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Ouch. Well you're really gonna want an animated gif to get the full effect of Lucy's... "bounce" The ending? Guld rams the Ghost but to do so, he has to do way more G's than his body is capable and he gets all twisted up in a rather gory manner. Ghost flames out and the YF-21 hulk coasts off. I don't think he actually rammed it in the movie. I think he just forced the Ghost to start moving fast enough that its hull failed from the heat generated. That becomes a very real problem as you get going fast. The modern-day Blackbird has some very unique engineering designs to keep its wings from warping due to the heat generated at a relatively mild mach 3/80,000 feet(corrugated wing surfaces spring to mind). While we don't actually know how fast Guld and hte Ghost were darting around, we know that the YF-21 was capable of hitting mach 25 in a straight run, since it's capable of achieving orbit under its own power and mach 25 is escape velocity. If I recall, the YF-21 actually DID slip back out into space at the end of the fight. I assume that whatver the YF-21 could do, the Ghost could too. They were hauling far more ass than is recommendable in an atmosphere, and they just danced in the flames untill one of them caught fire. And with the YF-21 being more aerodynamic, the Ghost went up first. Also possible is the Ghost just finally pulled more Gs than its frame could handle and it disentegrated. But all we KNOW on that end is that the YF-21 was pulling more Gs than its pilot could handle. And that's relatively low.

No doubt the debris in the atmosphere would be an issue, but its not like every hulk would be on trajectories to fall through. Some would "skip" off the atmosphere... some would stay in orbit, some could well be vaporized (though the vapor IS still an issue). Any guestimate on percentages would be a WAG, but it woudln't seem to be anything but a very small number of ships that would get through to impact. And then then, they're more likely to hit water than just about anything else... No doubt cleanup was an issue, though. Well, a small # of 2 million ships is still pretty signifigant. Especially when some of them are coming down intact. I figure a lot of them were blown up, though. Some junk headed towards the earth, some away, some stuck in orbit. Hmmm... The orbital defense grid may have actually started as a way to prevent straggler impacts. Get the world up and running again, then launch satellites into orbit to blast any large chunks into smaller chunks so they burn up in the atmosphere instead of knocking a hole in some poor sap's house. Or just deflect it so it's headed out of the system. Debris showers on Earth and the moon were likely a problem for a long time after the battle, and the orbital debris would cause major problems with space travel. Meteor defense would've become a very big priority.

Beat me to the punch Graham! Just wondering but do you have any news on any new Valkyries? Not that you have to tell us what yet, if you aren't allowed to. But, just to keep us bouncing off the walls in anticipation (like telling kids "Yeah, I got you a present" but not giving any more info). My sources* have told me that the Stampede Valkyrie is next up on the list. *(said sources being the voices in my head. They keep screaming something about a winged gundam. I think this is what they're talking about)

Yes, but everyone knows that when the heroes nuke a city it means the producers REALLY don't like you. All the debris from Bodolzaa's ship exploding probably landed in Canada just out of spite. ... Actually, debris from the battle is a pretty valid concern. We know that zentradi vessels crashed into the Earth, some of them largely intact . And large objects hitting the Earth is generally a Very Bad Thing. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was 10 kilometers wide. We know zentradi ships tend to be about 2-4 kilometers long. Granted that asteroids are solid and spaceships are hollow, but the fact that we have 1.8 million ships' worth of debris should be more than enough to make up for it. The only way ANYTHING survived on Earth is if a lot of the debris was moving away from the Earth(easy to swallow with the .8 million vessels hit by the Grand Cannon, somewhat less with everything else). Say 300,000 ships' worth of debris made it to Earth(debris from Grand Cannon vessels was completely deflected out by the force of the beam, and around a third of the remaining debris made it to Earth). That's still a mind-bogglingly large amount of crap polluting your once-beautiful homeworld. Physical impacts likely make up a good portion of this. These impacts were probably largely in the northern hemisphere due to the line of the attack(straight up the corridor opened by the Grand Cannon), but would have far-reaching consequences for the entire world. And this is discounting stuff kicked up by weapons fire. Hence why an atmospheric purification operation and nature reclaimation project were needed. Without them, the Earth was, at best, plunged into another ice age. More likely, the air was becoming so choked with debris that it wouldn't be breathable without a serious cleanup effort.

