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I agree - a lot of work was put into the model. It's a shame that the designer couldn't (either through software, or skill,) get something a little closer to the original. Nevertheless, the work is still stunning, and the first image of the 3 is relatively accurate.

To be honest, I have nothing against the Palladium rules. Mind you, I use a stripped and gutted version of them. In other words: use whatever you want, and chuck whatever gets in the way of your enjoyment. (Of course, as a GM, it's handy to have all those clunky rules around, if the players start making too much trouble. :evil: ) My big gripe with them, though, is in the later supplements, they began adding stuff. Sure, the uprisings, EBSIS, and stuff were cool and interesting new facets, but the new equipment, especially mecha? Puh-leaze! Get some artists who at least understand mechanics!

Agreed! The only real que we have to take, in regards to Macross, is to look at the Japanese Marine Self-Defense Force, and the vessels called 'destroyer' in their fleet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Maritim...rce#JMSDF_Fleet It should be mentioned that due to Article 9 in the Japanese Constitution, they are only allowed to have weapons of war that are defensive in nature. However, don't be fooled by that, as the Japanese have some of the largest destroyers on Earth, and some of them would be classified as different (heavier?) classes of ships in different navies. Thus, adding some weight to the political element in the naming of ships destroyer or otherwise.

I always thought that the lens of the weapon could be moved so as to fire the beam along different angles (say a 30 degree angle off of the straight line from the weapon.) Anyhow, it's another one of those weapons on the Y/VF-19 that isn't seen being fired...

The pilot doesn't have gloves!!!

Easy way to clear this up: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=ja&lr=&...on&ct=title Personally, I like the first definition. However, my understanding of the ship in question is that it fulls both the rolls of gunship AND escort, when needed. Let's be honest, there are times the Zentraedi won't be able to use the main gun of the ship, and will need it to defend (the escort role) capital ships in the fleet that are bigger.

Nied, I think you hit the nail on the head here. Going back to the original master film and upgrading it to HD is pretty simple. '60's era composite shots...? So, we're getting a renewed lease on life, upgradeable to the HD era, and promotion for the next movie. Damn, wish it was available here in Japan. I would like to see this series once more.

Thanks for the bigger scan. It says that it's still planed for a 'bottom of November' release.

Is it possible to get a better scan of the margin area - specifically around the fold booster? What I can read in Japanese is "YF-19 and VF-0 option parts." It's not clear if they will be released seperately or together. What I can read is "planned" and they have two seperate write-ups about them. It doesn't look like there are any holes in the wings. Though it does look like something can be opened on the legs - or else those are flaws in the mock-up that was constructed for the photoshoot.

I don't think it's a nuke. I believe it's a drop-tank. Yes, quick check of the book: "giant propellant drop-tank with reverse thrust nozzles (at the front)".

Yes. It's in that book, next to a rough of a Stampede VF-11 (that aparently never made it off of the design board.)

I believe it falls into the category of 'made for (pay-per-view) TV movie'. I can't comment on it beyond the translations, and the links provided previously in this thread.

Agreed, however, from the Macross Compendium: http://macross.anime.net/story/chronology/2009/index.html (Search on page for: defold reaction from 10 light years ) To clarify, I'm not trying to imply that Zentraedi sensors are limited to the speed of light. What I am saying is that there range is less-than 10 light-years distance. For all we know, they could use the theorized 'superdimension space communicators' as a means of detection (similar to the Star Trek sub-space communicator.) Anyhow, I don't mean to go further down the debate road on the nature of their sensors - just wish to point out their possible maximum range limitation.

The only thing we know for certain of a limit to the Zentraedi sensors is that they cannot detect greater than just less than 10 light years. Reason: the Zentraedi arrived (roughly) 10 years after the arrival of the SDF-1. Unlike the Robotech version, where the Zentraedi detect the SDF-1 upon activation, the Macross version Zentraedi simply detect the defold; namely light and the gravity distortions - both of which travel at the speed of light. Elaborating on this a little, the two Zentraedi ships were dispatched to investigate the SDF-1 a few minutes after the Zentraedi defolded in the Sol system. It is argueable that the SDF-1 was fully aware of them from the moment of defold. It simply waited until they moved into a certain radius (range of the main gun? Range of the Zentraedi ship weapons?) before firing. Thus giving more weight to the arguement that OTEC has super sensors.

