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  2. pengbuzz
    Nice: reminds me of mine: Splitting the middle pylon was a royal pain:
  3. mikeszekely
    Yeah, it's a lousy time to be into tech. My Batocera box is coming along... now that I finally got around to opening it up, yanking the SSD, and sticking it into a different computer to actually install Batocera. Tried to install Batocera on a USB drive, then using that boot to install Batocera to the SSD, but it failed. Then you have to put it back in back in the original box and boot it so Batocera can do it's initial setup, before shutting it down, pulling the SSD again, and connecting it to a third computer (this time running Linux) because that's still the easiest way to load the games. Of which, it turns out, I have a bit more than 1TB I want to use. Now, the Beelink SER5 I bought has a second m.2 slot, but a quick check online tells me that we're already at the point where even a 512GB drive costs about what a 1TB drive did a few months ago. I was originally hoping to do complete or near-complete North American sets for everything up to Dreamcast, but I'm going to have to whittle the CD-based consoles down to just what I might actually play, especially because I want to get a few PS2 and Gamecube games on there. But, hey, I hear Sinden light guns are pretty much plug-and-play with Batocera now, so I ordered one of those. I'll make sure the Time Crisis, Point Blank, Virtua Cop, etc games make the cut.
  4. Winterstar_343
    Reminded me a bit of this one.
  5. Chronocidal
    Or.. just focus on a product that clearly represents the series it's taken from, maybe? Not to be a stick in the mud about having fun, this just feels ill-advised for them to be parading around random variants and possibilities, when many of the people who pre-ordered are still waiting for the original product. Maybe there's not much they can do while waiting for production, but showing off things that probably won't ever get produced probably isn't doing them any favors.
  6. jenius
    Curious what you're referring to? The comics? Robotech has been dead for a long time.
  7. Froy
    Isn't this kind of weird stuff that killed America made Robotech a few years ago?
  8. MKT
    It's weird that there's all these faces suddenly showing up being mixed in with the official characters in the soldier range. Just confuses folks especially there's just so many variants now that are still yet unreleased. It would be better to clearly label them as a 'What If' range or something..
  9. F18LEGIOSS2
    Here are the missile bay based on the Legioss inner frame. Iā€™m open to any suggestions and ideas.
  10. danth
    I wish I liked these. The designs are pretty weird.
  11. jenius
    I think he was giving away the Arnold homage with his Terminator repaint custom. The facial hair thing is interesting as questions about grooming lead to questions about culture pretty quickly.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    Zentradi in the original Macross series run the full gamut of Human skin tones and onwards into Amazing Technicolor Population territory with Vrlitwhai being a baby blue behemoth and Quamzin being a sort of light lavender. The beard is new, tho. I don't think we see a Zentradi with facial hair before Macross Digital Mission VF-X in '97. Also, is it just me or do these facial sculpts look... familiar? Like this one is just straight-up Arnold Schwarzenegger c. Terminator. That's literally the same face he's making on the Terminator poster, just without the sunglasses. And I wanna say this one looks like a young Laurence Fishburne...
  13. Seto Kaiba
    As far as I can recall, we don't see any Zentradi with facial hair in Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, or Macross II: Lovers Again. That said, they clearly can grow facial hair as we see several in later titles (predominantly in civilian life) who do have facial hair. The enemy Zentradi commander in Macross Digital Mission VF-X (1997) is, IINM, the first Zentradi character to be depicted with facial hair. In Macross Frontier, there are a few as well. Macross Frontier fleet sponsor and SMS owner Richard Bilra is a giant Zentradi rocking a big bushy mustache and beard, and Ranka's Zentradi manager Elmo Kridanik has a mustache. 's it just me or does that bootleg-tier Robotech figure bear an odd resemblance to a young Laurence Fishburne?
  14. jvmacross
    If you went all-in on the Kickstarter, a ten-pack would contain....5 Gluu-Gers (Rico, Konda, Bron and 2 Generic Types) and 5 Serau-Gers (Khyron, Breetai, Dolza,and 2 Generic types).....but there have already been variants, so who knows what the final count will be....
