RF-26AAC

Bandai has been doing that for years with the Gundam fans, I think it's their business secret.

Or they intentionally produce horrible prototypes that will have everyone screaming & yelling, and when the final product is released, everybody goes "Oh that looks so much better than the prototype..." instead of "WHAT?!! Did they even look at the lineart?"

I will pop by Bandai USA HQ which happens to be about 3 miles from my house...

Did anyone else notice the gun splits apart to reveal what I think is some kind of beam weapon barrel?

Hmm, the third one from the left on the top row hair is all wrong But good finds.

And yes, it does look that way, hobbes

Yeah that's who's supposedly going to play her in the (I hate to say it here but may as well) RT live action movie, but it's good art no less

Could you hook it up with an av from Macross DYRL at 1:09:01-1:09:03?? Pretty please??

It doesn't mean much at that point

unless she gets cured.

No no no, I meant *I* mentioned back in this thread about never having found many Misa pics.

Try a google Image search. I figured somebody would have something better; one of them is now my avatar.

Here are a few I found....

Surely somebody has something better!!

I'm watching DYRL and good lord DYRL Misa is cute.

Wait... were you all asking ME to post Misa art??? I honestly haven't found much as is noted WAAAAYYY back in this thread. I'M INNOCENT I TELL YOU!!!

I was asking for ANYONE to; and it was on *this* page, silly.

He really doesn't pay much attention. It is a rather large flaw.

No kidding.

Of all the people out there I thought *he* might be able to oblige with some *good* Misa artwork; I had to go find it myself.

Thanks alot, Misaforever, or rather KlanForever.

Regarding potential ep 23 description.

I wonder if she'll have told him by then... and ...

Alto can cook? I hope he's better than Ranka...

Hehe.

I hope we don't get a SDF:M 'goodbye love confession' . x_x

How about some *good* Misa art; I just finished SDF:M (in japanese) for the first time last night and I'm hurtin for some Misa.

Gah, I can't believe that whore Minmay, seriously.

And I kept waiting for the Hikaru/Minmay SLAP and it NEVER CAME!!! I guess it is in DYRL.

And I can't believe for all these years I thought Hikaru was cool, when he is completely insensitive and doesn't commit to Misa and keeps running to Minmay every time she beckons; it's ridiculous.

'' it really is.

Good lord, could you imagine being married to Minmay?

Hayase was so much more considerate and nice (even if she is a tad jealous, I can't fault her for it)

Gimme some Hikaru+Misa or Misa art please!!!

All that talk about how advanced everything is....but it looks like they're stuck in the 80's. Did anyone catch the vehicles in Macross F? Maybe Shoji is paying way too much tribute. Easter Eggs?

Take a close look, bottom right corner.....Is that a White 80's Toyota Van?

I guess in the world of Macross, consumer technology is still in the past century.....if you look closely, you'll find a lava lamp through the window.

below: A pic of the Toyota....see that?

"Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1983!!!!!"

It's called a HiAce and they're STILL AROUND and in production, and THEY LOOK ALMOST THE SAME #_#

Take a look at the Toyota President or whatever that limo thing is called, it costs 100k, is still in production today and over its lifetime of 40 years it has gone through only TWO redesigns.

Which goes to show, if something works really well in Japan they don't like to change it all that much... hence why the Miata stayed virtually the same from 89-99 #_#

At least we don't have "ADALT TOY" shops; given that there were only 56,000 people on the SDF-1 there was a huge number of lingerie and adult stores in the background...

I wanted to know, how is it that the VF-27 can make a 90* turn in space and move in straight lines while not losing speed, much like the Vajra can?

Also, I am not sure if it has been covered, but what kind of Armor system does the VF-27 employ, or is it just a stronger barrier system like the VF-25 is equipped with?

Thanks,

RF-26 AAC

What made me ROFL was Exedol singing "My boyfriend is a pilot"... roflcopter right there.

Wow, it's the Wednesday after the release and no AVI. This is pretty sad.

I'm going to say this about fansubbers. We appreciate you doing the work that you do but if you start to sub a series, PLEASE FINISH IT!!! It does no good and is no help to the fans if you only sub part of it and then disappear. It seems quite a few groups have done this since Macross Frontier came out.

Seriously!!

If you guys don't get this done I won't know what has been happening for two weeks in a row!!

Oh teh noes!!

to which he would reply: SORRY GUYS, NO CAN DO. JESUS IS STILL UTTERLY FASCINATED BY THEM. (HE KEEPS ASKING THEM TO RE-ENACT EPISODE 35. HE'S A SUCKER FOR THESE TRIANGLES.).

That was my 2nd ROFL of the day, the first was seeing Exedol sing "My boyfriend is a pilot" XD ROFLCOPTER

"ehhh kyuuun kyyuuuunn, kyuuuun kyuuuuuuunn.." god, the pantomime that went with it was the best.\

But in all seriousness what, short of either finding god or (taking a page from the human instrumentality project) unifying humanity through transcendence onto the next plane of existince, could Grace have been talking about with "we are doing what the protoculture couldn't accomplish in 500,000 years of history" and so on?

That ending would completely and utterly suck and sour me on the series and franchise forever.

That's a bit of an overstatement;

I don't think I could ever close my heart to the love I feel for transforming airplanes <3 <3 <3

Don't lie, you'd still watch

A bittersweet ending would suck and would not keep with the macross theme of achieving peace-- Sheryl dying wouldn't really promote that end.

Back on topic, what's the deal with the "bugger" form Vajra that fly everywhere, we haven't seen them before.

