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  2. Seto Kaiba
    Nah, GQuuuuuuX just barely tosses that nonsense in at the very end as a way to justify the Rose of Sharon peace-ing out. GQuuuuuuX is, in the main, a "fix fic" for Zeon glazers and Gihren's Greed fanboys who've spent literal decades arguing that the Federation are the real Bad Guys in Gundam and that the Universal Century would be a much less grim timeline if the Principality of Zeon had won the war. The whole "Char has a red RX-78 Gundam" schtick is literally straight out of one of the routes in Gihren's Greed. The Federation's practically absent from the main story because Zeon's power is unmatched, Zeon is protecting the autonomy of spacenoids, and Zeon's war crimes are dismissed out of hand. It even indulges in a bunch of Zeon fan memes like mass producing the Big Zam being a major key to Zeon's strength. At the end, when the dust settles... It's actually even more "by fans for fans" than you're giving it credit for. Her backstory in GQuuuuuuX is based on Tomino's novels like Secret Meeting - Amuro and Lalah, which do make it clear that Char and Lalah had an actual relationship and that Char was jealous of Amuro and Lalah's friendship. That's also where the idea that he found her in that high-class brothel and bought her freedom came from.
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  5. azrael
    What.....🤭 🤣
  6. VF8000G
  7. Seto Kaiba
  8. mikeszekely
    If the budget for the mace went elsewhere, I'm ok with it. I never use Optimus's axe anyway.
  9. renegadeleader1
    I watched the first two episodes of IronHeart... I have to agree with critics it's been a pretty mediocre show so far. The characters are for the most part unlikable or obnoxious, and their motivations all over the place.
  10. VF8000G
    That's not quite how I see it.
  11. Big s
    I’m just waiting for someone to sink up that Kycilia scene with that new song by Ghost “Missilia Amori”. Seems extremely fitting right now
  12. Negotiator
    Wish I had room for one.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Wasn't the RX-78-2 in Ready Player One a last minute licensing-induced plot substitution? IIRC, it was meant to be Ultraman but they couldn't get the rights. Anyway...
  14. Big s
    Your theater has gotta be the worst when popcorn from the fridge tastes better
  15. Mog
    I think the set we got had the little spikes included. He’s definitely a big Hollow Knight fan, so he had fun building it.
  16. Thom
    It was a good popcorn flick to coast through a few lazy hours on. Not great, but good and enjoyable. Plus, I watched it at home where I had better popcorn and cold Coca Cola from the fridge rather than the Pepsi-crap at the theater. And Shira Haas... I'd be taken by that Widow!
  17. VF8000G
    I'll just say this -
  18. Seto Kaiba
    It's Khara. Lazy slop is pretty much a two-word summary of their entire original filmography. Did you SEE Rebuild? It's basically just Anno jerking himself off for three movies and change. It's a franchise series. Of course it was. They're literally listed in the credits. 🤣 It absolutely was fanservice. The 0 Gundam looks exactly like the RX-78-2, and its pilot is voiced by Tohru Furuya. There's no other word for that but fanservice. Especially since both Setsuna and Ribbons swap GN drives into older Gundams for their last fight instead of finishing with their season two upgrades.
  19. sh9000
    Apparently the mace accessory from the Centurion Drone set fits on Megatron. Hasbro should have included it or something similar since Optimus came with his axe.
  20. Test_Pilot_2
    It looks great and my pleasure. I hope he enjoyed building it - it's really cool, especially with the LED bricks. Mine didn't come with the little spikes on the horns - maybe he added those to make it look cooler?
  21. Seto Kaiba
    PHRASING! 🤣
  22. sh9000
    GI Joe Classified Retro Cobra Viper.
  23. VF8000G
    Yes, that "radically different context" is what I find to be tasteless and desperate. Metafiction is usually a gateway for lazy writing and this takes the cake. Kira Jesus Yamato knows we've had more than enough franchises dealing with "canon events" recently, and I didn't think Gundam or Khara would stoop that low to be such a lazy slop imitation riding on the most recent Hollywood trends while also bathing in their own sea of self indulgence. This is why I'm now more than ever convinced that this show was meticulously planned and controlled by some committee that wanted to make sure all the boxes were checked. As for 00, it wasn't fanservice - 0 Gundam was quite literally the first Gundam we saw in 00. Its pilot had a very clever twist at the end of the first season that revealed his true identity as its pilot, and it made perfect sense for the protagonist to fight it because it was originally his "god" that he had to overcome. 00 was not perfect, but I think it nailed that aspect of the 0 Gundam.
  24. Mog

    Strike A Pose! revisted...

    Mog replied to dapro's topic in Toys

    If they ever ran into an ace like Max, it’s perfectly understandable why an average Zent’ would probably piss themself.
  25. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    Thanks I needed a good laugh.
  26. Mog
    Props to @Test_Pilot_2 for bringing this to my attention. Finally gave it to my son and had him assemble it. . . Didn’t expect the final assembled product to be so big:
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