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  2. BroTaku79
    Had to get 2...but my heart tells me to buy 3 lol...it is a beauty!
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Bless you for your diligence. 😁 He's a good head shorter than Vrlitwhai and the VF-1 Valkyrie even in the original TV series: The statistically average Zentradi soldier is supposed to be around Exsedol's size in this image at ~10m, though that's a round order average cited in a bunch of different titles and quite a few of the ones listed are actually shorter (with Milia being a mere 8.55m) or taller (e.g. Klan, our poster child for inconsistently rendered height). DYRL? does a much better job of drawing the rank-and-file Zentradi in correct scale to the VF-1 and it also made several characters explicitly shorter. Look at how sharply Vrlitwhai closed the size gap between himself and Exsedol, who stayed the same height in the movie version: It wouldn't be at all surprising if he got a bit shorter in the movie version the same way Vrlitwhai did. Even if he has probably been downgraded from the stuff of basketball legend to merely taller than average, his bios in the Macross: Do You Remember Love? Data Bank, This is Animation: the Select #11, and Macross Chronicle all still describe him as being a Commander-class Zentradi though.
  4. 26662
    TY. It’s so beautiful. I’m going to mod the heck out of it.
  5. Chronocidal
  6. aurance
    Sometimes it's *quite* different, but I don't want to do this dance again, so you win.
  7. lechuck
  8. Big s
    I’ve rewatched that DYRL scene about a billion times trying to catch details about the Queadluun Rau for the hasegawa release of the kits to compare with the movie, and he’s definitely not a tall dude in the movie. The show he’s a fairly big guy, but movie version, it looks like he’s barely up to mid chest height to the VF-1, if not a little shorter. Not as bad as Dinklage choosing a fight with a six foot dude, but kinda close in comparison of wild scenes when you really pay attention. One of, if not the only examples of their height compared to a battroid and fairly close if not spot on to the size charts from the movie. So I’m just assuming that he probably is actually around a head taller than the folks under his command. Almost reminds me of the whole reason for promotions in Invader Zim, with the leaders known as the Tallest are actually just in charge because they’re taller than the rest
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Forgive me for saying, but those things aren't actually all that separate. The vast majority of the official setting material is literally material produced in development and production of the series to tell the writers what and how to write or tell the animators what to draw and how to draw it. Instructions to the writers expressing the limits of what things in the fictional world can and cannot do, how big they are relative to each other, what kind of weapons they have and how many shots they can fire, who the characters are as people, how the world around them works, and so on so the writers and animators can bring that artistic vision to life as faithfully as budget, technology, and human fallibility permit. The onscreen evidence is a product of this material, not separate from it. In the west, collections of such documents are called "Series Bibles" or "Writers Bibles". In Japan, this pre-production and production material is usually published as series artbooks and often come with lengthy staff commentary from the directors, the designers, the voice actors, you name it. Narrative intent is not a mystery. The creators are almost literally queuing up to spell it out for us in detail. Everything from what their inspiration was to why they made the creative decisions they did to little random in-jokes they hid in specific scenes and the meaning of them. Some books made for cancelled shows even spell out how the series was supposed to end and what was supposed to happen in the parts that we didn't get to see. Some creators are so prolific about it that there's vastly more material from them about their narrative intent and the greater scope of their story that isn't on the screen than there is in the actual story by orders of magnitude. (Lookin' at you, Mamoru Nagano and Masaki Kajishima.) Are there going to be inconsistencies in the final work? Absolutely. The production staff are only human. So sometimes things get drawn incorrectly (e.g. the VF-1A with 3 lasers). Sometimes they miss a detail in a scene and have to go back and make a hasty correction (Max's tail missiles). Sometimes they cut corners to keep costs down (e.g. recycling animation or using low quality textures or out-of-proportion 3D models for far away objects). Expecting perfection or perfect consistency from any work is wildly irrational at best.
