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Arcadia based.

Night of the mini dead was my favorite. Liked season 3 much better than season 2.

I want, but will wait and see if they do a PF version.

Been considering getting rid of the 2 HMR destroids and looking for a Yamato Tomahawk.  I will buy this.

On 12/12/2021 at 1:19 AM, Seto Kaiba said:

To be honest, I don't think it's even necessarily anything visual.

It's that the writers and producers working on these projects can never seem to leave well enough alone.  They always feel compelled to mess with the original story and/or setting in some way, and it's usually detrimental.  Like whatever the hell the coked-up writers of Dragonball Evolution were thinking.  Or how Speed Racer's writers wasted precious screen time on a nonsense subplot that tried to fake out Racer X's identity.  Or Ghost in the Shell's writers devoting fairly half the movie to a convoluted subplot intended to justify whitewashing the very explicitly Japanese Motoko Kusanagi.  

Cowboy Bebop's writers couldn't resist messing with almost everything.  Anime Spike as a mysterious loner with a temper who didn't care for dogs, kept his past a secret, and spent his time pining for his lost love Julia.  Netflix Spike is a quirky action-comedy protagonist with a noodle obsession, who squees over Ein rather than proposing corgi carbonara, and has an atrocious gangland alias of "Fearless".  Anime Jet was a salt-of-the-earth ex-cop with a great love of music and excellent mechanical skills who keeps the Bebop and everything on it in working order while also serving as the ship's cook.  Netflix Jet is a barely competent dumbass who has to be told that you use a bidet to wash your arse, not your feet... which comes off as more than slightly racist since he's played by a black actor.  ESPECIALLY since his backstory was changed to also make him an ex-convict.  Anime Faye was a femme fatale, a liar, and a con artist with a gambling addiction who eventually falls in unreciprocated love with Spike.  Netflix Faye has none of anime Faye's character traits except her tragic backstory... and is now a fanservice bisexual.  Anime Vicious was a complete psycho with a ruthless will to power who had no problem at all with murdering his superiors to seize control.  Netflix Vicious is... Lucius Malfoy with a katana, complete with compulsive toadying.  Netflix massively expanded Julia's role and made her a main villain but she also has to be sympathetic so she's a domestic abuse victim as well.  It goes on and on and on.  There's basically no character in this mess that resembles their original version.  I think perhaps the most egregious case is Gren, the crime syndicate member who was a victim of human experimentation in the original work is now just a non-binary character with none of their original backstory.

With so many arbitrary and detrimental changes to the characters and story, it doesn't feel like Cowboy Bebop... it's more like an original skit performed by Cowboy Bebop cosplayers at an anime convention.

You nailed the problems with the characters better than I could, kudos. 

In the anime, Jet knew about Spike's past, which was a big part of his understanding of Spike (but is mysterious to us the viewer and is slowly revealed throughout the series).  In Netflix's version, we know too much too soon.  

And to blame us Gen X'ers for its demise...just look at the Rotten Tomatoes scores.  It simply isn't very good or well liked.

 

The series is fun, but nuts.  A good ride, I'm glad Netflix stuck with it. 

So we are finally getting the Tomahawk??? 

I'm divesting of most of my HMR, but will keep destroids and Zentran mecha. Hopefully we see Phalanx, Q-Rau and N-Ger in the near future.

I'd give it 3/10.  The space CG was pretty well done as was the planet settings.

Jet was accurate but kinda oddly cartoony-acted.  The whole thing is kinda that way.  I didn't like how the facial hair was done, it looked fake.  The kid bit was dumb and totally unnecessary.

Spike talks too much.  Cho got some of him right, but Spike's a man of few words in the original show.  The backstory was fine.  Did they make up the name "Fearless" just for this or was it in the manga?

Vicious is all wrong.  He's like a Dick Tracy or Tim Burton Batman villain.  He's not brooding, just an petulant child with daddy issues.  Gone is his military background on Titan, and all the complexity of the character.

Faye is just all wrong.  All the enigma of Faye for most of the series is completely missing, as is her suave bravado.  Instead she's just...an American teenager in a 20-something body.  I take issue with the NEED to change her character.  She was a good character in the anime.  She's not in this show. 

Julia...was she a singer prior to this?  She was mysterious by design in the anime...and she's not mysterious in this show.

IMO the whole show should have been a lot darker and less cartoony.  More like season 1 of Altered Carbon.

Rebuild 1.11 and 2.22 were really good, I liked them a lot.  Rewatched both a few days ago.

3.33 started getting a little nuts and 3.0+1.0 IMO got totally whack.  I actually rewatched 3.33 last night, I know 14 years passed, but it just didn't feel like Eva to me.  Even Misato in the goggles just felt weird.  How did they (NERV and WILLE) have the manpower (or machine power) to construct everything they did in it?  The Lillith CG was (again IMO) just bad.  Like 20 years ago college student bad.   Unfinished and amateurish.  And the souls being represented by full sized Evas just...huh? 

