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  1. JB0
    I can't say I see much room for fuel, rocket engines, actuators, or reactors in there with the armor being so full of meat. That's an armored space suit, with little room left to be more. If you "upgrade" that to a power suit by adding fuel tanks and actuators and a power source to turn it into a powered suit, you get the Aliens power loader with this guy as the operator. Enclose the "cockpit" on the power loader, and you basically have a Nousjadeul-Ger again. ... I have longstanding questions about the heels on those boots, but that's unrelated.
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    I remember the US DVD release of Gunbuster took a lot of flak for changing the music in one part because it was basically Chariots of Fire.
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    I mean, the last time they tried to continue Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay's story it involved Minmay taking a crowbar to Hikaru and Misa's romance so the gang could rehash the love triangle. And as for how happy Max and Millia are in Seven... their marriage is on the rocks, they're divorced in all but name, and their youngest daughter has run away from home to live with an autistic rockstar because her home life is so bad. Another of their daughters is a hermit on a frontier world that is about as far from the family as she can get. I'm not sure that qualifies as happy.
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    It'd be boring as heck unless they undo the plot resolution from SDF/DYRL. Again. These characters deserve a happy ending.
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    Really, it doesn't make sense for ANY size zentradi uniform to fit them in any reasonable way. I love that sequence, but try very hard not to consider what's going on there.
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    That's just about right for an HG "business partner".
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    She was also in Silk DURING Bubblegum Crisis. It was actually a problem with production, as the production team wanted her to be performing more music for the show and the band wanted her to not be performing without them. They were actually going to kill her character off because of it, then realized she was entirely too popular.
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    Thus far, legal options for Macross outside of Japan have been non-existent due to near-legendary licensing issues. Though the situation is supposed to be changing, right now the only show with english streaming is the original SDF Macross television series, on Amazon.
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    Because the international marketplace was a lot less prevalent in 1991 than it is today. American music companies were not watching subtitled VHS tapes from Suncoast.
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    That's kinda unfortunate, since their age is logical for the circumstances and underlines exactly how screwed up a situation the Macross is in. They're accepting children as pilots because they need pilots desperately enough to ease up a bit on societal standards.
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    Chromed plastic, but yeah.
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    Seven. Definitely Seven. I'm pretty sure this is a unanimous vote and will generate no controversy.
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    I believe that is less "can't do it" and more "chose to make life harder by not doing it". it is a sacrifice made in the sake of cartoon accuracy, where Slag's bib was silver, I mean white, but his diosaur jaw was gold. It also let them make his bib curved instead of flat. And it is a tradeoff that more toy-influenced Slag homages have done. (I say this while casting a sidelong look at Gigapower's Grassor.) I think that Primes Slag was notable in that the bib WAS his lower jaw.
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    It was a mining accident, if I recall. Which explains why no one saw it coming. The romulans were taken by surprise by something that gives folks thousands of years of advance notice. An explanation for the surprise is warranted.
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    That is fair.
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    That's a pretty nice Slag, aside from some color choices and the lack of dinosaur legs on his humanoid shins(which looks to be an option, actually). I really like the transforming triceratops frill. If that red is darker in-person, it'll be a hard toy to turn down.
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    I have to ask: does it MATTER if Macross 2 is canon or not? The show can be enjoyed without the explicit blessing of the powers that be.
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    That's actually really saddening. I'd watch it. But I still think they need to make my "A-Team with Valkyries" pitch first.
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    Oh, it was a quantum disruption in their star's subspace microsignature? That makes a lot of sense, it's no wonder the romulans didn't notice until it was too late.
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    My understanding is that Tatsunoko had some merchandising rights for DYRL, and HG signed up for a license to make their Macross trademarks look more legitimate.
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    Is the correct answer "every time it wasn't the Borg"? Because they had multiple ships show up in Best of Both Worlds and First Contact. And those are pretty much the only cases I can think of for multiple ships between Earth and certain doom.
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    The press release is vague and written to be a positive spin for all involved parties. I would bet HG gets nothing outside SDFM, and DYRL merchandise(they only have a merohandise license for DYRL, Tatsunoko doesn't have dietribution rights to the movie). I admit the DYRL situation is complicated, and I'm not an expert in international copyright law, but don't think HG actually has any say in that one.
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    I do note that Praxis was a VERY large blast, with effects carrying far enough in subspace to knock Excelsior out of warp on the Federation's side of the neutral zone. Even assuming those wider effects are limited to subspace, they probably have significant short-term implications for warp travel within the empire.
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    Man, that book was SO BAD. Glad my suffering has brought others long-term amusement. To clarify, though... I actually enjoyed the Robotech novels, the final one excepted. I admittedly didn't have the most discerning of tastes in my teenage years, but they were alright.
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    In other words, everything was End of the Circle's fault.
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