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  2. Seto Kaiba
    Nah, it's just a sign of Business as Usual at Disney LucasFilm. Bringing a character back from the dead unnecessarily for the sake of a hackneyed redemption arc and the promise of The Continuing Adventures is right up Dave Filoni's alley. So much so that it'd be like the third or fourth time he'd have pitched such a story in the last couple years. That was the entire premise of The Book of Boba Fett, bringing Boba's dusty arse back from being sarlacc chow to be a crime lord in name only who saves Mos Espa from the real crime lords. That was Asajj Ventress's story in Tales of the Underworld too, her coming back from the dead unable to go back to her old life and becoming an antihero. I kind of imagine the meeting worked out like that one Jimmy Neutron meme. "Dave, this is the third time you've pitched us a story about a lame and overhyped villain coming back from the dead to become a nominal good guy. Maybe get some new ideas? Ones that aren't demonstrably shite?"
  3. MKT
    Another small detail is that in Battroid the gap between the chest cover & nosecone has become more Yamcadia-like, compared to the DX 19. I assume this is due to what looks like more curvature given to the area immediately behind the cockpit in Fighter relative to the DX 19. Additionally, that odd cliff between the neck cover & head in Fighter some of us were concerned about earlier seems to be gone. Previous PO pic: New pics as per manual:
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  5. Mog
    I hate myself. Someone combined city pop with Hornet’s catchphrases (Hollow Knight/Silksong):
  6. Big s
    It depends on the style. Realistic ones can get away with a wash, but actually painting the eye can help. With anime figures, especially the higher detail ones, the best way is with water color pencils. Start with a dark wash like a darker brown or black if it’s a female character with eyeliner. Then use a water color pencil of white to get the out line of the eye and a sharpened darker one to outline the pupils and such. If they look a bit buggy you can do a quick top coat and then a bit of a light gray wash to tone the whites down
  7. VF-1A Grunt
    I’ve been watching this guy’s excellent but simple tutorials on painting 1/35 figures. He just uses a simple colored dot. He mentions in most of his videos that trying to paint the whites of the eyes will come out looking weird and bug-eyed even at that scale. https://youtube.com/@spruesnbrews?si=oQlbZEyoL3exLVB9
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Sometimes, it's just that the producers oversold the movie's prospects in order to get funding and in so doing set the bar for "success" higher than was realistically achievable. Sometimes, it's because someone else overpromised and underdelivered or just plain overspent and gave the executives cold feet.
  9. Dynaman
    Well, they are in the business of making money.
  10. Dynaman
    The idea of such a pathetic whiny character getting another movie was even considered is a bad sign. Between his temper tantrums and admiral snivel the First Order was a joke at best.
  11. SteveTheFish
    I think probably at 1:72nd scale, painting the eyes would make it look weird and bug-eyed. Probably the best thing would just to use a wash on the face, like Tamiya's brown/pink accent color. Even at 1:35th scale, armor modelers doing figures don't really paint the eyes, do they? I'd have to look up some examples.
  12. renegadeleader1
    "I'll obscure 90s toys for $40 Alex." The answer...
  13. mikeszekely
    I still kinda doubt it. Like, yeah, maybe I'd opt to bring XR goggles over a laptop on a plane or something, but I'm not leaving my house without my phone, full stop. So it's still, at minimum, two devices either way. And, while I haven't used the Vision Pro and have no familiarity with it's OS, Android XR is basically an AI-powered gesture-based front end for the same Android that's already running on a lot of phones. While developers can choose to make their apps more XR-friendly, there's not a lot of incentive for them to do so because Android XR runs standard Android apps already. Then the choice is watch Netflix on chonky googles while my phone stays in my pocket, or watch Netflix on my phone tethered to lighter and less conspicous glasses. I know, I'm sounding really down on the Vision Pro/Galaxy XR/Android XR. I want to like it, I want the tech to succeed, and I want somebody to do something truly interesting with the technology. But, as it stands, I just can't see a scenario where they do something that some some other device doesn't do better, with Viture or Xreal glasses if you really want that private big-screen experience.
