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It wasn't his spiritia. It was his singing. Basara's soul simply refused to let his songs be butchered any further by Gamlin's attempts to sing them, and returned from thr afterlife to stop it. Seriously, Renato's explanation is quite likely it. Gamlin was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Only it was more like he lifted enough straw off the load to unbreak the camel's back. But now the analogy doesn't work anymore. But thinking about it, there's actually a small message here. Gamlin was just one person. He wasn't musically talented, remarkably close to Basara, or anything like that. Outside of his Valkyrie, he was just one more person. But he was the one more person they needed. Everybody's important. Sure it's a tired cliche, but it's a GOOD tired cliche. It's a reflex that happens when Gepelnitch's spiritia gets too low. Not a conscious action.

PowerJet XT7 and Phantom Striker. Wait... Mattel actually paid someone to do a GOOD JOB on the cartoons? *debates rewatching 'em* And the tapes didn't come with the toys. They were sold seperately. For the record, teh eppilepsy effects are badass. How would you shoot stuff without the flicker? 326440[/snapback] The tapes came with the jets. 326689[/snapback] mine didn't came with one unless I threw it away along with the packaging. 326692[/snapback] Hmm, when I get my desktop computer working again, I'll grab some screencaps or maybe record some videos off my old VCR. I really love these. There were 3 tapes in total. You could buy them separately but I recieved one with my X-T7 Jet and I watched it religiously from 1987 until 1999 when I discovered ebay and was finally able to scrounge up the other two episodes. 326694[/snapback] Mine and my sister's power jet were both tape-less. Parents bought her "BioDread Strike Force" and me "Raid on Volcania." We stumbled upon Future Force Training a year or 2 later in a dollar store. ... Only they weren't called dollar stores back then.

All future Star Wars analogies are now moot. AgentOne wins.

I just did a search for "Gall Force mecha" to see what we were talking about, and found a properly credited one. ... And it DID look enough like invid mechs that I can see someone thinking it had to be an "abandoned Robotech design." But I think a lot of the pulling-in comes from teh RPG side of the fanbase. RPGs are known from pulling random elements from other media in to fill out a story. It's just the RT people's dumb fault that they're taking unofficial campaign fodder as canon.

You got it all wrong, gay dancing spidey. Karl Rove is Palpy, Cheney is Vader, and Bush is just some guy that gives speeches. 326606[/snapback] Isn't his avatar just the lamest thing ever? Must be an M7 fan. And as it seems we are getting political here: Having a pussy avatar and being a flaming liberal usually go hand in hand. 326609[/snapback] What? You guys don't like his avatar? I thought it was hilarious the first time i saw it. It looks like an idea for a bad cameo on an episode of The Tick or something... "Evildoers cannot withstand the might of my justice dance!" http://www.starterupsteve.com/swf/gayspiderman.html

That's not entirely true. My wife has friends down there and she asked about this. For years, everytime it came to vote to use more money to fix the levees, the people voted it down. The local and state governments are to blame as well. I can't stand Dubya but ya can't blame him for everything. Also the levee that failed was labelled by the Corp of Engineers as complete. It was as high as it needed to be and the maintainence was all done. They just weren't intended to handle better than a Cat3. Nope. Once he got his sealegs he was actually fairly effective in getting people to safety. And he was passing money to the people he saved. Sure it wasn't very much cash to Penn, but it's a hell of a lot more than most people are doing, particularly the loud ones.

Either way, Cheney's the baddest-ass badass that ever badded an ass. Remember when making Star Wars analogies that while Vader was evil, he was still the living breathing incarnation of awesome.

And once Sean Penn got his sealegs, he did all right. Got his boat plugged up and moving, and he was giving out to the people he rescued. Beats the heck out of some of the other people that just sat there shouting about how Bush did it.

Soaron and Blastarr. COOL!

I'd heard the big protest wasn't the violence and mature themes, but the merchandising. It was at the time when shows-as-ads were just starting to pick up, and people were concerned about it. And as Captain Power took it to new heights, you got people complaining that not only was the show a half-hour toy commercial, but that you HAD to have the toys to enjoy it fully. ... Obviously they never watched it, but really, how many activist groups know crap about what they're bashing?

PowerJet XT7 and Phantom Striker. Wait... Mattel actually paid someone to do a GOOD JOB on the cartoons? *debates rewatching 'em* And the tapes didn't come with the toys. They were sold seperately. For the record, teh eppilepsy effects are badass. How would you shoot stuff without the flicker?

It's also pretty banged up. I thought the rough design was similar, though I admit it's a stretch. But DYRL isn't real. 326417[/snapback] It is roughly similar, but I think it is of a different design. I believe that the Supervision Army had an ability to alter and repair ships that the Zentlaedi lacked, so it's possible to see multiple derivative craft. For all we know, ASS-1 was an obsolete hulk prior to its arrival on Earth. 326437[/snapback] I would actually expect that. You boobytrap your retired husks, not your shiny-new state-of-the-art.

You guys have all the best shows! GIVE IT BACK!

