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I don't have a Xitter account to vote with, but definitely Alus Edition.

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Purge-able limbs like the YF-21/VF-22's don't have any space for mission-specific equipment though.

They have to be made rather slim in order to fold and fit into the body of the aircraft, which makes them more fragile and prevents equipment from being mounted inside.  You might remember that Isamu was able to shatter one of the YF-21's arms through brute force without damaging his YF-19 in Macross Plus.

In fairness, the VF-1's arms could be purged(I think?) without hindering the ability to go back to fighter mode. Didn't Hikaru eject the damaged arms in the big final battle... and then go through re-entry while missing half his plane's underside? That's actually kinda nuts, now that I think about it.

ALSO in fairness, the VF-1 doesn't really need to swap arms to swap specialized equipment. The FAST pack arm launchers demonstrate that well, as does the VE-1's arm packs in DYRL. Just hang crap under the plane, and hope you don't need to use your landing gear any time soon(that's why we have gerwalk, I guess).

1 hour ago, M'Kyuun said:

I stand corrected. I was thinking the Navy's was the VTOL version, completely forgetting that the Marines have a variant as well. 

If a company were to make a transforming F-35B, I'm curious how they'd work around that forward fan- perhaps a jet pack for the bot mode. That would be my solution.

The promise of the F-35: One plane for every service!

The reality of the F-35: Three planes sharing one name and confusing everyone!

Jetpack is what I'd do too. Especially since I'd like to see the VTOL capability echoed in the robot.

So what I'm hearing about this game is "I'd buy that for a dollar"?

2 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

I wish it was a true F-35, too, especially the Navy's F-35C with VTOL capability.

Marines, F-35B.

The Navy's F-35C has wider wings(that fold up), and sturdier landing gear for handling catapult launches and arresting wire landings, but no VTOL capability.

15 hours ago, TG Remix said:

We got J-pop twice in a row and from the aforementioned Sharon, Fire Bomber's rock, and Sara's traditional kind, I think we're set due for a different genre shake-up from the main idols at least.

Parappa the Protoculturapper

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

How acceptable they were may deserve a bit of an asterisk given that a major contributing factor in the toy line's failure was that it was designed for the demographic that HG had aimed Robotech at... not the somewhat older one that actually watched it.

(At least, according to Harmony Gold's hindsight.)

That's quite fair. It wasn't exactly lighting the schoolyard on fire wedged between Go-Bots, Transformers, and Voltron.

1 hour ago, pengbuzz said:

Very true; it does show that had some effort been put into it, they would have been at least acceptable. All I did on these was to slightly tweak certain things like figure height, detains and such. And that was with just a craft knife and some plastic welder.

They WERE acceptable. Their target market very much was not "adult collectibles" and "toon-accurate detailing". It was single-digit boys, and those figures were awesome. You could TAKE RICK HUNTER'S HELMET OFF(and wear away the paint).

13 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

So, could a Valkyrie conceivably extend its' operating time in space by using it's intakes inside a nebula to collect hydrogen gas? I know that Hydrogen wouldn't be the only gas in there most likely and that the Valks probably don' t have any way to differentiate the elements, but it was just a thought.

Nebulas aren't actually very dense. It'd be like driving through a fog and then leaning out the window to get a drink of water. 

Only worse, because it's less dense and also sootier.

6 hours ago, Alex GS said:

maybe in person and holding it  you can feel its quality not sure, but as for now with those pictures that looks like very plasticky and toyish (not desirable for collecting at least for me) not to mention that nonsense price it doesn't make any sense, I would rather look and spend for a blitzway voltron than  this. 

or maybe I will look for one of this instead  

 

That IS the ultimate Voltron. Hard to make something better than that.

I guess it's time to cook some popcorn again.

41 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

... ok, I might have to look that one up later because that actually sounds kinda funny.

