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Case in point: Macross 7 In all seriousness, I have to agree with HappyPenguins on this point. The American film industry (Hollywood) has, over the last few decades, lost the luster and grandeur it had in it's golden age. It's reached a low point, with every producer scouring the countryside looking for the next hot Comic Book title or some lost, obscure '80s cartoon. It also seems to have a difficult time learning the lessons from times past: Anime doesn't do well in a LAM setting. Admittedly, there are a few small gems that come out of Hollywood, but for the most part... Meh... There's no originality at all.

I'll take a 1, an 8, and a 9 to go, please.

Yeah... sure. If you say so...

WHAT?!?! Uh, dude, it's time to go back to the hospital, now. You've gone without your meds long enough...

I hate to be a nay-sayer, here, since I'm very much a fan of the Tomahawk, but the model shows has one major glitch to it that kills the joy for me. The head-mount MGs don't appear to traverse to a completely horizontal position, which makes it look kinda goofy, if you ask me. I mean, the Yamato 1/60s don't have a complete traverse, either, but the get most of the way down. With these, thye look to be locked in a permanent 45-degree angle. If I'm wrong, let me know. I'd like to see pics of the figure with the guns level.

Much obliged for the hints, folks. I got what I wanted. Thanks!

Yeah, that's what I'm doing. If I do a standard left-click, it immidiately opens a media player. Right-click, and 'Save target as...'

I've tried DL-ing some of these ringtones, but every time I do it, they're all called the same thing... 'Index.MP3'. Needless to say, this is a bit confusing, and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or if I need to change something in my browser. Second, Is there a second version of the trumpet fanfare that's heard in several of the (I'm assuming) commercial breaks? The one on the first page has a little bit of a glitch towards the end. Thanks, folks.

Now... that's just... Well, words fail me right now. How can I recycle the same words that have been used over and over? "good", "Excellent", "Amazing"... all of these fall short for this kind of first effort. Well, I am still very, very impressed with these pics. How about this? I'll be foaming at the mouth like junkie 'til I see more!!! Very nice!

And I am in complete agreement with you, sir. One of my biggest gripes about RT:TSC was thier use of the Alpha and Beta fighters. Calling them 'Shadow' fighters was just a cop-out, what with the ripple screen-saver effect overlay. Add to that, the other big gripe I had was this: To continue the story in RT:TSC, they had to open up where the last peisode of the original 85 ended, and that made my head hurt. Why not start somewhere else? Forgive my sarcasm earlier. It was meant in jest.

Comparrison: SDF-Macross to Macross Frontier A young pilot, inexperienced in combat, becomes the hero Transforming planes that turn into giant robots An arm gets shot off, that conveniently has the heroine in the palm of her hand An extraterrestrial race that threatens to exterminate humanity Singing as a way to defeat the extraterrestrial race Living happily ever after in the shadow of the giant ship that serves as the platform for saving humanity Two women pining away for the heart of the same guy (The aformentioned young hero pilot) NAHHH!!!! There's nothing common in this! (Okay, all sarcasm aside) My point is this: Macross is successful because it has a basic formula that it follows. Sure, change the mecha, and the dynamics of some of the interpersoanl relationships inside the stroy, but the basic elements are there, and that's what makes it enjoyable to the people who follow it. HG, on the other hand, is trying, too deperately, to keep certain (blatant) elements inside thier story, while pandering with new and greviously designed characters that are as flat as the paper they were drawn on. HG is simply trying too hard to fake people out into believing that there's more attention being given to Robotech than there really is. They're taking a legacy animated series that had a limited amount of success, and trying to build on that success long after the life has bled out of it. Truth be told, they simply need to leave it alone, and stop trying. The pathetic attempts of thier lackeys to perpetuate the transparent propoganda is only making thier task worse, and making them into the laughingstocks of the entire anime world.

If I ever become completely ostricised by the RT fandom (A distinct possibility, as it's becoming more and more polarized), I may go ahead and swap the story around, and make it a UN-Spacy version instead of RT. The reason I'm using the RT story-line world is because I'm more familiar with it. I don't have any kind of subbed version of the original SDF-Mac. Now, assuming I could get a set of those, it'd be a different story. With how I see things at HG, though, I refuse to pander to them and get a DVD version. (HINT HINT: Anyone know where a good version miight be? BTW: I'm dealing with torrential rain today!) As for changing the mecha up, I wouldn't do it. My personal favorite mecha of the Macross line-up is the original Tomahawk, and it would stay. That's the reason I wrote the story in the first place.

