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Dunno it might have something to do with the fact that I dumped Minmay, for this alien chick named Mimay... Wait! What? So even Protoculture can't repel these "sparkling vampires"?

Sounds like bubble gum and so what I do when I run out of Protoculture Punch though? Cause I always find myself going on alien shooting sprees like Roddy Piper when "I am all out of bubble gum."

I will have to try that. So far the most fun I have ever had as a Robotech fan was getting drunk on Protoculture while watching the RDF team beat the snot out of the UN Spacey at the World Cup and then vandalizing parked Valkyries in a victory riot. Well, I actually wanna watch Southern Cross. Again for the second time. Does that count?

You know what the best part about seeing Mylene in Ranka's carrot outfit is, IMO? The chance that perhaps we will see Alice Holiday performing in Sheryl's suspenders and hot pants at her next concert. Besides I also think Mylene looks better in a purple and black flightsuit Even though she is missing a cute little skull on her flightsuit though

I take this as fantastic news. One of these "new' teaser trailers has a dated watermark of 7-28-08. So my guess is that both trailers were actually produced in studio quite sometime after that hideous 2007 Concept trailer that was publicly released earlier this year. There certainly is a huge improvement in the character designs though.

Personally I would buy them subs or no subs. As someone who wants to learn japanese watching them raw doesn't bother me. I even gone to the extreme and removed the English subs and dubs from a number of my anime DVDs backed-up on harddrive.

Unfortunately the issue is more then just lack of English subs on BDs playable in both US and Japanese players. Not to get too off-topic, but its absolute lack of legal distribution or advertisement outside of Japan that makes the Gundam Unicorn scenario impossible to apply to any Macross BDs. A factor that is just as important in Gundam Unicorn okay sales number in the US is that it is marketed right in mainstream US retail channels without the huddles of buying other Japanese imports. Sure English Subs might bring in a few more buyers, but they will still be minority willing and able to jump through the hurdles of getting imports from Japan.

12/26/2012 - Macross TV Series 11/??/2013 - Macross Plus 07/04/2016 - Flashback 2012 ??/??/2031 - DYRL ??/??/2043 - Macross 7 ??/??/2092 - Macross II

That could certainly be the case. Its just something I wanted to point out though. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a BD transfer if and when DYRL is re-released. Bandai Visual's Macross HD DVD revial period started only about 3 years ago in 2007 with the release of the Remastered M7 in October and DYRL in December, so I wouldn't expect them to go for a BD re-release until at least the next big Macross Sequel. Another things to consider as well. While Macross Frontier sold better on Blu-ray then DVD because it was made for HD quality from the start. Macross Zero, the only case so far of a Macross Bluray re-release is a whole other story. If the Amazon sales rankings and the posted reviews are any accurate indication the original 2001 DVDs of Macross Zero far out-sold the Bluray re-release even to this day: #5,871-5,899 Macross Zero DVDs vs. #18,932 for the Blu-ray Box. If anything its precisely this huge expense of the DVDs and BDs in Japan that is probably the biggest obstacles against BD re-releases IMO. Buying new anime like Macross Frontier on Bluray over DVD on release day is a no brainer because its the best version for your money. Blu-ray re-releases however are more like those unnessary and expensive software upgrades. Fans just don't care to buy the same anime a second or perhaps even third time if you count VHS just so that it will look marginally better on the 50 inch+ TV they wish they could fit in their apartment living room.

I was browsing Macross DVDs on amazon.jp when I noticed that Amazon has blu-ray's of SDF Macross and DYRL! Of course its listed with the text: "Sign up to be notified when this item becomes available." But still this is the first and only somewhat official sign I have seen of such a Blu-ray release.