Ugh, and my building of the Andromrda may be done after 9 issues. 

Can anyone post the link to #120 on HLJ? I can't find it. 

Yawn.  I just want the other 2 VF-1A supers in HMR.  I don't have PO for the VF-1D or GBP-1S, will see how available those are around release time.

I still have to do 109 (I also have a couple fix issues to get from HLJ), but my test fit is similar.  Especially under the aft main battery like yours.  Part of the issue may be the bulkhead before the fighter bay.  When I'm done with the wiring I'll try my best to deal with the gap.

Does anyone have an idea what kind of paint to get to touch up some of the blue parts?  I have a couple stress marks on bits hanging off the tower.

Full kit up for sale. 

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5575378759&campid=5338273189&customid=&icep_item=224446564590&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg&toolid=11111

I will end up trimming the anchor after much testing.  I still need to do 109 and fix a couple previous issues. 

Has anyone else gotten a binders for the manuals?  I'm disappointed they only hold 15 books.  Plenty of empty space remaining.  I'd rather they hold 20-25. 

Would much rather have figures to scale.

Would be cool if they did a re-cut of the season 1 in linear order prior to releasing season 2.  Anyone who wasn't familiar with the story or characters was completely lost watching it the original way.

The MEP shock trooper is pretty cool and stylized.  The design looks a lot like the early episodes.

Seriously, why is Robotech even part of this discussion?   Its a DEAD franchise which by-and-large makes crappy merchandise.

HG would have done good to basically tombstone Robotech and just do the work to license/distribute Macross and Mospeada internationally.  That way they get access to Bandai and Arcadia toys and those companies just have to put the little HG sticker on the boxes and pay the licensing and get open access to the international (and American) markets.

HG should absolutely look to reboot Mospeada with the new designs like was done with SB Yamato.  Thats a potential money-maker right there.

I'm personally not getting HMR TV Max and Kakizaki if they release them, especially with the beautiful DX 1A Max, I just want a DX TV Kakizaki (not trying to derail into a DX thread).  I will get a trident stand just for HMR DYRL skull squadron, that would be sweet.  Sold off my DX DYRL Kakizaki as the DYRL color schemes are simply too basic and similar.  I sold of the DYRL Hikaru 1S because I have the DX. 

If I can secure the DX 1D, I'll sell my HMR 1D also.  I just want 3-4 more DX and I'm out (TV Kakizaki, 1D, 1A CF and maybe a 2nd TV 1S + booby duck armor...but I want a Hikaru pilot and name on the canopy).  But I might be willing to swap out my Arcadia 1J Max and Milia for DX's also. 

Really wanting to pare things down a bit to a single representation of each valkyrie design. 

I'd really like for them to finish DYRL skull squadron (Max/Kakizaki), the 2 remaining destroids (Phalanx/Tomahawk) and then the TV CF Zentran mechs (Q-Rau/N-Ger).  Would happily exchange a good HMR Milia Q-Rau for the old Yamato one. 

As it is I've been selling off any HMR that I have large scale versions (DX/Arcadia) and ones I wasn't super fond of. 

I installed the issue I messed up (AA mechanism) and have drilled out the AA guns that had broken pegs in the bottom.  Electronics tested, so far most everything works...Not sure about the side torpedoes though.  I need to re-solder one of the light boards for the wing lights and then fit the drilled out turrets (would rather have a new issue #079).  Was pretty stoked how well the 3rd bridge opening mechanism worked.  Otherwise done through issue #95.  Hope to finish it this month.  Then will see what I can come up with regarding the subscription-exclusives, and figure out if I want to start the Andromeda and whether I to keep up with the Macross one (I've abandoned it around #50...and one of the wings doesn't work).

That said, my entire 2nd set 001-110 will be going up on EBay soon.  Likely going to be 11 boxes to ship.

Still waiting on HLJ to fill #110...

I'll quit after the 02 (unless they make 4-armed 03).  I don't care for the Rebuild 00 as much as the 00' from the TV show.  In general I like the show designs better.  Especially the 00' and 03, despite them having the same body.

On 2/20/2021 at 9:37 PM, sumyumgoy said:

My friend and I have had success ordering directly from them through a proxy.  We used Zenmarket but I'm sure any of the other options would work too.  He actually just had to order a replacement #105 direct through them since his issue was missing a piece (part 105-3).  Mine is still in Private Warehouse with HLJ so hopefully it is not a prevalent issue but you guys might want to check yours just in case.

Weird, Hachette doesn't have issue #79 listed. I could use a replacement. Warning about glueing the AA turrets down...