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  2. MKT

    Strike A Pose! revisted...

    MKT replied to dapro's topic in Toys

    All pics taken using phone. Post-processing mostly done with Google Snapseed. The VFC VF-1 battroid have next to no articulation. Only the shoulders can swing back & forth, and that's about it. The GNU-Dou VF-1 is pretty ok. No double joint at knees or elbows like most modern figures, but what it has not found on other VF-1 figures is the chest can rock side to side. Perhaps the Revoltechs can do it too, but I haven't played with them yet.
  3. Big s
    not only that, but everyone seems to have a turbo right now. There’s this little guy, the hmr fairly recently, wave with a 1/24 kit and Bandai with a non scale kit and probably another that I’m forgetting to list
  4. Big s
    Honestly, I was expecting far less. I thought there was a good chance I’d totally hate the show. I still enjoy it and have fun with it despite its flaws so far.
  5. sh9000
    By JunMa2Naga.
  6. sh9000
    I think Megatron's legs will be these colors. Devastation Sideswipe, Devastation Wheeljack, AOTP 4 Pack, WFC Optimus, and WFC Megatron preorders are up.
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  8. sh9000
    https://www.target.com/p/marvel-legends-series-gamerverse-psylocke-vs-thanos/-/A-93566562 https://www.target.com/p/marvel-legends-series-wolverine-weapon-x/-/A-93565689 @Mommar Preorders are up.
  9. Hikuro
    You’re close, 14 Nissan 370Z touring class. Families grown up around Z’s since the Datsun era so my dad and I both have them, he’s got a 2020 sport class. been trying to get the new Z but they’re just so expensive between 42-70k depending on the type. i gotta agree. While I like the overall look and feel of the switch 2, I don’t see where it’s really that big of a difference between my old switch. What does sort of Tee me off is that transferring all my switch data MINUS the SD card essentially wipes out the memory resetting it to factory. And I can’t even use my SD card as the 2 requires the SDEX card which is quite the expensive storage upgrade between 50-100 bucks! And the question comes to mind, am I going to be playing the snot out of this console to warrant the purchase of more memory? Seeing how I didn’t fill up the switch’s HD let alone my 32gig SD card, I can probably say no. Unless Cyberpunk is gonna eat up the majority of the drive. im also not keen that game cartridges are nothing more than CD keys meaning you still gotta download the game versus just installing then being able to start. But honestly that’s nothing new with any of the consoles in the market….you’re essentially installing the game to your drive and then downloading a stupid patch to fix problems.
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  11. MechTech
    That's awesome she did that! I wanna say, "Sneaky wife, happy life" but that can go bad too.😁
  12. PointBlankSniper
    The first half of that statement is true. The second half, not necessarily. You can have an entire story follow an observer or victim with no agency, just esperiencing the powers that be running their course. The real mistake of the show is framing the main trio, with its promotions and opening theme, as a trio central to the plot, with agency in their actions. In reality, Shuji is not a character. He is a mysterious plot device. Nyan is the one with some agency, which amounts to denying Machu's ability to have any agency, while her own character is poorly explained, if at all. I suspect she will continue to derail the whole story much like how Slaine Troyad derailed Aldnoah. Machu has so far been just an observer to the cosmic powers, and I think would have been fine, if only they didn't spin her has the chosen one, as that burden comes default with a gundam protagonist. The real fatal flaw with her though, are reasons the writer gives her to subject herself to such extraordinary events, when it is all out of her depth and needs. Her setup and the world building required to make it work is entirely absurd. Then she is given the illusion of agency through excessive handholding by other actors and powers that be, and doesn't seem to acknowledge it. Intended or not, that kind of writing just makes her an insufferably entitled child. She's currently basically in the role of the annoying news host, when all we need out of her is a cameraman to watch the world to unfold through. Maybe she is a slow cooking character that will change, but that is a big maybe. The trend these days is to put those character changes in a time skip between split cours or seasons. So things don't look good for her writing regardless, but that's just my guess. IMO good Gundam writing died after the original Build FIghters season. Everything from all the follow up Build titles, to G Reco, IBO, and WfM, has all been nonsensical slop with poorly reasoned character writing and screenplay. Even the totally-not-gundam Kyoukai Senki is just more of the same. The mega budget UC milking that comes on the side is just pretentious grandeur that often makes as little sense as the rest of the slop tbh. It's been that way since the latter half of Unicorn. Yall are expecting too much out of the cash cow slop machine tbh.
  13. TangledThorns
    LOL, the amount of connected tech has increased significantly since we moved into our house almost 12 years ago. Quick list: 1. WiFi home mesh 2. WiFi/App connected kitchen appliances 3. nVidia Shields (they replaced smart TVs that went dumb) 4. RING doorbell and cameras 5. WiFi connected home lighting 6. WiFi connected garage door opener with camera <- Nice to have in case I forgot to close the garage door, lol. 7. More tablets because children, lol 8. WiFi connected soundbar with Alexa built-in
  14. SebastianP
