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They're getting a lot of mileage out of those TV series distribution rights. ... I wonder when they're going to force Big West and company to stop infringing on their copyright...

Indeed. I sort of feel bad about buying the US Macross DVDs. Sure they had the license, but it hasn't proven to be any indication of improved behavior like I thought it was. If anything, it's been used as justification for WORSE behavior.

But back in the '80s... It was understood that Tatsunoko had TV series distribution rights, which they COULD sublicense to HG, and Did NOT have rights to anything else, so Big West COULD license it to anyone they pleased(and they did so, repeatedly), as well as the lineart(see BattleTech). This continued into the early 90s, if Macross 2 and Plus are any indication(HG ignored the actual release of Macross Plus, and only attacked the later toys). Well, anime's only gotten big enough to be WORTH merchandising in the US recently. They DID push the shows for western releases.

Nice! The Misato/Rei pic is a particularly good photo(though I'd've moved that 3rd figure in the background out of the image). As a note, the AniGIFs look odd spinning in the direction the hair is pointing.

You MADE the cross? *whistles* I can't work with stuff that small. And the ball looks nice from here. The marbled effect isn't very beach-ballish, but who knows what they look like in the future anyways?

When inspiration strikes, you need to dodge! Seriously, I like the effect. The beach ball especially. And now your Rei is completely diffrent than everyone else's, too.

Niice. All she needs now is a sandbox!

As should have been obvious to anyone in the theater when they did the Universal logo, and then the opening scene, in black and white. Indeed. Heck, Van Helsing was pee-holding worthy in my book. Very few movies get that from me.

Glad to help. The pics look a LOT nicer now. The flesh is, well, flesh. Not washed-out overexposed white pasty parts. Nice work, BTW. Looks beautiful. And I love your photos. You've got a pretty good eye for composition.

Screams bootleg to me.

I nominate my box of Legos. Sure it can transform into anything, but it's almost impossible to do...

The Earth gets destroyed and the Federation renames Mars to Earth.

The color depth reduction algorithm used on poor Minmay sucks.

Yeah, they look way too 'square'at the prow compared to the one Britai was using. But that could be just due to animation variations rather then intent. Could be a variant of the vessel.

Just a thought with the photos... Last time I had a glare problem, I layered kleenex on top of the flash. It reduces the light coming out and diffuses it as well. It's certainly nothing like a real diffuser, but it works if you get enough layers on(exactly how many will, of course, vary with ambient lighting, distance, and likely the flash and kleenex used).

What really bugged me about Voyager was it had so much promise, and they killed it with bad writing and recycled plots. I think they did a "humanity of the doctor" episode every season.

Did reading that press release trigger anyone else's gag reflex?

But what about the TOY YOU BOUGHT ON EBAY WHILE EATING A SNICKERS BAR forum?

