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Well first, the checklist of all the Macross shows available. SDF Macross - AnimEigo Do You Remember Love? - no unedited, legit release Flashback 2012 - No legit release Macross II - Manga Macross Plus - Manga Macross 7 - No legit release The Galaxy is Calling Me! - No legit release Dynamite 7 - no legit release Other shows to look for: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA - ADV Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross - ADV Megazone 23 - ADV Any Universal Century Gundam shows Any Alternate Universe Gundam shows (imho not nearly as good)

Yes, yes, for the love of God YES. Clash of the Bionoids isn't just a bad dub, it's a bad dub that's been chopped up, edited, and dumbed down to make it a "Just for Kids!" video. I think there was something crazy like 30 minutes of footage cut out. All of the edits are painfully obvious, really unprofessional. More like a poorly done anime music video than a professional editing job. I'd reccomend picking it up uncut on DVD.

http://www.asahi.com/english/arts/TKY200406020134.html

The creative pool of the animation industry of any country comes from it's foundations. The inbetweeners are where you're going to find your future key animtions, key frame artists, storyboarders, character designers, and directors. Starting from the bottom is where they gain their experience and know-how, working their way up while refining their skills. The more a country outsources this work, the smaller their pool of talent becomes. Often, the work done overseas and to the lowest bidder isn't as high a quality as work done by higher costing studios. In America it was found that people didn't care about quality, so work quickly got outsourced to Mexico and overseas. Over the years more and more ofthe animation production process has been moving away from domestic talent. The people entering this field and finding employment to boost their experience and hone their skills has been shrinking. The result is a lower quality product. In Japan I doubt the problem will be as pronounced and as sudden as it has happened in America due to their strong manga base. There is a pool of creative talent to draw from that is much larger than our own comic book industry affords. Still, those working on Manga probably need other jobs to support themselves, and if they can't find a creative job, then they find one that does not allow them time or experience building their creative skills. Too many years of failing products and the suits, who are often very disconnected from the reality of the creative and consumer based side of things declare idiotic statements like They begin to blame you, the consumers, for the failure of their productions, instead of falling standards of quality in the industry. More than likely people begin to turn to other sources of animation, leaving the domestic industry more and more out in the cold. Before too long after that, the industry collapses in on itself, and pretty soon you have a bitter, unemployed anime studio artist explaining in a thread about how if the same thing happens in Korea, who's animation is currently popular the world over, and who is now outsourcing to Australia, then there will be a bitter unemployed Korean animator explaining to fans of Australian animation about this who, vicious cycle.

Unless they changed the transformation for Silverstreek, the bumper and bottom part of the rear of the car fold out, forming the feet. This gives him a bit more height and his legs don't look nearly so stumpy.

Agreed, And it's the same Anti-UN Mech seen assaulting the island in the third episode. Octos was it? Or is that the underwater Mech shin fought over the bird-man's head with?

I believe the Compendium has a list of all the episode names. At the very least, a bunch of them are listed in the Compendium's chronology. Knowing the titles of some of the episodes could help in searching for a site that lists them all. http://www.anime.net/macross/

I don't really get that statement from anyone, not just you Blaine... I mean this is LOTR, what's he suppose to rely on? Sock puppets and cardboard castles? Ok, back on topic... um... still haven't seen it.... Edit: Please direct all and any comments about directors in this new thread... http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=8590 I think he did an alright job for the most part, but there's a couple scenes, especially in the third movie, that were just flubbed. The part where Aragorn is raising the army of the dead was completely ruined, mainly due to needless rewriting. This is not a case of a scene that needed to be rewritten to have it make sense in a movie context, it was a case of turning a somber, awe inspiring scene and turning it into a flashy action scene with a couple of jokes thrown in. The scene where the fleet arrives with it's undead passengers was ruined due to poor directing. Not just the actors, but the flow and the mood. Overall, I disliked how the movie tended to take big, epic, roles of grandeur, put them to the side, and drop the spotlight on "comedic" dialogue and characters. I suspect Jackson had a lot to do with that. I don't have any complaints about the acting, really. They all seemed to do a good job.

It's a joke on the fact that most AOL-type internet users are prone to adding tons of exclamation points after just about any statement, and many stop pressing the 'alt' key before lifiting their finger from the 1/! key, so a series of 1s trails behind the exclamation points. Occaissionally before the exclamation points as well.

I think it's called 'Shrunken Heads'. It's about these kids that get killed by a street gang, but they're brought back to life by the local comic book store owner who happens to be a voodoo priest or something, anyways, he brings them back as floating shrunken heads that bite people and turn them into clean-freak zombies. This is the only movie I've seen that actually induces physical pain.

Did I miss something. Anime is huge in America right now. Huge sections of video stores are devoted to Anime tapes/DVDs, racks of manga in bookstores like Waldenbooks, some top games are based on anime (Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon), the majority of cartoons on the air now are either anime imports or influenced by anime (Powerpuff Girls, Teen Titans). A Waldenbooks near me even has a section of anime merchandise besides DVDs or books. I don't think anime has ever been more popular here. The article is about the state of the anime industry in Japan. The rest of the world is still a relatively small market.

