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  2. sh9000
  3. sh9000
    Poster Series Predator 2.
  4. sh9000
    A face only a mother can love.
  5. sh9000
    Star Wars TBS Momaw Nadon.
  6. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Bimbot technology is accelerating at a scary pace.
  7. Mog
    You know how hard vomit and cantina barf is to get off of Wookiee fur?
  8. Today
  9. Roy Focker
    A Wookie wearing clothes?
  10. M'Kyuun
    Sheesh! These look like cheap toys you'd get out of one of those coin-operated dispensers where the little toys come in plastic bubbles. Can't believe these are part of AotP line. Fortunately, I've no interest, so money saved. Lots of vitriol and criticism toward SS86 Astrotrain, much of it earned, alas. As more pics of it surface (especially screenshots of Hasbro's stop-motion video) showing it from different angles, I fear I must agree with a great deal of the criticism. I'm coming around to wishing they'd done a heavy retool of the Siege toy to address its most glaring deficiencies instead of producing this figure. SS86 Astrotrain is simply not a good capture in virtually any context. Train mode is his only redemption, and only just.
  11. M'Kyuun
    Well, we can argue the impracticalities all day. 😄 No denials here. But, to my very core, I have always loved the idea of robots, especially bi- or multi-pedal ones, and most especially, those that transform from one form into another. A real-life valkyrie would likely inspire an aneurism of pure joy in my brain were it to manifest for real. For me, that would be the pinnacle of technology- nothing else would summit that advance except perhaps cybernetics at the GitS level. I'd love to see either-or come to fruition in my lifetime, but I'm dubious of both. I definitely don't trust Elon Musk's Neuralink, mostly due to my distrust of Elon Musk and his motives. If this was happening at MIT or some other high-level institution of learning and science, I'd be less apprehensive. However, even if Neuralink proves moderately successful, we're still in the embryonic stages of that technology. We're still a loooong way from GitS level cybernetics, although folks like Tilly Lockey and her incredible cybernetic arms developed by Open Bionics are advancing the technology in impressive ways. Ms. Lockey strikes me as a rather impressive young woman; she's conquered what for most would be a debilitating condition and with incredible optimism, grit, and technology, has emerged as a positive and capable influence for amputees and those born with congenital lack of or disfigured limbs. I think it's no hyperbole to say she'll be a leading figure in the advancement and co-opting of bionics as we've only known it in sci-fi.
  12. Dynaman
    And hard to put armor on. Tanks generally only have strong armor in the front now (part of the reason it is kept low profile). Armoring a humanoid that way would still take up a lot of the surface area and on parts that need to be flexible.
  13. M'Kyuun
    Well, a lot of what makes sci-fi fun is indeed its speculative nature. In other words, the concepts proposed are cool, but often have a dark bent to them, especially in the hands of unethical corporations or politicians who'll take even the most benign technology and find a way to twist it for gain at the expense of society's welfare. In a fictional setting, that's great fun. However, when those technologies emerge for real, caution and apprehension are necessary lest we find ourselves collectively in a quagmire. I think a lot of these corporate execs and politicians feel like they're above it all, as if their wealth can insulate and protect them, and in the short term, it likely can. But they're human, too, they have families, and we all live on this ball of rock with no other options. Eventually, the consequences will reach them or their successors, and that's reality. One need only consider the proliferation of micro-plastics in nearly every body of water on the planet or climate change (I don't believe for a second that thousands of scientists got together to create a phenomenon on false pretenses. There may be a bad egg here or there among them, but I'm inclined to believe that most scientists are diligent in their methods, well-meaning and honest in their ethics, and are evidence driven. They're curious by nature, guided by the scientific method, and interested in putting forth the data as they make discoveries. OTOH, a bellicose wealthy politician with no scientific background nor interest therein, but only an interest in furthering profits for fossil fuel companies, with a long history of prevarication and convictions for fraud inspires no confidence whatsoever).
  14. Dynaman
    Very well done advertisement for it. Too bad the movie itself is just not any good. The Doctor(s) were excellent.
  15. sh9000
    https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/357098 The Cylon Centurion (Silver) is also currently available to preorder at BBTS.
  16. Dynaman
    Not so long ago it was graphics cards and data mining. Things will get back on track with memory in a year or two. Till then it is a terrible time to need to buy it.
  17. Big s
    They had some really great stuff. More of a metal side of things, but with that deep vampiric voice. Peter Steele was so different from everything that he just couldn’t be replaced.
  18. sh9000
    Monstructor.
  19. Old_Nash_II
    I understand that science fiction is something speculative, but seeing so many things that have emerged from it, you start questioning the subject. I think since the 1930s, with those pulp magazines that in a way "inspired" space exploration, or even earlier, like in the book The Brick Moon from 1869 (as far as I know), which creates the concept of a space station.
  20. Big s
    I guess they were so popular they had to put more into production.
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  22. Seto Kaiba
    There's a pretty good reason given directly in the episode for why they wouldn't be able to send holograms over... the Miyazaki had no power, so the holoemitters that have lined the corridors of ships for emergency hologram use since VOY "Message in a Bottle" wouldn't be operational. (SAM presumably has something like Arnold Rimmer's light bee keeping her program going?) The idiot ball moment is more "Why was it necessary to go to contested space and put the first-year cadets in actual danger when they could have just as easily simulated this using a training ship or just a regular holodeck where they would not be in any danger of being murdered by space pirates?" We know Starfleet Academy has had simulator training since before the holodeck was even a thing... the infamous Kobayashi Maru test that Kirk infamously cheated was one.
  23. Big s
    Definitely cool, but bipedal=easy target. That’s why tanks kinda got lower to the ground in a lot of designs. I do love a good sci fi concept though and can’t deny that
  24. M'Kyuun
    Man, sci-fi is becoming science reality way too soon. In a way, I'm excited to see it, but OTOH, there's an element of fear that the price of ignoring countless tales of rogue A.I. and robot uprisings may be dire consequences for humanity if these advances continue to progress. Perhaps that's all the dystopian sci-fi that's coloring my perceptions, but maybe it's better to err on the side of caution. I'd love to see bipedal battle mecha become a reality, though. Totally impractical compared to wheeled and treaded vehicles, but just so unbelievably cool!
  25. electric indigo
    1/100 Reborn's Gundam
  26. jenius
    Nice sized packaging.
  27. 26662
    Which vendor did you use and what was the out-the-door cost? [I shop from only a few vendors out of convenience/laziness so knowing this info may open my eyes to a better deal or a vendor I haven't heard of or didn't have enough data points to trust. I don't find this info intrusive or see it as a security issue myself, but I can appreciate folks who feel otherwise.]
  28. Roy Focker
    Trek broke its ability to tell stores that make sense with advancing technology. For every generation of the fans, they push the timeline ahead. A feature of some wonder science that nearly destroyed the Enterprise D in the 3rd season STNG that they vowed never to use again is now as common as a toaster. They used to have to go a special room or a kiosk to access things like transporters, holograms or replicators. Now they can carry stuff like that on person. Being able to do the impossible is like breathing for them. Except when the story calls for them not to. Which has always been the case in Star Trek. Normally they would tell us that a nearby space storm is causing inference forcing them to do things the old fashion way. Now the thought doing things like sending holograms over near crossed their minds.
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