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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:05 pm    Post subject: Starship Troopers: Invasion - (2012) Reply with quote




Wikipedia: Starship Troopers: Invasion is a 2012 computer animated science fiction film directed by Shinji Aramaki. A fourth film in the Starship Troopers series, it was released in Japan on July 21, 2012 and it was released in North America on August 28, 2012 as a direct-to-dvd title.
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Love the original movie. Might watch this one. I haven't watched the other Starship Troopers CGI sequels to the original movie, so perhaps I'll do some catching up on them soon.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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If anyone gets the urge to watch this one, here's a good site from which to get a download.

Promptfile.com


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Of all of the sequels this is the best. BUT there was a "sequel" that was better than the original!

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (Syndicated 1999 - 2000).

Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughnecks:_Starship_Troopers_Chronicles

There was a great site named TrooperPX.com which had lots of info but it seems to have disappeared.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I think I need to watch this movie. Don't try to talk me out of it. I'm armed and dangerous. I have a can of Raid, and I'm ready to go back the Bug planet! Cool
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:


I think I need to watch this movie.





Before you do one needs to be caught-up in this highly complex multi-movie and TV series.First it was serialized in a magazine under the title Starship Soldier:



Which was published as a novel almost 2 tears later:



Then this advert appeared:



For this game:



Then other games appearedl. Traditional games Starship Troopers Pinball Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game Starship Troopers: The Roleplaying Game and video games Starship Troopers Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy Then there were the films:









This is what started this response. Then there is the latest:



Just after the movie was released we got ROUGHNECKS: Starship Trooperrs Chronicles (BKN 1999 - 2000) Info at [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughnecks:_Starship_Troopers_Chronicles )
]of which they, unfortunately, did not finish the story-line



IT was far Superior to the movies and is a treat to watch. But back in the late 1980s the best version of the novels powered armor was seen at two different Japanese anime cons (the videos for them can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQjruwkyOaU for the first, DAICON III and for the second DAICON IV HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-840keiiFDE The armor was designed by Kazutaka Miyatake.(Info on them is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daicon_III_and_IV_Opening_Animations ) The designs. Marauder suits:











Heavy weapons suit:



Scout Suit:



Non-Com Suit:



Officer (command) Suit:



Anifty remote camera:





The Terran Fleet Regimental Transport Ypres [pronounced E pray]:



The Terran Fleet CRorvette Transport Roger Young:



A typical Fleet Shuttle:



Why do you need to know this? There is a reboot of the original movie which will use elements of the above. The powered armor for PFC Delores "Dizzy" Flores:



I know all this info can be confusing hope this helps, at least a bit!
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The one description of the power armor that I remember from the book describes the armor looking like giant gorillas.

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Robert (Butch) Day wrote:
But back in the late 1980s the best version of the novels powered armor was seen at two different Japanese anime cons (the videos for them can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQjruwkyOaU for the first...

That powered armor doesn't seem to be too effective against little girls.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

orzel-w wrote:
That powered armor doesn't seem to be too effective against little girls.

Certainly not in those two openings for the conventions!

ADDENDUM

Here are the YouTube™ links to the episodes of 宇宙の戦士 [Uchū No Senshi] (October to December - 1988). The mechanical designs were done by Studio Nue’s Miyatake Kazutaka (with design co-operation from Izubuchi Yutaka). (I've also added synopsis for each episode.)

Part 1 — Johnny Aired October 25, 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIZty-Eol4s

It opens with powered armor equipped soldiers assaulting across an alien high rocky desert terrain with a UGV [Unmanned Ground Vehicle] mounted with a camera to record the battle between the MI and the aliens.

Several MI die as the assault continues under heavy enemy fire as the MI answer with bullets and grenades. Then the battle ends and we are teleported to a high school football game where we meet Johnnie Rico.

This episode provides the motivation and backstory for Rico signing up for Earth Federation military service. Much like the novel and film, Rico comes from money and he is being groomed to take over the family business, Rico Foods, in the same way his father was.

While this may be a sweet deal of having a good life and path already provided, Rico is walking through his own life and feels that he has no ownership over his own destiny.

After the football game, Rico and his best friend Carl attend a party, where Rico is going to confess his feelings for cheerleader Carmencita.

