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On 6/29/2025 at 9:14 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

Seems like it'd be in poor taste to name a resort ship meant for tourism after a magical island that you can't leave without recreating the "He chose poorly" scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  Doubly so if the scholars are correct and Emhain is an cognate of what's now called Avalon in Arthurian mythos.  Avalon isn't a place of bounty for living souls to visit, it's a place for the dead and dying and not somewhere people generally come back from.

You're probably overthinking what in-universe corporate marketing types would name a commercial ship.

When they say “marines” in Macross, are they meaning strictly seaborne troops, delivered by the UN Navy? Or are they including spaceborne forces? If meaning the former, why would they even still exist?

YF-21 notwithstanding. That one’s pretty blatant for the legs obviously not fitting in the fuselage in his sketches, but for some reason he wasn’t too concerned about it. I guess we could chalk it up to squishy skin.

23 hours ago, SebastianP said:

You mean, no one else who frequents this site has the energy to argue with someone who refuses to budge on "the books are always right".

Hah, you're not alone on this one. I've felt like this on multiple occasions. I suspect there's a certain bias due to the amount of (not un-respectable, mind you) work they've put into the publications. I *could* say something, but it'll go round and round until we agree to disagree, or I just lose interest in continuing to argue a super niche topic.

However, in this case I would say it's an animation error - for personal edification either imagine some sort of attachment/hangar that does fit the size, or pretend it's some other class that's similar. If I were an animator I'm not sure I'd go back and "correct" such things. It's just not that important, except to a very small subset of people.

The "same size" argument counting only the length is a little disingenuous though, I agree.

Whatever size looks coolest is pretty much par for most sci-fi, and it’s kinda been the tradition in Macross since the SDF-1 city. Just feels a bit jarring due to meticulous attention to detail in other areas of the franchise.

I actually didn’t even notice the cartoon model fighter doesn’t have the turret sticking out. I guess that’s how much I kinda zoned out through 7. 😆

The VF-11 rear-facing cannon is at such specific fixed angle, that the coverage for this thing seems dubious.

Oookay Mr. Pendantic 😉😉

On 2/8/2025 at 9:02 AM, TG Remix said:

Makes a lot of sense that you'd have to prioritize what resources you need in a environment like that, in a way why by Delta the VF-31's regular gunpod is a railgun, since at a point physical ammunition would be a lot more tedious to handle economically.

The -31’s gun pod is a beam weapon. Its two secondary weapons (on the arms) are rail guns. Also, rail guns do use physical ammunition, just not physical propellant.

So, in VF-X2 we have the VF-11's doing missile spam without missile packs. I know some liberties are taken with game graphics as far as technical details go. In a perfect world would these VF-11's have been animated with super packs? Or do they have some sort of internal missile pallet that the stock -11's don't?

On 1/23/2025 at 8:14 AM, kazuo said:

You can like it - doesn't mean I have to. I was merely sharing my opinion and experience in a thread discussing the toy. Or is that not allowed around here?

I politely decline to enact the labor of reiterating the various shortcomings and production/QC issues with this $200 toy. If you've been following the thread, you're well aware of what's been going on, so you're either being disingenuous or you're trying to get me with a "gotcha". I'll pass in either case.

I wasn't laying bait, I wanted this thing to be good, but for this amount of money, no thanks. There's a reason there are stacks of these, NISB, sitting untouched at Amiami in Akihabara.

You and me both. I detest this thing and feel very disappointed. Reasons? All in the thread already, which have been pretty consistent. It’s not some great mystery.

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

One thing to remember, both as a storytelling principle and a general fact of life... the right thing and the nice thing are not always the same thing.

That's a theme that recurs a lot in Macross Delta, especially the second movie where it's basically the antagonist's whole deal.

Moral absolutes like "good" and "evil" are a reductive oversimplification that ignores the inherent subjectivity of morality and wrongly assumes that the same values are universal across cultures and time periods.  So very many things that we today would consider historical atrocities were committed by people who firmly, sincerely, and completely believed that what they were doing was morally correct.  That's one of the reasons sci-fi loves to play with the concept so much.  Good and Evil are a matter of perspective, not fact.

I don't disagree, but what you're saying is also an oversimplification from a narrative point of view. It's a spectrum that we, as the consuming audience, come to some some sort of rough consensus about.

I’m with Screaming Man on this. The “I thought it was for the best” justification doesn’t exactly rule out a lot evil, except perhaps cartoonish supervillainy. It’s a bit of pedantry.

11 hours ago, ArchieNov said:

It's unfortunate that they didn't rework the crotch so that it won't need the additional bracer to lock it forward in battroid. 

Ugggggh that spacer.

Nice, that’s a lot more detail on this topic than I was aware of. Thanks.

So - valkyries have a lot of very thin and pointy bits, e.g. things that are probably control surfaces in flight mode. When they're in battroid mode, assuming they get into some sort of hand to hand combat, wouldn't those surfaces get subjected to tremendous torsion or other stresses if, say, a battroid falls down? Are those surfaces designed to bend to absorb stress (other than the weird wing material we see with YF-21)? Do they just snap?

Nice, thank you!

Do you know if it still requires the little clip in the legs to hold together in armored fighter mode? I couldn’t see in the video.

On 12/9/2024 at 4:09 PM, Xigfrid said:

Whoa, I didn’t realize that the revival version could stand with the armor pack equipped! I want one now!

But for how long...?

On 11/14/2024 at 9:11 PM, Mommar said:

There is zero reason to ever support high speed mode on the 19.  It's just structurally unsound, and frakking stupid looking too.

I agree. It just ruins -19 toys IMO for not a lot of benefit.

1 hour ago, Mommar said:

...what's different about the B and G lower legs?

https://macross2.net/m3/macross7/vf-5000g.htm

https://macross2.net/m3/macrossga/vf-5000b-vfx2.htm

Courtesy of Macross Mecha Manual

Your skin is weak! I’ve trained so that mine is like steel.

Also, I can no longer move.

On 11/4/2024 at 12:20 AM, PointBlankSniper said:

Yeah, I get that I made a lazy absolute statement that's technically untrue, but these changes have so far had negligible effect, while they skimped on truly making improvements.

The effect of the chest lock is allegedly intangible, while the hip changes, including the extra screws, seem have done nothing as well. The hips instead are said to have even become worse, possibly because of the old parts having worn out molds. The 25G revival hasn't been selling very fast after so many rounds of this. It's possible they do change something, but I think it's best to expect that possibility low, and the effectiveness of it even lower, if it actually happens.

They had the chance to rework the parts forming bits of the super parts, and braced the wings with integrated solutions in preparation for the tornado parts, but that doesn't see to have happened. I don't expect the 27 will get extra care after seeing that. IDK if the 27 shares stuff like hip parts with the 25s, but I'm hoping it doesn't inherit the new jiggly hips.

Considering the trend of their efforts in quality and design, I think it's already asking for a lot that these revivals and WWM releases come out no worse than the originals, plus matte coating, despite the chance of "improvements" lol.

I dunno man, my Max YF-29 is vastly better off with the chest lock and hip ratchets than my two previous YF-29’s.

20 hours ago, PointBlankSniper said:

It's highly unlikely that they change anything, given the track record of these revivals. That means it's probably gonna have parts that are older than the renewals, like the tornado, since both of these recycled the original release's parts for their renewals.

The revivals have hip ratchets and battroid chest locks that the renewals do not, so it's possible.

For me it depend on two things: 1) fix the hip collapsing in battroid without spacer, and 2) fix the tolerance of the integrated back brace so the back of the gerwalk doesn’t droop. That would be a sale.