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  2. Seto Kaiba
    Not sure why y'all seem so certain that Kycilia kneecapping the Principality of Zeon's armed forces isn't 100% her plan. There's no way she did not know exactly what she was doing in destroying Gihren's personal fleet and A Baoa Qu. What her endgame is isn't clear, but it's a very safe bet that her use of the Yomagn'tho to destroy A Baoa Qu is Just As Planned.
  3. davidwhangchoi
    i hope the HD update turns out ok, it looks there's some widescreen implementation. But not clear if it's 4:3 ration with some side bar effects.
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  5. Seto Kaiba
    C-3PO always introduces himself with "human-cyborg relations"... Did Anakin use the brain from a mechanical gigolo?
  6. Seto Kaiba
    Should the second Battle 7 ever put in an appearance in a future animated Macross story, I kind of suspect they will reuse the Battle Frontier CG model for it the same way that they reused Battle Galaxy for the Battle Astraea but keep the more vibrant color scheme used in a lot of the line art. It would be nice if they went back and made an accurate-to-the-90's-animation Battle 7 model, but that's probably more effort than they'd be willing to put in for what would surely be a cameo appearance at most. The Macross 7 fleet has put in a minor cameo before, but only in the novelization of Macross Frontier.
  7. SebastianP
    Um.... In episode 1 of Macross 7, our first look at the exterior of Battle 7 looks like this: Notice that the ship is gray, with pale yellow cheek pads, There's two or three different angles of this area, from when Diamond Force is launching. All of them show this muted palette. So, when I was making a "realistic", more warship-like palette for Battle 7, I picked my colors right out of these scenes with a color picker tool. And then I noticed something strange as I was frame-by-framing my way through Zettai Live: the Gigasion had this exact color palette. Light gray, slightly desaturated reds and blues, and a quite pale yellow, even in the brightest lit scenes. So, kindly don't complain about the *colors*. What I was asking was, do you think they'd retcon the Battle 7 to be the same overall design as Battle Frontier? Or would they try to make an anime-accurate 3D model of the old ship instead? Edit: I'm noticing now that this shot is strange, because it implies the bridge block of the Battle 7 has been slid all the way back down the leg of the ship in order for the end of the angled flight deck to be in the foreground with the bridge block behind it. "An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilizations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop." — Iain M. Banks, Excession The Zentraedi were an Outside Context Problem for the Earths governments. It just so happened that Minmei turned out to be an Outside Context Problem for the Zentraedi.
  8. JB0
    More to the point, they assumed that any possible war would be over territory and resources. These unknown aliens had no beef with humanity, they would be coming to reclaim their missing starship or to lay claim to the Solar System's resources. This makes sense if you are not specifically aware that the zentradi fleets are roving around looking for "the enemy" with no real strategic goals, like the planet eater in that one Star Trek episode. No one expected "you are an existential threat that must be erased from existence", because there was no reason to expect it. And it should be noted that for a time, an alliance seemed viable. The zentradi were very surprised by the capabilities demonstrated by people who very much weren't the enemy they were hunting. They wanted to get busted hardware fixed and replaced, and a new supply of reaction weapons. Humans could do both of those things. The humans, meanwhile, wanted to not be exterminated like space roaches. It seems like a small ask in exchange. ... And then the culture virus hit the zentradi ranks, causing a rapid and near-total collapse of discipline, the chain of command, and essentially destruction of zentradi society. NOW humanity is not a potential ally, they're the most dangerous thing the zentradi have seen in several millennia.
  9. Big s
    Looks pretty wild
  10. Big s
    I don’t know, those were those legs were rather wide apart
  11. Thom
    Seen on Pinterest.
  12. Thom
    From what I recall, any human to robot 'swerving' was more in jest.
  13. Yesterday
  14. pengbuzz
    If that's the case, she's doing a brilliant job.
  15. pengbuzz
    That's fine; I'm not sure I accept your synopsis of my post as correct. There's a reason they developed that technology, and the Anti-UEG wasn't primarily it: Source: https://macross.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars As for this comment: As the saying goes: "Generals always fight the last war"; in UN Spacy's case, the generals plans were for the warfare they thought would come, based on the wars they had fought. They didn't have in mind that the next one would be a space-based war. I don't see how a desaturated paint job makes much difference, other than that several years later, someone forgot to repaint the ships.