ACK!!! What catagory do I fall under, then? I mean, I write a story that's loosely realted to the show, and now I'm totally confused.

Interesting... I hope that they do better than the cruddy remake of 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'.

Gubaba, I'm grateful for the kind words, sir. And, yes, Bradburry is immense. My personal favorite if his is 'I Sing the Body Electric'. That's the one I grew up reading over and over again.

The reason is simple. Doug Bendo is functionally illiterate, so he needs a surrogate program to read the stuff he puts up, otherwise his new show would be laughed out of existance (More than it already is). He did the same thing to me during the 'Robotech Fan' episode that was supposed to 'Bring the Fandom Together'. He used a quote from the blog on my site out of context, and used that 'narrator' program to recite it, since it had more than a few multi-sylable words in it. If I recall correctly, he had originally thought of having his girlfriend read the selcted texts for the show, but apparently, that fell through as well. I'll let the show speak for itself.

You know what? I sincerely doubt that there would be a western influence. It's obvious that there's a large fan-base for Macross stuff. The creators would be downright foolhardy not to know this. Still, there's no real western influnce, save for the occasional F-14 Tomcat (Zero). I think Macross would stay the same, to be honest. These guys aren't dumb.

That's a no-brainer... If one were to, say, put TSC on a screen nexxt to a presentation of Frontier, and conducted 'The Pepsi Challenge', I think there would be an overwhelming response to Frontier, resulting in an eventual surge in Macross appreciation, and sounding the death nell for RT. Of course, our dear friend Kevvie would have some strange spin on the data. Something about "Well, we believe that the test was tainted. If the test were done in a truly scientific matter, they'd've presented another animated program that sucked just as badly as RT:TSC." Now, we have the obvious question: "What sucked as badly as TSC?" That's a question I simply cannot answer... Anyone else wanna try?

The answer is simple. It's easier to be stupid and reactionary, buying any scrap of propoganda that comes your way, than to take the effort to do research and learn something for yourself. I mean, look at churches, for cryin' out loud!

Gubaba, I appreciate it. Thnks for the find!

Ohhh!!! I just remembered... I remember somoene posting a comic about Kevin McKeever on one of these thread a while ago, but I can't find them, now. I'd like to share the link witha fried, so that he may get the same amount of LULZ that I did. Does anyone know who the original poster was for those comics, or thier location? Thanks!

Well, I'm an American, and I watch subtitles. While I'm not a HUGE fan of foreign films, I have found several out there that are exceptional, and yes, I watch them in thier original dialogue with subs. Cases in point: Amelie, Wasabi, Das Boot, Ran (Well, all of Kurisawa's works, actually), and some others that escape me right now. The reason I watch them in thier original dialogue is simple: The first time I saw 'Das Boot', I saw it with the english dubbed in, and I found it completely attrocious. When I got a copy on DVD, I tried it with the original German dialogue, and it sounded SOOOOO much better, and made more sense, besides. After that, I was hooked.

She has to be smoking something pretty powerful to have an affair with me... There hasn't been a volunteer for that in many years. XD

Uhh.. which episode was this in?

Well, For me, HG has dropped the ball. I never really expected anything more from the 'Robotech' franchise to begin with, and since 'RT:TSC' failed so miserably, it's become clear that Robotech should have always been relegated to one of those legacy animated series from the '80s, full of nostalgic recall for those of us who have a fond rememberamce for it. In regards to anything new, I've done the next best thing and made my own! Something that was mentioned above, in a previous post, was the idea that fan-created projects have been operating with a new=found momentum. I attribute a huge chunk of this momentum to the fact that the RT.com Mods have been banning anyone with a modicum of intelligence, and these fans have been forced to find other outlest to express thier enjoyment of the series. Most of the people I know in this catagory love the original series, but they cannot stand anything that's been done in recent memory (Prelude, TSC, et al). Quite simply put, since we cannot stand the crap HG produces, we do our own stuff, and do it better.