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Keith IS a doorknob. 351112[/snapback] And we're back at the implied sexual relationships.

Y're just jealous 'cuz Keith has bigger doorknobs.

Still waiting for Captain N, AKA Licensing's Worst Nightmare 2.

I'm liking this thread more and more.

A. It's Jay Bee Zero. B. Line breaks are your friend. C. I've got a lot to say about the parents. All of it totally off-topic for the board, and only some of it what you're expecting to hear. D. Is there any point AT ALL to bringing any of that up? E. So yeah, I heard there's guys that sell game items on eBay for real money. Holy crap, that's messed up. </sarcasm>

Again... GET OVER YOURSELF. Again... QUIT JUDGING YOUR WORTH BY WHAT OTHER PEOPLE DO. Again... JUST PLAY WHAT YOU LIKE. You do realize these same people don't post here. I bet the fact that you're using a message board that no one eelse you know does just tears you up inside...

So HG is staffed by ACTUAL criminals? Whoda thunk? Yeah, yeah, innocent until proven etc.

Yes. He is also a tall black man. And even an elderly chinese person of undetermined gender. Such is the power of The AgentONE.

Yes. If I recall, you can get the flame gems you need too, as long as you're playing hard mode. More proof that cats are evil.

It's got Arnold, but does this DVD set have enough Southern Cross? 350765[/snapback] The producers told me that would be included in the Special Edition, as well as comments by Lucas. 350767[/snapback] I'm bot gonna buy that one though, 'cuz the doorknob shot first.

I can't give it this point. Even if FF7 is hard to not beat. Game Arts tweaks me emotionally. Lunar: Eternal Blue and Grandia 2 specifically. Indeed, it's great sound. tri-Ace has a great composer. Even if a lot of tunes ARE recycled from SO2(seriously, one track is even entitled "Mission to Deep Space").

Which actually makes a lot of sense. The more velocity they acquire from the ship, the less reaction mass they have to expend to get up to speed. YES! As stated, the movie picked up a good bit into the series, and things were shifted around a bit. Presumably the FAST packs were developed earlier in the movie continuity. From there, it makes sense to equip all fighters with them as fast as possible. Especially since the DYRL SDF lacked a launcher, so all acceleration was provided by onboard fuel. Hence priority was placed on building FAST packs and equipping them.

How about the flight suits?And it doesn't make sense to be using a totally new interface. The cockpit should've borne a resemblance to the early VF-1s.

There was an Evil Bad Guy. He made giant monsters. The robot smashed the monsters and saved humanity. And in the US, it was Tranzor Z.

If anyone cared, they COULD drive the price of imported products up. Drop a heavy tarriff on anything coming in from overseas. NAFTA, of course, is the opposite of that.

tri-Ace is god. And if Squeenix doesn't localize this one, and do it well, there will be hell to pay. I'm still pissed at Enix over Star Ocean: Blue Sphere.

I never said I did. I didn't care, so I never considered their honesty. All I wanted was Macross, subbed. And I got it 5 years ago. The brand confusion is as prevalent as ever. People still believe Macross is "japanese Robotech" and that Southern Cross and MOSPEADA are "seasons 2 and 3 of Macross." Well, yeah. That doesn't mean we can't point out their shameless abuse of the fans. People wouldn't have plunked down the cash for the original releases if they'd known that one with the features they wanted was coming. HG wouldn't have made a release WITHOUT the high-demand features if they hadn't intended to double-dip. I half-suspect that's why the sounds were changed on Robotech Remastered, just so people that held out and got the cleaned-up extended version might go back and get the originals just to have non-crappy sound effects. Is it cynical? Yes. Has HG justified the cynicism? Also yes.

Explain the DYRL-stylings of Macross Zero then. There's some mention of re-engineering his body at the same time he restored his size in the Compendium. Which would serve as an explanation if we prefer the TV version of everyone's favorite walking encyclopedia. IMO, he's fugly in either incarnation.

Riiiiiiight... But Minmay doesn't love Hikaru, at least not much more than a close friend. She realizes after Kaifun leaves that she is all alone and that she's sacrificed everything and everyone to make her dream of becoming a singing star, a reality. In the post war eps, she is "trying" to reciprocate Hikaru's feelings and develop a relationship between the two, but ultimately accepts the fact, during the final assualt on the SDF1, that her first love is her music an nothing else. 350192[/snapback] Sure she does...in the same way that Hikaru (thought he) loved her. The point I was trying to make is that she winds up alone, and with a career in tatters. Interest in Minmay waned seriously after SW1. During the war, she was something everyone could rally around as they were all (literally) in the same boat. But, post war, everyone was too busy with other things, and there was Minmay playing dives. 350195[/snapback] Taht was one of the things that always stuck out to me. Minmay really could've been anybody. They were starved for some new media, and she was around(remember, the zentradi were blocking communications for most of the trip home). I assume they got some Earth media in with their resupply, but given the Earth had just banished them, it might not exactly have made the best seller list. When your entire audience is a single city that's been cut off by the enemy, it's a LOT easier to be a big celebrity than when you're on a planet with people spread out all over the place, and probably with the rest of the world growing it's own singers, actors, and so on.

Join the club.

The Macross underwent a major refit immediatly after the end of the series. Otherwise it would have no cannon, no right arm, and a big chunk missing from the side. The general argument I've seen is that DYRL is the visual style of the world, but the TV series is the plot(and given the TV series visual style fluctuates wildly at times, it makes sense to not use it for visuals). Regardless of the excuse, once they started making sequels A version of the original story had to be chosen. The official continuity says that version is the TV series, likely due to it's greater depth. DYRL got tucked into the continuity as a movie within the Macross world because they didn't want to totally discard it, which was the alternative for a massively contradictory version of Space War 1.

I've never really understood why people think Flashback is such wonderful capper. If memory serves, we see Minmay wander around the streets, then decide to go on the Megaroad. . . Hikaru touches her arm at the concert and Misa smiles at her. Joy. I'm not sure that adds any more closure or a sense of completion any more than the original ending in Farewell to Tenderness. 349992[/snapback] Interesting, I always saw Flashback as a replacement for the last 9 episodes for DYRL. As in the TV show had the last 9, so DYRL gets Flashback to finally tie things up. *Nobody bring up the whole M7 movie within a movie thing, thats just stupid and was invented 10 years after production, so if you ever talk about it, you are a douche-bag. 350083[/snapback] But DYRL is a movie within the Macross universe!

Ditto! Besides I was one of the early people who paid A LOT for the set so it could be produced, for that price now I could get two fracking sets. So pass! 350055[/snapback] Same here. I love my beautiful black box.

I've never really understood why people think Flashback is such wonderful capper. If memory serves, we see Minmay wander around the streets, then decide to go on the Megaroad. . . Hikaru touches her arm at the concert and Misa smiles at her. Joy. I'm not sure that adds any more closure or a sense of completion any more than the original ending in Farewell to Tenderness. 349992[/snapback] Seconded. It's an extended AMV. There's no real content in it. But it IS fun to watch.

For the moment, Gaogaigar. All the lion-y-ness of Voltron, none of the heads sticking out of ankles.