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    Don't threaten me with a good time! All you've done is made me imagine a Regult getting into a drunken brawl and whipping out the patented Zentraedi Drunken Kickboxing Style!
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    Why even live then?
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    Given all the BS technology that goes into the YF-29, I wouldn't be surprised if it also included hyper dyper super dimension inertia (drift) store converter that would make the experience for him akin to driving a mildly tuned sports car. Like a Miata with the top cover removed or something.
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    Wanting a line art accurate transforming YF-21 is wanting all your groceries in one bag and for it to not be heavy.
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    I need to get into an old folks home. This whole time I read Hikuro's "1999[.co.jp/eng]" and was thinking "dalong." So I was confused as hell thinking something must have changed and I was somehow "grandfathering" my way into using the site as I usually did or something. It took electric indigo writing dalong out in plain sight for me to realize my brain fart. But yes, using 1999.co/Hobby Search (it also doesn't help that it's called Hobby Search but its URL is... just the year it was established or something?) has definitely become more annoying ever since Bandai dropped the hammer. Especially when you don't know 1) the internal code it uses to reference these items or 2) the name of XYZ kit in kana form. To get anywhere, you have to either start from googling pre-existing English product pages and fudging with the URL, or navigating the site in a completely foreign language. Thankfully, it's becoming less and less necessary to interact with that store, though I did just recently get a pair of Wave's Phalanx kits from there and the process was as straight forward (and positively archaic) as ever.
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    Can you clarify what you're talking about? The site seems exactly the same as it ever has to me, but I wonder if I use it in an unconventional way. (I open up the "English Catalog" page for X/Y/Z section in its own window/tab so it doesn't show the sidebar that the site usually has. I'll rarely do the same with the English sidebar page as well.) - 'that function' = ??? - what kits don't they list? P-Bandai stuff? - delete URL?
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    What's the story behind the Cucuruz Doan's Island animation, again? Wasn't it something like ? If so, did they recently redo the rest of the original show in this style of animation (or a similar modernized style), and the omission of this arc prompted this production? It seems like such an out of nowhere thing to decide to retcon.
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    Gosh is it getting hot in here? In my experience, Bandai have actually tended to put more effort into their not-Gundam brands than they do Gundam, probably at least partly because they can be pretty sure the latter will sell on sheer inertia, whereas the former stuff needs a bit more... "oomph." Or maybe it's just me seeing things.
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    Honestly, the only thing that keeps getting to me is that DAAANG OOOL' SEEEAAAM LIIINE running the entire length of the lower leg. Like a dancer in a dangerously high cut dress. 😳
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    So for whatever reason, maybe I just imagined it, I was under the impression there would be more news about Macross physical releases at Otakon, that the above announcement was just Day 1. Is this true? Is there more news? Or am I just crazy?
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    Just checked my email and saw the same. Going to the site though, it's still "Backordered," suggesting the restock wasn't very big at all. Bandai really being stingy about allocation, or HLJ misjudging demand?
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    Yeah, given how much the YF-21 has to shapeshift between all three modes, way more even than the YF-19, and given that the DX Chogokin line typically takes slight liberties with mecha designs anyway, I've decided I'm not going to sweat the details any longer. If I REEEAAALLY want something that'll suit my taste in all three modes, I'll bite the bullet and scratchbuild it. This works well enough for what it is... and hopefully it'll bring down the price of the Yamato figure some, too. Always been a regret of mine that I wasn't financially solvent enough didn't jump on any of the Yamato toys as a kid.
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    I'd love to hear any stories you have to tell from that time, be they good, bad, or just plain interesting.
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    Eh y'know what, this isn't half bad. Just it's four obviously different styles traced into the same picture. Not ideal.
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    My hurried comment that I mistakenly posted in the Venom thread.
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    EDIT: Sorry, was going off the URL, forgot this isn't the right thread. Anyway... I doubt that's the ONLY reason. Word I've heard from the grapevine is that crunch was insane on Across, with Lord and Miller constantly changing story, character, and scene beats that had to be re-animated. By the time the movie released, they had only just started production on Beyond, making a next-year release basically impossible.
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    Weirdly enough, the fix to this stubborn problem is to bump up the framerate massively and/or lower it massively, both of which gobble up production budget. I can understand why they went this route, but it still sucks to see it.
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    Dang, beat me to the punch! EDIT: Gah, boo. Well, since I've spilled over to a new page:
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    From the article itself: "I heard someone say a new donut shop is opening up, but someone else said it isn't." This is about as news-y as a fart in the wind. I'm fine assuming it doesn't exist until concrete evidence turns up that it exists.
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    HLJ fills a small and shrinking hole in Bandai's... portfolio? market? That is, HLJ is the local Japanese shop that caters to overseas customers. Ever since Bandai refocused their efforts on establishing a Stateside foothold - partnering with then buying Bluefin, working with local shops, etc. - it seems they've allocated less and less to HLJ, who I'm sure they would prefer to compete for their local market, ie the domestic Japanese market. With the YF-19 in particular, I imagine they wanted a strong US/international launch and so have dedicated a far greater proportion of their stock to those territories instead of Japan. It would certainly explain why it's so easy to get one locally and nearly impossible to get one from HLJ.
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    Well there goes that theory.
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    Having never seen Shin Godzilla, I was under the impression that that's entirely standalone...? Or do you mean a prequel to the FIRST first movie, ie '54 Goji? Perhaps "Minus One" implies an alternate retelling of '54, reframing the nuclear weapons social anxiety around... maybe... the Tohoku earthquake/tsunami, and/or climate change more broadly. IIRC that was somewhat the case with Shin Godzilla, but there the movie was just evoking footage from the disaster while the social commentary focused on government bureaucracy. I dunno, lemme know.
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    Deserves its own topic? Maybe, maybe not.
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    I was talking to a coworker who actually professes to love the Indy franchise - me I'm meh on it entirely, don't think I've ever seen one all the way through - and I asked them if they should have just... recast Indy. Y'know, like long-running (and not so long-running) movie franchises have done plenty of times in the past. Cast a younger actor, so you can tell a younger story. I mean heck, it was already done before, in the 90s. Brendan Frasier took over the Indiana Jones role, and they called it The Mummy, and it was fantastic. The coworker was adamant, incensed even. "No, Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones!" they insisted. And if that's the case, then I think it would have been prudent to simply leave the franchise dormant. Anyone else? Would you have preferred a new cast? For as much as some people here like to go on and on about wokeness being the industry's downfall, what really crippled this movie to me was its counting solely on nostalgia to drive sales in a movie culture in which nostalgia (or at least this particular brand of nostalgia) was already waning.
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    They've already done them as Pixel Remasters just last year or so, so don't count of them getting the "2D HD" treatment they've been experimenting with anytime soon. There is word of a FF9 remake, though if it's in line with FF7R, that'll be a no thanks from me.
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