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  2. Duke Togo
    Guys, just a reminder, this is the movie thread. There's a separate TV thread here:
  3. davidwhangchoi
    lot of anime in it. lol
  4. borgified
    $116 USD, November 2025 - January 2026 release date for those who are getting it.
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  6. Papa Rat
    @pengbuzz @sketchley Thanks for the tips. @MechTech Thanks for the link. There is a lot of great details in there.
  7. Slave IV
    That was for the armor ejection gimmick😉
  8. SebastianP
    You can't really scale by "small compartments" though, because in that case I could go "the Nimitz class has really a really small toilet, so it must be a really small ship". And the size of the bridge seems to vary quite a bit. Just for reference, the bridge window on the Elysion at "canon" scale is just over 11 meters wide at its widest point. I think this is a fair bit wider than 11 meters, personally,especially since the window needs to go over the sides of those grey pods too. I just don't have the skills to scale it properly. By single level, I meant that there's only one deck for the fighters, but there's more than that in the back because you also have the upper hangar just below the bridge. And back there there's enough volume for it to go deeper, as well. Not so much in the rest of the ship, since there's visible machinery.
  9. Lolicon
    No, not yet. I'm currently in the process of assembling my newly arrived set of moducases to house the rest of my collection. Magnets worked great on Yamato's releases... when they didn't screw up the assembly. Didn't a few people get copies where the magnets were installed incorrectly and it repelled their fast packs instead?
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Depends on the model, I guess... not so much of an issue for something like the VF-1 or Regult. I've got nothing for a Glue Valkyrie... but when it comes to welding, we've got you covered: https://www.macross2.net/m3/macross7/vt-1-battroidwork.htm
  11. pengbuzz
    Yeah... just a nightmare for accuracy's sake though. O.o *Imagines giant tube of glue being held by several valks as they position a new module in place*
  12. sjr
    Shining, Phantom Gundam and Meteor were all teased at last year's summer fest and expo. Also, the Impulse was unveiled at the 2023 expo.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    I was thinking more of the crew spaces themselves, where most of the onboard shots take place. The Elysion's bridge appears no bigger than the Macross Quarter's, for instance. The briefing room where they hold several of their discussions with Berger and others is barely large enough to accommodate the main cast. To an extent, I suspect this is because of reused interior design from the Quarter. There are some shots in the TV series where the hangar appears to be a split-level affair to permit embarkation of VFs without ladders. As to the size of the Macross Cannon and whether it's present on both ships or just one... that's not officially confirmed AFAIK.
  14. pengbuzz
    Thanks MT!! That reminds me: I need to look up the IMPS standards for real space and sci-fi modeling (for both my shuttle and TOS Enterprises).
  15. SebastianP
    The interior shots make the ship look *huge* if you know what you're actually looking at. To wit, the hangar where the VF-31s are lined up three wide, wings out, boosters attached, has to be able to fit inside the core hull of the Aether, because the ship is in space and the deck is flat. I took the fold-down flight deck extensions off the game model to see what the core hull looked like, and it is quite narrow. But it does have very distinct hangar bay side looking details right under the deck where you'd expect them to be. This is roughly the arrangement used in the hangar bay shot from Episode 12. I used the wrong fighters in more than one respect - since I used the printable models instead of game assets, my computer really doesn't like moving them all around, and since they're Siegfried instead of Kairos models, they're actually taking up less space. I'll see if I have a video game Kairos to use for more experimentation. This is with the Aether at 600 meters, which is *about* 50% larger than the "canon" scale, with Elysion being something like 1450 meters overall. Now imagine trying to fit that on the official size of the ship... As you can see, there's still issues - the ship is not quite wide enough, and VF-31As would stick out more, so I'm going to need to scale it up a bit further (10 to 20%) to make the fighters fit in that section of the hangar. Also, the hangar narrows forward, but there should be room for at least 20 more fighters two abreast in the forward section. And before you go "but you could put them further back where the hull is wider", the problem with that is that there's another shot where Delta lines up five wide below the deck, and that has to fit somewhere as well. And if you try it with the roughly 400 meter long Aether suggested by the Burj Kalifa statement, their wings will be clipping through the side of the hull. Something to remember when comparing Aether to the other carriers is that: 1 - compared to all the others, Aether is really skinny, I mean seriously skinny. 2 - Aether looks like it's designed with a single, normal-height hangar deck along the lines of a real carrier, or Prometheus or ARMD-L, rather than the high-volume hangars of the Guantanamo or Uraga 3 - the entire lower hull of the ship is the Macross Cannon.
