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And yet I loved Parasite Eve. Ditto for Xenogears. FF7's story was a trainwreck of plot holes and duct tape. FF8? They couldn't have made a drier, more cliche story/set of characters if they'd TRIED. And neither one has much gameplay to fall back on. And I find that to be one of the best released in the past several years. Even better than some of the SNES ones. To be fair, Square's SNES ports suck ass. I really think most RPGs need a good boost in difficulty. If the game doesn't offer me a challenge, I see no reason to play it. And FF4's battles aren't unwinnable, they just require you to pay a little attention instead of hammering on the fight command as fast as possible.

i like ff8 too. i don´t know why some people hate it. FF VIII ownz. no two ways about it. its the Best. Damn. FF. EVER. nothing before or after has compared. its a great damn game. It's one of the few games I have derived no enjoyment whatsoever from. In fact, the only game I've played that's worse than FF8 is Legend of Dragoon. Lamest weapon ever. I never saw that, so ...

For the same reaosn people click on threads that say "Harmony Gold" or "Robotech". We like to bitch as much as the next guy.

Given almost every game is a standalone title, I wouldn't call it a universe. And I dislike FF7. Don't hate it(that's reserved for , but I'm not very fond of it.

Yeah, and the Star Wars special editions are how they were 'originally intended' - irrelevant. Except the special edition wasn't written first, it was edited 20 years later, and the M+ movie was written before the OVA was even made, then the script was stretched out for an OVA. I didn't know there WAS a movie when I saw the OVA and I thought there were serious problems. When I DID see the movie, it was VERY evident to me that that was the way the story was intended to go, and wondered why the hell they'd even BOTHERED with the OVA.. Then I saw that blurb on MAcross Compendium, and everything made sense for the first time since I saw the thing. In exchange we're treated with TWO problems later. First, Guld accuses Isamu of not being there for Myung, and Isamu is thoroughly baffled. If he just got to the concert hall a few minutes after Guld did, it doesn't work. Isamu should have blown up right then and there. Now if he never even answered the phone because he was ... occupied, that conversation makes sense. He's just now finding out anything happened last night. Then Lucy comes out and starts talking about how he's not hers and she was wrong to not tell him Myung had left, and they haven't even established any sort of relationship? Yah, great. So Lucy gets to come off as completely insane and more than a little scary. At least Millia was HONEST about being psychotic, Lucy just broke in and deleted messages off his answering machine because she'd decided he was going to be hers despite going on exactly one date. A date that ended in a fistfight over ANOTHER girl, I might add.

I like it. Simple, subtle, and elegant. I usually have the UN Spacy logo showing. Or the hologram showing (i.e. shrinkwrap cut only on DVD spin side, so I slip the hologram on the backside where the Animeigo and HG logos are located). Am I the only one who thought about doing that? FYI, looks really nice. Wish I'd thought of that.... Cyclone: You know what it REALLY means is that MOSPEADA will have neon line art, right?

I'd say the opposite. The movie version removed so many parts to fit the time that it seemed disjointed and didn't flow as well as the OVA did. According to Macross Compendium, the movie is the story as it was originally intended. http://macross.anime.net/fallacies/index.html The OVA added parts. Some were good parts, I admit. But overall, I just felt the story flow was mucked up, and some of the additions were just crap. Optimally, I'd prefer a mix. Somewhere between the movie and the OVA. A bit more fleshed-out characters, but none of the nonsense with walking off from airplane crashes and over-contrived weapons accidents. But of the 2 options available, I'd rather have the movie.

Then a nuclear meltdown (granted, it's fission, not fusion) would be imaginary. Still wouldn't explode, I guess... A fusion reaction could just as easily get out of control, especially when we get to the point where cold fusion is a day to day occurrence. Of course, I can't rule out artistic licensing/anime physics, can I? :-D Well, a meltdown, like you said, isn't fusion and doesn't go boom. And a fusion reactor is a funny thing. Unlike fission, which requires an active effort to slow the reaction, fusion requires an active effort to keep the reaction going. If it fails, the thing gets cold. If the tank ruptures, the fuel currently in the reaction tank spills out, but it's a fraction of the total hydrongen, and it's already cooling. The fusion is already over when it leaves the tank, and a fusion reactor isn't generating near the power of a good h-bomb to begin with. You'd get a nice explosion, but nothing on the nuclear level. ... Hmmm... maybe if you could dump your entire fuel tank into the reaction chamber at once, and keep the reaction going... That oughta offer a big boom...

It's the same art from what I've seen(haven't had a chance to look at all 3 boxes, but I assume they're the same). UN Spacey logo on one side(my favorite side), Macross and specs on another, disk case art on the 3rd(least favorite side). The neon is what really killed it for me. If it'd all been rendered in black and white, it would've looked better, IMNSHO. Agreed.

Am I the only person that LIKES the AnimeIgo box? I do admit that the individual disk cases needed some reworking, though.

