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  2. Thom
    8 years later... FINALLY!! Agree here. The same team in place does not guarantee a success. Case in-point, Incredibles 2. The major goof they made was to not make it a new story. It was basically the same plot from the first film, just switched between Helen and Bob with just more supers added. Not retreading a story line is the first thing to do when doing a sequel.
  3. Big s
    I kinda figured that would get derailed fast since the team had been bought out and the preview showed the refrigeration unit in action. I don’t think it’s that weird of an obsession. Most girls when I was that age would rather go for the long haired oddball than a basic guy that’s got their stuff together. Shuji may or may not be exactly a love interest as much as the guy with something to offer. For one girl he’s the escape from boredom that she’s been desperately craving and his partnership offered that awakening to her. To the other girl, it’s basically necessity for basic survival. He can get her away from her financial responsibilities. A teenage girl and a good amount of adult women will always pick a mess of a guy that’s offers a hint of a dream over sensibility and stability, even if there’s a high chance of derailing their life
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  5. Big s
    Seems to be happening with a lot of companies over the issue. Hopefully things straighten out soon. Not sure how different they’ll be running things though
  6. MechTech
    @Chas I think I used Super Lube (liquid) last time I stripped my old airbrush down. It has Teflon in it and coats nicely. @derex3592 Congrats on moving indoors! I lived in TX for a short bit and the heat and humidity can get bad! The Eagle looks good too! @Papa Rat Cool! Those will be a BIG improvement over the stock butcher block hands. - MT
  7. Markkianan
    Markkianan joined the community
  8. jvmacross
    Nice...so more diorama style pics, than the usual boring static poses....
  9. jvmacross
    Wait...so that probably means many of those b/w pics are actually in color?
  10. seti88
    Awesome artwork! What a memory trip to an amazing time! You can sense the passion of macross in the art and explanation even after all these years....Worth as much or more than any official macross book.... thanks for sharing @Shawn!
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  12. Old_Nash_II
    Sad news From Facebook
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Caught today's episode of GQuuuuuuX over lunch... it was pretty disappointing. Last episode sold us the idea that there was going to be a big, climactic confrontation between the Twelve Olympians and Pomeranians for first place in Clan Battle and a possible double assassination attempt on Kycilia Zabi. We get none of that. The Gundams don't even fight. The writing in this episode is back to being a hot mess... particularly when it comes to the two main girls weird obsession with Shuji, a personality-less character they've spent almost no onscreen time with. Their sudden devotion to him and willingness to both fight over him and kill for him comes off as downright psychotic. The new designs being introduced are getting progressively less fugly. However, that appears to be a function of Studio Khara's ham-handed designer having to divide their limited time across multiple machines and therefore not having enough time to ruin each classic machine to the same extent as the Gundam and Zaku. The Psycho Gundam Mark II looks fine and almost UC-like until it starts dropping its armor and becomes an off-brand Evangelion in a maroon banana hammock for some reason, but the Gyan and Hambrabi made it past Khara's designer seemingly without more than a very minor aesthetic overhaul.
  14. Big s
    Saw some pics for the new Gyan At tag hobby. I still prefer some of the older designs, but for the new show, it’s one of the few so far I might actually buy a kit of. I do want to see that new Hambrabidefinitely a little on the odd side, but I actually kinda like this one
  15. davidwhangchoi
    i filed down the pegs so they won't scratch the canopy. the Vf-0S Arcadia filed them down at factory. sold my 0A copy to a MW user years ago so i no longer have it. I'm holding out for a premium edition or going to pass on it totally.
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  17. Shawn
    One more small addition. In Vol 4 they gather various other doujinshi from other circles and do a small review/comment. For L.Cat.'s "Notice" they were amazed at the quality (she eventually married Miyatake) I've always been a fan of her work, and so were they at the time! I have a copy of her Notice #6, I'll dig in the archives and scan it up here soon. I guess that could be the next quest...find all her earlier volumes! "NOTICE" published by L Cato (Yamagata) The more I read it, the more I can only praise it. Published in Yamagata. Even Captain Chiba was amazed by this amazing fanzine. It's still a bit tame because it's a thin paper, but if it were to be published in book form, it would likely sell better than MAT. It is not a magazine specializing in Macross, but covers all the hot topics of anime, comics, science fiction, fantasy, and aviation. The drawing skills are outstanding, and the sense is superb. It's hard to believe that the mecha, characters, and sharp writing were all done by a single woman. It's one of the ideal anime fanzines. You can see intelligence in the way they "find it entertaining." (MAT's constant complaining is just stupidity...) In issue 4, "Macross Journal" shows a glimpse of its hardcore side, casually pointing out that "because Prometheus is the left arm, the angled deck is unusable," and finishing off with "Nah, never mind, never mind, that's just the ramblings of a geek." They really get it. It's a big difference from a certain THQ that is "a bit of a horizontal stabilizer idiot." (As an aside, THQ's special feature on Macross was incredibly entertaining.) By the time I got to the fifth issue of the comic, "R-Gyo Irregular Use," I was completely blown away. It's amazing how such a highbrow way of watching anime can still be "interesting." "S-sign please!"
