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$2000 CAD? USD? HKD? AUD?

I disagree with the VF-14 leg. There's nothing alike between the two. Now, if you compare the intake to a VF-0's, then you got something. The other parts look OK.

Uhm, fallicy control: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoculture_Addicts The mecha shows were published largely in Mecha Press: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha_Press One section of the writers of Mecha Press, who were only the game design studio of IANUS (PA's publisher) seperated in 1994 to form Dream Pod 9 (DP9). It is DP9 who wrote the 3 "Macross II Deck Plans" supplements for Palladium; not IANUS Publications... erm, Protoculture Inc.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANVS_Publications And, uhm, Protoculture Addicts' coverage of other anime shows was accurate from the start (don't know about the current state, but considering that they are conjoined with Anime News Network, it speaks volumes about their quality. And I don't mean this in a negative sense.) Without that excellent coverage, I would never have been introduced to "Ranma 1/2" nor "Nadia of the Mysterious Seas" as I was in their earlier non-Robotech issues (and I don't consider either to be a "mecha anime"). Both shows coverage... scratch that, Ranma 1/2's coverage in Animerica and the other anime related North American publications was no-where near in depth, nor enough to highlight an anime series beyond much more than being a glorified advertisement for the latest North American anime releases.

ROFLMAO!

Was RT being used as lazy shorthand from the start of robotech.com?

LOL! This free publicity has been going on for how long?

Yeah... it's down for me again. Which makes me ask: why did it start working for me again? My Japanese ISP found a ghost of it on the 'net somewhere?

Maybe their .com expired, and the reason why it's been down for you guys longer than me is that it's taking your ISPs longer to restore the connection?

Yup. Try refreshing your browser/clearing the cache.

... and, it's back. Apparently it was a maintenance cycle, and we caught it from the start, this time.

It's the parent site which is down. So, I don't think it's Mr.M who's done anything. (Drat, Seto beat me to that part) It has gone down in the past once before, for me. But it was restored within an hour or so of my checking. This time, it's been longer.

Is the Macross Mecha Manual down? http://www.new-un-spacy.com/m3.html

Prolly because it's the only thing that has a familiar name/topic to them. Start with the familiar... don't make it very far into the topic... give up, and assume the rest of the site is filled with the same? <shrugs> As I hate to see dreams crushed, I want to offer the following advice to the people behind that Genesis project - why not take the ideas that you have to improve upon the original (or fill in the blank spots), change them just enough to be disassociated with the original (mostly in the legal sense, but in some ways a creative sense), and start from there? If you produce what you love and get it noticed (usually by being in the right place at the right time), you're more likely to succeed in the project goals (make a movie, get a job in the industry, etc.) than by just marketing it as an extension of the original.

Up until this past week, I haven't been experiencing time-outs. This week, there was a bunch. It seems that the problem has simply shifted to a different time period...

I second that. Why not say something positive, like "I prefer the VF-() over the VF-9"?

... and finished Extra Sheet: Game and Advanced Valkyrie #3 http://www.macrossroleplay.org/forums/inde...g37165#msg37165 There are quite a few interesting tidbits of information scattered about the VB-6 section. It's a good compliment to the MF's VB-6.

Completed the VA-3M Invader section (same page, see post immediately preceeding this for the link) It's a good complement for the info on the VA-3 presented in the VA-3C Kai Invader Kai from D7. Though, I wish there was a little bit more on it. Sadly, the armaments appears to be directly copied from the VF-X2 publications from a decade ago. No clarification on the number of torpedoes, etc.. Now, this begs a question: will the MC produce a page on the VA-3 that appeared in the back of the TiAS:M+ book? (You know, VA-3A, VA-3B, EVA-3) Or has MC finished with the VA-3?

