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  2. Papa Rat
    While waiting in paint to dry I’m prepping another resin kit. This one’s a figure. It’s the Satan Commander from FSS. This is the definition of bootleg. The few OG casts that exist are as rare as seeing Bigfoot. Compared to the phantom one I just prepped this feels more like I assumed a garage kit would be like. It’s going to be a labor of love for sure. Lots of surface issues to deal with including broken bits and lots of holes from bubbles etc… This the the official art for the S.C. So you can get a better visual. I think it’s going to look amazing!
  3. Valkyrie Hunter D
    You got LASERs, a cyborg halftrack and a Kung Fu ninja named Kuchie. The Eliminators had everything.
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  5. Test_Pilot_2

    HMR VF-19P

    Test_Pilot_2 replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Wasn't really looking to get this one, but at this price with free shipping, why not.
  6. 26662
    I don't buy too much GI Joe these days - not unless I see a deal on some ARAH 3 3/4" O-ring figures (and/or equipment) like I used to collect back in the day (i.e., I haven't given the new Super 7(?) O-ring figures a look). I've been hearing folks heap praise on the Classified line for a long time now. What's your take on the materials and build quality of the line? P.S., nice Ross discount!
  7. sh9000
    GI Joe Classified Retro Snow Serpent.
  8. M'Kyuun
    OMG, the 80s cheese! Thought that was Denise Crosby. Saw her in person at a convention here in Spokane years ago. She seemed very grounded and genuinely nice, relating anecdotes from her life and career. Her grandfather, Bing, was a notable alumnus here at Gonzaga University, and she talked about him a bit as well. Been meaning to watch Woman of the Hour and Fall popped up on the movie list recently. Gonna have to watch them. Saw Predator : Badlands the other night. Kinda prefer Prey or something more like Killer of Killers. I thought Prey was awesome, my second favorite Predator film next to the original. Predator 2 is third runner up.
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  10. 26662
    Glad I got bored this morning and decided to check out forums I hadn't yet visited - because I've long wondered what the heck was going on with "anymoon.com" and "scorched earth toys." The origin of both still isn't clear, but I feel like the itch has finally been scratched. 🙂
  11. TangledThorns
    I saw it in the theater, plus lots of other low-budget sci-fi flicks back then too. It looked heavily borrowed from The Terminator but actually it wasn't a total rip-off and was entertained by it. Good action film for its time.
  12. Big s
    I don’t know if I actually saw the movie or just the trailer many years ago, but I remember the dude with tracks. I don’t remember anything else though. The guy from X-Men reminded me of him. We used to watch a lot of bad movies when I was younger and they often had previews for other really bad movies and it’s possible that’s all I saw, but the visual of that guy kinda sticks with you once you see it rolling.
  13. Dynaman
    I never heard of that before. and I think you just gave away the 3rd MST3K revival movie...
  14. electric indigo
    The movie was a dirty little gem – so effective in transporting the sense of dizzying height, I was on the edge ofmy seat the whole time. Great craftmanship. Woman of the hour, the directorial debut of Anna Kendrick, is on Netflix, too, don't miss it.
  15. ImChris5115
    Welcome! I had a look into your deviantart artwork, Ganbare !! No worries, Test assemblies in solidworks or nx, between parts can be easily determine contacted surface or collision detection, unless if back in those days where we build papercraft to check contacted surface, rotation point, gap etc. Have everything plans earlier then have less headache while going complex builds. Step (5) in solidworks have to be minor tweaks or add on without messing overall proportions, if in solidworks that will be surface panel lines works and small details, which can easily delete or add later. Aerodynamic or implement NACA profile/etc, adjust them in step 1-3 and run flow stimulation or Ansys for flow study if curious about the data.
  16. davidwhangchoi
    Picked up these 2 DS titles this afternoon.
  17. Chronocidal

