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Ah ha! Or maybe that should be a pirate, "arrgh!" As Graham is in the Macross know.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/FREEDOM-PROJECT Yes. The first OVA was released on Nov. 24th. Main Characters are: Takeru, Kazuma, Bisu, Junkstore Father, and Taira. Here's the official homepage: http://freedom-project.jp/ Click CM for a 30 second commercial of the OVA/cup noodle.

Not much to add other than clips of it have been appearing in Nissin Cup Noodle commercials for the past couple of months here in Japan. I went to Den-den town last week, and I saw at least one DVD display stand for it. Sadly, all of the DVDs were sold out, so I am still rather in the dark about this production. Though, from what I have seen, it reminds me a lot of Akira (similar characters/character designs?) done in motion capture, and set on the moon. There are a couple of similar vehicles/props to those that appeared in the manga. Though, as they are only flashing by on a commercial, they may just appear to be similar...

Neo-Glaug for Macross Plus Game Edition (no battroid mode, and akin to the Ghost X-9.) The Variable Gluag (a better kit, IMHO) came with Macross M3. It also had two variants - standard, and Zentraedi. Both are much nicer in look than the Neo-Glaug. Mind you, they are refined versions of it...

Penguin, sounds like you had a very good run with those two games. Very interesting plots. Wldr, don't feel bad about revising the SDF:M/DYRL storylines. The officials do it all the time with them in video games about it.

Damn... the one ship that I wanted to stress, but completely slipped my mind once I pulled out the book, and opened the Compendium. @.@ There's also a cool oversized missile that Kazutaka Miyatake designed for the battle vs. the Macross 13. Not sure if a kit would be made for that... Hint - don't do anything, no shooting, no nothing, when you reach the choice scene. After about 30 seconds to a minute, the music changes, and the battle resumes (with you and him as allies.) Believe me, shooting him takes the player to the less interesting, much, MUCH more difficult ending... Reviewing the thread, I think this question hasn't been answered directly yet: No. One needs either 'Macross 7: Dynamite', 'Macross: M3,' or 'Macross Plus: Game Edition' to get it.

Dug out my VF-X2 Official Visual Guide: The VFs are: VF-1X-Plus VF-1X-Plus Super VF-1X-Plus Armored VA-3M Invader VB-6 VF-11B Thunderbolt VF-11B Full Armor VF-17D Nightmare Not sure how much of a difference the A,B,D, X makes, beyond the big differences between the VA-3, and the VA-3M (underwater mode, water landing mode, internal missile/torpedo launchers in the arms, internal lasers vs. external gun pod, etc..)

Annabella Lasiodora (some have claimed it to be a variation or modification to the Quel-Quallie Theatre Scout.) There's also: Gjagravan Va Regult (missile pod) Glaug Fighter Pod Defender Phalanx Tomahawk Drone Fighter Ghost SB-10/10 Starwing And for ships: Factory Satellite Rorqual Stealth Submarine Hatchet Class: Destroyer Atlantic Class: Attack Ship Uraga Class Variant Escort Battle Carrier West Point Class: Macro-Training Base Ship Transport ship (that looks like the Meltraendi LST) Meltraendi Gunship There are a few more vehicles in the game too (2x ground weapon turret, 1x space turret, 1x orbital defense laser, etc..) Quite a big ream of Macross vehicles, IMHO.

Isn't it the VF-1X? There are no Strike Valkrie's, just the Super Valkyrie.

There's a few scenes of the SDF:M ARMD hanger in the 2nd or 3rd episode (mostly Zentraedi lasers slicing through it.) The hangar inside of both the Daedalus and Prometheus can be found in "Macross Perfect Memory" or in one of the 3 "This is Animation: SDF:M" books. I recently picked up the "Macross Hobby Handbook" book, and it has a funky VF hangar in it - though I have yet to read the text (and I doubt if it'll say what ship the hangar is in.)

