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Seto Kaiba

Cospa has a bunch of new Macross apparel dropping in August, including a number of T-shirts, hoodies, a tote, backpack, and thermos. m m Also noteworthy on the immediate horizon, Arcadia is reissuing the 1/60 scale YF-19-2 from Macross Plus and 1/60 scale SV-51y Nora Polyansky type from Macross Zero...

Seto Kaiba

Plamax announced a few more Minimum Factory plamodels recently as well... Misa Hayase, Lynn Minmay, and Hikaru Ichijo's VF-1A/S Valkyrie from Macross: Do You Remember Love? . Those are set to come out January '23. Also, the Macross Delta: Absolute Live!!!!!! and Macross Frontier: Labyrinth of Time E...

Seto Kaiba

Yeah, for an outfit that specializes in small, limited engagement screenings of films they have surprisingly good national coverage. There were half a dozen venues near me when I booked my tickets a few days back. I'm hoping we see a good turnout like we did for Macross Plus: Movie Edition ... that ...

Seto Kaiba

Big West's official Macross YouTube channel posted this promotional video for the Fathom Events screenings of Macross Frontier: the False Songstress and Macross Frontier: the Wings of Farewell scheduled for June. m As per Fathom Events own particular practice, both movies will be preceded by a speci...

Seto Kaiba

Incidentally, next month the Macross Frontier movies will be doing the promised limited engagement in US theaters via Fathom Events:

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Mac ... 2022-06-16
https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Mac ... 2022-06-30

Tickets are on sale now.

Seto Kaiba

Also noteworthy, a new volume of Variable Fighter Master File has been announced. The thirteenth installment of the Variable Fighter Master File series of technical manuals will be Variable Fighter Master File: VF-31AX Kairos Plus . It's set to come out alongside the home video release of Macross De...

Seto Kaiba

taalismn wrote:My enthusiasm depends on whether Basra actually explodes in this; I'd pay money to see him spontaneously combust, ala Spinal Tap.

I can confirm that Yoshiki Fukuyama does not, in fact, combust or explode at any point during the concert.

Seto Kaiba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UBx7VJJLBo

The Basara Explosion 2022 Macross concert on YouTube.

Seto Kaiba

The first DVD and Blu-ray release of Macross Delta: Absolute Live!!!!!! has been announced for September 28th. It's a Japan release, presumably with an international release to follow later, but the JDM release does have official English subtitles the same as the previous releases for the TV series ...

Seto Kaiba

The Deculture!! Mixture!!!!! Macross 40th Anniversary album is now out in all three editions (Frontier Limited, Delta Limited, and Regular). My copies just rolled in an hour or so ago. Sweet! Hopefully when I have some spare money, they will still be around and I can get them. They're also availabl...

Seto Kaiba

The Deculture!! Mixture!!!!! Macross 40th Anniversary album is now out in all three editions (Frontier Limited, Delta Limited, and Regular).

My copies just rolled in an hour or so ago.

Seto Kaiba

Just announced at WonderCon... Macross Frontier: the False Songstress and Macross Frontier: the Wings of Goodbye will be having a limited US theatrical screening via Fathom Events this summer. Dates and locations to follow.

Seto Kaiba

I never saw the point in posting mecha-stats. I mean, I spent one summer-break converting all, Battletech, Technical-Readouts, 3025, 3026 (my favorite) and 2750 to Palladium's system and then spent the rest of the summer playing Battletech to Robotech rules. Stats are easy to come up with. There ar...

Seto Kaiba

I'm not interested in posting mecha stats for Robotech or Macross, though I am curious if Palladium is okay with it considering that they no longer have the license. Or is it off limits now because they don't have the license and don't want to risk a Harmony Gold lawsuit? It's unlikely their positi...

Seto Kaiba

That's good to hear. Will be nice to get some legal stuff. Yeah, it really will... the Macross Delta Japanese editions have official English subs, but apart from one very rare Macross Frontier limited edition they were the first to do an end-run around Harmony Gold's attempt to block Macross import...

Seto Kaiba

Alpha 11 wrote:Awesome to hear all this! Can't wait to hear when some dubs are coming out!

Yeah, that's the big one we're all waiting for... kind of expecting an answer to that one in summer or early fall, since the actual 40th Anniversary is October 3rd.

Seto Kaiba

m Recently announced, the Macross 40th Anniversary Super Dimension Collaboration album Deculture!! Mixture!!!!! will be released on April 6th. Deculture!! Mixture!!!!! is a cover album featuring Macross Frontier songstresses May'n (Sheryl Nome) and Megumi Nakajima covering five songs by Macross Delt...