  14. Big s
    I thought it was a different movie. The more infamous Troll 2. I don’t even know if anyone actually saw the first Troll, but everyone seems to remember Troll 2, but usually not for good reasons
  15. azrael
    Same. Of the use cases I noted above, a tablet/phone/laptop can be used as a content consumption device and more. VR/AR goggles are good for the private experience, but I'm sure kids and even adults will want to do more with a less cumbersome device. XReal and Viture-platforms are better, but are tethered to your phone/tablet/portable device so it becomes yet another device to carry. That may be where the Vision Pro and Galaxy XR are better as standalone devices, but unfortunately, those make it up with added weight.
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  17. mikeszekely
    Sometimes a movie can make what you'd think is a decent return, but it didn't make enough profit for the bean counters.🤷‍♂️
  18. mikeszekely
    I had the original Vitures and had the same trouble with blurry corners. I bought the Pro version later. Worse speakers, but brighter display and less blurring on the corners. In any case, I agree that glasses like the Vitures are great for content consumption. That's exactly why I don't see the point of stuff like the Galaxy XR. Why spend nearly $2000 on bulky goggles when the Vitures Pros are $300 right now? Most of the apps your going to wind up running are going to be regular Android apps anyway.
  19. Tking22
    Yeah I really liked the first Troll so I'm in, looks like they went with one good, one bad, let them fight....
  20. Old_Nash_II
    The First Movie was good
  21. Chronocidal
    I mean, there's probably no reason they couldn't use those holes to help anchor the sound booster, but judging by the HMR (and the Yamato VF-19s for that matter) the holes aren't in the right spot for the VF-19P fins anyhow. I am hoping the final product isn't so sloppily painted though. I guess they wanted those spots to look like thrusters or something, but they couldn't even get the holes painted black around the inside.
  22. PointBlankSniper
    I think of the shield as a sacrificial damage sponge to act as a backstop against attacks, because they know things can and will get through the barrier eventually. Not blocking with the shield and surviving a hit is just a luck based bonus that is good for ace pilot stunts, and not advisable tactics lol.
  23. PointBlankSniper
    Those are the exact holes I am saying are seemingly even too shallow to hold the fins for the 19P That's what I'm getting at, but in the pessimistic direction. Bandai basically looks like they deliberately designed incompatability into this to quietly announce the refusal of making add ons and variants to milk all the groundwork they already put in, because typical Bandai logic... The HMR telegraphed their intentions with functioning shoulder holes, even though they used the same brand of weird logic to end up with two sets of shoulders on the 19P 🤪 It just doesn't look good on Bandai's part to plan and engineer petty inconveniences into their new molds for both themselves and the customer lol
  24. Test_Pilot_2
    The Odyssey has grown on me. It drives well, it's comfortable, and the family travels really well in it. I'm letting the EV6 GT go in June... just not enough value to buy it out. I need an EV with better range anyways. Looking at a Cadillac Lyriq with a level 2 or 3 trim (don't care Luxury vs Sport) or a Lucid Air Touring AWD. Also looked at the BMW iX. Teslas are not an option and not dealing with the local KIA/Hyundai guys again. Any others I should be looking at? I'm leaning hard into the Lucid right now.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    A "canon" with one 'n' is something the author stands behind. A "cannon" with two is something it's unhealthy to stand in front of. Official media has not, as far as I can recall, identified where exactly the pinpoint barrier emitter is. Master File actually supports your hypothesis, though. The VF-19 Master File says that the VF-19's pinpoint barrier system has three discrete emitters: one in the antiprojectile shield and one in each shoulder. The VF-22 Master File similarly indicates that the PPB system is located in the forearms adjacent to the stabilizers that are used as reinforced shields. Presumably this arrangement carried over to later models. Yep, that's where they're hiding, even if they're almost never visible on the VF-25 in the animation.
  26. Test_Pilot_2
    I love my Vitures - they're fantastic. I initially struggled with the nosepads until I realized the long ones were meant to bend to extremes. Fixed it right up. Only goofy bit are the far corners are blurry for me, but never notice it unless I'm purposefully looking at the corners. There is alot in the content consumption space for these glasses. It's like "travel" for the use case of a vehicle.
  27. KOG Water Dragon
    I think I'd prefer something in 1/72... probably Wave or Max Factory.
  28. jenius
    I think those holes are just thruster details and won't be used for any attachments and, if they make a P, they'll do new shoulders like they did for the HMR. Maybe they could be anchors for fighter booster attachment? The booster should connect to the back in battroid. Fighter is the mode where fancy engineering would need to be involved if they wanted to avoid attachment parts. We shall see!
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