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  2. Hikuro
    I would absolutely hate a remake of the original. For the time it was and the graphics, it's fine. I don't even know how you could re-edit the film to make it faster paced, I felt the pace was just fine, it was just corny for the era. If pace was the problem I feel like what junked it up was Flynn and the whole Recognizer sequence. Some of the older films casts are asking at conventions for people to go see the movie pretty hard in the last 2 weeks. Bruce Boxleitner is out really trying to push for people to see it. I can understand, he was pretty disappointed when they all signed a 2 picture deal and Disney backed out. The weird thing is, I don't consider Legacy to of been a bomb at all. I think I saw that film at least 3 times, and the first two times I watched it the theater was packed and I saw it 3D and then IMAX. I looked at the numbers, I dunno if it's triggered with inflation or not, but 170 million budget and it did 400 million world wide, to me, that's pretty dang good.
  3. Papa Rat
    Thanks. Here’s a couple photos in natural light. Still not as brilliant as in person. ✨
  4. VF25-F
    B-Day pix! All hail Queen May'n! Look at the amount of meat! XD
  5. RangerKarl
    Evil version of Delta, except they're evil in the moneymaxxing sense and make all their pilots have animated ads
  6. pengbuzz
    I wonder if they could re-edit it to pick up the pace a bit, like Robert Wise did with ST: TMP Director's Edition?
  7. pengbuzz
    Not mine, but funny all the same: Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3h87g5/knights_of_ren/
  8. Thom
    Yeah, not bad for little 'shake'n'bake' kits. Rey cool! Always a generous offer @SteveTheFish, just like in the old days! And that is looking good @Papa Rat! The gold and the accent colors really work well together.
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  10. Thom
    All they had to do was completely refilm the Last Jedi to include Palpatine's resurrection, having that be the real story of the entire film, basically turning the entire opening crawl of RoS into its own screenplay. In fact, I consider the Last Jedi as a lost film that, when finally found, would seamlessly and without rush, tell a beautiful tale of the battle between good and evil. In another dimension...
  11. Tking22
    I frakking missed Red Hood, fun.
  12. Papa Rat
    The articulation is good. Knees are double jointed, hips are ball joints, arms and shoulders have plenty of rotation as well as forward back/up and down motion. Feet and ankles are ball joints, skirt armor all move independently except for large rear section. Head is almost complexly static, and waist rotation swivels left to right. Claws on rear of forearms open close and fold to allow for more freedom of movement. This kit has way more articulation than I had expected. Hope that helps?
  13. Big s
    Another Led Mirage in the way in 1/100
  14. Test_Pilot_2
    Great for travel for consuming content on planes and airports. Great for discreetly consuming content when you don't want to rope in other folks... watched Alien Earth while my littles were watching Bluey. For the glasses that look semi-normal ish and don't impair your vision... Great for consuming training classes, certification prep, or news at work in between meetings or tasks. Even driving around/commuting while letting the material passively play in the background - essentially an amped-up ebook experience. They have their use cases for people even if they don't for you.
  15. Big s
    Kinda curious about articulation. I know there are a lot of joints, but there’s also a lot of armor that probably block movement, just wondering about its range of motion
  16. MKT
    Not surprisingly, many of the engineering from the DX YF-19 has been carried over. The eccentric bendy gun for Fighter mode is kept here. I think we have noticed before how Bandai went the Arcadia route for leg proportions. The manual reconfirms the knee gap in Fighter, with leg shortening in Battroid for bulkier proportions. Earlier pictures seem to indicate Bandai got rid of the shin panel covers. However, the cover is still there but re-engineered into a simpler sliding cover instead of the previous swiveling panel. The previous solution is visually better though - it hides the whole cutout space completely, whilst the new solution hides the uglier parts but the cutout space remains. We get to see how the new integrated neck cover works. Although there is still some back collar showing in Battroid, overall I like how they attempted to solve the previously only partsforming feature of the DX 19. It's in keeping with the innovations they have introduced starting with the VF-19 Advance. (for eg, one feature I feel that's a bit underappreciated is how the front canards elegantly hide into the Battroid back spine) Barring any factory assembly QC issues, this looks like it will be a solid release.