  15. Seto Kaiba
    > Australia > Spiders Of course it would be spiders. šŸ˜† Now, we do know of at least one Macross design that IS apparently named for a specific genus of spiders. The Annabella Lasiodora mobile weapon from Macross VF-X2. Not sure what the "Annabella" part is in reference to, but Lasiodora is a genus of tarantulas native to Brazil. Huh, OK. That's a pretty solid description of the basic mechanics of a charged particle beam weapon hearkening back to Nikola Tesla's original design proposal in 1934. In principle, very similar technology to what's used in a lot of sci-fi including Macross. The description of turbolasers I remembered from long ago (which is apparently Legends now) was more in line with the gas-dynamic laser used by the VF-1's Strike Pack (using heat flows and pressure changes in a gas to generate a laser beam).
  16. Big s
    I know this toy is for Robotech, but it made me try and think back and I just donā€™t remember any zentraedi having facial hair. Maybe it was regulation in their military or that they just couldnā€™t grow it, could also be my memory failing me
  17. Big s
    I know zentraedi came in many colors from Caucasian to purple, so dark skin like this isnā€™t out of the realm of what could be. But not sure if itā€™s due to regulation or they just canā€™t grow it, I canā€™t really remember a single one with facial hair, although it could just be my memory
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  19. Thom
    @505thAirborne Nice. On my desk, the Lighting-C's big wings are coming into their own. And the seat is done. One of the tasks to come is tinting the canopy a clear yellow. I have Alclad Transparent Yellow for that, but dipping in a test piece had it coming out a bit 'pebbled.' I was hoping it would be as easy as dipping it in Klear. I'll experiment a bit, more, thinning certainly as it is a darker yellow straight from the bottle. Time to look for a spare canopy as a mule... Thom Some great builds there @electric indigo!
  20. electric indigo
    @all Looking forward to see your exciting work in the new year! Here's my output for 2025:
  21. 505thAirborne
    Thank you @Thom, yep, that deck will go all the way through. I'm 99% sure I'll be putting some fiber-optic lighting this one, so all the details can be seen.
  22. jenius
    So there's going to be some sort of ten pack available? Maybe if I buy the ten pack I can also get the one they owe me.
  23. Thom
    @505thAirborne Looks like a nice update coming for the old gal. Are they going to be thru-deck?
  24. Thom
    Micro Galaxy Squadron's TIE Defender.
  25. jenius
    I feel like you guys have been a part of a different hobby for the last twenty years with all this talk of toy company warranties... Wouldn't that be nice! I usually beg friends in Japan to ask politely for me and if it's been more than a few months since release nothing comes from it anyway. Sometimes I'll get the ThreeZero treatment where they pretend they want to help but it never goes anywhere.
  26. Seto Kaiba
    Nah, that's not even close to accurate. The genre that has absolutely dominated public perception of anime for like 20 years now has been shounen anime. If you turned on Cartoon Network in the late afternoons or early evenings you'd get the Shounen Jump Big Three (One Piece, Bleach, Naruto), reruns of older shounen anime like Dragon Ball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Ruroni Kenshin. Titles have come and gone, but shounen has basically ruled the airwaves and the conversation that entire time. So much so that the negative stereotype of anime fans - the weeaboo - is intrinsically associated with the Naruto's ninja headbands and its occasional bouts of untranslated Japanese words like "nakama". šŸ˜… Isekai anime is trendy, but it's nowhere near that level. It's definitely the most numerous genre after shounen the last several years, but I think it seems more pervasive than it is that we're seeing a lot of isekai tropes leaking into non-isekai fantasy titles. Like The Banished Court Magician, I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince, New Saga, Scooped Up By An S-Rank Adventurer, Welcome to The Outcast's Restaurant, etc. Particularly instances of fantasy worlds running on JRPG or MMORPG logic for no clear reason, and stories that start with the protagonist being reincarnated in the same world but in a much different position. I do think we're entering the dying days of the isekai genre's trendiness, though. Like any new genre, you get that first couple big hits, a double handful of less-appreciated "cult classics", and then a lot of low-effort copycats. For mecha anime, Gundam, Macross, and VOTOMS basically defined the genre, you had some successful by less appreciated follow-ups like MOSPEADA, Orguss, and L-Gaim, and then a lot of unsuccessful genre followers that don't do very well like Southern Cross or Dragonar. We're in that "unsuccessful genre follower" phase right now. I wonder if it'll just peter out or if it'll die out with a last big deconstruction. I suspect not, since the actually-successful titles in the genre are mainly ALREADY deconstructions.
  27. Chronocidal
    Yeah, that's also something to consider. They might cover the purchase price for a refund, but you're probably not getting any support from Bandai for replacements. Not that that's exactly new, but it's kind of wild seeing Bandai's customer disservice on display internationally.
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