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Welcome to the world of fansubbed anime. Fansubs' original main purpose is to provide anime translated to fans by fans, and to promote it to the masses. There might not be such a big anime following in the west as there would be now if it wasn't for fansubs. Its because of fansubs as well that anime licensing companies pop up like ADV, Pioneer, etc, since they realise there is a market for english speakers. Brief history lesson. Before the Internet, anime enthuthiasts traded what little anime VHS they had amongst each other, and subbed them (with what arcane technology they had) and distributed to people who are interested. Now with the Internet, everything else is history. Today, ethical fansubbers will stop subbing an anime once it gets licensed by a company. But even if they don't stop, copyright laws do not have full enforcement over the material subbed. Its a gray area. For example, what if the fansubber is not located in the US? If he/she was from China....and Macross Zero is not licensed there, does HG or anyone else has any right to tell them to stop fansubbing Mac 0? Hope that helps.

That's frickin awesome....i'm very tempted to rip some gunpod sounds and missle/valk sounds to the vid.

AHh...so it IS the Takatoy stickers.....thanks. You have to cut them with scissors, right?

When did she do that? When she went against Miria in one of the later episodes. She piloted Kamjin's Glauug as well.

Not really a problem....more like a question. But I've seen pictures that some have posted and their 1/48 valk's stickers look....not like stickers. I mean, the transparent parts don't even seem to be there. Example, the UNSPACY sticker on the gunpod, looks like it was painted on, not sticked on where if you use the stickers provided by Yamato, you can see quite clearly the transparent parts. Do you guys use alternative stickers/decals? ANd I can't for the life remmeber where I posted this, but some dude's custom with fastpacks, had white "Beware of Blast" stickers on them, where Yamato supplied black ones which can't be seen. Where do I get those "easier to see" stickers? Thanks. PS: and what exactly is this "chair-like-thingy" which comes with the 1/48 fastpacks that I'm supposed to attach to the Battroid's backpack area.

What exactly was that Metal Siren's ability to blow up a whole cruiser from the inside out.....? EMP thingy?

LOL! I believe babelfish is at work there....or some hongkies doing some major major literal translation from Chinese to English.

What's with all the Macross 7 hate?

Don't own one, but from pictures and reviews, it looks pretty simple to transform. Like a plane with folded in limbs. Just unfold the limbs and drop the nose cone...voila. Looks that way anyway....guess its not that simple. lol.

Question: How do I make the stickers less visible on the sides....and how did you get the white "Beware Of Blast" stickers for the fast packs? The black ones Yamato provided can't be seen on the fastpacks....neither the red "No Step"s as well. Are these Takatoys stickers?

You make it sound as if the UN military are Nazis. Well...they were bastards during Space War 1....but they were more or less wiped out leaving Global and the other general dudes forming the new military and UN Government. I know its not the same person...I mean, you know what they say that you'd probably meet one person in your life that looks exactly like you. With cloning...you'd probably see 5-10...and I guess that's kinda freaky in itself. True...cloning would be the best solution for huge scale interplanetary immigration....but I have a feeling this would cause them to get bitten in the butt in the future....

ROFLMAO!! I can't imagine pre-teen kids violating a burly gaijin......

The feathery Wing Gundam Zero Custom is basically just a redesign to the original WGZ. Just think Macross geeky transformation toggles redesigned to DYRL/Macross Zero throttles...which later got accepted as canon as if the toggled transformation never existed. Its not an upgrade. The same goes for the Wing Gundam FIX figure. Wing Gundam version ka. (short for katoki) is by Hajime Katoki, some dude that redesigns/overhauls some Gundams to look more kickass. In fact, the whole FIX line was designed by him.

HOLY cow....is that a VF-2 toy??? Transform it!! Oooh..gotta love them space pictures. Try to get the blurry effect at the back of 1/60 M&M's boxes....those were my favourite artworks (photgraphy?). Anybody has high res image of the M&M 1/60 box art?

I won't stuff MY fingers up anyone's ass, prank or no, that's for sure.

