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  2. sh9000
    Cool. They scale a little bit better to one another.
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  4. sh9000
    https://www.kitzconcept.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=153
  5. sh9000
    Here's Aliens.
  6. sh9000
    Hey @Thom hope you got the TIE Reaper when it was on sale. Walmart and Amazon had it for $10. In any case I'm having fun collecting the TIE variants.
  7. Big s
    Pretty sure they will ignore whatever they feel like. Similar to how Star Wars picks and chooses from odd media
  8. Seto Kaiba
    A few more of this season's new simulcasts have dropped. The Daily Life of a Part-Time Torturer is... well, on paper it's allegedly a comedy. I say allegedly because it's not actually funny. Not even slightly. The series is set in an alternate Japan where torture and murder are not only legal, but a form of private enterprise. The protagonist Cero is a 20-something former job-hopper with more than fifty different part-time jobs under his belt who has settled comfortably into his new chosen vocation of torturer at a torture firm named Spirytus Company and is living his daily life wringing confessions out of a variety of ne'er do wells, criminals, and the like through force with his coworkers, whip-enthusiast Siu, horror author Mikke, and a man named Hugh who is simply Too Pretty to work with others. It's billed as a comedy, but nothing about it is funny unless you count the absurdity of the setting treating torture like it belongs to the same basic class of manual labor as hospitality, restaurant food prep, or construction. (To the extent that a torture hardware supply store has a loyalty card like a Japanese supermarket.) Nothing about it is funny, though, and the characters aren't engaging enough for it to pass for a slice-of-life story either. It doesn't even manage to feel inappropriate. The subject matter's transgressive as all get-out but it's so bland that it doesn't feel like it. It's just dull. I don't think I could recommend it, even as a form of torture. Kunon the Sorcerer Can See is a fantasy slice-of-life series about the son of a marquis who is born with a heredity disability called the Hero's Scar because he is a descendant of The Hero who was terribly maimed defeating The Demon Lord. In his case, he was born blind. He's terribly depressed about this because it means that he really can't do anything and requires constant care from others. Then, a faux pas on the part of his magic tutor gives him an idea... he decides to study magic in the hopes of being able to create new eyes for himself. It has an interesting premise and got off to a promising start, but it quickly becomes apparent that the story doesn't really know what to do with its own premise and it's padded like a menstruating fire hydrant. The protagonist's more of a one-trick magical pony than Harry Potter (the only spell he knows creates a ball of water) and yet he is treated as some kind of godlike magical prodigy. Somehow this very basic magic all but eliminates several aspects of his disability, and by the end of the second episode he's not only able to discern colors, he's able to read and is attending the now obligatory-in-j-fantasy School for the Nobility. Past about the halfway point in the first episode the series feels really lazy and uninspired... veering straight into "boring" territory by the first episode's end.
  9. JB0
    I find it funny that for someone whose head is so clearly Shockwave-inspired, Amalgamous's body screams "dinobot". I don't know if Grimlock or Shockvwave is more offended at the idea they might be related.
  10. F18LEGIOSS2
    F18LEGIOSS2 changed their profile photo
  11. Dynaman
    I purposely ignored that, which I'm sure the show writers will do too when push comes to shove.
  12. Big s
    Don’t forget odd stage plays that nobody cares about that will fill in the gaps
  13. Dynaman
    Milk is exactly the correct term for that show. Maybe I'm a purist but if it is not a live action show I consider it nothing more than a money grab. (For books I expect more books, for movies more movies, TV, etc...)
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  15. Thom
    TIE Reaper. Comes with three crew and room for more in the troop bay.
  16. Thom
    I'd buy some tickets!
  17. TangledThorns
    Of course Netflix will milk Stranger Things, have the animated series coming up. I'll miss out on it as I'm cancelling my Netflix subscription. I'll probably will re-up when Last Samurai Standing returns, great series!!
  18. Big s
    Anybody else have a favorites list for the past year, something new they found or something from established artists that are still hanging in there?