It is during a post-party nighttime trip to the beach that Johnny and Carmencita talk and he makes his mind up, he is enlisting in the military, just like his best friend Carl. As we already know, Carmencita is accepted to go into the elite naval academy, while Rico is selected for the glorious Mobile Infantry.

This sends shock waves through Johnnie’s family. His mother reacts strongly, crying and slapping Johnnie. After a moonlight drive with his father, Johnnie learns that Rico Foods has been shipping a great deal of long-life rations to the military that his father believes is a prelude to a war. By the time Johnnie leaves for basic training, he was still unable to patch things up with his mother.

Part 2 — Hendrick Aired October 25, 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVP65gp7JFs

It is here that we see the basic training of Mobile Infantry recruits with all of the standard tropes of basic training: harsh marching, loose talk in the barracks, Drill Sergeants flexing their Kung-Fu skills against the new meat, force-on-force training, and learning to throw a knife … ! Much like the film and the book, the OVA does include the infamous knife throwing training and Sgt. Zim taking on the new recruits in hand-to-hand combat. It is here that Johnnie meets fellow recruit Hendrick, who seems unhappy with the ways of basic. Towards the end of the episode, we see training with the powered armor and several of the recruits being tasked with combating a wildfire with fire suppression equipment.

It is here that Hendrick learns that he is not fit for combat and is drummed out of the MI. It is here also that Johnnie disobeys direct recall orders to rescue a woman trapped in a blazing building. While he did save a life, Sgt. Zim is displeased that he disobeyed a direct order. Back a base, Zim beats the shit out of Johnnie and then forces him to run. While Rico knew he made the right call, morally, he begins to understand the importance of following orders.

While Rico is training, his mother is at the New Buenos Aires spaceport to meet her friend Maria as the luxury space cruiser, the Queen Alexandra, arrives. Once it lands, the terrible truth is revealed, the aliens have taken over the Queen Alexandra and the massive creature releases HE DE bolts and spores. Armored MI troopers show up and a major battle ensues, leveling portions of New Buenos Aires and killing Johnnie’s mother.


Part 3 — Maria Aired November 25, 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQHckQ1Ex0g

Mail has always been an important part of a soldier’s life and the MI is no different.

There several mail calls in the OVA, and this causes Johnnie to finally compose a letter to his high school crush, Carmencita, while another letter arrives: news of his mother’s death in the spaceport attack that cost one million lives.

It is during a briefing detailing the attack on Earth that the announcement is made that training will be accelerated in preparation for a massive strike back on the aliens. They are to report to the lunar Federation base for planetary assault training.

It is around this time that Johnnie runs into Carmencita and during their difficult talk; one of Johnnie’s teammates asks if he got a nude picture of his crush. In response, Carmencita slaps Rico and the guys punish the teammate.

While the training is intense, Rico is not himself and it costs the team one of their menbers during lunar force-on-force training with a building with automated defensive systems.

As punishment, the unit is put on toilet duty and the Johnnie is beaten up. The unit makes up via a loose bottle of booze.


Part 4 — Greg Aired November 25, 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuYyVZ2qvzk

One of the final training simulations for the MI troopers is a massive force-on-force war game engagement on Mars against other MI troopers playing the OPFOR.

Johnnie is promoted to squad leader and worries about his performance in the upcoming training. One of Rico’s squad mates, Greg, attempts to reassure Johnnie and vows to support him in the field. During this, alien spores attach themselves to a Martian sentry vehicle and attack the Martian Occupation base. At the same time that the base personnel are being slaughtered, the war game unfolds with the armored troopers slinging paint balls at one another.

When Johnnie’s squad hits to the Mars Occupation base to reload, they discover bodies everywhere and are ordered to investigate. Once it is confirmed that the aliens are here, they request for Sgt. Zim to send armored MI troopers to deal with the aliens. Before they can follow orders and pull out, the ETs jump Rico and Greg. Rico orders Greg to get out and obey the recall order. He disobeys and attempts to rescue his comrade, but is cut in half and Rico was next until armed MI suits show up and deal with the pink angry aliens with a hail of lead.

After the rescue, Zim lectures the squad about following orders and that Greg will not be buried with military honors due to disobeying direct orders. He orders them to collect Greg’s gear and it is there that they learn that Greg had a girlfriend.

