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All good. Just glad you finally got to break out that blue Legioss and swoosh it around.
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I got my Legioss from HLJ back in the day. Still rember there was an issue with oil prices and the exhange rocketed and ended paykng a lot more in MXN. Lol. Pretty sure I have some old photos of when I got it. Remeber sending a friend some picks of the box. *Edit: Found the picks. Dated 2021. Remebering now it was hold in HLJ private warehouse because of covid for almost a year. It makes it 5 years, not six. I kinda mixed up the release date. My bad.
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Hours of delicate drybrush work await me. 😑 Can't wait to see the result! My experience as well. Don't try to pose it! 🤕
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Episode 2 is a lot worse. Noah Hawley ignores decades of continuity, reinventing the Xenomorph as a Terminator... 😑 ...an impossibly efficient and indiscriminate Terminator, even. 🙄 No hive, no incapacitated victims, no instinct for reproduction or propagation of the species... just Jason Vorhees in a cheap rubber suit. 😑
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Scyla replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Person I want to display it some 6” figures in my 80/90s nostalgia shelf and he might be a little bit too small for it but I will wait for the full reveal, maybe he is bigger than he looks. Rex seems to be the same size as the ThreeA Half Size one but I probably will like Bandai’s execution more and I’m no fan of the weather on the ThreeZero/ThreeA toys. - Today
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2020 felt like a decade’s worth of pain, so considering it to be two years sounds fair. 😉
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Those of us in Japan got the first Sentinel Legioss release in June of 2020. It seems hard to believe it's been five years already... 😯 ...but it's even harder to believe Mexico got it a year earlier. 😅
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Finally sitting down to watch this one myself... Really going hard on the thematic callbacks in this opening eh? I know Alien is pretty much a creatively dead property coasting on nostalgia and nothing else, but c'mon... at least put in a token effort to do something different. OK, suspension of disbelief is punctured worse than most xenomorph victims at this point. The idea that there is no traffic on the streets at all at midday in future Bangkok is absolutely laughable. Possibly the most unbelievable thing yet. For how absurdly little damage the crash does, I am still going to say "Bangkok without traffic" remains the least realistic thing in the show so far. Anyone else think Neverland looks like ****ing Jurassic Park when they take off? This is a huge pet peeve of mine when it comes to Alien sequels and spinoffs. The original Alien movie was as scary as it was because the crew of the Nostromo were professionals who did (almost) everything right and still got killed by the xenomorph. Every subsequent title in the franchise has seen a sharp decline in protagonist self-preservation instincts to or below standard horror movie levels such that by Prometheus and Covenant you'd swear the humans WANT to get eaten. When it comes to the first episode, I have to say I am not impressed. Bemused, certainly. Even a little disappointed. Is there a story here worth telling, or are they just jerking off like Fede Alvarez was in Romulus?
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Awesome! Looking forward to that. Just be careful on the joints for that figure; from my experiences with Imai's Mospeada line, they're really brittle and fragile. O.o
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Finally got some time to open my Legioss and Tread. Edit: *5 years and finally they are together. These are my very first Mospeada toys. Little fella has been boxed unopened for *5 years. Thought the Tread was never going to happen. Tread is big and with a huge wing span is hard to frame it at arms length. Although the connection feel kind easy is very strong even with out the adapter piece. A quick size comparison pick with Bandai DX Super VF-1S. Never wished for a Green Legioss but the completionist bug has already bitten. Lol.
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
Goodman Models replied to Shawn's topic in Model kits
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Thanks. Yeah after I get done with touch ups and some brush details I have a nice brown oil wash ready and waiting. 👍
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Looks really good! One thing I might suggest is an oil wash: thinned down oil paint applied into crevasses and corners to bring them out more.
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Well, you're not wrong. 😄 I was just thinking that the hybrids, given their heightened durability and abilities relative to the average human would stand a far greater chance of facing down a Xenomorph. I'm sure acid will do a number on them, too, but they definitely have an advantage. Too, it seems like Weyland-Yutani already had a weapon that could subdue the Alien, if only for a short time. Morrow, a cyborg, seems to know what he's doing from experience and has thus far demonstrated greater success at non-lethally subduing an Alien than ever depicted in the franchise, AFAIK anyway. Since the Colonial Marines were neither hybrids nor cyborgs and didn't have Morrow's fancy bug-zapper/webber-upper, I'm thinking all were shelved and buried prior to Aliens, or at least that's the story they'll tell for continuity's sake. The Xenomorphs are equal opportunity killers.