  16. Duke Togo
    I'm here for that story
  17. Big s
    It was having human to robot relations. Probably a good thing we didn’t get a full story involving his version of Lando. It might’ve gone beyond the hard R rating and Disney wasn’t quite ready to go that far at that point in time.they really weren’t ready for Lando a Love Story
  18. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Do you remember Journey from the PS3 era? Journey's maker made another game which looks like a spiritual sequel:
  19. Duke Togo
    It should have been a Lando movie. Donald Glover is just so great and charismatic in that role, I'm really more interested in what he has going on.
  20. Angesdad
    Okay I busted my copy open today which marks my very first Arcadia Valk (yay!😗). My first impression is it’s a big bird for 1/60 scale I suppose the Zero valks are designed significantly larger than VF-1’s eh, it takes up a good chunk of my limited display space. I have not audacity to transform it yet however right from the get go, the drooping intakes do bother me as they do not seem to positively lock in against gravity. I keep pushing it up, wiggle jiggle the remainder of the legs with no success. I was watching Jenius’s review dated 9 years ago and it had the exact same problem. 9 years is apparently not long enough time for a reputable boutique toy manufacturer to redesign an extra tab. Lastly is it just me, the whole thing feels so bare like a blank canvas with wings without tampo printing it screams decals and possibly some focused weathering because this was a 40k yen valk, yikes. I see now why folks spend the money to get its premium finish equivalent. Of course it isn’t the worst toy, I like the die-cast landing gears come already painted in white, that’s a first and real fresh coming from a heavy Bandai’d user.😆 I have ordered in some Aliexpress third party waterslide decals hopefully I will grow to appreciate it more when everything is said and done.
  21. Big s
    It’s definitely not as bad as most say it is. The real true crime of the film is just trying to attach it to any existing characters. If this was some other guy and a different alien teaming up with some other random perv that bangs his droid and likes to gamble and just kept all the same actors, then it wouldn’t have felt so weird. Maybe leave out the pervy fetish of enjoying droids in the wrong way. The action wasn’t bad and the acting was alright and the story would’ve worked better if it just wasn’t trying to be a back story to a character that didn’t need one.
  22. Big s
    Probably more like, shot herself in the foot then while holstering the gun, shot her other foot. I’m sure someone else will shoot her in the head…..again
  23. Angesdad started following Bandai 1/60 DX Chogokin Macross 7 Fire Valkyrie
  24. Angesdad
    Up next the inevitable Tamashii exclusive sound booster the dx for..say 13,000 yen?!😆
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Aside from a thoroughly understandable "Gihren can f*** right off", we don't know what Kycilia's actual motivations or desired endgame are yet. She may actually want to undermine Zeon's power.
  26. Seto Kaiba
    They do see a bit of use, but ultimately they're very very limited by the constraints of operating aboard a space warship instead of on the ground like they were intended. Your memory is playing you false there, I'm afraid. In the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross TV series, Hikaru and Minmay are found when an enemy missile with a dud warhead is mishandled and breaks through the deck above into the space they were trapped in. In the movie version, the emergency bulkhead just opens up. It was, yes... but it doesn't seem to have achieved any kind of widespread adoption as it is only used by the Macross Galaxy Corporate Army and only on a trial basis. In multiple versions of the Frontier storyline, the Macross Galaxy fleet has a penchant for keeping older designs (or even competitor designs) in service past their use-by date as a weird sort of flex in favor of their parent company's products. In Macross the Ride they've tried to modernize the Defender and have a local spec of the VF-19C specifically to flex on Shinsei Industry by building a better VF-19. In the Macross Frontier TV novelization, they're using modernized VF-9s and VF-17s in their forces. Both cases, well... a basic beam CIWS system seems to have eaten their lunch thanks to lower cost and no ammo limitation. Same deal as the above, for most ships the same job can be done with a fixed launcher system. We've actually seen two dedicated police mecha in Macross 7. One is an armored car sort of machine that turns into something vaguely akin to a Zaku Tank armed with a bazooka, and the other is a twin ducted fan aircraft with arms and a deployable tricycle undercarriage for a body that can wield a gunpod. Ironically, the reason for their existence is given as the number of surplus Valkyries and Destroids which were making their way into civilian hands. Past 2030, though, giant Zentradi communities are quite rare. They're banned on Earth, and most emigrant fleets don't permit Zentradi to live as giants