True, but how I am gonna ignite a FireStormBomb of controversy with a headline like that? Its like the other day I was reading an article about one of the 11 alleged Russian spies, Anna Chapman. The headline was something like "New Nefarious Breed of Spy" or something and the article goes on to say that Anna Chapman is a brand new, never before seen type of spy: A female agent trained to influtrate america by seducing rich, wealthy men with corporate power while posing as a real-estate agent. Saying that she was a real-life example of a Bond girl would have just been too boring. I would bet my life they knew full well about "Skin of my Teeth" and that they used it as the intro as a homage. Heck they may have even gotten permission to use the intro from Megadeth just as Led Zepplin got permission to use the intro of "Tarus", from the band Spirit, in their song "Stairway to Heaven". These things are rarely just an accidental coincidence. Its just that cultural barriers and country boundaries that we take for grant just don't apply for popular entertainment. Ever watched the Gatchaman OVAs they came out around the same time as Macross 7 (1994-1995)? The producer Ryu Yoshida always associated 70s with a favorite of his "Earth, Wind, and Fire" so he actually hired Maurice White and Bill Meyers to compose the entire soundtrack for the Gatchaman OVAs.

Probably has something to do with the fact that Holy Lonely Night is a rip-off of Megadeth's Skin of My teeth...

I can get you an Official Macross 7 Remastered Boxset (16 DVDs), only thing is they don't have English subtitles and they would be very expensive at 1200 USD + Shipping. I also have progrommaning guides to unlock the region codes of practically any DVD player, so you can easily modifiy any NTSC DVD player to play them.

They say its a "mystery guest" who will also perform onstage with these two singers. So my guess is Maaya Sakamoto, after all she provides the vocals for triangular, Aimo, and/or of course the Nyan Nyan Service Melody!

Conspiracy? Harmony Gold Cover up? No. Reader Misinterpretation? Yes. Beck said nothing of the film's little debut in Texas. He was talking about it's showing at the Los Angeles Animation Celebration. Its not impossible to consider that the movie would be a success in front of diehard animation fans, the only people who would even bother attending the Los Angeles Animation Celebration in its first year. Look Jim. I’m a doctor not a loli fan. I can tell that photo is completely fake, there are no ridges on that "Kling-On!" girl's forehead.

Well I am sure you heard of Carl Macek's nickname the "Anti-christ of anime." Now as for Gene Roddenberry really being a devil worshiping Illuminati, I'll just say that perhaps there is some truth to the rumors...

Don't forget as well that Docker was only hit after Gamlin dodged the Spirtia draining beam that was aimed at him. So they are pilots of equal caliber more or less. It's Docker's absence that definitely helped him seal the new promotion though. Its simply less of a hassle on everyone to re-assign Docker, the recovered Ace pilot who has been out of the loop for months, to the captain of a fresh new squad then it was to transfer Gamlin and reduce Emerald Force to squad comprised of only a captain in sickbay.

But Carl Macek was the anime industry's answer to Gene Roddenberry. Gene Roddenberry was just a mere member of the Lucifer worshiping Illuminati, but Carl Macek was the anti-Christ of anime!

Proto: first, earliest, or original + Culture: Wasted on Americans (defintion taken from Urban Dictionary.) = Protoculture: the first of many things that was wasted on American viewers from being edited into Robotech.

It sounds like a neat project, but personally what I do instead of acquiring the Laser Discs is just capture all the frames from MDYRL HD DVD, convert them to RB24 colorspace, and then use photoshop/aftereffects to fix as many video imperfections as possible manually frame by frame. Then I would encode the sequence of frames onto a Lagarith lossless avi and mux it into a nice MKV file compelete with audio, subs, and a chapter file. Going with the Laser Disc ripping your just making an expensive trade of one set of meager video quality flaws for a whole different set of video quality flaws that could be even worse, like the 560x480 resolution that will have to be re-sized dramatically if you want to take advantage of a wide screen with 16:9 video. Honestly why not just spend your time and money correcting all the minor video flaws of the HD DVDs you already have?

