tekering

Oh yes, the imagineers at Disneyland could repurpose one of the more pallid animatronic waifs from Pirates of the Caribbean, hang her prostrate in front of the guests, have her moan "Kill me!" as a chestburster violently thrusts out of her bosom, and all the little kids get sprayed with her blood. Great fun for the whole family! 😄

That's precisely Andor's market. There aren't enough space wizards and dogfights and laser swords and aliens to satisfy the hardcore fandom... at least, here in Japan.

It depends on what studio animated the episode in question. Some episodes are reliably consistent, some are inconsistent, and some (as you rightfully point out) are laughably bad. Unfair and unrealistic, to be sure... particularly concerning the most problematic Glaug. 😅 The last few years been a golden age for both Macross and Mospeada fans, really.

Oh, I can oblige you there. ☺️

Yeah, but that line art was produced six months before the series began airing, and designs hadn't even been finalized at that point -- note the funky gunpod that Valkyrie is holding, for example -- and we all know how much the subsequent animation contradicts it. Hell, the narrative itself contradicts it, since Max's Valkyrie wears a Zentraedi uniform as a disguise at one point. In the series, Zentraedi soldiers are consistently depicted as the same height as the Battroid Valkyrie, and the Battroid passes through Zentraedi doorways with ease. They aren't tall doorways, either! 😅 Thus, if Zentraedi soldiers are as tall as Battroids (and Quamzin is one of the taller commanders), the Glaug cockpit should be large enough to fit a Valkyrie. Clearly, that scale chart was eventually abandoned entirely by the production... and yet, it's still referenced in official stats, that unfortunately determine merchandising scales. 😒 If only the Hasegawa or Bandai staff would take the time to actually watch the show... 🙄 As long as the merchandisers continue to accept published stats, instead of doing their own research, the problem persists. 😐

Absurdly small. Hasegawa's "1:72" Glaug is barely any bigger than Bandai's Hi-Metal R toy... and considerably smaller than the vintage 1:72 kit. There's nothing right about that consistently-listed 16.5 meter height. 🤣 Maybe Hasegawa based their scaling and proportions on this animation reference. 🙄

The first eight Nacelle figures are now available for preorder from BigBadToyStore, for $33 each... ...although once they're released, tariffs will likely double the cost. 🤕

Yeah, I got it. It's a major improvement in both editing and visual effects, and probably the best version of Alien 3 we're ever gonna get.

Yeah, that's what I meant. It's larger, more posable, and distinctly GeeWunnier. With Fort Max, I'd say the bigger, the better... depending on the asking price, of course. 😛

Prometheus might've been less forgettable if it had been more original. 😛 At the same time, it's far more sophisticated than Alien vs. Predator, on every conceivable level. The performances, the dialogue, the production design, the plot, the music, the visual effects... It's arguably less effective than AvP, but it had so much greater ambition, and I'll take an ambitious failure over a middling success every time. Still, did nobody at Fox ever ask "Why are we remaking AvP?" 😅

Ah, right. It's a flamethrower in Prometheus.

Well, it's got ankle tilt... 😉 But yeah, I'd prefer a figure that looked more like Fortress Maximus and less like a lazy Metroplex retool. 😒

Are you sure about that? 😉 What gives it away, guys? 🤔

As we await more news on Alien: Earth, I've prepared this little intellectual exercise for fans of the franchise. Based on the following treatment, can you identify which film it describes? I've tried to include as many details as possible, without actually giving the answer away. ☺️ Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness” and Erich von Däniken’s “Chariots of the Gods,” the film explores extraterrestrial influences on early human culture. Set long before the Nostromo crew set foot on LV-426 and encountered the titular ALIEN, the story concerns a diverse group of scientists and technicians sent on an expedition by the rich and powerful head of the Weyland Corporation, who is dying and hopes to secure his legacy with a historic scientific discovery. Aboard a ship bound for a mysterious and remote destination with no hope of rescue, the crew are gathered in the cargo hold and sat on folding chairs, beside large industrial vehicles they will use for transportation in the harsh environment they are meant to explore. Mr. Weyland himself presents their mission: investigate an alien structure thousands of years old, discovered by analyzing common design elements present in multiple ancient human civilizations scattered all over the earth. Archaeologists have found clues among the earliest recorded human history, suggesting that people from every continent had been in contact with tall, technologically-sophisticated beings who inspired the architecture and mythology of human culture from its infancy. Our heroes are an even mix of American and European characters, men and women, black and white, as varied in personality as in race. Assigned to lead them is a young woman following in her deceased father’s footsteps. We are not given the details of his tragic death, but it strongly influences her character. There’s a friendly, unassuming scientist who is rudely rebuked by a mercenary he tries to befriend, and the two later bond a little when they find themselves trapped together in the alien structure, before both being killed. There’s a specialist in ancient languages who manages to read and translate many of the inscriptions they discover, and provides much of the necessary exposition in the story. There’s also someone brandishing a gun, despite the heroine’s insistence that weapons are unnecessary. They enter the alien structure (described as a pyramid) using handheld flashlights for illumination, but there is often ambient light provided by an offscreen light source. They encounter alien life within the structure, awakened after centuries in cryogenic suspension, and several of the scientists are impregnated and killed by parasitic life forms that gestate within their bodies; others are killed by the tall, humanoid alien species that built the structure, including Weyland himself. The young woman leading the expedition eventually realizes the existential threat these aliens pose to mankind, and does everything she can to ensure they never reach human civilization. Our heroine is, of course, the only human character to survive the film, but she is unexpectedly assisted by a non-human character and his use of alien technology to escape. At the conclusion of the story, we witness a massive alien spacecraft lift off and leave the planet behind. The film ends with the birth of an entirely new species, a creature who bursts out of the chest of the large humanoid alien impregnated earlier. The newborn opens its menacing jaws and reveals its tongue, and emits a hissing roar as we cut to credits. Name the film. 😊

Thanks for the comparison pics, and great work on the Wave kits! I especially like the blue one. 😁 As always, I'm grateful Moscato Hobby manages to capture mecha designs with more accurate proportions than the licensed manufacturers (vintage or modern)... Mind you, that Yamato's no slouch either.