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    You sure? I was unde the impression that release was just a remaster, not an edit. And owning the previous DVD, I know it was a desperately NEEDED remaster, but it still IS the original.
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    Or you could just land in GERWALK mode all the time. That'd be awesome.
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    Ah, but the borg had that originally, without need of an avatar. The voice of the borg was always presented as coming from everywhere in their ship at once, but it WAS a cohesive voice. When the made Locutus, it was was because they needed an emissary(a task he was remarkably poor at). The Queen was no emissary, despite being far more personable than Locutus. Basically, the Borg Queen is the midichlorians of Next Generation. It's an idea that craps on all the existing lore for the sake of answering a question no one ever asked. And with that sentence Star Trek and Star Wars are united in harmony, and we've reached peak nerd.
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    The better CG shots hold up fairly well, I think, but a lot of them were rendered at lower detail levels for time constraints. It's kind of amazing that a TOY can render better graphics faster than a supercomputer could in the day. (AND hold an entire frame in RAM. The machines they were using actually had to print directly to film as they rendered because they couldn't hold an entire frame for display.) Though... we cheat nowadays. Texture mapping and bump mapping and all that jazz. There's a lot of ways to draw detail that isn't actually on your models. The Last Starfighter renderer was of the "build the detail into the models, and pour all your power into pushing more polygons" school of render design.
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    And that was actually a problem they had in production. When the test screening feedback showed audiences were just viewing it as Star Wars with computer-drawn X-Wings, they actually went back and filmed several more scenes with Beta Unit to try and give the movie it's own unique personality, so it wouldn't just be remembered as "Star Wars Lite" Certainly, they're both similar, but I think I'd be hard-pressed to dub Last Starfighter a Star Wars ripoff, except in the sense that it was a science-fiction movie released after 1979. Most of what it "borrows from Star Wars" are cliches at least as old as human civilization. ... And the Gunstar is just SO much cooler than an X-Wing.
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    I like that when they introduce the main characters, and show their "stats", they're using actual world record scores. Especially in Pac-Man, where the long-accepted record score is actually better than you can earn in a perfect game. They score bonus points(ummm... no pun intended) for getting that one right.
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    I'd argue that with it being thirty years, an origin story is bypassable. Any attempts at doing more with the setting could be presented as a standalone story. Only "Last Starfighter, The" fans would need to know it WAS a sequel. Like Tron: Legacy, only less stupid. Or Jurassic World, for that matter. Not that they WOULD do that, but... they COULD do that.
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    Luke didn't have a robot body double making out with his girlfriend while he was saving the galaxy.
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    Hey, if the end result is as hilarious as Robotech x Voltron, I have NO problem with that.
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    Darth Vader is Hikaru's father!
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    I think you just answered your own question.
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    Outrageously true.
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    I went by the local Wal-Mart earlier, figured I may as well check toys. Didn't expect much, but what I found was... One peg of movie Hound. Nothing else. This is why I quit looking for plastic robots. I'm happy to just wait for you guys to post pics. FAR less frustrating that way.
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    No, they showed 'em loading the raspberry jelly jars intd the Valkyries in Macross: New Generation!
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    Canonically, I think the VFs can fuse raspberry...
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    Oh, the -25 DOES do something with heat? That's awesome!
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    Well, the heat has to go SOMEWHERE. And in the vacuum of space, there's few places that it can be thrown without lighting yourself up like a box of flares. Heck, even if just life support will still light you up. As Mr March noted, Macross is one of the few universes with a built-in excuse for where it would go, but they make no effort to explore this.
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    As far as visible stealth on spacecraft goes... it doesn't really help a lot either way, because you're still blazing a 50-foot neon "I AM HERE" sign in the infrared. Max and Millia kinda throws a wrench in the targeting by head module theory, as Max was flying a 1A at the time. It's debatable if Kamjin meant Max, Roy, or even Hikaru. The two wound up going toe-to-toe an awful lot, and Hikaru always came out on top somehow. Or, indeed, if he meant anyone. He may've just been trying to save face and piss Millia off. Blame the hidden ace and challenge her pride in one shot. ... I have a lot of trouble reading Kamjin, really.
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    Including zentradi-sized bottle opener? Or maybe a cigarette lighter...
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    You must've forgot which forum this is.
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    I want to emphasize I used hundred-fold as an example for illustrative purposes. I've got no idea what the actual difference is.
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    Oh,m thank Macek! I was worried I wouldn't be able to buy out-of-print ADV disks anymore, or that I'd have to pay bargin-bin prices for Shadow Chronicles!
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    If they actually make a Rainbow Brite movie, I will be pleased ENTIRELY out of proportion to what they're doing.
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    'S okay, we're all glad to see it again.
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    Eventually we'll bump this thread enough that when news actually DOES arrive, people will ignore the thread because they think it's just been bumped again.
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