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I'm not certain something like that can be made retroactive. There is also the fact that The Sentinels is still available with the Robotech DVDs (now the Protoculture Edition) means that those images are STILL being profitable for Harmony Gold. I would rather have seen Breetai in one of the Officer's Pods instead of something Tommy considers a Bioroid....

Excepting that every single copy of The Sentinels video (from Palladium's 1988 to the current DVD copy) contains scenes with both mecha. I would imagine BigWest would have a hard time claiming that Harmony Gold did not have the rights to these images when they've never been contested in over 18 yrs of use.

Actually, the modified Battlepod and Officer's Pod from The Sentinels would probably be safe to use.

Well, I don't collect toys, but I do collect old D&D modules and boardgames like HeroQuest and Talisman. None of what I like would really be affected by a crash because my stuff is already a niche purchase, though HeroQuest was one of the most produced games ever, thanks to MiltonBradley. You can still find the game and expansions from time to time at thrift stores. D&D modules, on the other hand, since they are rarer to begin with, I'm totally at the mercy of the what the market charges.

I'm actually glad Crash won. My roommate and I watched it a few months back and we were both surprised. Neither of us thought it was gonna be worth a damn, thinking it was going to be a 2-hour rant on 'Whitey sucks and racism is all their fault' that typically passes for an 'enlightened look at racism' in movies.

God, what a piece of utter cr*p. The D&D Movie was better than this steaming pile. The script writer of Ultraviolet should be barred from ever writing again.

Darren McGavin, of Kolchak: The NightStalker, A Christmas Story and Billy Madison fame (among many others) passed away on the 25th in Los Angeles of natural causes. Rest in Peace.

Courtesy of Darkwater's THE (unofficial) Robotech Reporter I'm going to go throw up now....

Battlestar: Galactica Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 88% Serenity (Firefly) 81% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 75% Moya (Farscape) 69% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 63% SG-1 (Stargate) 63% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 56% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 50% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 44% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 38% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 25% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 19%

Actually, dialogue in both eps. #50 Triumvirate and eps. #60 Catastrophe revealed that Max and Miriya had 3 children: Dana, unnamed little brother and Aurora/Maia. Macek's stupid post-Robotech reasonings aren't worth a bucket of warm spit because he didn't write Robotech.

I could ask you the same as to why you are at Robotech.com since you 'hope that HG one day will vanish forever so we can all have Yamatos at cheap crazy prices'. If you wanna get into a pissing contest, be my guest Waters7. RDF HQ EZBoard Messageboard.... It usually applies to narcistic Macross fans who have the nerve to constantly tell me, whether I want to hear it or not, that Southern Cross sucks ass and that there is no fan base and I should just shut up and go away. It also applies to a-holes at Robotech.com that think The Macross Saga is all there is to Robotech, and the rest is not even worth wiping their ass with and any of us who are fans of anything else in Robotech are simply deluded and/or stupid.

Channel surfing is what I do at work...and I love it. Sometimes I get surprised what I come across. This one totally floored me, cause I didn't expect it in the least. A little while back, while channel surfing at work, I caught about 5 seconds of Totally Spies. Its not my cup of tea to say the least. However, it was what was on screen that stood out. I finally found one screen cap of it, and figured I would share it. I'm going to try and find a few more. Hmmm.....looks basically like the the Flashclapper.... or maybe the Thunderclapper....

More correctly, that is a modified VA-8 'Super' Logan (though maybe Armo-Logan would be better?) created by Wayne Breaux in the very last supplement for the Robotech RPG published by Palladium.

From IMDB.com From Harmony Gold's own catalogue: This is the first any of us have heard of Dong-Wook Lee. Anyone know if he is someone at Dr. Movie?

Actually, it cannot transform into its Transport mode (aka Sniping Clapper in Southern Cross). It acts as a Tank in Gladiator (aka Walking Cannon) configuration, not in Transport. Transport mode is just that: a battle taxi (sort of) and a reconnaisance vehicle (hence the reason the driver sits without a cover).

