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c - taking the mother's last name may have become common practice. Note Sheryl Nome, who has the same last name as her grandmother Dr. Mao Nome. And also, in this very same series, Mirage Jenius, who is the daughter of (as I understood) Miaramia Jenius.

In fact the only paternal last names I can think off are unconfirmed. (Elmo Kridanik from Britai Kridanik and Makina Nakajima from Raizou Nakajima).

Actually, Mirage is the daughter Miranda Jenius.

You did an awesome job on that build. Looks very cool!

Macross The First is BACK!!! Chapter 10 to be released on July 4! wooohoo!

http://seiga.nicovideo.jp/watch/mg177007?track=ct_first

Apparently, it isn't back. And here, I had my hopes up!

I'll have to check my v.1, but I could've sworn it was the v.2 of the Frontier movie BDs that had the English subs.

You got a little mixed up there, kalva, and said Miranda twice!

Oh yeah? How come Harmony Gold hasn't gone after these companies infringing on their copyrights?

RoboTech Center

Robotech Labs

Robotech CAD Solutions

Robotech Eng Co. Ltd.

Robo-Tech

I believe it's because none of those companies work within the entertainment industry or offer products that are totally different from Harmony Gold's products. It's the same reason that two companies can have the same name as long as they have different logos and offer dissimilar products, i.e. Bass Ale and Bass Pro Shop.

Anyone have translations of the captions next to the valks?

Depends on which ones that you're talking about. Other than the large block of text, most of the other, smaller, single line captions are either the names of the pilots of each one (the lettering in yellow, either above or next to each Valks designation), or the mode the Valk is in (the short three or four kanji lines in white).

Is it just me, or does one of the ship types that defolded with the Protoculture ship look quite a bit like one of the Vajra carriers from Frontier?

My least favorite kit out of the old CCA series was the Sazabi, but if anyone finds it dirt cheap it's worth it for the boxart and artwork in the instructions. The Jagd Dogas are my favorites and have waist armor that looks more like the line art than the hguc even though I still like the overall hguc better. Gears Doga was also good for its time.

They really do need to release MG kits for the Jagd Doga. It's the last of the CCA Neo Zeon MSs to get the MG treatment.

I've been lucky enough to see the Vulcan a couple of times (sadly, it won't be flying anymore); always an impressive display of lift overcoming gravity that one!

I only got to see the static display Vulcan that's at the Royal Air Force Museum in London. Even on the ground it was quite impressive!

How about this, elsewhere on this forum I saw a link to a similar article about the USAF being the best air force, but the picture is of a VF-1 Valkyrie

I saw that same article. I'm going to assume that the author saw the picture and thought that it was an F-14.

Well, maybe they're using the best fighter aircraft in the world...?

(Yes, I know! I'm British, its a joke, okay!).

The "wrong aircraft" thing - theres a pretty good music video for a song called "Spitfire Bird", which features lots of period footage of Spitfires - but if you look really closely, and don't blink, in a couple of shots theres some Hurricanes...

I appreciate British aircraft just as mush as I do US aircraft. I particularly love the V Bombers!

On a lighter note, the other day I saw an article on how the US Air Force is supposedly the best in the world. The thing that gave me a good laugh is that the picture at the top of the article was of a Eurofighter Typhoon!

and about ruin water, ragna ruin is under water, does that mean entire ragna could be in trouble? we dont know how many apples they already consume right?

The big question with this, though, is that water that the ruins are in freshwater or seawater, and does it make a difference?

I dunno, I'd consider the Top Gear Chris Evans as the real Chris Evans considering that he was born first and had a career long before the American Chris Evans.

Saw this beauty today at my little hometown's airport.

That is one talented guy!

Mirage and Hayate really got the snot kicked out of them there. Either they are useless at hand to hand (no Jenus genes there) combat or the Windermereans are superior phisically to humans.

As far as I can understand JB0, he likes the original concept of Zentradi being swayed by contact with human culture in general, with Minmay acting as a focus of attention.

Then in DYRL, things were changed. Now Minmay was not just an element of human culture - she was singing some specific Protoculture song that triggered something pre-existing in Zentradi.

Actually, she still was an element of human culture. There was a scene where you see a bunch of Zentradi soldiers interacting with a Minmay doll and freaking out when the doll starts singing "My Boyfriend Is A Pilot". Exsodol also mentions in the opening scene of the movie that some soldiers had become unable to fight after receiving strange sound signals from the Macross. Minmay's singing was affecting the Zentradi quite some time before she acquired Do You Remember Love?.

Were the pods really the source of the projections? The projections seemed to all face in one direction and didn't react in any way to where the Delta valks were. My impression was that the source must have been the ship with Walkure onboard (or they were just the product of artistic license).

I was a bit disappointed that when Hayate briefly landed on one of the projections, his valk cast a dark shadow but the projection didn't appear on the valk's surface. I suppose that might be evidence that the valk was the source, but it looked more like it was just too difficult a visual effect for the show to manage.

Actually, at around 12:16 in the episode, you can see Delta launching what I'm thinking are small projector units. They look like magenta-colored lights in the show.

It really would be awesome if Lady M actually is Mylene. I'd love to see what she looks like as an adult!

Or one's out for maintenance/repair.

It's not your age, it's your personal tastes. I've been watching Macross since I was 15, and now, at age 46 this coming Sunday, I'm just as thrilled with this Macross as I was with all the other Macross shows (except for II) that came before it.

I wouldn't be too concerned, since