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Yea...but at least Mospeada stuff is gonna be made. Southern Cross stuff most likely doesnt stand a chance in hell because of Toynami and how Harmony Gold percieves their market. Toynami, of course, owns the worldwide license for the SC toys as well.

Actually...no. White Wolf is set to have an expedited hearing on the 10th of October. I saw Underworld Sunday night after work.....it could have been alot better. The Lycans were too wimpy to actually have had more than a chance against the Vampires. Way too many Lycans died as opposed to Vamps. I saw way too many parrallels between Celene and Lucita...plus the Bloodlines issue (I think that is where Sony might get hammered the hardest). The Abomination angle is probably another item that Sony will get smacked on. Lastly, the way in which Lycan's come about mirrors way too much Werewolf: The Apocalypse (though the shamanism of the Garou is missing from the movie). The shared memories is another as well....gotta love that Past Lives Background.

If you mean The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battlegame by Games Workshop.....yea. Ive got the FotR and TTT sets, plus 2 sets of Warriors of Middle-Earth. Expensive game....but with lots of minis. The Return of the King sets are coming in November IIRC. Im personally going to be collecting the Khazad so I can field an army of Durin's Folk for The War of the Last Alliance (and with the release of the Shadow and Flame set, I can have a Durin V for the War using Balin's stats). Some of the stuff that will be coming in the future covers personalties and creatures from the novels that were left out of the movie. SnF has Glorifindel (mounted and on foot), Elrond's twin son's Elladan and Elrohir, the Istar (Wizard) Radagast the Brown, Tom Bombadil, Goldberry and the Barrow-Wights. Hopefully the next expansion will include the other Ents like Quickbeam and the Huorns.

Well...we dont know why...nor does anyone else. It could be that the Macross-only name didnt sell as well as Robotech.

I hate myself for getting back into this...but as to ANN's credibility....they have none. They are blatantly Anti-Harmony Gold and have little journalistic integrity. While it is ok to have an opinion (even a strong one), you aren't supposed to let it become personal. ANN let it be personal. EDIT: And to back up what others are saying...none of us has credibility either. All of our rantings are based on fan perceptions.

"A Boy Named Sue" is one of the greatest songs ever made... Rest in Peace Johnny.

VF-19....just to back up what others have said....please do NOT do this. While I am not really a Macross fan (Im a Robotechie and a Southern Cross fanatic), I can guarantee you that it will cause a further slide in relations between MacrossWorld and Robotech.com. Not only that, your account will be banned at Robotech.com......and you will most likely not be allowed other places where the .Commers congregate on the web because you will have earned a reputation as an arsehole. As others on this webpage can attest, this kind of stuff has happened before in the past with almost disastrous results. Not only does it eat up bandwith at BOTH sites (when one group 'retaliates' against the other) but it causes a great deal of hurt feelings. This is Shawn's website and Im not too certain that he would be keen to have to go through this crap again. Im not trying to be harsh or to do the Mods job for them....Im just trying to save everyone some grief. Robotech fans and Macross fans can learn to get along.

Here is the latest information from White Wolf's webpage concerning the case.... So....see the movie while you can and buy the danged soundtrack when it comes out.

Thats why I think that this is more than a frivolous case. White Wolf may be the shark in the RPG pond....but its a guppy in the greater business ocean. For them to do this means that there could very well be more to this than we've seen. White Wolf, generally speaking, isnt made up of terminally stupid people. Either that or their lawyers are arseholes for leading them down this path.

At the Vampire MB, one of the guys on there is a lawyer and said that the reason for this kind of stuff is that you literally have to throw everything but the kitchen sink at your opponent to see what sticks since a judge can decide what parts are and arent frivolous. GreenGuy, thanks for the link. Ive got a hunch that Sony might try and deal out of court with White Wolf to keep Underworld on its release schedule. I want to see this movie....but damn...after reading the brief....the writers are either completely oblivious or are incredibly unlucky. Abominations.....cripes!

To the best of my knowledge....no. Likely wont see any Goths unless I go to Ybor City....it'll likely be alot of the local White Wolf gamers that I see...especially the Vampire and Werewolf LARPers.....

I know one of the things mentioned is the game for Underworld called Underworld: Bloodlines....to which White Wolf points to Vampire bloodlines....I havent read the complaint docket to see what all White Wolf alleges. I was pretty much certain that it was inspired by Vampire and Werewolf when I first saw the trailer months ago. Its not like Sony can claim to have never heard of Vampire: The Masquerade before....what with the old Kindred: The Embraced TV series BASED on V:tM and the Hunter: The Reckoning videogame for XBox (which was a rather good seller IIRC) among other media.

Hi, figured some of y'all might be interested in this press release that was posted on White Wolf's webpage. I had actually planned on going to see this picture in 2 weeks as it looked like a great Vampire/Werewolf flick. Seems the people at Sony might have cribbed a few too many ideas from White Wolf to make this film. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Hopefully the movie will be able to be released and all parties can walk away with something....would royally suck if Sony yanks it from their roster.

I almost gouged out my eyeballs from "Faye" at AX . I tried to warn a friend of mine not to look....but like a moron he had to look...kinda like a deer in the headlights.....

DragonCon eh....lucky dog. I wanted to go again myself....been twice before and had a blast. No no...the worst was seen earlier this year at Anime Expo...something many on this board that went can relate to.