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Made a ton of progress on that old IMAI Ley Type today. So far all airbrush but going in for a bunch of cleanup with brush touchups/details. Then it’s full blast into decals, panel lines and weathering. Hope to finish it up this weekend.
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Looking great!
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Well, we know what happened to the rich.
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"Practically everyone dies" is pretty much the default/only Alien story ending. They all get there sooner or later... the only question is how.
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Considering that this show is a prequel of sorts to Alien, I'm hoping that continuity is at the forefront of the writers' minds as they plot it out. Little rankles more in a franchise than mussing up continuity and I hope Hawley and crew are cognizant of it every step. I am curious, however, if it's going to be revealed at some point that the Maginot collected their Xenomorph specimens on LV426, hence Weyland-Yutani's interest in sending the Nostromo crew there to investigate, with Ash acting on their behalf to ensure new specimens are collected and brought back. I'm assuming that the Xenomorph currently causing all the havoc in Prodigy City will eventually be exterminated, and likely too, the Maginot's W-Y cyborg security officer, Morrow, unless he somehow changes his allegiance, or feigns doing so. Too, the eggs and facehuggers will likely all be destroyed and all knowledge of them erased, meaning our intrepid hybrids will be mindwiped or just executed to prevent their spilling the beans. Morrow is really a wildcard in this series, and IMHO, the most interesting character given his knowledge of the Xeno, especially his knowledge of how to fight/subdue it, and his steadfast loyalty to Yutani. Since the rest of Maginot's crew are dead, Morrow's the only one who can tell W-Y about the Alien, so it remains to be seen what happens. I'm spitballing, but it seems that, based on the comments made in Aliens by the Company execs, nobody's ever heard of what Ripley describes to them. Either that info truly isn't known to W-Y, or it's known only to a select few and closely guarded.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Valkyrie Hunter D replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I guess after seeing the Back to the Future train I was expecting something bigger, but this is nice too. -
looks really good. i need USA amazon to ship
- Yesterday
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Great to see Christie back, and I liked the little joke pertaining to Sandman. The first half was good and I am looking forward to the rest.
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Not sure if this got posted, but…..
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So, I may have snuck a Macross-7 reference into my next book.
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I'm been looking into this for a while, especially after some of my white lego pieces from the same set yellowed yet others haven't. Same story with another set but with light grey peices. It's like those really used vintage Stormtroopers from the 70's, where every peice is completely different tone of yellow except for one that is still reletively white. There's many factors behind yellowing and a lot of times is a combination of many elements to even just a single one like humidity or sunlight, or to artificial like cigarette smoke or the chemicals released by it's packaging. Sometimes, and here's the shocker, it's not even about coming into contact with any external element, but just the quality of plastic simply aging. At the end it really comes down to that, to the quality of plastic and paint. With plastic it's initial reaction could be when exposed to the air too soon atfer injection or when the mold isn't cleaned sufficiently between a certain number castings. While for paint, some external element got mixed during application, and for both plastic and paint apparently a likely probability, the chemicals that form them just weren't mixed 100% properly, or some batches just weren't at 100% exactly of all the compounds that form them. And... there's no escape when yellowing starts. Followed a quite a lot of video fixes where the white returns to it's pristine state... but guess what? The yellowing returns and at sometimes even faster after each treatment. I have one interesting item however, a Bandai Gundam Fix Figuration from 2002, the Gerbera Tetra I believe it's called, which is painted all matt white minus the disguise armour. Anyway, it's 23 years old endlessly posed, displayed in humid enviroments, displayed in hot dry enviroments, display in a very sunlit room, moved between 3 different countres, even left it closed in some cheap plastic packet for years and... it's still pure white. Meanwhile, other Bandai items that were once white and barely touched while stored in cool and dark cabinets, are now fit for a desert storm sequel. That said, along with the dreaded yellowing, most of the early 2000s figures and toys made with PVC like the early Kaiyodo Evas or Bandai statues, have an even worse reaction when going against time... they release a sticky thing goo which is almost impossible to remove, and if successful it clearning it off, eventually returns. I can testify to this nightmare with many casualities. And at times, this PVC instead of releasing that sticky goo, dries up so much that it begins to brittle apart, especially at the joints where there's less paint. So diamonds may be forever, but toys sure ain't.