Just want to point out: The VF-1's gun pod was designed to overcome the energy conversion armour of the battlepods and other Zentraadi weapons they knew about from the crashed ASS-1. I'm pretty certain that this feature is not part of the VF-0's and Sv-51's gun pod; but it is definitely applicable to later gun pods. How they overcome energy conversion armour wasn't clarified in the source I learned that from (one of the Great Mechanics.Dx magazines, if you're wondering).

Finished the section on the VF-5000B from "Macross Plus -Game Edition-" and "Macross M3": http://www.macrossroleplay.org/forums/inde...g37165#msg37165 Again, there's not really much new. But that's not surprising, as the VF-5000 has excellent coverage already in the Mechanic D7 section.

I'd go with four. It conforms to a visual inspection (two engines per wing/foot assembly; one on the upper side, one on the bottom side for a total of 4).

I've started the Extra Sheet: Game and Advanced Valkyrie #3 http://www.macrossroleplay.org/forums/inde...g37165#msg37165 ... and completed the part on the VF-4G. It's disappointingly thin on details. Hopefully the other VFs on these pages will have more enlightening descriptions. Not to mention that I hope the VF-4 page from FB2012 has a bunch of hard stats.

Book covers: Fact File > Roman Album > Perfect Triangle > Guidebook

ロマンアルバム 劇場版マクロスF 虚空歌姫〜イツワリノウタヒメ〜 Roman Album Theatrical Macross F - the false songstress - Price including tax: ￥1800 Publication date: 2009.11 Size: A4 oversized ISBN: ISBN 978-4197202881 Contents summary: 01-03: TOC and introduction 04-09: movie illustration gallery 10-25: character art 26-27: character relationship map 28-57: story guide (just from these pictures, you can get a fairly decent idea of the movie) 58-59: Aya Endou interview 60-61: Megumi Nakajima interview 62: Tornado Pack VF-25 space mode only 63: VF-25 - some TV series, some movie shading level 64: Macross Quarter (movie version. Big. Drool over. cover inside the dust cover also has a large-scale Macross Quarter image being drooled on) 65: VB-6, Queadlunn-Rea, VF-171 and VF-27. Only VF-27 is movie level of details. 66: Vajra Mantis and Destroyer ship 67: Vajra battleship (these two pages have gorgous art. BIG, too) 68-69: Island 1 interiors 70-73: concert venues finished and preproduction art 74-75: Yuuichi Nakamura interview 76-79: Kawamori Shouji interview 80: synopsis of 2nd movie (?) preview clip 81-87: storyboards - concerts 88-89: Risa Ebata interview 90-91: Yuuichi Takahashi interview 92-93: Yasuhito Kikuchi interview 94-95: Tsutomu Kasai interview 96: theatre report 97-98: main cast mini-interviews 99: CD releases 100-101: the False Diva Keywords 102-104: movie and book credits Summary: if you want the best mechanical art for the movie in a book, this is it. Content wise, it's the best of the 4. Go get it! <hr> Newtype February 2010 insert: Fact File Macross F the Movie Itsuwari no Utahime Price including tax: ￥620 Publication date: 2010.01.09 Size: A4 ISBN: ? Contents summary: 02-03: summary 04-05: best scene selection 06-07: how did our (Newtype) our scoop from 1 year ago come out really? 08-11: staff/cast interviews, results of audience questionnaires, etc. 12-13: May'n interview 14-17: concerts in the movie 18-23: character art (smaller than that in the Guidebook, but more complete (hint! no masking malfunctions) 24-25: "the mecha strike back" Tenjin Hidetaka interview. (Apparently he really added a lot of detail. Including finishing some pencil lineart that Kawamori started on the joining sections between the Islands) 26-27: VF-25 Tornado Pack (mostly), all space mode. some quite large images. Has some front/back/side/top/bottom images not seen elsewhere) 28: Macross Quarter 29: Vajra Battleship, Destroyer, and Mantis (go get the Roman Album if you want to see it big and with a bunch more angles!) 30-33: illustration gallery from art that appeared in Newtype 34: Nanase. (subtitled: "She didn't diseappear from F!") 35: add for Perfect Triangle Summary: if you don't have the money to buy the Roman Album, or you can't find it, this is a decent substitution. The art is a little small in parts, but otherwise it's a decent replacement.

