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  2. Big s
    I was under the same impression. I thought for sure they would just use the actual voices, but I guess I was also wrong
  3. shazam
    Bandai - Dragon Ball Super - Dragon Stars Series - Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta (DBS Broly Ver.) Action Figure x 3
  4. Abse1998 started following Final Fantasy structure arts model kits.
  5. Abse1998
    Oh wow 😀
  6. grogall
    +2
  7. Big s
    I guess it’s about time for Revoltekkaman Blade figures
  8. Tking22
    I was under the impression the original actors were voicing their characters in this series, and this was the "out" to having more adventures when they were actually kids. Gotta say, I'm less interested now, that seems like a missed opportunity and I don't know why Netflix didn't spend the money to get the actual actors to return, it's voice work, they could record it anywhere.
  9. sh9000
    Preordered Powerglide and Swerve at Walmart for $24.97 each.
  10. sh9000
    Kamen Rider Amazon.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    The bridge module Excelsior had as a transwarp system testbed wasn't that much bigger than post-commissioning bridge it entered fleet service with. Of course, it also makes sense for a testbed starship to have extra stations on the bridge to monitor all of its various systems during testing. (Though it actually had fewer people stationed on it than the fleet service version did. NX-2000 Excelsior's bridge seated 13, the service version had 17.) It took me a bit to figure out why the Academy-class starship's bridge feels so uselessly huge. It was so stupidly obvious I can't believe that I missed it. Look at the walls. Up to now, almost every Starfleet starship bridge we've seen has been liberally festooned with consoles around the outer perimeter of the room. This goes all the way back to the TOS-era Enterprise where every inch of wall that wasn't the viewscreen or turbolift door was occupied by a console of some description. This tendency was carried over into TMP's refit, and from there into practically every other Federation starship design. There are a handful of exceptions like the Ambassador, Galaxy, and Olympia-classes that put most of their consoles across the rear 90 degrees or so of the bridge, but practically every Federation starship before or since has positively ringed the bridge with consoles. What's different in the Academy-class USS Athena is that the bridge is still practically a ring of consoles... but the walls have moved outward 6-10 feet on each side, leaving all the previously wall-mounted consoles freestanding in the middle of the room. The actual bridge is an island sitting in the middle of Deck 1, with a huge walkway around it like it's a zen garden in a Japanese estate. Instead of wall mounted consoles, the bridge seems to have five viewscreens around almost the entire perimeter of the room. The one mounted starboard aft seems to be pulling similar duty to the big Master Systems Displays on older starships, while the others don't seem to be being used for anything. So there's just this massive ring of NOTHING around the actual bridge... and because they're using holo-comms instead of the viewscreen, the actual viewscreen is pretty much surplus to requirements 90% of the time. All things considered, I'd assume that's a negligible concern at worst. After all, in the 32nd century Starfleet ships have clearly advanced considerably from the 23rd and 24th century designs we know. They've been able to delegate a lot of repair and maintenance work to autonomous robots, they've made programmable nanotechnology a core feature of almost every part of a ship's structure down to things as mundane as the crew quarters furniture, replicators have been commonplace for almost a millennium, and surely they've improved the output and efficiency of things like the impulse reactors and warp core in the intervening centuries. The Athena has, by any reckoning, at least two warp cores and possibly more than that depending on how "disconnected nacelles" work... given that we've seen that at the very least the Saucer section is capable of independent warp travel without the nacelles or engineering section. If they've gone all the way back towards early TOS explanations, the Academy-class may well be able to lean on THREE warp cores worth of output to provide for its energy needs. (Which makes Braka's attempt to steal one of them feel less like a major crime and more like pickpocketing.) Shipwide holograms have been something ships could manage on the energy budget of the late 24th century, so that's clearly no problem. (Back before the "warp core" was invented as a concept, TOS Main Engineering was the impulse reactor room at the back of the saucer section and the warp drive's power system was inside the nacelles themselves. The whole reasoning behind the nacelles being a thing was that any power source potent enough to warp space and time must be radioactive AF, and thus should be kept away from inhabited sections of the ship and be jettisoned if needed. If the nacelles are powered individually like that, and the saucer has its own warp drive as we saw recently, that's 3 warp cores if we assume the secondary hull lacks one or at least two if they're doing things the newer way.) They've got enough spare juice kicking around to give everyone a personal transporter and tricorder built into their commbadge and officers on space stations are shown literally unmaking the bed at the molecular level each morning.