Probably because Robotech.com moderators delete any threads asking for bootlegs, even if it's something that's no longer available any other way. Many of us don't like Robotech nearly as much, or at all, anymore, but many have their roots in growing up on it and might have come across a copy of the movie before we discovered the unedited shows Robotech was scraped together from. Meh, even though I personally can't watch Robotech anymore because I like the uncut stuff so much more, I'm still tired of the self-fullfilling idea that even the most innocent Robotech questions get torn to pieces around here. Besides, even if someone did come here to incite something, it would completely deflate their plans if they were greeted with friendly, helpful responses instead of the heated flames they're trying to get. I'm also not convinced this was such a post. Those don't normally have any other point, than to incite, while this person is actually asking for help in finding something.

I didn't even read that part, I was just looking for a quick source on the Brontosaurus thing. As far as I know, that information at least is accurate.

http://steampowered.net/temp/sdf1.jpg Not as large as the image Nanashi posted, but you can clearing see the same gun arrangement as in Nanashi's shown picture. This is the tv series version of the SDF-1 Macross, there are many differences between it and the DYRL? version wich has been used in all Macross productions ever since the movie came out.

Yopu do realize that you're comparing the movie version of the Macross to the tv series version? There were a lot of differenes. Here, I've got the Perfect Memory book. Just one moment and I'll scan.

Hey everybody, he doesn't know... lol ahh.. but I'm pretty sure it's the Yamato... unless there's something I'm totally missing here... again. Yes, that is the Yamato, and the other arm is Captain Herlock's ship, the Arcadia. Three of anime's most famous spaceships, in one single form. This is from an animated intro to a Japanese sci-fi convention called 'Daicon'. Gainax did the two famous opening animations floating around fansub circles. The entire animation was a send up to anime, comic books, sci-fi, and all that.

Actually, someone stuck the wrong head on a headless skeleton and called it the brontosaurus. http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/brontosaurus.html Up until at least I was in school, wich was during the 80's and 90's, they were still teaching us that it was a real dinosaur. If you tell enough people something, they will believe it. Sooner or later, the fact that people believe what they've been told becomes more important than the truth.

He was one of the two main characters. He was the anti-hero.

Penny Arcade even did a comic about the Riddick game, claiming it was really good. I'm still skeptical, but it is getting a lot of praise. I really liked the trailer for CoR, but I've seen good trailers to horrible movies before (and awful trailers to great movies). I must admit, I did like Pitch Black, it was a fun little movie that didn't fall into too many of the major traps such movies are prone to falling into. They didn't show too much of the monster, and they didn't cop out with a sappy-happy hollywood ending.

The movie is difficult to get ahold of these days, apparently even Carl Macek was dissapointed with it. Fortunately, the original movie that was edited into the Robotech movie, Megazone 23, was recently released on DVD, and you should be able to find it in your local Best Buy, Suncoast, or similar establishment. Good luck on finding someone with a VHS rip of the movie, finding a clean looking version will probably be impossible. I don't know if the movie was ever officially released to VHS, but it flopped in theatres and was pulled shortly after release. I don't believe it's even canon in the Robotech timeline anymore, so Harmony Gold probably has no plans to rerelease it. I'd reccomend heading to the Robotech.com messageboards and asking around, I'd avoid asking outright for a bootlegged version, as they have rules against that over there, but you may find someone willing to part with a VHS for cheap.

Tsk, as much as Phantom Menace pales before any other Star Wars movie, I have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit more than the first Starship Troopers movie. Of course, there are few movies I dislike nearly as much as Starship Troopers. I can only think of one movie I disliked more.

It worries me that Yamato isn't talking to Graham. Of course, on the other hand, it could be that they have big plans that they don't want any chances of being leaked. Another thing could be the current going-ons between HG and BW. Maybe they're not allowed to talk about much at all right now and don't want to risk stepping out of bounds.

I don't see this name change having any bearing on whether or not we'll see Big West taking the fight home to HG.

I should add, I don't think anime will die out in Japan to quite the extent it has in America, but I can easily see the majority of it imploding in on itself, leaving much less of a selection, and most of those being like Doeramon.

From those I've talked to online who live in Japan, anime is not as generally accepted as most people think. I think the general believe over here in the States is that anime airs all day long in Japan, with a wide audience of young and old, business men to toddlers, all hand in hand with their love of anime. The truth is, if my sources are to be believed, that anime is generally looked down upon by most of Japanese society. A relatively small, but loyal group of social outcasts seem to be what is maintaining the bulk of the anime industry in Japan. Some of my sources that live over there have a generally pessimistic outlook on the future of the industry as a result. Of course, if anyone on these boards lives in Japan and sees a different story, I'd be glad to hear it.