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    Still no date. If there is a question and answer session for part 2, someone should ask what the date is.
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    USAGundamStore.com has the new YF-19 for pre-order for $250. Today only, there is a 20% off coupon code: Macross2. This brings the price before tax and shipping to $200. https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/macross-plus-dx-chogokin-yf-19-excalibur-isamu-alva-dyson-use
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    A few of the VF-25F Revival available for $280 from a US retailer, free shipping over $200 and they've never charged me tax (though this may be different for you if you're in CA). https://newtype.us/p/6Zln2InGHsa609Yl0u6S/h/vf-25f-super-messiah-valkyrie-alto-saotome-custom-revival-ver-dx-chogokin
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    I just noticed that my legacy 25F doesn't have all those No Step tampos. Nice addition, I think. Maybe they should have been red or orange though?
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    Not the source of that picture, but I had something similarly bad happen. I don't smoke though. Plenty more examples here: EDIT: Didn't notice your username at first, you're even in that thread. Is there something in that particular yellowing pattern that screams 'smoker' versus the sun-based and spontaneous-in-box examples in the yellowing thread?
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    Fascinating - what were they here to say?
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    Speak for yourself. And thanks for the IBO spoiler. EDIT:
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    I went into this episode a bit disappointed that they were going right back to the school format, but I'd had two months to make my peace with this likelihood. Suletta's voice actress and animators hamming it up was enough to tide me over until the absolutely amazing scene above.
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    If the VF-0D PF was in there, I am not sure I would be able to resist...
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    To be fair, it's really easy to understand why you made that mistake. I don't really get why in some cases an entire product line gets one thread (can you even imagine if there was one thread for every DX Chogokin release?), yet then years later other individual releases from that same product line get their own thread. Same with every DX Chogokin variant of a particular valkyire, until some variants get their own thread. I get that reducing clutter can be seen as a good thing, but on the other hand, for people that just pop in and check thread titles every now and then, it's super easy to miss things. I see the VF-31AX thread bumped, and I might assume it's just people talking about Hayate's initial release (and its problems). I wanted to give the thread a bit of a wide berth until I had the chance to watch the Delta movies, and that's how I missed the releases of the -31AX Hayate Super Parts and Armored Parts. At least now the title of the pinned pre-order thread gets updated when a pre-order is upcoming. Still would be nice, in my opinion, to have a bit more granularity in thread topics.
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    Whatever this is just makes me wish for an HGAC Aries.
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    The swappable chestplate idea would work for DYRL Valkyries but not much else - just like the decals Yamato included with the unpainted Valkyrie. Wouldn't work for CF, M&M, TV Max & Kaki, or even this recent Angel Birds release.
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    You're right, my bad! It just doesn't show the tax when you order something to pile of loot - which makes sense, because they don't know how much tax to charge until you decide where to ship it. Updated my post.
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    Exactly. It's been 3/4 of a year since Big West announced four shows were getting US home video releases. Problem one is that these releases are all still MIA. Problem two is that, in 2023, the people who are going to buy your blu-rays are people who have already seen your show. You're not going to get as many new viewers in this day and age with only a home video release, not when everyone is subscribed to one or more streaming services with new shows for them to discover. Nozomi probably wouldn't have liked it, but they should have negotiated a simultaneous streaming release. And even then, there's more inertia marketing needs to overcome with shows that old. EDIT: Here's a US retailer offering the VF-0D for 30 whole dollars less than BBTS: https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/macross-zero-hi-metal-r-vf-0d-phoenix-shin-kudo-use EDIT2: Speaking of Nozomi, here's a US retailer offering it for $4 less than that: https://www.rightstufanime.com/VF-0D-Phoenix-Shin-Kudo-Use-Ver-Macross-Zero-Hi-Metal-R-Action-Figure EDIT3: Here's one for $135 (that's $45 less than BBTS for anyone still counting): https://galactictoys.com/products/pre-order-october-2023-bandai-macross-zero-hi-metal-r-vf-0d-phoenix-shin-kudo-use-action-figure?variant=40318816485457 BBTS has that cheap $4 shipping, which is a lot less than the other stores - but even with that advantage, Galactic Toys is almost $50 less than BBTS.
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    Remember when that was what we paid for 1/48 and 1/60 scale Valkyries? EDIT: And that was for perfect transformation, these are parts-formers.
