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  2. pengbuzz
    Northampton-class, by any chance?
  3. Slave IV

    1/55's revisited

    Slave IV replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    Haha, that's why I never sell anything unless I have extra. But that's also why my house is basically a warehouse, which is another form of idiocy, lol!
  4. 26662
    I'm not certain of its vintage. My Google-fu returned about a bazillion Godzilla toys - most of which, like the one linked above, were beyond impressive. I lost track of most everything kaiju in the early 90s. But in the 80s? You couldn't tear me away from the TV if a monster/robot/kung-fu movie was on.
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  6. 26662

    1/55's revisited

    26662 replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    I've owned only one Joon's: I bought it in 1999 off eBay for <$100. It was stupid-floppy with obscenely-large tolerances. I relisted it almost immediately. Yes, of course, I wish I hadn't sold it. My younger self was an idiot in a lot of ways. Sadly, not much has changed on that front. 🙂😉
  7. Slave IV

    1/55's revisited

    Slave IV replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    Saw this in a shop window recently.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Which was initially difficult to explain, but now has an easy/obvious answer in "they're just using larger and/or higher-purity fold crystals in the fold system". Ever since Macross Frontier - or technically Macross Dynamite 7 - the size and quality of the fold crystals used in many forms of overtechnology has been the go-to explanation for differences in performance and capability in almost every major form of overtechnology. High-purity fold crystals are in high demand in the military and private sectors for use in fold navigation, fold communication, cross-dimensional radar, thermonuclear reactors, gravity and inertia controllers, beam weapons, and so many more technologies essential to Humanity's burgeoning interstellar civilization. It certainly explains why the poachers in Macross Dynamite 7 were so determined and so suspiciously well-connected. The previous vague statements about how the products of galactic whales could be used in spacecraft engines almost certainly means they contain very high-purity fold carbon which would naturally be a rare and high-demand material until synthesis processes caught up. It may well be. Jupiter is a gas giant, after all. It may not have a surface you can stand on but that doesn't mean it doesn't have obvious value beyond pure scientific curiosity. It's basically a giant ball of fuel that mother nature obligingly gathered into one place. The atmosphere is principally hydrogen and helium isotopes, meaning collection and processing of atmospheric gases can yield valuable fuels for thermonuclear reactors as well as elemental hydrogen gas for use in fuel cells and combustion engines. (Gundam's Universal Century timeline has permanent colonies around Jupiter for the same purpose, to extract and process deuterium and helium-3 to be shipped back to Earth in the massive tankers of the Jupiter Energy Fleet.) Yeah, we gotta go through that footage and find the first one that gets named and just use that... the same way Star Trek does for ships without an official class name. Available materials suggest they used lightly converted Zentradi ships from the former Vrlitwhai branch fleet. Having remained within a 100ly distance of Earth means they were able to lean much more heavily on Earth for resources to set up their colonies too. There's definitely an element of luck to it. The process of exploration, at least as it's been defined for the audience, is pretty simple. The emigrant fleet folds into a region of space and dispatches pilot fleets from its escort that scout out the nearby star systems for either usable resources or viable planets to colonize. If they don't find a suitable planet among the star systems they've scouted in that region they jump to the next likely area their advance scouting detail identified. They repeat this process until they find a suitable planet. They lack Star Trek-style FTL sensors that can identify habitable worlds from light years away and the means to scan the worlds they pass while folding (because fold navigation is basically teleporting) so a map of the space they're exploring might look like a string of pearls with each pearl being the sphere of space they studied between fold jumps.
  9. M'Kyuun
    Lovely little ship- those angles are great, like an extrapolation of the Horton Bros' and Jack Northrop's flying wings. This itself would make for a splendid set, just saying. I'd be in for a couple copies. I'm a big Space fan, too, but I'm waiting for the fervor to die down, or for a double points period, or a visit to my local LEGO Store, whichever comes first. I don't have anywhere to display it, and this is definitely a display piece. I read a review saying that the head doesn't rotate, which would be fair if indeed there was some sort of hidden rocket buried within. However, the review made no mention of said hidden rocket, so it really beggars the question of why they'd leave such an easily accomplished bit of simple articulation out of the build. It's also a bummer that they used two 2x2 slopes with modern computer graphics instead of resurrecting the old CS computer graphics, a move that surely would've made a lot of Space fans giddy. Lastly, and the biggest black eye, they didn't include a proper astrofig. This would've been the perfect opportunity to officially give us the coveted light bley astrofig without resorting to piecing one together from disparate sources. The light bley fig would've been an apropos compliment to the large blue fig, recalling the old blue and grey ships. Just seems a huge missed opportunity to give Space fans an extra bit of Classic Space goodness.
