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  1. sketchley
    I think Ebata Risa simply emulated Buritai's design with Ogotai. However, due to the allusion that Ogotai is a clone of Buritai in the character sheet, the bad eye may be congenital. Alas, as with most things written about in-series Macross details, the Japanese isn't very precise or definite.
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    ER/RM++ Project: Glossary 07A: Onogi City - Gabigura: http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRglossary/MCRglossary.php - there are quite a few gems in the parts translated. Now with more Kabagyu ice cream.
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    I believe that's a common theme in the kit. It shows up in places where they give you the choice of either putting the silver foil underneath the clear parts, if you intend to paint the kit, or coloured foil over the clear parts if you don't intend to paint the kit. I'm also surprised at how much detail has been added to the internal pieces that are generally to mostly covered up. And that's despite one not being able to remove external panels in key places!
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    I'll try the explanation again: When folding up the backpack, part A (blue) folds into part B (purple), and C locks into B. The only relationship the rod has to the lock is that it acts as the axle that the two parts rotate around.
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    It doesn't look like you've got the joint past the point where the "lock" engages - there's a locking tab on the long, thin piece with the vernier motor* that engages when it's completely folded up. * the one that's directly attached to the back, not the one directly attached to the backpack.
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    Dengeki Hobby Aug. 2013 Macross content roundup: The big piece is a whopping 10 page article on the 1/72 VF-1 Valkyrie plastic model kit. The first 3 pages of it are on the assembly of the more complicated areas of the kit. As someone who is building it, I've found it helpful, as the pictures provide a supplement to the instruction manual - especially with some of the smaller parts of the transformation mechanism. There are also 5 pages on KuWa's and Toriwo Toriyama's builds of the kit. KuWa's build is a bit more informative, as it includes a page of work-in-progress images when he was doing the panel lining and weathering. Macross the Forefront: 1) Bandai 1/72 VF-1S Roy Fokker (￥4,725 (tax included), planned September release) 2) Weekly Macross Chronicle Revised Edition (￥690 (tax included), every Tuesday, 34 A4 pages) 3) Banpresto Prize: Macross 30th Anniversary SQ Figure Arts Ranka Lee Crossover (Ranka Lee in Minmei's costume in the final act of DYRL) 4) Metal Box: Metal Boy MB-26 VF-1S Strike Valkyrie (￥12,600 (tax included), planned July 10 release, approx. 120 mm) 5) Hasegawa 1/72 VF-25 Messiah (tentative) kit (undetermined price, planned fall release): there are some CAD images of the nose and central fuselage (front, top front 3/4, and bottom 3/4 shots) 6) Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1J Valkyrie "Macross 30th Anniversary Painted Craft" (￥2,940 (tax included), planned end of June release) 7) DX Chougoukin VF-27γ Lucifer Super Parts Set (￥21,000 (tax included), planned mid-August release) DX Chougoukin VF-171 Standard Craft Armoured Parts (￥5,775 (tax included), planned September release) 9) DX Chougoukin RVF-25 Messiah Valkyrie (Luca Angeloni craft) Renewal Ver. Super Parts and Ghost Set (￥8,925 (tax included), planned November release) 10) DX Chougoukin VF-25G Messiah (Michael craft) Renewal Ver. Super Parts Set (￥4,725 (tax included), planned October release) Lastly, one of the centrefold pinups is of a Battroid 1/72 VF-1S Strike Valkyrie kit, themed around the scene in DYRL where Hikaru smokes Bodoruza.
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    He's matured as a director - something he made clear about with Innocence: it's a film for fans of his style of film making. Part of me is cheered by that, as he's making films about stuff that he cares about, not about making a lot of money.
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    ER/RM++ Project: Character: TF Citizen 01C Ranka Lee: http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRcharacter/MCRcharacter.php#TMF - most interesting is the relationship chart. History: F 03A: Ranka Lee Live: http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRhistory/MCRhistory.php#MF - I liked the brief summary of Ranka's rise to success. Sure, it's fiction, but it's a good reminder how much entertainment success is down to luck.
