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  1. sketchley
    As all my classic space sets were given away way back when, these two new sets are now at the top of my "must have" list. Thankfully, they're both in the affordable price range this time around!
  2. sketchley
    Yup. This will probably sum it up best: The sun's not only moving horizontal, but also vertically in it's orbit.
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    No one is denying that there were piloting errors (and if memory serves, there were bureaucratic errors as well higher up in the company - last minute route changes, poor maps, etc.). They made the point in that TV show episode that the plane went into "landing mode" and overrode some of the pilots later commands. The follow-up point was that Boeing (at the time) stressed that ultimate override control was in the hands of the pilot, but with Airbus, it was the avionics - which wasn't in support of the pilot's assertion, just a general statement of company design philosophy (something which, 20+ years later, Boeing now allegedly appears to be doing).
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    Ah... but isn't the Holiday Special merely a TV special, whereas the Ewoks movies are described as TV movies?
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    Apparently, Airbus has been doing that for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296#Alternative_explanation
  6. sketchley
    Hmmm... if we include the two Ewoks movies and The Clone Wars film, wouldn't that make Rogue One the 11th film in the Star Wars franchise?
  7. sketchley
    "Thunderball"?
  8. sketchley
    You're not the only one who gets fooled by the acronyms being bandied about. As a fellow MWer living in East Asia, maybe we should start chucking around our own regional ones, too? E.g.: The Ss at ASEAN were total JKKY! kekeke
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    Here's a list I created a few years ago of known Emigrant Fleets* and their last know status (green = official, steelblue = extended universe): http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/Stats/Locations/Locations.php#lssf It hasn't been updated with Macross Delta content. * the fleets aren't referred to as Colonization Fleets. In fact, there is a possibility of such things existing in addition to the Emigrant Fleets that we have seen. For example, an Emigrant Fleet discovered Eden. Thereafter colonization ships were most likely used to expand the colonies on Eden, but Eden was never referred to as a colony. It's referred to as an Emigrant Planet.
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    As you know, Japan doesn't have an army - it has a self defence force. So calling the "Helicopter-Destroyer" anything but a Destroyer (a ship for self defence) will make both the citizens and the neighbours angry. But they're not the only ones. The Russian carriers are called "heavy aviation-carrying cruisers"; to be able to transit the Turkish Straights. And those even have a ski-jump built in!!
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    The reason's a little bit different then what you're suggesting. The VF-1 is all-regime (jack-of-all-trades), but the trade off was an extremely short sortie time. Thereafter, they didn't have the technological know-how to make an all-regime fighter with adequate range until the VF-11. VFs like the space-optimized VF-4 or the atmosphere-optimized VF-5000 weren't optimized by choice, but by necessity. The VFs that come after the VF-11 (E.g. the space-optimized VF-19F) were by choice.
  12. sketchley
    That fighter's another great Kawamori-san design. :)
  13. sketchley
    All very good guesses. I was going to go with the triangle (as in love-triangles are one of the 3 pillars of Macross). However, after looking up the Greek letter Delta on Wikipedia, I'm going to go with 4 (4th letter of the Greek alphabet, number 4 in the system of Greek numbers—Macross Delta being the 4th Macross TV series ). So, one literal translation of the title into English is "Macross 4". What probably clinched the deal was the references to the delta wing, math operator, and so on. Though, I think the Delta name dictated the creative decision to use a lot of Greek terminology throughout the series.
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    Don't forget that the Emperor in ESB was doing the same thing - albeit with only his disembodied head. Something, it should be added, that Snoke did in TLJ, no?
  15. sketchley
    That's an impossibility, as the energy beings that possessed the Evhil-series bodies (bodies made by the Protoculture, BTW), come from a sub-dimension. The "dark hole" that Minmei et al entered mostly likely leads to a different reality, but the same dimension (or the same dimensional characteristics. In short, definitely not a sub-dimension inhabited by energy based beings.)
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    And hot off the presses, the 4th set in the "Master File Chronicle" series: https://www.deviantart.com/studiootaking/art/CFs-Generation-3a-Master-File-Chronicle-767383491 Hopefully it'll give someone their Variable Fighter fix until we get news on the (new?) Valkyries that'll be appearing in the upcoming Macross series.
