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  2. Angesdad started following Bandai 1/60 DX Chogokin Macross 7 Fire Valkyrie
  3. Angesdad
    Up next the inevitable Tamashii exclusive sound booster the dx for..say 13,000 yen?!😆
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
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  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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?
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Exactly. If your enemy is in the middle of making a series of unforced errors, by all means let them finish. We know that the Principality of Zeon's economy is swimming in wartime debt to the point that they were laying off career soldiers like Black Tri-Stars and selling off "war surplus" mobile suits to the Sides. Now we've learned that... Kycilia has done a lot of the Federation's work for them. Her hostile stance towards her brother Gihren over suspicions that he assassinated their father kept Zeon's military divided along factional lines and working against itself for five years and helped push the fledgling nation's economy to the brink. Now she has... Kycilia (and Nyan) may have inflicted more damage on Zeon in the space of a single afternoon than the Federation did in the entire One Year War. That's quite the achievement... bettered only by the sheer horror of what the Yomagn'tho is.
  11. pengbuzz
    I think one important role the Destroids served in the story was to point out how the "battlefield of yesterday" doesn't necessarily prepare you for the battlefield of tomorrow. UN Spacy developed the Destroids on the assumption (as previously pointed out by @Seto Kaiba on several occasions) that whoever came looking for the ASS-1/ Macross would be conducting a traditional ground war that would deal in holding territory. It never crystalized in anyone's thinking that when they came, it would be largely space-based. I also think Seto pointed out that as the reason there wasn't more of a focus on the fuel capacity of the VF-1's in space, as it was assumed most action would be in atmosphere. All of that said: I think if UN Spacy had a better idea of the actual "playing field", we'd have seen more fighters with a larger fuel supply (maybe something more akin to the VF-4 out the gate), perhaps less of an emphasis on transforming fighters, and a far greater emphasis on planetary defenses like the orbital network in Macross Plus.
  12. Duke Togo
    Kennedy saying all the right things at the BFI screening of an original 1977 print of Star Wars: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/star-wars-george-lucas-first-print-screens-1236430495/
  13. 505thAirborne
    @jenius Bringing the goods!
  14. pengbuzz
    After expending so much of its' resources and forces combating Zeon, you can hardly blame them if they took that position and just waited for them to collapse. The less organized and solvent they are, the weaker they would be for the Federation to have to take on the next time. It also gives Earth a chance to recover in some fashion (especially given the condition it's in at the start!).
  15. SebastianP
    A little something I've been working on: In the background is the Minivalks 3D printable Battle 7 for comparison, in the foreground is my attempt at creating an "updated" Battle 7 by colorizing the Battle Frontier model from the game. I'm still missing a few panels and a couple of stripes compared to the Battle 25 flight deck textures, but I'm definitely able to have fun with this.. .:D
  16. Hikuro
    Bit bummed. My Xbox360 finally crapped out. It'd been having issues witht he disc drive not reading as of late so I took the initiative to get it replaced. Followed all the necessary steps I could, knowing that there's a serial key on there so I wasn't gonna do a flash on the disc drive so I did a board swap instead. But man one thing after another, console shell was super brittle and kept breaking when I took it apart even with the proper tools, and after doing the board swap and putting it all back together I kept getting a close tray on it. Messed around with it a few times more but the shell just got worse and worse and even the tray ejection button snapped off randomly. Guess it's time to buy a new unit! Really bummed cause I just acquired a ton of good 360 games last weekend for cheap cheap at a garage sale.
  17. Sokeijon started following Bandai 1/60 DX Chogokin Macross 7 Fire Valkyrie
  18. Sokeijon
    Very tempting.... https://www.tamashiinations.fr/en/figure-pre-orders/3110-macross-vf-19-custom-excalibur-basara-nekki-special-figure-dx-chogokin-4573102676269.html
  19. Sokeijon
    I got it from Mandarake quite sometimes ago. Now only unboxing.
  20. Edkir4
    Edkir4 joined the community
  21. TangledThorns
    It's for that Gen X nostalgia money. I loved KRULL when it came out but the SLAYERS had the most disturbing death sounds I ever heard when I was a kid. Many of the deaths for the heroes were pretty disturbing too... squish!!
  22. SebastianP
    They did see plenty of use though - aside from standing around on the hull and potting battlepods that got close, as well as the Daedalus attack, they were also used in the city (both in the few fights that broke into the city, and for rubble cleaning and construction work. I distinctly remember it was a destroid that opened the way into the hull section where Minmei and Hikaru were sealed into.) The only one of the original destroid designs I'd consider retiring without replacement is the Tomahawk, because it's a tank on legs that's supposed to fight other tanks on legs, and it never really had the mobility for what it needed to do. The Defender was already upgraded into the Super Defender, filling a similar role to the Cheyenne. The Phalanx, I could easily imagine having a use in the modern era, as missiles never go out of style. The Spartan I'd consider turning into a police mecha, Patlabor style, because mixed Macro/Miclone communities exist, as well as work destroids. Though I suppose the canon solution is Macronized Zentraedi cops. The Monster was also already upgraded to give it all the mobility the original lacked and then some. I would *consider*, maybe, tomahawking or phalanxing the Cheyenne chassis (i.e. giving it bigger, slower-firing guns, or large missile pods), Then again... given the vibe we see in the shows, it feels like only Zentraedi who crave the warrior lifestyle seem to sign up for ground combat duty and they'd be in Macro-scale mecha, which already have the mobility that the destroids lack.
  23. 68whiskey
    Its hard to process what bandai does next. Remember the GN arms unit? They displayed it and it wasnt til 4-5 years later that we actually got one. Given they just created a mold and such for Burning Gundam I would not be surprised if we see Shining gundam first. It would be similar to what they have done withe Exia, Astray and Crossbone figures
  24. SebastianP
    +9
  25. JB0
    Oh my! Delta's back!
  26. JB0
    Also the final battle of the war, with the Macross Attack.
  27. davidwhangchoi
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/3072620/RType_Delta_HD_Boosted/
  28. Seto Kaiba
    The Federation didn't give up completely, no. They essentially voluntarily withdrew from space to rebuild their forces after successfully ousting Zeon's forces from Earth and then fighting Zeon to a stalemate in space without the technological superiority they had in the prime timeline. They successfully defeated Dozle Zabi at Solomon and tried to wipe out Zeon's headquarters and logistical support center at Granada by dropping Solomon on it, but the zeknova foiled that plan and so they put the war on hold. The Federation Forces withdrew to Earth, and have been focusing on rebuilding. We know from earlier episodes that they've been covertly developing their own newtype corps at the Murasume Lab in Japan and field testing them in Clan Battles via the Twelve Olympians team and a shell company run by the Murasume Lab. They've developed at least one working psycommu weapon (the Psycho Gundam), and they've also created this timeline's version of the Titans seemingly for a future offensive against Zeon. Of course, the Federation may also be taking a "wait and see" approach to Zeon. With the remaining Zabis fighting amongst themselves in the wake of Sovereign Degwin's death and Zeon's economy collapsing under the weight of its war debt, the Federation may have just been biding its time until Zeon implodes on its own.
  29. pengbuzz
    I think the most use they ever came in was when Misa Hayase organized them in the bow of Daedalus for the Daedalus Attack. Good; my memory still works then.
  30. Papa Rat
    Looks great!
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