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  2. Major Tom
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right really confuses me. Despite the title, it's a squeaky clean romcom. The setting is a modern Japan where various fantasy creatures like vampires are just a part of everyday life. The protagonist hits it off with a vampire girl in his class who is desperately trying to look cool because she's awful at being a vampire. But the series never really bothers to explain how she's survived if she's unable to do the one thing vampires need to do to survive, or if there's an alternative why is she always coming to school so hungry that she can barely participate? (Not much room for romance either when the female lead's basically reduced to the status of a crying infant two or three times an episode.)
  4. rsvictor1976
    This has been an expensive month between this, the HMR VF-19P, the DX VF-19, and the tariffs.
  5. ValkAddict started following Arcadia SDF-1 Movie version 1/3000 reissue
  6. ValkAddict
    Good news for those that are waiting for it. Good luck with the import tariffs though for US customers.
  7. ValkAddict
    Good news for those that are waiting for it. Good luck with the import tariffs though for US customers.
  8. Today
  9. Seto Kaiba
    I wouldn't call it miraculous... I'd call it a difference in working conditions and staffing. Rogue One and Andor are products of studio confidence in a creative team that had a clear and consistent vision for what they wanted to accomplish, and enough non-fans in senior positions to ensure that the focus remained on telling a tight, focused story set in the Star Wars universe. IIRC, Tony Gilroy said at one point that he got all of one note from the studio on Andor and that was that Maarva couldn't drop an F-bomb in her posthumous speech. The Rise of Skywalker came out hot on the heels of two highly contentious Star Wars projects so there was low confidence on the studio side from the outset. The creative team got overhauled right before filming and the incomplete script was being constantly revised during principal photography, so the creative vision was all over the place and couldn't even settle on key plot points like Rey's origin story and the studio was watching and second-guessing everything. A bunch of Star Wars superfans on the creative team probably did not help matters either, but that seems almost trivial in comparison. I'd say the difference between the likes of The Wrath of Khan and Section 31 is about that big. There are Star Wars fans who'll defend The Last Jedi and the Rise of Skywalker. I've yet to meet a Trekkie who'll defend Section 31 even in jest. Warhammer 40,000 also has an example I'd point to with the galaxies-wide gulf in quality between the exemplary Gaunt's Ghosts novel series by Dan Abnett and the near-universally scorned Inquisition War trilogy by Ian Watson, with the latter being infamous for prose so purple it practically flies and eats people and its tendency to make extended digressions into its author's sexual frustration and creepy fetishes. As Bruva Alfabusa once put it: The only reason anyone reads that dreadful tome is bile fascination... wanting to see if it's really as bad as the rumors say. The answer is always "No, it's worse."
  10. Chronocidal
    Probably more that they just completely missed this part. Whether that will look any better is still up for grabs though, since it's just dropping the pod even lower. Plus, Bandai didn't make the lower fin under the barrel retract like Yamato's version did. But hey, not even Bandai could remember to unfold that gunpod for some of the poses in the instructions.
  11. treatment
    Nothing on any new packaging just yet, but Mr.K just officially confirmed SDF-1 is not delayed and will ship soon: https://twitter.com/Mrk_arcadia/status/1982592084805828915 web-translated:
  12. treatment
    this just in an hour or so ago: https://x.com/Mrk_arcadia/status/1982592084805828915
  13. Big s
    Don’t forget about Lando and his weird sex robot that ended up the brain of the millennial Falcon
  14. nightmareB4macross
    Is it just me or does it seem like this step was either missed, or if the gunpod inadvertently unlocked itself from the boomerang position it’s supposed to be in when in fighter mode.
  15. Knuckles7173
    Stumbled upon this not too long ago... scheduled for release later this year or Q1, 2026. It's 91cm long!!! https://gerryanderson.com/en-sg/products/eagle-1976
  16. treatment
    either Bandai's photochopping again, or the gunpod grip is really that short to make the gunpod point downwards by default: this downscaled shot from https://x.com/totty_majick/status/1982080756194443544 shows how gunpod looks like when using the Bandai stand: add/edit: maybe this seemingly oversized back-cover ("babyhead/hunchback" in battroid) makes the gunpod angled more downwards than it should be? from https://x.com/da_yoshi_travel/status/1981925059028779072 \ Hacchaka will hopefully show more relevant pics when he finally post his usual pictorial review. Or maybe wait for Wotafa and hopefully he touches on it...
  17. tekering
    You had me at "the horses they ride on top of that one Star Destroyer." 🤣 It's a miracle that Rogue One, produced under the same studio conditions, turned out to be so good... and doubly miraculous that we got both seasons of Andor. I mean, has there ever been a greater gap in quality within one franchise? Even the abyss that separates The Wrath of Khan from Section 31 isn't as vast (and those were produced four decades apart)!
