Jasonc

Great news...Where's the VF-4?

If Kevin's position on the website as a promo tool was indeed scorned, it's probably out of wanting to make his non-essential job there seem more glorified, more necessary than it really is. Not only that, but that sort of thinking is only a moron would come up with, as the site is up 24/7, and viewable to just about everyone. Convention tour??? Only a fraction of those people will see that, and a small fraction. The idea of a digital comic to download from iTunes, or as a viewable media to paying subscribers of the site not only supports giving the fans new material, it generates income, and creates (more or less) a positive buzz. I'm sure they won't do that, since Tommy isn't the one who thought of it. From what I've heard, Tommy's notorious for not wanting to get involved in good ideas if he didn't come up with it. I can think of a few ideas that were put in his decision to move with or not, and he's turned them down, then turned around and decided to do a half-assed version of the same thing. Perhaps it's not the greatest thing to be in a position where you need to have total control, from concept to end product, but you don't have the creative gumption to do anything really worthwhile. Of course, I could be totally wrong aout all of that, but I doubt it.

Nice displays there. Right now, I have a lot of my boxed items and collections in 3 display cases just to consume space for the closet. Still thinking that by the endof year, I'll have a display room. I'd like to have a MOSPEADA section, as I seem to have gained a new found fondness for the series.

Are you referring to the Macross Ace Magazine mangas? I've been working with someone here on doing Macross the First, but only have through book 1 done. I'm hoping that the iPhone has that app that translates one language into another in real time available for Japanese soon. I'd love to be able to use that to help in the translation effort. But alas, it's not available as of yet.

This is an awesome thread chalked full of cool pics, and great new stuff. I long for the day of having a room with a display full of stuff to just look at and occasionally pull stuff out. Got some good surprises coming your way guys in a shot period of time.

Love that orguss poster. Unfortunately, I don't have any Orguss posters as of yet, just a coupe cels of it.

Look, whether you hate it, love it, or are completely indifferent to it, if they did a web comic, they'd have enough material if they simply did the Sentinels, joining Macek's vision of it with the Yuniverse version. That way, fans of Carl, fans of Tommy, and all those in between can get some filler story. I doubt they'd do all that now, especially since people like us at Macrossworld have come up with it before he did, but they could've done that on a monthly basis at least, and then put it up on iTunes as a download, or you can read and download it as an option for paid subscribers to the site. Had they thought of that, then they'd knock 2 birds out with one stone. They'd be generating money, would be supplying the fans with new content, and the staff would actually be working instead of pretending to do so. Wait, that's 3, so even better.

Sounds pretty cool. Hopefully it generates a lot of cash.

Um, because that makes too much sense, and would market the series too well. It seems like the HG staff's goal is to keep Robotech in a small box, and just show enough to piss their fanbase off. Not only that, but I have observed them as being quite lazy for the franchise.

I think if they put up this same poll for the Minmay Guard Paris or Moon Act Valkyries, I think there'd be a lot more "YES" for a purchase. Maybe Yamato could look into buying the design from Hasegawa? That would be on the top of my list, while this simply isn't. Even worse if it's a Yamato Exclusive. The Yen/dollar ratio makes the exclusives a lot less appealing.

You can also put a lot of blame on lack of oversight from anyone "in charge" of the project. Anyone who would know what they're doing in production wouldn't have had certain things simply fall through the cracks like they did. Crappy animation, cinematography, dull characters, a dull plot, and mistakes like one shot having Scott in his armor, and the next scene it not on, is again, lack of oversight and experience. They can blame the budget all they want, but that only accounts for some of the issues. The rest of it is just from people with lack of production experience pretending like they do know what they're doing.

Mine was a bit challenging to get them all together, but they do seem to do it. It takes a little playing around with the connector pieces.

Cool, got you down for it.

To me, they're like reading/watching cheesy 1960 and 70 B-movie sci-fi stories and movies. They're intended for the popcorn gorging fun when you have no alternative for entertainment. Back when these were on the stands, this was the only Robotech stuff really coming out, so it was, and the fans ate it up. Some of it, is pretty good, but in reference to the other Robotech stories and comic series that were out. I have actually read some of the series as of recent, and they don't have the deep, hard hitting plots that they seemed to have back in the day. Again, my opinion, or at least to me, they were all the Robotech that was out there, aside from expensive VHS tapes, so a lot of the feelings back then were nostalgia driven.

Done!!! And Done!!!

I know there are people out there that like it just because it may have some campy fun, and I'm not knocking on that. A lot of people like certain things that other may find stupid, odd, or even strange. I guess it's a question of how much fervor is going into all that. I have all those comics, and while they are pretty bad in reference to all the other great comics out there (Masamune Shiro's Ghost In the Shell comes to mind), reading them and taking them in their context doesn't make them as bad as they actually are.

That's probably cause you're not hopped up on a drug called nostalgia. Nostalgia will turn a lot of people into mindless turds. Too many cases for that point, so, insert your favorite RT elitist fringe runner.

The worst part about that, was that character-wise, I thought he was a much cooler character than Marcus, or just about anyone in the show for that matter. He wasn't so emo and a butt-hurt pilot. Ah well, just made it easier to mentally tune out when I saw it.

Hey Nick, got you on here, buddy.

Was it a top view shooter? I remember that one, but didn't know it was available as a downloadable, emulated game. If it's an older side scroll game, you may want to search for Macross Scrambled Valkyrie.

Isn't that what Craig and Smokey were smoking in the movie Friday?

Adult Swim on most nights, save for Saturday night is a joke. It's mostly a bunch of crappy animated shows that don't make any sense, and cartoons that lack any sense of plot. Seems that most of the ideas for cartoons on Adult Swim still have the idea that all cartoons should have no plot, and be void of any inteligence. That's why I don't watch, except for when they have the anime shows on at midnight starting saturday night/sunday morning. As for Robotech being on there, I could see it on Cartoon Network during the day, when everyone's at work, but Adult Swim??? Hahahaha (NOT). Even the idea of afternoon filler cartoon would be a waste for Cartoon Network, being that Robotech is free and/or available on youtube, Hulu, Netflix, DVD... it's supposedly all over the place, and the franchise is still barely alive.

Got it. That's what I get for working too hard yesterday, staying up late last night, and getting up way too early on a day off.

Done

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=35004 Just thought I'd link this here for people who keep up on this thread. I'm working on getting enough interested to do 1/55 figure sets to go with all those Toynami/Aoshima Legioss/Treads that are out there. Check it out.