  17. SteveTheFish
    I found info on this sofubi kit on the Macross World legacy site here. It's at the top of the list: https://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/hobbybase/hobby_base.htm I have another Valkyrie sofubi kit that's not on that list. It's a VF-1S in Battroid mode. I noticed that the legacy site does not list any figure models, such as the Arii sofubi kits or that clunky ABS(?) kit of Misa DYRL by Tsukuda. Sofubi kits aren't as popular as resin kits because they're a bit different to build. Many people don't have patience for them, but I'm rather fascinated by them.
  18. Papa Rat
    A quick update on KOG aka “my little buddy” before I hit the hay 💤 I might do one last gloss coat on it after finishing tonight’s final brush painting. I have never been so nervous to paint tiny, tiny details. I didn’t use any of the color correcting decals. I wanted to paint the few color details including this tiny white outline on shoulder “eye” designs. I was stressing but got it done. Not too shabby. My thoughts and feels on this new Volks 1:144 scale KOG Delta Beren is outstanding! It was a treat from Start to finish and can’t wait to do the larger 1:100 scale once I find that Gaia paint. Here’s a few photos taken at the bench. I’ll grab better pics tomorrow with some natural light hoping the gold has more sizzle if that’s a thing. Lol
  19. Papa Rat
    That’s super generous of you. I will keep that in mind if this doesn’t shake out locally. Also, congrats on the new kit. I’m not familiar with that one, will make sure and look it up. 👍
  20. azrael
    I'm still trying to determine what the use scenario for AR is. Industrial Design & CAD. Content consumption. Medical conceptualization. That's about all I can see for AR goggles. Those things are just too big, distracting, and silly to wear outside of building/controlled setting.
  21. Big s
    Definitely not a Sith, he was. Knight of Ren and Stimpy or something
  22. mikeszekely
    So Samsung just unveiled their rival to the Apple Vision Pro, the Galaxy XR. On the plus side, it's lighter than the Vision Pro, costs like half, and the Android XR OS is getting some praise for its usability and compatible with regular non-XR Android apps. But on the minus side, it's still like triple the price of a Meta Quest 3, and I'm struggling to see the actual market is for XR yet. While the Quest 3 can do some XR stuff, the main draw there still seems to be VR gaming.
  23. mikeszekely
    Yeah. I think I'm good with my non-Xbox Ally X for awhile yet.
  24. treatment
    per Heppoko's tweet: https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1980865962858647722 DX Fire-Valk instructions-manual pdf (colored) now up and available: https://tamashiiweb.com/images/item/item_0000015361_4C6Kwya3_300.pdf so you can dissect it the usual MWF way... --- edit/update: sample page-snap: errr. Bandai still seems to luv making their DX Macross valks look derpy in their instructions-manuals...
  25. Mommar
    I haven't touched a Mezco in years but I might actually pre-order that Casey.
  26. SteveTheFish
    Well, when I worked for Aoshima, the Macross license was open, meaning if you pay for it then it gives you the ability to do anything Macross-related, including Macross II, Flashback, and other minor stuff. That was in 2015 when that open license was revealed, and I was at the All-Japan show working for Aoshima's booth when that was announced. In recent years, I've just wondered if the villains at Harmony Gold may try to do something about that and perhaps companies might be selective regarding their projects.
  27. Seto Kaiba
    Oh, undeniably. I'm sure there's some OTM shenanigans that make the wing surface a more effective radiator than it would otherwise be, but the main way to dispose of the coolant that has absorbed heat from internal components is much more straightforward. It's also propellant, so they can just get rid of it by shooting it out of the main engines or verniers as the Valkyrie maneuvers. (Thermoelectric converters are also used in the VF's power systems, so maybe that plays a role too.) Probably just a smaller shield like the VF-19F/S's vs. the larger one on the YF-19/VF-19A/C. By this generation, the shield itself almost seems redundant given that they're working with the second generation of pinpoint barrier technology.
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