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    Love the Battlestars!
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    Different outfits for Stig and Ray? That offers some intriguing possibilities...
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    About what you'd expect -- more purple, more green, more jets. ACE-01 "Tumbler" would make a fine Masterpiece Cliffjumper, if only he had a decent face sculpt... but alas, that ship has sailed. Maybe XTB's "Toro" will fare better...
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    That would seem to be the majority consensus: "Gabriel" provides a better robot mode, and "Terminus Gigantus" provides a better alt. mode. I'm in no hurry to transform my MP Omega Supreme -- it's hard enough to make space for in robot mode! -- so "Gabriel" completely satisfies me.
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    I do love me some Gabriel!
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    He really doesn't. No shield, no gauntlets... just some Wakandan spear...? Good eye, Noel. I head-swapped him with a Hasbro figure with decent fists, 'cause Bandai's has dainty wrists and tiny, tiny fists... and if he doesn't have a shield to wield, I don't even know how to pose him. He's just gonna hide in shame at the back of the display anyway. Actually, I didn't bother with either of Bandai's "Homecoming" offerings. Between Hasbro and Revoltech, there are too many similar-looking Spider-Men already on my shelves.
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    New additions to Bandai's Infinity War line-up... ...except for Black Panther, that is.
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    I would take anything that site posted with a Gundam-sized grain of salt... There are factual errors, spelling mistakes, vague and uncredited sources, and they don't even identify the author!
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    Whoah, the missiles have to be purchased separately? Sure, we know there's a precedent for it -- the Hasegawa 1:48 weapon set, for example -- but I would've hoped at least some missiles were included in the main kit...
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    Christ, that is adorable! Thanks for the heads-up.
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    Shh! We don't talk about Robotech here. Use "Mospeada" instead. Viva Mospeada! See, it rhymes.
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    Actually, he was a prominent Predacon from Car Robots (2000), later dubbed into English under the oft-used title Robots in Disguise...
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    But that's Roy, not Hikaru. Hikaru never wore a yellow helmet in the film, nor did his Valkyrie have yellow stripes... I think we'll need to correct the thread title, too.
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    No, they'll be shipping the second run of Stig in September, and the second run of Ray in October.
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    "This show is all about praise and love of the original."
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    A droid rebellion, eh? Droid Rebels? The Droid Wars? Sounds familiar.
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    I love how many obscure Muppet characters they managed to work into that... although I could've done with a little less of the inarticulate Animal. Thanks for sharing!
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    If your friend is serious about his art, he should really invest in an SLA printer. FDM resolution is totally inadequate for miniatures.
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    Let's be honest with ourselves, guys. We're not complaining about the barrel of Ray's beam weapon because it doesn't match Aramaki's illustration; in fact, it's damned close. We're complaining because it's so much smaller than the original Artmic designs we know and love. I'm sure what we're all hoping for -- and what we can expect our good Cap'n to deliver -- is a clip-on barrel that matches the size and shape of the classic Mospeada line art (along with a Mars Gallant H-90 sidearm, "saddle bags," and maybe even an HBT canister), matching the original Artmic designs as closely as possible... right?
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    You're right, Votoms was just as bad. Both shows treated the female combatant as an abnormality, the otherworldly alien; the exception that proves the rule, as it were. Somehow, the Bridge Bunnies and the Pinpoint Defense Barrier crew always struck me as particularly sexist... perhaps because of their emotional immaturity in combat. (It wasn't until the '90s that anime would codify that trope, however, and a further decade before "immature girls in combat" had become a whole genre of its own.) Mospeada is a lot more mature and progressive by comparison... even accounting for Mint!
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    The bike needs to be cast in a much darker blue, too. And as unlikely as it seems, I'd hope the figure was taller and skinnier than the others; I always got the impression that the "Borough Superior" was meant for taller riders, and the "Bartley" was for smaller riders (e.g. female soldiers). Speaking of which, does it surprise anyone else how overwhelmingly masculine Macross was, compared to other shows at the time? Female pilots and combatants featured regularly in Mospeada, Votoms, Orguss, and especially Southern Cross... Gundam even had high-ranking female commanding officers. We'd have to go back to Space Battleship Yamato in the mid-'70s to find a more male-dominated military. Come to think of it, Noboru Ishiguro might've had something to do with that, since he was a prominent member of the creative staff on both Yamato and Macross...
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    The bridge does not need to be removed to fit it back in its box. The original Yamato release used exactly the same styrofoam insert, and the bridge was attached to the ship to begin with. I'm not even sure why Arcadia chose to remove it, actually...
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