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  2. Grey728
    Minmay in front of the VF-1J?
  3. Lolicon
    Whoops! I left something on the SDFM shelf that belongs on the DYRL shelf. Can anyone spot it?
  4. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    I watched the 2nd episode of Game center girl. I find this show really cute. Lily is so weird in a good way.
  5. RavenHawk started following Mospeada
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  7. Chronocidal
    Thanks for the expanded comparison here though, gave me a nice background noise source for a slow monday. Looking forward to whichever you get to next, though I admit I'm still wondering if you were planning a video for the DX VT-1.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    So... Turkey! Time to Strike is a thing that exists. The first twenty minutes of this series are a "What do you mean it's not awesome?" girls sports anime about bowling, in a similar vein to Iwa-kakeru! and Birdie Wing... with a very unsuccessful school bowling team of five girls having one member quit because they're always losing, a match to attempt to persuade her to stay on the team, and then it starts getting weird. The only thing I can say to this is "What." I do not get it even a little.
  9. Thom
    Dang, I thought they would be playing it in theaters again!
  10. grogall
    Thanks @kajnrig & @mog_kupo For the help and info on the RX-78 Gundam, Its still quite confusing since it's such a large range! So my best bet for now would be the rerelease of old Bandai's RX-78 in kit form to get the classic look, I already ordered the Metal Robot Spirit version from Mandarake but found out after there are at least three different versions available 🤣
  11. TangledThorns
    I really don't like most modern trailers.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    As a trope/cliche, it has its origins in the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam series as a sort of Drama Preserving Handicap. Mobile Suit Gundam was the first "real robot" subgenre mecha anime, and even though the series more or less established the idea of mass producing giant robots as weapons of war the titular mobile suit still had a lot of "super robot" DNA in it. The Gundam was a de facto one-of-a-kind hero mecha that singlehandedly changed the course of the war with its incredible capabilities. Its exotic super alloy armor made it nearly impervious to the enemy's weapons. Its beam rifle and beam sabers were so powerful they could destroy an enemy robot in a single hit. Its learning computer meant that it got better at fighting with every battle it fought and its kid pilot became a better fighter the more experience he gained. White Base's mission was to return the Gundam, Guncannon, and Guntank to the Federation Forces HQ on Earth so they could be analyzed and the data from them used to complete the Federation's mobile suit program. Resolving that thread of Gundam's plot posed a problem. They couldn't very well have the Gundam itself be mass produced without removing their hero mecha's visual distinctiveness and removing any prospects for future dramatic tension in the story. It wouldn't be much of a war once the Federation entered the fray with thousands of identical, nigh-invulnerable robots that could each take on whole squads of Zeon mobile suits at a time. So they created the GM as a "loser" version of the Gundam so the Gundam would remain special and visually distinctive and the Federation could have cannon fodder machines without having to bring the Gundam down to "normal" status. That's the Doylist explanation. The accompanying Watsonian explanation they cooked up to justify the GM's existence is that the Federation originally did intend to mass produce the RX-78 Gundam. The course of the war, the cost involved, and the immediacy of their need for large numbers of mobile suits in the field forced them to compromise and simplify their design to speed up production and get as many units in the field as quickly as possible. They started with the RX-78 Gundam's basic design and started removing everything that was not considered 100% necessary and/or a potential cost or time bottleneck in production. Luna titanium got the axe because it took too long to make and cost too much. Core Block functions were removed as unnecessary complexity. The simpler head design from the Guncannon was adopted because it was easier to manufacture, etc. The end result was the RGM-79 GM, a machine with higher performance than Zeon's flagship MS's but without the invincible hero properties of the Gundam. Had the Federation's need for mobile suits not been quite so immediate and urgent, they would have proceeded to mass produce the Gundam and the final stages of the war would likely have gone VERY differently (and a great deal worse for Zeon). Past that point, though... the writers kind of forget that aspect entirely and Gundams become one-off super machines that Anaheim Electronics makes to try out a new technology or simply because they have nothing better to do. The next few "real robot" titles kind of played with the idea of a mass-produced hero mecha, but ultimately avoided it through plot contrivances. Dougram had the titular mecha be set up for mass production but then the factory and blueprints were destroyed, leaving it a one-of-a-kind machine. Xabungle also implies that the Xabungle is a production machine but a very low volume one with only a handful made. It's not until Super Dimension Fortress Macross that we get our first real robot mecha anime with a truly mass-produced "hero" machine, eliminating the need for super prototypes or super prototype-like plot contrivances.
  13. jvmacross
    LOL....Actually sort of meta now for RDJ and his "return" to the MCU
  14. Thom
    The angle showing the light right between the firing arms is a great shot. Looks like it's about to blast Dolza!
  15. jenius
    Wrong thread everyone. Fugu has their own thread somewhere. This thread is for the derpy dx but I hear ya. I bet a Tread will be bumping it's way too the top of my queue soon.
  16. Radioguy
    I'd like to be in your will.
  17. Radioguy
    I like the Macross version, and soon I'll have the non-Macross one. I like both for what they are meant to be (well, the first was meant to be non-Macross, but just kinda half-assed), and can enjoy each that way. Pilot is def a hologram, and go with a Yeti or Archi. I hate the KO Yammie stand, personally.
  18. Bolt
    Yes, M7 is quite known for the long , drawn out and redundant aspects. Ultimately, i love it. But i agree, it could easily have been more condensed and streamlined. Although the supplemental M7 stuff is much better and enjoyable afterwards, and worth the time. Except FB 7 !
  19. tekering
    Set aside a dollar a day, and you might actually be able to afford this behemoth when it's finally released. 😉
  20. JNordgren42 started following Macross 7 Discussion
  21. JNordgren42
    My journey on building my Hasegawa 1//48 VF-1S has gotten me back into watching Macross. The last thing I watched was Macross Zero around the time it originally came out and I never watched M7 so I decided to give it a try. While there were some bright moments and on the balance I enjoyed it, it was definitely a slog to get through all 50 episodes of the main series. There's a lot of repetition and whole episodes where the plot goes absolutely nowhere. There were a lot of interesting ideas and expansion of the universe, but I think they would have been much better served by focusing the narrative and streamlining things, I think they could have easily fit everything into a 25 episode run. That being said, I decided to skip all of the supplemental M7 stuff and jump into Macross Frontier and that is much more my speed.
  22. sh9000
    Fortress Maximus.
  23. sh9000
    Thundertank Toy Version.
  24. sh9000
  25. sh9000
    Happy Anniversary to one of the best.
  26. JNordgren42
    Nice work on the flight deck crew so far! Is this 1/72 scale? If so where did you get your crew? I'm looking at options for when I get around to building my Phantom launch diorama and these look pretty nicely detailed.
  27. Bolt
    That looks so awesome! Great work from the master
  28. Tking22
    I saw it Saturday and enjoyed it overall, a bit bloated, maybe a few too many characters, overly ambitious for a first new-universe film, but enjoyable overall.
  29. JNordgren42
    Here are the final versions of the 3 views I did. I did some clean up and added a gradient to denote metallic leading edges on the flight surfaces.
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