Nope, thats not ALuCE-1, which is at the northern polar lattitude. That is some other base, perhaps the rebuilt Luna, or a third base built during the occupation. All we know of it is what Sue Graham stated that it was a base on the 'dark side of the moon'....though thats incorrect as well.

No information has been available about the case for a while. My guess is that it was all settled out of court.

There is supposed to be a 'visual update' on Tuesday on Robotech.com.....it may include a date for release. Best guess is 2nd Quarter of this year, if they are truly wrapping up post-production now. Supposedly the music is being scored in Prague over the next few weeks.

Not quite true. The SDF-3 was 'wrapped up in the exoskeleton of a Zentraedi battlecruiser'. In fact, we don't know what the SDF-3 was actually supposed to look like as all we ever saw was the 'Trojan Horse' in The Sentinels. I'm just wondering what they will do with this design, which isn't actually all that bad.....

Well, I told Tommy a couple of years back that the SDF-3 should have been shaped like that of a Tristar-class Cruiser Leader, since it was designed about the same time. Not that he would listen to someone like me since I'm only a fan. I think they really wanted ships that had the same Mospeada aesthetic as the Izumo and Ikazuchi's, though the standard Shimikaze's do have a bit of Southern Cross style in their forward bow section.

Shinano-class Cruiser, SDF-3 Pioneer Shimikaze-class Cruiser UES Icarus (should probably be the Icarus-class instead since its a modified Shimikaze)

In the novels, yes. Interestingly, the name Maia is at least peripherally related to Aurora, in that its the name of a Roman goddess. More likely, however, is that Miriya and Max picked the name because its the brightest of the stars in the Pleiades Cluster. Of course, there is also the idea that its simply a contraction of Max and Miriya.... Actually, Robotech itself has few plot/continuity holes. Its mostly the crap created afterwards that riddled with errors.

