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  2. rsvictor1976
    I appreciate @jenius for making these videos. Is there a method to how a toy is chosen for review? I’m curious as to why you chose to review this old discontinued product instead of something more recent?
  3. davidwhangchoi
    watching this video on 8gb vram vs. 16 made me sad:
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Lately, one detail I've been looking at is where the inspiration for certain bits of Macross technology came from. Ever since we discussed a while back how Studio Nue's in-house doujinshi circle SF Central Art and its monthly get-together were how Kawamori originally became acquainted with Studio Nue and ultimately what gave rise to a lot of Gundam and Macross's technical setting, I've been wondering what their inspirations were/are. One thing I've come to suspect, but need more details to confirm, is that a good part of Macross's technical setting was inspired by Toru Yano's Japanese translation of Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune that were published by Hayakawa Bunko from 1972 to 1979. Hayakawa Bunko are, not coincidentally, also the publishers of SF magazine, the same science fiction magazine that SF Central Art formed around leading to the creation of Studio Nue. The part I need/want to confirm is that Toru Yano's translation of the books was serialized in SF magazine in addition to being published in stand-alone multi-volume releases. (For some reason, Yano broke Dune into four volumes and Children of Dune into 3.) It feels a bit much to be entirely coincidental that both Dune and Macross have a set of interrelated technologies that allow reactionless flight/hovering, faster-than-light travel by folding space, faster-than-light communication through folded space, and energy shielding via spatial distortion. Esp. when the third Dune book was coming out in Japan around when Kawamori first started drafting Macross. They even have similar limitations, like the Macross's dimensional fault-based barrier exploding when hit with too much firepower or needing relays to retransmit fold communications across long distances.
  5. Graham
    Currently re-watching the TV series and OVAs. It's about 15 or so years since I last watched the TV series. Actually I haven't even seen some of the newer OVAs before.
  6. jvmacross
    If offered in an open auction with no reserve, I think it would fetch at least 2000 usd. It's from an iconic sequence from one of the best SDFM episodes...
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  8. grogall
    @jenius has graced us with a review of the 1:48 Yamato GBP, I still haven't found the 1:48 Yamato thread so I'll post it here! Next up we will probably, FINALY! get a review of Bandai's DX GBP...🤗
  9. MKT
    It will be the moment it clinks with the Death Star one lol.
  10. sh9000
    Dungeons & Dragons.
  11. sh9000
    Dumb and Dumber.
  12. grogall
    Cool! Someone else who is all in! By the way Nin-Nin games has a really good price on the RSC for ¥16,940 which is a steal, at that price! I can confirm that they are brand new sealed boxes! I bought three from them. Funny that you like the STTC the most because it's actually my least favourite unit! Although it looks great as a squad! The RSC is still my favourite with Bloodsucker and Fanya's Space Assault unit close behind then FATTY. although I like all of them and wouldn't want to do without any of the releases so far. and looking forward to the Brutishdog the most from the upcoming releases! Great that after 40 years we finally get a first class series! 🤗 Well happy collecting 🤪
  13. jenius
    Same observation, no extra neck with Miriya.
  14. Graham
    Definitely more of a heavy class. It looks like it's gonna tower over a standard Scopedog. Hope we get an HMR of it
  15. Graham
    Yep, I've got: all five HMR releases so far. Here's what I've got: 1x Red Shoulder Custom (kinda regret not buying a second one when it was released). 2x Turbo Custom (my favorite Scopedog variant). 1x Scopedog in Space. 1x Blood Sucker. 1x Fatty. And I've got 1 each of the Melkian Scopedog and weapons set on pre-order. Oh, and the standard Scopedog with the plated joints that's being released next month, nearly forgot about that,😅
  16. Graham

    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    Graham replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    The amount of copium in that article is pretty intense. 🤣
  17. Mog
    Shouldn’t the Alderaan one be broken into a thousand little pieces?
  18. rsvictor1976
    I got Max today. I was surprised that Max included a bonus replacement neck inside a bag in the blue color that was originally pictured on their product page. The one that came attached to Max and Miriya are white necks but I didn't see a bonus replacement neck that came with Miriya. I'm not sure if it came with one or if I may have lost it. @jenius, you mentioned you already received both Max and Miriya already, can you confirm if both are supposed to come with the replacement neck piece?
  19. Zeliard started following Jie Star SDF-1 Macross
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  21. Seto Kaiba
    My standards are so low that I'll really take practically any Star Wars story that averts Filoni's tendency to have every established character meet, know, and have at least eight pages of backstory with every other. I'd like a Galaxy Far Far Away that feels a bit bigger than, say, Weehawken, New Jersey.
  22. Duke Togo
    As far as I am concerned, Darth Maul is dead. You don't survive getting cut in half and falling down a shaft. Bringing him back from the dead was a terrible idea. Makes less sense than Palpatine being resurrected through cloning. Better yet, Maul never existed. All we know of the time before the Empire is what we hear in the OT.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    There's a term for what you just did there. "Damned by faint praise"
  24. Big s
    I still think it’s pretty bad that that still wasn’t the worst thing in recent live action Star Wars
  25. Big s
    I’m really totally done with back stories and side stories for existing characters. I’d love something new, but even then Star Wars has been a let down for the most part
  26. Seto Kaiba
    Considering he's been cut in half like... three times now? Yeah, probably. Eighty percent of his dialog is just him screaming "KEN-O-BIIIIIIIIII!" like he's off his rocker and the rest is him trying to persuade people he's totally sane and someone you should join or work for in the least convincing manner possible. That's what they said about Boba Fett, and we know how THAT ended.
  27. Big s
    Maul should have just stayed dead. Once you’re chopped in half and dumped down a hole, that should have been done.
  28. Papa Rat
    @pengbuzz That sucks. Heart goes out to you and your wife. ♥️
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