I don't think they are good or benign personally and that they other reasons for keeping the humans alive aboard the Destiny. I believe that the blue aliens were on the ship before and somehow found out as Rush did in the last episode that the ships master codes is modeled from the 46 Chromosome of the DNA of the ancients that build the ship. With no ancients of course they had no hope of cracking the code, so they left behind some scouts to wait and see if the owners would ever return to their ship via shuttle or star gate. When SG-U crew came in and started restoring the ships systems it showed the aliens that a possibility of cracking the ships security was now open. Hence they treated the humans has no more then animals: putting Rushing in a fish tank, painfully probing his mind, and inserting a tracking device near his heart then starting the same process with Chloe. The fact that the aliens abducted a female like Chloe is also very signicant. If their goal is to study the 46 chromosomes then they probably planed to breed them together and examine how 23 chromosomes from each of them would combine to form babies. This could also be the importance of T.J's baby. Knowing how SG Atlantis already made a plot point of making Taela's baby having the perfect combination of Wraith/ human DNA which Michael sought after and how the past leaders of SG crews conveniently possess the ancient gene I am almost sure the Coloniel's baby will be born with the ancient DNA that is the password for the ship.

You could just try locking up your SG DVDs and blocking hulu.com with a host file. The aliens that made this garden of Eden and the blue aliens that have been following the Destiny are most likely two very different alien races. Its also evident that the blue aliens have been tracking the Destiny before the SGU crew even came aboard as evident by their scout pod that detached from the Destiny at the end of episode 3, so its not a case of Rush convincing them that the Destiny was a threat. Its also likely that whoever build this Eden are not only good, but most likely ascended like the ancients. The planet had a similar vibe to that Ancient santucatory in Atlantis that was made solely to provide a safe peaceful place to find peace and ascend. As that one religous guy even pointed out the peaceful planet provided the perfect opportunity for the civilians and military to "mending fences." Then after a few days the oblesisk activated that beam of light. Rush thinks its due to them having an impact on the natural balance of the garden that activated the oblesik, but maybe its a signal that their are possible candidates for ascension? We have seen the Ancients keep a kind of monopoly on ancienstion, then the Ori use anciesion for power and exploitation as gods, but maybe this alien race freely lays assistance for anyone deserving to ascend. I mean why else go through the trouble of creating a sun and a paradise if they're not going to use it themselves?

The were not left with any stones just the damaged shuttle and the supplies they had with them. Initiating the communication stones for long range distances is impossible without plugging it into a powered interface which they only have one of aboard the Destiny in the first place. So they are totally cut off from Earth and Destiny unless of course the alien creators of the planet come in and help.

The PSP Go is the download only version with no UMD drive. As for Macross Ace Frontier it requires the 5.55 Firmware which you will have to plan around if you intend to use an older PSP-1000 and keep its hacked custom firmware features. The newer PSP-2000s and PSP-3000s are much harder to hack, so if you have not interest in using the custom features I would just go with the PSP-3000. It has the best display and will work with any TV with component and/or composite input while the PSP 2000's only works with HD TVs that support progressive input.

Come to think of it the Blue's pod was seen detaching from the Destiny at the end of episode 3 right after they found right sand to use with the air filters and before the power to the ship was completely drained by the beginning of episode 4. Whats more the 2nd shuttle had a big hole in it that the shields were plugging up, there were only two damaged space suits left of the destiny, and the guns had to be rewired before they ever fired in episode 7 in order to drain power and start a solar recharge for that gate back to Earth plan. So its possible that some Blue scouting party got on the ship, sabotaged the guns, and poked around until the air become too toxic for them causing them to retreat back to their comfy little space pod while they waited for reinforcements with air filters. That is until they noticed the armed SGU crew restored life support and were there to stay. So perhaps the air was just to toxic for the Blues and they were waiting around in their pod for reinforcements to show up with space suits and air filters of their own until the SGU crew came aboard. What about the technology to recharge a ship through suns? I dunno about you, but if I were a space faring alien that happened to notice a ship just wandering through my side of the galaxy and then recharging inside of a sun, I would be obsessing over acquiring it like the Blues. I also get the feeling that the blues are an off-shoot of the Ohne from Waaay back in Episdode 13 season 1 of SG-1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb-j9u8QwSAt=5m25s). In the SG-1 episode it was stated that a few Ohne supposedly tried to help humans revolt against the G'ould back in Babylon. So perhaps as early as the time of Atlantis the Ancients and the Blue/Ohne knew of each other. I also can't help, but think of how the submersible Atlantis city ships are obviously far newer then the Destiny so perhaps the ancients were inspired to design them after encountering these aquatic blue aliens from another galaxy.