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  2. Swoosh

    Hi-Metal R

    Swoosh replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Love it!
  3. Raikkonen
    When I first opened the link, I was like, "what 18 Euro for a bootleg of this size, yeah, I'll have to try it regardless of the potential lead hazard". Then I realized the price is actually for the stickers. 🤣
  4. Today
  5. Raikkonen
    Because Lego + Disney know there's a large number of SW fans that got to have it all regardless the price. They could package in a SW branded box actual rubber dogpoo and sell out. First key in any business "Know your customer". And do they know it. As I brought up earlier, this isn't a Lego toy for kids nor an actual display piece for adults seeing all the inaccuracies for that price. It's just a expensive slapped together "homage" gimmick for those willing to spend this kind of money for home deco. PS, the shuttle section really is intended to be from ROTJ.
  6. Radioguy
    Interesting. In looking at the different sellers selling Valkyrie Factory stuff on AliEx at the moment, the one that still has the clear covers (as well as strike packs) now has a PO up for GITD stickers for the Yamcadia SDF-1 to make it closer to a PF, as well as mini valks and destroids to scale for it. That's irresistible. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809172465008.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809083776895.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807497365316.html
  7. davidwhangchoi
    i wonder when Amazon USA will ship out
  8. Scyla
    This is the part that also sits wrong with me. To my knowledge the Death Star 2 is much bigger than the Death Star 1 (and much cooler looking with a much better looking main laser shot). Yet we have dioramas from both movies, and Darth Vader’s meditation chamber was shown to be on the Super Star Destroyer from ESB. I know why they did it, because they wanted to catch all iconic scenes from both Death Stars but for me this makes the set even less desirable, because it is confused by its own identity what it wants to be. So it is clearly the Death Star from ANH. You can tell by the shape of the laser bean and because in the hull section below the main laser there is no interruption in the hull, where it is not finished shed. And while I could argue away that the first Death Star had an Imperial Shuttle (even if there were no Imperial Shuttles in ANH I believe) and a similar looking landing bay than the one from ROTJ the throne room diorama sits really wrong with me. In the first movie there was little talk about the Emperor or that the Death Star was meant as his personal vessel so I find it really off putting to have it there (again I understand why it is there). It could be that there was a scene with that throne room on the first Death Star in other media (and the meditation chamber) that I am unaware of.
  9. azrael
    Maybe it was ChatGPT-5 being retrained after the laughable release this week. AI companies love data and their bots will scrap from where ever, how ever. There was a report out this week that Meta has a new lawsuit for training their AI on torrented p0rn (probably to train their filter 🤷‍♂️). You can bet AI companies are just flat out ignoring and bypassing htaccess and robots.txt.
  10. treatment
    You prolly need to try and implement various tarpits on the site to at least contain these AI crawlers.
  11. Shawn
    Yes I saw multiple AI bots crawling the site starting this last week, hammering the hell out of it. I've got htaccess and robots blocking as many as I can, but they are just ignoring. We have a LOT of data here these last 25 years, 1.6 million posts and hundreds of thousands of pictures. If any AI really cares about Macross its a lot of stuff to digest!
  12. rsvictor1976
    I got my VF-27γSP Revival and am little disappointed that the hips were not as tight compared to the recent VF-25F Tornado or Armored Ozma Revival release. The legs aren't floppy but can definitely tell they're loose.
  13. rsvictor1976
    Why is this $1000? You can buy the entire Titanic for under $700 and this thing is only a slice of the Death Star?!
  14. Seto Kaiba
    It's happening all over for the last week or so, so much so that a bunch of web hosts are now saying they will block AI crawlers by default.
  15. Dark Skull
    Yeah. That's why I said "if." It would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath on any of that.
  16. sketchley
    Could be a bunch of people training their AI's. It happened to me at the end of December on my small—very small—website (bots were using up the monthly allotment of bandwidth in a matter of days). It stopped when I added a no-bots file that excluded everything but Google. Here's the script that I used in the robots.txt that stopped the hemorrhaging:
  17. Papa Rat
    Tiny base/stand came. Actually not bad for a piece of garbage off Amazon.
  18. Yesterday
  19. Raikkonen
    The largest section is the Shuttle landing from ROTJ. But why is Vader's meditation chamber there (beneath the meeting room)? It also includes figures of Galen and Krennic on the base.
  20. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    Wow, My Dress Up Darling was great yesterday. This show is my favorite this season.
  21. Shawn
    We are getting hammered with bot traffic all of a sudden, trying to wring it in but apparently we've been 'discovered' ughhh
  22. Chronocidal
    Problem there is that they would probably never produce those designs anyway. All they seem to produce are the most common and popular versions that Yamato made in the first place.
  23. Chronocidal
    Yeah, happy I can skip that mess. I'd rather they make something actually accurate to some of the designs that they still struggle with. Speaking of accuracy though.. I'm gonna be that guy and point out that it's cute that they included the ROTJ throne room in an otherwise ANH Death Star I.
  24. Masked Aviator
    simpily wait for reissue or mod one myself.
  25. Raikkonen
    Ask yourself this? How bad do you really need it? Lets be honest, once you get, you'll play and admire it for a week, and then your attention will be on the next thing, and 20 things later, it will be well forgotten to the point of an ordinary vase in your home.
  26. Papa Rat
    Yeah. I like the design a lot. Has sort of an Invid vibe with that eye and curves.
  27. Seto Kaiba
    Ruri Rocks continues to be excellent edutainment. IMO, it's great that it's not just gushing about mineralogy. The series frequently delves into the geology behind the formation of the minerals du jour and the scientific method(s) used to identify them and track samples back to a larger vein or deposit. Most importantly, it shows the pitfalls of taking shortcuts, using sloppy or improper methodology, and making assumptions and shows that even the experts can be wrong if they draw conclusions without all the facts. It's not just Ruri being on the receiving end of a lecture, she's actively involved and learning and making worthwhile contributions in her own right by thinking outside the box. (It's kind of making me miss Mythbusters, in a way... particularly in the sense that there's nothing wrong with being wrong as long as you're applying the scientific method and applying what you learn to refine your hypothesis.)
  28. Thom
    @Papa Rat That is a cool, funky looking lil ship.
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