  10. borgified
  11. rsvictor1976
    Is that the 2016 version? I thought it had more highlights? The one I want is the -1.0 2023 version.
  12. David Hingtgen
    New thought, because RAM is more insane than GPU the more I look: Re-use my existing DDR4 RAM. While there are DDR4+5 combo boards, none have 4 slots for DDR4. (even trying to get up to 64 of DDR4 is ridiculous right now, but I can make due with my current 48) So thinking: get a new DDR4 mobo, and whatever CPU is best to try to weather the RAM storm. Could even be AM4? But would like AM5 for for future-proofing. Seems Intel abandoned DDR4 comparability earlier, but some recent CPU's may still be an option? DDR4+late AM4 won't be a huge upgrade processing wise, but really I need better PCIe+GPU more than anything.
  13. 26662
    Like this one? This thing is ginormous! I saw one online retailer selling it for $1,500!!!! [But they had discounted it to $400. But still!?!?]
  14. davidwhangchoi
    woot has some parts you may be looking for but it may sell it quick. the 5090 sold out as well as the 5060 ti with 16gb ram and 9070 xt, there still a 5070 available, might be useless but doesn't hurt to sort through.
  15. danth
    Oh yeah, I noticed that too. According to the instructions, there is exactly one robot (even though the product description says "robots"), and zero hidden rockets. WTF, Lego?
  16. danth
    I ordered this when I stayed up past midnight this Saturday (or technically Sunday). As a Lego Space fan it was a day 1 purchase. Apparently it went into back order the same day. I ended up also buying the Arcade Machine (40805), the Moon Mission Science Kit (45200, already have Mars Mission), and the Baby Construction Loader (60483, mainly because of the dark orange parts I want to use in a 2024/25 City Space MOC). The Arcade Machine breaks my No Stickers rule but it does have a decent number of large prints. I also splurged on the recent Bricklink Designer Program Alchemist's Shop, because it's just super great. I've also been MOCing myself and designed this little Spaceship (sorry for terrible quality photos):
  17. sketchley
    There is very little information on those short range fleets. Some supposition is that the SDFN class (from Macross F) and Akusho (from Macross 7) may have at one point been involved in those short range fleets. The Battleships Of The Galaxy Book 3: Zentrādi Military Vessels (a fan-made dojinshi) supposed that the Unified Government converted the Zentrādi Kirutora Keruēru into Environment Ships (the Kirutora Keruēru-class Environment Ships), but the write-up indicates they were for the Super Long-range Emigrant Fleets. Nevertheless, it does suggest that other converted Zentrādi ships could have been used in those short range fleets. Those short range fleets also appear to mostly have occurred only during the initial period shortly after the end of the First Interstellar War. The limited materials on them suggest that they started being launched before the completion of the Megaroad-01. So, the supposition that ships used in those fleets later returned to Earth and were repurposed to other roles or fleets makes a lot of sense. Macross Chronicle did have a poetic line about some Super Long-range Emigrant Fleets being fated to spend "half an eternity" looking for a habitable planet. Yeah. The production team really played fast and loose with continuity in that game. I'm glad that they were reined in a lot more with VF-X2!
  18. F-ZeroOne
    Something thats been blowing my mind a bit recently is after watching a recent Jeremy Parish video is that the US only had two dedicated video gaming magazines for a period of about four years between 1984 and 1988, and one of those was a self-published newsletter apparently put out by two middle aged women that no-one has ever heard of. From a British perspective, thats... look, magazines were a huge part of the British computer/video gaming background of the 80s. We had "Crash", "ZZAP 64", "Your Sinclair", "Sinclair User", "Amstrad Action", "Computer and Videogames" - and thats just to name the famous ones; there also were the short-lived publications like "Big K" and even odd platforms like the Dragon 32 had their own titles. This continued well into the 16-bit and even 32-bit eras. Now, granted, many of these weren't in the strictest sense absolutely dedicated "videogame" magazines as they were largely covering personal computing and several started out as general computing titles with gaming just part of it but it wasn't too long before games were largely running the show for a lot of them (also, in those days, you needed at least a degree of familiarity with computing to be a gamer, from typing in a "LOAD" command just to start running a game to invoking the mysterious art of the "POKE" if you actually wanted to beat Jet Set F... REAKIN' Willy). The people that wrote for them were in some cases literally school kids and several have commented how they could be treated almost like rock stars when they met their magazines readers.
