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as far as the kit, looks like they only redid some parts on the body and the upper arms. The lower arms and waist down look the same.

These are up for preorder tonight along with a lot of rereleases in case anyone missed out

You're welcome! Of course, this was just my bias, focusing on older anime and video game items. I saw some GKs where people were crowding around, taking photos. I couldn't recognize the characters, so I just passed by. Then after hours of walking around, I met up with friends and their friends. They showed me the stuff they bought and it was all sorts of cool stuff I'd passed over without noticing. There was an animation mistake in one episode of Macross where an animator really messed up with Kakizaki's VF-1A head, adding additional cannons on the sides of the head. my friend Adrian found a resin head of that mistake, which can be added to a Hasegawa (or maybe a Plamax) Valkyrie kit. Oh yes, and someone had 3D printed a pilot figure for the Hasegawa Glaug kit, but I was too late and it was sold out by the time I found it. Drat! Although for a 3D printed figure, I think the seller was asking for too much. I'd like to see someone design one for Cults3D or Thingyverse to go with the Hasegawa kit. I took pictures of the event too. I'll make a gallery and put it on my website. Hopefully later this week. There is ONE Windows program I miss in Linux, and it is Photoscape. I really wish there was a Linux version of this program. It can run photos through batches. It can auto enhance, auto contrast, resize, and rename photos in batch processes. Very easy to use. I still have yet to find a program like that for Linux.

The next installment in the Black Myth-series. And just a FYI on who is Zhong Kui (鍾馗): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Kui Also cuz we might have missed this cuz it had ZERO gameplay footage:

IMO, there's a lot to be said for multi-purposefulness when it comes to applying mecha to mundane situations. There will always be situations where you absolutely need a dedicated tool for a specific job, but there are a LOT of situations where "good enough" is good enough and versatility is going to pay more dividends than being highly specialized. A handyman's stock in trade, as it were. If you can make a robot that's as dexterous and precise as a human without all those pesky biological limits on things like range of motion, stamina, etc. you can apply it to a LOT. Unless the structure is sturdy enough that it can maglock itself to the walls/girders and wheel right up the sides the way it would the outside of a ship. Lookin' sharp. Orange was definitely the right call for this one too. Imagine how painful it'd be to look at in hi-vis safety yellow.

That's the OVA version: Different design entirely.

Awesome video Greg! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this, (so I can enjoy seeing all these great kits that I'll likely never be able to own/build🤣) Seriously though I do love being able to live vicariously through your camera!

Wish they would hurry up and release the OGs next or at least a more serious color scheme that appeals to me so I can get behind this line.

He does fine work. I had Ted do that Nadia figure I posted earlier. I also had him redo the K'Tinga parts that another friend of mine did for me that ended up warped because he didn't support the parts properly.

Toyrise's transformation video:

I was at Wonder Festival and saw the N-Ger in-person. I still haven't gone through the photos yet, but last night I uploaded a video.

Bautista's Kurgan has a Rasputin-vibe going on with that long coat, beard, medium curly hair.

I'm on board with that, and like I said above, I'm not bothered by the awkwardness of workroids or desroids, they're cool additions to the universe, my engineering nerd mind just has to pull at the threads is all. It's part of the fun! Thanks for all the input and discussion, nerd stuff is also part of the fun! 😉 One last one, stripes and colors cleaned up, warning lights in plce, and in a more dynamic pose. Now, on to the Delta version!

