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  1. sketchley
    While I really like JBO's answer, see Lolicon's post:
  2. sketchley
    Sadly, the one way to have solved this and gotten BW to play ball with Tatsunoko was to have shown Big West how big a profit they can get from overseas customers...
  3. sketchley
    Yes. While things won't be getting easier for our overseas members, neither will they be getting more difficult. Status quo...
  4. sketchley
    In short: they earn money by licensing SDFM to HG (who in turn licenses it to 3rd parties). They don't own domestic rights (in Japan), BW does. The international rights for DYRL are a mystery. While BW owns them domestically, no one really knows who owns what percentage internationally (if memory serves, there are more parties involved, such as the distributor, Toho).
  5. sketchley
    I am in no way attempting to mitigate your concerns. Merely approaching this from a biological point of view: People of the far north (Inuit, Eskimos, and so on) also have darker skins, because of their diet. (Apparently it's a vitamin D rich diet from fatty fish that are naturally rich in vitamin D). It's arguable that mermaids could have dark skin (just like the Inuit, et al), however, they'd need to be spending a lot of time near the surface of the water, where there's more UV. Of course, if the mermaids live at the bottom of the ocean, then they should have "skin" like the Blind Congo River Spiny Eel: https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59447/the_blind_congo_river_spiny_eel_mastacembelus_brichardi_lives_in_the_turbid_waters_of_the_congo_river.html (but I don't think anyone wants to see a movie where the heroine has skin like that! :lol: )
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    Hint: those aren't older VFs as they were when they were newly produced. Think of them as something akin to the '60's hot rod version of the Model T. With the VF-1, we know one of them was upgraded with thermonuclear burst turbine engines. Definitely not stock.
  7. sketchley
    I believe that comes from the background of the VF-1X++ in Macross the Ride.
  8. sketchley
    Thanks for the plug. Bolt, for Earth/Solar System specifically, see: http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/Stats/Locations/Earth.php Note: anything from the Official Macross Setting is in green (so, just skim and scan until you find green text). Text in steel-blue comes from the VFMF books, etc.
  9. sketchley
    I'm not defending the books logic. I'm just pointing out what the book said. As per the book: it's something about the VF-1 being a really low threat level, and is used in a capacity to prevent the escalation of a conflict between belligerents. As for the non New Unified Forces (Emigrant Planets, poorer fleets, etc.), it all comes down to cost. The book even agrees on the point that the VF-1 isn't the best VF out there, however, it's still really good at what it was designed to do (intercept and battle Zentradi Mobile Weapons in regional conflicts). And it fleshes that point out with those aforementioned remote, cash-strapped worlds (etc.) being able to afford either a handful of the latest VFs OR an air force's worth of VF-1's. Again, I totally agree that the logic makes less sense for the Earth defensive fleet. However, it's pretty sound for the remote planets. I also really like the point they make where the VF-1 is overbuilt, and in someways, sturdier than more modern VFs (echoing the RL design ideology of skyscrapers, past to present.) Isn't that essentially what the VF-1Z constitutes? It appears you've neglected to consider the mission role from that exaggerated response. Here's the line about the Super Tucano from that article that could be applied just as equally to the VF-1 in the 2060's: "was designed to be a low-cost system operated in low-threat environments." Perhaps it would be more relevant if I asked: Why has the US Airforce been using antique propeller driven aircraft to fight ISIS? They have the F/A-18F, the F-35, the F-22, yet they've brought Bronco's out of retirement for that fight.
  10. sketchley
    Again, something to be taken with a grain of salt. Yes, they were frontline main fighters, but only on remote emigrant planets. While emigrant fleets, the Earth defensive units, etc., used them in a frontline capacity, the book implies that they were one squadron (or was it only half a squadron?) out of hundreds (perhaps thousands) of squadrons of more modern VFs. Perhaps the closest real world example is the modern propeller driven attack craft - the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano Weren't those upgrades apparently done in the late 2010's?
  11. sketchley
    In short, they demonstrate a high angle of attack (AOA)—or the ability to fly & shoot at opponents at up to 60° from the direction of flight. Compare to an AOA of 20° for most aircraft, and the up-to 45-50° AOA of other supermaneuverable fighters.
  12. sketchley
    "Officially" everything you said—except the parts about the FAST Pack shape—has been going on for decades. For example, there's the VF-1X in MDM:VF-X and it's sequel VF-X2. The VF-1X++ from MtR. The anime has also been getting into the act with the VT-1C in MD7, and the VF-1EX in MD. * Technically, VFMF:VF-1 Battroid Valkyrie contends that only a "few" of those VF-1 were from the original production runs. So, Seto's "kept in service" comment should be interpreted as "continually replaced with newly produced models".