Can we hazard a guess as to whether or not they are spaceflight capable or limited only to atmospheric flight?

We also saw the queen's eye in this one... This contributes more to the starship troopers insect theme given how the things have compound eyes.

It is still yet to be discovered whether the Vajra are a naturally occuring species that is freakin angry with us or if they were developed by the protoculture.

I had a thought regarding Grace's motivation.

She said they're out to accomplish something that the protoculture could not do in 500,000 years. I think

I was thinking more along the lines of their insectiod wings acting like advanced solar sails in space.

Edit: But bean like propulsion.....just dont fire a reaction warhead at the vapor trail

The wings are only deployed sometimes; they must somehow internally generate thrust and the tail has a lot to do with it.

I had a newbie question,

WHO THE HELL are the Zolans and when did they come into the picture??

Depends on what you're talking about...certainly the average Japanese pop tune makes more sense than, say, a Tori Amos song. I translated a bunch of Shiina Ringo songs a while back, and although they were weird, they mostly made sense.

But Shiina Ringo's an odd woman.

All of the Minmay songs are perfectly clear, as are most of the Fire Bomber songs. It's when you get to the Yoko Kanno stuff that things start getting ambiguous. But Yoko Kanno is also an odd woman.

My girlfriend tells me that Minmay's music reminds her of the stuff her mother listens to.

That and the opening theme, she says the old Macross OP reminds her of music the old people listen to.

While it is good and catchy it is a touch dated, haha.

I was telling her the other day that the japanese in SDFM is very clean and clear, versus some of the more modern anime series where crazy slang is involved and ridiculous things like "SUPER FUSION LOVE BOMB ATTACK" and really ridiculous overly dramatic dialouge... it only makes sense that music from the era is proper, clean hyojungo instead of a difficult to understand mess like oosakaben...

Of course, I am rambling here but yeah.

A good example of songs being confusing is "Seasons" by Utada Hikaru (IIRC, it was her or Amuro Namie), we spent like 20 minutes talking about WTF it meant before we finally figured out it was about how the singer's feelings about her boyfriend changed over the course of a year, but the lyrics alone wouldn't tell you that...

It's funny how she can only give me a literal translation of stuff off the top of her head, while I figure out what the english approximation of that meaning is...

Oye e_e

Did anybody ever check that kid on youtube out?

My girlfriend tells me that though most Japanese songs have a theme to them, the message is nowhere near as clear as it is in english, often not making sense

I blame this thread for Michel's death.

It's all my fault!! :cry:

And you're still alive to tell about it? (she was in Macronized form when he passed.)

...

I want to retract my earlier statement of how I think Michael really should've gone.

I wouldn't mind being crushed to death in the busom of a 55 foot tall hottie with knockers the size of cars!~

Though there's a different part of Macro-Klan's anatomy I'd like to explore... since I'm micronian :D

This coming from the man who completely forgot Misa when Klan entered his life and won't accept it despite everyone constantly reminding him.

Also, Klan isn't single, she came running to me after Michel's death, .

Meh, Miss Hayase cheated on Riber with me a few years ago XD

and we did a lot more than kiss XD XD XD

No, but in all seriousness...

Klan isn't single.

Klan is the grudge.

She doesn't forgive. She doesn't forget. :phear:

Glad I could help.

Search Star Wars Action fleet.

The little men that came with my SW:TF's are identical to the figures they used for Star Wars Action Fleet circa 1996.

Speaking of which I have a Darth Vader if you're interested; $6 shipped.

Best,

RF-26

Michael is gone, friends.

/pours a 40 onto the sidewalk

This one's for you, homie..

Rest in peace, dude.

There is no way in hell Michael survived; and frankly I wouldn't want him to.

Kawamori would be one twisted f*ck to bring Michael back as a mostly-cyborg zombie courtesy of Grace and Co.

It would make a mockery of his life.

God, that would be so twisted, and make Klan destroy her zombified former love in battle! #_#

Or worse yet, Vajra infested Michael! >_<

Guys, we've lost a friend, and sure we've all had to cope, but let's accept that he's gone.

I wouldn't want to see a Michael zombie by either Vajra or Grace and Co.. Perhaps the most we should see of him (if we ever see him again) is him at a closed-casket funeral or the silhouette of an EX-gear floating in space.

Assuming the rest of our heroes fight through this particular battle successfully.

Designed the RF-31 LRF today; but left the fold boosters out of the design for now but will add them in at some point.

I have the sketches completed, just gotta get photos now.

The leg and chest transformation is very similar to the old VF-1 but the arms take some cues from the VF-4 and VF-14 Vampire, hybridizing the SR-17 appearance with an F-117 Stealth Fighter, a little bit. The wings did what I wanted them to, by using a wing relocation assembly sourced from the YF-19. The forearms now double as auxiliary thrusters and as per the norm with valks, the fists are totally retractable. Gerwalk mode will not be too radically different from the VF-1.

For continuity's sake I will also be inverting the wings I drew up so that it matches my original description of the craft. Most of the transformation is still consistent.

Legs are FAST-pack equippable, and fold boosters (which will couple to the forearms) can be swapped out for alternate propulsion systems or omitted altogether.

The forearms/shoulder assemblies are integrated into the rear delta wing. Twin vertical stabilizers are used, and attached to the forearms.

I will have more for you all later.

Thanks for letting me share with you

Highly unlikely, since Grace seems to be on the bridge of the Battle Frontier during battle, not the Quarter... I predict Leon will get wasted in the Battle Frontier when Ozma rams its bridge after Leon has the Quarter destroyed with all hands onboard...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You may be right.

crap.