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Is this your figure? http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/arii/ar_2b.jpg From http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...unassembled.htm I see UNSpacey had the same idea. But he got box art, I got box photos. I WIN!

No, Harmony Gold does indeed hold the rights outside of Japan to the original SDF Macross. They can't create a new series using the characters, but they can develop merchandise based upon the series. I go away for a day and look what happens. Just a slight but important correction to this post. The rulings stated that HG couldn't use the original designs to create a new animation, nothing was said about using the characters. Correct in the sense that they couldn't use the designs. Don't recall it being court-mandated. Robotech 2: The Sentinels included original characters, but massively redesigned. The designs were off-limits, but not the characters(which arguably weren't Big West/Studio Nue's characters anyways, after renaming and personality tweaks). And Sentinels was before all the legal fuss started. Correction: It means Harmony Gold thinks they can. A very important diffrence there. Toynami has been caught bootlegging merchandise before. Merchandise that carries HG's stamp of approval. One can assume HG either A: is totally ignorant of Japanese Macross merchandise, or B: has no resepct for copyright law. And if the contracts between Big West and Tatsunoko and between Tatusnoko and HG are as vague as some claim, it is possible that HG believes they have DYRL rights but does not, in fact, actually have them. 2 shows are very clearly not in question. Macross 2 and Macross Plus. This casts doubts upon their merchandise rights to these 2 serieses as well. DYRL's problem is that multipe companies claim to hold rights. If HG's license was as clear as they claim it is, I believe they would release DYRL, and if the other companies challenged, present their license either in private or in court. In fact, I believe they would have presented it when DYRL was originally released State-side during Robotech's original run. An offense they ignored not once, but MULTIPLE TIMES. Or they feel it is not economically feasable to pursue these rights. Because some companies have a tendancy to litigate at the drop of a hat, and are quite capable of burying smaller companies under so many legal fees that they go bankrupt, REGARDLESS of the actual merit behind the lawsuits. In point of fact, it's considered business as usual for many larger corporations. There is no evidence that Big West is not honoring any deals they have made. And given the "unclear legal situation," Big West would be COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOLS to do anything that would make it appear as if Harmony Gold, and by extension Tatsunoko Productions, had a legitimate claim to the entire Macross franchise. This would include Yamato getting a license from Harmony Gold for US distribution of products other than the original Macross TV series. The evidence I have seen so far indicates the following: Harmony Gold has rights to the original SDF Macross TV series. These include merchandising rights. These are not exclusive, as Tatsunoko has released original Macross products in regions other than the USA. Tatsunoko has never made any attempt to exploit anythign other than the original series either internationally or within Japan. That is the extent of undebatable fact regarding licensing. Harmony Gold has recently decided to either A: believe that it has rights to the entire Macross franchise, or B: start enforcing a believed license that they refused to defend when they originally acquired it. Big West believes that Tatsunoko Productions, whom licensed Macross to Harmony Gold, only had rights to the original TV series, and no rights to derivatives. By extension, this means that Big West believes Harmony Gold only has rights to the original TV series, and has recently engaged in legal action against Tatsunoko Productions towards confirming that belief in a court of law. This series of legal actions began shortly after Harmony Gold began interfering with Big West's believed exclusive rights to all Macross products other than the original TV series. Japanese courts have created rulings that fans can translate multiple ways and construe to support either side's argument. Have I missed anything?

And leave a present on his doorknob as you leave?

Omega all the way!

I'd guessed you meant SDF-1. Either one works. ... Heck, SSF-1 would've worked if they hadn't been english-impaired... anyways, the Compendium doesn't go into much detail. Avionics and other areas? Other areas could be anything from new engines to "folds into Starscream".

I might pick up a Strike if I find one for a $1.50. yeah. i guess so. $1.50 for the whole set of six should be good enuff price for it. $1.50. that's Buck-Fifty, for the dollar-impaired. Don't forget to specify canadian dollars! Hmmm... Hong Kong dollars are almost 8-1 with the US Dollar. Maybe we should use those?

We got a lot more out of the ASS-1 than transformation. Look for an F-14 with energy weapons, overtech sensor suites, shields, as well as the mundane(higher-performance engines).

Negative. But I recall thinking it should have.

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Looming at the news releases, it seems FUNimation just decided to err on the side of caution and avoid arousing the ire of the estate of Robert Howard. It's questionable whether any fuss would actually be raised, but it's usually better to err on the side of caution. This post has been brought to you by, or perhaps in spite of, my inability to seperate Conan, Tarzan, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in my head.

Now why would we do a stupid thing like that? You want us to go and kill a perfectly good run of wild speculation with FACTS?