  13. sketchley
    The parts of it that I've translated are available here: http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/OTdengekihobby.php#2011 Just like Seto, the remaining parts are on the "to do list". :lol:
  14. sketchley
    Re wing pods: Sv-51 (illegible) micro-missile pods re gun pod: "gun pod" re nose: something about the internals being shared with the "C-29 Monitor" cockpit: I can't make it out exactly, but it's something along the lines of for Windermerians, or for training Windermerians. Tail: I can't make anything out other than it's about the tail
  15. sketchley
    Erm, thanks, but I was referring to the Sv-154 Svard...
  16. sketchley
    As a rear shot hasn't been released, it's hard to say with certainty, but it's probably just like the Sv-262: the exhaust of the two separate engines are pumped out of the one nozzle. At the very least, it's consistent with the design ques from their only other known fighter.
  17. sketchley
    Yes, here: http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/Stats/index.php (when in doubt, check the website in my info under my avatar) EDIT: fixed all the links in this topic to the right one
  18. sketchley
    Macross II final episode?
  19. sketchley
    Well, it wasn't just the SV-51, but the VF-0 also had fuel capacity problems (but that's more to do with them using conventional—jet fuel burning—engines). Regarding the Sv-262: I think the reduced fuel capacity is more to do with underscoring the technology or performance gap between them and the hero Valkyries (which are themselves, not quite as cutting-edge as the VF-25/27/29 of MF). Nevertheless, the reduced fuel capacity only comes into play outside of an atmosphere, as even the VF-1 (which has a notoriously low fuel capacity) can fly for something like a month on a single fuel load—in the atmosphere.
  20. sketchley
    Definitely. If I'm not mistaken, that's a Hankyu train, and the Macross the Art exhibition was being held at the Osamu Tezuka Museum in Takarazuka—a terminal station on one of the Hankyu lines.
  21. sketchley
    Agreed. This popped up in BBC: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190523-what-ridley-scotts-alien-can-tell-us-about-office-life It totally reaffirmed my interpretation that the "Alien" title is as much about the xenomorph, as it is about the environments (ship/planet), and especially the relationship between the crew.
  22. sketchley
    Well... it's probably best to think of them as being in different cinematic realities. Terminator 3 and Genisys are basically comedies. So, they're best viewed with the critical thinking turned off, and just going along for the ride. Salvation... uhm, it's the one with the Batman actor, and basically the only good thing about it is that it made Terminator 3 look good. Nevertheless, I quite liked Genisys. Not because of where the plot eventually ends up, but for all the nods to iconic moments in the previous films and how it usurps our expectations of how those scenes play out, and for the film being aware of the effects of a time loop (the combatants are evolving each time they pass through it), with suggestions that someone from farther in the future is using the time loop itself as a battleground—in the sense that who we thought are the main opponents [Skynet and John Conner] are actually the pawns of someone or something else.
  23. sketchley
    Thanks. It would be nice if there was some information on the cool looking mystery vehicles in that same picture (specifically the one described as, and I quote, "?"). Nevertheless, just from the name, it goes to show how awesome Miyatake-san and Kawamori-san are as mecha designers. Even though it wasn't really depicted in SDFM, it implies that they were cognizant of how quickly the Zentradi Mobile Weapons and Valkyries burn through fuel, and how little fuel they are actually able to carry.
  24. sketchley
    Hey Seto (and anyone else in the know: have you come across any info on the Zentrādi "Automated Resupply Craft". For ease of reference, refer to the screen grabs here: https://ptn.home.xs4all.nl/AircraftAux/zen_Tanker.html The name comes from Kazutaka Miyatake's writing on the setting illustration on Memory Perfect Pg 177 (lower right corner). Part of the craft also appears on the lower left corner of Pg 176. There's a clearer (= larger) version of that image in This is Animation: Macross Vol #1 (the blue book here http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/books/series_tia1_2.htm ), if you have it.
  25. sketchley
    Speaking of the Japanese Wikipedia, it does shed some light on the origins on "Gnerl", and its proper reading: Source: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ゼントラーディ軍の兵器#空戦ポッド Translation: Although its unknown if an official name has been published in any magazine or book so far, just before this Mobile Weapon's launch scene in Eps 1 of "Super Dimensional Fortress Macross", there is a line where the operator of Buritai's ship says, "Jināru launch point". Also, it is written as "Gnerl" in the enemy aircraft name display in the PS3 game "Macross 30 The Singing Voice That Connects The Galaxy". Perhaps "G-Nar" is a better transliteration than the Nerf phonologically homologous "Gnerl"?
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