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FYI, at time of this post 11,000 Japanese Yen = 70.37 United States Dollar Shipping: depending on which option you choose, $22.51-$25.59

No and likely no. The 4K movie-only re-release has no subtitles and looks to be a JP release. The Crunchyroll Black Friday deal above has both movie and OAV. The 4k re-release is also kinda pricey for just the movie. Unless you want 4k and just the movie only, the Crunchyroll BF deal seems like the better of the 2.

Most of the Meltrandi designs got reused in "Fleet of the Strongest Women". Beyond that, there really aren't many designs that are unique to the movie version. The Moruk Laplamiz mobile fortress is the big one, literally and metaphorically. The others are mainly little, incidental designs. Mostly utility and support craft like the Spacy's RC-4E Rabbit, the Zentradi transport, and the Golg Gants Charts light attack craft. Macross has always used its music side as a main selling point so that part is actually pretty logical in hindsight. Leaving other primary characters unnamed, well... I suspect part of that is to enforce the player projecting themselves onto the nameless ace pilot saving the day since it IS meant to be a simulation game. That seems unlikely to happen for a couple reasons. First and foremost, the creative team tries to avoid having any visual confusion WRT who the protagonists and antagonists are. This has been cited in the past as a reason that the Zentradi's ships and mecha generally do not show up in mixed forces alongside the regular New UN Spacy. Second, in a more in-universe perspective, the New UN Forces use of Zentradi mecha in the immediate aftermath of the war was a pragmatic decision. They had a lot of Zentradi volunteers for the New UN Forces and military service was an adequate sort of "halfway house" to help Zentradi who were struggling to adapt to life on Earth make the transition gradually and at their own pace. Zentradi mobile weapons also fall short in the survivability, safety, and ergonomics areas and so would not be particularly attractive options to a non-clone Zentradi or the New UN Forces brass. Zentradi born into culture would probably gravitate towards Variable Fighters as well, since those are the iconic weapons of the New UN Forces and prominently depicted as heroic in the media. Third, well... Earth's technology is great but it's not quite up to the same standards the Protoculture had for Ragnarok-proofing, so Human-made Zentradi mecha aren't likely to be as durable or reliable as the genuine article. Plus the more different varieties of mecha a fleet has the more complex its supply chain becomes. That seems likely. Zentradi mobile weapons in general eschew transparent canopies and such in favor of armoring the cockpit and getting by with monitors. He doesn't say anything besides remarking about an old hand who's on the brink of retirement, and how "old men" tend to have trouble with their aim. (His excuse for breaking orders and directly hitting the Macross with what was meant to be a warning shot.) The only time I can recall Zentradi forces mentioning medical treatment for the wounded even in passing is in Macross 2036, a Macross II timeline game where Quamzin turns out to have been Not Completely Dead and leads a new Zentradi fleet to attack Earth. (No mention is made of how his injuries were repaired but he does have a prosthetic eye in that story.)

Wow-I did not know that came with it? My set definitely did not have it. Nice!!!

Shame they didn’t “fix” the elbows.

It seems like it's inevitable on the Threezero that the "Beware of Blast" tampos on the nose sensors are going to get scraped off

I guess is this one. https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1413814390753760 I see a bundle in coming since card reads "Rick Hunter" and original release reads Roy Focker on the canopy.

The SS 86 Hot Rod will be reissued and recolored and released at Target. I'll be getting one.

Caution! Careful on the amz-jp link above. Seems it defaults to "No Manufacturer's Bonus" selection: if you want the Manufacturer's Bonus, use the link below: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0G41R7687 Make sure it is showing the page as the above snapshot.

I See notting....🤔

Wow quite a bit SW goodness. I don’t collect but am enjoying the great pics of the crew & their ship.

I figure they don't bother treating injuries that are severe enough when they can clone new soldiers.

Looks like the Lootcrate Toynami colors.

No english-subs listed, huh? Wonder if they'll nerf the potential OVA 4k-release of english-subs/dubs as well. If the OVA 4k-release is even planned. 11k-yen is a bit too much MSRP for just the movie, imho. As such, the more expensive store/fan-club limilted 15,400y option includes:

Can't believe Jada is almost complete with SF2. Damn impressive.

I was about to buy this but with then I saw the recent 4k movie remaster announcement. I wonder if they'll include english subtitles or come out with a U.S. release.

There's look and there's feel. Ryu and Ken don't look like SSF2 but they are better plastic by a little. Looks like Storm just showed off Zangief and his look is hardly changed, Balrog too possibly. Cammy and Chun-Li won't work, the Alpha designs are wildly different. The rest are all Jada figures however, the plastic is better than ML but not quite Storm. I don't understand your problem with Fei Long either. On the other hand all of the con exclusive Ken's are rife with paint chipping, and I'll add my regular Storm Ken has that problem (Ryu too) as well as sloppy/inconsistent paintwork on thr Gi. Kens pants and top are different shades of red.

They did know which extras to pack with the Ghost HasLab, just to kick us in the feels:

I definitely have TheRoyalSkies subscribed for years, just in case the day came that I wanted to to dabble in 3D again. Glad to know it's the right place to look when I want to start. Seeing these design notes with so many heads packed together, his head design tendencies, or his brain worms so to speak, have become very clear lol There's always an eye level downward slanting horizontal ridge and a nose to chin vertical ridge. They form a T intersect where it is the farthest outward point, and all other shapes tend to taper towards it. There is also a cheek to lip level horizontal downward concave if there is a lower face, resulting in a distinct chin. Then there's the three general optics styles with some hybrids, that everybody is probably aware of. The bulb with a distinct circular lense inside, the thin line visor, and the polygon panels patterns. With the formulaic rules laid out, it almost sounds simple to design heads like he does lol. As for the super parts on the 24, yes that is what I wanted. Now I can determine that significant shrinking and proportion changes are required before my idea has a chance of looking decent and functioning. I wouldn't say it looks awful as is, but it can be summed up as an indistinct rack of pointed bricks. It does very loosely look like an inverted version of the 29's super wing layout, albeit very bloated 🙃. The idea needs more cooking and optimizations, back into the mind oven it goes.

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