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    I really, really don't feel like making myself rewatch S1 to verify the veracity of this, but the Memory Alpha wiki records these events a bit differently: It seems, as far as PIC tells it, the Romulans wanted the help, a decent amount of the Federation was onboard, and all was going swimmingly until the ZV nutjobs doomed untold millions of their own people in a play to get the Federation to ban Synths. (They probably could have gotten the exact same result if they'd done the same attack after the fleet had launched and saved a bunch of Romulans, but what do I know?) It sounds like the attack was part excuse to cave to the isolationist faction and back out of an unpopular commitment to help an enemy, and part logistical necessity/nightmare (I assume that Starfleet absolutely still could have helped, but without the purpose-built ships it would have been less effectual and would have weakened defensive and scientific efforts elsewhere). Picard, being very much of the do-the-right-thing-even-if-it-hurts-us mold, was understandably incensed by this. This is the same ground tread by ST VI, but nuTrek being nuTrek, everything has to fall apart in such a way as to cause maximal misery and angst for our cast. IMO, the Starfleet of the prior series would have still given Picard at least a ship, maybe a few. The Picard of the prior series, for his part, would be upset that Starfleet wasn't doing more, but he'd never pass up the opportunity to use his position to do good in order to make a political statement. The thing that makes even less sense to me is, if you wiki-walk your way first to the Romulan Star Empire, and then to the Romulan Free State, it's claimed that relations between the Romulan Free State and the Federation ended up being more friendly? This is after the Federation very publicly went back on a commitment to help? Very forgiving of the survivors, I guess. And yes, I agree that the Romulan Star Empire should have been able to handle the task of evacuation and recovery mostly on their own. Writers of both eras often made the mistake of forgetting that both the Romulan and Klingon empires would have had numerous subject races, but it's rare you hear about anything other than colonies. Yes, but we haven't heard about how his wife was mentally and physically abusive or died tragically or is actually Amanda Plummer wearing a rubber mask, or something. Merely running a shipyard is not sufficiently miserable and angsty.
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    This season seems to be better than the prior one so far, which isn't saying much. But the absolute worst part of the most recent episode is the way that someone on the bridge asked "What just happened?" in reaction to a very simple action sequence that the audience just saw clearly. And a bunch of the other bad things branch off of this like a tree of mediocrity: EDIT: It's worse than that:
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    What in non-canon over-the-top tarnation did they do to Deathscythe?
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    This is a gift to people still holding on to supers and armor for the AX and trying to sell them on eBay. At least the Alto reissue came with the supers, but it's still on you to get the armor and tornado if you're into that sort of thing.
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    I am worried they will go back to the school format after this. So is Bob, like, in charge now?
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    It's not hard to imagine how we get from where we are now to her being the leader of the Rebellion. If you are some regular, non-psychotic Joe off the street that wants to join a galactic insurgency, are you going to join the one led by a terrorist shopkeep who wants you to be miserable (so you'll join his rebellion), or the Senator who very vocally opposed the Emperor's excesses? A political leader for a political movement. This could even be a feature rather than a bug. Imagine for a moment, one or two big happenings from now, Luthen finds that more and more of the network he painstakingly built over years prefers to answer to Mon rather than him. Is that not the sort of situation drama is made from? Even if none of what I've suggested comes to fruition, she's still less of a waste of time than the rent-a-cop loser.
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    I, on the other hand, have been having a blast with this show. I tuned in to some Reddit-hive-mind-guided speculation in the discussion threads over there, and while it felt like I was spoiling myself on future plot points, I'm hyped to see what is coming if they are right. There were a few details in the latest episode that suggest the show might be taking a sharp turn soon. I don't recommend you read up on the speculation if you are at all averse to the idea of spoilers. As for some characters getting away with things they came down hard on the protagonist for - consider the context. Some country bumpkin came out of nowhere and dethroned the reigning ace of a battle school. That position came with the promise of a very significant prize, so of course they are going to call it out as cheating. Anything to keep from handing over the prize to someone who isn't part of their insular little club, who is 'supposed' to have a chance at winning. Then when someone from inside the 'club' does the same thing (but actually leaving evidence this time), consider the context. The first time, he's beating up on a failed scion who was banned from dueling in the first place in what is no longer an upset. The loser's family isn't going to want to draw more attention to this, when they can just punish Guel instead. Second time? Trying to crush said bumpkin. I think everyone involved would be more comfortable if the prize was kept in the 'right' families. Every one of these families is doing incredibly unethical things to get ahead, be they forced child marriage, assassination of heads of state, using disposable pilots. And that's just how they treat each other, let alone all the oppression of Earthlings going on. Of course they're cheating. They all are. All in all seems pretty decent so far. But a strong start doesn't guarantee you'll end well. Can't tell if it's a Code Geass or an Aldnoah Zero until after it's over. I'll just try to enjoy the journey.
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    Filler, especially in a community based around an anime like ours, has a very specific definition: anime-original content that was added by the animators so that the source material could catch up (or for other, similar, often production-related reasons). By definition, it has to have no consequences to the ongoing plot. It just bugs me when people use 'filler' to mean 'I didn't like this' or 'this bored me' when talking about an original work.
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