GASP! Max is a clone that's why he looks so young for a almost 60 yr old person! Kidding. Mass cloning of people...now that I didn't know. It would make more sense I guess. But, realistically, how many people in the population would want to be cloned? And among these samples, I would imagine there to have alot clones in the world. (Macross III....Attack of the Clones) So Earth would have a population of 50% clones by M7? The Zentraedi theory also would mean that more than half of humanity consists of Zentrans....which sounds strange. It would mean the fine line between terrans and zentran to be totally non-existent. A total assimilation into the human race. Yeah right, as if that would happen realistically considering humans are all racist bastards..... But I said I assumed that the earth was close to fully populated, because how many colonisation fleets have already been launched up to M7? I don't know the number, but apparently there have been enough people on all immigration fleets to fill up earth itself. By M7, Eden already has a bustling metropolis and there's the Macross 5 and 7 on colonisation expeditions. It doesn't quite add up. Southcross: interesting calculations. But I will not be willing to accept 12 yr olds bonking each other. I guess cloning does sound the most realistic answer, but imagine the moral dilemmas faced due to cloning? How many people of the human race are clones? At the sound of it, you'll probably see 5 instances of the same person in your lifespan.

This hit me yesterday while rewatching SDF. Ok, I assume that 70-80% of the earth was decimated....survivors consisting only of the 20% odd survivors on earth and the rest that is on the Macross. Put those survivors with defected Zentraedi. 40 years later (in Macross 7), the earth is assumingly back to full population, and they can afford to send a bunch of immigration fleets to colonise other planets. Unless every survivor mated with every female (human or zentraedi) making one baby each 9 months.....I can't see how earth could've got such a huge population boom in 40 odd years. It would probably take a state as big as Texas to populate and man the Macross 7 fleet even....considering the amount of gunships and escort ships they have, not including their numerous casualties suffered with the Varauta army even.... Any thoughts?

I have some Gundam FIX, I don't really mind those PVC.

Get some dust where the legs are...and I think it would be perfect! And i love the Valkyrie King. W00ts!

Wear it as a motorcycle helmet....or if you're with the airforce....give your fellow wingmen a good laugh...and probably a court marshall.

Huh? Dude...u can bash M7 for anything, but don't bash M7's J-pop/J-rock. It pwnz j00!!

Considering all the Macrosses released had different music styles...what would the next one be eh? Rap? Church Choir? Punk metal?

Ok, thanks! But strange that they were using a non-minmay song for the "Minmay Attack". But , if it wasn't a Minmay song and Macross II was not an official storyline for the Macross series, why was it played several times in Macross 7? Unless they were trying to give tribute to Macross II despite being the blacksheep of the Macross series or it was played elsewhere as well?

I doubt the scaling is anywhere near accurate. ie: 1/60 valk does not scale with a 1/60 MS. For comparison purposes, you could take out a MS pilot and the valk pilot and put them next to each other. I have an EVA PG, but not sure what its scale. I think its a 1/60 since most PGs are that size. It stands only slightly taller than a Valk. An EVA of the same scale should tower over a Gundam...and I doubt that my PG EVA towers over the PG WGZ custom. BTW, i love the WGZ Custom PG, but I heard its a b**ch to paint and build...and I'm too lazy to build/paint it. *sigh*

Correction: "Banana Moon Love" was the song and I don't believe it ever made it to M7. "Riding in your Valkyrie" was the song used most in M7 by the Jamming Birds. I'll have to talk to Keith to confirm that though. Definitely though, it's not a Minmay song. I'm not sure if it was called Banana Moon love....doesn't sound like its got anything to do with love cos its rather fast paced and all. I am very sure that it was played a couple of times on M7, like when Mylene was driving the car and it plays on the radio, was heard on Zolan radios in dynamite....etc. Its not sung by anybody in M7 though, if that's what you were thinking. Its the song they used in the "Minmay Attack" part of Macross II, where some laser beams and holograms of a dancing singer (Minmay?) play out in space while she sings the song and battle with the Marduk ensues. So I was curious if it was a Minmay song and if it was played in any other series elsewhere...maybe in Flashback or something.