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(...) FASA acquires and recycles designs from anime. This is the Macross original J.S. was emulating: (URL) think FASA also has a clone of this other mech, which is pretty lame since it was designed to accomodate a 50 foot giant Zentradi: (URL) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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well, thank you all for correcting me... battletech is about the only place from whence i know a great deal of mechs... it is pretty obvious how they stole some of their designs, although i'm afraid i haven't seen many anime with mecha that look (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) A large number of FASA's original Battlemechs were "borrowed" from Macross/Robotech. The ones that come to mind are: Macross --> Battletech Excaliber --> Warhammer Raidar X --> Rifleman Veritech fighter --> Wasp (and the Phoenix Hawk as I (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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You mean the Regess and the Invid , the series is called the Invid Invasion, I know the the first two as Macross and The Robotech Masters. I love the music to all!!! (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well like one of the other posters said, FASA had to remove a number of mechs from their products after getting caught using them. Those mentioned will never be pictured again at the least, I believe that they can be used/refered to in novels (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Invid Invasion was originally Mospeada (which also refers to the Cyclone motorbikes) Macross Saga was originally Macross The Robotech Masters was ... umm... hmm, I forget too :P The music for all WAS very cool ^_^ PS do try Patlabor if you can, the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Yes, I'm familiar with the Mobile platabors, I'm a Anime'freak....good stuff.... (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) (snip) Wasn't the third series Southern Cross? I may be wrong, after all it's been a while since I was obsessed with Robotech :) -jeremiah- (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) The first series was originally Superdimensional Fortress Macross The second series was originally Superdimensional Fortress Southern Cross. It was supposed to be a much longer series in Japan but never caught on, so they butchered the series (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) And don't forget Orguss which was not included in the American release of Robotech but (ithink) was related to the Macross series.(and had cool mecha) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) There were indeed a number of Superdimensional Fortress series... There was also a contemporaneous anime series with a main character who got into, hmmm, shall we say romantic situations with the women from popular anime series of the time. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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<snip> (...) Others were Gladiator --> Archer Spartan --> Longbow (I think. I looked through all of my tech readouts but couldn't find, but I know I've seen it before.) Veritech 1S --> Wasp Veritech 1A --> Stinger Super Veritech --> Phoenix Hawk (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Im pretty sure Orguss and Macross are unrelated, because of major animation and story/polt style differences...Also i always thought it was SuperDimensional Calvary Southern Cross i dunno maybe i should actually look around but im lazy.. Ive (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Yes, the series has more labors in it, tho its hard to find the eps anywhere... took me over a month to finally get the 7 original OAVs, 16 second OAVs, and 47 episodes of the TV series... Thank god for MIRC :P But there are many different types of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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