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Cool, glad that's working! I didn't recognize everything in the Mikimoto book. There was some fantasy stuff I have no idea the source of. Hmm, okay. Well, if you find out what the book's called, please let me know! Like I said, I want to be comprehensive.

Updated the site with some additional books and I actually started reviewing books too. Let me know if you like the format I came up with for reviewing the art books!

Of course!

And jasonc would know this how?

He was nicknamed bones because he was a doctor. Bones is short for sawbones, something they used to call doctors all the time in the frontier days.

As far as I know that's the only way. I don't think it came out in any of the regular Japanese DVD sets but if someone else wants to correct me, I'd love to be wrong!

Haha, neither did I until I started buying them!

Super Robot Wars D is pretty fun if you like strategy games, but the Garland is not one of the robots you can pick from the beginning of the game. You have to play it some and unlock it (and pick the right pathway), so it's worth it if you already like this kind of game, and have a walkthrough! You can muddle through the story to get to the fighting without help just fine, but you will probably have trouble getting to Shogo without one. Oddly, the story covers Megazone 23 Part 2, but it uses the Part 1 designs. Yeah, I've definitely been to MAHQ before and while it has some decent stuff, I want to have lots of big pictures. If I have a complaint about MAHQ, it's that it has very few pictures of each individual robot and the pictures are not very high quality. Being a Megazone 23 dedicated site will also let me get into much greater detail of course! Wow, that is pretty cool. The bike mode really resembles the EX Garland from Megazone 23 III. Cool! I wouldn't put it on the site since it's not really Megazone, but I love all that Kakinuma stuff. There are some really interesting unused mecha designs for Megazone. It was originally intended to be a TV show so there's a lot of preproduction art that was never used.

Years and years ago I had a Megazone 23 website but I let it die and have been planning to bring it back for some time. I've been collecting tons of Megazone 23 stuff (you may remember my post about Megazone 23 Literature a while back), so I finally built a new site, bought a domain and have been scanning and posting away. The site is: http://www.megazonetwothree.com Now much of what's here so far is place holder. I scanned a bunch of books but I just put up thumbnails. I will eventually link to little information pages with big scans of both front and back and an explanation of what's inside them. I've also just tossed up Yamato's promo pics of the Garland toys and haven't taken any pictures of my own yet, and I will do that. For the Megazone OVAs I'm going to include sections on characters (with lots of scans), mecha (also with lots of scans) and plot, and I will be linking to reviews I've done of Megazone videos on Destroy All Podcasts. I will also review the two games Megazone appeared in (Super Robot Wars Destiny for GBA and Megazone 23: Blue Garland for PlayStation 3) and have a bunch of screen captures and such to go with those as well. I also want to try to get comprehensive with all the different versions of the OVAs released, but I definitely do not have complete information there. If anyone can provide more info there, that would be awesome. I know of so far: * Megazone 23 Part 1 Victor VHS (Japanese) Streamline/Orion VHS (American) Victor LD (Japanese) Victor DVD (Japanese) Streamline/Image DVD (American) ADV DVD (American) ADV DVD w/ Art Box (American) * Megazone 23 Part 2 Victor VHS (Japanese) Victor LD (Japanese) Harmony Gold? Overseas Edition (International) Victor DVD ADV DVD (American) * Megazone 23 III Victor VHS Episode 1 (Japanese) Victor VHS Episode 2 (Japanese) Victor LD Episode 1 (Japanese) Victor LD Episode 2 (Japanese) ADV DVD (American) * Megazone 23 Complete Collection ADV Version 1 DVD (American) ADV Version 2 DVD (American) Am I missing anything? Also I don't pay much attention to anime music and I know there are a ton of records and casette tapes and CDs for Megazone. Does anyone know about that stuff? I also don't pay much attention to model kits. Does anyone know about them?

Let's not forget that Force Five's production was hardly what one would call professional. The actors were the same people as the "writers" and "producers" and it sounds like the dub was recorded in a public restroom. The theme song is just the Japanese them song with the vocals taken out. Very bargain basement.

These short movies would show in the theatre before a feature.

Did anyone ever make digital versions of Not Necessarily the Sentinels and Khyron's Counterattack?

Uh you might want to try downloading it again. I just downloaded it here and it's 28.3 megabytes and is the complete file. I was able to download it without a problem.

We have a new podcast at: http://www.destroyallpodcasts.com It is about Destroy All Planets, also known as Gamera vs. Viras. It is a terrible, terrible movie.

Well I mean, the US trilogy boxset has a toy of it.

I bet you could really CLEAN UP with one of those!

Where did they ever brag about that? I'd like to see that quote.

I live in San Francisco and I bought all of the Robotech novels in this area. The catch is this was years and years ago. I still see the recent reprinting of the omnibus editions around a lot though, both new and used, especially used.

Haha, that's Rick Yamata!

Macross #1, the comic book published by Comico. This is what I got when I asked for Robotech: The Macross Saga #1 from my local comic book shop. I was confused for a minute.

We have a new podcast up at: http://www.destroyallpodcastsdx.com It is about Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation and Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, a pair of cheesy direct to video sequels to Starship Troopers.

I don't know what you're talking about, but it sure does not sound like something made by western fans. And I do recall that things like the Daicon videos were made be "fans" who were already working in the industry and such.

The bigger question is who cares what Robotech fans want? I'm not really defending Shadow Chronicles, I just want fans to be more realistic in regards to what they are capable of.

That's not what I said. I said it was 2D with 3D sequeneces yes, but I do not see fans producing 90 minute features with 2D animated characters, which is where I was going with that. While this is sure not to the level of DYRL or anything, I have never seen a fan creating anything close to this. If it exists, I want to see it, and no, those brief CG clips do not qualify. Well, I did say it was low budget and I don't think anyone is disputing it. I really doubt the guy who did those CG clips is capable of producing 2D animation like we are talking about as well. I don't really think anything Robotech has to live up to Macross Plus. Robotech never ever ever has. The original Robotech didn't, Untold Story didn't, The Sentinels didn't, Shadow Chronicles doesn't, none of the comics do... While I love the original SDF Macross dearly, it is not an animation showcase.

Yeah, that's a brief all CG clip, not a feature length movie. And all CG is guess what, easier to animate to animating 2D people by hand, even with lots of animation short cuts. There's a reason fan made animation tends to be all CG or extremely short. Regular 2D animation is incredibly time-consuming. Stuff that like that short, "I'm in yer manager" or whatever it was called took like a year. I said it when it came out and I still say it now, Shadow Chronicles is like a pilot episode for a TV show that doesn't exist with an obviously low TV show budget. Fans are not putting out stuff on this level. I'm not saying it's at all comparable to a well-done modern anime show (like Shin Mazinger Z which is gorgeous), but this does not look like fan work, it looks like a low budget production, which it is. That's what you get when you have micro-budget and it's animated by Korean inbetweeners.