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Well, most of the Varuta had their own ships, so I guss they could have simply joined the Macross 7 fleet. As for Chlore's armada, I'm pretty sure the UNG has an SOP for handling any Zentraedi fleets wiling to join.

I think he means that Alto will or has already fallen into the spring of drowned female gremlin (or conversely, fell/will fall into the spring of drowned girl THEN into the spring of drowned gremlin).

I'd like to assume that it was capable of traveling in space (hence the name Starwing). Besides, it doesn't make sense to build a large strategic bomber then limit it's range by making it unable to fly in space.

At this rate a bomber would probably have enough firepower to take out an entire fleet. Speaking of which, isn't the Starwing technically a strategic bomber?

Then he realizes that he isn't as depressed and angry as he was back in the late 70's and 80's and gives us a relatively bloodless ending instead. BTW, speaking of death and dying, I have good word that steak and pineapple salad is being served at the Frontier NUNS pilots commisary as we speak.

To borrow from Mr. March's site.

I remember we get brief glimpses of it (with Canaria) in episodes 6 and 7. I'm pretty curious as to how its instrumentation is laid out. I recall that it's predecessor (the Destroid Monster) required 3 people (commander, driver & gunner?) to operate.

I was gonna say that Macross was a romance drama that only happens to have mecha in it. But that didn't seem to fit either. With that in mind, it's probably safe to say that Macross is just about equal parts mecha and equal parts romance.

Wait, what you mean to tell me that pilot-hime isn't just a girl with a deliciously flat chest?

Well, it's thursday here in the far east, I hear Random Cannon Fodder Pilots 23, 42 and 48 have just been served pineapple salad and/or steak.

Those images were already posted earlier. Also, Dynamite 7 shows us that the VF-17 uses the traditional flip-throttle to transform.

In episode 1, when Alto jacks into the VF-25, the left hand "stick" for his EX-Gear flips down to become the throttle, in the enxt episode, we see Ozma flip his throttle down to transform out of Battroid mode into Gerwalk. Based on this, my theory is that (at least for the 25) a quick flip and back to horizontal transforms the fighter into gerwalk mode, holding the throttle in vertical initiates transformation into battroid.

Alto will have to perform Sakura-hime.

I believe they've shown shots of the gunpods and missiles being fired by the trigger on the flight stick. As for the YF-19, while Isamu's finger seemed to tighten around the trigger, he didn't actually pull it (besides, there wasn't any gunpod attached during that flight).

Thank Graham as I simply got these from his full-page scans.

Checked them out myself and yes, Gilliam's VF-25F didn't have the paint on the head. However, in some of the later episodes (4, 7 and 9) they also show Alto's Vf-25 without the paint on the head. I've a feeling they meant for Gilliam's not to have the paint, but ended up using the model with Gilliam's white head paint scheme in some scenes for Alto. It's weird though, the whitehead usually pops up in scenes where the VF-25 is coming up the elevator, yet they have a similar shot of the plane, with head paint in the intro. Another thing, it also seems to indicate that they use separate models when animating the different modes which they then edit together to make it seem like a single plane transforming. EDIT: Just realized that this discussion probably belongs in this thread.

You gotta be careful and remove those yuri-goggles from time to time.

If you took out his bare chest, it looks like two girls!

Since I figured you'd be wanting them. Taken from Graham's scans of Great Mechanics DX5.

I was considering that explanation, however its also coloured that way without the packs. I'm beginning to wonder if it's purposely done that way to make it look like an animation error and maybe make it feel like traditional animation.

LOL at Saoteme.

But a hybrid would most likely be unable to reproduce, thus passing on the parents problems to the next generation (and maybe even complicating it).

Unfortunately, anime these days has to cater to the demands of the market, meaning "hero mecha" whether we like it or not. In any case, I think Frontier has handled it well enough, showing that the VF-25 isn't some god-like mecha ala Gundam (in fact getting it badly damaged and even destroyed on occasion).

Well if you think about it, the SA could be the entire force of one of the PC factions during the civil war that resulted in one side developing the Evil series and the Zentraedi we see are from the other faction meaning that they'd still end up fighting regardless of any PD influence.

Well, we might have enough space for a good side story there, Super Dimension Delinquent Yot-chan!