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    This goes straight to the heart of the matter: bad writing. Which, is especially shocking when one considers how excellent Rian Johnson's writing was with "Looper". (Though, that does explain why he was given carte blanche in SW8).
  18. sketchley
    It was also in the original release. If memory serves, it's some time of Fold mishap or eddy or aftereffect from the destruction of Mars Base. Call it a flash forward. What's most nuts about it, is that Hikaru's seeing his future self.
  19. sketchley
    Expanding on Seto's answer: while the military in Macross is nominally based on the US (and/or NATO) organization, there are a lot of customs from the Imperial Japanese Forces still active. 3 aircraft in a flight being a prime example of that. So, it helps to look at the WWII organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army_Air_Service#Operational_Organization states 10 to 15 aircraft per squadron. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy_Air_Service states 9, 12 or 16 aircraft per squadron. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_the_Imperial_Japanese_Navy_Air_Service#Daitai,_Chūtai,_Shōtai states 18 per 大隊, 9 per 中隊, and 3 per 小隊. 小隊 usually being translated into Flight (therefore, in SDFM, Hikaru's unit should have been referred to as "Vermilion Flight"), and 中隊 as squadron. 大隊 would be the next organizational unit up. However, the translation is fuzzy at best. It's better to look at them from the Japanese perspective: 小隊 small group, 中隊 medium group, 大隊 large group. Or 1 large group = 2 medium groups = 6 small groups. The numbers also line up with Seto's paraphrasing from the series of 15 of 3 apiece, and 15~24 per squadron, especially if you take into consideration reserve aircraft , and aircraft for headquarters.
  20. sketchley
    I've done a bit of research into this. In short: whatever is in green in the following links is part of the official setting (= canon). http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/Stats/Statistics/Missiles/Missiles.php Aside from FCS, the only other important bit is on Guidance Sensor Types (comes into play in the following links). http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/Stats/Statistics/Missiles/missilesFCS00.php#micro Some of the micro-missiles for the VF-0 have been indicated as I/IR-Guided. http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/Stats/Statistics/Missiles/missilesFCS1020.php#micro IR-guided for the "Crusher" missiles on the GBP-1S. The AMM-1 missiles for the VF-1 have been indicated as having a "combined sensor", but that comes from a secondary source - the Variable Fighter Master File Books (so not part of the official setting). One can presume that similar sensors are employed on later micro-missiles.
  21. sketchley
    I'm going to second what JBO said. Someone who is generally trustworthy with such facts about the production side of SDFM et al wrote what JBO has repeated somewhere on these forums.
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    Only if one is looking for information on the upcoming Macross series.
  23. sketchley
    As indicated by sh9000 here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/29133-macross-books/?page=19&tab=comments#comment-1419680 , Great Mechanics.G 2018 Autumn features a major Macross article, and a gorgeous VF-1/SDF-1 (TV ver.) painting on the cover. The good news: 26 pages dedicated to Macross, with interviews with Shoji Kawamori and Kazutaka Miyatake. The bad news: as it's the 36th anniversary of Macross, the article is dedicated to the SDFM TV series. While there is some mecha (it is a mecha-themed magazine after-all), it's all of stuff that we've seen before. The only new images are rough sketches by Mr. Kawamori and Mr. Miyatake showing the evolution into what became the "Breast Fighter" (which was itself, ultimately replaced with the VF-1 Valkyrie). Interestingly, one of those designs is called "Aquarius".
  24. sketchley
    Technically SW and Pred are sequel movies, and Macross is slated to be an all new TV series. :wink:
  25. sketchley
    Well... the Vajra are said to exist in other galaxies (see end of Frontier). As for the Protoculture... I once ran a Macross RPG where the Protoculture had colonized a neighbouring galaxy (it was a riff on Stargate Atlantis). So, it's likely that Kawamori-san will think of that, too. However, as he tends to have different antagonists each series, I don't think you'll have to worry about them reoccurring in any capacity other than episodic antagonists (like the Zentradi in MF and MD).
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