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Anyone looking for Lancer's swords in New Gen (or Mospeada) won't see them. His ride armor has them but they're never in the animation. I don't like the Cyclones as toys. Honestly, the MPC Alpha is a step-up from Imai's kit and I'm sure the Cyclone will also be much better than the model kit. That said, 10 to 20 years later a toy should be a TON better than that model and once again Toynami's mild improvements just won't be enough. That said, there's no way this will be a three volume MPC, we'll see Fuke and Rey no doubt, as well as a Vince in synchro attire. It's very depressing to see that the Shadow figures are just the exact same Alphas with different hands/heads/paint jobs. I don't see an obvious improvement in any way... except they knew to take pictures to hide the arched back. Let's hope there's improvement that fixes that. Obviously no ball joints at the hip and I doubt they took the diecast out of the forearms so don't expect anything good from Shadow toys.

NOOOOO!!!!! <gasp gasp> NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Lancer better have real friggin' swords.

Hey Graham, why is there a close-up of the head in that first flyer? Did they change something there?

I think it was pretty clear that there situation was hopeless. The Haydonites were handing them their tuckus. They didn't blow up the shipyard just to wax people, they did it to survive and escape in a POS colony ship. Also, most of the technology present in that complex had been modified in some way due to Haydonite help (note how the entire defending force all gets mowed down because the Haydonites know those ships are using their technology) so it's not like anything in that major base was going to be useful at all without a lot of time & effort (and Maia and crew took the few things that were useful). So, blow up a now obsolete space station to survive or... die. I don't think that seems too crazy to me. The NS Missile thing still doesn't seem that crazy to me. Regardless of what Reinhardt said, we know that they're Haydonite technology and that they move real slow. So, launching them at the Haydonites doesn't seem very intelligent. Hiding it within the structure the Haydonites are approaching? That seems like a clever (if not cliche) rouse. Besides, they create a black hole, if you launch them you're still probably going to lose that space station.

Whatever the deal is that's been worked out, apparently HG can use Macross all they want in print and video games but absolutely, under no circumstances, can anything Macross appear animated. I have no idea how that works but it's pretty clear from the comments being made and the merchandise sold that HG CAN and will use Macross where possible but will run like h*ll away from it in anything that will be shown on TV or in a theater. I agree 100% with your statements on the recap. There seemed to be a lot of fear from the writers about discussing the first arch of Robotech. I would imagine they were trying to be as non-specific as possible as to not get new viewers lost right from the get-go but I sure don't think that's how it plays out. I've read a lot of reviews on the show now from a lot of different sources now. The animation is generally panned as being standard at best for five years ago, the character designs are generally panned for being cookie-cutter with odd proportions, and the story is generally panned as being catered to the existing fans and having no resolution. The third complaint usually brings out the ire of Robotech fans (again, who the story was catered to) who point out that the movie is meant to be the start of something, not the end. It's funny though, some very large criticisms are heaped on the film but the score almost always ends up being average rather than terrible.

With the Internet nothing is impossible to buy. You could have started by asking if anyone could pick one up for you. As I'm in the bay area I might be able to help. Heck, Roger might be able to help also.

So are they starting with the Ride Armors or jumping straight to the Legioss SHUSH!!! A man can dream.

Ooh I hope that's true.

I, for one, would be totally fine with the Zentraedi being renamed the "Zents" in Robotech. I dont' think that would stir and legal commotion and it sounds like it just might be a natural English-ifying of an originally alien term.

Pehaps the girls can come with inflatable chests...

I agree to an extent but doesn't Marcus say "We should kill all aliens" or something to that effect. I think it was written as it was to play on Marcus' ignorance... although I thought "I'm half Zentraedi" would have sounded better also.

I'd give her the ol' motorboat.

See, what ya gotta understand is, through some mysterious attribute of Protoculture the Zents were able to be huge. Once humans got this technology it was only a matter of time before they started applying it to specific body parts. All the dudes have macronized wangs and all the chicks have macronized boobs, that's the miracle of Protoculture!

So, you're saying it's more than like what happens here where six threads exist dedicated to the same thing so they lock 5 of them to let one live on? I mean, sometimes there's such a thing as simple maintenance and I'm sure if I go over to their site right now I'll find a dozen Shadow Chronicles threads. Let me know the parameters and I'd love to test this by throwing some blatant hatred within the Terms of Use and see if they delete it. I've been on those boards a lot for a long time and have said some pretty terrible things and the only repercussion I ever got was from a mod asking me to tone it down.

