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i had a picture of this saved somewhere, but i've misplaced it. I'm looking for a shot with what is two prototypes models in the first robotech/macross. one model is of he lightning and the second is a larger spaceplane looking ship. In truth the second ship looks a little like the real life Valkyrie aerodynamic test plane project.

any help would be appreciated.

masslegion wrote:i had a picture of this saved somewhere, but i've misplaced it. I'm looking for a shot with what is two prototypes models in the first robotech/macross. one model is of he lightning and the second is a larger spaceplane looking ship. In truth the second ship looks a little like the real life Valkyrie aerodynamic test plane project.

any help would be appreciated.

... from your description here, it sounds like you're asking after a single screen capture containing two prototype aircraft.

Unfortunately, there's no scene in the original Macross animation that lines up with what you're describing here. The only time that the VF-X-4 prototype appears in the series is in Episode 36, and only then as a scale model Hikaru is toying with. It's never shown in the company of another aircraft. There are a few aircraft from Macross that bear a vague resemblance to the XB-70, but none of them appear in the original Macross series. The closest would be the VF-4 Lightning III production model from Macross: Flashback 2012.

actually i think the scene he's remembering was of models on display. i'm not sure if they appeared in robotech together, but i do remember a combination of a YF-4 and XB-70 models in Hikaru's room in DYRL.

glitterboy2098 wrote:actually i think the scene he's remembering was of models on display. i'm not sure if they appeared in robotech together, but i do remember a combination of a YF-4 and XB-70 models in Hikaru's room in DYRL.

*impressed whistle*

Good memory... yeah, Hikaru does have a few aircraft models strewn around his quarters when we see them at around 1:25:00 in Macross: Do You Remember Love?. They're just indistinct generic aircraft in the animation model sheet for the room (pg300, Macross: Do You Remember Love? Data Bank) but in one or two brief shots they're clear enough to see that the ones that're right next to the door are an XB-70 and what looks like the early VF-X-4 from Macross: Outside Story.

That's not in Robotech though.