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10/06/09
Something built for WAR ought to look wicked, fast, dynamic, not like a tugboat.
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-Command Center is in the center of the ship where it is most protected
-Few windows due to firefights and atmospheric loss if they were damaged
-Rounder design as it isn't blocky looking compared to the original
-Interior very Spartan with nearly everything serving a specific purpose
Yes I'll admit that I wasn't too fond of the missing plating and rough exterior at first, but that was the charm that the designers of the series built in. It's like that beater car you drove in high school, it's not the best but you love it.
10/07/09
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Besides, the Valkyrie's look advanced enough that I don't think much re-imagining would be necessary. Since 'updating' would probably make them look like an F-22 Raptor, that conjures images of Michael Bay's Starscream. DO NOT WANT.
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I think the Veritech design is one of the best examples of 20th century novelty/ingenuity in design. I am dreading it being molested for the movie. F-15s (16?) are a little dated since the first design, and I want to see this thing look good.
10/07/09
@gods-n-clods: I Think the YF-19 design from Macross Plus was an excellent reworking of the original Valkyries. The YF-21? Meh.
10/07/09
If they knew what was good for them, they'd just go back to the original source, and make a live action version of "Do You Remember Love?", the Japanese movie that summed up the essence of the entire series.
But yeah, there've been probably dozens of newer Macross style fighters made since the originals. The YF-19 has been one of my favorites for years.
10/06/09
Which, of course, is not a bad thing. Might as well borrow from the awesomest.
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I'll take issue with that-- the movies *are* beautiful to look at, the concept art was quite faithfully rendered in the films.
Watch the prequels with the sound off; the visuals are outstanding. Even now.
It's the *rest* of the movies that suck.
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I mean... If someone comes to me with a written scene in which missiles are fired at a ship, ships dodge furiously, missiles catch up only to explode IN FRONT of the ship in a cloud of stupid spider bots, which proceed to dismantle the ship VERY SLOWLY... Well at that point I'd probably book a week for Lucas at an asylum for the totally disconnected from reality.
10/07/09
One thing to say about Star Wars though is that at least some of its concept art gets used much later on. Several unused prequel designs and some Ralph McQuarrie concepts have been utilised in, or inspired elements of the ongoing Clone Wars animated series. New character Cad Bane was himself inspired partly by an OT bounty hunter design. So you may see some more good stuff showing up in the future.
10/07/09
A missile catches up to a ship = explodes. Boom. Exciting
A George Lucas missile catches up to a ship = tiny stupid robots which artoo has to fight and then have to be scraped off by a wing. SCRAPED OFF?!
Lucas never fails to take an exciting thing and add three more things on to it, thus fucking ruining it forever. he can't just have somebody swing a lightsaber. That somebody has to flip three times and land on a tiny piece of metal floating in a lava lake. It's a fucking disaster.
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08/20/09
Mutants? Anyone . . . Anyone . . . Beuller?
08/19/09
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Or Possibly "everyone except the Puppeteers".
-Kle.
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I didn't think it was so bad as an example (assuming you know the above), but almost any cover from the 'Man-Kzin Wars' series would've been far preferable...
08/19/09