Einherjar

Whenever a singer in Macross comes on stage, I hit mute for a few seconds, and turn it back on. That is the lamest, most annoying, repeated line in Macross.

My response:

"Yeah, lady, we're all here to do just that. Now shut up and sing. And it had better be pretty, damn deculture this time!"

Sheryl was okay because she didn't do it much. Basara on the other hand couldn't go an episode without saying the damn thing.

"Listen to my song!"

"Dammit Basara, can you please let me do the shooting and killing in peace? I'm working here!"

1st Border wanted us to check these out.

http://www.palladiumbooks.com/Merchant2/ca...552preview3.jpg

http://www.palladiumbooks.com/Merchant2/ca...552preview1.jpg

Pretty nice art!

I can't read the artist's name/writing on the side of the pics very well. Just wondering who made these?

"You can still fight when you're drunk!"

-Roy Focker, Clash of the Bionoids (Macross: Do You Remember Love? dub)

If the BBTS situation is going to be a hassle for people, maybe it'll be better to look for other stores without those restrictions. There are a lot of e-stores all around without this problem that could be selling the same things for better prices.

Apparently there's a "special edition" out now, too. Sitting alongside it's shelfwarmer older brother.

Don't forget the Blu-ray Disc version, which is just a reprint of the other two... but in excessive HD.

I've been messing around with my psp-1000 and playing Star Ocean First Departure. I never got the chance to try out the DeJap Rom translation of the original but probably will later to see the what changed from the original.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Ocean:_First_Departure

I used to have the Southern Cross soundtrack in mp3s some years ago, downloaded from Direct Connect. I wonder where can I get it again from?

I've been trying to find the OP end ED myself. Luckily, I found the full ending at least on youtube so Deja Vu (full) should be there somewhere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87dHCq06pKI

I just realized that while Macross ended twice, Robotech (the Macross Saga) ended three times with the abrupt end to The Sentinels. Until the novels cleared up what happened, it was their own cryptic version of Flashback 2012 with a wedding and genocide.

This show is awful. Now there's going to be an evil transformer or some arch rival in the series..ugh

A preview was shown during the NFL playoff games on Saturday.

I saw that trailer too, my first thought was Michael Bay was hired to boost ratings. I was enthusiastic about the new show when it premiered but lost interest after the first episode. KITT lost some of his charm now, like how he can transform into other vehicles like a truck and etc. As for his personality, I liked how Joel McHale from E!'s The Soup summed it up:

"No, I asked for anti-lock brakes, not passive-aggressive douche airbags."

And where's the Hoff?

Southern Cross was an okay show with some ideas that made it unique compared to other series. I guess for a show with a small(?) following I guess it's too bad it got canceled early. Robotech put some of the stuff cut from the show into their lore and RPG, but does anyone know where the show would've gone with a full budget?

It's kind of old now, but has anyone seen the Transformers fandub from the guys who made the Juggernaut videos on youtube?

Yes, but Dess and his 2 trinity brothers died. So in that sense, the Zors are defeated totally. (Leaderless. And the show did stress that the Zors take commands from the top hierarchy, and weren't capable of individual thoughts.) Also, their bio-energy reserves are way too low at the end of the show such that they even have to liquidate their own newborns. In that sense, they are sad. Even worse off than the Zentraedis, imo.

Sounds like the series ends in mutual destruction for both sides.

From the Sentinel's Curse to the Shadow Chronicles Curse, at least Robotech and its fan projects are consistent.

Hmm, that's interesting and at a good price too. I might pick it up when it comes around. When the page is updated, I hope it lists extras as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Exosquad-Season-1-Ro...9708&sr=8-1

God, did we *really* need most of those episodes though?

Taksraven

The last episodes were decent, except for the revival of the love triangle. In the long run, it set the stage for the series to become a franchise with man spreading out into space and etc. Sure, that also applied to Robotech, but they wasted that opportunity for the sake of syndication.

I remember that in the last season, i think the writers knew they weren't going to get a third season so they just started going nuts with over the top plots and technology.

I'm not sure if this happened, but did they have technology that turned Neosapians into furries or animal hybrids? I know they were desperate near the end of the war, but it was unusual to say the least.

How do ya figure? Without Tats there wouldn't be much of a Macross.

I thought without Tats there wouldn't be a second ending to Macross (ep. 28-36).

For a mecha war series, I'm surprised this series never got a table-top RPG and other merchandise besides toys. I played the side-scroller Genesis game years ago, but now I think it really had potential to go the whole Mechwarrior/Battletech route. If they took out some of the crazier parts of the series, it could have gone further on its own.

Has there been any thoughts about a revival?

The Toynami mouth is kind of big. Maybe the face was made from his Shadow Chronicles design.

So with 2008 coming to a close, how does everyone think HG and related entities handled the Robotech license debacle and franchise this year?

One thing I remember from this show was the noob pilot in the squad. IIRC, while everyone else used some kind of mecha, I think there was also a two seater in there, this guy was stuck with a space plane or something and got shot down a lot. Don't remember if they did anything with him over the course of the series. Also, that Cossack(?) pirate leader with the crazy white hair.

It was an okay series, but I wish they gave it an ending. Back in the day I was hoping to find out what was going on the last episode and was shocked to learn that was all they animated. I also heard in the 2000s about the supposed tie in with Robotech somewhere down the line, but wasn't sure if that was just a toy thing or something that was going to happen. It was probably a good thing that the deal didn't go through, which could've bogged down the series and creators into the ongoing Robotech/Macross licensing problem. At least from the toyline I bought, on impulse, what I later discovered to be a big Destroid Tomahawk.

I heard about its educational purposes from the Anime World Order podcast. Production wise, it made sense, but back when I watched the edited U.S. version with its quirks, I was left really confused.

Yeah, but he chose MegaZone 23 Part 1 over DYRL, IIRC.

Either way, in his hands the end product would have begun and ended his movie making career.

Heavy Metal, now that was a crazy one I remember (stupid green ball). I liked the Den and Taama segments the best. One question though: Did the movie tone down the material usually seen in the Heavy Metal Magazine? I only caught a glimpse of the magazine a couple of years ago.

Also, thanks for remembering the Claymation Christmas Celebration, especially the Joy to the World part. That one was a cop out, little/no clay involved at all! Don't know if they showed it on TV this year, but at least it's on youtube and DVD.

Fair enough, I wish him the best in his endeavor.

Yep.

And yes, he is indeed the writer and creator of Valkyrion.

Other than that, I have no idea what to say about this. It doesn't look very appealing.

So the guy remembered for pieing a comic book artist and current leader of a franchise is trying to get into the comic book industry himself. How ironic.