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    That'd be satisfying as hell, but they don't really have the leverage to force that particular concession. They would've had to get Tatsunoko to not renew the license, and Tatsunoko doesn't really care about all this except that they get paid one way and don't the other.
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    It certainly explains recent weather down here in my neck of the woods. Texas got REALLY cold for a little while, and our weather is famously connected to Hell's. I guess the aggressive campaign to overturn HG's trademarks and release 100% Pure Macross™ everywhere outside the US was hurting the Robotech money-laundering operation sales more than they would publicly admit. My guess is this agreement is almost exclusively on Big West's terms, with the "Robotech movie in Japan" clause being the only exception.
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    Ah, she got the Isamu treatment.
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    I'm honestly pleased with the Ark toy, aside from the large gaps on the sides. I feel like there ought to be panels folding over those. While I grant it is not show-accurate(and there's no such thing as comix accurate, with Marvel drawing it different every time), I like how it looks. I probably would've skipped it if they hadn't also included Teletraan-1 as a converting robot. I was kinda hoping for a second that the Teletraan-1 robot would attach the rest of the ship as armor to make the Ark-bot, but... nope.
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    They found a sucker to pony up more dough for this trainwreck?
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    Good to know.
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    Wouldn't an HBT canister BE the small amount of fuel? It isn't like an eyedropper of hydrogen will get you hours of fusion.
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    The last news was announcing their presence at a large merchandising event. My suspicion is they couldn't attract enough merchandise licenses to fill out the budget, and quietly dropped everything. Such an ignoble fate, but it is sadly on-brand.
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    Heck yeah. The world needs more Captain Power, and we're never going to have it.
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    I thought the whale-hunter VF-1 in Dynamite 7 was a civilian model.
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    It is just plain stupid. I enjoyed it, though. Enough that I'm sad there wasn't a second season.
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    Yes, but not when they're fresh. Only markdowns are worthy of the battle.
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    Unless it is the Q. Rau. Then they add a gun and call it a Q. Rhea. In fairness, that IS a bit like comparing a BMW to a Model T. On-topic! As you offer no explanation for WHY you would make these changes or how they would improve the show, I am left to infer intent. I offer my thoughts on several points, but feel free to enlighten me. Why make him a fighter pilot? That is not a minor detail. Changing the main character's background and personality so drastically results in rather significant changes to the entire show. I dare say that once all the repercussions of this change ripple through the narrative, there is a good chance it won't be recognizable as Macross II anymore. Nah. Giant borg sounds kinda lame. ... More thoughtfully, it undermines a core theme of the franchise at the time. The enemies in Macross, despite being aliens from the other end of the galaxy, are not freakish monsters that can't be understood. They are people, not too dissimilar from ourselves. While circumstance has put them at odds with humanity, there is common ground, and if everyone would stop shooting for two seconds and just talk to each other, there might not be a reason to fight in the first place. Making the aliens overtly human helps underscore this message. Certainly, the idea that even "grotesque monsters" are, fundamentally, people like us is on-brand, one that's barely brushed against in DYRL, and saw only limited exploration in Seven(despite the latter's MUCH longer runtime). It is a concept worth exploring more. But as with making Hibiki a soldier instead of a reporter, it is a major change that carries broad repercussions for the overall presentation(if not necessarily the narrative). Without a careful rework of the show, it will just serve to de-humanize the mardook, turning them into targets we can feel good about slaughtering wholesale because they "aren't really people". And that seems to be very un-Macross. To what purpose? Paint schemes and robot legs are minor cosmetic tweaks that seem to not make much of a difference either way. I am open to an explanation, but see no way this can make the show better OR worse, just... slightly different, but not in any meaningful way. Let's point the lens elsewhere briefly to illustrate. Would the original Gundam look better in monochrome as originally intended instead of the crayola accident forced upon the production by sponsors? Absolutely! But would it make that series better or worse in any way other than the most superficially meaningless? Not really, no. Again, to what purpose? We spent basically all of the 90s determining that gore won't make a bad thing good, and a good thing isn't inherently improved by the inclusion of gore. It could emphasize the brutality of war, but since you also want to dehumanize the presentation of the mardook, I assume that is not your purpose. In light of that, I see no creative reason for adding viscera, it is just "because it is kool and edgy".
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    Define what a "real sequel" would be, in your eyes.
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    I'm pretty sure there's other options besides "audience of one" and "tasteless clowns".
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    "17 years later..." Impressive.
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    When he's done, can I borrow your truck? I'm builoing a solar power tower, and that looks to be the vehicle I need.
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    CG's cheap. Far cheaper than just about anything else, including hand illustration.
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    Well said.
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    You misunderstand. For some people, being angry IS the hobby. That it is being angry about plastic robots is secondary.
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    Nice! I never had these, but always thought the idea was cool.
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    I enjoyed it for what it was, but it really shouldn't have had the Gatchaman name attached as it is wholly unrelated. It is also largely character-driven, with very little in the way of cool fight scenes(I think there was one?). It will never become anything like Gatchaman, no matter how long you stick with it. Tatsunoko was "celebrating" their fiftieth year in business at the time, and I think they slapped the name on something already deep into production so they could claim to have made "a new Gatchaman" for the studio's anniversary.
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    That is pretty dang sexy. ... And my heart has already retconned it into a modernized Phantom Striker remake, which makes it much cooler. (Us Captain Power fans have to take our joy where we can find it.)
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    I'd hate to be the guy that had to design THAT inertial control system.
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    It is always night in space. The scene in question, the fighters are flying within Saturn's rings. Particularly, they have just flown into Saturn's shadow, so I think it is literally night flying. Most of the space fights ought to look like that, because space lacks any atmosphere to scatter light and generate broad illumination. There's actually good reason for them to be illuminated in the rings before they enter the shadow, for once(the material of the rings should reflect a lot of sunlight, scattering it through the area).
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