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Neither do X-Wings. And if an X-Wing was a Valkyrie, it owuldn't have proton torpedoes. And Valkyries have reaction missiles. NUKE TEH SONS OF DAUGHTERS!11

*sighs* I want a new Votlron, but ... it looks UGLY. *sighs again* Too bad I never finished that die-cast set when I was little. Then broke the 2 lions I DID have.

Wouldn't that mean a Valkyrie was the ultimate weapon?

Well, it's from Akira, and appears to be red... That's about all I know.

Beause Focker was bad-ass enough to NOT have an ugly heatshield.

Millia. Provided, of course, I can skip the knife in the face on the first date...

I TOLD her to dodge, not block!

HAHA! It looks constipated!

I had PB&J and some nachos.

Maybe Patlabor, I DID see that once. ... Looked some pics up, 'S not it. I've never played Armored Core, that can't be it. I think the SV-51 is it. The windshield gives it the right head shape. Thanks,

DAMMIT! The headlight makes me think of something, but I can't figure out what!

No prob. According to Macross Compendium, ep. 4 is scheduled for a spring release.

They aren't out yet. Dunno when they come out.

Ay-ay-ay... That's what everyone always assumes, but it's just NOT true. Look hard enough and YES, there ARE Toynami valks on the shelves of stores in Tokyo. And it pisses me off. I want to know how the hell they're getting away with this. imports? same can be said about yamato toys here. ya but we're talkin about "store shelves". You can't find Yammys on Toys R Us stores in the US, all because of the HG "Blows" license thingy Can you find Toynami MPCs on TRU shelves in Japan? I doubt so. Assume HG never interfered, and Toycom is able to distribute Yamatos freely in the US. I doubt we'll see them on US TRU shelves still. To date I have yet to see any toys distributed by Toycom on TRU shelves. I've only seen their products at comic stores. I've seen them in game stores too. Haven't actually CHECKED toy stores...

I smell a friendly-fire accident in your version of Hikaru's future. ... Well, another friendly-fire accident.

That's what I was thinking.

I was looking around that site and i found this "One of Harmony Gold's flagship titles is Robotech, the Japanese anime franchise that includes a groundbreaking TV series originated in 1985; two feature films, novels, comic books and toy" What exactly are the 'two feature films'? I hope they dont cound DYRL? as one of them Hybridchild That's just their domestic cataloge, they're more of an international distributor. Doesn't answer the question at all.

Fanboy says Space War 1. He wants to live the show. He also needs a good slap in the head. Intellectual says post SW1. He wants to see what sort of societal changes are brought about by a need to rebuild humanity on a post-apocalyptic world. Voice of reason says MacPlus. That seems a pretty safe timezone.

Well there's only so much you can do to an existing design before you reach it's technical limit. They may have implemented some ideas from OT (OverTechnology) to get a slightly more effecient engine. Or it could be something like getting the F-14 up to spec of current fighters is use. Probably at this point in the war, they've lost lots of fighters. They have lots of older fighters that could still be used. But considering that they used technology which is 10-20 years old by that time, they need to bring those fighters up to the level that their current fighters were at. It could be like taking an early 1980s car and modifying the insides of the car to bring it up to an equivalent car of today without changing the look of the car (i.e., no body kits, no lowering, etc). IMO, that's what the F-14s in M0 are. Yeah. I figured Starscream was actually a tad of a stretch. But hypothetically, the insides of the jet could be all new with only the frame being the same, if I'm not mistaken. That'd be a LOT diffrent than a standard F-14. Obviously your ultimate limit is the stress the frame can take, though that limit might can be bypassed with overtech energy armor like the VFs have. Depends on how exactly it works. ... I guess that WOULD be bringing the F-14 up to modern spec.

Yah. Teh art shows her saluting. The actual photos of the kit show it going straight down.

Is this your figure? http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/arii/ar_2b.jpg From http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...unassembled.htm I see UNSpacey had the same idea. But he got box art, I got box photos. I WIN!

No, Harmony Gold does indeed hold the rights outside of Japan to the original SDF Macross. They can't create a new series using the characters, but they can develop merchandise based upon the series. I go away for a day and look what happens. Just a slight but important correction to this post. The rulings stated that HG couldn't use the original designs to create a new animation, nothing was said about using the characters. Correct in the sense that they couldn't use the designs. Don't recall it being court-mandated. Robotech 2: The Sentinels included original characters, but massively redesigned. The designs were off-limits, but not the characters(which arguably weren't Big West/Studio Nue's characters anyways, after renaming and personality tweaks). And Sentinels was before all the legal fuss started. Correction: It means Harmony Gold thinks they can. A very important diffrence there. Toynami has been caught bootlegging merchandise before. Merchandise that carries HG's stamp of approval. One can assume HG either A: is totally ignorant of Japanese Macross merchandise, or B: has no resepct for copyright law. And if the contracts between Big West and Tatsunoko and between Tatusnoko and HG are as vague as some claim, it is possible that HG believes they have DYRL rights but does not, in fact, actually have them. 2 shows are very clearly not in question. Macross 2 and Macross Plus. This casts doubts upon their merchandise rights to these 2 serieses as well. DYRL's problem is that multipe companies claim to hold rights. If HG's license was as clear as they claim it is, I believe they would release DYRL, and if the other companies challenged, present their license either in private or in court. In fact, I believe they would have presented it when DYRL was originally released State-side during Robotech's original run. An offense they ignored not once, but MULTIPLE TIMES. Or they feel it is not economically feasable to pursue these rights. Because some companies have a tendancy to litigate at the drop of a hat, and are quite capable of burying smaller companies under so many legal fees that they go bankrupt, REGARDLESS of the actual merit behind the lawsuits. In point of fact, it's considered business as usual for many larger corporations. There is no evidence that Big West is not honoring any deals they have made. And given the "unclear legal situation," Big West would be COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOLS to do anything that would make it appear as if Harmony Gold, and by extension Tatsunoko Productions, had a legitimate claim to the entire Macross franchise. This would include Yamato getting a license from Harmony Gold for US distribution of products other than the original Macross TV series. The evidence I have seen so far indicates the following: Harmony Gold has rights to the original SDF Macross TV series. These include merchandising rights. These are not exclusive, as Tatsunoko has released original Macross products in regions other than the USA. Tatsunoko has never made any attempt to exploit anythign other than the original series either internationally or within Japan. That is the extent of undebatable fact regarding licensing. Harmony Gold has recently decided to either A: believe that it has rights to the entire Macross franchise, or B: start enforcing a believed license that they refused to defend when they originally acquired it. Big West believes that Tatsunoko Productions, whom licensed Macross to Harmony Gold, only had rights to the original TV series, and no rights to derivatives. By extension, this means that Big West believes Harmony Gold only has rights to the original TV series, and has recently engaged in legal action against Tatsunoko Productions towards confirming that belief in a court of law. This series of legal actions began shortly after Harmony Gold began interfering with Big West's believed exclusive rights to all Macross products other than the original TV series. Japanese courts have created rulings that fans can translate multiple ways and construe to support either side's argument. Have I missed anything?

And leave a present on his doorknob as you leave?

Omega all the way!

I'd guessed you meant SDF-1. Either one works. ... Heck, SSF-1 would've worked if they hadn't been english-impaired... anyways, the Compendium doesn't go into much detail. Avionics and other areas? Other areas could be anything from new engines to "folds into Starscream".