  16. mikeszekely
    Apparently it's to standardize the size of the boxes by class for retailers. So as a Leader class he goes into a box that has to be big enough to accommodate the Dinobots. To me, not only is G1 Megatron's alt mode really a gun and not a tank, to truly be cartoon accurate it has to shrink down to something Starscream can wield. And since they haven't invented mass-shifting yet, I was always of the opinion that all I really needed was a very cartoon-accurate robot- the barrel in his back, the split hammer on his shoulders, no visible tank kibble (especially not as a backpack like Combiner Wars/Siege/Earthrise)- packaged with his gun mode as an accessory. As long as they did that his tank mode could be as trash as the one on Bumblebee Megatron. So to me, rather than complain about SS86 Megatron's turret, I'm impressed that the tank mode looks as good as it does. He's checking my boxes and I can't wait to have him in my collection.
  17. sh9000
    BTAS Batman.
  18. jenius
    Magnets are a much more expensive solution than pegs and slots and if they're not done well, the result can easily be less satisfactory than pegs and slots. Often times the manufacturer still adds a peg and slot to make sure the alignment is perfect, then they're left to wonder why they did the magnet at all when they could have just made the peg and slot a little more robust.
  19. M'Kyuun
    That's about 2/3 more box than necessary, but it looks nice. It's nice to have the plastic windows back, even if they're not the most environmentally friendly of options. I still think it sucks that we can't have a Megatron that turns into a gun and yet you can go buy a small arsenal at your local Walmart, including enough AR-15s to outfit a SWAT unit. I digress. I'm glad Newage took the plunge and gave us Romulus; I wish more third-party companies would follow suit giving us options for our CHUG collections to either fill voids like G1 Megs or give us better versions of characters than we've gotten officially. I wish Takara would make a proper G1 Megs for the non-US market; it's not fair to punish fans outside of the US for our laws regarding toy guns. Likewise for Shockwave. I'm planning on getting this guy, but I surely hope that there will be some nice third-party solutions to render his scope a far more believable part of his turret. As is, it almost seems an afterthought compared to the care taken to engineer his legs into the tank's base, which looks great, IMHO. That turret, however, dispels any illusion and that seems antithetical to what the Studio Series is supposed to be in terms of quality, alas. I hope there will be options to fix it. Regarding the upcoming Venin (Venom) Deluxe Insecticon fig, I've never really looked at the original toy all that closely so I did some research and I'm thoroughly impressed at how well they captured the original toy. The fact that they could do unique tooling to create that character so faithfully and yet they resorted to retooling Shrapnel into inaccurate versions of Chop Shop and Barrage, and Kickback into an inaccurate version of Ransack rankles a bit.
  20. sh9000
    No fanstream today but preorders are up.
  21. Tking22
    What happened to the Dexter prequel series? Did they do one season and that's it, literally one and done? Just to bring Dexter back, again, after "dying" in the sequel series that was supposed to neatly wrap up the original series, now he's back alive and just doing it all again? Okay.
  22. mangosac
    mangosac changed their profile photo
  23. sh9000
    Season 3.
  24. MechTech
    @pengbuzz THE Masking Tape Master!!! @Cheese3 Cool to see those ole' tiny kits being built! I like the highlighting on the Defender. @woodsider That 1J looks beautiful! I think you'll win some medal with that one! ALCON - Here are International Plastic Modeler's Society (IPMS) judging guidelines (there is a Gundam section): - MT https://ipmsusa.org/about/competition-information/ipmsusa-competition-handbook-2024
  25. sh9000
  26. Old_Nash_II
    New trailer
  27. sh9000
    By 1482Nikke.
  28. sh9000
    SDCC Exclusive.
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