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  11. Big s
    I thought the point of banging a robot was that you wouldn’t have babies
  12. sh9000
    https://moehime-japantoys.com/shop/plastic-model/chogokin-series/dx-chogokin-vf-1s-armored-valkyrie-roy-focker-special/
  13. aurance
    I disagree. I appreciate your encyclopedic knowledge, but overall I think you weigh too heavily printed information, and too little on-screen evidence/ambiguity on both technology and narrative intent, and become super defensive about interpretations other than your own.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    It's absolutely a fan theory, one which I explicitly acknowledge is purely a personal hypothesis based on limited official material. I'd say it's a rather nasty false equivalency to say that a statement explicitly disclaimed as a personal hypothesis based on official information is on the same level as an assertion-as-fact that all official material is wrong and should not be used based on fan art of dubious accuracy and a refusal to accept basic realities about animation and science fiction production. On its own, it's an interesting but fruitless topic. Injected into discussions of the official setting, it's just off-topic.
  15. aurance
    Isn't this almost by definition a fan theory, that you're pointing out another user of doing? I find it a good topic for discussion, and it's not a single-topic thread, so I found his contributions helpful.
  16. jenius
    Where is that deal available?
  17. TangledThorns
    Pixel 10 announced today. Preordered a Pixel 10 for free by trading in my three year old Pixel 7 with an aging battery. Couldn't pass it up!
  18. Old_Nash_II
    I just hope it's much better than G.I. Joe; The game promised so much, and it was rubbish.
  19. davidwhangchoi
  20. Shawn
    Hearing the transformers sounds on this is so weird. Still would never have guessed an Optimus prime Fire valkyrie Mashup was on the agenda post licensing agreement. Strange times.
  21. rematron started following Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
  22. Wewyllenium
    yes. It transforms. Including the foldy part under it.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    That happens a lot in Star Trek for some reason. Presumably a symptom of The Main Characters Do Everything. It's been particularly egregious in Kurtzman's Trek though, with just a handful of baddies somehow capturing a ship with a crew of hundreds effortlessly.
  24. ImChris5115
    Hello everyone, Last update on Type 02-F Spec. Thank you for all the love and likes on Type 02, gave me a lot of encouragement to continue creating. Next update going to be a while, Thank you.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    In Japanese, his name is written ブリタイ・クリダニク (lit. Buritai Kuridaniku). "Britai" is a viable romanization of that. From long (bad) habit, I tend to mostly default to the official "alien" romanizations that were used in Do You Remember Love? since those are used in a lot of product packaging and artbooks. Most of those spellings are "close enough" though some are truly just "alien for the sake of looking alien". The banner in DYRL? when they have the ceasefire agreement spells "Zentradi" as "Zjentohlauedy" if you translate the alien text. The Robotech versions of a lot of the romanizations are often just straightforward slightly tweaked literal readings of the Japanese text that try to make them less tongue twister-y. For example, the Robotech name for the Queadluun Rau battle suit is "Quadrano", which is a lightly tweaked version of the Japanese クァドラン・ロー (lit. Kwadoran Rou). Considering the much improved armor, actuators, and generator capacity of those Gen 3.5 and later machines like the VF-17, VF-19, and VF-22 and the fact that they were several generations on from the understanding that the Zentradi use mecha too, I'd assume that a Zentradi soldier might put up a fight but would probably be outpowered by the sheer torque those superconducting motors can produce when you throw a couple gigavolts at 'em. Quamzin's a commander-type Zentradi in most versions of the story, yeah. He's a good head taller than the normal soldiers under his command.
  26. Papa Rat
    Yeah I’m going to buy a file from Arbit for 3d printing. They have designs for DYRL pilots that should work out great for this project. Now I need to find a flight stand. I see Hasegawa has some but they look a bit clunky. Anyone recommend a good stand for 1:72 scale?
  27. Big s
    It’s like he got a last name for a first name and a nickname for a last name. he was also pretty great on those recent snl sketches. I don’t really care for SNL these days, but a good host seems to bring out the best in this kinda lame cast
  28. Scyla
    New promo video for the Macross 7 x Transformers crossover Basara Prime. Stupid trailer is still stupid:
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