From the sega-dreamcast DYRL game-intro that was in Macross 20th anniversary DVD, the Earth was attacked while the SDF-1 (and/or at least the Skull Team) was still on Earth. --treatment-- Saturn, not Dreamcast. It was also ported to the Playstation.

So? Canada had a major city destroyed by the heroes. Remember the barrier overload that killed Kakizaki also turned Ontario into a smoking crater.

Oooo! Oooo! Where's your evidence! I think you're just coming to conclusions and then rationalizing after the fact! For those humor-challenged among us: That smiley face designates that I'm kidding around. Sadly, this disclaimer now seems necessary. Seriously though. . . that's ludicrous. What about transferring the original prints into digital format would destroy them? After all, they're just being scanned. This smacks of fanboy conspiracy theories. H Would you believe the scanner was attacked by ewoks during the remastering process?

Should be able to. The PS2 was designed from the beginning to be 100% backwards-compatible. It should work with all PS1 controllers, including esoteric stuff like the Negcon. I can't imagine a situation where an original digital pad would cause problems.

There was a GameBoy Color one, if you want to count that.

Last time on video. I read that to mean VHS tapes. I find that very hard to believe. Especially since the work should've all been done on computer. Dunno. I THINK that there was active solicitation of special features ideas for the DVDs on the StarWars.com forums(may've been a fan-created thread). I KNOW "Han shoots first" was by far the most requested feature. As in like 75%. If I'd been there more than a week, I might could offer more detail.

Id say correction since he wares em in the cockpit. Maybe he wants to look cool? They're blue-tinted too, after all... You can get tinted optical glasses. that's what i have, they're tinted blue too! Yes, but what color is your hair?

But that's where you're wrong. They did the remaster BEFORE they did the SE edits. I own an original edition remaster box set. The box for that release looks like this, if you want to scrounge one up at a used video store... That's the first movie. The style of the other 2 is similar(Empire features a stormtrooper helmet and the walkers attacking Hoth, and Yoda, and Jedi features Yoda and the Luke/Vader lightsaber duel. All 3 boxes are black.). And just so there's no confusion, it says on the side of the trilogy box that it was digitally remastered, as well as along the bottom of each of the 3 individual tapes. Personally, I am of the opinion that the DVDs will likely have both versions on one disk, because it's well within the technical capabilities of the media and because inclusion of hte original version is a highly-requested feature.

They DID sell it in the US, but it was never very popular(I saw ONE for sale once). It was discontinued in favor of the Dual Analog gamepads, which were in turn discontinued for the Dual Shock, which succeeded by virtue of being a pack-in controller.

Id say correction since he wares em in the cockpit. Maybe he wants to look cool? They're blue-tinted too, after all... You can get tinted optical glasses.

Never mind...

It's cuz he combed it. The unkempt spikey look is required for immortality.

*twitch* Why would you want THaT piece of crap?

Only the character designer is more accurate than even the character designer.

What about a 1S CF with GPB armor? MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Yah. But a larger cartridge means more room for tape. Beta had less room to stuff tape into, and being higher-resolution, they used what they did have faster.

Yes, the mine energist episode was #8, but there was no regult, although Escaflowne was done by Kawamori. It was just a work melef. Look at it closer. You can't see it when Van's smashing it, but when it's working in the background it's fairly obvious. They glued a pair of arms to a Regult and painted it gold.

Heh. ... That's a good way to make sports more exciting, though.

Because George Lucas put Club Obi-Wan into Temple of Doom.

Beta is the OTHER VCR format. Offering higher image quality in smaller cassetes, it fell to the larger, lower-res VHS anyways. ... I think the big thing that killed it was you could get more time in a VHS tape than a Beta one, but I don't know for sure.

Short answer: not much. Long answer: The J has an extra laser. The S has 3 extra lasers, improved electronics, and slightly more powerful engines. Later models of the VF-1 all have the same hardware as the S, so the S only gets the weapon/engine bonuses. And once you get to the modernized VF-1X series, the VF-1SX(or whatever the proper designation is) has the same engines as all the others(which is better htan the original VF-1S engines). Mainly it's a prestige thing. Only leaders get the J and S models. Source: http://macross.anime.net/mecha/united_nati.../vf1/index.html