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# *facepalm*
Its Macross!
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 18:48, archived)
# Gah >< I knew it was from something like that.
If it makes me sound even stupider, I was gonna say Appleseed too.

I haven't watched any big-robot anime in years.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 18:52, archived)
# Im almost offended, as Patlabor is one of my all time fave anime series
And the Ingram AV-98 is my fave mech design EVER
www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/2009/av98_ingram_unit_1_124
Ive got that figure. Its lovely.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:03, archived)
# Again, sorry ><
And here's me, thinking I know 80s-90s anime. I know shit. XD

Yeah, lovely design, I think I've got a figure of that somewhere. I wonder what happened to this kind of anime, it's all cute big-eyed stuff now.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:08, archived)
# Yeah - it was one of the best animes from the golden days, when characters were interesting, and mostly male, storylines were good, and mech designs were sensible and well thought out
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:12, archived)
# Aye, we need that sort of anime back.
Back when men were manly as fuck, and not moping emos.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:32, archived)
# Generally, i know what you mean, but the male characters in patlabor werent manly or emo - they were just... normal!
Patlabor was kind of like hill street blues, but with robots.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:39, archived)
# Yeah, mainly in action animes not really involving robots, the star kind of had to be a mountain of muscle.
Of course, Shinji in NGE was arguably the start of whiny protagonists. I dunno, I'd be pretty thrilled if I got to pilot a giant robot.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:44, archived)
# Shinji got bonus points for jizzing in his hand at the sight of Asuka's tits in a hospital bed though
But yeah, he was a knob.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:47, archived)
# Hahahaha! Yeah
That was supposedly Sadamoto poking fun at NGE fans for being perverts, or something.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:52, archived)
# Not Macross. A Go-Bot
They then copied the design for a Transformer called Jetfire. I still have mine on a bookshelf across the room.
(I helped save b3ta! Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Mon 6 Aug 2012, 20:58, archived)
#
It's Macross. go-bots aka Machine Robo had nothing like this in their designs unless you just count a jet that changed into a robot as the same thing. Valkyries had jet, gerwalk and battroid modes, the latter we see above. Takara/Hasbro did use the large VF toy as Jetfire but the colours are wrong, especially the engine/missle pods on the back. The original toys are much nicer (and deadlier) as even the giant SDF-1 had multiple launchers of plastic death while the "robotech" version released under Matchbox was a copy of the same toy sans death launchers :(
(I helped save b3ta! kitty minion Babies ate my dingo!, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 6:37, archived)