So do some 3/4s of all sci-fi programs. Did you notice that one of the displays on the Macross' birdge is running the computer game "Trek"? Star Trek's shields also degrade with damage, just like Macross. And the shield generators explode when the shields take too much damage, just like Macross. And there's talking vending machines in Red Dwarf, just like Macross. Actually, you WILL see a turbine. The fusion reaction is contained internally. All that gets out of the reactor and into the turbine is heat. And in the first episodes of Macross, plasma wasn't the problem. This can be determined by thinking for a moment. Plasma would, lacking a massive gravitational field(just so you don't whine about stars, I will state the obvious qualifier), dissipate and cool almost instantantaneously in space. The area was full of heavy atoms that were rapidly degrading and sending out more particles. Add a nice confetti of spaceship to that, and you have an incredibly nasty environment to be sending radio waves through. Hell, the confetti alone would be problematic, as it works like the famous low-tech anti-radar tool known as chaff(the outer skin may be made of radar-absorbant materials, but the majority of the mass is INSIDE that skin, and made of something lighter, less exotic, and far more reflective). I should also point out that plasma stealth relies upon tightly controlled and regulated amounts. Otherwise, you just light yourself up like the 4th of July for anyone that isn't deaf, dumb, and blind. Just HAVING a fusion generator doesn't mean you have plasma stealth. You need that plasma to GENERATE POWER. It stays in the reactor untill it cools below useful levels. At which point it is no longer plasma. And if it was being sprayed out the exhaust like you believe, it would be a giant "shoot me" sign, NOT a stealth mechanism. Did you mention the part about minovsky particles being generated spontaneously by He3 fusion and scrambling EM radiation? You know, the RELEVANT part? I never argued that you couldn't do neat things with microfusion, or that certain EFFECTS of Gundam's physics model weren't plausable . Just that MINOVSKY PARTICLES AREN'T REAL. There's no proof that the SDF-1 doesn't have Voltron's Blazing Sword tucked away in the Prometheus either. Or that there aren't Jedi Zentradi running around throwing lightning bolts while blocking lasers with their lightsabers.Shall we continue this idiocy, or acknowledge that one show's gimmick can't be interpolated into all shows on a whim? There are no minovsky particles in Macross untill such time as it is stated in a canon source. Or any similar plot device. Because it wasted time that they wanted to spend doing other stuff. Time in a movie is at a premium. You don't waste it on unimportant or less-important things. If a Star Trek movie doesn't use the transporter, that doesn't mean the transporter doesn't exist, just that it was not absolutely needed for the tale being told, and would have taken valuble seconds from other scenes. BTW... The Macross Compendium is considered canon for all intents and purposes, as it is officially sanctioned by Big West. http://macross.anime.net/mecha/united_nati...yf21/index.html Look to Avionics. The third item is "Active stealth system."

That's because Macross is not Robotech. While the animation used was, as far as we are concerned, the same, much of the rest was not.

Actually, no. Maybe I miswrote it. I said it was a guidance system for missiles. Okay. Sounded like you said IR was a form of radar... True, but radar don't mind engines being on or off. When they tried to see if F-117's stealth worked, they sticked a model on a pole and put it in front of the radar. The radar guy said the model must have felt because he couldn't see it on screen, then after a while he said he actually could see it. A bird rested on the model. The model had no engines, the bird either. But... If you cut the engines off, you can close the intake and exhaust ports. And TAHT reduces the radar signature(assuming the cover panels are designed right). According to what my Italian Macross DVD edition booklet says, Studio Nue invented them. They were a Matsutaki's idea. That's the connection with Macross. FV Your booklet needs to mention that minovski particles only exist in Gundam. They're little more than a random piece of gibberish made up to justify melee combat between squads of giant robots, and a general lack of anything resembling good aim.

Yes. The gap exploited is the fact that a minovsky particle is a fictitious particle that only exists in Gundam. *rolls eyes* Any other? Are you saying that infrared detectors are a form fo radar? *rolls eyes again* Killing engines will affect a whole host of things, BTW. Including your ability to fly the plane, but we'll assume hte YF-19 has a backup battery. Because a reflective or (mroe likely) superconducting coating makes sense when laser weapons are being used? What do minovsky particles have to do with anything? Macross is not Gundam.

It's really that bad at points.

Apparently, a C & D letter is a way to drum up tons of publicity at the Macrossworld.com forums. Not necessarily positive publicity, but as they say, "bad press doesn't matter as long as they spell your name correctly." It doesn't seem as though these letters do much else other than that. You make an excellent point. I humbly request that all future references to the previously mentioned company and product be spelled Hair-money Cold and Robot-eck.

Friendly warning: Some people here really really hate Robotech. There's a thread in other anime and science fiction explaining the diffrences, if you don't know them. Because the show is 20 years old, mainly. Because the target market is collectors, whoa re willing to pay that, or kids, who don't care if it's anime-accurate. Somewhere around here's instructions to make hte Banpresto valks into semi-decent toys. Nasty legal dispute between Harmony Gold and Big West serve to restrict what comes in. Many valks never appeared in the original Macross TV series, and thus aren't/weren't fair game for Harmony Gold to make toys(they MAY have signed a license to acquire toy rights to other shows recently, based on their announcement of DYRL superposables. It's still not clear as far as I know) More likely under license from Big West. They're the Macross copyright holder, but as far as I know, they only do animation.