taksraven

I always knew that the Robotech novels were crap but when they tried to equate Exit Door with Exedore, I knew that they were really trying to fill up page space.

I thought that the Valks for Macross II looked pretty cool. They had a nice 'streamlined' look. Good post, very funky, thanks. Taksraven

Looking at it again and again there are certainly lots of biological aspects to the "Bugs" but there are so many obvious mechanical ones too. I doubt that it could be just a monster wearing a mechanical exoskeleton (I will probably be wrong on that one), but the fact that it also had some "transforming" capablilties made it interesting as well. With the wings extended in the flight mode it looked exactly like one of the flying bugs from the Starship Troopers film. I would not be too surprised to see a closer tie-in to some of the new mythology that was introduced in Macross Zero. As others have noted, the red bugs are covered in patterns similar to what was seen on the Mayan islands. Maybe instead of learning the fate of Hikaru and Misa, we might instead find out about the fate of Shin and Sara? It would still be interesting. The countdown to April continues..... Taksraven

These ads were unique to Australia as far as I know. They are truly terrible, written and produced by people who have no idea what the show was about. I thought I would share these with the forum, enjoy.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIdWnoevkoM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbEBXaPbPyo Taksraven

Not trying to brag, well I am bragging really I guess, but my first knowledge of Macross was BEFORE Robotech was shown in Australia. About a year before its broadcast (broadcast in 1987 in Australia?) our next door neighbour gave my brother and I model kits of the Mk X Defender and the Mk II Spartan for birthday presents knowing that we were SF fans. I thought at the time that the time that the designs were truly unique (although I did wonder why the Spartan appeared to lack weapons, little did I know.) I was stunned a year later when Robotech appeared on TV and our model robots featured in it. It didn't take me long to find out that Robotech was made up of three unrelated series joined together. It did have me fooled for a while though, especially the way that the main mecha in Macross, Southern Cross and Mospeada all had Gerwalk (Guardian, give me a break) modes. Channel Ten Sydney originally bought the rights to only the first 52 episodes of Robotech, meaning it took a long time to see the rest of the "series" properly. (Nearly ten years later on a different network. An interesting footnote was that during the 1990's a group of "concerned mothers" got together in Australia and targetted the television networks with a hate campaign to get "violent and offensive" programs taken off childrens morning television in Australia. As a result of this campaign the Australian Broadcasting Network (The ABC, Australia's national broadcaster) pledged to never again show Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets, Channel Seven agreed to never show Robotech again, and Channel Ten had to move Ren and Stimpy from mornings to an "adult" timeslot. What a bunch of bitches. Taksraven

Not trying to brag, well I am bragging really I guess, but my first knowledge of Macross was BEFORE Robotech was shown in Australia. About a year before its broadcast (broadcast in 1987 in Australia?) our next door neighbour gave my brother and I model kits of the Mk X Defender and the Mk II Spartan for birthday presents knowing that we were SF fans. I thought at the time that the time that the designs were truly unique (although I did wonder why the Spartan appeared to lack weapons, little did I know.) I was stunned a year later when Robotech appeared on TV and our model robots featured in it. It didn't take me long to find out that Robotech was made up of three unrelated series joined together. It did have me fooled for a while though, especially the way that the main mecha in Macross, Southern Cross and Mospeada all had Gerwalk (Guardian, give me a break) modes. Channel Ten Sydney originally bought the rights to only the first 52 episodes of Robotech, meaning it took a long time to see the rest of the "series" properly. (Nearly ten years later on a different network. An interesting footnote was that during the 1990's a group of "concerned mothers" got together in Australia and targetted the television networks with a hate campaign to get "violent and offensive" programs taken off childrens morning television in Australia. As a result of this campaign the Australian Broadcasting Network (The ABC, Australia's national broadcaster) pledged to never again show Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets, Channel Seven agreed to never show Robotech again, and Channel Ten had to move Ren and Stimpy from mornings to an "adult" timeslot. What a bunch of bitches. Taksraven

Bring back........

Yay, I would go for that, but what would he fly?

At least 20-25 times for me. We really need to see the rest of the series. Taksraven