Part 5 — Cherenkov Aired December 17, 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5C_ONgXLS4

It has been six months since the events on Mars and it is graduation day for the 20% of the class that made through it the training and Rico is finally a Mobile Infantry trooper with a blessing from Zim.

With the unit getting a liberty before being assigned to their new unit, Rico and Smith go to meet Greg’s girlfriend and explain about what a hero Greg was. To their surprise, she is getting married and it leaves the two men depressed.

They stop at a local bar after their car breaks to down some cans of Budweiser (yes, they are actually cans of Bud), then some extras from Mad Max (Kennedy Miller Productions 1979) show up and there is a rumble.

As the balloon is about to go up, the new members of Willey’s Wildcats are transferred to an orbital space station to meet their new squad and board their new vessels, the Roger Young. It is here that Carmencita and Johnnie reuniten again, and she gives him a letter and a swimsuit photo. While Johnnie read the note saying that she will be posted to the training vessel Saratoga, the rest of his squad engage in a station-side barroom brawl with naval personnel. It is also here on the space station that we meet Cherenkov, the machine gunner for their squad and big son of a bitch. However, he is sucker punched during the dust up with the naval guys. As the episode ends, Willey’s Wildcats are boarding the Roger Young as news comes down that the Saratoga was destroyed, Johnnie drops the photo of Carmencita.

Part 6 — Carmencita Aired December 17, 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz_HOkA1RwU

After an FTL jump, the Roger Young assumes launch position in the upper atmosphere of the ETs base-of-operations or their homeworld: Klendathu.

The unit loads up into drop pods and hundreds of encased MI troopers stage a massive airborne assault on the jungle world of Klenathu.

The enemy launches a thick blanket of AAA fire and MI troopers die in their coffins. Rico’s squad hits the dirt and launches an attack on any enemy units. All manner of ET s attack from the ground, from the trees, and from the air; taking their toll on the MI troopers minds and will. Several soldiers break down and allow themselves to be killed or others wounded, including Rico.

The ship's sergeant leads an assault on a massive alien bio-mass cluster that seems to be “a base” or “brain”, but the ship's sergeant becomes trapped. The rest of the squad pour on the fire and rescue the ship's sergeant and watch the alien bio-mass burn.

In the last scene of the OVA, Rico is an lunar military hospital and he is summoned to an observation deck. It is there that Rico sees a wounded Carmencita and Rico is about to confess his love for her as the credits roll.

THE END

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I don't speak Japanese, so I got an old girl friend to translate for me. Amazingly, except for the enemy NOT being bugs, they follow the plot of the books far closer than any other version made! Enjoy.

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Final notes.

One of the most familiar concepts of the 1959 novel is the use of three variants of combat rated CLASS-II powered armor by the Mobile Infantry allowing for a single trooper to have great power, mobility, and control over the battlespace.

While this is a bedrock concept in the novel and spread throughout science fiction, it was sadly omitted from the 1997 film and was only included on the 3rd 2009 film and the following animated films. However, it was included in the 1976 Avalon Hill board game, the 1988 OVA, and the CGI TV series.

The design of the powered armor in Uchū No Senshi was done by legendary mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake who worked on Macross (Nippon [NHK] Studio Nue 1982), Space Cruiser Yamato (Nippon [NHK] Yomiuri-Group TAC 1974 - 1975), Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Sunrise Studios 2002 - 2003), Gunbuster (Gainax 1988 - 1989), and even Dirty Pair (Nippon [NHK] Sunrise July to December 1985). Seriously, this man is a god of mechanical design! For many fans of SST, his design, known as the “Studio Nue design powered armor” was to be considered the realization of Heinlein’s description and one of the best elements of Uchū no Senshi. This was not the first appearance of this powered armor in Japanese sci-fi culture. In the 8mm animated film opening to the Japanese Daicon III and IV 1981 science fiction conventions, we see the same powered armor design.

The likely first appearance of this ionic powered armor design is seen the 1977 or 1975 Hayakawa Publishing Japanese language edition cover art of the Starship Troopers novel by noted illustrator Naoyuki Kato. It should be said that while the two designs by Kato and Studio Nue are very similar, Kato’s armor design was not used for the 1988 OVA.