    It's not just the game, it's *all of it*. The Northampton is consistently depicted relative to Variable Fighters, in every scene where this is relevant (Stargazer, the OVA scene where they launch VF-22s out of a rear ramp, and Macross 30's Gefion) as being substantially larger than 250 meters. Gefion is just the one where there's enough detail to really scale things out. The Guantanamo-class as shown in Frontier and Delta has two different models - the closeup model, which is somewhere around 400-450 meters long based on the relative size of the VF-171 to the sides of the deck: and the overall model, which is shown with fighter launch tracks coming out of holes that are too small by at least *half*... for a an AIF-7S Ghost. The overall model has to be something like a kilometer long to support VF-171s launching from any of its modeled hangar bay openings. (and this is the model that has the most screen time by far and is replicated 1-for-1 in the games. It's easily distinguished since it says "MAIDURU" on the sides of the hull on *every copy* of it. There were at least four of them with the name visible in Delta, and another two at least in Frontier...) The Quarter, to reiterate my findings on that, is not large enough for Rabbit 1 to fit anywhere aboard. Just... not possible at the official size. Nor is there room inside the ARMD-L carrier section - or anywhere else on the ship - for a hangar the size we see in the anime - heck, even the deck elevator, prominently used in the show, is not big enough for a VF-25, let alone a VB-6. It *can't* be 400 meters long overall. The Elysion's size visibly changed between episodes, and the features of the shooting model support the larger size. Whoever made the model created something that made sense at one scale - elevator outlines, launch track spacing, hangar volume - and then someone decided it was two thirds the size out of nowhere and never gave time to fix any of the scaling cues. Heck, even going way back to the originals - I know the official story is probably different, but it really feels like the Daedalus and Prometheus were tacked on late, and changed the size of the ship without the story team having time to re-scale the size of a city that was supposed to go in a much larger ship. (I should, at some point, double-check the relative size of the VF-1 and the openings in the sides of the DYRL ARMDs, to make sure that the opening sequence of that movie is even possible at the official size of the ships...) Basically... from all evidence, Macross ships are "whatever size looks coolest for a given scene", and the Chronicle numbers are useless because they contradict the physical requirements for the performance seen on screen with regards to "will this even fit aboard", and the people who do care about scale at all get overruled on a regular basis. Edit: as far as I can tell, every time a large ship interacts with VFs in the shows, you can see where the sizes don't match. In Macross 7, aside from everything else, you have the Diamond Force launch sequence with the hatches and the arms... which require the bridge block to be substantially larger relative to the ship than we're shown, so either the ship is bigger or the bridge block is as large as it was made on the Battle 25. Ironically, Battle 25's bridge block is large enough for the Diamond Force launch system but does not have an equivalent because of the turrets.)
  15. GMK
    Max is out.
  16. Markwennard
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  17. grogall
    @lechuck Thanks for posting the Takara/Tomy Actic Gear AT's, they are nicely detailed for 1:48 scale! The gimmick that you can load the missiles in the shoulder launcher is neat since you can choose to make it look like some where fired! Quite amazed how many companies are making V.O.T.O.M. AT's in various scales and qualities....
  18. Scyla
    Oh great, another multi pack I only want one figure of…
  19. azrael
    All this talk of smart appliances reminds me of this meme:
  20. Scyla
    They are SDCC exclusives? Those are cool effects parts. Would love to have them for my collection (they could stand in as SHF Zangief, Dhalsim or Honda)
  21. Chronocidal
    I don't want another YF-30 until they fix the tails to work like the VF-31s. The spinny-flippy design was a pretty bad idea.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    If only the technology were that advanced... instead it's just autotuned algorithmic slop. Potentially uncopyrightable slop, depending on how several pending court cases go, which may make this a poor business decision in the long run.
  23. seti88
    ok you made me look into this thread ... love the YF-30 tho! Grail valk yet?
  24. seti88
    Whose memories is the AI scraping off on? AI scraping from M+ sharon apple would be err...meta? beta? animeta?....get ready to be hyptonised... either way...grumble....generic AI sounds incoming...
  25. fifbeat
    Sorry if this is posted in the wrong topic (and apologies if it has already been posted). Now all we need is transforming aircraft and we'll be living the dream...
  26. Chronocidal
    Anyone missed it that wanted one, the Mikumo VFG kit is coming back in stock. https://www.hlj.com/v-f-g-macross-delta-vf-31j-siegfried-mikumo-guynemer-aos06528
  27. Seto Kaiba
    There are no official specs for the Gefion-type, so while we can reasonably assume she's a derivative of the Northampton-class everything else is purely an assumption. It's also a video game, where things are not necessarily represented at true scale. It's doubtful Artdink's developers even considered the relative sizes of the ship vs. the VFs. (Hell, given the relative size of Vrlitwhai City, we can be pretty damn sure they didn't.)
  28. Mommar
    Any links ahead of time to sit on?
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