVDs that turn Macrovision on is minimal.

Maybe the fact that you think anime planes are plausable? ... Is this guy for real? HAS to be a joke account...

Except it's non-continuity. It's orphaned in an alternate timeline with Macross 2 and every other game prior to the PlayStation. No sarcasm. No humor. Nothing but the truth. It's gaudy, and the head lasers are too long(VF-11 has the same problem). I'm also not a fan of designs where there's a "shield" rising behind the head. BTW, it's a zero. Jay Bee Zero.

Ummm... not setting a copyprotect flag on your movie isn't any sort of legal issue. The DMCA doesn't say a copyright holder HAS to use copy protection. Just that if it exists, the end user can't bypass it. Which conflicts with fair use, so it's debatable which is valid. It'll depend on the judge you get more than anything else.

It's all HG's fault.

I like the shoulders and LERXs (if you've ever seen a fighter mode pic) of that thing, but gotta agree that the original VF-1 is more appealing overall. You gotta admit that this thing looks more like a direct derivative of the VF-0 than the VF-1. How does that thing fit in with the macross continuum? Is it just a video game mutant? 375801[/snapback] Yeah. Scrambled Valkyrie's a non-continuity game, so teh 1SOL falls in teh same category as... what was the 2036 VF? Ah well... I wouldn't mind seeing the 2036 one show up as a toy, though...

Ummm, no. The VF-1SOL looks WORSE than the VF-1S.

Because there's no market for real planes based on fictional designs that might not even be flyable.

*looks at GameCube*That's not a bad idea... my computers get it often enough, but I've got 3 game machines with active cooling that are pr'ly full of dust monsters. Course, I need one of those damn security bits to get the 'Cube's case open and do it right. But the DC and PS2 won't fight me too much.

I still think that it would have been cool for M0 to feature Dragon IIs instead of F14s, and maybe some Karyobin, but I guess that would have been uncool and retro too Ywah. I was kinda disappointed to see real-world fighter planes showing up exclusively.

*jaw drops* BEST ORIGAMI EVER!

Like Macrovision on DVD, only with a label.

...provided you have a free HDMI spot. Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, I just don't give two turds anymore. I have a 52" widescreen TV that goes up to 1080i, and I have absolutely no intention of buying any HD disc player until the powers that be stop trying to screw consumers and understand that they're not bringing in the profits they want because they're shoveling out garbage like Bloodrayne or yet another remake of an Asian horror flick that people just aren't willing to pay for, not because people are making crappy analog transfers via component video. 375463[/snapback] But you could get high-res copies of existing movies! Like Star Wars Greedo-Shot-First-Again edition! Seriously, I HAVE seen some places where the low resolution of DVD causes problems. Holding off until they pick a standard and get all the retardedness sorted out is a good idea, though.

That word doesn't mean what you think it does.

Ah. I thought we were just talking aesthetically. Tech-wise, it's more advanced(outside of the engines) because it was a testbed platform. They forked it off of the VF-X project and put all the new toys that they weren't sure of on the 0 for testing before they integrated them into their mass-production variable fighter. What worked could get rolled into the VF-1 line later, and what didn't work went back to the drawing board without having to refit all the VF-1s in service. The larger size would make it easier to mount and unmount gear and enable it to fit prototypes that hadn't been finalized and compacted. !!! Testbed explains the control continuity issue, too(flip-throttle transformation and unsegmented "dashboard"). The DYRL-style cockpit could have been one of the VF-0's tests, and the first runs of VF-1 used the TV-style cockpit. It's the excuse for DYRL(story-wise, DYRL was filmed with late-gen VF-1s instead of vintage Space War machines), but it only just now connected that you could justify the VF-0's cockpit the same way.

I thought hot coffee was an incomplete GTA sex game...

Post some pics then if you have! 375164[/snapback] 375190[/snapback] AHHHHHH, I dont want to burst your bubble but is'nt she a bit, I don't know, flat chested? http://i2.tinypic.com/oszxqg.jpg 375194[/snapback] Seems to have a great butt, though. And ncie legs. "So long as you've got cleavage, who cares which way it's facing"

You would be in a better situation to know that than most of us. I have no clue whatsoever how Malaysian copyright law works, or if it even exists. I know in many countries it's impossible for a foreign entity to get a copyright. In such a case the bootlegs would be illegal. Many others legally acknowledge foreign copyrights, but do nothing for enforcement, making them illegal in writing only.

Nobody's talking about redesigning the YF-21. Does that work the same way for the Star Wars series? Did episodes 1-3 build upon the events in 4-5 since they were made after 4-5? 375332[/snapback] Well, actually, it expanded upon how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader, Palpatine seized power, and Luke and Leia were hidden away. So it DID build upon the original trilogy. It did it in a rather poor fashion, however. And the designs are a definite yes as well. Many of the vehicles in the new trilogy ARE redesigns of the original triology ships, with tweaks to make them look a little diffrent(arguably, like predecessors of the OT vehicles, though they look like contemporaries or even descendants in several cases). Again, in-continuity timeline and real-world timeline are diffrent. There is not a team of cartoon scientists designing the VFs. They're being designed by a real person that exists outside of the Macross continuity. The VF-0 was rather clearly based on the VF-1 in the real world. In the Macross continuity it was a parallel design.

One of the things I liked about Macross was that, while it worked, the VF-1 wasn't a very GOOD space fighter. It was an early attempt at an all-environment fighter, and didn't have enough verniers or reaction mass to excel at space combat. Hence the FAST packs.

Essentially, you're right. As I recall, the VF-0 was larger because it used real jet engines. Which means bigger gas tanks, bigger engines, etc.

He has to desync his timeline. Macross ceased to be anchored in the real world when it was created. It's timeline diverges from ours that point. Rather than renovating the VF-0 and VF-1 to look like modern planes(which really requires revamping the entire line, since he borrows elements of real-world design in all the shows), he would be better served by illustrating the divergent evolution of aviation. He touched on that in... I believe it was Lonely Night where they flashed back to Roy and Claudia's, umm, courtship. You can see combat aviation went in a radically diffrent direction while watching Focker's dogfights. Kawamori just hasn't fleshed out HOW it went there instead of here.

Yes. Because we all know Sean Connery should play everyone. Even the women.

Huh? I thought the final boss is Carl Macek? 374636[/snapback] No it's Reba West. he has to endure 2 hours of listening to her singing to develop an immunity. (the secret antidote is Listening to Mari Ijima Songs first) 374891[/snapback] But if you collect all 5 pieces of the Fabled HG License Agreement and rescue the Lawyer to decypher it, you attain knowledge of HG's limits. This unlocks a secret final stage. After you defeat West in stage 6, you go on to assault HG's offices, and Carl Macek is the REAL final boss. Defeating him gets you the good ending where HG is destroyed, Robotech is forgotten, and Macross merchandise flows freely into the US.