Master Dex

I dunno, even if that was just an excuse it was enough to know they were working on it for me and that it fit my personal time table so I'm not gonna fuss.

18 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:

If you ordered from LP, they stated shipments are coming and and should be shipping to customers on Jan 4.

Yeah.. I posted a whole thing earlier about how they told me that. I was just making a point that I was ok with it.

Yeah I'm not actually worried, I don't care if it takes a while to get to me. I contacted Luna Park cause I wanted a status update and hadn't heard anything, and a lot of others are unsure too.

It's actually better for me this way as I'm still not at my normal residence, being with family during the holidays. So it's better that this isn't sitting at my door for several days.

(Clearly quoting text works differently than it used to.. oh well lol)

Ok, I emailed them. Amazingly, they responded immediately and said the following:

[quote]The item has just been released.

DHL is closed in Japan (new year holiday)

all parcels will be moving after new year holiday on 4th January, please let us know once you receive it.

wishing you a wonderful new year holiday, thanks again.[/quote]

And to wit, a separate email with the shipping confirmation came as well. I guess they were just gonna send it on the 4th but since I asked they just gave me the info. They're reasoning is valid though, much as @Kanedas Bike said above, it's basically the holidays.

Yeah I don't care how much more expensive SMS is, if hiring Xaos means getting these law dodging operations that'd potentially leave me liable, then the money is worth giving to the real professionals.

And that's assuming I actually need a PMC for the job if the cost is that much of a concern.

I'm waiting as well. I don't want to assume anything but maybe this is the downside to having open preorders, which isn't a great sign if so... But considering I ordered mine before the official pre-order date I'd like to think I should have heard something by now.

I may send them a message soon.

7 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Even if you want to put some of that purely on the Ragna branch, some of that goes right to the top because it was ordered by Lady M... e.g. the slavery, the illegal cloning, etc.  

Even if it's just the one branch, that it's allowed to continue operating like that is a glaring, glaring problem that reflects poorly on the company as a whole.

Agreed, I offered the idea of Ragna being the wobbly leg simply to be fair as it's not my intent to just complain about Delta. I don't dislike Delta. I recognize it has serious writing issues, and if some of this stuff isn't intentional then it's even more glaring and I believe Macross writers should do better. If it is intentional I would like to see some acknowledgment of it in story otherwise I am not sure why they are being so blatant for nothing. They could do less of this and still have the characters be the heroes.

It's possible other branches of Xaos aren't as bad at this stuff, but the Ragna branch has to eat that I think. They may be the heroes but the writers can't be expecting us to not notice this. Even when they villify NUNS to make Xaos look good they do it where NUNS is still in the right and the MCs just disagree cause they don't like it. You ask me the writers are intending this on some level because Frontier proves they can do this without these implications.

There is also the fact that Lady M seems to be a big wig and is likely only not under legal prosecution because of influence. 

10 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Top ace is a certified badass who eats pineapple and doesn't afraid of anything.

Your whole post was on point but I want to highlight this cause it made me laugh and yes I know the Halo reference and that makes me love it more.

I have no interest in the armored pack but want to see if ghost pack gets released (I'm sure it will). I'm only getting Hayate and Mirage so I could get super on one and ghost in the other maybe.. or just both.. I dunno anymore lol.

I'm pretty confident if you want PMC duties solely, SMS is the best and far better by a wide margin. They are highly successful but that also means they might be more expensive.

Xaos is as a PMC... Well... Third rate. But they might be cheaper! There is also the fact if you need a media component to your job they might know more about that. SMS is more straightforward.

I think market location matters too, I'm not sure they operate in the same galactic sectors. Certainly SMS isn't seen in Brisingr, and Xaos is said to have branches too but we haven't seen where.

I admit I'm wondering about the same still.

Could be some just checking it out to see what's up but that'd be a minority for sure.

Lol, I did both cause I have no control. But I never got a Hayate or Mirage in the first series (I have a 31F Messer and the 31A) so there's that. The real problem is I need more display space.

Also Max's 29 is gonna tempt me. Might sell something lol.

12 minutes ago, Knight26 said:

13 hours and counting, will see how many Macross fans there are in NW Tucson tonight.

I wish I could join you, that's my hometown! But I'm in SoCal instead (the less populated part). My theater looks like 10 people will be joining me lol.

Still glad someone is representing where I'm from lol.

Ok, thanks. Can be hard going through missed pages in these threads.

Right when I'm out of town too.. will have to see what I can do once it's shipped I guess.

So... Anyone know when these actually ship? I just see December 2021.. and well.. here we are! Just would like an idea of what days to expect.

18 minutes ago, RaisingCane said:

Was Sheryl Nome exempted from all that because she was too high profile?

More like she was found useful by Grace for the Galaxy plans. Maybe the V type infection wouldn't work as well on a cyborg. Though they did need to sell her as an idol elsewhere where cybernetics wasn't allowed so some of it is that.

2 minutes ago, RaisingCane said:

Before I ask anything else about Macross, are any of these good questions or am I just making a nuisance of myself?

This thread exists for this kind of thing. There is never anything bad about being thirsty for information and wanting to know stuff. Especially when we have the fountain of information that is Seto lol.

You're fine I think.

4 hours ago, Focslain said:

Interesting.....

Most Interesting...

3 hours ago, hulagu said:

Oh, wow, did they finally put the Macross music catalogue on iTunes recently? 

They weren't there when I last looked a few months back.

 

Everything from Macross II up to Zettai Live yes. Just got announced and done this past week.

49 minutes ago, Einherjar said:

That 5% and inadvertently opening Pandora’s Box won’t save Robotech or Tommy Yune’s career at this point.  

I agree but I'm not about to discount the quality of the rest just cause it's not Minmay music. I love SDFM and DYRL too but aside from a couple songs the majority of Macross music I like is from later stuff. So I'm happy.

4 minutes ago, Keith said:

There's a lot there though.

I know, their reaction is like saying "You aced the test yeah but it's only a 95/100".

39 minutes ago, inukai44 said:

That seems a weird way to go.

It's pretty common these days with dubs of shows with a lot of songs in them. I see it a lot. 

Though I would be fine with just subtitle releases for Macross shows.

7 hours ago, Gendo Koun said:

So two days ago I've watched the Macross Galactic Launch Ceremony stream on Youtube and Onishi Kaya-san from Bigwest announced that following the Macross Plus Movie Editon nationwide release in the US so does the music of all Macross series on worldwide via streaming on Spotify and Youtube, etc. ITS TRUE but "almost" all, not all. SDF Macross and Macross II still regional locked, Frontier and Delta have full albums released 

Macross II music was part of the release too. All that wasn't was SDFM and DYRL music, exactly in line with the agreement thus far.