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Knowing myself I will probably pick this up very much later down the road, purely for novelty or completist reasons. If Bandai wants to continue the Macross 7 line they should focus on making the rest of HMR Soundforce they showed so prominently some years ago. I’m ok if they skip more DX Mac 7 for HMR versions.
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Ok, I actually didn’t care too much for the live action Cowboy Bebop, but it was overall more watchable than the new Gundam seed stuff or witch from mercury. Not saying Cowboy Bebop is a win or anything, just more watchable.
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PixelatedShinobi replied to Pontus's topic in MW Site News & Member Feedback
I'm a girl, thank you, and emulation is free? -
The Transformers Thread (licensed) Next
sh9000 replied to mikeszekely's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Megatron is currently on sale.
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The Unlicensed Third Party Transformers Thread
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Updated DK-32 and DK-50 G2.
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Your Most Recent General Toy Purchase - 2024 Edition
sh9000 replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Transformers Generations Retro G1 Wheelie.
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Another highly questionable hiring decision from this project. Honestly, it's starting to feel like Netflix is trying to fail with these live-action anime adaptations. His filmography is far from confidence-inducing... he seems to have been somewhat typecast as "ethnic drug dealer" given that his main acting credit of note is playing a cartel member named "Nacho" in Better Call Saul and he was fired from a starring role as another drug-dealer character in an Apple+ original crime drama called Dope Thief for getting into a fistfight with another actor. >Gundam >Do something original with it 🤣 It's Gundam, the odds of encountering original thought are close to zero unless this ends up being one of those in-name-only adaptations like the last Silent Hill, the new Resident Evil movie, etc. Look back at Netflix's Cowboy Bebop and tell me that's going to be a challenge. I dare you.
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Hey, at least it's a solid source of spare parts to rebuild some shattered 171s. Being entirely honest, I'm not a big enough VF-17 fan to be as spectacularly disappointed as many here. It is what it is, and I don't mind having a slim 17 to match the other 171s from a "mechanically feasible" point of view. As iconic as it all is, the scale shown in the Macross7 animation is completely nonsensical. I'm mostly sad that I probably could have had a couple for much cheaper if I waited. What will make me more sad is if Bandai continues to misinterpret their terrible decisions as lack of customer interest, and they just nix their entire 7 line before we get the other VF-19s. Though on the other hand, maybe that will convince them to finally go back to products that will sell, and we'll get more VF-1s. It might not be all bad.
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Very cool build
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Thanks Thom. I have been wanting to try out new ways of adding some effects to plain surfaces and thought this build would be a great opportunity to try it out. A bio mechanical design seems perfect for this sort of thing. Inspired by how a bugs shell looks or subtle speckled effects in a salamanders skin.
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That's a nice looking effect @Papa Rat.
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That’s a fantastic idea. I just need to get it shipped out to me. Sadly it’s been living in my HLJ Private Wear house for months. 👍
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I was originally planning just to keep it in fighter mode and look at it only with my reading glasses off. 😂 But, after looking at it in person, I just can't stand it with the completely wrong legs, wrong backplate, wrong shoulders etc. I love the VF-17 design too much to keep this travesty. On a positive note, I do think Bandai did a good job with the color though. I will remain happy with my original 90s Bandai 1/65 and Yamato 1/60 versions.
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@Papa Rat That looks amazing - you need to apply this to the TV Queadluun Rau!
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Oh ho, look at Mr. Deep Pockets over here playing on an actual emulator. 🤪 -
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Western adaptations of Eastern media have a natural tendency of doing just that with unerring regularity; so much so, that when one of these forays does turn out decent, let alone - good, it is worthy of note... Netflix got One Piece right, they also got Cowboy Bebop catastrophically wrong; which will it be this time around? Hoping for the former, expecting the latter.
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https://v-storage.jp/cont/item/?item_detail=BCQM-0032 That price is insanely high. I guess I'll wait and see for a reasonable priced US release. -
This is a repaint of a toy from 2012 that even then was the worst of the (post original VF-25) DX Frontier toys... letdown was inevitable. At least it doesn't have those disastrous removable wing pegs!
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Bandai has now had two consecutive flops in terms of sales, both from Macross 7, in the DX line. While this one makes sense, the VF-19kai tanked for other reasons, but definitely quality and looks were not the problem. On the HMR side, the VF-0S with Ghost isn't doing so hot either. If my impression is right, most revival reissues aren't doing particurlaly great as well. The only ones doing well enough seem to be the VF-1 series. Of course, it could be argued that people just don't want to double or triple dip into products and charaters they already own (give us something new!), but all in all, including the fact that mecha anime has pretty much completely fallen out of fashion, other than perhaps the VF-1 series, I'm worried what Bandai's bean counters will take home from this series of flops and lukewarm sales.
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This is probably the first time I feel like selling my valk even before I receive it lol. I'm usually quite open minded about experiencing new valks myself before having an opinion on it, but seems like this VF-17S is just universally disliked. Even hardcore 17S lovers like Graham couldn't like it.
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I think it has a shot, as long as they don’t try to do an established story and just do something original with it. It’s gonna have to try to actually be worse than most of the Japanese Gundam stuff recently
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That’s looking rather interesting
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Thanks @Graham! Seems that the Command Vorct, Arc. is popular at the moment since Bandai released their HG expansion set last year to complete the Vorc series! and the new Mag. from Hobby Japan seems to compliment this. I'm sure it's a series we will get in the Hi-Metal R line eventually, but will be costly 😱
