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  1. jeniusornome
    Yeah. Some of the BGM from it is used in the radio drama played through M7 Dynamite too. MII was my first "Macross" outside of Robotech, so it will always have a special early 90s cheese anime place in my heart.
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    @shindromeI just checked and there's only one cut of the film on the disc. If you look at it in a tool like makemkv there's three different tracks shown - one has a runtime of 1:55:37 and the other two are 1:55:24. The only difference in runtime is that the longer one has a 13 second copyright notice / IP notice after the credits finish running. Of the two 1:55:24, it's the same video stream for both; one is with the commentary track and the other with regular audio (this is sometimes an artifact of how makemkv parses the table of contents on the disc). The blurring is not on the standalone release. The version on the hybrid disc is 1:55:03. The extra missing 21 seconds happens right at the beginning, at 00:30 seconds into the film - just after the introductory text fades from the screen, on the hybrid disc, it goes right to the conversation between Britai and Exedol. On the standalone release there's 21 seconds of empty screen before their conversation starts. So to answer your question: if the second or so of blurry footage on the one you have bothers you enough to spend $60 or so, I guess it's worth it? But IMO it's not worth it at all - it's about 1 second total of typical mid-80s anime gore that holds no relevance to the movie at all.
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    I have both. As far as the video quality goes, I couldn’t discern a difference. The two scenes you mention were, I think, restored for the later standalone release, although to be honest it’s barely a second of footage so I wasn’t really paying attention. i don’t recall there being two versions of the film on the disc when I ripped mine to add subs to it, but I can check later on today. imo it’s not really worth owning two copies unless the second or so of slightly blurred gore really bothers you that much. I’d bought it because I’d read it was a new restoration of the film and wanted to compare image quality, but I did a lot of side-by-sides with staxrip, and aside from some very slightly different color saturation only noticeable in some stills of particularly dark scenes, I couldn’t tell.
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    Ha! I hadn't picked up on that, but it makes the Windermereans, their eerie songs and the glowy tattoo outfit that Mikumo wears in a few scenes towards the end of the show (that looks an awful lot like Ishtar's emulator garb) even more of an MII reference than I'd initially thought. I bet they're having fun with all that.
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    I thought The Mardook were the protoculture In that continuity? i like all of the various references to Macross II that have shown up recently. I’m actually just waiting for the next movie to have a guy named Feff in it or an idol named Ishtar.
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    Maybe, but if we could avoid another 20 pages of discussion about NY I’d be happy.
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    Kakizaki was a Tamashii Web Exclusive so it won't be available at the usual shops like Amazon and HLJ at all. If you didn't snag a preorder when it was open your best bet is going to be watching stores for secondary market listings - Mandarake, etc - for people who got theirs and then immediately sold them - or places like Yahoo Japan Auctions, ebay, etc.
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    Going by the pictures shown so far, I think - yes? Looks like it to me. The matte finish helps there.
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    Only question about ordering direct from them right now is shipping - make sure you’re shipping speedpost / EMS, DHL or similar. Haven’t checked their rates recently but that may offset any potential savings. Slower methods may not be available or may end up in a ship’s cargo hold for three months.
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    I would be really surprised to see any of the other yf-29 color schemes they did get a new release. I can’t imagine any of them are popular enough to warrant it. I could see them doing a new one though. Maybe something for the 40th anniversary of the show and 10th of the mold.
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    I assume because they recognize it has been heavily modified from the specifications they would otherwise be familiar with. The Zentradi did not have the skills to modify or repair their equipment themselves but they would have clearly noticed it was different from the ship they had been following originally.
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    Fantastic!
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    Macross figures