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    Complete! Technology 05A: Emigrant Ships: http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRtechnology/MCRtechnology.php - slapped up into PHP, and translation tweaked. No major changes between the two editions, but the confusing bits of the translation have been cleaned up. Enjoy.
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    Maybe its something that they'd rather everyone forgot about?
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    ER/RM++ Project: Character: M Zentraadi 01A Buritai Kuridaniku: http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRcharacter/MCRcharacter.php#SDFM - now with all there is to know about the eye. The highlight of the sheet is his and a VF-1 Battroid's stature down to the centimetre!
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    ER/RM ++ Project: Timeline 19A: The Conclusion Of The First Interstellar War: http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRtimeline/MCRtimeline.php - slightly revised and slapped up into PHP. No major changes between the two versions (though, the revised version has a tendency to remove する in some of the point form entries...) Mechanic: F NUNS 06A: Macross Frontier War Fleet: http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRmechanic/MCRmechanic.php#MF - also slightly revised and slapped into PHP. No changes between the versions, but the translation has been tweaked (ie: the wordy ships-of-the-same-type changed to isomorph ships).
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    ER/RM++ Project: Episode sheets! http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRepisode/MCRepisode.php Episode: 7 15A: Macross 7 Eps. 15 "A Young Lady's Jealousy" - another excellent commentary on the episode. As always, the topics leave one wanting more. Episode: F07A: Macross F Eps. 7 "First Attack" - doesn't the commentary on the MF episodes seem less energetic than the ones for the M7 ones? The topics this time are quite satisfying, rounding out the Galaxy Fleet and the M1/4's transformation that much more.
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    Indeed. It also mentions that they're planning to release a sticker to correct it, at a later date. http://deagostini.jp/mcr/whats_new.php
  15. sketchley
    The most recent incarnation of it can be found here (last paragraph of Kawamori san's introductory letter): http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRseriesguide/SrsGuid.php#0203
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    Piccy:
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    Picked one up today at Joshin: 20% discount AND freebie post FTW. On a semi-related note: the Macross Armour Factory set is still on sale there for ￥2,500, apparently until July 27.
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    Complete! Mechanic: TF SMS 05A: Quadoran Rhea / VB-6 Koning Monster: http://sketchleystats.webatu.com/Trans/MCRmechanic/MCRmechanic.php#TMF - now with all the info that should've been on the MF Rhea and VB-6 sheets! One of the highlights is the mention of the fate of the VB-7. Another is the wide-area fire-fighting shells (I wonder what those are, as wide-area weapons are generally used to describe nukes, reaction weapons and Dimension Eaters...).
  19. sketchley
    Maybe he's asking if they're hard encoded (built into the picture itself) or not.
  20. sketchley
    Ah, good memory. That was the line I remembered but couldn't recall. In a different (later?) episode, some of the other team members do a little character deconstruction on him, and point out that he's actually much smarter than he acts, and (if memory serves) he admitted that he only acts that way to so that people don't expect as much of him.
  21. sketchley
    I think the first movie already made that point fairly well. John Conner wouldn't exist if his father wasn't sent back in time. Therefore, because he exists to send Reese back to father him, Skynet must take over the world with robots. Anyhow, T4 is definitely the low point (so far). When I first saw T3, I thought it was horrible, but T4 made it look good! (And T3 has it's dirty-pleasure fun of being entirely goofy. Although it fails at serious VF, if you watch it as a comedy, it works.)
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    Remember, the movie version is "Jack O'Neil". The TV version is "Jonathan J. "Jack" O'Neill". Richard Dean Anderson's "complaints" about how Kurt Russel played the character are also hilarious.
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    I like Steven Hawking's solution to that: manipulate DNA so that the humans who take those space flights live at least twice as long. Most scientists agree with that. To the point that they think the best possibility of finding something close to Earth would be in orbit around an exo-solar gas giant (but not one of those hot Jupiters, of course).
  24. sketchley
    Ah... that explains things. I guess tomorrow I get to be the old fart staring out the window, reminiscing on the freedoms of being single, without kids. TT_TT;;;
  25. sketchley
    When I got your PM, I didn't think it would be literally tomorrow. You guys must not have children (or have been planning this way in advance)...
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