In the OVA, there several variants of the powered suit (AKA enhanced combat suit) seen, including a yellow training version, and three combat models in various livery, but only two were seen in the anime (“marauder” and “officer”).

The most common in the MI of the OVA and seen on-screen was the “marauder” type that had the Y-rack, various hand mounted weapon systems including a KE carbine, flamethrower, MG42-like machine gun, and rocket launchers along with armor mounted heavier weapons like laser cannons, auto-cannons, heavier rockets.

The “officer” powered suit was designed for field commanders to coordinate with their troopers with advanced communication and sensor equipment. There was to be originally the “area support suit” which was akin to the scout powered armor featured in the book, but this was cut prior to animation and only exists in concept art.

Two interesting pieces of trivia about the Uchū No Senshi powered armor was that the production staff “borrowed” the sound effects of the armor opening and closing from the power loader exo-suit in ALIENS (20th Century Fox 1986) some other sound effects from Bubblegum Crisis (Artmic & AIC 1987 - 1991), like the APS carbine rifle.

One of the great things about the Japanese animation industry is that often release very detailed and cool model kits for their productions and the MI powered armor was no different. Over the years, nine official model kits in plastic and metal of the very iconic Studio Nue designed powered suit has been released since 1988 by several companies in several scales. Interestingly enough, not with any official connection to the Heinlein book or the OVA … is this due to copyright issues of the OVA not be official licensed? Either way, the powered suit are an amazing design.

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Known Voice Cast

Yasunori Matsumoto as Juan "Johnny" Rico
Shûichi Ikeda as Azuma
Kazuhiko Inoue as "Kitten" Smith
Akira Kamiya as Fleet Sergeant Charles Zim
Yûji Mitsuya as Carl Jenkins
Shinji Ogawa as Emilio Rico
Rei Sakuma as Carmen "Carmencita" Ibanez
Kazuyuki Sogabe as Anders Hendricks
Hirotaka Suzuoki as Greg "Ace" Roberts

Known Crew

Directed by Tetsurô Amino

Writing Credits

Original Story by Robert A. Heinlein (novel)

Screenplay by Tsunehisa Itô & Shô Aikawa

Produced by Hironori Nakagawa & Minoru Takanashi

Music by Hiroyuki Namba

Sound director Yasunori Honda

Animation director Yoshinobu Ineno

Total Runtime: 2 hr 30 min (150 min)

Episode runtime: 25 minutes

Sound Mix Stereo

Color Toho-Color™

Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

Production Companies:

Bandai Visual Company
Studio Nue
Sunrise

Distributors:

Bandai Emotion (1989) (Japan) (laserdisc) (Volume 1)
Bandai Emotion (1989) (Japan) (laserdisc) (Volume 2)
Bandai Emotion (Japan) (video) (laserdisc) (Volume 3)
Bandai Emotion (Japan) (VHS video) (Volume 1)
Bandai Emotion (Japan) (VHS video) (Volume 2)
Bandai Emotion (Japan) (VHS video) (Volume 3)
Bandai Emotion (Japan) (VHS video) (Volume 4)
Bandai Emotion (Japan) (VHS video) (Volume 5)
Bandai Emotion (Japan) (VHS video) (Volume 6)

Release dates: August 9, 1988 to November 17, 1988

Also Known As:

(original title) 宇宙の戦士 Uchū no Senshi
Japan (literal title) — Soldier of Space
Japan (English title) — Starship Troopers
Japan (literal title) — Universal Soldiers
Japan (literal title) — Universal Warriors
Japan (literal title) — Cosmic Warriors
World-wide (English title) — Starship Troopers

Connections to:

Starship Troopers (Sony 1997)

[b]Starship Troopers [reboot]

ROUGHNECKS: Starship Troopers Chronicles (Bohbot Kids Network 1999 - 2000)

Trivia:

The Japanese Laserdiscs of volumes 1 and 2 were ¥9800 [¥ is pronounced 'en' in Japanese) each [$85.97], while volume 3 was ¥9,260 [$81.23]. {¥ double strike-thru is the Japanese yen while¥ single strike-thru is the Chinese yuán.} Pricey by tiday's srndards.

This is the only version in which Career Fleet Sergeant Charles Zim is shown to be an Afro-American — which was stated by Robert A. Heinlein at sci-fi cons when asked. Zim's first name comes directly from the novel.



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