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  2. Big s
    I don’t know if I could call him a great director or not. He got the job done and had an imagination and pretty much no cash. Even his worst movies are fun and his best movies are laughable, but they’re all entertaining and are great if you got the right group together and some big buckets of popcorn and some drinks. He’s the kind of guy that could get a biopic that would have genuinely comedic moments and high drama simultaneously with tight budgets short set up times and just putting whatever on screen to get the job done even if it’s something that doesn’t fit in at all while the crew is totally stressing and can’t comprehend the solutions that he came up with at times. There’s gotta be some wild stories of working on those chaotic sets. The best stuff would be cases like where they need to do a space battle, but have no cash for models and already burnt the budget on the effects while he tries to convince everyone that he can just reuse the battle scene he did from the last movie, then someone complains that they just reused that scene in the last few movies and people are gonna catch on. He then comes up with the genius idea to mirror image the footage so no one will ever find out.
  3. Big s
    We need a new batch of Chuck Norris jokes now that he’s in a new movie. The old ones still make me laugh though
  4. Big s
    Yeah PS 3 has some pretty good cut scenes these days. Too bad Berserk came out on the PS 1
  5. the_foul_fowl
    I guess the same could be said for many franchises? RX-78-2 for Gundam to X-wings and TIEs for Star Wars. Thanks for the headsup on HJ! Btw, is Perfect Memory still good buy if I already have Macross Chronicles and the Macross Designers Notes? Just wondering if the material in Perfect Memory has already been reproduced in some form or other in reference materials. That said, SDF Macross is still my favorite part of the franchise, so more materials are never a bad thing 😬
  6. Sanity is Optional
    Matte/gloss, I think it depends on the paint scheme. For the more "racecar" paintjobs, like Delta squadron, and maybe the "hero" VF-27s I can see them with a gloss to go with the hot rod paintjobs. For the grunt paintjob like the VF-171 and VF-31A a matte definitely looks better.
  7. pengbuzz
    Wow.... nice graphics for PlayStation 3....
  8. Bolt
    Lol Woah
  9. kajnrig
    I think it was one or both of you I spoke to a while ago (probably around the time the Hasegawa Armored Battroid was announced) about the anime-style hands and how they bother me, too. I had to come to peace with the laughably and literally sketchy lineart hands by headcanoning that they're "traditionally" mechanical hand skeletons covered in spongy and/or expansive materials that can squeeze into a small form factor for stowage. But just imagine the intricate mechanisms and tolerances you would have to design into that to make sure that they don't reliably catch on anything and tear while going through repeated transformations. Or maybe they do, and that becomes an infamous design flaw of the VF-1. Mechanics complain en masse about re-stuffing filling and duct-taping holes after nearly every mission, and it becomes standard practice to replace entire manipulators instead. At the height of the problem, otherwise perfectly useful hands are being tossed every two or three sorties. Penny pinchers realize that nearly 15% of the NUNS procurement budget is dedicated to purchasing or refurbishing manipulator units. NUNS and Northrom get into a tizzy over it, it becomes a whole political scandal that sacks a prominent chicken down company and several generals, and all future VF designs are mandated to follow strict manipulator design specs. General Galaxy and the YF-21 lose Project Super Nova because, as one GG engineer puts it, "our wings could look like anything, but the brass could only see balloon hands." Indeed, the gate of history turns on small hinges.
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  14. SteveTheFish
    This is just strange because Max Factory gets its name from Max Watanabe. I assume he will no longer have any work done for Max Factory. It's just strange because he had his own brand going and now he's the CEO of Wave.
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  17. Old_Nash_II
    Chuck Norris is back XD
  18. Uxi

    bata fighter

    Uxi replied to ToyTalk3D's topic in The Workshop!

    Cool, I'll check it out. A well integrated combined Legioss/Tread is something no one has done yet. Multiple modes, ideally no partsforming.
  19. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    Mushoku Tensei was great again today. I am so scared to see what happens. I know already but still.
  20. Shawn
    That is freaking awesome!! I only have one single complaint...no Takani art lol !! 😛 I think everyone else is represented slip in a little Takani on the inside of the coin slot
  21. Bolt
    I mean, I'm definitely going to watch it. But I'm not counting down the days. Or holding my breath for anything spectacular.
  22. Bolt
    Yep. I have a few sets on standby.
  23. Rhubarbarian
    I think if you write it down on paper, "Matrix-style Star Wars action series with Carrie-Anne Moss" sounds amazing, but this preview leaves me completely underwhelmed. I am very much off the Star Wars ride, though.
  24. Raikkonen
    It is interesting the diverse take in detail and proportions. But one's smaller and more closer to a transformable toy, the other larger and for more skilled builders.
  25. Raikkonen
    Hasegawa the closest with their Gerwalk of it.
  26. Big s
    Have you thought about replacing the hands with something like the ones Bandai has for gundam. The 1/100 scale gundam ones might work for these and the packs have small medium and large hand sizes in them and there are round or square packs
  27. Dynaman
    Really hard to rate RC as a director. Most of his films were pretty bad but he always got the films made on whatever budget was available. One of the few "working" directors out there is the best way I can think to put it. And Death Race 2000 is a great movie so there is always that.
  28. KOG Water Dragon
    I'm certainly down for a VF-1A, VF-1S, VF-1J Max & Miria, and Super/Strike. Despite having more Hasegawas than I can handle. But I DO wish that Hasegawa would release more custom VF-1 battroids, like they've done for the fighters....
  29. F-ZeroOne
    I think a good tribute you can give him is that, while you may not always have enjoyed his movies, almost everyone whose movies you did worked for him at some point or another,
  30. Bolt
    As accurate as the over sized hands are to the og line art and animation. Those have always bugged me the most. But i can certainly live with it. The shoulder blocks don't really bother me. We'll see , once it's in my hands , how much i like or dislike these kits, compared to Hasegawa. Speaking of which, considering how many Hasegawa kits i have (and need to build!) , I only plan on buying around half a dozen of these Plamax kits. That includes any future batroid versions.
  31. Mommar
    Somehow the only good FF movie too...
  32. KOG Water Dragon
    Because despite my misgivings about hands that don't look like they can fit inside the arm openings and chunky hinged shoulder blocks that don't look like anything I've ever seen in artwork or animation, I still like the overall look and they bring back fond memories of both watching the show on TV and building the old 1/100 Arii kits when I was a teen. And I fully remember that those old Arii kits took a lot of liberties and had sections that looked totally different from mode to mode. I don't do toys, only kits. So my options these days are primarily offerings from Bandai, Hasegawa, Wave, and Max Factory. I prefer 1/72 so I'm not really looking at Wave for VF-1. I like the Hasegawa line, and I have a number of their battroids. Unlike their fighters, the battroids are only offered in a few flavors, so I don't have all that many battroids compared to fighters. And then there's Bandai... these also didn't get released in many versions, and they're pretty hard to get for a reasonable price now. I still haven't been able to get the p-bandai max/miria versions. That brings me to Max Factory as my main option to supplement my Hasegawa battroids. And as I said, I do appreciate the more anime-ish styling. Also, neither Bandai nor Hasegawa (or even Wave?) has done the VF-1D battroid, so it's kind of the only game in town for now...
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