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  1. TheLoneWolf
    Eh, I highly doubt Harmony Gold sent that cease and desist out of petty jealousy. They need any new material like a man dying of thirst needs water. My guess is that someone at Warner Bros. saw these videos and threatened Harmony Gold with a breach of contract. Remember, Warner Bros. paid for the exclusive right to make a Robotech movie(s), and here goes Harmony Gold permitting Creavision to make excellent fan films for free. HG probably thought Creavision's project wouldn't amount to anything significant, so there'd be no harm in giving them a non-profit license. Unfortunately for Creavision, HG was wrong; and now Creavision is going to have to suffer for it.
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    Anyways, having read the books, I still found the movie very enjoyable. Moreso than An Unexpected Journey. I just don't look at it as "The Hobbit" at all; rather, I view it as "LOTR: Episode 0."
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    SOLD! It's a Christmas miracle.
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    Ugh, that's just not a very practical, or even aesthetically pleasing, design. The hands are redundant since those giant intakes are going to get in the way of it grabbing anything. And I don't know how the legs in fighter mode are supposed to move all the way over to the nosecone in battloid mode. There's a fair bit of anime magic involved in the old Macross designs, but this one takes the cake. And like the others said, I'm not a fan of the round leg design. The upper body consists mostly of hard edges and angles, then the legs get all bulbous. Good thing this is only a draft, it'll need more work.
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    I wouldn't read anything into it, it's probably just an innocent mistake. Bob Koplar probably wasn't aware of Harmony Gold's licensing limitations.
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    Since Mospeada is owned by Tatsunoko, I think there's a chance that this set could eventually be released in the US. Although, that probably wouldn't happen for a long time, since Harmony Gold and A&E/Lions Gate would have to re-release Mospeada on DVD three or four more times before moving onto Blu ray.
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    Yeah, it's been auto-updating for a while now. Since 2011 I think.
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    Yeah, they do. The problem is that the added weight throws off the alignment in fighter. On top of that, since the arms have magnets in them, the arms will splay outwards towards the metal legs in fighter mode, instead of tucking in together. Maybe this was Toynami's way of "locking" the arms to the legs in fighter mode, unfortunately it just looks like a mess when executed.
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    Nice work! Battloid mode definitely looks better now. It's a good thing you worked on the Rick MPC and not the others, because they've got way more problems thanks to their die-cast metal legs.
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    Thanks again for all your hard work. We're lucky to have a translator who's intimately familiar with the source material that he's is translating.
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    Heh, after reading some of the childish reactions on here, I can't say that I blame Big West.
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    LOL! If I was, Harmony Gold wouldn't be making all of these bone-headed decisions. And thanks for that link.
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    If Hasbro created Jetfire's design, then why did they leave the UN Spacy logo on Jetfire's wing? I confess, I don't have any concrete proof either as to who created Jetfire's color scheme. But to me, the signs point to Matsushiro. Only the toy's actual manufacturer, Matsushiro, would know what kinds of color changes could be made to the toy without incurring too much more overhead. My guess is that Hasbro told Matsushiro, "Hey, we've got this new guy, Skyfire, who's red and white. Please make your VF-1 red and white too, wherever technically possible." After Matsushiro implemented the new color scheme, they would've had to send it to Tatsunoko for licensor approval (hence the Tatsunoko stickers). Next stop, US toy shelves. That would be absolutely hilarious. Have you got any pics of that bio card?
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    lol! Good find, but was that guy released outside of Japan? Tatsunoko and Harmony Gold have no jurisdiction in Japan. Sorry, I don't follow.
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    They do? I thought Tatsunoko owns the markings since Jetfire's boxes have the Tatsunoko sticker on them.
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    This is a very strange and questionable move by Harmony Gold. I say "strange" because they're attempting to file an injuction against a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive toy. Since Comic-Con 2013 is over, filing an injuction is moot as the toys have already been sold. That is, unless Hasbro has announced that they're going to continue to sell Jetfire beyond SDCC? Do any TF fans know for sure? Second, I think it's questionable because Hasbro has altered the white/red/black color scheme enough so that it only bears a passing resemblance to the original Jetfire toy. There's no mathematical formula to determine how much copying is allowed before it can be determined that a design has been infringed. It usually boils down to this: would a layman confuse the two products? Unless the design is a spitting image of the original, you're just rolling the dice. Further complicating Harmony Gold's case is that the original G.I. Joe Skystriker XP-14F toy also bore a similar white/red/black color scheme. The only two potential snags I see for Hasbro are the predominantly red boosters and the optional leg stickers. Though, it's important to remember that the boosters were an optional configuration on the original Jetfire. He could also be displayed in plain fighter mode. And the leg stickers are entirely optional on both toys, so I won't give that one too much weight either. As for both planes' F-14 likeness, that's not copyrightable design. I don't see any logic behind Harmony Gold's decision making. The San Diego Comic-Con is over. Their trade dress argument is iffy at best. And Hasbro has way more money to spend on attorneys than Harmony Gold does. Just doesn't add up.
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    If Tommy Yune's going to be writing this, I wonder which corny clichés he'll use this time. Who wants to take a bet that the main villian will end up mutating into a giant monster in the last issue?
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    Bingo! Someone give that man a gold star. Budgets and deadlines are the two factors that galvanize every production. My guess is that as this project was nearing its completion, someone at Bandai Visual realized that they still had a small amount of money left in their budget and decided to squeeze in some last-minute English subtitles. Could they have used a better translator? Sure. But with such short notice and a small amount of money, they probably had to accept whatever translator they could get. If this set manages to sell better than previous Macross Blu Ray sets, then whoever inserted these subtitles might be able to convince Bandai to budget in English subtitles from the get go, resulting in better quality subtitles.
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    Awesome, thanks Gubaba!
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    Except H.G. can't block Macross Plus videos in the US.
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    Finished watching Movie Edition and it doesn't use Manga's old subtitles. "Bromance" was definitely not part of the 90's lexicon. Even though there's the occasional awkward conjugation, I have to commend Bandai Visual for giving us a brand new translation. If anyone from Bandai is reading this...THANK YOU!
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    Since no one acquired the Orguss license when US Renditions folded, all of the material USR possessed should've gone back to Big West and Tokyo Movie Shinsha, including the dub. I didn't know there were any manufacturer defects with the ImaginAsian DVD's. I've got the box set and all of my discs play perfectly.
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    Fascinating. It's an "official bootleg." If it weren't for the Taiwanese obi, I would've guessed that it was just an ordinary Takatoku. I wonder how many other people might have this same toy, sans obi, and have wrongly assumed all this time that it's a regular Takatoku.
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    Thanks for the latest chapter, I'm loving every word in it. If you're concerned about the relatively low amount of comments, I think part of it's got to do with some people preferring to wait for the whole enchilada to be posted, instead of downloading the story piecemeal. I think the other part is that White Reminiscences is a pretty obsure book among English readers because it's never been translated before. Once your translation is complete, I think the story will become routinely referenced amongst the English community. As for comments...
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    That would be me. Still haven't found an actual jacket anywhere. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=28695#entry856372 Wow, I was wondering when Volume 4 was released. I had no idea it would take that long for it to be produced. Maybe that's why hardly any of the original principal voice actors reprised their roles in the alternate English dub. And for what it's worth, I don't like the alternate dub. It's a careless performace, almost as if they had to perform the dub in a single take. It's only redeeming value is that it has the original soundtrack arrangement and foley.
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