Offhand... The titular SDF-1 Macross in Super Dimension Fortress Macross as well as the mass-produced Macross -class, Megaroad -class, New Macross City -class, Mainland -class, and Island Cluster -class. Basically any ship being used for space emigration and/or long term space exploration is basical...

Thank you. When you said "peacetime" it clicked into place for me. The reason to explain why the Titans went from the unimpressive Hizack to all the crazy prototypes in both Zeta and AoZ, including the most absurd thing like the two Psycho Gundam and Baund Doc... It's because they were at...

I get what are you saying, but there are something I want to make clear: No, I'm familiar with the G-Line and Pale Rider D II... and the programs that produced them. The Pale Rider series has a whole Master Archive devoted to how it came to be. For several of your arguments here, you seem to have f...

Ignoring the very real world reason that two of these three was created decades after Zeta, do you think the Hizack is any way superior to the G-Line and Pale Rider DII to make the Titans choose it? Sure I do. I'll tell you the one obvious area word it's clearly superior... cost performance. Perfor...

Hi all, I'm very late to Macross fandom, such an amazing series. Just wondering about cockpit position of later variable fighters especially in Macross Frontier. I always thought that the cockpit on battroid mode sits exactly on the chest below the head, but apparently it sits at the back? At least...

I found the Aura Barriers fascinating because as the author notes the last time Shou and Dunbine were on upper earth conventional weapons appeared to be effective. My first thought was perhaps the aura barriers are dependent on the pilot's aura power, and with the Aura power of many of the protagon...

I just realized that the VF-4 is one of the rare Valkyries to NOT have a head laser cannon. Almost all other Valkyries have that feature. In fact, there have been two versions of the VF-4 that DO have a head-mounted laser or beam cannon system: The VF-4 Siren from Macross: Eternal Love Song , the f...

First of all, I haven't finished Nadesico yet so I don't know if its explained later. But what exactly is a Phase Transition Engine? I know that it converts the vacuum of space into some sort of gravitational energy, but compared to all of the other tech I've seen so far this feels like its way mor...

In an earlier post, I commented on the Gwadan-class warship, Haman's flagship during the Gryps War.As far as I know, there were three built - the Gwadan herself, which was destroyed in the final hours of Gryps. The Gwaley, which I know little of and apparently appeared in Gundam Sentinel. And the I...

So, I've checked a few more books that are peripherally relevant and I have come up absolutely dry. As far as I can tell, this was never a thing. Master Archive Mobile Suit RGM-79 GM has a writeup for the XBR-M-79E beam rifle used by the Gundam Ground Type, and it makes no mention of any kind of sec...

I've checked about a dozen different books including the perfect file, multiple series specific art books, and the Gundam Master Archive, and I cannot find any book that contains or even mentions this under barrel missile launcher. The explanation I did find for the under barrel tube, is that it is ...

No problem, thanks for checking! Would you recommend picking up either a more recent or a classic SRW encyclopedia book to find information like this? Do they lean more towards tech specs or large paragraphs of info? I'm not sure if that series is still being published, TBH. It was never in my prim...

Unfortunately the only copies of the SRW encyclopedia books I have are from years before Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann came out.

So now the mechs are starting to suffer from the same problem as the human characters had since day one? Always has, IMO... one of the main reasons I've struggled with Gundam SEED ever since my first viewing of it is that not only do all the characters look the bloody same, a fair number of the mec...

Ah I see. Is it possible to extrapolate how big the Space version of the Ganmen are by comparing the original ganmen to the space sized versions model sheets to find a ratio? For instance if Gurren Lagann is ~12m and we treat King Kittan as being 2/3 it's size and so 8m and let's say the space vers...

Is Kunio Okawara still responsible for the lineart sheets used for images? If he is, can he not be? His lineart sheets never seem to match up to the animation and the proportions always feels Cartman-like (i.e. They look fat in the core, almost like a ball) from the angle he draws them at. Comparin...

Pretty uninspired stuff, IMO... an uglier version of the Gelgoog, an uglier version of the Gyan, some stuff that looks right out of a super robot show, and tweaked versions of the Freedom and Justice.

So was the ZZ Gundam considered a successful prototype overall? The high mega cannon was powerful, but also drained the suits energy. Plus the multi pilot Transformation mode isn't ever seen again. The Zeta Gundam would see limited mass production as the ReZEL , but the ZZ never actually got mass p...

Very interesting, thank you! I wouldn't have guessed it was only 12 meters, they tend to feel much larger on-screen although that can vary a bit with perspectives and whose the principal in charge of animation for that episode. From the combination sequence the arms and legs burst outward and lengt...

Does anyone have a source for the height of the original Gurren Lagann as well as the individual heights of Kamina's Gurren and Simon's Lagann? I've seen a lot of numbers tossed around including 18m to match Mazinger Z or the RX 78-2. There's an old thread from 2011 that mentions it is between 10-1...