I've only got a few more... and none with names. I have a few more for things like the FAST pack equipped VF-4, some magazine pages from Macross World on Macross M3, and the Daedulus/ARMD II spaceship from ?Macross 2036?. I'm not sure if you're looking for these as well, or not. Enjoy the pictures.

Brief translations (most of the text is too small to be read... or at least read correctly.) VF-X3 Star Crusader (Medusa) (Ekihiya type charged particles??) beam launcher x2 3 velocity(?) Grenade Rack x2 Infared Laser System x7 Micro-missile phalanx x2 Missile Bay x6 question marks of course mean that as the source Japanese is illegible, the translation isn't 100% trustworthy.

It's probably nothing. 'Renewals' here in Japan often mean a combination of renovation and cleaning. It may be nothing more than revising the site to incorprate Macross 0 into it. Of course, it may be something more than that... next year is the big 25...

Yes... bad posture, from seeing all the incredulous changes going on in these forums...

Wow... I've been hit too... ... just noticed after reading this thread, and getting a hunch. Yay me...

Because that's what it is in Japanese: リガード. Rigaado is the romanization in modified Hepburn. The mildly amusing thing is that on pg. 168, of Macross Perfect Memory, next to the Japanese katakana, is 'Regult' in big, block letters. I am, once again, impressed by the language translating abilities of Animeigo.

There were 3 other Zentraedi battlesuit images that I found at the same time, and from the same source. They are: Zen1: ギルーザ　フリー　Giruuza Furii (Gilza Free?) Zen3: シグノミュ Shigunomyu (Shignomyu?) Zen4: シュルケル　ガー Shurugeru Ga (Shurgel Ger?)

Funny... I've seen the art for it recently - though don't ask me where I found it in the net... The katakana on the image is ログレン　ロー Using the Modified Hepburn system of romanization, it's Roguren Rou in English. In Macross English... maybe Rogren Rau?

Not enough of a demand? They figure that the serious builders out there would kit-bash either the fighter or the jet (or both!) and make a gerwalk mode for themselves?

One exists for 0083. If I remember, the next time I am in Den-den town, I'll see if the local Mandarake has a 0080 100% collection book or not.

I have the 2003 book. As the scans of it indicate, it is fairly comprehensive, but there isn't very much on individual mobile suits - slightly more for the more famous ones. The book has put a few MS in spots that I didn't find logical - but I'm not a big Gundam fan, so I may be missing the justification used. I recommend it, if you want the lineart of virtually all of the Gundam MS in one book.

I think it all comes down to preference. If one wants only the lineart, and especially some documentation on how the artist went through the design process (from various rough drafts to the final), then the design works are the ones to look into. For only finished artwork, Tenji Hidetaka's book is the better buy. Especially as it contains a Macross Zero CG art min-book/gallery near the end of the book. Sadly, there isn't very much on how Hidetaka goes through the process of actually creating his works of art.

Don't you mean: human, Zentraedi, and Supervision Army?

Ah... I was refering to their jet modes only. The battroid mode of the Fz-109 was designed by Kazutaka Miyatake. So, any big differences stem from that (two different people.) The Fbz-99 is another story altogether. Perhaps it was Kawamori attempting to create a battroid mode reminiscent of Kazutaka's 2 Varuta battroids?

I have no problems with the Fz-109, and Fbz-99, as they have just the right amount of both thick, and panel lines, for the shapes of the airframe to be understood. IMHO, Macross 7 contains some of Kawamori's best work since SDF:M, as the designs are all visually simple, yet complicated. Yes, anime magic is present in all of Kawamori's designs, but I have yet to see some type of entertainment where the designs are not distorted in some way (take out a wall here to make a better shot, move the seat to the left in the cockpit to get a better shot, etc..) Moving beyond Macross, IMHO, his work in Cyber Formula is also good. Yes, I don't like the racing cars, but the designs are again, simple, but complex. (Funny that Cyber Formula is another TV series...) He also did some great easy-to-decypher designs for Patlabor 1, Patlabor 2, and Ghost in the Shell. So yeah, just his dorsal of the SV-51 has too much extraneous line action going on (that confuses the basic shape), for me.