Summary: get the Roman Album. If you can't, get the Fact File. 劇場版マクロス F 虚空歌姫 -イツワリノウタヒメ ガイドブック / ロマンアルバム Theatrical Macross F - the false songstress - Guide book / Roman Album Price including tax: 900円 （857円＋tax） Publication date: 2009.11 Size: A4 oversized ISBN: 9784197202867 Contents summary: 01-07 movie scenes and summary (majority on first half of the movie) 08-11 Interview of Supervisor Kawamori Shouji 12-15: character design art (complete with one art typo. Someone forgot to move the masking from one of Ranka's images!) 16-25: TV series illustration gallery (from a variety of magazines) 26-38: TV series episode synopsis 39: Macross links (references to previous series in the MF TV series) 40-46: TV series character art 47-48: TV series mechanical art 49-53: history of Macross (brief synopsises of previous Macross series. This and the following are by production date. Macross II is present) 54-57: Galaxy Divas (singers. Minmei to Mao Nome) 58-61: mechanical designs of key VFs and ships from the various series) 62-63: Frontier Keywords my opinion: good for the MF TV series content. Not worth it for MF movie content. Does have a neat nostalgia factor for the previous Macross series. <hr> 劇場版マクロスF〜イツワリノウタヒメ〜 公式ガイド PERFECT TRIANGLE Theatrical Macross F - the false songstress - Formal Guide Perfect Triangle Price: ￥1200 Publication date: 2009.12.18 Size: B5 ISBN: ISBN 978-4048544399 Contents summary: 02-03 Introduction 04-07 Movie poster art 08: Table of Contents 09-24: chapter 01 (generally each two-page section has the time in the move (ex: 0:00:00 - 0:07:51) and scene numbers (eg: A part S1-S3), a picture and written synopsis, the Supervisor's (Kawamori's) comment at the bottom, and a character (Eg Saotome Alto) in the left outside margin; complete with particulars, and brief character history, etc.) 25-48: chapter 02 (6 pages Sheryl x Ranka (character art, description, etc), 4 pages interview with Aya Endo and Megumi Nakajima, 2 pages Aruto (character art, description, etc.), 2 pages interview of Yuichi Nakamura, 1 page VF-25 Tornado Pack (space mode is itty bitty small), 1x Macross Quarter, 1x Mantis-like Vajra, 1x Vajra Battleship and Destroyer, 5x Island 1 interior shots) 49-46: chapter 03 (interviews of Kawamori Shouji (2 pages), then following, each one page with 1 page of their art facing: Yasuhito Kikuchi, Risa Ebata, Hiroshi Yagishita, Hidetaka Tenjin (apparently he added a lot of the fine details), Shunichiro Yoshihara, Itsuro Sasakura) 47-62: TV series mechanical art 63-80: chapter 04 (same as chapter 1, but covers last half of the movie) 81-57: chapter 05 (follows the pattern of text interview on right page, with storyboards and finished animation on left page. Interviews with Yoko Kanno (YK) #1, Stage Guide Sheryl Nome #1, YK #2, Ranka CM, YK #3, SGSN #2; last 2 pages are both of the universal bunny storyboards and finished animation) my opinion: good for the technical details (read: Japanese text). Not so good for the pictures. I've looked at the other ones a bunch of times after picking them up. This one? I almost forgot about it after putting it in the bookshelf!) Part 2 to follow

There are a plethora of in-jokes in Macross. Sadly, a large chunk of them are lost in the translation to English. Two of my favourites are a play on Mitsubishi (lit. trans. "three diamonds"): - M7's Three-Star Kairetsu Factory ship (playing on the Mitsubishi Kairetsu) - MF's Itsubishi Heavy Industries (lit. trans. "five diamonds")