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  1. Seto Kaiba
    The caption that I quoted in my previous post is literally right there. It clearly and unambiguously states that the pod holds up to 90 micro missiles. Not 320. Not any other number. Up to 90. Please don't post your counter-factual suppositions as fact.
  2. Seto Kaiba
    So... all in all... that's not quite accurate. The Labyrinth of Time does make the somewhat bittersweet conclusion of The Wings of Goodbyte happier, but only a little. It's not really a happy ending yet, but it's the implication that a happy ending might occur in the not-too-distant future. Eh...
  3. Seto Kaiba
    It's not always about the money... some license agreements - like Harmony Gold's - impose an obligation on the licensee to defend (in court if necessary) the integrity of the IP being used under license. It's a big part of why HG has a reputation for being so litigious. They had a legal obligation to do so even if it meant doing so at a loss. There's Chinese bootleg everything out there... but it's a lot easier to prosecute when it's a company in the west doing it, and China is making a concerted effort to clean up their own image on that front as well. There's a certain amount that's allowable as homage, but it's a safe bet that if Robotech hadn't been so obsecure Eternity/Malibu, Academy, and Antarctic would probably have been having several uncomfortable conversations with lawyers representing companies like Big West/Studio Nue, Bandai, Sunrise, 20th Century Fox, etc. (Harmony Gold knows that only too well, having spent twenty solid years looking over their shoulders for fear of Big West, Studio Nue, Tatsunoko, etc.)
  4. Seto Kaiba
    ... did you read a different book from the rest of us? The NP-FAD-23 booster pack used by the VF-25 series incl. the RVF-25 holds at most 90 missiles per Variable Fighter Master File: VF-25 Messiah. That's 180 between the two boosters, for a total of 226 when the other launchers in the VF-25's Super Pack are accounted for. The VF-25's Armored Pack has a total of 244, plus 30 armor-piercing rockets. The VF-31's Super Pack has no number offered, but is almost certainly lower than the VF-25's given how much smaller it is, and the VF-31's Armored Pack has a total of 484... which is still a long way short of 700. That said, the actual difference in armament between the RVF-25 and VF-25 and VF-31 Siegfried and VF-31E Siegfried is only a little... pretty much just the coaxial laser guns that were mounted on the monitor turret being replaced by antennae on the RVF-25 and the VF-31E sacrificing normal storage for its gunpod in exchange for the radome. Similarly, the RVF-171 didn't sacrifice ANY weapons... it just can't use the rear-facing beam guns in fighter mode. Half right... the Tornado Pack was/is a proof-of-concept for the unconventional aerodynamics of the YF-29 in parallel development at the time. The Armored Pack is for surviving heavy combat in general, which you shouldn't be throwing a reconnaissance aircraft into regardless.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    Yep... the Macross 40th Anniversary Super Dimension Collaboration Deculture!! Mixture!!!!! album. May'n and Megumi cover five Walkure songs, and Walkure covers five May'n or Megumi songs. Walkure did an OK job with Lion, Northern Cross, After School Overflow, Universal Bunny, and The Wings of Goodbye. May'n and Megumi absolutely crushed it with Forbidden Borderline, Our Battlefield, Giraffe Blues, Cosmic Movement, and The Ruin of a Pure Heart. All seven singers also collaborated on a 40th anniversary cover of DYRL, and there was a special medley track that was different depending on which edition you got. It's available on streaming music services.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    It's staying on mine, sure as sure... but the May'n and Megumi cover, not the Walkure original version. It really is kinda sad that Frontier's singers do a better job with Delta's music than Delta's singers do.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    Ah, OK... so pretty much the same as it was at Academy Comics and Eternity/Malibu Comics then. That lack of coordination and editorial oversight at the publisher level and at HG's level was a big part of why HG ultimately decided to condemn all of the pre-2001 licensee-made material as a part of their reboot and relaunch of the brand. It's one of the very few topics where HG openly admits that Robotech failed because they screwed up, rather than just blaming the licensee/studio/economy/alignment of the planets. It really never fails to shock me a little just how cavalier the attitude of Robotech's licensees was when it came to copyrighted material. I know these were smaller publishers, but it's amazing how nobody ever seems to have stopped to ask "Can we legally use that?". If this hadn't been made in the 90's and most of the publishers hadn't collapsed on their own, they would've been run out of business by the court-ordered compensatory damages.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    I stand corrected on the topic of cancellation for Covert Ops, at least. That said, knowing what we know about the duration of the Antarctic Press license and Harmony Gold's reasons for revoking it, being among the best print runs that the most hated publisher with the shortest-ever tenure as a licensee had for that license feels like it was probably a low bar to clear. It sounds like you dodged a bullet, then. Especially given how the fans had the torches and pitchforks out for Rubicon. Was there any kind of oversight going on regarding the usage of copyrighted material? I know the '90s were a lot less lawsuit happy on that front, but some of the titles that were published under Academy Comics and Antarctic Press feel like the artists were actively trying to get sued for copyright infringement. So much so that, these days, the new comic licensee handling reprints won't touch those titles. (And yes, it absolutely objectively was copyright infringement... HG didn't have any rights to DYRL? until 2001, years after these comics were published, so 100% of the use of DYRL material was unauthorized.) Come to that, was there any guidance being given on character and story arc development at all? I know the Robotech fans were really up in arms about Antarctic Press's comics because of how out of character everyone was all the time. Was this operation just a free-for-all?
