As some know but not all the scene where Agent Simmons and the crew find Jetfire was filmed at the Smithsonian's Udvar Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum right outside of Washington DC at Dulles Airport. They have an SR-71 Blackbird on display there. The same one used in the movie. Well they have a bunch of Jetfire Leader Class Prototypes on display and props from the movie, right next to the Blackbird. See below....
Prototype, primer, and machined , and rapid prototyped parts.
F.O.T. (first off tool) tooling check
FInal figure
All 3 figures and some concept art
Wheelie's leg and teh tongs Megan Fox used to grab him with in the movie.
Wheelie in his RC truck mode.
Allspark shard prop
Sniffer Agent Simmons used to find Jetfire in the Museum in the Movie
Simmons ID badge
Jetfire himself. This is the SR-71 Blackbird used in the movie at the museum used in the movie.
The gear door that tipped them off in the movie that Jetfire is a Decepticon.
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This museum is is like my graceland, they have the space shuttle Enterprise there too, the Enola Gay, a Concord Jet, and of course not only and SR 71 Blackbird but the Balckbird that was used to portray Jetfire in the transformers movie. I get a boner just walking in there.
That he is!! I have a plain old Macross toy because I can't afford the $200 for a G1 Jetfire. Yep, in the 80's Hasbro bought up licenses for every transforming robot toy they could find in Japan. Most were from Takara but one was from Bandai who had the license to make the Macross Saga toys. Hasbro "borrowed" Fokkers Robotech. That is why Jetfire never looks even remotely close to his toy version in the Transformers cartoons.
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Ah, the Macross Valkyrie (aka Robotech Veritech) ripoff:
As stated right after this post, it wasn't a "ripoff," as it was used under license and in fact originally produced by Bandai as I recall. Just like the rest of the early transformers line- They virtually all started as one of 2 or 3 Japanese brand toys that already existed in Japan and were re-branded "transformers" for sale in the US as one line...
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You mean Macross and Robotech are 2 different things?
Yes. "Robotech" only exists in the US.
The three "generations" of the Robotech series were actually 3 totally unrelated cartoons, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada. Each of the three Japanese series was too short to fit into a regular US season, so the three series were combined (with slightly different dialog and plots to make it appear as three generations of the same line of characters)
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The three "generations" of the Robotech series were actually 3 totally unrelated cartoons, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada. Each of the three Japanese series was too short to fit into a regular US season, so the three series were combined (with slightly different dialog and plots to make it appear as three generations of the same line of characters)
Indeed. Isn't there a movie in the works???
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To add to OKflyboys info, there was also 3 episodes made into a short movie called Robotech Sentinels. It was suppossed to be a 4th series but I think they ran out of funding if I remember right.
I have the Protculture Collection that has 2125 minutes of viewing pleasure.
I have often thought that a MMORPG based on The Next Generation ( Genesis Climber Mospeada ) would be awesome to play. It could be one planet based and include cyclones. You could modify your cyclone with dropped technology and even have a tradeskill like setup based around parts.
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To add to OKflyboys info, there was also 3 episodes made into a short movie called Robotech Sentinels. It was suppossed to be a 4th series but I think they ran out of funding if I remember right.
Yeah, the Sentinels was supposed to follow Hunter and co. to the Masters homeworld, filling in the back story that is only hinted at in The "New Generation" (Scott always referring to "Admiral" Hunter returning to liberate Earth soon). It died, IIRC, due to a yen/dollar crash that resulted in the American production company, Harmony Gold (which was responsible for turning the 3 unrelated series in to Robotech in the first place), going bust and being unable to fund the project further. And of course, since "Robotech" was an entirely American creation, no one on the Japanese side of production cared to continue the project.
BTW, there is a great novelization of the entire Robotech Series that includes the Sentinels story written by Jack McKinney (pen-name since the books were co-written by James Luceno and someone else that I can't recall)
(ps. can you tell that Robotech was my favorite show growing up. I watched it, bought the toys, played the RPG, read the books, and, more recently, bought the PS2 games even though I have no PS2...)
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(ps. can you tell that Robotech was my favorite show growing up. I watched it, bought the toys, played the RPG, read the books, and, more recently, bought the PS2 games even though I have no PS2...)
I rented it back in 89-90 from a video store. When I got the Protoculture Collection and started watching it I remembered that I had rented this. I would like to find it. I check E-bay every now and then hoping one will pop up.
I rented it back in 89-90 from a video store. When I got the Protoculture Collection and started watching it I remembered that I had rented this. I would like to find it. I check E-bay every now and then hoping one will pop up.
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