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1 hour ago, Thom said:

I think if they did delve into his history, it could work. As mentioned, he has the whole backstory of being a child soldier with a lost past. Make a story of him trying to find where he came from, have him encounter other troopers, mainly those who did not turn against the Imperial Remnant (First Order) and with the afro chick and Lando along for the ride. Make sure the scripts were more dramatic than funny and I think it could work.

I don’t remember Rose having an afro, but maybe the first Star Wars romantic comedy where they try and just settle down. One character doesn’t know how to function well in a non military environment and the other is so derpy she barely knows how to handle a domestic life. And then awkward adventures keep popping up and an out of place revelation into Finn’s past to give a bit of seriousness  so it’s not totally silly kinda story and gets his series some interest.

20 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

Do you think there's any potential for Finn to get his own miniseries? I think there's some storytelling potential there, and the comedy could work in his favor, allowing for some lighthearted adventures (just keep the Jedi out of the story along with Dave Filoni!!). The one counterpoint I can think of though is that Boyega may not have the gravitas/ ability to carry a miniseries as a main character, and that Finn might not be persuasive/ interesting enough a character.

Your thoughts?

I think Boyega is strong enough to do a show, but his character was weakened a bit too much. Although I guess that since he didn’t end up with lil miss Skywalker that they could try and do something a bit more detached with him and Rose. But that involves using one of the more hated characters. 
Personally, I think they should just move ahead without using any established characters in a new adventure that doesn’t rely so much on cameos, but gets the narrative moving beyond the Rey era. Basically just leave the past in the past and give us a new beginning 

2 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Megaman X.

I’d be more interested if this were in a smaller scale. There’s a lot of close to six inch versions out there already 

32 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

And yet this is what they came up with.  At that price.

They're like a third of the way through the funding period, and they've got barely over 1000 of the 10,000 backers they need.  I think it's way overpriced... if these were retail figures, it'd be, what, $20 a pop for 3.75" figures, and say $40 per lightcycle (a bit high, but prices I might be willing to pay, for Flynn, Tron, Sark, and the lightcycles, but to heck with Yori and generic badguy program).  That's only about $180.  I definitely don't need a light-up base for $80 more.  Again, I'd have rather they had an actual Tron toyline with stuff from all three films... they I might get Sam, Quora, Ares, Athena, and Eve, a Legacy and Ares Lightcycle, one of those jet things Athena was flying around in, and some Recognizers.

Yeah, I’ve said in the 1/18th thread that these are way overpriced for what you get. The wheel on the front of the bikes don’t even roll. They’re simple no detail add ons to a small low detail figure. I still think the figure should be ten and maybe as a bike and figure set something like twenty to twenty five. I think they look cool, but not at the asking price 

31 minutes ago, Thom said:

They already are. Look in the doorway between the suit's feet.

That’s actually what I noticed before the jeep. First was the big Queadluun Rau, then I spotted Max giving chase, then the crew in the door. I kinda thought it was just some debris until I looked closer and realized it was a jeep. A lot going on in that little hallway 

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

The only thing separating it from the creatively bankrupt copycat isekai slop currently dominating the airwaves is its genre.

 

I think it actually looked far better animation wise. The hand drawn look always appears better than the simplified cg almost AI look of the majority of modern anime 

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

His overall look is more "nerd" than "warrior"

Wasn’t he a marine or something? 
Anyway, I didn’t mind him at all in the first of those movies. And he seemed far less nerdy than Boyega who was supposed to have been a life long soldier.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Even back in the '80s, for every Macross or Gundam the Mecha anime trend turned out there were probably half a dozen copycat shows that were borderline unwatchable like Southern Cross.

 

I’ll take Southern Cross easily over all this Tronime.

2 hours ago, VF-1A Grunt said:

That looks awesome!

Can we start a rumor that Hasegawa is going to offer a 1/72 U.N. Spacy vehicle set based on the little “jeep” getting flung about in this artwork?

I don’t see why not, but i think that’s more of a plamax thing.

Anyway, look at that jeep, definitely gonna be next in line for the tv Macross kits. Maybe it will even come with that ground crew 💩ing their pants

1 hour ago, Duke Togo said:

I have trouble finding stuff that appeals to me in modern anime.

Yeah, the modern stuff is mostly trash. I miss being excited for anime, but I’m oddly finding more excitement for American animation these days. Can’t wait for more Invincible and curious if Black Knight gets a full series cause that teaser was awesome.

But I do feel curious about the upcoming Macross show, although I really know nothing about it

9 minutes ago, electric indigo said:

We have boxart, and it does not disappoint.

Looks like they went with the classic with Max chasing her down for the showdown 

Some people are showing issues on the P Bandai American site. Seems certain items aren’t showing properly. Sometimes things don’t show if they’ve sold out, but this time around most of the stuff didn’t, they’re just awkward to find.
One of the items I wanted and was one of the only kits for G Quuuuuuuuuuuuuuux that I don’t think is totally ugly is that Gundam 01. For me it didn’t show on the preorder page, but I had to go to the hobby section and then to the hg section and it still didn’t show in the preorder spot, but I did find it at the recently added list that you scroll to the sides with. Anyway preorder is there and it’s pricey, but it’s there.anyway, I preordered it, even if I’m somewhat regretting my financial decision and did get a confirmation.

