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  2. Scyla
    I’ve got my first Hot Toys figure in, and before I give you my thoughts I have to preface them so you won’t get the wrong impression: I’m probably not the target audience for these figures. I enjoy the intricate mechanical design of - mostly mecha - toys. Even for 1/12 scale action figures I am more intrigued by what engineering solutions the designer came up with to enable articulation rather than the accuracy of the likeness. I enjoy the plastic and variety of materials, intricate details and, neatly done paint apps (and I dislike weathering): I actually like the toy nature of my collectibles. I also don’t like figures that are overly large since they tend to become very simple and lose some of the intricacy that I enjoy. Plus they get difficult to handle. 1ft/30cm is usually the upper limit I’m also not sure, if the figure in question - Hot Toys Darth Revan - is indicative of what makes these figures feel special; their face is hidden behind a mask and the rest of the figure has no intricate material mix (like pleather mixed with armor panels, etc) That being said… The Hot Toys Darth Revan is utter, utter trash! It feels like I paid top dollar for an oversized knock-off of the Star Wars Black Series Darth Revan (which I own too). There is no pizzazz, no glamour, no sophistication in this figure; it is just big and has lots of soft goods. But even those are badly done. The cowl is laughably bad, won’t sit proper no matter what. Even the other soft goods feel too light and don’t have the right thickness; something that Hot Toys supposedly solved a long time ago. The light saber blades are equally terrible (is it a licensing requirement that they are made out of translucent plastic rather than have something more intricate?). And according to some reviews this is one of the better (if not great) Hot Toys releases. If this is good/great what are the bad ones like? There are some figures where you only get the full experience of their quality once you have them in hand. Pictures are unable to capture all the details/intricacies and don’t transport the overall presence of the toy (like Metal Build or Kuro Kara Kuri). I was blown away when I took my first Metal Build out of the box. This figure caused the opposite reaction. It looks good in all the promo material (especially with the photoshopped effects applied) but - to me - feels atrocious in hand. Definable one of my bottom 5 purchases for my collection. I might (MIGHT) be convinced to buy a Bastila Shan if they make one, so I can have a two figure display and try to make them somehow look good on display. I assume Bastia would have a couple of features that make Hot Toys supposedly great: a more varied material mix, a realistic sculpted and painted head and skin, etc. But on its own, I don’t understand where all the hubbub for Hot Toys is coming from. It is probably not my cup of tea which is a shame since I was really excited to experience a Hot Toys figure myself.
  3. Lolicon
    The pre-renewal frontier toys were pretty awful, but you actually made it look good there.
  4. pengbuzz
    Because it reeks of Hanlon's Razor, that's why.
  5. sh9000

    sh9000's collection

    Images added to a gallery album owned by sh9000 in Macross Collections

  6. sh9000
    By Will Pen.
  7. sh9000
    https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/macross-7-vf19-custom-excalibur-basara-nekki-special-dx-chogokin-action-figure/blfbas67626
  8. sh9000
    Happy Father's Day from Lt. K. Warmaker.
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  10. Scyla
    Brickvault released a new UCCS Imperial Shuttle instructions. I’m very tempted to buy the instructions and source the pieces via Bricklink especially since an UCS Imperial Shuttle is the last piece for my Lego Star Wars spaceship collection. Especially since this way I could try to switch all the white pieces to light bluish gray (since this is the color the shuttle should be in). Does anyone know how much effort it is to go through the part list they published and check if all the white pieces are available in gray and create my own list to source all the pieces? I also probably would change the tan highlights to dark bluish gray and introduce some trans-light blue pieces for the thrusters.
  11. Chronocidal
    Part of the issue is also that those movies were pastiches of even older movies, to when you go watch them, you really don't have a built-in cultural reference for why they're supposed to be funny. It helps that I grew up watching a lot of that stuff, but at the same time I can honestly say I remember Scary Movie 3 far better than any of the movies it actually makes fun of.
  12. sh9000
  13. sh9000
    Daphne Zuniga will also be returning.
  14. sh9000
    Happy Father's Day.
  15. sh9000
    NECA TMNT Foot Soldier x3.
  16. Mommar
    My two Heat Bous Donnie and 40th Leo arrived yesterday... those dust guards are really doing overtime right now. m
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  18. tekering
    Max and Kakizaki join the 1:72 cast. 😊
  19. Seto Kaiba
    I'd suspect they went with the more subdued palette for the Macross Gigasion because she's supposed to be a newer ship. After all, when they reference older eras in Macross media they often keep the original paint jobs or reference them directly. Such as the bright red VF-1X++ Ranka uses for her performance of "Love is a Dogfight" that hearkens back to Basara's Fire Valkyrie, or the fairly bright blue Max uses for his YF-29. Macross the Ride is practically a master class when it comes to "how bright can we go?". Macross 30, of course, faithfully preserves a lot of the older paintjobs. Even Master File suggests that legacy units like Macross 7's Emerald Force faithfully preserved their brightly colored paintjobs into the 2060s. Bogue's bright red Sv-262 in the second Delta movie is arguably the most recent case. One important thing to remember is that the animators working on a Macross series are not going to go back and analyze old animation in minute detail the way you have. They're not going to bother with it at all, in all likelihood. Even if they did, they would almost certainly not care at all about the kind of minor inconsistencies you've been analyzing because those kinds of minor errors just the cost of doing business to them. Particularly back in the era of 100% hand-drawn animation. Deadlines are tight, budgets are tighter, and "looks good" is often "good enough". What they would do is go straight to the animation model reference sheets - the line art and color keys intended as guidance for the animation staff - and use those to draw/model and color the design. It's unlikely they would bother to consult any other source as those sheets are the primary guidance for animators. The 3D modeled Battle-class ships we see in more recent Macross stories like the Battle Frontier, Battle Galaxy, and Battle Astraea look different from the Battle 7 because they are part of a newer and more advanced generation of Battle-class ships. That idea wasn't dreamed up for Macross Frontier, either. That actually goes back to Macross VF-X2, around nine years before Macross Frontier came out. The Battle-class Macross 13 (Battle 13) that is Latence's final weapon is said to be the first of a new generation of Battle-class ships with more advanced technology than those before it. (This point is important enough that it's actually written directly on the line art itself as well as provided in-story.) The Battle Frontier, Battle Galaxy, and Battle Astraea are even newer models than that, and all three of those have been heavily remodeled to suit the needs of their respective forces as well.
  20. Sokeijon
    Yeah, buying Acardia pre-owned can be cheaper than DX + sound booster.
  21. Thom
    It's like watching reactions to Airplane. The younger audiences don't get the 'deeper' jokes.😁
  22. TangledThorns
    Just re-watched SPACEBALLS on MAX, still got some chuckles from it. My young children were casually watching it with me while on their tablets and were kinda confused by the film thinking it was a weird Star Wars film and had to explain to them it was a spoof, lol.
  23. UN Heffy
    Yeah, that was pretty much my experience as well. The back cannon mount part just would not stay attached. I think I fixed it pretty effectively with a few dots of nail polish on the pegs, however. Also, I cannot get the gun pod attachment thing to stay connected. It seems like the tabs are too short, but I may be doing something wrong.
  24. Papa Rat
    Absolutely!
  25. Thom
    Happy Father's day! That is nice way to wake up!
  26. Papa Rat
    Happy Father’s Day to all the papas! My amazing family surprised me with breakfast in bed and a kit I have been wanting for an awhile. This will be my next build while working in that old Monster kit. ♥️
  27. Thom
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