    HMR VF-19P

    Chronocidal replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Boy I hate when people don't baseline graphs at zero. Still yes, nice to see it hitting half the original price. I still have a pair I have not shipped, since I was waiting until better shipping options opened up.
  18. m0n5t3r
    My thinking now, of course, is I saved some money . I canceled my preorder for the SS86 when I heard about the heel issue and I never got around to getting one whether online or when I saw it in a couple of stores in HK (Takara ver.). Didn't think it was worth the price anymore and I had also just gotten DCS OP to replace the Earthrise OP I sold off... and I was content at the time. I am planning to get that Magnus version when it becomes available from my go-to seller. Edit: I was pleasantly surprised to find that my fusion cannon already includes batteries . The one I was watching online didn't have any batteries included in his copy.
  19. mikeszekely
    My original thinking was that I'd be fine with SS86 Optimus for regular colors, and that I'd just get the Magnus and Nemesis versions of MD005... but then I went and preordered the Optimus colors. My just arrived this week, and I showed it to my wife alongside SS86. I asked her to guess which one was the KO, and she picked the official. One of the smokestacks on my copy was a little loose, but that wasn't a big deal since I'd bought some aftermarket stacks for the official. Once I swapped them onto MD005 the figure is darn near perfect. My only serious complaint with the mold is that the fillers they added to the parts of Prime's legs that fold up from his calves do too good of a job; one of those cutouts on the official figure is the right shape to plug in the magazine of Prime's rifle, allowing you to store it without putting it in the trailer. Speaking of trailers... I prefer the blue stripes of the G1 toy (among other toys). I ordered the Toyhax trailer labels. I'll put them on the MD005 trailer and get the look I want while allowing the official trailer to remain pristine.
  20. m0n5t3r
    Sorry for resurrecting an old post. Wasn't sure where this goes... thanks for this and other YT reviews, I finally received my regular MD005 OP copy. Although I had to wait almost 3 months for this 4th batch to become available... good thing though, cuz I got in before the price increase. Amazing. All this for only $35. And the subtle aesthetic improvements make a world of difference... better colors (imo), no visible screws and seams, windshield options with no holes, head options, chrome wheels and rubber tires. Plus, qc on this thing (at least my copy) is close to perfect, which, sadly, I can't say for 1 out of every 2 or 3 Hasbro TFs I get, especially when they started with those open window packaging (paint touchups, joint tightening etc.) Wishful thinking, but I wish all TF releases would be like this.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Sitting down to watch this week's new episode... Ko'Zeine. Honestly, the episode title sounds like a sleep aid. (Not even being sarcastic there, and I work for a company where like 2/3 of the staff have made the joke that our company name ALSO sounds like a medication.) So apparently this one's premise is that the students go home to see family during what we're not going to call Spring Break but is definitely Spring Break? I guess we can't show the cadets going to Cancun (or Risa?) for Spring Break because it would be weird and out-of-place for them to be horny on main like they've been for the last six episodes right after that disastrous training exercise that got so many people killed. Of course, it also bears recognizing that Nahla Ake has been Chancellor of Starfleet Academy's Earth campus for a single semester and she's done such a rubbish job of it that there's now a death toll directly attributable to her irresponsible conduct. Honestly, the acknowledgement that the events of the previous episode were capital T "Traumatic" for the cadets and that they're still processing it even with the help of therapy is a rare thing for Star Trek and shows the writers are thinking. "You've got four pairs of boots in here! You don't even wear shoes!" - my candidate for line of the episode. "SUNSET MOON" is certainly a choice of caption. It makes no sense, even as a placename. "The Khionian Realm" isn't much more helpful. It's another planet subjected to the Piss Filter, because that's how you know you're outdoors... the sky looks like you're viewing it through a yard of cheap pilsner. The fan phrase "Dadmiral" has now graduated to an official part of the Star Trek lexicon after being used to refer to Admirals Paris and Mariner. Maybe the reason Darem's so worried is because all the decor on this moon seems to be shaped like a buttplug. The director's foot fetish is back. This time it's Reno's feet being jammed into the camera. Seriously. I am SO close to calling an exorcist to remove the vengeful spirit of Quentin Tarantino from the studio. Honestly, not a bad episode at all. This series seems to do character writing much better than it does anything to do with space adventure. Another licensed song over the credits this time... "We watch the stars" by Fink. Pretty much, yeah. Starfleet Academy's main problem is that the writing is horribly uneven. When the series wants to do character-focused drama, they actually do a pretty passable job at it. Some of the episodes (e.g. Kraag's focus episode) are almost worthy of the title of Star Trek and could be made quite good with only a few tweaks. But both times the series has tried to do Space Adventure in a vein similar to past Star Trek titles, the bottom has fallen out quality-wise and they've served up some Discovery-tier idiot plots. A secondary problem is that the show's writers want to do humor, but the kind of humor they want to do doesn't seem to be something they know how to integrate into the story organically. So the attempts at humor are very forced and unnatural and you can practically see the writer's wild-eyed desperation and unspoken plea of "Please laugh". Colbert's involvement is purely "humorous" in the sense that he seems to exist in the story purely to serve up "funny" non-sequiturs that aren't actually funny in-context or out. Many of the non-sequiturs involving one particular science officer's badly-behaved pet. (Why this needs to be announced over the tannoy instead of being called in to that officer directly is anyone's guess.)
  22. sketchley
    Thanks for that description! I've also designed my own transforming jet fighters*, so it's neat seeing the similarities in our workflows. That going back and forth and refining the design as we do basic and test assemblies is a pain in the butt, isn't it? 😅 For step (5), I refer to that as "making it look cool." (cool being a combination of making it look like it could actually fly [refining the aerodynamic features, etc.], and artistic polish that makes a design pop.) * https://www.deviantart.com/studiootaking/art/CFs-Generation-3a-Master-File-Chronicle-767383491
  23. sketchley
    I'd say it's worth a view—even if it's just to see a "what if Kawamori-san wasn't in charge of Macross". If memory serves, there is a massive drop off in animation quality in the last episode.
  24. sketchley
    From the descriptions*, it sounds like the show runners are having their cake and eating it, too: they want an academy setting with cadets, but also want to do the standard Star Trek ship-doing-space-adventures. I'm not saying it's impossible (DS9 pulled off something similar), but from the sounds of things, this show's writers haven't figured out how to do it. * stopped watching nu-Trek at the end of the second season of Discovery, so my impressions may be biased...
  25. jvmacross
    It's also listed as a VF-1C in a few books...and if you take a look at the old ARII(or was it Imai?) 1/100 Gerwalk kit....the head pieces look suspiciously like those depicted for the "VF-1C"...perhaps they produced the kit mold before BW made the decision that there would only be an S, J, A and D....
  26. Valkyrie Hunter D
    I never had the honor of seeing this one in a theater: Wish I did.
  27. Gabe Q

    HMR VF-19P

    Gabe Q replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Wow, that's a big price drop!
  28. 505thAirborne
    Watching the movie FALL on Netflix, if you have a fear and anxiety of heights, this movie turns it up to 11!!!
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