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    Adapting video games to live-action is about as successful as adapting anime series to live-action... 😑
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    Congratulations! What model of printer did you buy?
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    I can appreciate how classic design elements have been incorporated into the new sets, including the shuttlecraft interiors: But the production design hews so close to the new movie aesthetics, I just can't see why they're still clinging to the "Prime universe" setting so desperately. Strange New Worlds would be a lot less hamstrung by established canon if were set in the Kelvin timeline. And for that matter, why didn't they just spinoff the adventures of Pine, Quinto et.al. into a new TV series? Would those actors really be so much more expensive than the Toronto casts they're relying on now? 🤨
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    Anyone who knows anything about Star Trek knows this engineering section makes no sense whatsoever. 😑 It's not quite as absurd as the virtually-infinite space around the turbolift shafts, but... are we supposed to believe the only thing preventing an antimatter explosion in this warp core is an invisible forcefield? 🤨 While it's nice to see the characters actually interacting (something Discovery steadfastly avoided), I can't say the same for the stories... They've been so utterly forgettable so far, I literally can't recall anything that happened in last week's pilot episode. Of course, "forgettable" is still the best compliment I've given Star Trek in the last two decades. 😒
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    Sure, there are tons of great BGC designs that have yet to be realized in physical form: ...but if produced, they'd have to be at 1:18th to scale with most existing Aramaki and Artmic merchandise.
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    Yeah, but that vehicle mode... 😍 The camper top was also far more accurate to the Toyota Hi-Lux (and the G1 toy) than the upcoming Masterpiece, which is instead based on the simplified Sunbow animation model. 😑
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    ¥21,780? 🤭 Too little, too late, and too much, TT. 😒 While I admit MP-56 is an improvement (at least in the legs), I remain satisfied with "Terraegis."
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    While I would still contend that season one was worse, I was surprised by how poorly episode 10 concluded season 2. Overall, there were fewer cringe moments in the second season than in the first, but the final episode was chock full of 'em. From plot points to dialogue to visual effects, "Farewell" contained the worst scenes of the whole series. The resolution of Seven and Raffi's friendship felt unearned (if not forced), second only to the "you've gotta be sh!tting me" resolution of Kore's narrative. I only hope to hell that Santiago Cabrera and Isa Briones are now free to pursue promising careers, rather than contributing to the necrophiliac gang rape of TNG that season three promises to be. 😒
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    What's with the apostrophe? 🤨
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    Yes, and whatever fans Kotobukiya is marketing this figure towards will have already seen the screen test in question, or at least the photographs... ...and will know full well that "his iconic EE-3 carbine rifle" wasn't a part of the original white costume... ...nor was the Sacros K-11 sidearm... ...nor were the Wookie scalps... ...nor was the homing missile on the backpack, for that matter. The sidearm had no holster, the left gauntlet had a completely different flame projector, and there was no dent in the helmet! Sideshow did it better: Hasbro did it better: Hell, even the Kubrick figure was more accurate! All Kotobukiya did was repaint their ESB Boba Fett figure white... and they couldn't even get the right shade of white. 🤨 Epic fail. 😒
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    It's more like "acknowledging the work of a hopelessly bad student, whose grades have improved since he's started plagiarizing his older brother's homework." Excellent analogies, however. 😆 Props, too. I particularly like their tricorders.
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    Well, the pilot episode plays out like a Star Trek fan film -- derivative, conventional, utterly predictable, and full of legacy characters that don't really act like you'd expect them to -- but compared to what Akiva Goldsman has done with Discovery and Picard, it's difficult to find fault with Strange New Worlds. 😊 I'm happy to say I'm looking forward to seeing more.
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    I'd buy an MCU Helicarrier.
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    Giant Robo got a mention in the text crawl at the end, just to add insult to injury... 😒 Transformers, however, were completely shafted. 🤨
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    The grammar issue is with the split infinitive "boldly go..." (which should be "go boldly..." of course). 😉
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    Nah, that's just a Photoshop mock-up. I'm far too busy to actually do anything more than swap faces on Houquet for the time being... Are you repainting the bike by hand? 😶
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    Houquet is amazed how much better the bike looks in red.
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    I see @Podtastic continues to bankroll these projects, thus offsetting the cost for the rest of us, increasing the demand for a scale Hovertank, and ensuring the alien bad guys continue their galactic domination. Kudos, my friend.
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    The front fairing is attached with ball joints, so there's actually a great deal of freedom there...
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    Star Trek, with its decades of continuity, technical manuals, compendiums, encyclopedias, visual dictionaries, databases and Web sites, is uniquely suited to that sort of fandom.
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    And after another rigorous round of casting... ...I think I've finally found my Houquet. 👍
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    That's from the Halloween episode. 😉
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    If at first, you don't succeed... ...there's a myriad of other options available at this scale. 😊
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    Seeing as Houquet has such a generic Tatsunoko face, I'm amazed they managed to screw up the likeness so badly. Nah, I'm not going to ignore a problem with such a simple solution: Just heat up the head, remove the hair, and swap out the head with that of a generic 1:12 anime girl figure. Just about any head will look better than Sentinel's. 😒 Now disassembling and repainting the armour, that's gonna take more time.
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