I gotta know, what exactly do you think is happening at RT.com? Do you think they're deleting people's negative comments? On a side note (honestly, not directed at anyone here, my question just reminded me of this), I've seen MANY people complain about threads over at RT.com being deleted. Almost every time, if I had a chance to view the thread before it's deletion, it has always flagrantly broken the Terms of Use. RT.com is a commercial website, not a fansite, they do have rules that they do enforce. I have written some lengthy tirades over there about the show sucking, about the toys sucking, and about all manner of things sucking. They never seem to mind so long as I don't tell anyone where to buy better toys, what toys are better, or swear.

So all anime are cartoons but not all cartoons are anime. I'll stick to calling them all cartoons.

LOL, that i actually like! Anime is just too broad of a cartoon term. It's kind of like what that politician said about indency on TV (i think that's what it was). "I can't define it, but i know it when i see it!" It's all just vague... Edit - While I think it's silly to get hung up on cartoon labels, to each their own.

Yes, we should not apply the french word for "cartoon" to this Korean created OVA. I agree, only strictly Japanese made, completely in Japan, OVAs should receive the honor of the French title.... SO um, what can we call "anime" then?

She just turns into energy and the energy later resembles a Phoenix. In the original Mospeada there's a case for the Regess as having no physical form at all... she's clearly transparent in many scenes. That said, she also shows off the ability to transmutate in her little spiritual fire pit quite frequently also.

The best line in the movie: "Looking forward to it Sir." I don't know why but I found that hilarious (if you don't know what I'm talking about, Scott says it at a completely inappropriate moment). You reminded me of the best line in the original Robotech: "Those missing in action, where are they?" - Emerson

Yeah, the Sterling/Jenius clan to get a lot of play. My understanding of it is that the REF and the SDF-3 were all at one spot together. Most the REF then jumps back to Earth space while the SDF-3 runs some errands (like testing the NS missile). This means that the SDF-3 hasn't been away from the REF for very long at all. In fact, the REF seems to think the SDF-3 is right behind them and that's why Vince is freaking out in the beginning before Rick even calls. I think it just seems like the SDF-3 has been missing for a long time because we remember Scott not being able to contact the expeditionary force but that's kind of another issue up until the battle at Reflex Point (where Rick honestly did go missing). I seriously hate when animated shows could solve huge problems with a simple sentence of dialogue. I agree completely with you and all it would have took was a few seconds of talking for the whole audience to be much better in the loop. If I'm not mistaken though, there is a sentence by Vince where he says something to the effect that he's not going to actually launch the missile at the Haydonites because it's their technology and he doesn't want to find out how they could turn it against him (so he has to be sneaky). My memory is a bit fuzzy but there's at least some half-arse reason he gives. Amen. My only thought there would be that they might not want to do this if this is going to be Mospeada 2 in Japan. Other than that I think it's a terrible waste.

LOL, my bad. I didn't realize you were striving to be juvenile! I'm in the game again then... lord knows I can play that game with the best of 'em!

See, I think you have a misunderstanding of who I am or what I'm doing. I'm not advertising Shadow Chronicles. I don't work for HG. I'm just some guy who watched it and said "it's okay. Not terrible, has some weak spots, but overall not too bad. Worth givin' it a watch if you don't already hate it from everything else you've heard." I then teased a bit for the weak spots. I'm not a professional reviewer. I'm not on these boards to get a message out, I thought I was participating in conversation and debating the good with the bad. I didn't realize you were holding me to some higher level and I was supposed to be offering up something definitive for you. Do me a favor, demote me from this "reviewer" status you've given me and just consider my comments the same as any other random board member. Here you go Exo, here's a professional review that's obviously not biased (it's only on Robotech.com's website): A Review for you

So saying it's "just okay" isn't a proper review? Saying "some will like this and others won't" makes my point invalid. Saying "the best thing to do is find out for yourself" makes me a terrible utterly irrational person. Got it. Thank you for your intelligent input.

That was actually me teasing how bad the animation was.. not trying to make it sound good (but still sayinig it's not the WORST ever... lol, just not good.)