The book was called Darksaber, and Wookiepedia says I misremember how badly it malfunctioned(though the end result was the same)

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

  I know it's probably from some expanded universe novel from the 90's or something, but wow does "The Darksaber" not hold up as the amazingly cool artifact it's supposed to be. 

Confusingly, there WAS a Darksaber in ao expanded universe novel from the 90s, but it was completely unrelated(and also a bit of a joke, as it was a bootleg Death Star that self-exploded due to shoddy craftsmanship)

For a triple-changer, that's damned impressive. Off-hand, I don't see any evidence of jet on the car or Not-Ravage. And the pile of garbage under the plane is more forgivable in a three-mode toy(and frankly, more effort was expended on the jet's underside than most TWO-MODE jet-robos.)

2 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

Well relates to it as personal preferences are being mentioned. 🤷‍♂️

Which I started when saying Delta isn't memorable while liking Zero, something like that, to others feeling the opposite. 

I just don't know which Macross has the Fiero music.

16 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

Feel the exact same about 7. 

Some like redheads, others blondes. Some want a Porsche, others a Ferrari. One of those things. 😅

Some people want a minty clean Pontiac Fiero, while acknowledging it is objectively a trash car.

I don't know how that relates to the topic at hand, but now you know my "suddenly rich" plan.

3 hours ago, jenius said:

ALL of my friends owned at least one Robotech product, or Jetfire.

I, on the other hand, was the only kid I knew with any connection to Robotech. I knew a person or two with Jetfire, but they had it as a Transformer, not a Robotech proxy.

10 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Ghostbusters

This one's funny to me, because I was just talking with someone about that show. And the trademark collision with the show you MEANT, creatively titled "The Real Ghostbusters"...  because Filmation beat the movie tie-in cartoon to the punch with an animated resurrection of a live-action TV show from the 70s titled simply Ghostbusters.

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

As an engineer, I can honestly say that exploding violently has always been an unintended and undesirable operating mode for any of the propulsion and power systems I have worked on.

This doesn't stop the explosions from happening, it just means we get upset and have to add notes to the FMEA when they do.

So you're saying you DO know how to make them explode, thus proving my point!

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Humans in Macross basically did exactly the same thing the aliens in the pilot episode of Strange New Worlds did... "Hmmm... FTL power system.  What if we made this into a huge bomb?"  Humanity discovered an alien technology for limitless clean power and the first thing they did was make it into an unreasonably powerful bomb.

I mean, do you REALLY know how it works if you haven't made it explode?

6 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Wrong franchise for that in-joke... but the level of scientific irresponsibility's about the same.

 

So you're saying the Federation is actually the Protoculture?

4 hours ago, Master Dex said:

The tip of the iceberg really! These were gonna be used, along with other crazy but physically possible weapons on the USAF's Orion based space battleship. Which is a real design that would have had enough nuclear ordnance to basically kill the planet in one ship. Story goes it was Kennedy who axed it after reading the details and getting thoroughly freaked out by the concept. https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarshipart.php#id--Orion_Battleship

I agree it was likely too dangerous to make but at the same time it would have been pretty impressive as a spacecraft. I'm not willing to risk MAD over it though.

Considering however that the UN Spacy basically has clean versions of all that tech and more they likely would appreciate it. 

The REALLY fun one was the USAF's OTHER Orion battlewagon. It DIDN'T have crew, or weapons. They just filled the entire craft with a SINGLE FUSION BOMB. Yield was estimated to be a hundred gigatons. No one's ENTIRELY sure what the effects of a blast that large would be, other than "very bad"

Given modern handling of Megatron, a triple-changer makes sense. He's almost always a tank or a jet, why not both?

16 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

the ALP-125 is a more aggressive version that uses a miniaturized explosive based on reaction warhead technology to produce a single incredibly powerful laser blast that also results in the destruction of the missile in a substantial explosion

So Macross gets a little hard sci-fi with a bomb-pumped X-ray laser? Awesome!

1 hour ago, Big s said:

Or shot in the crotch 

¿Por que no los dos?