  12. davidwhangchoi
    +1
  13. treatment
    Get the DX VF-1S Roy Focker Revival. It'll be the way better pick than both the VF-19 and the VF-31J.
  14. Big s
    Maybe they’ll have slots and never make any of the jumps
  15. sketchley
    You've made excellent points. It makes no sense—especially compared to the bridges and command centres in modern naval vessels. It also lends credence to an earlier post about the bridge being a redressing of a large set that is (or was) also being used as a large room. That, or they wanted plenty of space between the work stations to set up and move the cameras around while filming! 🤷‍♂️ The only other cavernous command centre in live-action that comes to mind is the control room in the film "Elysium". It's very dark, and has multiple levels, but that may be stylistic choices to emphasize the villain on her throne, so to speak. The plants are a nice touch, and all the underlings have radio earbuds to facilitate communication. Around 2:12
  16. Zapfan started following Bandai DX Chogokin 1/48 VF-1
  17. Zapfan
    I'm just thinking about it because the vf 19 is cheaper than the super siegfried by 40 usd while being a newer mold
  18. Radioguy
    They knew about the clamshell issue affecting a whole batch (at least), and still didn't deal with it but for a case by case basis. The bastards even asked me to file a claim with Bandai Japan KNOWING that wouldn't be considered. In the end they forced me to buy something else to include with for them to send the replacement. You know full well I wouldn't have bought the Hikaru reissue from them vs elsewhere, but I HAD to choose them on that one to end this. Done deal with them, and Anime-Express for similar shenanigans.
  19. jenius
    Two good toys, go with whichever you think is cooler or whichever show you prefer.
  20. Zapfan
    Zapfan joined the community
  21. Zapfan
    Hello I want to buy my first DX chogokin macross and I want to ask if the supersiegfried 31j revival ver or the vf 19kai basara would be a good pick....
  22. Big s
    We watched an older show that we were a bit late at catching from before the pandemic. Vice Principals on HBO whatever it is these days. Actually was really funny and not sure why we kept putting it off. I guess there were only two seasons, but everything has a conclusion. I think if you liked Righteous Gemstones, then you’d probably really like this one as well since it has a good amount of the same cast and very similar humor style, just with two guys struggling to become the principal of the high school doing and saying things that no real high school would ever put up with…. ever.
  23. Big s
    Yeah, I’m not that familiar with how all the tech in modern star trek works, I just figured that by that point in the future there might be an almost natural way to do it. They need food, so carbon helps the plants and the plants change the atmosphere automatically or something along those lines and more efficient than a modern concept and not really sucking up extra energy. But like I said, I’m not really familiar with how their tech works and haven’t really watched any trek shows religiously since next generation
  24. pengbuzz
  25. pengbuzz
    I wonder if all the roads will be plastic orange tracks?...
  26. Bolt
    I'm looking forward to seeing this on the big screen. The use of that oh so familiar (song) guitar riff is pretty good for the end theme. If the whole movie was Guns n Roses , i would have a hard time with it.
  27. vt102
    So what happened? They basically turned me down.
  28. pengbuzz
    Yeah; I just figure why waste energy and resources on changing excess air back when it isn't needed?
  29. Big s
    I never hated their older stuff, but after Use Your Illusions, they jest became more and more of a joke. I guess it could be a worse band and be something like depressed mode
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