Ugh.... Review of Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles #5 The Good - Janice takes control of her new body by downloading her remaining conciousness into it. Still creepy looking without the use of the holo-projector. - Brief appearance by Dana Sterling in an unexplained confrontation with Maia, her younger sister. Design of Dana not bad, with her characteristic short hair, minus the poof ball style. She still has some sort of comm device on her left ear, though not the kind seen in Southern Cross (less high tech looking, in fact). - Test of Neutron-S Missile shows it in fact has the power of a small nova, just as Exedore stated of the weapons being built on the Factory Satellite in eps. #30 Viva Miriya. - The Battlecruiser UES Icarus is obviously a modified version of the standard Shimikaze-class with the addition of the Synchro-cannon to her forward end. - Minmay is shuffled offstage to Tirol and escorted by Jack Baker. So, neither of them will be in The Shadow Chronicles, though I would have liked Baker to appear. I couldn't give two sh!ts about Minmay. Too bad they simply didn't just off her. - Exedore shows up again, looking even more like Dess from Southern Cross. - Marcus Rush shows up, Marlene's little brother.....apparently Dana doesn't have a brother when she mentions one, but Marlene has one whom she never told anyone about in the brief amount of time we knew her. - SDF-4 Liberator....not a bad name. The Bad - Lisa gives up command of the SDF-3 to be an Ambassador to the Sentinels worlds. Military Governor of a Colony world I could believe. Ambassador to a bunch of Furries? Lame..... - Rem and Cabell show up. Why? Cabell is supposed to be dead at this point. What's more, Rem apparently doesn't know anything about the incidents surrounding Zor Prime and Dana, cause he asks her, apparently for the first time, 'Do I know you?' to which she replies 'In another lifetime'. Kind of pointless, to tell the truth as it leaves more questions than it answers. - In the very next panel, Dana and Maia come together and Dana walks off, somewhat sad looking. Why? Whats more, we are left hanging concerning Dana and Maia's brother that Dana mentioned in eps. #50 Triumvirate. - Commander Karen Penn reports to Admiral Hunter that the 36th (Jupiter) Division has dispatched an advance squadron under the command of Lt. Sue Graham, including a prototype small synchro-cannon. Umm, I do believe that Graham was neither in command of a unit (she was an Intel Operative on an information gathering assignment) nor was it simply a squadron. In eps. #83 Reflex Point, she states her entire BATTALION has been destroyed. My guess is that it was a combined arms Infantry unit (we see a group of Cyclone infantry get killed in the opening moments) with air assets attached. The Ugly - A great deal of the dialogue in the Edwards final show-down fight is lame. I expected Edwards to be replaced with a mustachioed Snidely Whiplash. - Edwards looks like something from Inu Yasha and/or La Blue Girl/Urotsukidoji. I can easily see some sick puppy making a tentacle sex ladden parody of this. - Apparently, the use of the Neutron-S Missiles was General Reinhardt's idea. Yep, its easy to blame a character named in The Masters War for all the woes of Robotech. No, can't have little Ricky Hunter actually think that one up himself. - Speaking of which, the Neutron-S Missiles are now weapons built by Edwards during the year his forces were on Optera. Thats right, they have the infrastructure to build 10, count 'em 10, weapons platforms that are each bigger than an SDF-type warship in just 365 days....without ANY kind of ship building facilities nor any heavy equipment to do so. Never mind the thousands of personnel required. - During the test of the single Neutron-S Missile in the Omicron Sector, Exedore says he's seen this before. Well no f*cking duh, morons! He's the one that told Gloval about these weapons in Viva Miriya. The UEG had access to these weapons for over 30 yrs at this point. You can also be damned sure that Gloval was intending on using them against the Masters cause he plainly states that the expedition is going to take the war to the Masters and destroy their means of making war. - The Shadow Dimensional Field apparently has control over the gravitational properties of the neutron star matter used as the explosive core of the Neutron-S Missiles. Funny, I could swear we see The Masters have control over gravity in The Masters War, as well as stealth, but apparently this is some kind of 'lost technology' that the Masters didn't have. - The UEEF Council sounds far more bloodthirsty than the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the UEF during the 2nd Robotech War. Yet, we are to believe that this same council condemned Supreme Commander Leonard (their boss, btw) for not negotiating with the Masters during the 2nd Robotech War. Hipocrisy, Robotech style. - Shinano-class Cruiser: SDF-03 Pioneer and Izumo-class Cruiser: SDF-04 Liberator. Ok, where are the Shinano and Izumo? Ship class names are taken from the first ship of that wave. Not so in Robotech apparently. - Maia tells Commander Taylor that Marcus and Alex Romero are so young. Ok, fine. Someone please explain to me about Maia's age then? Is she supposed to be in her 20s, as the Tv series would suggest from the age of Maia in Dana's hallucination in Catastrophe? That would mean that Dana knew of her well before the hallucination, what with Realtime FTL comm availability during the time leading up to the 2nd Robotech War. Notes: - There are apparently scenes that have been filmed for The Shadow Chronicles that will not appear in the final cut. These leaves room for an Unrated Extended Edition/Director's Cut later on. - Some of the classic themes from the Robotech soundtrack will be preserved and/or reworked in The Shadow Chronicles. We are, however, going to be treated to new themes for new characters. I bet Maia and Marcus each get a theme. A pathetic end to a pathetic series. Cyclone said it best when he stated that the Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles should have been a totally separate series from this horrid wrap-up of The Sentinels. Not only does it leave a sh!tload of unanswered questions, its poorly written and rather poorly conceived. I give the whole series a Flunking grade. Too much was wrong with it overall to make up for the few bright spots.

Doubtful as most of the mecha drawn by Kevin Long for the Macross main book were from DYRL, minus the Strike version of the FAST Packs. Besides, they did use line art in The REF Field Guide from both Mospeada and Southern Cross.

So did Peter Simon when he did some of the art for Robotech RPG Book 4: Southern Cross, though I think the Spartas and Logan pictures are simply traced and shaded line sketches from This is Animation Special #10: The Southern Cross. I personally think the RPG would have been far better served had they simply used the lineart for thing from the outset. Edit: As to Kevin Long and the Legioss, yea, you can tell alot of them are from the Gakken toy cause he has the centerline 8-shot Hammerhead Multi-Ejector Rack with the 80mm beam cannon mounted behind it.