    jeniusornome replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    @Podtastic How do you even get that out of anything that I said? Here, let me just reiterate my UNPOPULAR opinion in as clear and concise a manner as possible: it would be nice to have an option for figures that didn’t involve skimpy clothes and/or underwear flashing. no agenda, and no politics. If you see anything more than that in this statement, that’s all on you and whatever you’re bringing into the conversation.
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    The VF-1 is about the same size as an F-16. I think the legioss is supposed to be around 30’ long in fighter mode, hence the small size of the toy even in a “big” scale like 1:48.
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    You mean, you think they made a lot of noise this time and had something in mind other than the comic? Small group of a real estate company with minimal staff, shrinking revenue and dwindling relevance of IP with a smaller and smaller fanbase, grasping at straws to make a big deal out of anything they can to try and generate some revenue? Given HG's failed attempts over the years to do anything with the property, I think it's unlikely it was anything other than talk to try and drum up interest/funding. Like HG is doing the equivalent of saying "hey remember Robotech? Wasn't that great? How about some money for old time's sake?" We still don't know what actually happened with Robotech Remix, but HG obviously didn't care enough about it to try and keep it going. Speaking of Mospeada, how's the licensing for that handled? It's a Tatsunoko property so I assume HG has some license with them for it, but when Sentinel, Evolution Toy, whhoever, makes a Mospeada product, does HG get a cut when it's sold in the US? Maybe they'll hang their hat on a new Mospeada and call it a day.
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    I thought "in universe", since DYRL was filmed in like 2030, all the VFs in it were supposedly later-built VF-1s. So if you want an in-universe explanation for the differences in the design between the TV and movie, assume that over the ~8 years they were being built they made a few tweaks to them for the same reasons that tweaks get made to real life production aircraft - suppliers change, someone upgrades some avionics, they ran out of material towards the end of the war so they had to make the head a little thinner, etc. Alternately, maybe the production crew of DYRL had to restore a bunch of old busted VF-1s for the movie and they didn't get it quite right. Far as real life is concerned, I read that as it being the same reason there are TV-style hands and DYRL style hands. One looks a little softer and rounded and more cartoony, the other is more edgy and detailed because it had a better animation budget. And Bandai did it to sell more.
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    That’s every year though. They make a lot of noise, nothing happens, repeat next year. Even when they get something done they mess it up - shadow chronicles apparently could have gotten a follow-up, but HG has “creative differences” with funimation and scrapped it, thus alienating one of the few companies left still willing to work with them. (not that shadow chronicles was especially good, but it was at least something, and the first production something they’d done since the attempt to do “The Sentinels”). since then I think the only other media they had was a release of the at-the-time 30-year old Mospeada recap episode / Yellow Dancer concert. i am curious if any of this licensing would affect future Mospeada media, assuming anything is actually coming. It doesn’t seem to affect distribution of the toys at least.
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    Macross figures

    jeniusornome replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Oh please. Don’t go around spouting nonsense about respecting people who have a different opinion about things when you are literally dismissing my different opinion as “moralizing and phony outrage”. Hypocrite. i had no idea saying “it sure would be nice if there were figures that weren’t all underwear flashing existed” was going to push buttons like this.
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    Macross figures

    jeniusornome replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    I’m rolling my eyes so hard @Lolicon you might even be able to hear it. I'm just saying it would be nice if girls in anime weren’t overwhelmingly objectified, and if characters presented as strong, independent women actually had merchandise available that reflected that. You want to take it to some political place, go right ahead.
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    Macross figures

    jeniusornome replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    I would call it pretty tame by Macross standards. for a series with a lot of strong female characters pushing an idol band whose latest single is “the future exists for women” there’s an awful lot of cheesecake. Sometimes canonically underage cheesecake. A lot of the Ranka statues are pretty f’d up IMO. I know it’s just part of anime culture, it’s a part I don’t especially like, but the characters aren’t flashing their underwear every episode of the show, or having their boobs nearly falling out of their clothes, Sheryl’s concerts aside, so I don’t see why every statue of them has to do it. years from now if my daughter says she wants a Sheryl figure or statue because she likes the character, I will remember there’s at least one where she isn’t just an object for weebs to ogle.
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    @Jesper77 don't bother. Assume if you want this one it will cost you $300 after the fact. Although reading the thread the day after a PO is usually entertaining.
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    Macross figures

    jeniusornome replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Gasp! There’s a statuette of Sheryl in her date outfit? Something that isn’t creepy underwear flashing?
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    I think it's a combination of Macross being more niche than Transformers, so there isn't as big a market for it, and the DX VFs having a ton of tiny little unnecessarily complicated parts. There's a listing at a store for a KO of the DX VF-31J that's been in preorder for a couple years now. The price they list at is a little less than you find the legit figures on the secondary market. But that figure has thin pieces, little pieces that fold and rotate, tiny clips, a bunch of stuff where the tolerance needs to be right or the whole thing will flop and wobble or it won't compress right and hold together. And all the painted details. If a KO company is going to make one and put in enough QC to make sure it all comes together and works (because if it was a floppy mess no one would pay $150+ for one), they might as well just be Bandai. As far as getting MP TFs that aren't knockoffs - yeah, if you miss the normal availability window and you're trying to find something on ebay, it's a crapshoot.
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    I had the delta movie on in the background the other day and forgot Chuck was piloting the 31E with an armor set on it at the end. Maybe they’ll do another extremely limited slightly modified set of those to fit on the 31E.
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    I wonder why they went to the trouble of explaining all of that backstory for how Isamu’s voice wound up making a 3-second cameo in the Frontier movie. ”Isamu got an early retirement after the UN government sorted out the Sharon Apple mess and now he works for SMS” would have been a much simpler explanation.
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