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You must think it's also a great thing what Joons and the Chinese bootleggers of the 1/55 Takas did. wow. that totoaly describe s a company who paid for the rights of a show. yeah it does. Actually, Toynami has been caught copying japanese products without permission several times recently. They bought the rights to the show, not rights to 3rd party toys. Hence, bootleg.

Actualy not that it makes much difference if both legs are gon, but i do belive (i am not sure so dont quote me on this) that there is a main reactor located in the main fuselage between the cockpit, and the "break point" fo transformation Likely an auxillary reactor to keep the power stable during transformation. That or a large supercapacitor. Either way, it's not intended to supply power for an extended period of time.

You're right. The cat translator doesn't work either.

*shoots Eternal D, ensuring Megatron is reborn as a gun again*

That actually made it to America. It's grossly overpriced, and completely inaccurate.

A name that wasn't changed? *shock*

I wouldn't really take it that far. It's really due to Robotech that Macross has a large fanbase in the states, granted it wasn't in it's original form, but it's influance was one of the major ones way back then. Debatable. Uhhh, no. Cardcaptors and Escaflowne at least kept the hack job to ONE series. Robotech is like ... LEt's make a new series called Magitech. It starts with Vision of Escaflowne. Only there is no parallel universe crap. The entire story takes place on Earth(because they renamed Gaia), in the rain forests of Brazil. Then flows into Carcaptors because Henrietta(Hitomi got renamed) was Sarah's(Sakura got renamed) mother. It takes place in LA because Henrietta moved there for the school system. We don't see Henrieta because she's away on a business trip to New York, so Sarah's uncle takes care of her. And then Yu-Gi-Oh is a sequel to Carcaptors, and is about Bill, the third mystic knight(never mind that none of the series HAVE mystic knights, Magitech does) that's trying to recapture the Poker deck of the Gods because it accidentaly got lost again after Sarah retrieved the cards(because the gods told her to like they used to tell her mother to do stuff). If that happend Robotech would be as bad as Cardcaptors or Escaflowne.

If there's nothing in deep space then there would be no objectives in deep space therefore there would be little reason to fight a battle in deep space so most battles would probably occur around planets. That's the way I see it anyway. well, here's how I see it. planet A is 100 light years from planet B both planets decide to kill each other and send out space armadas. now, you'd THINK that the armadas would probably duke it out about mid way. what happens is both armadas, big as they are, miss each other by hundreds of thousand, if not millions of miles. each armada utterly concours its enemys homeworld. several hundred years later.. planet A and planet B decide to kill each other repeat. space is just too damn big. Unless, of course, one assumes a permanent near-planet defense force.

Hey, at least it was only for an hour.

I don't think it was ever given a name. Just "The Baby". Great show, though I don't have a clue where to get it now. Maybe kazaa or something?

Actually, that's basically what they do in Macross. That's why in fighter mode, for most VFs, the head lasers point behind the aircraft. Well, that's not really serving to confuse IR sensors, is it? I suppose the explosions from the missiles could serve as flares to divert other missiles...

I thought it was radar-absorbent paint. Nope. From what I read, an IR absorbent paint developed by Boeing, who was one of Lockheed's partners during that competiton. Okay, so it's true that some of the solutions used to reduce IR signature wouldn't apply to a valk in space, but my point is still valid. If the UN wants to make stealth a focus in their next-gen variable fighters, they're going to develop technologies to make stealth work. And with everything else that they've done with overtechnology, it's feasible to believe that they used OT to reduce the IR signatures of fighters like the VF-17 and the VF-22. But it has to be reduced a LOT farther to be even marginally effective. I'm leaning towards active IR countermeasures. Flares, mainly. Though a good low-power laser can blind a missile, why bother when it can be vaporized by a higher power one?

I'm the guy that wants the blue XBox, not the pillow that comes with it. I can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

That goes without saying I would imagine. However......I would think that Overtechnology would give man the answer to the super-conductor and that would significantly reduce the heat signature. The heat's still got to go somewhere. Most of it straight out the back of the plane. There's really no way around it that I can see, aside from flooding enemy IR sensors with a bigger heat source. But you're talking about the same sort of challenges that today's modern stealth aircraft face. Not really. Modern aircraft don't have tiny stars packed into their engines. I thought it was radar-absorbent paint. Not a problem in space, where heat comes from the inside, not the outside. Leading edge heat is from atmospheric friction. By mixing it into the outside air. There's no outside air to mix with in space. Whatever shape your exhaust plume is, it's still a bright white spot in a pitch black background. Sure it dissipates, but the diffrence in temperatures is still massive.

Maybe because it's hard to find. I spent three hours today looking for it. Drove to best Buy in Porter Ranch - didn't have it. Went to 20/20 Video in Van Nuys - didn't have it. Went to Circuit City in North Hollywood - didn't have it. Then I finally found it at Best Buy in Burbank. Can't be harder to find than "The Gods Must Be Crazy." Which has never been released on DVD near as I can tell. Though a family member sighted it on shelves ONCE, neglected to get it, and never saw it again.

And didn't they knock skyscrapers over in the 1st episode of the TV series? ALIENS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11! THE TERRORISTS ARE A COVERUP!

That goes without saying I would imagine. However......I would think that Overtechnology would give man the answer to the super-conductor and that would significantly reduce the heat signature. The heat's still got to go somewhere. Most of it straight out the back of the plane. There's really no way around it that I can see, aside from flooding enemy IR sensors with a bigger heat source.

Well, you still have a lot of stuff coming out the engines and verniers. Besides, what about non-visible wavelengths? They'll show up like a lit candle in IR.

You're welcome.

WinSPC is pretty outdated. SNES sound emulation has gotten MASSIVELY better since '98. SNESAmp is a much better choice for accuracy.

It lacks the greatest Tenchi Muyo! series of all. Why anyone would buy a set that doesn't have Pretty Sammy is beyond me.

With all the drama and over-acting of a bad soap opera throughout the discussions, too.

The between-level cut is recycled too. In a very nice touch, they used the commerical break tune from the TV show.

This IS hg we're talking about... no. Hg invested money in macross and the other showes. they had 2 choices 1: si tont he sereis unitl laws changed and loose alot of money 2: come out with robotech and not go broke Hell if it was up to most people. they woudl do somthign similar. hg was not some big million dolalr compnay. people need money to live and keep their company alive. consider that. the treu culprite is the people who amde the 65 ep rule and for evel for forcing roboptech titel. There were no laws involved in keeping Macross & company off-air in unaltered condition. HG wanted syndication,which requires a longer run to be viable than a normal show that airs once a week on a major network(which was the other option open to them). They felt that syndicating the programs would bring them more money than licensing them to one network, so they raped them. Robotech was created so HG could make as much money as they thought was possible. We'll never know if that was an accurate assessment of the economy, though.

Nto if I report YOU for going off-topic first!