I can only wish for a re-engineered release of this ship. Despite the goofy design, I like it too much to care. This boi is the main reason why I am so interested in big ships to begin with
thanks i see it available on amazon and am still think if i should buy it or not, it looks great but if it was to far out of scale then i was not going to get it, (but the SDF-1 is bigger I think in the anime so it looks to be right)
Jesus Christ, I hate the Macross Quarter. It should not exist, and its creation tells me the Frontier writers really knew nothing about the original show. The SDF-1 Macross was never a robot, it was only ever a space ship. The Storm Attack mode just LOOKED like a robot because of how the ship had to configure itself to access the redundant systems to use the main cannon. Its "legs" weren't poseable, they were just gigantic rocket engines. Its "arms" weren't really arms, they were poseable docking ports attached to Daedalus and the Prometheus, which were just seafaring boats. In the movie it used the ARMDs instead, which were just space carriers. In other words, it was a totally reasonable design within the show's strong science fiction logic that still allowed Takatoku to make a giant robot toy. The Macross Quarter is a ridiculous design that has more in common with super robots than real robots, and has absolutely no fucking place in the Macross setting. I'm not particularly fond of Macross 7, either, if you can't tell. It's like the writers of the later shows only took the barest aesthetic cues from the original, and didn't bother to put any thought into understanding what it actually was. Spoony said it best: BETRAYAL!
+Transformers And Power Rangers Toy Reviews While I definitely get where you're coming from, the series has been under the guidance of Shoji Kawamori the whole time so it's not like there's a new group of writers for every show with no guidance on what "Macross" is supposed to be. I'm not huge on the idea of capital ships that stick and move like people but Macross straddled a fine line between poppy fun and hard sci-fi and generally finds its most commercial success when it errs on the side of poppy fun even if old folks like me wish it were more serious.
If you think about it tho' the Quarter from a design standpoint makes total sense. Yeah, the SDF Macross was a sum of parts due to circumstance but at the same time, if they were going to make another one, it would make sense that they'd take the cues from teh original design and optimize from there, hence why the Quarter can do what it does.
I can only wish for a re-engineered release of this ship.
Despite the goofy design, I like it too much to care.
This boi is the main reason why I am so interested in big ships to begin with
Why there's no dx battle frontier and dx macross elysion from bandai?
how is he scaled? I have the SDF-1 from Yamato toys, (the DYRL movie one) is this the same scale with that one?
He's roughly 1/1000, the SDF-1 from Yamato is 1/3000.
thanks i see it available on amazon and am still think if i should buy it or not, it looks great but if it was to far out of scale then i was not going to get it, (but the SDF-1 is bigger I think in the anime so it looks to be right)
...yeah, If I ever buy this I'm keeping it in battlroid mode.
Jesus Christ, I hate the Macross Quarter. It should not exist, and its creation tells me the Frontier writers really knew nothing about the original show.
The SDF-1 Macross was never a robot, it was only ever a space ship. The Storm Attack mode just LOOKED like a robot because of how the ship had to configure itself to access the redundant systems to use the main cannon. Its "legs" weren't poseable, they were just gigantic rocket engines. Its "arms" weren't really arms, they were poseable docking ports attached to Daedalus and the Prometheus, which were just seafaring boats. In the movie it used the ARMDs instead, which were just space carriers. In other words, it was a totally reasonable design within the show's strong science fiction logic that still allowed Takatoku to make a giant robot toy. The Macross Quarter is a ridiculous design that has more in common with super robots than real robots, and has absolutely no fucking place in the Macross setting.
I'm not particularly fond of Macross 7, either, if you can't tell. It's like the writers of the later shows only took the barest aesthetic cues from the original, and didn't bother to put any thought into understanding what it actually was.
Spoony said it best:
BETRAYAL!
+Transformers And Power Rangers Toy Reviews
While I definitely get where you're coming from, the series has been under the guidance of Shoji Kawamori the whole time so it's not like there's a new group of writers for every show with no guidance on what "Macross" is supposed to be. I'm not huge on the idea of capital ships that stick and move like people but Macross straddled a fine line between poppy fun and hard sci-fi and generally finds its most commercial success when it errs on the side of poppy fun even if old folks like me wish it were more serious.
Transformers And Power Rangers Toy Reviews : I'm fine with a gigantic aircraft carrier meck, but this was a clumsy, overpriced, half thought out mess.
If you think about it tho' the Quarter from a design standpoint makes total sense. Yeah, the SDF Macross was a sum of parts due to circumstance but at the same time, if they were going to make another one, it would make sense that they'd take the cues from teh original design and optimize from there, hence why the Quarter can do what it does.