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  2. How long did it take to reverse-engineer the OT that was found? Materials science and understanding of quantum mechanics certainly took a couple of orders of magnitude's leap; but how long would that have taken to become anything practical? I recall Star Trek IV when Scotty showed the chemical arrangement of transparent aluminum: "It'll take years to figure out the dynamics of this matrix."
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  5. Yeah, it's one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments. It doesn't get discussed much because we know basically nothing about it and the Macross Zero CG model(s) for the MiG-29 aren't detailed enough to identify which variant of the MiG-29 is even being used. Even Variable Fighter Master File: VF-0 Phoenix, which goes into much more detail, barely mentions Mikoyan Gurevich's designs in passing since it has almost its entire focus on Sukhoi since they did a lot of the heavy lifting in the Alliance's VF program. (The only MiG it really mentions is an OTM testbed called the MiG-2000 that appears to have nothing in common with the real/proposed MiG-2000, and which is itself mentioned only in passing in a section about a Sukhoi transitional model that rejoices in the uninspiring designation of SuX-27.) The only book I know of that actually mentions this aircraft is the first volume of Tenjin Hidetaka's Valkyries artbook series. On page 43, in a note on the box art for the Hasegawa 1/72 Macross Zero MiG-29 Fulcrum kit from 2002, a brief mention is made that a canard-equipped version of the MiG-29 appears in Ep5. Presumably this unknown MiG-29 with canards is a lukewarm/early OTM adopter similar to the UN Forces F-14++ Tomcat Double Plus that was being used to both return an older model aircraft to service and evaluate some technologies being developed for future use in Variable Fighters. Using the SV-51's missile pod/drop tank units isn't terribly surprising since the SV-51 is backwards compatible with Warsaw Pact hardware and given how ineffective the F-14's weapons were against the active stealth-equipped VF-0 they'd probably want some OTM-based munitions so they could actually fight the Asuka II's VF-0s.
  6. The season finale was shorter than expected but it also felt like satire with its musical choices that took me out of the GoT universe. I don't like it when they do that.
  7. Could be! I figured it might be some bootleg from who knows where. I do specifically remember it had the thigh armor as a separate piece. Which seemed too engineered for a capsule toy.
  8. No, in this case it's a fellow Starfleet cadet who just happens to be named Genesis. I mean, that's happened too... but, y'know, eight hundred years in the past during a much better Star Trek series.
  9. went to Target this morning, picked up Big Convoy and was surprised they had him....my target isn't exactly well known for carrying good stuff and it's just piled with Megatron and Optimus gamer editions like it's the style. Robot mode, neat looking, but a big space eater I feel. Beast Mode, cool looking but pretty much zero articulation. Damn shame they didn't make him a bigger class like Commander or something so he'd size up better with Magmatron, that's just wrong to me....it's like having ol' G1 Optimus Prime paired up with G2 tank Megatron, it just doesn't work.
  10. Ok, I believe the one you saw in the machine are plastic copy of the Gakken mini diecast figure line (2.5") there are 3 types shown on back of the box.
  11. I'm officially giving up Jack and Coke. I didn't need to buy these right now. But the upside is that these should eventually pay for themselves (many times over) once I get my workshop running again. There's no ETA on that, unfortunately.
  12. This Genesis... it isn't the same Genesis as in Wrath of Khan, right? We don't have someone completely losing it while wielding a bomb that can unmake and remake a planet, possibly an entire star system? Because that would be bad.
  13. I'm still hoping they sell off Warner's video game division to help put some black ink on the balance sheet.
  14. If Devastator doesn't fit inside, it's out-of-scale garbage.
  15. Besides the AI was used in upscaling, not generative imaging. The only Macross product to date that has used any AI generative imaging was the clip of Angel Paints from Flashback that's on the 4K DYRL release and it's very obvious (and to be clear to those not aware, it's a separate clip, not in the DYRL movie)
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    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    Updated shipping date from Amazon JP: 2026APR13.
  17. Now that it’s staring me in the face and widescreen, those thrusters can’t possibly thrust.
  18. And we think the Macross fighters sufer from anime magic. Lol.
  19. @tekering hahaha. Yeah this dinosaur has its issues but nature finds a way. Any updates on the Bioroid?
  20. Watched SINNERS on HBO Max last night. Crazy that it received so many Oscar nominations, basically ripped off Dusk Till Dawn imho.
  21. Looks pretty shabby to me. Those seamlines are godawful, and you'll need to make major modifications just to get a decent pose out of that dinosaur. 🤨 Philistines! 😡
  22. This disturbs me as deeply as it did when I was a chlid. 🤨 It continues to keep me up at night.
  23. No, the canard Fulcrum was there in the original release as well.
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