I don't know if this means anything, but the MS in Gundam is powered by a nuclear reactor. To further specify, they're powered by a fusion reactor. A particularly exotic variety of fusion reactor. I don't think either of those would work in reality.

GAH! They ripped off the line-art look, then over-cluttered the box.

I VASTLY prefer the movie. They added stuff to stretch out the OVA, and it really stretches credibility a lot farther than I'm willing to give them at some points(the live-ammo incident springs to mind), and one or 2 things really just make no sense whatsoever.

The enemy in Macross Plus was either a psychotic computer or our stars' personalities. The Zentradi DO make a brief appearance in the beginning of the OVA, flying some powered armor. Looks like the same old stuff we've seen before, just with a better animation budget.

Yah. Flashing eyes on the lions would be both awesome AND canon.

BLASPHEMY! The point is that cops don't have time to absorb the details. They see someone pointing something kind of L-shaped at them, and they react. If it's a real gun, those fast reactions can save their life. Hence why US law requires bright neon orange on the end of toy guns, to make them immediatly obvious as toys(since kids lack the good sense to not point guns at cops).

I see 2 major problems with Toynami's version as it's being shown... 1: A notable lack of detail. The toyus are incredibly flat. There's almost nothing there. 2: Chrome. Or rather, the lack of it. That gray plastic is a lousy substitute. I hope there's more detail in the future.

Or use the tab key to move the selection frame and hit enter. Keyboards rule.

That was only in the initial release of the Voltron toys...Go Lion quickly became very popular and Matchbox reordered the toy line for later releases dropping Albegas in the process That is mostly correct... The albegas Voltron toys came out at the begining of the launch of Voltron...Go Lion quickly became the most popular of the toys and Albegas never even aired as part of Voltron and was quickly dropped from the line up and forgotten about... At the time Matchbox was mostly associated with Hot Wheels and seemingly thought that mechanical lions wouldn't exactly fit thier product line up...so the more hard edge industrial (more car like) Voltron designs initialy got prefered numbering treatment as Go Lion seemed more of a risk...but as Voltron wasn't a serialized show (it was largely episodic unlike Macross, Robotech, etc .. basicly the voltron episodes could be shown in any order) The Go Lion portion of Voltron reached kids first and took off...Albegas was dropped and Diarugger became "Vehical Voltron". Ah-ha. So it all depends on when you looked?

*cough* Takara not only produced but basicly owns Gao Gai Gar....actually it's kinda funky how all this came about... Gao Gai Gar is the most popular of the takara produced "Brave saga" toy line and series of anime shows...which were spin offs of the japanese Transformers...the Japanese TFs were spun off from the American TFs (largely after the first couple of toy generations)...And the American TFs were largely spun off from diaclone....and Diaclone is a spin off from Microman which is a spin off from Henshin Cyborg which is sort of a spin/inspired off of the old 12" G.I. Joe toys Diaclone came about largely because of the popularity of transformable robot toys at the time...due in no small part to anime mecha like Voltes 5, Ideon, Xambungle, even Macross...lots of toy companies jumped on the bandwagon, not only produceing small toy lines (like Beetras and Diaclone) but also one-off figures (toys without any clear liniage to a particular established line)...Omaga Suprime IIRC came from Diaclone (as diaclone featured "micro" micromen figures that could fit into little cockpits...such as the seemingly strange little seats on G1 Dinobot Grimlock and such)...Shockwave, I think, is just one of those one-off designs not really belonging to any established toy line until Hasbro included it in thier Transformers line. I'm PRETTY SURE Bandai owns GaoGaiGar.

That would be the 15 spaceship vehicle Voltron. In Matchbox terms: Voltron I (Go-Lion was Voltron III) In Godaikin/Popy terms: Dairugger Minor correction: Goliion was Voltron 2, not 3. Nope. Voltron I: Dairugger http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...6&category=2492 Voltron II: Albegas http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...0&category=2492 Voltron III: GoLion http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5&category=2492 I'm still having trouble adapting to the fact that vehicle Voltron came before lion Voltron, and now you throw that at me? ... Seriously, I thought the 6-armed thing never made it tio America aside from a few toys released right at the end.

Don't have any Robotech stats, but In Macross, a VF-1 at 10,000 meters can do Mach 2.71. a VF-1 at 30,000 meters can do mach 3.87. In MOSPEADA, a Legioss can do mach 2.3 at 18,000 meters. And I should point out that this really isn't a Macross question. More of a Robotech one. And Robotech goes in "other sci-fi and anime."

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That would be the 15 spaceship vehicle Voltron. In Matchbox terms: Voltron I (Go-Lion was Voltron III) In Godaikin/Popy terms: Dairugger Minor correction: Goliion was Voltron 2, not 3.

As I understand things, FASA got a license for the lineart, and the Macross mechs were "retired" later after Harmony Gold sued/threatened to sue. But apparently part of the settlement was "don't talk about the settlement" so no one's ever said exactly what happened. Which is really disappointing since the FASA people are among the few that may have seen Harmony Gold's license.