You must think it's also a great thing what Joons and the Chinese bootleggers of the 1/55 Takas did. wow. that totoaly describe s a company who paid for the rights of a show. yeah it does. Actually, Toynami has been caught copying japanese products without permission several times recently. They bought the rights to the show, not rights to 3rd party toys. Hence, bootleg.

Actualy not that it makes much difference if both legs are gon, but i do belive (i am not sure so dont quote me on this) that there is a main reactor located in the main fuselage between the cockpit, and the "break point" fo transformation Likely an auxillary reactor to keep the power stable during transformation. That or a large supercapacitor. Either way, it's not intended to supply power for an extended period of time.

You're right. The cat translator doesn't work either.

*shoots Eternal D, ensuring Megatron is reborn as a gun again*

That actually made it to America. It's grossly overpriced, and completely inaccurate.

A name that wasn't changed? *shock*

I wouldn't really take it that far. It's really due to Robotech that Macross has a large fanbase in the states, granted it wasn't in it's original form, but it's influance was one of the major ones way back then. Debatable. Uhhh, no. Cardcaptors and Escaflowne at least kept the hack job to ONE series. Robotech is like ... LEt's make a new series called Magitech. It starts with Vision of Escaflowne. Only there is no parallel universe crap. The entire story takes place on Earth(because they renamed Gaia), in the rain forests of Brazil. Then flows into Carcaptors because Henrietta(Hitomi got renamed) was Sarah's(Sakura got renamed) mother. It takes place in LA because Henrietta moved there for the school system. We don't see Henrieta because she's away on a business trip to New York, so Sarah's uncle takes care of her. And then Yu-Gi-Oh is a sequel to Carcaptors, and is about Bill, the third mystic knight(never mind that none of the series HAVE mystic knights, Magitech does) that's trying to recapture the Poker deck of the Gods because it accidentaly got lost again after Sarah retrieved the cards(because the gods told her to like they used to tell her mother to do stuff). If that happend Robotech would be as bad as Cardcaptors or Escaflowne.

If there's nothing in deep space then there would be no objectives in deep space therefore there would be little reason to fight a battle in deep space so most battles would probably occur around planets. That's the way I see it anyway. well, here's how I see it. planet A is 100 light years from planet B both planets decide to kill each other and send out space armadas. now, you'd THINK that the armadas would probably duke it out about mid way. what happens is both armadas, big as they are, miss each other by hundreds of thousand, if not millions of miles. each armada utterly concours its enemys homeworld. several hundred years later.. planet A and planet B decide to kill each other repeat. space is just too damn big. Unless, of course, one assumes a permanent near-planet defense force.

Hey, at least it was only for an hour.

I don't think it was ever given a name. Just "The Baby". Great show, though I don't have a clue where to get it now. Maybe kazaa or something?

Actually, that's basically what they do in Macross. That's why in fighter mode, for most VFs, the head lasers point behind the aircraft. Well, that's not really serving to confuse IR sensors, is it? I suppose the explosions from the missiles could serve as flares to divert other missiles...

I thought it was radar-absorbent paint. Nope. From what I read, an IR absorbent paint developed by Boeing, who was one of Lockheed's partners during that competiton. Okay, so it's true that some of the solutions used to reduce IR signature wouldn't apply to a valk in space, but my point is still valid. If the UN wants to make stealth a focus in their next-gen variable fighters, they're going to develop technologies to make stealth work. And with everything else that they've done with overtechnology, it's feasible to believe that they used OT to reduce the IR signatures of fighters like the VF-17 and the VF-22. But it has to be reduced a LOT farther to be even marginally effective. I'm leaning towards active IR countermeasures. Flares, mainly. Though a good low-power laser can blind a missile, why bother when it can be vaporized by a higher power one?

I'm the guy that wants the blue XBox, not the pillow that comes with it. I can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

That goes without saying I would imagine. However......I would think that Overtechnology would give man the answer to the super-conductor and that would significantly reduce the heat signature. The heat's still got to go somewhere. Most of it straight out the back of the plane. There's really no way around it that I can see, aside from flooding enemy IR sensors with a bigger heat source. But you're talking about the same sort of challenges that today's modern stealth aircraft face. Not really. Modern aircraft don't have tiny stars packed into their engines. I thought it was radar-absorbent paint. Not a problem in space, where heat comes from the inside, not the outside. Leading edge heat is from atmospheric friction. By mixing it into the outside air. There's no outside air to mix with in space. Whatever shape your exhaust plume is, it's still a bright white spot in a pitch black background. Sure it dissipates, but the diffrence in temperatures is still massive.