  19. Big s
    It’s definitely the biggest show from the early streaming generation and probably in the tops for shows of this millennium so far, at least as far as popularity. I doubt they can leave it untouched. It’s gonna get spin off stuff and sequels and maybe some other newer generation of nostalgia will hit in a few decades. Nostalgia is kind of an odd one where certain decades are remembered for being more fun or innocent. Like a lot of things like the 50’s because there was the dream that post war was calm and building to a future, but then the 60’s seemed to eventually crush that simplistic dream with all the reality that was happening. Then the 70’s tends to be remembered mostly as a rebuilding era and blandness, while the 80’s kinda gets remembered for simple times again and consumer products and shows, while the 90’s get tough again because everyone sees it as what killed the cool of the 80’s. The 2000’s and 2010’s unfortunately get tied together too much and are tough to separate and everyone just thinks of it as the true rise of social media. And the 2020’s so far is the decade that started off with dark times and lockdowns, hopefully the rest of the decade will wash those dark memories away. But who knows what people ten to twenty or even further down the line may find entertaining about certain decades and wether nostalgia will be so centered or if the idea of something in the now will be more interesting? I don’t know if people will be as interested in a Stranger Things in the pager age, or maybe the age where kids don’t even care what a walkie talkie is because they have cell phones.
  20. Big s
    I actually saw this video the other day. I think it’s definitely more for entertainment value than practicality
  21. Big s
    Looks great, can’t wait to eventually get mine. One day. Maybe in a few years
  22. Big s
    Maybe get a cheap kit for practice, like those entry grade gundam kits. Might be a good start and get your confidence up and they don’t really cost much in case something goes wrong. And even if something does go wrong, make sure to learn what went wrong. And most of all try and have fun
  23. electric indigo
    BTW Chris Foss did the basic design for the Eagle Transporter: And there is a tribute piece in the first Star Wars movie:
  24. Dynaman
    The first movie (I have no desire to see the others so can't comment) was strictly a visual 3D feast best seen on as large a screen as possible. On every other metric it was garbage.
  25. oshanmacross started following 30th Anniversary Macross Plus Movie Edition (remaster) 4K ultra HD blu-ray and bluray disc 2026
  26. oshanmacross
    I'd like to know too, the ultimate edition book is nice!
  27. shazam
    "You have such unique displays, thematically consistent yet totally irrespective of aesthetics or scale. Fascinating! Me, I just can't bring myself to display realistic figures with anime characters, much less figures that aren't perfectly to scale with each other... 😅" We have broken every rule in these photos. Figures hiding other figures, figures that are too low to be observed, different movie figures mixed together, different themes that overlap with each other, you have bought to much of this and not enough of that. It's all sorts of wrong! 😄 Collecting expectations and comparisons: I can get 10 Hot Wheels cars to your 1 Marvel Legends figure. Correct! I can get 10 Marvel Legends figures to your 1 Hot Toys figure. Correct! I can get 10 Hot Toys figures to your 1, 1/3 scale statue. Correct! Keeping a variety of toys within a theme is the key for a better display. I believe in displaying "retro" toys with newer toys. There is no problem in displaying 1/12 scale figures with 1/6 scale and 1/4 scale figures or any other scale. You can display figures, collectibles and statues together in a shared theme. I have never cared to have a "studio or museum" grade collection. I don't believe in collecting complete toy lines where you have to acquire lesser desired figures mixed with good ones just to have them all. It's just like displaying 1/48, 1/55, 1/60, 1/72 and 1/100 scale valks together. The thing is that they all work well together within a cohesive collection as long as you group them together to be consistent. Unless you are working off a diorama display, all of these toys will fit in together just fine. The high end 1/6 scale figures (Hot Toys & Sideshow) are a evolution of collecting the Star Wars 12" figures, Action Man, The Six Million Dollar Man etc. "that Phicen body is a very poor match for Slave Leia." That might be so, but that is what was offered when I got the figure parts including the Phicen body to complete Slave Leia. I think Leia's head is slightly smaller than it should be. There are better Phicen bodies as well as other body types I could use to correctly display her. I just have not bothered to acquire them yet. A thing to do in the future. Cheers!
  28. 505thAirborne
    One of those random videos on YouTube that you didn't search for, but you're glad you watched it. Is this aircraft related? Close enough.
  29. M'Kyuun
    I've always loved this cover illustration of R. Giskard from Asimov's Robots of Dawn by Michael Whelan. Still have my copy from when I was about twelve years old. It was the cover that caught my attention, and ever since I've always wanted to see Asimov's robots depicted in a show or film like this. Chris Foss has an impressive body of work, and while his style doesn't always appeal to me, his work manifests a great imagination and the wherewithal to make it come alive on the canvas. Harkening back to @F-ZeroOne's post above, two founding fathers of Sci-fi, the British H.G. Wells and the French Jules Verne, painted their pictures with words and established a foundation for the early sci-fi genre using their knowledge of scientific advances of their eras and weaving them into narratives that continue to influence sci-fi to this day. Much like today's authors, they engaged in speculative fiction, which built upon nuggets of accepted scientific fact and liberal license as to how that science would manifest in various circumstances.
  30. sh9000
    Marvel Legends Beast x2.
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