F-ZeroOne
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Tonights episode was superb, some of the best TV SF I've seen for a few months. I was literally on the edge of my seat for the last half an hour...
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Incidentally, the Torchwood "Children of Earth" serial is doing very well, ratings wise - about six million viewers, which significantly hasn't altered much for each episode. For comparison, regular Who averages between about eight to ten million. It has also got very good write-ups in the newspapers. John Barrowman was complaining recently that he felt the lack of a full series seemed like a punishment from the BBC, but I feel he might be wrong on this one - two or three serials like this through a year might actually suit Torchwoods format better. Without trying to spoil things, the series feels very 50s British SF - all dark government cover-ups involving off-world threats. Theres a very Quatermass feel to it...
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Just noticed that in my post where I mention the "cast image" I typed "spoilers" instead of "specials". Oops...
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We're surviving. Particularly because the Torchwood five part serial "Children of Earth" is currently running all this week in the UK. Also, if a leaked shot I saw the other day of a possible cast for one of the spoilers is actually a real image... yes, the wait will probably have been worth it.
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And therein lies more weirdness. The UK comics featured heavily dinobot Swoop, who AFAIK, was never available in the UK (or if he was, I never saw him anywhere). In the UK-produced strips, Grimlock was a total badass who could go toe-to-toe with Megatron and answered readers letters. In the US strips, it was "Me Grimlock, me dumb". The contrast was even starker because in the UK comic, US and UK strips ran in the same issue. The UK strips got a supporting character and friend of the Dinobots called Centurion, who when last seen was melt-fused to Megatron and being dredged out of the Thames by Richard Branson. You'd think that would make a perfect statue piece (I guess Centurions character rights are held by someone else, though)...
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You can thank early 80s international toy merchandising for this one. This also puzzled me for years until I found out about Macross. Basically, Transformers proved enormously successful in the West, and Hasbro quickly needed more Transformers designs than the original Japanese, Takara-developed line could provide. They therefore sought licensing agreements with other Japanese manufacturers. I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but one of the designs they acquired was the Takatoku toys version of the Macross VF-1 Valkyrie. This was used as the basis for the Transformers toy Jetfire. A number of other Transformers designs were acquired this way, among them Roadbuster, Shockwave and Omega Supreme (the toy of which, in the UK, was actually released first by Grandstand in a competing toy line to Transformers...!) However, and again I'm not sure why (presumably because the anime rights to Macross were owned by someone else), they couldn't use the animation design of the Valkyrie, and had to come up with their own design for the actual animation. Some modern Jetfire toys pay "homage" to both designs with certain design touches. Why this design was called Skyfire in the animation and Jetfire in toy and comic form is one of those Mysteries.
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Hey, I just noticed - the F-22 has decided that the Typhoon is so awesome it wants to change its shape into one too!
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Let me guess, David - you got a .50 calibre surprise when trying a head-on pass?
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HEY! When did the Typhoon become PR whipping boy?! Thats it!
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Hmm. They appear to have fitted the F-35 with one of the "beam sweepers" from Gunbuster there.
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And can we please hire whoever they are to get the Zeta Gundam theme music back please? Edit: thinking about it, the FASA designs gradually began to differ somewhat (although still recognisable) from what they were originally based on. Perhaps there was a loophole there somewhere...
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Gundam Figure Thread - Newtype GN-002
F-ZeroOne replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
We are getting Robot Spirits Turn-A Gundam! Result! Bandai! I love you more than Captain Harry now! Er... I just said that out loud, didn't I? -
I think he means he wants the text translated...
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English is generally regarded as the "lingua franca" of the international aviation community, though I would imagine it would have been a little bit unusual in the kind of retro-setting of Sky Crawlers. Yukikaze also featured English dialogue during many of the aerial scenes.
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Some of the early Go-Bots included a Zero, a Mustang, a Corsair, and a P-38 Lightning. You can find an overview of them here: http://counter-x.net/gobots/reviews/index.html
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Oh, of course they didn't. Everyone knows the LEM was made of cardboard and tin foil, like all the other props... (just to be clear, I am joking!).
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I'm not sure if this warrants a new thread, but this thread doesn't quite feel right either... still, it did travel through the air for a bit, and its just too cool not to mention: http://www.haynes.co.uk/Press/Releases_HTM...ess_release.htm I'm not sure if you have "Haynes" manuals in the US. They're something of a British institution, the motor vehicle reference guide for people who used to pimp their rides before pimping your ride was something people did. They basically told you how to take your Mk. IV Ford Cortina to bits and hopefully put it back together again before the wife divorced you for getting all those oil stains on the carpets. If they didn't have a book that covered your car model, you should perhaps have checked again to make sure you hadn't bought a cow instead. More recently, and seeing which way the internets wind was blowing, they've been branching out into "novelty" releases like this...
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Worst Science Fiction Film of All Time
F-ZeroOne replied to JELEINEN's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
"Its a Sunday, And I'm going for a drive. In my transforming robot car." -
Patlabot on TV, followed by Patlabor on TV followed by Patlabor on TV. Preferably also with much better cover art and promotional blurb written by someone who actually understands the series...
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Thats... thats scary. Yet... somehow... brilliant...
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The Alien/Predator/Aliens vs. Predator Thread
F-ZeroOne replied to VT 1010's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I seem to recall reading that the makers of "Alien" were sued by the author of The Voyage of the Space Beagle (specifically, the "Discord in Scarlet" chapters), A. E. van Vogt - and the film mentioned before It! The Terror From Beyond Space [1] also took the book as an inspiration! [1] Edit: ah, film mentioned earlier has different title - variant? -
Is Anime insulting your intelligence?
F-ZeroOne replied to Excillon's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Having watched some Zambot 3 recently, frankly I think the creators of Sailor Moon should be worried about being sued by Tomino... ("Full Moon Atta - wait, I mean Moon Tiara Action!"). I am, always have been, and always will be a mecha fan but I also have a soft spot for romantic comedies, and have watched more Sailor Moon than is probably healthy for me... If I find the concept of something interesting, I'll watch it - I'm just more likely to watch it if big robots can be involved somehow. -
There already has been on PC - Shogo, Mobile Armour Division. It wasn't bad.
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No, no, no, you got that wrong - you meant who would play Khans chest!
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Yes, my first thought was "Thats not a very good model of a F-14!"...