for resource reasons. The Frontier fleet is quite rare for allowing that. One could call it a very substantial and very blatant display of the fleet's immense wealth. It stopped being a Destroid, though... it became a glass cannon variable bomber due to its structural issues. The Cheyenne II already has a pair of large particle beam cannons slung under its rotary cannons. As of Frontier, they seem to end up in the New UN Spacy Marine Corps which has dedicated Zentradi units and seems to pull a lot of garrison duty to give them the structure they need in life. Eh... I'd call this half right? The Earth UN Government and Earth UN Forces were pursuing development of weapons based on alien overtechnology to construct a planetary defense against a hypothetical alien invasion. We know the requirements involved in development of the Battroid and Destroid were constructed around that premise rather than any possibility of use against other humans. The UN Forces reluctantly pressed developmental and prototype weapons into service towards the end of the Unification Wars as a response to Anti-Unification forces obtaining and employing OTM-based weapons themselves, some of which were developed not just for fighting aliens but also with an eye towards practical use against humans. After all, the UN Forces had a massive advantage in manpower and resources. Most of the Unification Wars was little peacekeeping actions to suppress minor regional disputes along ethnic, sectarian, or regional lines and even when those groups started forming their own Alliance they were massively, massively outgunned most of the time. The general public was already aware that aliens existed even before the Unification Wars started, so no such excuses would have been necessary. The United Nations made the formal announcement that the existence of alien life had been confirmed in June 2000. That announcement was quickly followed by the announcement that the nations of Earth had agreed to band together to form a world government. The Unification Wars started the next month. That the aliens used giant robotic weapons themselves was also not all that secret, since several combat pods were recovered from the wreck and extensively studied to reverse-engineer their technologies. The main point that was secret was that those aliens were expected to be 10m tall. They would probably have learned all they could, then chucked the ship back into space and sent it on a blind fold jump somewhere - anywhere - else in the hopes that the Zentradi would pass them by.
  27. Roy Focker
    As long the public respond to it like they did with Rogue One and Andor. Not what like they did with Solo. In my opinion Solo wasn't that bad. I even kind of liked it. The downhill spiral started with Rian Johnson's Last Jedi. He had successes both before and after Star Wars. He has proven himself when doing his own thing and should have been given a stand-alone movie first and not one the sequels. Let Filoni watch over the current continuity that sells toys. Invite other directors to pitch their ideas for side stories. If they got a good idea approve it. Maybe keep the budget under a one hundred million so one bomb doesn't put a stop to everything.
  28. pengbuzz
    So in running Zeon (right into the ground), Kycilla shot herself in the foot, then promptly spun the gun around and shot herself in the head.
  29. SebastianP
    I'm not sure I accept this as written. At the start of the project was very likely "let's develop alien-sized robots to fight the giant aliens", but you *also* have the Unification Wars going on at the same time, and it's kind of difficult to keep your development focus on equipment strictly to fight the *next* war while you're hip deep in an ongoing war already. It would rapidly have become "the enemy is developing giant robots, so we're developing giant robots to fight their giant robots!" among those not in the know about the aliens. Especially when the certainty that there will be a next war is kind of fading, because the aliens don't show for ten years. So it's not even that the Destroids were developed for the battlefield of "yesterday", they were for the battlefield of "today", only midnight came out of nowhere. Also note that the initial battle on South Ataria Island was exactly the kind of thing the destroids were supposed to fight - a ground invasion. The fold to Pluto and having to run the gauntlet to get back home was not in anyone's plans, the idea was to get to Lunar orbit and reinforce with more space units. Anyway, if the UN Spacy had convincing evidence of the actual playing field, I think so many bricks would have been shat that they could have constructed the whole grand cannon system out of them by 2005. Unification War? What Unification War? We have no time for wars, the ALIENS are coming, and there's billions of them! Edit: Also, I've been playing around with a 3D model of Battle Frontier for a bit. We are unlikely to ever return anywhere near the Macross 7 fleet, but if there ever was anything set there in the future, how far off do you think I'd be with this interpretation of Battle 7?
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