  18. Yesterday
  19. tekering
    Well, this is unexpected. With Nacelle's first wave of figures "in the final stages of production," according to this article at TrekCentral, they're suddenly claiming to be 1:10 scale... and BigBadToyStore has updated their listings accordingly. 😲 As I posted last year, this would actually make a lot more sense, since they'd fit with all those Diamond Select Star Trek figures from TOS, TWOK, TNG, DS9, and Enterprise... ...and low-and-behold, it actually seems to be happening! Naturally, this begs the question of when (if not why) this decision was made, why we're only hearing about it now, and how it's likely to affect sales going forward. How many more fans would've preordered these figures earlier, if they'd been marketed at this scale to begin with? How long was production delayed in order to upscale the line, and how much will the final figures differ from the prototypes we've seen thus far? How much were production costs increased in order to make the change? 🤔 Of course, there are other possibilities to consider. Maybe the latest press release was a mistake, and they're actually still 1:12 scale figures... 🤨 ...or perhaps they were designed at 1:10 scale to begin with, and the original announcements were in error. 😒 Either way, Nacelle now looks even more like a bunch of amateurs that don't know what the hell they're doing. 😂
  20. Chronocidal
    Yeah, so, I'm not trusting that example. That's not being pushed down by the crotch plate, it's not even touching when you view it from the front. I think that's mostly just user error not understanding how to mount the gun so it doesn't drag. Not to take all of the blame away from Bandai though, the real problem (on this and the YF-19) is that they expected a nearly vertical grip mounting point to somehow support an angled grip without the gun also tilting downward the same amount. The whole issue for both versions could have been fixed if they just.. you know.. planned. It does look like they've attempted to address this with the Fire Valk, by making the gunpod handle rotate, but we'll have to wait and see how effective it is. That display though.. that honestly looks like they purposefully mounted it as droopy as physically possible. And I'm not one to explicitly trust Bandai not to lie with its pictures, but the single picture in the instructions showing the mounted gunpod puts it at no worse a position than the YF-19 or Yamato version. Over time, I've managed to get my DX YF-19s to display it very nearly level. Honestly, the main issue? It's that blasted connection they added so the shield locks into the torso. I hate to say this, but just like MOST of their Macross products, Bandai is absolutely terrible at understanding the necessary tolerances for the parts they design themselves, and how they have to fit together. They have never understood the complexities of how to get arms and legs to mesh well in that configuration. There's never enough room for the parts they design to fit the way they're intended, and it just leads to everything being off-kilter. In the case of the YF-19, they incorrectly toleranced the distance the arms need to attach to the shield and have it lock in correctly on the rear of the fighter. What that means is that the when the shield is attached, it rotates the lower arms upward, because the shield is pulling forward on the upper surface. That, in turn, means the gunpod is forever pointed downward. It's really easy to fix though. Detach the shield, and the arms and gunpod line up perfectly fine. All you would really need to do is lengthen the shield a few millimeters, and the issue would be gone. In the YF-19's case, you know what I did? I yanked out the attached neck cover. Leaving that structure out allows the shield to flex a bit more, letting the arms settle into a level position, and leveling the gunpod completely (you know.. aside from the bent barrel, because they still mounted an angled grip in a vertical arm slot ). I don't know if the shield on the Fire Valk is attached in the same way, and I doubt it can be, because of the shoulder flaps, but the way to get the gunpod level is probably going to depend on slightly detaching the shield from the arms to let the arms sag a little, and drop the rear of the gunpod lower.
  21. mikeszekely
    I just don't care for FT's entire MO anymore. Announce everything so that you don't buy the competition, only to eventually get an over-priced, overly-complicated figure that values paint and diecast over posability and playability. Honestly, the only stuff coming out of TFCon that has my attention is MMC's stiff. Specifically their Constructicons. I looked at FT and XTB's Scrappers, but MMC'S looks to be the (G1) set for me.
  22. davidwhangchoi
  23. JB0
    Having read a whole bunch of the manga... that's how I hope it ends too.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    Let's Play dropped its fourth episode, and honestly this series is still kind of headache inducing to watch. The story fairly screams that its creator has at-most superficial knowledge of the "gamer culture" that it's supposedly deconstructing, it does demonstrate a very clear understanding of one thing: toxic online fandom. There's actually a very good moment early in this episode where Marshall Law's YouTuber girlfriend talks him out of attempting to publicly apologize to Sam for his overwhelmingly negative review of her game and shame his fans into deleting their negative reviews. She practically recites John Gabriel's Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory while explaining to him how his fans, being anonymous and knowing their actions are largely consequence-free, will likely double down instead of doing as he asks and not only make Sam's life worse but turn on him as well. The first halfway interesting thing this series has done is show Marshall grappling with the desire to make things right and the knowledge the internet simply won't let him undo the damage, and making things worse with the person he's trying to apologize to in the process. Sadly, that moment of actually-interesting character writing is short-lived and the series quickly pivots to its usual cringeworthy nonsense.
  25. Big s
    Just finished Wayward on Netflix. Kinda a mix of a cult horror thing and a Y.A. Type story mixed into one. It has all the awkwardness of both genres, but lacks the excitement making for a kinda dull weird watch that gets increasingly frustrating. You get left waiting for these people to finally make their moves and when things actually start to happen, the show ends at a cliffhanger. It’s a limited series, so there’s no expectation of more episodes and seems after doing some research, that it has not been given a second season. Basically, if you want to watch a boring show that will just make you feel awkward without a pay off and no ending, then this is probably a great show, but for everyone else, I’d recommend staying away and save yourself a few hours to spend doing household chores for a more enjoyable day
  26. Big s
    It’s definitely a bit tough to tell here. She does have a very similar build to the male figures which is out of place for a property like G.I.Joe, but realistically makes sense. Tough female soldiers in real life rarely have a feminine build, and if they’re supposed to be elite guards they’re probably gonna be more manly. The Zap figure below her has a similar hip and waist and almost looks like he even has a bigger chest than her
  27. jenius
    To bad they couldn't figure out an extension gimmick for the grip to make it last flat but, even then, it would have to be nearly lying on the ground to clear the waist area.
  28. treatment
    with the gunpod... https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1982444341974208610
  29. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    A wild last boss appeared was so funny yesterday. Onsen episode.
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