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  1. David Hingtgen
    5 designs are finalists, but only 1 will be produced---go vote! https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/d955d940-972b-4401-b013-eb948fcb5a62 And if you're not sure, I highly recommend/request you vote for the carousel.
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    If you got it shipped from ShowZ on May 14th, then wouldn't it be the revised "Macross-free" version that is even closer to the G1 markings?
  3. David Hingtgen
    Thank you, appreciate the links. Hmmn, looks like the valk itself is identical, no improvement to the fitment of parts or crispness of the deco. (which is inferior to the original releases)
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    Yeah, I can't see it either. Is it like a members-only tweet?
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    Dang, that's an expensive impulse buy, but I might have decided the same...
  6. David Hingtgen
    Was wondering if there's listing of what ones come with what color heatshields--at this point in time, it can be hard to tell what's original vs replacement when buying off Mandarake or Yahoo.jp or ebay etc. And Yamato especially had a nasty habit of photographing prototypes and putting those pics on the box---then changing things (like heatshield or backpack/leg coloring details) for the actual release. Specifically, I'm wondering about ones that may be molded in color vs painted that color, and stripping off Jolly Rogers markings etc. Are black ones always molded that way, always painted that way, etc? Same question for red. *talking about the V2 mold, not the OLD mold
  7. David Hingtgen
    My 1/60 Roy DYRL VF-1S has recently turned yellow similarly. NEVER exposed to sunlight, always kept in a windowless room. And for the past couple (5+ actually?) years, kept inside its windowless box in the closet. It wasn't yellow at all when I packed it up. Unpacking it a few years later--yellow.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Anyone ever tried to get a wing off? On a related note, I swear my landing gear doors used to close flush, but now the right one won't stay down. The gear itself just won't go *all the way down*--only by like 1mm, but it's enough to keep popping the door open/up.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Back left of the new pic---are they teasing a Lt Rand? Slowly working our way through the crew of the Excelsior... (though, the scene/hair is clearly ST III, not ST VI)
  10. David Hingtgen
    It's down again.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Way before the Fine Molds 1/72 F-14 existed, there was pretty much the Hasegawa and Fujimi options. And the Fujimi just had a way better parts breakdown and fit than the Hasegawa. So I imagine a VF-1 from them could have an equally-notable "modeler-friendly while still being highly detailed" aspect to it.
  12. David Hingtgen
    If they manage to make Sharon Apple instead of Skynet...
  13. David Hingtgen
    I'm still glad I bought my 3060 when I did---things have only gotten worse overall with newer stuff/prices, and the 3060 is only SLIGHTLY cheaper now than when I bought mine, despite it being older now. That said, I am tempted by the 4060 Ti 16GB...
  14. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, I'm thinking half of that, budget-wise. Anything $200 or more is better spent on a GPU at this point. Paying a premium for "the very best an old mobo can handle" is a bit of a waste.
  15. David Hingtgen
    None of the CPU's seem like they'd be THAT big an improvement, so I'm currently leaning towards the 5600X, or MAYBE the 5700X "as cheap as can be reliably had from aliexpress"
  16. David Hingtgen
    I don't recall the -23 being so rivet-y around the intakes...
  17. David Hingtgen
    Thinking about upgrading CPU while I'm at it. Would very much like to keep my DDR4 RAM if at all possible. So just new mobo+CPU. Currently have a Ryzen 5 3600. Or is DDR4 old enough that it limits mobo options too much? DDR5 had/has a very slow adoption rate. Looking for just a cheap upgrade, not "a giant leap in ability". Might even do CPU-only. Checking around, it seems the last BIOS update for my mobo will allow the Ryzen 5600 series, but not officially the 5700/5800----but reddit says the 5800 actually works fine.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Used 3090's still go for $$$ because of their 24GB VRAM.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Ended up getting a 990 Evo Plus for my new OS drive. 2TB, because the price wasn't much more than 1TB. And I can finally use my cool anodized M2 heatsink I bought like a year ago... Clonezilla worked great (and fast), and then Diskpart easily reallocated the partitions. But as the old OS drive was the oldest one I had, it was cloned as MBR, and that's not gonna work for Win11 in the future. So used the nifty "MBR2GPT" program that Windows itself apparently has now. And so far everything's working, better/easier than I thought it would. Still have some of the more "finicky" Python/Conda stuff to check out.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, but by that logic, Prime shouldn't be a Freightliner, and Sideswipe shouldn't be a Countach. Just "close enough". But people do tend to often want "the real car/truck" for most toy Autobots--yet give "not the real plane" a pass for the Aerialbots and Seekers...
  21. David Hingtgen
    I just imagine some big guy using Excessive Force™ right before he puts it in the box...
  22. David Hingtgen
    Isn't that just Parzival's version?
  23. David Hingtgen
    Jetfire, and Shockwave? Those are about the 2 most unlikely ones, after gun Megatron...
  24. David Hingtgen
    Do the flux bands glow, or just the headlights? (I'm pretty sure the box is even more BS-y than usual, I doubt we have LED's in the wheels for a flame effect, so I can't trust the box to even really be "semi-accurately hinting" at what parts actually do illuminate)
  25. David Hingtgen
    Saw it yesterday, did "dinner and a movie" (where they serve you at your seat)----I liked it. I think the B/B- rating is about right. Is it great? No, but nothing's as good as Captain America: Winter Soldier. And it's 10x better than true junk like Eternals or Quantumania or The Marvels. People are acting like this is bottom-tier MCU, and it's not at all. It's a solid movie IMHO. Just not, 'amazing'.
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