Oh man. Thank god I finished my dinner of a bowl of cold cereal, otherwise I would've snarfed big time.
The Grand-daddy of spinal guns.
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Oh man. Thank god I finished my dinner of a bowl of cold cereal, otherwise I would've snarfed big time.
WarriorKnight
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Actually it was "We Will Win",that was the only song of Minmay's I liked was from that battle.Is this clip from a new Space Cruiser Yamato series or a fan produced video?Very nice,the Yamato & the Black Tigers look much better than they did in the show.The Wave Motion Gun firing is very faithful to the original.I've always used the WMG as an example of a Spinal Gun for my players.Ok now I gotta watch my Star Blazers DVD set again now;after I've watched all these youtube entries.Going to be a long weekend.
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Icosahedron
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"A bag of cats being fed through a woodchipper".o:
:rofl: You owe me a keyboard.
Here is the final battle from SDF Macross with "do you remember love":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwuzMd_Fxec
I don't recall "we will win".
I think he's referring to the motion picture version. The song was specifically written for the feature film, and was touted then as the "new Macross song" in the promotional campaign.
My favourite BFG scene: the start of Star Trek: TNG Season 4.
The Best of Both Worlds, Part II. The Big Deflector Weapon. All that buildup. "Detonation in six seconds ... FIRING!"
Cue portentous music, cut to exterior shot, cue the biggest Gruddamn streak of blue light you ever saw, striking the Borg cube squarely amidships ...
... and nothing happened.
Later on, of course, they tried the same thing in the episode "Night Terrors," and yet again nothing happened. It all just fizzled out like someone urinated on a firework.
I just love it when the Big Freaking Guns don't solve a damned thing. "What do you mean, you missed? With a fricking FGMP-15?"
The Best of Both Worlds, Part II. The Big Deflector Weapon. All that buildup. "Detonation in six seconds ... FIRING!"
Cue portentous music, cut to exterior shot, cue the biggest Gruddamn streak of blue light you ever saw, striking the Borg cube squarely amidships ...
... and nothing happened.
Later on, of course, they tried the same thing in the episode "Night Terrors," and yet again nothing happened. It all just fizzled out like someone urinated on a firework.
I just love it when the Big Freaking Guns don't solve a damned thing. "What do you mean, you missed? With a fricking FGMP-15?"
leo knight
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Ooh, the first video was pretty! Brought back memories of my youth. My favorite shot was around 0:47, when the Andromeda and the rest of the fleet are briefly shown. I was never a big fan of the Yamato...in Spaaace!, but I thought the later ships looked somewhat plausible. I especially liked the Andromeda's dual Wave Motion guns. When I ran Traveller, after High Guard came out, I had a player (fan of "Star Blazers") ask if he could get a ship with dual meson guns.
Of course, I crushed all his hopes by saying no. :devil:
Of course, I crushed all his hopes by saying no. :devil:
WarriorKnight
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"We Will Win" was the song Minmay sang as the Macross & the Breeti's Zentradi Fleet took on Dolza's Fleet in the season 1 final of the Robotech version. I only saw "Do You Remember Love" fully once,Used to own a version call "Attack of the Bioroids" that was so cut up it was hardly reconizable as Macross.
Pat Reilly was the head of Bandai when the bastardized version of the Macross feature film hit the US market. He was a real arrogant snob who didn't care too much about the end product. His wife, whom I used to work for, wasn't much better. Needless to say I'm surprised "Attack of the Bionoids" dub came out as good as it did. Still, it's no excuse for poor production values.
As an aside, the feature film was supposed tp be the "fictionalization" of the "real life" Macross events. It's part of the reason the movie poster and DVD cover are in English.
Note also SDF1's wave-motionish super gun, as well as the Zentradi version.
As an aside, the feature film was supposed tp be the "fictionalization" of the "real life" Macross events. It's part of the reason the movie poster and DVD cover are in English.
Note also SDF1's wave-motionish super gun, as well as the Zentradi version.
If you think WW2 Japanese battlewagons in space is wrong, then you haven't seen anything yet.
Yes, believe it or not, some Japanese producer took the concept a step further, and instead of a battleship (and hoping to capitalize on the fantasy and martial arts sci-fi Asian market) he put a sailing vessel in space.
Behold; MESSAGE FROM SPACE ... SPACE ... Space ... space (reverb for dramatic echo effect);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O7mOl5KkEw&feature=related
And of course Hollywood, not wanting to be outdone by yet another Japanese import, had to come up with their own B-movie Star Wars rip-off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfuNSpP0RA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfuNSpP0RA&feature=related
I don't remember that either, but it's only been almost 30 years or so. LOL!
I bought Super Dimensional Fortress Macross as a VHS casette out of the back of Heavy Metal Magazine around '81-82, same time I was buying Traveller LBB's. It had the same dubbed "Speed Racerish" english much like Star Blazers, something I was used to growing up on Speed Racer (which I think the first "Ogre" eg from the game, came from there as well). Only later did I find out about the Robotech series, though Robotech lost it's shine as I found new and more twisted anime, tentacle rape by inter-dimensional space aliens anyone? I even forget what that was from.
Later anime such as Akira, Ghost in a Shell, Doomed Megapolis, etc.; were much more artistic works. Though the Invid were definitely cool and I think their clamshell carriers definitely make an interesting design.
So I've never heard of "Attack of the Bionoids", was it a cut-up of the original Macross movie? I thought that the original Macross movie was the forerunner to all the other Robotech series (which I stopped watching at about Southern Cross).
The Macross feature film was a compressed retelling of the TV series, and was made after the series ended. "Attack of the Bionoids" wasn't cut up, just dubbed over in English, and the dub was outstandingly poor. It really was a slap in the face to all English speaking Macross fans. I didn't have the heart to tell my friends that I personally (and begrudgingly) knew the man personally responsible for the effort.
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Ah, ok, thanks for the info!
And of course Hollywood, not wanting to be outdone by yet another Japanese import, had to come up with their own B-movie Star Wars rip-off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfuNSpP0RA&feature=related
Does that even rise to "B" movie level?
In Re Macross vs Robotech...
Robotech is different story that just happens to reuse the same footage as macross.
leo knight
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And of course Hollywood, not wanting to be outdone by yet another Japanese import, had to come up with their own B-movie Star Wars rip-off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfuNSpP0RA&feature=related
Actually, this wasn't Hollywood. It's Italian. There was an article in "Starlog" about it when it came out. The director was Luigi Cozzi. His models were built from junk by college students in a weekend. When David Hasselhoff arrived in Italy, his first scene required him to wear a mask. They had freshly spray painted it, and he passed out from the fumes! The budget didn't allow for detail painting the models, so they spray painted them silver, and strung colored Christmas lights on them. If you can find still photos of the ships, you can recognize all sorts of bits: tank treads, golf balls, telephones...
Here's the Wikipedia listing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcrash
and a funny review at Bad Movies:
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/starcrash/
The only reason to ever watch this movie:
Enjoy!
My bad. And yeah, they're hotties. I guess "Galaxina" would be the answer to this film and Turkish Star Wars. Another tragedy of a film on all levels.
Starviking
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I have to second Starcrash - any movie with Christopher Plummer as the Emperor of the Galaxy is a must-watch in my opinion.
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