  19. sh9000
    https://www.target.com/p/-/A-94744409
  20. F-ZeroOne
    But is there an alternate build if you put it together in less than two hours though? 😅
  21. TangledThorns
    Yeah, may go see SCARY MOVIE if its actually funny. The first two films were funny and raunchy af.
  22. grogall
    So the May issue of Hobby Japan will be a special issue on Armoured Trooper V.O.T.O.M.S.. Not sure when the actual release is? via (X) twitter...
  23. TG Remix
    Looking through the character bios in Macross Generation, they seem to expand on them ever so slightly. Passero, the main character, grew up in the Blangongne district (which seems to be a play on Burgundy, it's spelled ブランゴーニュ instead of ブルゴーニ) of Jupiter's satellite city. The wording implies that there seems to be only one of them per planet, so presumably she came from White Flora, the same one Miho Miho came from. Rafale came from District 15 of Jupiter's Miranda settlement, and Liza from District 14, which probably explains where they met each other and became a couple. Although the wording implies it's within the planet's atmosphere, like Mars' HG Wells City. Most amusingly is where Ghana came from, as he's from the Redswood district of Saturn's ring shaped satellite city, even more hilarious that it's the only one we have an inking on how it looks. I keep forgetting the existence of the Stealth Cruisers. It'd probably help if they got an actual name... I did mention the Vandal from VF-X2, but I suppose in the context of the game, it was used by Vinderance instead of the UN/Latence. But in my defense it was one of the doohickeys that Critical Path Corporation made, so every super boss barring the Macross 13 was made by them. This includes the Annabella Lasiodora, which was in both the UN's Ceres Base and Vinderance's home base. So in regards to short range fleets, I'm assuming their ship situation would be different. I'm not sure if it means if they have to build a new fleet from the ground up if they settle on a planet, either relying on Earth's factory satellites or one they happen to find elsewhere, or if their escort fleet would reach the same size as Macross 7's or the Megaroad-01s. In that sense I can also see them being a bit smaller in a general sense, since unless they're not tied to the Central UN, they can just rely on their next door neighbors for help more then somewhere further away. And then there's the Megaroad-01 itself, which reached the center of it in 4 years time. All around it does make it seem like emigrating to other planets a very sporadic process, where some take significantly longer then others to find a suitable planet. While you are absolutely correct, Digital Mission VF-X is also a game that doesn't bother to do anything other then the bare minimum, and even then it's stretching it. Was disappointing to learn that Elysium just has zero explanation on why such a developed colony (4 giant metropolis; and a few military bases that reach similar sizes) was abandoned, amongst other things.
  24. sketchley
    Yeah... Fold speeds are a grey area. The only "official" specifics we have are from material about Macross Plus (the distance and travel time—given as a broad time frame) or the doubly vague "20 years to the centre of the galaxy" from Macross F. While Macross Plus is great for nerding out over, it's also for an 'experimental and disposable' Fold Booster. So, erring on the side of caution, that's on the slower side of the scale and a ship-scale Fold drive ought to be significantly faster and/or traverse greater distances. Then we get statements like the Varōta High Speed Cruiser being able to travel even faster than a "normal" ship-scale Fold Drive... 😵 Ultimately, it seems to boil down to "speed of plot", and probably best not to get too deep in the weeds about. Especially as there are some stories that play fast and loose with the rules (the penultimate story beat in Macross Digital Mission VF-X to name 1 of many...)
  25. azrael
    LTT ran a video last week about a pre-builts from Costco. Some units may not have all the best components but they might be able to get you 80% there and you can upgrade when a good deal comes out. Microcenter and Newegg are running combo deals (CPU+Mobo+RAM) every week. Unfortunately the best time to have picked up a Nvidia card with 16GB VRAM was back in November/December 2025. If you can find a 5070Ti/5060Ti-16GB for a decent price, get it. Stepping down to a 5070 is probably your best option right now. Unfortunately, if you want a decent priced 16GB VRAM card, the Radeon 9070XT is your best sub-$1000 if Nvidia stock is lacking. Crucial P310 are still available. How much longer...🤷‍♂️ Silicon Power is your next best budget option. However, these are DRAM-less options. I'd try to stick to Gen4 drives to keep costs down. RAM....yeah. You'll have to start with 32GB and have to upgrade later. Consider slower RAM to save money. But right now, I'd stick to 32GB and upgrade later. That's the best option. Look at Thermalright Peerless Assassin. It can do just as well as the Noctua D15 at half the cost. You can play with your fan curves to make things quieter. But if you really want silence, then AIO is your better choice. 2 2TB 990 Evos now probably cost as much as a 5070Ti...from back in October.
  26. borgified
    Teased on Fakebook and Instagram (14 hrs ago) for those that collect 1/6th dollies. 😜
  27. ImChris5115
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