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IIRC, the reason that the Likes are anonymous is that the Reaction pane/Like button is the last surviving piece of a long-since-deactivated upvote/downvote karma system that's built into Invision's board software. It was originally a pure upvote/downvote system, and Invision later expanded it to include custom Facebook-style "reactions". The admins disabled the upvote/downvote feature back in the 2010s because people were abusing it to harass and bully each other. So now the Facebook-style reaction pane, bereft of any custom reactions, is all that's left of it.

https://fb.watch/EgpEkelbyv/?mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e Completed 1/48 RC USS Nimitz.

DNA DK-38.

I saw this and here's my review: Easily the weakest of the three and it feels like a big missed opportunity. Yes, still visually brilliant and not a bad popcorn action flick but kind of frustrating. The female antagonist is excellent and so full of potential. There is an amazing movie here that didn't happen where the humans drive a wedge between the Na'vi and they battle each other. In this hypothetical movie, the humans would barely be present which would have made the movie feel fresh and new. Jake would need to solve the problem not by being the warrior king but by unravelling the machinations (or someone else could do that). Instead, they immediately supplant the female big bad with the same old bad guy we've been dealing with, go back to the same old human locations, and then basically re-live the end of the second movie for an hour.

Looks like me trying to get to the last piece of frozen chocolate cream pie.... ...those brussell sprouts in the freezer can be deadly! O.o

Try having Trip lower the command chair by one centimeter...

Oh, are the replacements going to fix the articulation?

🙄 I suppose I just can't understand the mentality of some people 🙄 I mean, honestly . . . Why?

MIssing paint app's on Weyoun's alternate head have been reported. The skin tones don't match at all. Also, rumor has it the figures aren't articulated enough to sit down properly... at least, not Jonathan Archer.

AMAZING !

Credit where credit's due: Stan Winston's team was responsible for the engineering and fabrication of the puppets, but he'd always maintained that the design was entirely James Cameron's work.

Yeah; they've had worse:

Here are my design adjustments so the center part could sit flush on the right shoulder with the antenna (air brake could be installed in it) or slide down into position to form the crotch section in GERWALK and Battroid mod

Design proposal: my biggest pet peeve of every Legioss toy since the Gakken 1/32 is the door that swings over from the center with the sensor array connected to the bottom of it. In the line art, there is no door laying over the right shoulder. I think that center panel should flip backward or recess. The sensor array should rotate from facing the nose of the plane to facing thrusters and then the arm the array is connected to should pivot laterally and vertically to move the sensor to the right shoulder. As a bonus, this mechanism would also help with the creation of a Dark Legioss (you would simply delete the array and have no doofy looking door with nothing on it). Edit - Looks like the team may have thought the array would be stored in the chest?

It can be done! I’ll need detailed hard-surface panels for the inner frame, along with well-designed missile hatches. I’m open to any suggestions or design proposals.

ThreeZero Robo-Dou Voltron Lion Force x 2

Progress from today.

Thanks!

I just wish HG wasn’t so big in blocking everything. There’s so many cool items like toys and models and even licensing deals they could make some cash from if they were more lenient on their take home pay. As far as Fasa, that was just grabbing designs and renaming things without dealing with the licensing. I still remember the classic Macross and Dougram designs that made the backbone of their games. Oddly their original designs weren’t necessarily terrible even though they were somewhat derivative and if they had just stuck to making their own thing then they probably wouldn’t have had the tarnished reputation that they gained.

I believe that, just as happened before with Tread, as explained above, HG might force them to put their seal on the packaging. After all, Dark Legion has been sold recently in the West, and we know how picky they are about their supposed properties (as happened at SDCC 2013).

