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  1. Zinjo

    WIP_VF_TOY

    Clearly inspired by both the VF-2 and the VF-25. Looks interesting.
  2. Stunning work as always. I'd suggest something a little more alien for the land pads. They currently look like something we'd see on an Earth LHD ship. Now maybe this was listed on the original art and I am wrong, but they seem out of place on such an amazing skin job. As for a name, how about Queadol-Salan since it appears to share elements from both class of ships.
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    YF-21 WIP

    Ahhh, thanks for the tip Sensei
  4. That is a "BEAST"! The customization possibilities are going to be ridiculous!!!!
  5. Zinjo

    YF-21 WIP

    Do you have a zip of the Super Hires renders coming? Stunning work my friend!
  6. They likely got the license in the 90's when RT had lost its popularity in the general marketplace and HG was ignoring the property. This is also the time when Manga Ent. licensed Macross Plus directly from Big West and released their dubs of the OVA and Movie (with the relatively unknown actor Brian Cranston voicing Isamu). It wasn't until the early 00's that the brand was resurrected and HG started a hardcore campaign to secure the rights they had and any others they had no rights to. From 2000 - 2003 there was a trademark battle between HG and BW at the same time BW was fighting with Tatsunoko over the IP rights to SDFM. BW won the IP case in Japan but failed to protect it's trademark in the Western markets and so HG started registering the Macross trademark they had no rights to. That resulted in a blockade of new Macross productions in Western markets because BW would not be blackmailed into paying someone else to show their content outside of Japan. Personally I think BW should challenge all the trademarks, particularly in Countries that do not require a court date to decide. Countries like the UK, Canada, Australia, etc... If they successfully recover their trademarks in those countries they will be a stronger position to argue the case in countries like the US, where a judge has to decide such things.
  7. Wow a movie project & a TV series. Methinks Big West is looking to turn Macross into a "Gundam like" property. Releasing new shows more regularly. It also suggests that Kawamori san may not be as involved in the stories as he has been before since it takes him about 3 years to develop a story on his own. I am hoping for a Movie or OVA series that take place in the earlier decades of the universe, 2040's, early 2050's so they can concentrate on story and characters and less on devising a "new revelation" for the audiences. The Japanese love Korean dramas because they are well written dramas, not because they are Korean. A good story transcends age and genre.
  8. I hope so. The ending of Delta had a swiss cheese story! The Windermere were allowed to keep a PC cap ship with advanced tech well beyond humanity. No attempt to impose a peace treaty. Maybe as an eye candy and j-pop vehicle it worked, but as a narrative it was a train wreck!
  9. That is exciting. Hoepfully Cameron will go back to his original plan of having an "everyman" terminator instead of a muscle head. The biggest reason Arnie was brought in was because it helped Cameron get more financing for the film. Lance Henrickson was Cameron's first choice to play the terminator.
  10. This is going to produce some interesting projects. Looking forward to followup posts on this.
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    VF-4G custom

    I'd suggest using the "clone stamp" tool and carefully erase the seams on the engines and the feet. There are a few other things I'd do, but you would need some experience to make them work. Experiment and practice. Photoshop can do some cool stuff.
  12. I suspect the music will outlast the merchandise. M7 had a similar effect. You don't see a huge demand for M7 toys and models now, compared to then, but you do see re-releases of FB albums and music. Yes there was cool gear in MD, but the mecha were not the stars. The stars and focus were the idol group and their music. So I suspect that Bandai and the conglomerate of Macross merch peddlers will not see the same payday they did with Frontier.
  13. Considering the "LACK" of imagination from HG, it would not surprise me in the least if this was what the 1/2000 scale SDF-1 is! These guys are the kings of re-issue!
  14. Love the Valk skating on the water. Well done!
  15. HG already has released "their" version of Macross on DVD dubbed in English. The subtitles are from the AnimeEigo release in the mid 2000's under a sub-license from HG. HG has not re-released these after they sold out the AE stock they got back when the license period ended. To do a BD release Sony/HG would need access to the anime film masters owned by Big West and they'll never get that, which is why the SDFM series on BD is only available from Japan. Yeah, well import law does not recognize domestic licensing when an item is imported directly from the source country <flips the Agrama family the bird >
  16. They have the international rights to the animation of SDFM and international merch rights to the same series. So, yes they can release (and have) an SDFM series on DVD. I am doubtful they could release on BD since they don't have the original film stock like Big West does in Japan. Their effort to dub the series was pathetic at best and insulting at worst, despite getting Mari Ijima to voice the Minmay character again. For Sony, they'd have to end of their association with the succubus aka Harmony Gold to get access to any of the IP material and resources for SDFM and for what has come after SDFM. They'd have to pay off the media whore HG for the trademarks for Macross that they erroneously secured.
  17. It may be official, but it seems more phonetic for Japanese speakers as opposed to Germanic like most of the other character names.
  18. After the foul taste Delta left me with, M7 actually looks good by comparison, with respect to story. Yes, armageddon has begun... I blame finally watching FB7 and being reminded of some of the fairly well done scenes from that series. Will NEVER like Basara, on that we are unanimous!
  19. The more background that is created the more story options are available, whether it is used or not.
  20. Yeah, I forked out for this set too. I couldn't pass up studio subbed movies and all the swag that came with it...
  21. Honor has no time limit for the Japanese. Tatsunoko dishonored itself to BW by trying to steal the IP rights to Macross and HG was painted with the same brush by supporting Tatsunoko. Then add to all the other nonsense HG pulled with respect to Trademarks, BW will NEVER partner with Tats or HG. Sony would be better served by buying out HG and Tats' interest in Macross before they'd get BW's property rights. If Sony were serious about being a Western distribution arm for Macross they'd buy out HG's interest in any trademarks related to Macross. Big West would work with Sony directly on such deals so long as HG didn't get a dime of the profits.
  22. One of my favorite fan artists! Glad to see you back I'd love to see what kind of Chibi or SD valks you could draw now...
  23. Lady M may well be Mao Nome. She was researching the Vajra and their capabilities long before the Frontier encountered them. She may be believed to have perished with the Galaxy colony ship, but no wreckage was ever found of that ship. So if the Galaxy survives and she continued her work with the Vajra and fold quartz, it is possible she received a latent transmission from the Megaroad 01 fleet via a fold quartz receiver. Whether that transmission was before or after it's disappearance 50 years prior was never indicated. If she did "show up" after the attack on the Galaxy and founded Xaos then it would appear to answer both questions about who Lady M is and if the Megaroad was ever found.
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