As I understand thigns, it had a very strong adult following, especially for an alleged children's show. Captain Power, Hawk, Tank(how very imaginative...), dun recall the other 2. Token black guy was Scout. Chick was Pilot. Power was the only one to use his real name. *cut/paste* CAPTAIN JONATHAN POWER MAJ. MATTHEW "HAWK" MASTERSON LT. MICHAEL "TANK" ELLIS SGT. ROBERT "SCOUT" BAKER CPL. JENNIFER "PILOT" CHASE If I recall, Scout had holographic camoflauge, so he could look like anyone else. Hence he got to be a... well, a scout. Just remembered... I used to have a Captain Power comic book. Power was visiting his father's grave. Flashback sequence to explain how the story got from civilized world to post-apocalyptic with homicidal mecha hunting people and sucking them into computers. Still do have all 3 of the cartoon videos, for what it's worth. http://darkstar.st/captainpower/soaron.html I know Soaron likely looks better in motion, but... Man, this used to be cutting-edge special effects.

I don't think the 'Folded to a different location' is really canon. It was something that the RPG Macross mecha design page put in to explain the reason why it was never returned to. Thought that was in the official timeline. Don't see it, though. Never seen the RT RPG book, but it's possible I got it from somewhere that got it from the RT RPG. It's also pretty banged up. I thought the rough design was similar, though I admit it's a stretch. But DYRL isn't real. Besides, the ASS 4billion-and-something was in the TV series, where the ASS-1 was a Supervision Army vessel and zentran and meltran got along. That's likely. It looked "kinked" so I have doubts the cannon would fire. It was just an example of a known boobytrap. Reactor overload, maybe?

Well it was one that I had just seen someone post, so it was the easiest for me to grab. Apologies to anyone that's offended by it. 326301[/snapback] Just annoying is all. I'm hard to actually offend.

Not very likely. I've seen someone selling it on CDs before, though. And this thread is awesome. The show ruled. ... I think. I was like 6. I still have my Powerjet and Powersuit Energizer and both action figures(was bought one for the jet, and the energizer came with a custom Captain Power figure). And my sister's Powerjet, actually...

I should probably note, as I said earlier, M+ and MII and productions after that, have had no involvement with Tatsunoko. 326220[/snapback] Indeed. HG's official stance as of late, however, is that they own exclusive rights to the entire franchise, be it toys, animation, line art, or anything else. Which is a far cry from their original standpoint of not even having the rights to DYRL, or the ability to make derivative works using Macross(look at Robotech 2 and the makeovers all the characters underwent. Poor Britai...)

I thought that was a global trait. That's been my experience, at least.

If he hadnt said no this coulda lead to a whole new series and change everything about Robotech and Macross Yup. Killing all the main characters in one shot would've changed the entire series. And by extension changed the bastardized hackjob. If that was how they felt, they never would've inserted it. Macross is fairly well put-together. Everything except Global Report serves a purpose. The event added a bit of depth to the universe, pointed out that even if you weren't looking for trouble, trouble had a way of happening. There were people out there fighting a war of mind-boggling proportions, and it was all too easy for neutral parties to get caught in the crossfire. Also reminded the viewers of exactly how humanity got the Macross. Remember, this was the 3rd season. The finer points of the first season may have been lost at that point. What? I said nothing of the sort. And that's kinda stupid, given the ship was in the middle of nowhere. If it'd folded into an asteroid belt there'd be... asteroids around it. I said it was likely a supervision army boobytrap, particularly given it was gone when they went back to investigate it after retrieving the factory satellite(which took priority over a maybe-derilect ship). And if it has power, and a computer program uploaded to make it play dead until a zentradi vessel comes in range of it's cannon, it's a boobytrap. No evidence that it did. It folded, we know that. We don't know when, where, or under what circumstances.

They SHOULD go beyond HG sending cease & desist letters and refusing to prove their claims. Particularly when including statements such as all infringing merchandise needs to be delivered to HG's main office, which has no basis in US law. They can stop the sale of imports, with restrictions. They can get law enforcement to seize merchandise that is suitabley offensive. They CANNOT seize the merchandise themselves. And everyone HG has used their license against. I wouldn't just take someone's word that they owned the product I'd just imported. As an analogy... let's say you just bought a car from a used-car lot. And I walk up to you one day and say that that's my car, the guy at the used-car lot stole it from me, and you need to give me your keys. Are you going to take my word for it? No, you won't. You'll call the cops. They'll likely ask to see my title. If I can't present that as proof of ownership, I've got nothing. The license they refuse to show anyone? The license that only covered the original TV series until nostalgia kicked in? (note that HG made no attempts to stop importations of DYRL, Macross 2, or Macross Plus). Except HG's cease and desist letters cited their distribution rights, not their trademark. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=1953 A sample. There's a thread somewhere in the forums regarding what happens when you challenge a HG C&D.

And the latest in tasteless newscasting... CNN is advertizing a link where you can "Watch: Bodies bobbing in the water" Screenshot provided to prove I can't make this stuff up.

Of course, it's to be expected tha thte vast majority are black. Not because "them blackies are all crooked", but because NO's population is/was 80% black to start with. Backpack. But only the black guy was the AP. There's nothing to explain. AP policy is if they're taking stuff from a store and no one's there, you caption them as looters. So the black guy's a looter. They can't control what other syndicates put under their pictures.

He was referring specifically to a set of pictures of looters that were released a few days ago by the AP. Two pictures were of black looters, and the caption specifically referred to them as looters. The third picture was of white looters, and the caption said that they "found" their food. The picture has long since been pulled, but you can still find screen captures of it: http://x7.putfile.com/8/24210141023.gif 326110[/snapback] Of course, the black guy's hauling a bag as big as he is. That tends to look bad. Other hand, "finding food" sounds retarded. It's quite possible they were just looking for a diffrent caption. Either way, I find that aniGIF more offensive than any racism present.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's just too funny to ignore.