Cosplay is like LARPing....sometimes it DOES help when you're a little tipsy....not necessarily smashed. Is it exhibitionism.....of course. Alot of hobbies are. I will say that Ive photoed my girlfriend's cosp. groups in the past.....believe me....alot of the guys who cosplay (especially the guys who CROSSPLAY....ugh) get followed around and drooled over by hoards of girls. That can be an incentive for some guys (well....alot of guys probably). Of course, the funniest thing is watching a crossplayer get hit on by someone of the same sex.....to which I want to tell them...."Guys....girls dont have Adam's Apples.....thats a guy you're drooling over...." Anyway....cosplaying can be fun I guess.....heck....I reenact....so I dont see what the big deal is about. Of course, there is a line between what I would do (we shoot real guns...with blanks B) ) and cosplaying. At least that is what I tell myself everytime I put on my uniform and go out to shoot some Secesh on the weekends......

It didnt appear anywhere in the series. It is NOT the Bioroid Invid Fighter....that was a mislabeling of the mecha by Harmony Gold and Matchbox. It is the Late Generation Type I Bioroid....comparable to the Blue Standard and Blue Advanced Bioroids. There is a spread from the Magazine for Anime and Hobby Fans - Southern Cross that has the line art sketch of this mecha. Magazine for Anime and Hobby Fans - Southern Cross Page 2 of Layout

God... I just noticed something else about the spread with the Bioroids on it. What looks like an Assault Corvette/Bioroid Transport isnt one....it has no launch bays for Bioroids, lacks the upper deck cockpit and most of the weapons pods carried on the Corvette. It might be the smaller "fighter" variant seen briefly in eps. 3: Star Angel (Robotech eps. 40: Volunteers)

BTW...that Mylene Cosplayer from Rising Sun.net was at MegaCon in Orlando this past year. I saw her on Friday and Saturday IIRC. I didnt get any pictures of here then.....Im sure she'll be back at MegaCon again in February....whether as Mylene again I dont know.

All the credit must go to Zor Master, Rob Morgenstern and rtsurfer over at the RDF HQ Message Board....especially to Zor Master. However, I too am very pleased with this and will probably comb through the TV series to see if any of these mecha make an appearance that was beforehand not recognized. I now know what to look for. There is one fuzzy picture of the closing credits that I am going to look at more carefully when I get the Southern Cross boxed set, since the perspective is a little better and the image will be inifinitely cleaner. Rob has the Triton in the foreground highlighted (it appears to be carrying a gun pod)....but its the image all the way in the back right corner behind the GMP Golem and other MAS Triton....and for the life of me it appears to have the same general shape as the CDU Unicorn and Spartas...what almost could look like chest plates on the front of the mecha. Closing Credits Triton Hightlight This is definitely going to need more looking into.

Scans from "Magazine for Anime and Hobby Fans". Ive never heard of this magazine.....but I am now adding it to my list of must acquire resources for SC. I know Rob Morgenstern acquired a copy as well (have to see if he has a scan of the mag cover) and listed these as well.....however, he said that he has seen both the Triton and Unicorn listed as the other....however, I am begining to lean heavily toward the Unicorn shown in this article as the being the genuine article. The feet on the Unicorn here look like they are built for urban terrain, while the Triton has a wide foot that would appear to be better suited to wet environs.

Figured I would share this with y'all since Im not the ONLY Southern Cross fan here. ZorMaster dug up 2 fantastic scans of this that show the different branches of the Tactical Corps from Southern Cross in their arming doublets (with each rank represented) and a sketch of the associated Officer's Model Battloid for the unit. What makes this interesting is the fact that the Cities Defense Unit is shown with an entirely DIFFERENT mecha than we have been lead to believe as belonging to them for the better part of a decade and a half. Those of you that remember the horrid Robotech Art 1 had a mecha listed as the NonCombat Bioroid Worker listed which was in fact a Southern Cross Battloid. Most of us believed that this was the Unicorn (which is seen in the closing credits of every episode of Robotech....its a green battloid). It turns out that this is in fact the Marsh Division Triton (which was long assumed to have never been sketched as it only has a 1 line mention in TIAS #10). The "new" Unicorn in fact bears a visual similarity to the Spartas in Battle Sniper/Battloid mode. It has a look that is somewhat heavy I would guess, though that could be perspective. Kinda looks like someone used a wrestler as the model for a mecha. Also of interest is the only design sketch known of the Forest Division Dryad Battloid. Tim Wing, who rendered one for the RRG, had to use a picture of the model seen in the back of TIAS #10. Anyway, here are the links to the pics (2), and thanks to Zor Master once again as well as rtsurfer for putting them on magicbicycle.net. SC Mecha 1 SC Mecha 2

Yep, Im gonna go see this movie on opening day. I avoided seeing The Two Towers on opening day (and Im glad I did....I might have heckled the screen). I hated how much they changed the motivations of Faramir (he's one of my favorite characters in the novels) and the Ents. I guess I might be somewhat mollified when the Extended DVD comes out.....but not by much Im sure. I will say that I think PJ and his people has done a bang up job on getting the look and feel of Middle-Earth (with a few exceptions like the use of Full Plate armor...which didnt exist....they had mail with some plate as exemplified by the Knights of Dol Amroth and Prince Imrahil). I know the Grey Company wont be in the movie, which makes absolutely NO SENSE. So, no Halbarad and the Dunedain of Arnor to grace the screen for the Paths of the Dead scenes. The only thing that I think will make this movie bad is if they frag with Eowyn's and Faramir's destinies. Other than that, there shouldnt be too much that they could mess up. Im looking forward to the Torech Ungol scenes with Shelob....which is weird cause Im arachnaphobic....

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