  18. Valkyrie Hunter D
    While it is a brand new game, Nitro Express certainly has the retro vibe going on:
  19. Big s
    This week had an entertaining episode. Things will probably be very different from this point on. Really looking forward to how things might end up
  20. sh9000

    Macross Books

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  21. sh9000
    Season 2.
  22. sh9000
    Amongst the newer mainline, Wildrider is one of my favorites. Love the red windows.
  23. M'Kyuun
    Pretty clever on Takara's part to just swing the front fascia of the cab into position for the foot rather than have the entire cab reposition. Some may see it as an engineering shortcut (well, technically it is if you're an absolute purist), but it's an effective shortcut that gets the job done. Granted, the leg is going to look a little weird from the side with the door and window details perpendicular to the ground while the face of the cab is parallel. I personally don't mind, especially given all the extensive partsforming that needs to take place to affect Devastator. Next to that, this seems a much smaller compromise. At least it's integrated. One ding against this is the lack of meaningful displacement of the forearms in leg mode; they just bend back at a slight angle, which looks more like afterthought and poor planning. Had they spared an extra bit of the mold to allow for a double hinge on those elbows, they could have folded neatly and purposefully. I guess they always have to bake at least one flaw into everything to justify another toy down the road, although given Hasbro's recent statements and their pivot towards prioritizing games, those supposed toys may never come.
  24. Apok451
    Well, yet again I was allowed on the internet with no supervision. Got it for $175 on Amazon, couldn’t pass the deal up. The wife probably thought I was lookin at boobs. Pretty happy with this. Articulation is great and solid. Little bummed it doesn’t hold the gun pod at a reasonable angle, but the top thingy makes with the pew pews, that that works for me. Guess I better buy another Gokin stand so I can dangle it over the edge of my shelf and give people heart attacks, lol.
  25. M'Kyuun
    Odd that it's taken this long for a sequel; it's not as much of a gap as there was with Incredibles, but still... There's not much in the way of narrative in that trailer; obviously there's a snake joining Judy and Nick as a new protagonist, and since they're being depicted throughout as being chased around the globe by the cops, there's likely suspicion that the snake indulged its carnivorous instincts, or so I surmise. I haven't watched Zootopia since it came out, but the carnivorous suppression in a mixed anthropomorphic animal society strongly reminds me of the far more mature Beastars anime, another worthy watch. Since Zootopia preceded it by about four years, I wonder if it wasn't perhaps the inspiration for the anime and its darker explorations of similar themes. Zootopia is an impressive film and, as always, there's concern that the sequel will fail to capture what made the first so good. I felt the same about Incredibles, IMHO one of the best animated films ever made, and after the long wait, and despite Brad Bird's heavy involvement, I didn't feel like it captured what made the original film great either. It's a good movie, don't get me wrong, but IMHO, it fell short. But then, Incredibles is a hard act to follow, even for its creator. I hope Zootopia 2 is fun and adds something new and interesting, but I feel like following the original film is an equally challenging proposition.
  26. Big s
    That’s kinda what I was figuring, still not gonna expect a happy ending
  27. Powered Convoy
    The colors are great.
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  29. Bolt
    Great story @Shawn ! and a great collection!
  30. Tking22
    It was already confirmed this in the reboot movie timeline, Bill Skarsgard is reprising his roll as Pennywise, this is IT's last "awakening" before IT awakes in the eighties for the main two films. These kids could make it out, they're not from the books, and they aren't mentioned in the two reboot movies, a few of them could get away, the kids in the main films already mentioned other kids in the past learned of and survived Pennywise.
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