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Nope. Have you seen Eureka 7 or KISSDUM? Think more along those lines of quality.

HD versions: http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=15813 And BTW....those people at ComiCon....watch out for Jokers. http://www.whysoserious.com/surveillance.aspx http://www.whysoserious.com/wannabes.aspx And for those of you who missed today's viral marketing :

MG Destiny:

Grunt units!!!! and the translation on Gunota: http://aeug.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archiv...748878258062161

Guess the Japanese blogger who called it got it right.

The banner, buttons and some of the title bars feel a tad too dark. Any chance of making them a tad bit lighter?

That was the story in 1982 back when the Gundam theme was popular. The themes for each Macross series change for each series. In M+, the theme was technology's impact on society. In M7, it was a conflict of ideology. In M0, we saw how people judge one another through initial impressions. The theme of each series changes and I expect the same out of the new series. I do not expect Kawamori to revisit any of these themes nor do I want him to. And all this talk of retcons...at this point, I've learned to just live with it. Eventually, someone is going to come along and say "I didn't like how it was done or explained, so I'm going to do it MY way." I have seen this in movies, TV shows, comics, blah blah blah. I hate it, but I've seen it done so many times, I expect someone to come along and say "F U. I'm going to do it my way. Screw what the last guy did. I like it my way and if I can do it, I will." That is what happened. That is what is going to happen. Even Kawamori will do it to himself. Why is it done? Cuz everybody has their own opinion of how it should be done and if they have the ability to do it, they will do it. When Kawamori passes the reigns to someone else for, that person will go back and say, "I want to do things my way" and make changes cuz he or she damn well can, hence a retcon. Some people will hate it. Some will like it. I really don't care cuz I know, it's going to happen.

According to the Compendium, it was a A-version (prior to the "+Kai"/"+2" being slapped on to the designation). So "F-14A+Kai" or "F-14A+2" http://macross.anime.net/mecha/united_nati.../f14/index.html

It certainly works, but...we saw only one instance of that chemistry and it doesn't amount to much. So unless they release a longer or different cut of the film that goes into it more, it's nothing more than speculation.

We know. Onlya month away. But who are we targeting with this new series? You? Or the kids who have little or no exposure Macross in their entire life?

To that, I say Kawamori doesn't seem to want to limit himself to just a few themes and I doubt we will see much to the contrary with the upcoming series.

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I'd wager against you on that. I won't even call the Nome or any Mayan bloodline completely pure. I would say it's more like genetic markers and/or traits carried in the Nome family which may be more dominant compared to everybody else in the world. It's like saying we all generate Spiritia, but only a few generate more.

Conceptual Art: http://www.benprocter.com/SITEv2/HTML/PROJPAGE_Trans_01.html See how all the designs started.

It could be, but we have some context issues that need to be resolved. We certainly did not have a space station called New Frontier in 1995. I'd be shocked if there actually exists a couple out there by the name of Takashi and Sakiko Hayase who had a daughter named Misa.

I don't see this design change as much of an issue. Since colonization fleets are capable of producing their own fighters, those fleets could optimize or select a design for their fighters that best suits their needs. In a sense, there's no "bottle-neck" at the distribution point. Production facilities can produce based on their consumer's needs. Again, production at various locations would not stop production. New fighters would not have to be shipped to waiting fleets (except for perhaps front-line units and local governments). So again, we come back to costs. Training, maintanence, testing, etc. All the time spent just to get people to use the product prohibit its distribution.

It can be good and bad, but it really depends on where this series goes.

I don't recall this ever being mentioned at all. Macross 13, IIRC, was being retro-fitted with the Sound Jamming System and was in the dry-dock at Earth. So M13 shouldn't have had any fighters.

I'm still getting a Wing-vibe from this... What Mizushima said and what I've heard seem to match up. In 00, everybody has MSs, so the the arms race isn't there like in SEED or MSG. Again, I'm getting a Wing-vibe from this. Celestial Being has the performance suits while everybody else has the cannon-fodder stuff.

Considering AFOS was made by Protoculture and the Evil series was made by Protoculture..... I think you can put the rest together...

Agreed. Factory ships aren't just there to produce VFs. They have to maintain and service the entire fleet.

See reference here: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=21284

It boils down to deployment and necessity. Irregardless of when M7 launched, the designs could be sent to the M7 fleet at anytime. Deployment of the VF-19 would start with priority assignments first. If your fleet hasn't run into any real threats, then you are not a priority. Which brings us to necessity. The M7 fleet spent almost 8 years in travel without running into any real threats. So there was no need to get the good stuff. If it ain't broke, don't fix it or buy something new. They also had VF-17s in stock, which are just as capable as VF-19s so again, there wasn't a need for a VF-19. It wasn't until they ran into the Varauta army that the need was there.

You people love going off on tangents don't ya. Macross 25 hasn't even seen the light of day and is somewhere in production... Where is all this talk of "if it goes to Blu-Ray/HD-DVD" , "Is there a chance of an English track", "They can market it in the West" coming from? It hasn't even aired on TV yet and we don't even know if it's going to do well on TV yet. I wanna see how good this show is going to be first before I even get down to video releases.

We know already ... Look here: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=21339 The hype around Gundam 00 is probably gonna drown out Macross 25 for the moment. Considering that the lead voice actress is getting introduced at the concert in August, I'm expecting them to be somewhat tight-lipped about info until after the concert.