Agreed with the other good points. As for this paragraph - I speculate that what we are shown is the limits of the individual unit's sensors. Perhaps in conjunction with the sensor Regult (or a capital ship,) they'd be able to shoot accurately at targets over far greater distances. However, it appears that there was ECM active on the battlefield (most likely from the Zentraedi side,) and that is probably the biggest inhibitor to 'over the horizon' fighting - on both sides. Regarding the food issue... we know the SDF-1 is full of both excess space, and lots of OTEC equipment that is barely understood. Some of that OTEC equipment being the Zentraedi recloning/resizing chambers. Using that technology, the staff of the SDF-1 could input material (biological waste products, other minerals/metal, matter, etc.) and out comes fully cloned wheat, carrots, and a cow or two. Thus, easy access to fresh foodstuffs, with only the energy costs of 'production' needed. As for the excess space in the SDF-1 - the ship was attacked during it's launching ceremony, right. The ship most likely would've done a short test cruise with a small crew complement, before coming back to port, getting more things mounted on it, and a full crew complement into it. The large size of the spaces were also probably a combination of the giant sized hangar bays of the Zentraedi/Inspection Army, and that when renovating the ship, the humans just ripped out what they deemed unnecessary, in preparation for installing what they felt was necessary - barracks for personnel, internal training areas, etc..

Actually... rerecording the soundtrack - and if possible, getting the original actors back into the ADR booth to redo their voices - is pretty consistantely done with these things. Advances in sound technology, or so I have been told.

Agreed.

Here's the website for the movie "Udon": http://www.udon.vc/movie/

a song of the milky way ありがとう。 I live in Japan. I have a Japanese wife. The person put in both an e-mail and a mobile phone number of Japanese origin; and the message has the syntax of an on-line translator. I don't call that being a wiseguy. As for the message: "Yes, the person is Japanese. The person is somewhere near the location (of the filming?) of the movie "Udon". Using Japanese is good. Because the site is still being prepared, only the address is being put up." Regarding the website, roughly, it's: "The world fan Macross 25th anniversary site It is under production."

The jock-kus would probably terrorize the otaku with physical violence until the otaku hide in their rooms, and the jock-kus make a mess of the house with their reinactments of favourite sports moments.

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Kensei, isn't that really called 'the Itano Circus'? Anyhow, Sumdumgai, don't forget the sports otaku that are prevalent in North America. I swear, anywhere you turn, you come across them, their bad fashion sense, and geekiness to talk only about sports. Of course, sports otaku are not really recognized as otaku... the last time I checked, that is.

There are a number of arguements regarding why there aren't that many seen. The biggest would be that most of the human ships are out commanding fleets that are exploring and possibly colonizing the galaxy. Another reason could be that the UN Spacy command got complacent with a bunch of commandeered, and renovated Zentraedi ships in orbit. Lastly, and this is probably the most relevant: the producers of Macross II felt that the more Zentraedi ships there were, the closer to the other Macross projects Macross II would appear to be. Let's face it, without those hordes of Zentraedi ships - and the lookalikes in the Mardook fleet, the show would really only be Macross in name...

This topic has got me thinking - Mr. Lucas is continually tweaking the movies as they get rereleased. Me thinks that in a few years, after the next generation of DVD has defeated its opponent, he'll do a new release - possible all 6 movies - but he'll get the guy who played Vader in the 2nd and 3rd movies, and place him in all of the shots where he appeared in the 6th movie - not just the final one, of the 3 ghost-like jedi masters... As a creative type, I can fully understand why Mr. Lucas is doing his tweaks and changes. Heck, most manga-artists do it when their manga is collected into pocket book form... though, I do agree that some of the change (some of them even mentioned here) weren't necessarily improvements, and some just didn't look very good at all on the big screen (4th movie, arriving in the port city on Luke's speeder - the 3D pan of the city was a big blur! Hideous.) I also wonder why, after spending oodles of moulla on fixing and adding SFX, why they didn't fix the red bar over the emperor's eyes in the 6th movie... that's bothered me from day one.