VF5SS

8 hours ago, kajnrig said:

jenius runs anymoon, right? Who operates CollectionDX? Thanks all, having a brain fart.

The admin of the site is JoshB. 

If you all have questions, feel free to message me on twitter @VF5SS as I don't post here much anymore.

I don't think it's "revisionist nonsense". It depends on what frame of reference people had when they watched Macross. For anime viewers in Japan coming off Zambot 3, Gundam, Ideon etc. just prior to SDFM, and following it with Votoms, Layzner, etc... Yeah, it is comparatively rather light-hearted in tone. It is like a fun, soft filling sandwiched in between a lot of doom-laden anime series that are rather depressing in comparison, really.

And let's not forget that even Layzner, a series coveted by western fans for being a "serious" mecha show, goes from being a fairly somber story of children trying to escape from an unstoppable threat to being like one of those Italian Mad Max knock-off post apocalyptic movies. Complete with ax-wielding thugs wearing giant wigs and hockey masks like Lord Humongous. And that's before the show gets into ancient alien space magic.

And sure, Macross blasted the Earth, but Gundam killed off half the human population in its opening narration. Space Battleship Yamato opened with the planet being a nuclear wasteland. Dancouga has Earth's military forces being squashed in a matter of minutes with fiery death. This is just an aspect of the genre. When people talk about the three pillars of Macross, they don't mention the wanton destruction because that isn't what made the series stand out. And as far as "seriousness" is concerned, ZZ Gundam starts off punk kids trying to steal a Gundam, yet eventually has very heavy situations involving things like colony drops and a deadly civil war between Neo Zeon factions. And this is while the show continued to have a 10 year-old physic girl be a major character. So I really don't see how battlefield idols is an impassible wall for Delta reaching the same levels of emotional resonance as any other Macross series (or anime in general).

Exactly. Hikaru flying in mostly straight lines with his mechs arm locked in a horizontal position vs Hayate spinning like a centrifuge and bouncing dancing are not that similar. Minmei at least had a chance of bracing herself.

Now that's just moving the goal posts.

FalconKPD's point is that there's still a big blindspot regarding how the far out stuff in Plus is viewed versus when the same thing happens in other Macross shows.

Hayate's skill level really is over the top lol

But he was badass so I'll allow it. I'm confused about the 171's cockpit location in battroid though. They made it look like he was sitting in an open gerwalk mode cockpit

Not strictly Macross, but I'm sure some people here would enjoy seeing Eri Takeda (Milia's voice actor) teaching good health habits to kids.

Milia really is the best mom.

I hope I am fashionably late to this party.

And like an hour later the text review is ready lol

http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/2016/hot_rodimus

I hope I am fashionably late to this party.

Gwyn-san found out that the Draken's drone units are called "Lil Draken." Which is the name of the real life J35 Draken's prototype, the Saab 210 Flying Test Bed .

https://twitter.com/GwynCampbell/status/711181087200784384

I am here:

Reina without headphones.jpg

Reina without headphones has pointy ears.

Don't leer. Those are Gwyn-san's girls.

https://twitter.com/GwynCampbell/status/707561873051287552

Looking forward to it for sure. See you in a few weeks! Bringing anything to the swap meet? I might gather some stuff

I hadn't thought about it but I probably should...

I'm here to gush about Ironhide.

BUT PRAHM!!

http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/2016/ironhide

I'll be doing my Valkyrie panel this year and helping out with All the Mecha You'll Ever Need.

http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/2016/vf2ss_valkyrie_ii_silvie_gena

Here is my full text review.

Thanks again to Adrian for his additional info about the prospects of Valkyrie II toys.

He probably taught Mirage those Aikido techniques.

I'm doing this in honor of Dennis Lone. He was a true journalist.

I got most of the gallery pictures all ready to go so please enjoy.

http://www.collectiondx.com/gallery/v/Toys/EvolutionToy/vf2sssilvie/

Again, hopefully the video review will be up tomorrow.

Nice! Looking forward to it, Veef!

I'm not.

Well...

I'll try to do my video review tomorrow.

While some of the in-hand reports are not sounding very promising I'm eagerly awaiting some video reviews to see how the toy looks when it is handle by someone in a video.

I should have mine this week.

So the Macross Quarter is a super robot. I'm okay with this.

I take the term "real robot" to not mean the robots are realistic, but that they are utilized realistically.

As in they mass-produce that crap, the machines are military hardware instead of unique devices, and no one trusts a twelve-year-old kid with a weapon of mass destruction.

I guess that excludes Dougram then. The titular robot is portrayed as more powerful than all the other robots, never gets mass-produced, and is piloted by a teenage boy.