9 hours ago, Thom said:

No, you work up to it. Done right, that opening crawl could fill two hours with total excitement!

That has got to be the most epic opening crawl ever. Not sure if we get an intermission after those two hours before the movie actually starts or if the movie only has a two hour run time and credits just roll after the crawl

1 hour ago, SteveTheFish said:

I think probably at 1:72nd scale, painting the eyes would make it look weird and bug-eyed. Probably the best thing would just to use a wash on the face, like Tamiya's brown/pink accent color. Even at 1:35th scale, armor modelers doing figures don't really paint the eyes, do they? I'd have to look up some examples.

It depends on the style. Realistic ones can get away with a wash, but actually painting the eye can help. With anime figures, especially the higher detail ones, the best way is with water color pencils. Start with a dark wash like a darker brown or black if it’s a female character with eyeliner. Then use a water color pencil of white to get the out line of the eye and a sharpened darker one to outline the pupils and such. If they look a bit buggy you can do a quick top coat and then a bit of a light gray wash to tone the whites down

1 hour ago, Old_Nash_II said:

The First Movie was good

 

 

I thought it was a different movie. The more infamous Troll 2. I don’t even know if anyone actually saw the first Troll, but everyone seems to remember Troll 2, but usually not for good reasons 

4 hours ago, Hikuro said:

The weird thing is, I don't consider Legacy to of been a bomb at all. I think I saw that film at least 3 times, and the first two times I watched it the theater was packed and I saw it 3D and then IMAX. 
I looked at the numbers, I dunno if it's triggered with inflation or not, but 170 million budget and it did 400 million world wide, to me, that's pretty dang good.

Sometimes a movie can make far more than it’s budget worldwide, but I guess other things like hardcore marketing can cost far more than the budgets  and I’d imagine that spending on that one was quite a bit. I remember a lot of commercials for it compared to the more recent film that seems to mostly just have a YouTube spot here and there. 

3 hours ago, Black Valkyrie said:

 

 

 

I still really enjoy the high energy of their first two albums. They had an almost desperate kinda sound, like if they play hard and fast that they might just starve to death and it made for a really aggressive sound compared to their albums that came later

On 10/21/2025 at 10:02 AM, Shawn said:

So is that the package art in the background?
Mercy Rabbit is back for this one?

Mercy Rabbit is definitely back, but not too sure if that’s the final art for the box. Some of the other kits recently had shown different art at the shows than what ended up on the actual box, but they are getting close to that supposed deadline for the tv Queadluun Rau release and maybe it is just needing a background.

1 hour ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

And I know it's not likely, but I'd welcome new plastic kits from Macross II, from any company.

I’m actually hoping those come from Bandai in the hg lineup 

36 minutes ago, Papa Rat said:

Thanks. 
Here’s a couple photos in natural light. Still not as brilliant as in person. ✨ 

 

Looks Awsome. The articulation sounds good as well. 

Another Led Mirage in the way in 1/100

2 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

A quick update on KOG aka “my little buddy” before I hit the hay 💤 

I might do one last gloss coat on it after finishing tonight’s final brush painting. I have never been so nervous to paint tiny, tiny details. I didn’t use any of the color correcting decals. I wanted to paint the few color details including this tiny white outline on shoulder “eye” designs. I was stressing but got it done. Not too shabby. 
 

My thoughts and feels on this new Volks 1:144 scale KOG Delta Beren is outstanding! It was a treat from Start to finish and can’t wait to do the larger 1:100 scale once I find that Gaia paint. 
 

Here’s a few photos taken at the bench. I’ll grab better pics tomorrow with some natural light hoping the gold has more sizzle if that’s a thing. Lol

 

Kinda curious about articulation. I know there are a lot of joints, but there’s also a lot of armor that probably block movement, just wondering about its range of motion 

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Nah, Kylo Ren/Ben Solo wasn't even a real Sith.  He was basically Palpatine's unpaid intern.  He ain't just gonna walk off death itself like everyone's favorite evil space wizard.

Definitely not a Sith, he was. Knight of Ren and Stimpy or something 

57 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Honestly.. if we're going with Palpatine surviving, there's no reason Ben didn't.

After all, he just fell over and disappeared.  Not like he was dropped down a hole into a reactor that exploded, or anything.  

Or a trash chute

Watched the first episode of Ha Ha You Clowns on Max or HBO Max or whatever it’s called these days. It’s a new adult swim show that I knew nothing about. I had a few minutes to spare and the first episode is only 12 minutes, so I figured that if I hated it that I wouldn’t have lost much time. 
Honestly, since I went in with no information about the show, it was a complete surprise. There’s definitely some adult humor, but I guess I kinda figured it would be more of the adult cartoon style done to death kinda shows. The characters are fairly dimwitted, but the difference here is that the characters aren’t naturally aggressive and the show really doesn’t deal with hateful or even spiteful humor the way most modern adult cartoons do things. If not for a few adult jokes, I’d actually say this is the most wholesome tv show I’ve seen this century. It’s definitely not the smartest show and doesn’t have a lot of big gags or anything, and nobody is antagonistic, but I really liked this for being such a different type of show.

Basically it’s a household about Three meat heads and their father after the mother had passed away and just trying to work together to get through a rough emotional situation, but everyone has eachother’s back.

Anyway, if you’re looking for something different than the usual then this might be a good way to spend 12 minutes of free time