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    Hi-Metal R

    tekering replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Absolutely. You've gotta maintain a strict zero-tolerance policy with sunlight. You're gonna need more Fokkers, then. Structurally, no... Aesthetically, yes.
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    At that scale, labors would be tiny; as small as any of Bandai's Robot Spirits or Hi-Metal R toys. Unless they come pre-painted and tampographed, there's no way they'll look that good.
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    Surely we can count on Bandai to finish out a line, right? Right? I mean, it's not like Bandai's gonna leave money on the table... ...right?
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    I think piracy may be the biggest issue. Most Star Trek fans are tech-savvy enough to, say, .torrent shows they don't want to pay for... I suspect the number of paid subscribers is just a tiny margin of the actual number of viewers.
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    Keep in mind, Masterpiece Starscream is a 1:72 scale jet... and a Leader-sized robot. But, those hands are clearly pinned... You'd have to swap out the whole arm at the bicep joint.
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    Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Fury Road. It's the perfect scale for a robust action figure and vehicle line.
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    Zeta did a decent job with "Catapult," their Masterpiece Slingshot: Rotating vector thrust nozzles, starboard-mounted refuelling probe, even the way the cockpit canopy opens... Oh, and it transforms, too.
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    Well... damn! Autobot cars, to be exact... I mean, most of them... Yeah, but we need some shorthand to describe their relative robot mode scales, and the Autobot deluxe cars are the most consistent measure... So Masterpiece is expressed at 1:32 scale, CHUG is 1:35 scale, Studio Series is 1:40 scale, etc. This is never going to apply evenly to alt. modes, of course. I'd like to think so, but... Hasbro has proven otherwise on too many occasions to overlook. I assume nothing with them.
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    That's even assuming Studio Series figures from the '86 film would be to scale with Earthrise figures... 'cause they certainly haven't been so far. Going all the way back to Classics, the so-called CHUG scale has been a fairly consistent 1:35th. Compare Sideswipes, for example: Universe, Siege, Earthrise, even the Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon deluxes have been equal in robot height and alt. mode wheelbase. But then comes Studio Series Sideswipe: Considerably smaller, just as all the Studio Series releases have been compared to Deluxe-class figures of the last fifteen years. In order to maintain a greater scale-accuracy across the line, most characters that received Leader-class figures in previous lines are Voyager-class in Studio Series, and the smaller characters have been equally downsized to account for it. The alt. modes hew closer to 1:40, which definitely won't scale properly with Siege/Earthrise figures (or the CHUGs that preceded them). Has their been any indication that non-Bayverse characters in Studio Series will buck this trend?
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    It takes remarkably steady hands to do that kind of detailed work... but I'm disappointed that Timothy didn't fix some of the deficiencies of the sculpt. The missile launchers on the front forks, for example: Mine's far from finished, but that was the first detail I had to fix.
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    In terms of price, too.
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    I was hoping for a reissue of RAH Unit 2, rather than a whole new Unit 1 toy at damn near the same scale... Ironically enough, it's my old Tsukada Hobby Unit 2 that's a floppy mess. The damn thing isn't even articulated -- it's just a hollow vinyl figure -- yet it can't handle its own weight at room temperate!
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    Not just Armo-Fighter, but the other modes as well... I question this assumption, simply because (as Guyffon noted) it's so accurate to the original design; much more so than any previous toy, in fact. While Sentinel's ride armor demonstrates several significant departures from the '83 model sheets, their Legioss does not.
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    You can't consider anything to be accurate if it's published in English, since the English version of Mospeada is, er, umm, Robotech.
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    I enjoy building and photographing dioramas, at a variety of scales.
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    Found it on Amazon. Looks great, Kamina!
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    Glad to hear it!
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    Are those from the pilot?
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    Some of us collect more than just the toys, Akim.
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    Oh, I like that. A third-party Minerva, I take it?
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    Plastic becomes harder and more brittle as it gets cold. Try warming up the head with a hair dryer, enough to soften up the plastic so the joint is a little more flexible.
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    This one, you mean?
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    Yeah, but those designs never actually got depicted in the animation... perhaps because they simply ran out of time to incorporate them. You'll notice the date on that lower sketch -- July 22nd, 1983 -- was a mere ten weeks from Mospeada's broadcast premiere, October 2nd. They must have been well into animation production by that point, and yet they were still finalizing designs...? It's incredible that Mospeada ended up looking as good as it did, really, particularly considering how poor some of the later Macross episodes turned out (having been broadcast earlier that same summer). The mecha, characters, and backgrounds were all more consistently drawn and animated for Mospeada than they had been for Macross. Mind you, Macross DYRL was released a mere nine months later, and made everything else look like crap by comparison. What a time that must've been to be an anime fan in Japan!
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    Yeah, but the entertainment press aren't going to consult Trek fans, much less do their own research; some of them can't even be arsed to string a coherent sentence together. Or, you know, let Quentin Tarantino make a Star Trek film.
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    That's the influence of all the other European languages, of course, with their contradictory spellings and unique phonemes; if you research the etymology of "decal," it turns out to be a French abbreviation, which explains the inconsistent pronunciation. Those of us unfamiliar with the French term are likely to read the word based on English phonetics, so we've got it wrong... but if enough people make the same mistake long enough, we end up with new pronunciations like "Paris" (completely different from the proper French pronunciation) that become established as unique for that language. Japanese is full of these ignorant mistakes becoming full-fledged Japanese words, with consistent meanings and pronunciations existing separate from their original English roots. He doesn't watch the shows often, but @jenius knows what he's talking about.
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