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Yes, exactly. Thank goodness other series don't get involved in mass merchandising. I'd hate to see Macross toys, Gundam models, Haruhi figures, and other such things around. Luckily for us, Eva is the ONLY series ever to put out merchandising EVER. The purity of anime is saved!

Stop watching now. If the whole Fourth Child section (and Eva-01 running wild in episode 19) didn't wow you, it's clearly not your thing, and you'll absolutely hate the ending. I found it enthralling from the get-go; but I like weird, confusing stories with puzzle pieces all over the place.

Just ordered it from Kinokuniya this evening. Should be arriving there in a few weeks.

That's the problem...I don't think a freaky fourway with Kinryu and two bridge bunnies is what Milia has in mind for her daughter... And, uh...sorry, haven't watched episode 4 yet. I'll get to it in the morning.

Heh. I have that VHS tape. It's awesome. They also play that same theme song over the ending sequence as well.

So, umm...did you find the page from Robotech Art 1, or no?

This has nothing to do with Robotech, but I remember seeing a special on Japanese TV about Foley work (making sound effects for movies), and they showed scenes from films and had people guess what the Foley artists used to make the sounds. One of the scenes was of eels wriggling in mud, with a squishy, wet sound. It turned out they used two pieces of Konnyaku gelatin... ...and rubbed them together. Then the Foley artist, laughing, said that the same sound was usually used for sex scenes in pretty much every Japanese porn film of the '70s and '80s.

See? This is the problem. I'm honestly trying not to be offensive here, but you make quite a lot of mistakes, and when people call you on them, you either say, "so sue me," or "I guess I put my foot in my mouth again." But then you get upset when people don't believe you. Again, no offense intended...but WHY should we believe you? I've already shown that what you say is impossible. Here's the thing. I don't have Robotech Art 1. But why should I go through the trouble of acquiring it, and searching through it (since you didn't provide a page number) just to find something that you claim will prove something that clearly doesn't exist? If you want people to believe you, shouldn't YOU provide the page in question? I've already gone to the trouble of checking English Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, carlmacek.com, and IMDB to show that you're mistaken. Shouldn't you do the footwork for a change? So tell you what. Provide a link or a scan to the page from Robotech Art 1, and compare it to New Generation (and/or Mospeada) and Robotech the Movie, and show us your conclusions. Fair enough?

But the people who claimed that they saw that gave it up after they saw the unedited Macross, right? Well, this memory of Wanzerfan's has gone through several permutations: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...mp;#entry752988 Then someone said that his meory was mixed up with Rbotech the Movie, where BD died that way. So then we got this: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...mp;#entry753406 Which, as I said, is impossible. Then Frieflug88 pointed him in the direction of a youtube video of Robotech the Movie, which led to this: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...mp;#entry753598 Frankly, I don't know WHAT he's talking about, and I don't think anyone else does, either. It quite literally CANNOT exist. Wanzerfan is also wrong about Carl Macek being from Texas. He's actually from Pittsburgh, according to both Wikipedia and IMDB. Of course, memory plays tricks on all of us. I distinctly remember two Star Blazers movies (called "Derek Wildstar and the Gamilons" and "Derek Wildstar and the Comet Empire" which I desperately wanted to watch, but my parents wouldn't let me, because they were on from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, and 8:00 was my bedtime. However, there is no record of them on the internet, not even at the official Star Blazers site, so I concluded I must have mixed them up with something else. It happens. Most people give it up and move on.

Robotech debuted March 4, 1985. Megazone 23 debuted March 5, 1985. Harmony Gold didn't buy the rights to Megazone until WELL after Robotech had finished its first airing. You claimed that you saw a "test run," presumably BEFORE Robotech officially debuted. As you can see, it would have been impossible to edit Megazone footage into anything before Robotech debuted, since Megazone hadn't been released yet. Additionally, Harmony Gold spent A LOT of money to remove the second moon from Southern Cross. How much more money would it have taken to make BD from Megazone look like Corg from New Generation, and then splice that doctored footage into a "test run," only to remove it for the final version? But that's neither here nor there, really. The release dates are well-known and easily verifiable. It would have been impossible to make anything like what you're claiming. We don't need Carl Macek to tell us that its impossible to splice in footage from an anime that HADN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET.

I started skimming when he was talking about the new series...I completely missed the spoiler, so when I read -Snowblind-'s comment, I just thought, "Spoilers? All he talked about was 'The Young Lords.' That's one of the OLD episodes!" Hooray for obliviousness!

The characters and their interaction...now THAT makes sense as a big part of the appeal of the show. It's also one of the things I find myself disliking. It's a warm, familial comradeship that seems deliberately designed to make people (especially children) feel "safe." Any actual tension or strife between the main characters is usually the result of a temporary misunderstanding, easily cleared up (like Starbuck terminating his friendship with Apollo four doubting that Fred Astaire was his dad), or else is played for comedic purposes (like Athena turning on the steam vents when Starbuck was making out with Cassiopeia). I submit that none of it feels terribly real, now or in 1978, but that's an easily debatable opinion. As for whether it would sell now, I think it would...as a family-friendly adventure show, which is what the original show was. So I can see the tone and the characters being an appealing part of the show...I just wish they were placed in more interesting or creative situations.

