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  2. I purposely ignored that, which I'm sure the show writers will do too when push comes to shove.
  3. Don’t forget odd stage plays that nobody cares about that will fill in the gaps
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  5. Milk is exactly the correct term for that show. Maybe I'm a purist but if it is not a live action show I consider it nothing more than a money grab. (For books I expect more books, for movies more movies, TV, etc...)
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  7. Of course Netflix will milk Stranger Things, have the animated series coming up. I'll miss out on it as I'm cancelling my Netflix subscription. I'll probably will re-up when Last Samurai Standing returns, great series!!
  8. Anybody else have a favorites list for the past year, something new they found or something from established artists that are still hanging in there?
  9. It’s definitely the biggest show from the early streaming generation and probably in the tops for shows of this millennium so far, at least as far as popularity. I doubt they can leave it untouched. It’s gonna get spin off stuff and sequels and maybe some other newer generation of nostalgia will hit in a few decades. Nostalgia is kind of an odd one where certain decades are remembered for being more fun or innocent. Like a lot of things like the 50’s because there was the dream that post war was calm and building to a future, but then the 60’s seemed to eventually crush that simplistic dream with all the reality that was happening. Then the 70’s tends to be remembered mostly as a rebuilding era and blandness, while the 80’s kinda gets remembered for simple times again and consumer products and shows, while the 90’s get tough again because everyone sees it as what killed the cool of the 80’s. The 2000’s and 2010’s unfortunately get tied together too much and are tough to separate and everyone just thinks of it as the true rise of social media. And the 2020’s so far is the decade that started off with dark times and lockdowns, hopefully the rest of the decade will wash those dark memories away. But who knows what people ten to twenty or even further down the line may find entertaining about certain decades and wether nostalgia will be so centered or if the idea of something in the now will be more interesting? I don’t know if people will be as interested in a Stranger Things in the pager age, or maybe the age where kids don’t even care what a walkie talkie is because they have cell phones.
  10. I actually saw this video the other day. I think it’s definitely more for entertainment value than practicality
  11. Looks great, can’t wait to eventually get mine. One day. Maybe in a few years
  12. Maybe get a cheap kit for practice, like those entry grade gundam kits. Might be a good start and get your confidence up and they don’t really cost much in case something goes wrong. And even if something does go wrong, make sure to learn what went wrong. And most of all try and have fun
  13. BTW Chris Foss did the basic design for the Eagle Transporter: And there is a tribute piece in the first Star Wars movie:
  14. The first movie (I have no desire to see the others so can't comment) was strictly a visual 3D feast best seen on as large a screen as possible. On every other metric it was garbage.
  15. "You have such unique displays, thematically consistent yet totally irrespective of aesthetics or scale. Fascinating! Me, I just can't bring myself to display realistic figures with anime characters, much less figures that aren't perfectly to scale with each other... 😅" We have broken every rule in these photos. Figures hiding other figures, figures that are too low to be observed, different movie figures mixed together, different themes that overlap with each other, you have bought to much of this and not enough of that. It's all sorts of wrong! 😄 Collecting expectations and comparisons: I can get 10 Hot Wheels cars to your 1 Marvel Legends figure. Correct! I can get 10 Marvel Legends figures to your 1 Hot Toys figure. Correct! I can get 10 Hot Toys figures to your 1, 1/3 scale statue. Correct! Keeping a variety of toys within a theme is the key for a better display. I believe in displaying retro toys with "new" toys. 1/12 scale toys can and should be displayed with 1/6 scale and 1/4 scale. It's possible when you can make it work. I have never cared to have a "studio or museum" grade collection. I don't believe in collecting complete toy lines where you have to acquire lesser desired figures mixed with good ones just to have them all. It's just like displaying 1/48, 1/55, 1/60, 1/72 and 1/100 scale valks together. The thing is that they all work well together within a cohesive collection as long as you group them together to be consistent. Unless you are working off a diorama display, all of these toys will fit in together just fine. The high end 1/6 scale figures (Hot Toys & Sideshow) are a evolution of collecting the Star Wars 12" figures, Action Man, The Six Million Dollar Man etc. "that Phicen body is a very poor match for Slave Leia." That might be so, but that is what was offered when I got the figure parts including the Phicen body to complete Slave Leia. I think Leia's head is slightly smaller than it should be. There are better Phicen bodies as well as other body types I could use to correctly display her. I just have not bothered to acquire them yet. A thing to do in the future. Cheers!
  16. One of those random videos on YouTube that you didn't search for, but you're glad you watched it. Is this aircraft related? Close enough.
  17. I've always loved this cover illustration of R. Giskard from Asimov's Robots of Dawn by Michael Whelan. Still have my copy from when I was about twelve years old. It was the cover that caught my attention, and ever since I've always wanted to see Asimov's robots depicted in a show or film like this. Chris Foss has an impressive body of work, and while his style doesn't always appeal to me, his work manifests a great imagination and the wherewithal to make it come alive on the canvas. Harkening back to @F-ZeroOne's post above, two founding fathers of Sci-fi, the British H.G. Wells and the French Jules Verne, painted their pictures with words and established a foundation for the early sci-fi genre using their knowledge of scientific advances of their eras and weaving them into narratives that continue to influence sci-fi to this day. Much like today's authors, they engaged in speculative fiction, which built upon nuggets of accepted scientific fact and liberal license as to how that science would manifest in various circumstances.
  18. They're so easy to manipulate.
  19. First example of the new Hase Minmay resin kit? https://x.com/i/status/2007356411785949532
  20. So either option will work for this scenario. Battery life and price seems to favor the AMD model. Overall performance favors Intel. I have no idea about the trackpad, YMMV.
  21. A nice comparison shot of the whole Hi-Metal R gang up until now from 223 nam on (X) Twitter.... Really hope mine gets to me soon...
  22. Stranger Things is definitely franchise fodder now...no way Hollywood will not keep pulling from that well until it runs dry...then keep going!
  23. Oof! Overlooked a small scratch so I guess I strip it in some iso, fill, sand, prime, paint gloss black and then paint gold again. Annoying… also trying to mask out the panels on the skirt armor and other bits with masking fluid instead of tape. Hope it works out. Have to put a couple layers of lacquer over it. If this experiment works out I may switch over to this method. I like brush painting and I feel it really gets into the hard to reach areas easier than tape.
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