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News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:22 pm

Kamen Rider Ryuki combined with Strike Freedom's Super Dragoon system.

Source: http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2010/01/ ... d-toy.html

Next up is something that isn't so much a cross over as a blatant rip off...

Astro Plan, aka China's KO of Macross:

Source: http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2010/01/ ... iracy.html

Does anyone know of any other bad-but-could-be-awesome KO/rip off products?

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:16 pm

Ah Astro Plan, I look forward to seeing how much of a rip it is.

Hey can't be worse than Macross 2 can it?

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:13 pm

Macross 2 isn't that bad, is it? I have vague memories of it(I watched it when I was about 10 years old) and I didn't think it was that bad. Now Macross 7...apparently that's the black sheep of the Macross franchise, hehe.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:00 pm

Are you kidding?

Macross 7, once you get past the initial overload of Fire Bomber is a decent series, with a good run of episodes that has produced multiple follow-ups and sold a lot of merchandise.

Macross 2, was a throw away series. heck the official Macross continuity has removed it from the timeline. Last I checked japanese redubs of RoboTech Shadow Chronicles (being treated as a Mospeada sequel) gets more respect. Macross 2 had a couple mech designs of note and good character designs, everything else wasn't up to par, and was blown away when Macross Plus came out.

by **Exic** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:52 am

Haha, Kamen Rider Ryuki. He looks weird when combined with the Strike Freedom's wings. Some are genius, some are rip off

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:34 am

Best one was RM Optimus Primal done up as Peter Jackson's King Kong, with scars and everything - it was awesome and I was broke. :sad:

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:35 am

Editor wrote:Are you kidding?

Macross 7, once you get past the initial overload of Fire Bomber is a decent series, with a good run of episodes that has produced multiple follow-ups and sold a lot of merchandise.

Macross 2, was a throw away series. heck the official Macross continuity has removed it from the timeline. Last I checked japanese redubs of RoboTech Shadow Chronicles (being treated as a Mospeada sequel) gets more respect. Macross 2 had a couple mech designs of note and good character designs, everything else wasn't up to par, and was blown away when Macross Plus came out.

Nope, I'm not kidding. I haven't watched Macross 7 but it gets little respect from what I've seen in the online world, though the internets is filled with people who just like to not like.

It seems like Macross 7 gets treated the same way as G Gundam and Turn A Gundam, where most people who speak up about the series dislike it largely due to it being different than what has come before in the franchise.

Dead Metal wrote:Best one was RM Optimus Primal done up as Peter Jackson's King Kong, with scars and everything - it was awesome and I was broke.

Now that's not too bad for a rip off, hehe.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:14 pm

Convotron wrote:

Kamen Rider Ryuki combined with Strike Freedom's Super Dragoon system.

I think the saddest part is that they didn't even bother to create a new name. ZGMF-X10A Freedom G.U.N.D.A.M. I mean, most KOs will at least try to give it a new, albeit bizarre new name. They just slapped the Freedom's wings into Kamen Rider, gave it the same name as the Freedom, and called it a day.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:25 pm

The sad fact about Macross 7, is that most people I have spoken to about the series who bad mouth it, haven't watched it, or only saw a few episodes from early in the series before the storyline really kick in.

But yhea, due to misconceptions It does get lumped in with G-Gundam quite a bit.