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So I noticed this seemingly unintended byproduct of the neck-cover storage from that pic and from Motoki Hiroyuki's tweet earlier: https://x.com/Coo3bunchou/status/1981894172102873460 edit: check out the mini-video from his tweet also regarding the shoulder-speaker mechanism reveal...

Some pics of the DX VF-19..Thanks to Kin Fung Chan for sharing

That’s actually what I noticed before the jeep. First was the big Queadluun Rau, then I spotted Max giving chase, then the crew in the door. I kinda thought it was just some debris until I looked closer and realized it was a jeep. A lot going on in that little hallway

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They already are. Look in the doorway between the suit's feet. I know. Gotta keep dreaming the big dreams!

Man, and I thought I got a good deal for 31800 Yen. Is that through Yahoo Japan? Does it include any additional seller fees?

At least the good news is that these fire valks are seemingly going under msrp I picked up one for $187...and with the 15% tariff that comes to $215, which is ok for a DX I think these will all settle down low to mid 20k range in the future.

yeah...that sdf-1 I ordered is going to be parked at HLJ for a long long long time. I was hoping THAT one would get delayed!!

still addicted to this song.

Just finished A House of Dynamite. Pretty intense film. Just not sure how I feel about that ending.

Other than wanting original show/DYRL Zentran and Meltran ships to go with the available SDF-1 kits... I'm sort of thinking that other Macross/SDF type ships from later series have the best shot at getting kits from Hasegawa or whoever? I apologize, I don't know all the ships that well, but stuff like Macross Quarter, Macross Frontier, Elysion, Grasion, Megasion, etc. I'd love a Macross Cannon from Macross II but... unlikely.

Cool posters, I'm gonna make a trip to the Atomic Testing Museum here in Vegas, they're doing an official Bethesda Exhibition for Fallout there starting November 14. https://www.ign.com/articles/fallout-is-getting-an-official-bethesda-backed-exhibition-complete-with-easter-eggs-at-the-national-atomic-testing-museum-in-las-vegas

Eh... I don't think there's any saving The Rise of Skywalker. No amount of spackling over the sequel trilogy's constellation of plot holes with moon logic and fanservice will ever make that transition between 8 and 9 feel less like the kind of shift that leaves you picking gear teeth out of your oil for a fortnight. Turns out when Palpatine was telling Anakin how the Dark Side was a pathway to unnatural things, he meant plot developments. I mean, c'mon... they literally replaced the main villain twice in quick succession. Kylo Ren offs Snoke like 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through The Last Jedi and by the next film has proven ineffective to the point that he's summarily replaced by a 119 year old literal corpse who can't even get out of his chair. Honestly, that's the dumbest part of Kylo Ren. He's not even original. If I had a nickel for every time Han Solo's son grew up to become a whiny emo kid who turns evil and starts cosplaying as Darth Vader because of questionable mentorship, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. I have to hand it to pre-Disney LucasFilm though, giving their version a name that conveyed how truly stupid and useless the idea was. They probably meant for his name to mean "Slaughter" or "Murder" (Caedes) but they apparently couldn't be arsed to pick up a Latin dictionary because the word they used was "Caedus" (lit. "can be cut down"). In short, he was Darth Expendable. Yeah, he was. He was a grunt trained as a mortarman and got a medical discharge. Reality and dramatic fiction play by different rules. In the real world, a total badass can look like anything... even a cartoonish mug. In fiction, you want characters to look a certain way that communicates aspects of their personality or character that you don't have time to communicate verbally. A strong character should have a big upper body, an evil one should have an unsettling look, that kind of thing. John Boyega's character may have been trained from childhood to be a soldier, but his role in the story was comic relief for the most part. He's meant to be a bit of a loser among stormtroopers, who are memetic losers for the most part. So not having the appearance of a hardbitten soldier works for him. Especially since he spends a lot of the first film as the plucky comic relief whose very expressive face is best used to convey his outrage and dismay at the latest inconvenient thing happening to him. He's actually a pretty good casting choice, IMO... though it is a shame his character got shortchanged so badly.

I think it actually looked far better animation wise. The hand drawn look always appears better than the simplified cg almost AI look of the majority of modern anime

Wasn’t he a marine or something? Anyway, I didn’t mind him at all in the first of those movies. And he seemed far less nerdy than Boyega who was supposed to have been a life long soldier.

I like the idea, but I don't think any re-write of the connective tissue between 7 and 9 could ever actually make either of those movies work in a "cohesive" way in the first place. Nothing about the setting of the sequels works from the foundations upward, so you can't really rebuild anything without nuking it to bedrock level first. I can't disagree that there was potential in some of the ideas they explored, but it was all built on nonsense that falls apart if you think about any aspect of it for more than 5 seconds.

Mugen Gacha is actually good. Today's episode was interesting. Gold and Nemumu are funny. One thing bothered me is why when Nemumu kissed light's foot it was bare. But in the Light Novel he had a sock on. Why change it.

This is why I feel that Ep8 is a 'lost' movie, that when found it would fill the gap between TFA and TRoS with some meaty, connective story-telling that would make it all work, and not be some disjointed mess that has the line, 'Somehow, Palpatine returned...' to explain away something very, very big. This lost movie has that 'somehow' explained in a cohesive and exciting way that makes it all worthwhile. Sure wish someone would find it. I last heard it had been lost somewhere deep in the Disney Vault... And I was fine with Driver's look and performance. His look is that of a 'good guy,' which you would expect of the child from Han and Leia, and when he finally turns back to the good at the end, it works. But I agree, he came across as too wishy-washy, with a bad mix of conviction tempered with a fair dose of explosive doubt that kept him flipping back and forth from devoted Sith Ren (what the heck is that again?!) to whiny whiner. Which is one reason why I wish they had just kept him bad. Darth Cadeus was bad to the end and if they were even remotely modelling Ben on him, then they should have kept it that way and really dived into the fact that not everyone can be, or wants to be, saved.

SDF-1 re-re-release for those that requested it, Just be aware of the sticker shock to get it shipped out to where ever you guys are!

Younger looking Harrison Ford

Beautiful work!

We have that thread on store policies, I'm going to start listing my shipping and duty experiences there. If it prices out that HLJ is double taxing everyone, then we can adjust our buying habits until they figure it out.

Yeah, it's painfully obvious how much HLJ is overcharging on this. Just straight up 30%. To ship just the VF-19 with FedEx would total about $130, with a rough breakdown of $50 actual shipping, $75 duties, and $5 extra handling whatever. I've got until April to ship it, so it's staying there for the foreseeable future. I'll see how much AE wants to charge me to ship it along with my HMR VF-19P, but I am still not keen on using DHL for anything.