By all technicalities, that is what Variable Attackers were designed for. This is Animation - Macross Plus (OVA) goes through extensive detail about the development of them, mainly that VFs as they were weren't cost effective to control areas through the atmosphere, so VAs were designed for ground control like our attacker aircraft today, and most notably states they can replace the role Destroids have in emergencies. So at least in theory they are pretty much the closest things we have to Variable Destroids, even if we only have two of them actually drawn (The VA-3 and Az-130.) Could give them a chance for actual Destroids to be "revived" in a sense as variable craft, if the Destroid Monster can live on through the VB-6, why not? And this isn't to discredit the points Seto made, despite my biases for settings taking place on soil and in the air, Macross is generally space focused. Even when we actually do see the VA-3s in a animated series proper they're used by Zolan pirates in space in 7 Dynamite. This is more for me to rationalize the possibility of more ground focus in the franchise, even if it's minor in the grand scheme of things. In general M3 and VF-X2 were fond of using them as enemies in a variety of factions. In M3 they were mostly used by Zentradi terrorists and at one point Anti-UN insurgents in Belfast hiding in a secret UN base. That and with VF-X2 having Destroids be the garrison of the Ceres Base I'm convinced that they're still around in a small but noticeable amount, be it for the few ground forces like we see with Delta or mothballed units for base defense. I took the existence of the Super Defenders as a general thing instead of specifically a Macross Galaxy thing, since its described to be used in fleets and immigrant planets in plural. Nerd stuff aside, this looks great! Love the paint scratches since like Seto said, you can get the feeling that these machines have a lot of work experience. It's like a trade off in a sense; you either depend on a machine that needs maintenance and someone to train to use, or make yourself bigger to lift things as you are. And if you have a miclone machine you probably don't need to worry about staying that size. 30 funny enough eats both cakes with having a power armor for giants for construction and mining. It all depends on what you want to focus on in a setting. Want more space or ground focus, that's what your story and worldbuilding will revolve around. Want your giant robots to be more then death machines? Go in the way of Patlabor and find any and all practical usages you can come up with them. And that's the fun thing about Macross, the franchise is so big and expansive they can all be what you want and don't want in a setting all at once!

Being a D&D gamer (The Fantasy Trip in particular) I could not watch the movie no matter what. The very idea of it was disgusting. Luckily the whole bunch of "carp" died out when people found out the hysteria was a bunch of "feces".

Definitely get what you're saying, but it seems like the same thing where dedicated machines could do the same jobs more efficiently. A 9.5m tall robot is super strong and dextrous, but a crane can lift something to the top of a building and be disassembled for storage when it's not needed. A forklift might be slower than a workroid, but it's also less likely to pulp your cargo spinning and dancing on the way to the loading dock (it's honestly a wonder Freyja was still alive after Hayate's transit 😉). I'll give you construction, because hands to hold a girder in place while people attach it is better than a crane, but again is going to be limited to a structure only as high as it can reach, so not great for building skyscrapers. It's all moot, and I'm mostly just being nitpicky for the sake of fun. Once you have giant robots, I'd use them for everything I possibly could, too, just because it's cool. To a man with a hammer, all the world's a nail, so why not? It does raise another another thought in me, though, which is how much are smaller power suit type machines used? Or humanoid robots in the 1.8 - 2m size? Not at all that we've seen, but it seems like another obvious extention of the technologies at play and possilby more useful at the same tasks. A robot drink machine is cool, but a robot firefighter that can go up stairs and rescue soft meat bags from back hallways would be truly useful.

Yup, one of his first roles. I don’t think he really understood the politics behind the story and has come out in interviews saying that he never intended any harm by taking the role. Just seems like a young actor hoping for that breakout role and it got him more notice. It’s a terrible movie, but if you can have fun with bad movies and don’t take it seriously, it’s kinda fun with the right kinda friends to do a silly rewatch. Might even make for an awkward historical watch with the kids to kinda show them the temperament and odd paranoia of the time. It would also make for fun if you got young ones that maybe don’t quite get how far things were trying to get simple things like music, games and cartoons banned. The 80’s had a lot of cool things going on with entertainment and parental groups just thought they were evil, not like bad influence, actually evil

Ah, another sofubi guy. Man after my own heart. I asked because I wondered if it was someone who outbid me on Whatnot not long ago for the same. Sometimes it's a small world.

Looks like they updated them. Less arm armor on the brownie

Oh man - Tom Hanks was in that M&M drivel?

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Yup, the guys look to be about the same size. Won’t give off the same vibe as the original movie, where there was this massive height difference between Connor and the Kurgan.