I name-drop so seldom that I think I can be given a little indulgence here once in a while... You're probably not wrong about that last point. But...when was Transformers first optioned? I confess that I don't know. I suspect, however, that it would have been quite a number of years before production on it started. EDIT: Okay, according to Wikipedia. Don Murphy wanted to do a GI Joe movie, but after the invasion of Iraq, Hasbro suggested he do Transformers instead. A treatment was written in 2003. The first draft of the script was written in 2004. A major rewrite happened in early 2005. Another rewrite was done later in 2005, after Spielberg (who joined the project in 2004) approached Michael Bay. Shooting began in April 2006. So Robotech is moving slower than that, but not MUCH slower (so far, at least). And it doesn't have the benefit of having Spielberg involved. And it's not a household name like Transformers. For a somewhat obscure '80s cartoon property, I don't think we should be expecting any real news about it for at least another year or two.

In a way, it kind of does. A lot of the students in my high school were children of people who worked in television (in fact, one of my pretty good friends was René Auberjonois' daughter, and Oliver Robins, the boy from Poltergeist, was a few years ahead of me; Bruce Joel Rubin's son was also one of my friends), and I ended up learning a fair amount about how films get made just from talking to them and their parents. A couple of my friends work (or, more often, have worked) at the Disney Studios in Burbank. Also, I live in Pasadena, and there is filming going on around here ALL THE TIME ("Madmen" gets filmed down the street from the coffee shop I usually go to...and I often stop to gawk at the classic cars they bring in). So no, you don't learn much about the higher-level decision-making going on; but if you're observant, you can learn quite a bit about how films and television shows get made. One thing Memo's right about is that it's WAAAAY too early to say that the film is in Development Hell. If there's no forward progress in two more years, THEN we can start gloating.

Well...as Renato said, technically, it's NOT a reunion, since Basara never came back to the fleet. By the way, as Renato also said, not only do they have in-universe liner notes and real-world liner notes, they also have in-universe credits and real-world credits. The in-universe ones are kind of funny...

I just picked up Volume 5 of the Frontier manga (as well as the repackaged Macross 7 Trash volumes 1 & 2...and it's ONLY a repackage. Nothing new in it at all), and THANK GOODNESS the burning unresolved question at the end of Frontier FINALLY gets an answer: Yep, both of Nanase's eyes are intact, and she's fine.

Hmm...maybe I'll catch it if they rerun it, then.

(PSSST...Keith...The Magic Bicycle is a Robotech-ism...)

Weird. It appears to have been out for months: http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Gumi And yet...Macross Ace #002 (released in late June) didn't feature an ad for it, but Macross Ace #003 does. Go figure.

The ADV and AnimEigo subs are sometimes surprisingly different (and even entirely different on one or two occasions). Usually, though, it's just different phrasing (one will say something like, "The Macross, having defeated the Zentradi again, now makes its way towards earth" whereas the other might say, "With the latest Zentradi defeat, the Macross now heads for earth") or terminology (The ADV subs say "U.N. Forces H.Q." but the AnimEigo subs say "UN Forces High Command"). (One thing I noticed that I thought was interesting, though, is that Kakizaki always, always, always calls Hikaru "Taicho." Max sometimes calls him that, but more often doesn't call him anything. Now the AnimEigo subs translate "Taicho" as "Leader," which is what I've gone with for the Galaxy Network subs. But ADV does something kind of interesting. When Max says "Taicho," they translate it as "Leader" or "Sir," but when Kakizaki says it, they translate it as "Boss." It's not as accurate (which is why I didn't make use of it for our subs), but I think it fits both Max's and Kakizaki's characters, and differentiates them in a nice, subtle way.) Anyway, back on topic...I prefer the R2 remaster. After watching a few episodes of it, the AnimEigo release looks almost TOO colorful. I wish the R2 had fixed some of the scratches and the little bit of fuzz at the bottom of the screen whenever the scene cuts, but I guess you can't have everything.

I haven't been able to make it all the way through Untold Story. Megazone was the first anime I ever watched raw, and I've seen it too many times to be able to sit through a rearranged, redubbed version of it. That said, there was a certain loopy fun to it because I knew Megazone so well...kind of like watching Turkish Star Wars and being stunned at how they change everything around so that it all means something COMPLETELY different than it did originally.

Thank boinger for the rip, that's all done by him. (And technically, it's not really a new translation...it's about 55% AnimEigo, 40% ADV, and 5% me.)

*sigh* I'll be blunt: there have been many times on Macross World where I or others have corrected your "facts." Has there been a single time where it turned out that you were right and we were wrong? If so, please show me, because I don't recall one. In other words, check your facts BEFORE you post, and ESPECIALLY check your facts before you tell someone else to "get it straight." If you want me to go through your post line by line, showing how it CANNOT be true, I can do that. I'd rather not, though.

Well...It was broadcast here in the States a week and a half ago (so assume Episode 2 was earlier this week). The LA Times review said that Ian McKellan was clearly having fun with his role, but that he seemed to be the only one who was.

Jammingbirds, right? I'll see what I can do.