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Ok... I might not be awake enough to be right.... but if TP themselves already confirmed that Studio Nue were the creators of the original story (look no further then the DVD case).... that means that without doubt BW owns the derivatives, right? And does that mean it effectively killed any further discussion of who owns the story? Of course not. Logic has no place in a debate such as this. Good eye, though.

You're missing a fundamental ualifier. Making their own consoles hasn't worked well for them IN AMERICA since the Genesis days. The Master System was actually rather successul everywhere EXCEPT North America. The Saturn was stil neck and neck with the PS1 in Japan untill Sega killed it to focus their resources on the Dreamcast, which ALSO did amazingly well In Japan(Sega actually had to restart the assembly lines after buying back US Dreamcast consoles for resale in Japan due to incredibly high demand, and new games are STILL coming out today). The Genesis was unique in that Sega's US division knew what it was doing, and was given enough room to do what needed to be done to sell it. Sega Japan was calling ALL the shots on the Saturn, and it suffered in America for it.

Beause no one in Japan actually gives a crap about Golion, so it's been forgotten. Hence why WEP could buy the rights.

Hmm? I don't get it, if it didn't make it to US shores, how is it even a Voltron? (lol) The TOYS made it over, but the animation was apparently never dubbed/adapted. No why they'd launch the toys without having the animation ready to back it up is beyond me, but I DID see them in Toys R Us. And promptly decried them as stupid. Anyways, here's hoping Toynami can make a decent lion Voltron, like the old die-cast toys(which I was only ever lucky enough to own 2 of). ... While knowing that the best we'll get is plasticy crap, and if we're REALLY lucky it won't be 3DVoltron stealth crap.

There is none. It comes from the RPG fans and is an indeed an just refering to what they know about Max and Milia and assuming that the way it is. For the RPG crowd it works. The problem is a lot of people read an RPG write up on something and assume it's all a fact. So that's where that originated? Ah well...

Has that ever been stated? Beause if we go solely by animation, all destroids were antique relics in the original TV series. What we DO know is they rolled a variable Monster out at some point, and it was used in VF-X 2, which is relatively late in the timeline. They may have made variable versions of most of the destroids, so they could have the mission-specific firepower along with the rapid deployability of the variable fighter. Sure beats the heck out of GBP armor to simulate a Spartan/Phalanx, and screw the rest.

Hey, you got a better way to rebuild a species in a hurry? It makes perfect sense. And that DOES make sense? There were so many zentradi ships you couldn't see through the cloud. I'm suprised they weren't shooting EACH OTHER while bombarding the planet. The odds of any signifigant population of humans surviving were pretty slim. I know what the Compendium says... I don't think you're realizing how BIG the Earth actually is. The major population centers would surely be annihilated. But there's no reason for the Zentraedi to hit hardly anything in the middle of North Dakota or Siberia or North Korea, or the island of Maya, for example. Maybe the most major towns but outside of them? And sure we're talking about wiping out the majority of our population but EVERYTHING outside of the Grand Cannons? Nonsensical. If they were trying to exterminate, then biological weapons and/or the complete eradication of the surface is necessary (top kilometer), including oceans and all the uncounted little islands out there (Maya anyone?). But over FOUR million gigantic ships... Name four million cities, towns, villages plus collateral damage and humanity is near annihilated... The Grand Cannon did destroy a lot of them, but I doubt that it had took out more than 5% of all the nme ships. Bingo. They'd already SHOWN that a Zentradi fleet was capable of sterilizing a planet, reducing an Earth-type planet to something more along the lines of the moon. Sure some stuff lived, mainly in caves and the ocean, but most of the planet was reduced to a lunar landscape. Remember, what you see around the Grand Cannon after Hikaru rescues Misa is Middle-of-nowhere, Alaska. That used to be a nice thick blanket of snow before the attack, instead of a lunar landscape. And Alaska isn't very densely populated. It wouldn't have been a prime target(the Grand Cannon being undetected untill it fired).

In other words, it's bait to get more cash out of the target audience(horny teenagers going "D00d, it has boobies!1111"). ... Which is pretty much what I suspected when they slapped hte unrated label on it.

Well, at least you won't have any unwatned baby computers popping up. ... Sorry, bad joke.

If you don't want to pay, you can always find a cracked version.

None. Like the saying goes, a fool and his money are easily parted. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. -- Plato A rolling stone gathers no moss.

I thought the male/female division only applied to human/zentradi interbreeding. When 2 zentradi get it on, the results are still 50/50.

The Robotech RPG is known to contain errors relative to Robotech data too, though I've forgotten specifics.

I get the impression it's supposed to be realistic cloning, not traditional sci-fi cloning. Born a baby, no memories. Hey, you got a better way to rebuild a species in a hurry? It makes perfect sense. And that DOES make sense? There were so many zentradi ships you couldn't see through the cloud. I'm suprised they weren't shooting EACH OTHER while bombarding the planet. The odds of any signifigant population of humans surviving were pretty slim. According to Macross Compendium, the survivors were either off-planet or in well-fortified areas(namely the incomplete Grand Cannons). Which makes sense given the scale of the bombardment.

That'll learn me. And now I'm reminded of MC Hammer. DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU TO ... TO.... TO A WORLD WITH NOTHING BUT GUNDAM WING FOR ANIME!

Yes, missiles were in the arms. But the reaction warheads were launched from the railguns, not on missiles.

Chernobyl didn't go boom either. The reaction didn't go critical. The fuel rods are too far apart for that. It just got hot enough to melt the reactor open. They still operate the other reactors at the site to this day. They also had inside knowledge that most attackers wouldn't have.

I've seen Optimus. I want Optimus. Badly. I may be an irate whiney ex-fan, but there's still a little kid inside me jumping on my liver screaming "I WANNA TWANSFOMER! GIMME!"

I understood the meaning. It just sounds odd.

I've got decent fansubs of 2 episodes currently.

No kidding? *buys game so he can launch orbital assaults against the battlefield*

As I understand it, one of the problems with modern Transformers is they CAN'T use real-world vehicles, at least in America. If I recall, a few companies threatened lawsuits over Robots in Disguise if some details on the toys(like distinctive styles of headlights/taillights) weren't changed. The companies that make cars and trucks and things that go don't want to be associated with toys, and WILL sue over it. Hence the whole Beast Wars thing. I see Armada as a step forward. At least we HAVE vehicles again, even if they're silly vehicles. Of course, I haven't bought a Transformer in ages. Early Gen2. The whole resurrection thing came as I was deciding I'd outgrown my toys, and I haven't really gotten back into them yet. Little things like new He-Man's Battlecat(Guns on Battlecat? Errrr, no.) and PC Megatron(DAMMIT, HE'S A HANDGUN!) help me keep irate enough at them to avoid that money hole/trip down memory lane. ... Maybe I should thank them instead of ranting.

Seeing beam weaponry filed as "conventional weapons" is odd, to say the least.

Don't be silly. The New Jersey was named after the Macross.

One quibble... You cited the constructicons as an example. But they were originally a nasty shade of neon green. The Gen2 versions, while tiny and lower quality, were also Tonka Yellow, the standard for construction equipment toys.