Beltane70

Certain changes can be more easily explained than others, like the difference between the carriers and ARMD on the Macross. Since the Macross was heavily damaged at the end of the Macross tv series, it is quite possible that they decided to replace the carriers with the ARMDs when the Macross was rebuilt. Other changes are not so simple....

Even though there are a few movies that I liked on the list, I'm nnot bothered by it since all of my most favorite movies aren't on the list.

Can someone please enlighten me as to why the F/A-18 is considered a "bad" aircraft? Is it just because it's replacing the F-14 as the Navy's main carrier aircraft or is there some real problems with the aircraft that I just haven't seen? Don't get me wrong, the F-14 is still my favorite jet of all-time, but I haven't seen any reason to hate the Hornet.

Nope. The VF-1's engines are fusion-based, not fission-based. Plutonium is a by-product of uranium-based fission reactions. I'm sure those of us who are better-versed in nuclear physics can explain this further than I can.

Macross' popularity is still big enough for Hasegawa and Yamato to keep coming out with a few toys and models every now and then. Granted, it's nowhere near as popular as Gundam, but it's not totally dead.

The Columbia (not Challenger) incident happened because of missing thermal tiles and hole in the wing due to being hit by a piece of the insulating foam that broke off of the main fuel tank during launch, not its speed of re-entry.

Someone said because Stiq slowed down. There is also the question of whether or not the other ships where entering the atmosphere at the correct angle. Come in too steep, you burn up, come in too shallow, you skip off the atmosphere and back into space. The amount of damage done to the ships were also probably a consideration. Remember, damage to its heat shielding is what caused the Columbia to burn up during re-entry.

Despite its differences from the novel, the 1953 film version of War of the Worlds does keep to the spirit of the book. To this day, this film remains one of my favorite science-fiction movies of all time. For a film that was made 51 years ago, it still looks pretty good!

I just looked at the results and as it stands, it's a close race between Tokyo Mew Mew and One Piece.

The illustrations that show the ARMD-02 having two cannons mounted in front of the engines are only rough sketches and are labeled as so in the Macross Gold book. The cannons do not appear in the finallized version that we see in the movie.

The ARMD platforms DO differ between the TV series and DYRL versions. Only the TV version has the 5 converging beam cannon turrets. According to several DYRL books, the movie version only has two beam cannons. Assumingly, they are the "claws" on the front of the ARMDs. The cannons that you see on the ARMD-02 appear on a rough draft of it and are not on the finalized version that is seen in DYRL I'm assuming that you know the locations of the five cannons on the TV version, So I will not list them here. The stats are right, there are 8 overtechnology guided converging beam canons on the SDF-1 in the TV version. In DYRL, there appear to be 10. A few of the smaller, 3 pronged turrets, if I remember correctly, are actually missile launchers.

I am 山田 Yamada (mountain field) 一真 Kazuma (one reality). And people ask me if I'm for real! lol

My vote goed for Hikaru from Kimagure Orange Road. Talk about annoying!!

No problems for me on Doom 3. My computer should handle it pretty well. I'm currently running an Athlon 2700+ 2.2GHz CPU, 1gig of PC3200 RAM, 128MB Radeon 9600XT video card on an Nvidia NForce2 motherboard.

The Garlands without the wheels are the production model.

Since DYRL is a Japanese film, it already can legally drink! The drinking age in Japan is 20.

I've been a fan of Gundam for almost as long as I've been an anime fan. Yes, a lot of the stoyy lines have been recycled, but that has never stopped me from enjoying most of the new Gundam shows that have come out over the years. I always find it interesting to see how they are going to retell a story we are all familiar with. As I said on another message board, most of the AU series are different enough from the originals to be fully enjoyable. Maybe this just means that I'm stupid, I don't know.

It obviously wasn't Char piloting it.

There's the famous Budweiser missile and also one that says, Tako hai and has a picture of an octopus man on it.

I'm a proud owner of a Japanese PC Engine Duo along with both Macross and several other games. The system still works, but needs a new battery for the back-up memory. If I remember correctly, HE stood for Hu-card Entertainment.

The address on the postcard was for the very company mentioned in the above post. Blackjek never said that the Perfect Memory that he won was translated into English.

Even with the postcard, the book may still be authentic. The address on the card belongs to a company called Books Nippan, which was a distributor of Japanese books. This is where I bought quite a few of my own Macross books back in the mid-80s. They used to have an anime fan club back then, and I do believe they had a legitimate project to translate Perfect Memory in the 80s. I may be wrong, but I do think that Books Nippan may have been owned by Shogakukan, the Japanese company that printed many of the Macross books. As I said earlier, one of the ways to tell bootlegs from legitimate ones is by the silver color used to color the SDF-1 and destroids. On legitimate books, the silver is shiny and metallic-looking and looks as if it was painted on. On the bootlegs, the silver just looks like a plain gray with no shininess.

The US Navy is already working on this. I live about 20 minutes from Lakuhurst Naval Air Engineering Station where they are currently testing an electromagnetic catapult. I wish I had saved a newspaper article on this subject that appeared in my local newspaper about two months ago. For those that are interested, here's a link listing the projects under developement there. http://www.lakehurst.navy.mil/nlweb/alre-details.asp

That's obscene! I didn't even know that many game systems existed!

Last time I was there, I did see some used PC Engine games in a couple of stores. However, that was 7 years ago. They might be a little harder to find now.