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Kind of an autopsy on the company too... Academy Comics only held on to the Robotech license for about 2 years and folded shortly after Harmony Golden revoked it. Like most of Robotech's licensee pool, they were a real amateur hour outfit. If you feel so inclined, go ahead and share your tale of disaster and woe. IIRC, those two titles have a combined issue count of just three and were both canceled basically immediately.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    I'm sure announcements of streaming licenses will follow as the home video releases are prepared. After all, you don't want to completely destroy the market for the home video physical media by leading with streaming. They'll probably release them around the same time so they can market the home video release in ads on the streaming release for the folks who are using streaming with ads.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    If only... But no, the Sentinels aliens were no licensee fever dream. They were created by Harmony Gold itself for the failed Robotech II: the Sentinels series and their representation in those terrible old comics, novels, etc. was based on unused animation model sheets, backstory, and other concept materials from the aborted TV series. HG even kept them around after the reboot. Revised designs for all six of the alien races show up in the Prelude comic HG used to set up the story for Shadow Chronicles, and one of the six are the villains for the aborted OVA series. They weren't particularly original designs, for sure... off-brand wookies, coneheads, rock men, cat men, and sentient robots from an artificial planet. It's like they picked every cliche they could from contemporary pop culture and just hoped no one would notice. Of course, when your creative team has such bad taste that they name one of the major characters in honor of L Ron Hubbard, incompetence is probably about the best you can hope for.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    I did say it was a low rent knockoff... but yes. It's more apparent in the Fighter mode, where it has the delta-esque profile with forward-swept winglets. One of the reasons HG has avoided reprinting so many of its old Robotech comics is because of just how much copyright infringement was going on. Their licensees "borrowed" from whatever the flavor of the month was.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    It smells like an open septic tank. Oh, I remember this one... this one had two, maybe three, different cases of blatant copyright infringement in it. The low rent knockoff versions of the VF-19F and Ghost X-9 seen there on the cover, and the character who developed them in that story was super-blatantly traced from a freeze frame of Brent Spiner's character in Independence Day. So much so that he's not even in the same art style as the other characters.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    Shonen anime isn't for everyone. Mainly, it's for kids as the name would imply. I don't blame anyone for struggling with One Piece though. Its art style and writing style is... pretty out there even by shonen anime standards. I have a feeling that's probably a big part of why it's so popular and has lasted so long. It's so incredibly distinctive. Probably also gonna be a significant part of why the live action series will bomb. Gotta admit, I did get a chuckle out of this part in "Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?" terms... Tony Tony Chopper's been a recurring character since chapter 134 of the manga and episode 81 of the anime. 954 chapters and 990 episodes ago. I could feel my hair greying writing that... that was twenty-three years ago!
  15. Seto Kaiba
    The names of the culprits are right there on the cover for the world to see. It says a lot that, despite the Robotech franchise's famously low standards for quality and consistency, those comics were considered garbage even when they were new and that they stand as examples of one of the very few times* that a licensee did such a sh*tty job that Harmony Gold revoked their license. Never mind that they were condemned as low quality trash AGAIN when Harmony Gold summarily tossed every licensee-produced work between 1987 and 2001 when they relaunched Robotech. All that's really changed over the years is that these third and fourth-rate comic companies have better (digital) tools now. Their work still looks like arse, but it doesn't look like a middle schooler's DeviantArt work anymore. That's Robotech Quality (TM)! * The only other members of that especially exclusive fraternity of "Too sh*tty for even Harmony Gold" are Academy Comics's successor Antarctic Press and RPG and tabletop game licensee Palladium Books.
  16. Seto Kaiba
    Valkyries designed or outfitted for electronic warfare, AWACS, and reconnaissance roles are no less heavily armored than any variant intended for direct combat. Granted, most are less heavily armed than the front-line variants and a few are totally unarmed... but they also don't typically go anywhere without an armed escort. Typically, that armed escort seems to be 3+ other Valkyries or Ghosts. If we take the RVF-25 as an exemplar, it could control up to six unmanned fighters as an escort... which, considering what current-generation Ghosts can do, is pretty formidable against anything short of an unmanned 5th or 6th Generation VF. Chuck Mustang's VF-31E is a somewhat unusual case in that it's not a dedicated ELINT/AWACS/Recon variant as such. It's a general-purpose machine like all VF-31s and it's just outfitted with a collapsible fold wave radome container instead of a multidrone charger like the other Siegfried customs.
  17. Seto Kaiba
    This, right here, is pretty much an encapsulation of my thoughts on the series so far. I can hardly wait for this beautiful disaster.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    ... what critics? I assume Yonny Tune, Mevin KcMeever, and Yeve Stune from the review site Garmony Hold ASU? Or are we in full on Sue Donym and Alan Smithee territory for this alleged acclaim?
  19. Seto Kaiba
    Kill it with fire.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Or in slightly more honest terms... "Gather 'round gather 'round... Step right up to see the freak show." They gave up and are starting over with a more traditional Robotech comic.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Sorry, I am screwing up in... *checks notes*... four different languages today.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    As an interesting side note, the History of Everything Podcast's YouTube channel recently did a video explaining the historical context behind the Barbie movie being banned in Vietnam and the Philippenes.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    TBH, this sounds like pretty sound unisex life advice... it's a bad idea to define yourself by your relationship(s), and if you're not happy on your own you're not going to be happy in a relationship. FWIW, what I've seen about this film has been overwhelmingly positive. My family and I are gonna go do the Barbenheimer double-feature this weekend.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    Looking forward to the musical episode... it kind of reminds me of an old novel from the TOS era How Much for Just The Planet?. Of course, that story had the planet of the week putting on impromptu musical numbers just to mess with the visiting Federation and Klingon delegations.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Go back and read the previous posts, it means the opposite of what you thought.
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