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  2. There has been a teaser video for the Overgear line today! https://youtu.be/Gts_XYqJAvg?si=IzGHywwK5hAPBTfm
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  5. I just checked, and I'll concede the point about Excelsior's bridge: the missing handrails on the NX-version made it look more cavernous: (pics courtesy of Ex Astra Scientia) My references on this was the TNG Technical guide by Rick Sternbach, where he went in-detail about the Galaxy class' fuel supplies. And yeah, it was antimatter th at I was more concerned about. But perhaps I'm just getting too wound up in the details here, so I think I'm just going to let this go. But I still think the Athena's bridge is stupid big.
  6. I'm not sure that necessarily even implies anything. After all, the Excelsior's prototype-era bridge wasn't that much bigger than the regular Constitution-class refit bridge of the era or many of the more modern bridge designs that would follow and Starfleet ships of that era seem to swap out bridge modules with a fairly high frequency. (This, of course, being an in-universe justification for having struck sets, redressed or modified sets to the point of being unable to revert them, or simply built more advanced sets to replace the ones previously used.) The change in the bridge design may have nothing whatsoever to do with ergonomics and simply reflect whatever Starfleet settled on as a standard operational design or include some unspecified modernizations. True, but at the same time it's also true that fuel has never really been a concern for Starfleet ships in normal operations in Star Trek's various series and movies. Fuel concerns only ever really come up prominently in Voyager and Enterprise. In both cases, those are stories depicting a Starfleet ship ill-equipped for its current situation that is operating many months or years away from the nearest friendly ship or starbase that might be able to replenish its stores. Mind you, it's worth noting that in both of chose cases it's also true that the entire plot hinges on a critical research failure. It's always deuterium they're running out of, and while deuterium is rare relative to elemental hydrogen it's simply not that rare. The implication going back as far as TOS - and explicitly confirmed in the tech manuals and some onscreen okudagrams - is that a Federation starship typically carries enough fuel to operate away from base for months if not years. Even the Danube-class runabout in TNG "Timescape" is said to have enough fuel for a month and a half (over 47 days) for each engine. And given that mass does not impact acceleration or flight performance for these starships due to the way they get around by bending space-time and the amount of other stuff they're carrying, a bit more fuel mass seems like a negligible concern at best.
  7. Well, just watched it. It was OK, nothing great. I don't think it will be enough to get the show back on.
  8. 😄 I can believe that there will be some pages. There were a lot of us who backed that kickstarter.
  9. Yesterday
  10. Doesn’t the figure or the Battle Pod interior just get scratched up?
  11. I dunno, I loved all three of them, but I was like 5-6 when the second season aired. Beachcomber sucked, though.
  12. Since it supposedly released yesterday it makes sense to advertise. I'll have to give it a look tonight.
  13. And Matchbox is the "realistic" of the two car lines. Hot Wheels at least had those outlandish cars that would have been distinctive.
  14. I had a pre-order from early last year and I saw that they were available. I told them, that I wanted my order and threw in Dolza to make it a three pack. If I wouldn't of emailed them, I am pretty sure my order would still be pending. FYI. MB
  15. It sounds like you can request a pilot figure be shipped if you buy something else and pay for combined shipping. That works for me... I'll give it a try.
  16. Wait, you actually got a figure to fulfill the regult preorder, or did you have to purchase these? The site doesn't show either Seth or Adam available for sale or even preorder. What do you mean by "more or less?" Are they finally fulfilling the promise to include a figure with every regult preorder? Or are you saying they're only fulfilling the promise to make a figure that fits in a regult?
  17. I feel the same way; they ended up being parodies of characters in my mind rather than characters in and of themselves. Powerglide sounded like a cross between a ring announcer and an car salesman; Seaspray sounded like Popeye trying to talk while gargling water (or whatever) at the same time, and Warpath.... let's not even go there (which is a shame, since I love his Generations design!). On that note: if they wanted to update their personalities, tone down that stuff (not remove it completely) in the voice acting, and make them a bit more like military personnel in those assigned roles: Powerglide: self-assured pilot/ aviator. Not obnoxious like the G1 cartoon version, but showing come competency. Almost like a Tom Cruise Maverick kind of spirit. Seaspray: an "old salt"; much traveled and experienced... weathered many storms, both metallic and terrestrial. A dash of Quint from Jaws (Robert Shaw) would work well. Warpath: grizzled old Army Vet (WWII). Nothing really phases him; seen utter hell and spat in its' face. Squints hard at danger and then slugs it right in the chops. (for some reason, I love listening to the "Police Academy March" when I think of him.... ) Just my take on this.
  18. Directly from KC.... Also got my Battlepod Pre-order figs.....opted for one "Adam" just to have one and 2 "Seth" variants... The figs are nice and fullfill "the promise"....more or less....of a Regult with pilot.....but they are just way too small to display with any other Macross toys that are not in "HM-R" scale.... KC 1/72.... HM-R VF-1... Yamato 1/60 VF-1.... THREEZERO VF-1.... KC 6".... HM-R Defender....
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