Seto Kaiba

FPA is supposed to be the lightning strike of Zentraedi air units, and the air speed went from Mach 2 in 1E to 725mph in 2E? Put simply... with the exception of the "Gnerl" air combat pod, Zentradi mecha really are not designed for atmospheric flight. They can manage it, but they're doing...

Seto Kaiba

I'm stoked mostly for the soundtracks to be on streaming....and do look forward to the availability of more toys so i can start collecting some VFs... Any word on official english translation materials like chronicle, master books, etc? Nothing yet. Amazon has been messing about with the availabili...

Seto Kaiba

OtakuMode is also offering a limited edition Macross Plus t-shirt to commemorate the movie's limited theatrical engagement:
https://otakumode.com/shop/6197732c0cbf ... ve-T-Shirt

Seto Kaiba

It's an exciting time to be a Macross fan! 2022 is the Macross franchise's 40th Anniversary, and with the roadblocks to international distribution torn down earlier this year we're starting to see the first few global releases and plans for the franchise's worldwide presence going forward. The Macro...

Seto Kaiba

Re: the Sylphid specifically. While I agree the draw is for the robotic platforms, the unit is implied to be a Veritech Fighter in three different episodes. So if you go with that it could fit the mold, but you'd have to follow the dialogue and do a recton at this point. It could also be used as a ...

Seto Kaiba

I'm not going to argue over it, but the SDF-3 ESH looks like the offspring of a Zentreadi ship (organic curves) with the SDF-1 (basic layout) since no Zentreadi ship AFAIK has that layout. Don't get me wrong, I agree with you that no Zentradi ship has that layout... and come to that, no Zentradi sh...

Seto Kaiba

And that is where the rejections of the RNU hit HG the most, since it was their only version heavily based on their own original corrective concepts instead of an OSM that was never intended for that unification process. That's an interesting way to characterize a painfully half-arsed licensed nove...

Seto Kaiba

The whole idea behind the SDF-3 decoy (shell) was to look friendly so as to not provoke a "negative" response on sight would be the Zor Battlefortress (Novel take, I think other versions took a more generic Tirolian approach), even if it was a one-off design it would still look friendly. ...

Seto Kaiba

That is the $1,000,000 question though. Does HG have the rights to said fan art? AFAIK I don't recall ever seeing a Sylphid VT in the Fanart section (though I have to admit it could have been in waiting and I'm not a prolific viewer of that part of the old RT.com so it could have been), I recall a ...

Seto Kaiba

So... let's not count End of the Circle here. As you know, I'm not really inclined to consider materials that HG has disowned from the setting... so I'll say no more of that. Once for Macross Island, yes... Then once for taking some Master Ships on the other side, and coming back without them or sh...

Seto Kaiba

Right, but the Fanart in question might be off-limits to them without getting said permission (IIRC it was a commission piece to, possibly complicating things farther). HG just can't use any fanart image after all, they need to show they have the rights. Eh... if it came to them via their fan art s...

Seto Kaiba

One important detail that's always worth remembering in topics like this one is that Robotech 's setting and story tend to be frustratingly vague and inconsistent as a result of hastily adapting three unrelated shows with little-to-nothing in the way of an actual plan. The aspects of the plot where ...

Seto Kaiba

HG can't really look at the fanart transformation though without the equivalent of Palladium's "Unsolicited Manuscript" agreement in play (IIRC any fan-fiction/art submitted to them falls under this heading when RT.com was accepting them, off-hand I don't know if any Sylphid-VT fanart mad...

Seto Kaiba

I think the reason HG ultimately went with the nt-route though is more do with legal than OSM: [...] Based on what we know of the legal situation, almost certainly not. There would be potential legal issues if Harmony Gold were to adopt the fanart transformation for the Sylphid we're all familiar w...

Seto Kaiba

While not perfect, I think this attitude toward the Sylphid does argue in your direction for how to interpret what can and cannot be done for Robotech, instead of going at it with only OSM, which remains "work in progress only" for the Americanized bastard. Not really, no. The reason that...

Seto Kaiba

I did not move the goalpost. What the TRM arc shows is that the UEEF and ASC are in communication with each other. But your previous assertion was that they would be sharing intelligence... that the UEEF would necessarily provide the SCA with intelligence on the Masters and Invid. There's some Vulc...

