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    They're just scaled-down versions of the Megahouse ride-armor -- complete with the awkwardly high shoulders and stupidly small tires -- so naturally, there's no Houquet (since Megahouse never made her).
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    I didn't mind Trapper Wolf's brief cameo at the end of Chapter 6, but I was not expecting him to be back in Chapter 10... However, I'm always delighted to see a voice-actor from The Clone Wars get to portray their character in live-action.
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    That would certainly fit their MO. We know from Southern Cross (which they put into production immediately after Mospeada) that they tended to rush these shows through development in those days, and that half-formed and incomplete ideas sometimes made it into actual production scripts. However, I suspect it's more likely that the series was designed and produced from model sheets without physical measurements established, and that concrete stats were only made up after the fact for merchandising purposes.
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    Most Wave kits are awesome, which is why they fetch so much on the aftermarket. I'd highly recommend this one, especially since it's the same scale as the old Imai kits. You can mix-and-match parts to make a decent Armo-Diver, for instance: It's a tiny kit because they're working from the tiny measurements Tatsunoko provided (which we all know don't make a lick of sense). What they call "1:72" is barely even 1:100 scale, based on the animation (or any other real-world model kit scale). Note Imai's standing pilot figure would be exactly six feet tall at 1:72 scale, but there's no way he's gonna fit in that cockpit. Instead, Imai included an undersized seated pilot to fit in their undersized Armo-Fighter cockpit: So yeah, they're tiny kits because they're 1:72 scale in name only.
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    Totally.
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    Pre-ordering at a 40% markup is lucky? No wonder the scalpers are all over these.
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    Yeah, but that's Masterpiece scale, which is a different size altogether. SS'86 Grimlock is at CHUG scale. Mind you, we already have a better Grimlock at this size, too: Masterpiece Grimlock (ironically enough) was always perfect CHUG scale, and he's superior to the Studio Scale figure in every respect... except, perhaps, the lack of Wheelie accessory. Anyway, my MP-8 Grimlock is staying put.
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    Okay, I'm getting tonal whiplash here. Discovery's actually gone full-on treacly now.
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    Yeah, the whole point of "super-deformed" features is to make the character look childish and cute, not obese and ungainly... Epic fail, Cavico.
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    Obviously, 24-karat would be preferable, but 18k gold is nothing to scoff at... But seriously, how does this guy have the kit already? I can't even find a pre-order link.
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    Whoah... Ned and Betty were a married couple in the comics?
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    Whatever was being set up in the second episode, there was no evidence of it in the third... Seeing the bridge crew sharing a little downtime at the end of the episode, it occurred to me how underdeveloped these characters still are. I only remember Detmer's name from the previous episode, and Tilly because she seems to serve in every part of the ship simultaneously... but after 32 episodes, the others are still just familiar faces with no names or memorable character traits. It may be too soon to tell, but third season certainly seems to be more optimistic than previous seasons, despite the rather dystopian future setting. So far, there have been nothing but stand-alone episodes, and it feels like they're still struggling to find the premise for season 3.
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    FRAK!
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    Prepare for disappointment! I still can't figure out how the hell that happened... SH Figurarts used to have the best likenesses at that scale.
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    What a stunning concept! As an SR-71 is grossly out of scale with a battleship, I think we can give that a pass.
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    A 1:6 scale Hovertank? Sure, I've got a double-car garage.
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    I was happy to see so many new 3P reveals there, but Ryan and Stacey's commentary was worse than Japanese television! Like, are they contractually obligated to heap glowing praise on everything? When opinions are so consistently monotonous, they cease to carry any weight and just become noise. Full disclosure: I eventually gave up and muted the audio, so I didn't listen to the whole video, but... was anything even remotely critical expressed about... anything?
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    Their last MCU release, Loki, made that abundantly clear... but that looks to be the least of the problems with the "Birth of Iron Man" Tony, who doesn't even look Caucasian (much less anything like Robert Downey, Jr.)! Despite the awkward English captions, this reviewer has truly mastered snarky sarcasm... ...or else he's the worst reviewer I've ever seen on YouTube.
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    I must say, I'm happy to see the reduced budget hasn't significantly impacted the scope of the storytelling. The Icelandic settings are epic and otherworldly, the visuals retain their feature-film sensibilities, and (other than some dodgy greenscreen compositing) the effects still look great. Ah yes, "The Escape Artist," second-best of the Short Treks. Honestly, though, here's the one real advantage Discovery has over Picard or Lower Decks; since every legacy character is recast, and the production design is so far removed from classic Trek, it's easier to simply accept it as alternate-universe setting (like the Kelvin timeline stories) and judge it on its own merits. Mudd is as unrecognizable as bearded Spock, grey-haired Pike, or hairless Klingons, but that's fine if you approach the show as a remake (regardless of the producers' intentions). With the participation of Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, John De Lancie et.al, the other shows are more difficult to dismiss.
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    That would be awfully disorienting, I imagine. While Lower Decks remains largely episodic, Discovery employs seasonal arcs the same way most modern television series do... and there's enough leftover baggage from season 2 that I'm finding it a little confusing myself (since it's been nearly eighteen months since last season). Actually, we heard him speak in at least two previous episodes from last season ("An Obol for Charon," "Through the Valley of Shadows").
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    That's De'voreaux White as "Argyle." My God, he's 55 now!
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    Oh, absolutely. It was even more obvious than the casket-lands-intact-on-the-genesis-planet ending. I'd rather Picard was ignored, personally. Third-rate Trek is still Trek, but Picard... commits even greater sins.
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    I was so disappointed she doesn't scale with my Frontier Valks... or rather, that we don't have any 1:48 Messiahs.
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