It doesn't feel like they should but maybe they need an agreement with Toynami to distribute internationally and that's the hold-up? The Tread already has the Robotech license on the back of the box like the latest Legioss reissue. They originally didn't bother with international licensing because they felt the international sales wouldn't be large enough to warrant the headache of dealing with other companies but that may have changed with such a low demand item like the Tread. I could just imagine it being like "Hey, let's pay the 5% and get the HG license so we can sell this wholesale through international channels" and then they get the license only for HG to tell them "Oh, and you have to use Toynami and they want 5% also" and that being where the wheels come off. Who knows though, I don't have anyone left at the company to ask

Much thanks for the mention, and yeah, I felt that most of us here are sci-fi nerds and there really wasn't a place that I was aware of to just share and talk about general sci-fi designs. I figure, too, we'll all learn about designs we've never seen before being an international fandom in one lovely place (Thanks Shawn and Graham!). For example, some of the British sci-fi designs mentioned by @F-ZeroOnein the above post were completely unknown to me-- now my horizons are a bit broadened. The thread did its job. As an American lad growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was also introduced to anime at a young age with stuff like Battle of the Planets, Starblazers, and Speed Racer, moving on to Pole Position, Mighty Orbots, Bionic Six, Ulysses 31, and stuff like Transformers and Thundercats. I never saw but was aware of Voltron and Robotech via the good ole Sears and JC Penney's catalogs. Man, those were the days! 😄 There was, in retrospect, quite a bit of imported anime in those early days and I wasn't aware of a number of them being Japanese shows until I was an adult. It just never really clicked, I guess, but OTOH, there was always something about those shows that made them stand out from American animated shows- more mature themes, for certain, even after sanitization, but just the art style and the attention to details, especially concerning mechanical details, that just weren't there in most American animation. I've curated a pure hatred towards Harmony Gold, but credit where due, the late Carl Macek and folks like him did us all an enormous favor by appreciating the awesomeness of anime and bringing it to Western shores. For that, much gratitude. Ah, the old Mechwarrior games and art. I believe I had a Mechwarrior game at some point for PC, but that was probably 20+ years ago. Anyway, once Transformers and Gobots came on the scene, followed by other transforming robots flooding the scene, the mecha designs from Mechwarrior never really struck a chord with me. Even within Macross, the non-transforming mecha like the Destroid Tomahawk and Spartan never did anything for me. Likewise the Zentradi Regultss and Glaug, although I like how the Regults hop about like birds instead of running. Contrarily, the Varible Glaug and Konig Monster are two of my favorite Macross designs. For me, it's all about transformation. That said, there are robot designs I really dig that don't transform. Chief among those is the glorious ED-209 from Robocop. For me, it is the pinnacle of movie robots, and just a phenomenal design in and of itself. I love it. I know everyone knows what it looks like, but I'll abuse any excuse to post a pic of this beauty.😍 Kudos to Craig Hayes for one of the most iconic designs in sci-fi and film histories. "You have 20 seconds to comply". The T-800 Endoskeleton by Stan Winston. The late great Stan Winston was a design and engineering genius, and his Terminator design has long stood as one of my all-time favorite sci-fi robots. It's as brilliant as it is terrifying (in the best way possible). RIP Mr. Winston Oh, Harmony Gold was definitely trying to reap, or perhaps rape is the better term, what they could from Macross. There are no coincidences where mecha likenesses are concerned.

Yes. Initially, anyway. A year or so later there it's no longer a one-off and is in some kind of semi-official limited production. No. The YF-29's weapons are powerful, sure... but they're only impressive by the standards of an average Valkyrie's normal firepower. Yeah, it has a heavy quantum beam gunpod that can theoretically sink a small escort warship in a single hit in beam grenade mode. So does the VF-27. That's about on par with a warship's charged particle beam gun turrets. Its next heaviest weapon, the TW2 beam turret, is said to be the same type used for point defense on aircraft carriers. Its missiles and built-in guns are formidable because they have the same MDE ammunition used on the VF-25 and VF-171. In a way, this broadly mirrors the original RX-78 Gundam. Its beam rifle was an extremely powerful weapon by the standards of Mobile Suits-carried weapons at the time, but the firepower was comparable to a single warship-mounted beam cannon and the rapid proliferation of the technology meant that it went from "extremely powerful" to merely above average in a matter of months. Just five or so large chunks in specific places. Unclear... he does let the YF-29 crash after abandoning it, but there's nothing saying it's unrecoverable. We've seen worse.

Mine hasn’t been quite as bad, but still not so great. Hopefully your lady pulls through and she can be back home soon to comfort you and maybe a happy new year will be coming your way

I had a mad cat vinyl kit back in the day. That and an ED 209. Fun pains in the butt for sure. Battletech was definitely trying to take the designs they originally ripped off and change them up to make them somewhat similar in shape yet different enough to seem like original designs