Seto Kaiba

From the show though we know the UEEF and UEDF: ASC are in communication, that is the whole purpose of SSL in that arc from the dialogue. So they might not generally resemble sound military practices, but it does appear that in this case they are doing the sound thing in basic principle (communicat...

Seto Kaiba

No matter how you want to slice it Seto, the UEEF reporting to the UEDF: ASC that things did not go according to plan would seem to be a prudent thing to do, even if presented as a preliminary findings. Oh, undeniably it would be the prudent thing to do... but this is the UEDF and UEEF we're talkin...

Seto Kaiba

So the UEEF travels all the way to Tirol, doesn't find what its looking for, and then doesn't inform Earth that their big-bad isn't where they thought it would be (we know Earth and the UEEF are in contact w/each other in 2029)? Assuming, of course, that they arrived at Tirol swiftly and in good or...

Seto Kaiba

While it is true at launch the UEEF wasn't expecting an attack by anyone pre-launch, once at Tirol (post launch) and not finding the Masters at Tirol would indicate a possible threat to Earth was enroute. ... there are a lot of dependent assumptions there to reach a conclusion like that. I am sayin...

Seto Kaiba

The Valivarre system, home of Fantoma and the moon of Tirol, IS the Gamma Crux system, the lowest point of the Southern Cross constellation. Therefore, 88 LY from Earth, coreward. Source? I don't believe any official Robotech media have ever identified where the Robotech Masters homeworld is relati...

Seto Kaiba

I agree, but at the same time we have to recognize that the show might only be showing a slice(s) of a given units capabilities*. No, we actually don't... because we have the production source material that clearly indicates what was and was not considered for the capabilities of various ships and ...

Seto Kaiba

Except they'd be more protected on a make shift saddle on the back of a mech Robotech 's writing was always a little dodgy... its original works more so than the works it adapted. spoken, written, drawn or your opinion? Implied, in written materials... esp. in promo materials for the new side story...

Seto Kaiba

You get no argument from me that the Infopedia is in need of revision, but we've never been on the same page as to how that revision should be executed or what the end product should look like. That it should be made as consistent with what's in the actual show as possible seems like a no-brainer i...

Seto Kaiba

... So what your saying is they do produce pointless designs Not pointless, just... odd. It made sense in context in the old Sentinels comics. (After all, good luck getting a nine foot tall space amazon to fold herself into a mecha designed for a person at most 2/3 that size...) And... still not a ...

Seto Kaiba

They are still the "official" Robotech specs until HG decides to change them. While I agree the "official" specs need revisions and such, at this point you're just arguing for one set of "fanfiction" over another's. They're demonstrably incorrect, and there is no oblig...

Seto Kaiba

OK, fine... that would also explain why they started up with drones again... but explain the stupid Pegasus Y'know, I don't recall if they ever gave an actual reason for the unused robo-pegasus design in the material from the aborted Sentinels series. I know in the non-canon comics it was supposed ...

Seto Kaiba

So basically nothing then. It's 100% more evidence than you've been able to turn up for your argument. Actually they all exists with in the Official ROBOTECH spec and/or animation (even the eat laser ones, though you have to slow down the footage to notice). But, as we've pointed out, the "off...

Seto Kaiba

Just as in series there would have been zero reason to use shadow tech... except it works. There is zero reason to do any new concept... unless it works. [...] In all honesty, this is such a bizarre and nonsensical statement I honestly thought you were trolling until I read the rest of your reply. ...

Seto Kaiba

I agree the UEEF (and UEDF: ASC) should have learned a lot from the Zentreadi playbook. But just because they would know about the "trick" doesn't mean they would be able to execute it as effectively or at all (beyond just the SDF-3 until the introduction of the Syncro-cannon). I don't se...

Seto Kaiba

There's nothing to suggest these are examples of normal operation either prior to the introduction of Synchro-cannons in 2043-4. Can't see a reason why they wouldn't be... especially since the Zentradi are the ones who wrote the book on space warfare in-setting and it was their favorite trick. This...

Seto Kaiba

While Prelude has the retrofitted SDF-3 bombard Optera's Main Hive, it does not establish that it is/was common among the UEEF to use this tactic prior. There's nothing in there to suggest that such a fire support operation was in any way unusual... beyond Janice using herself to designate the fire...

Seto Kaiba

Do they really though? Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles makes a pretty compelling argument for "Yes". In terms of the 2E RPG [...] So, yes... in terms of the RPG stats it's a problematic argument because Palladium's Robotech (and Macross II ) game lines have a tendency to make human-built...

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