David Hingtgen

Good, modern MG's are better than most PG's.  At this point, the only thing most PG's have going for them is raw size.  Of course there's exceptions, but at this point---I would generally ignore "PG" vs "MG" for most kits, and simply go by "most recent release date".  That will generally be the best version of it.

Are these going to be mass-release, or specialty/online only? 

8 hours ago, Sildani said:

Ah, the Vulcan ship from First Contact. Nicely done. 

It'll actually be the Mirror-Universe version from Enterprise, just to mess with us...   (includes little Zefram Cochrane figure with shotgun) 

I'll assume they didn't add in the "missing" tabs to lock the turret down in fighter mode?  There's slots molded in the legs, but no corresponding tabs on the turret underside.  I've always been convinced they "forgot" to add in the tabs, since the turret "popping up and out a bit if you look at it funny" in fighter mode has always been an issue, along with the shield being forced out of position by the pressure. But if there was a set of turret-tabs to lock into those otherwise-pointless leg slots, then the whole turret/leg/shield area would be rock-solid.  

Ratcheting engine pods?  Oh man...  

Anyways---I hope they improved the paint adhesion on the feet!  I know it was an issue with Ozma's, maybe other -29's as well?  (and actually, my reissue renewal Alto is starting to have issues there, too..)  

I think AMT/Ertl's Klingon Bird of Prey was among their best kits.  Watch the wing joint (several options provided), but other than that it's pretty nice. 

Ok, 9 years, that's a pretty big gap to quote a post, but hey, it is a nice-looking 'vark, with the slats out and everything.  (and even has the glove opened up)

20 hours ago, jeniusornome said:

I do have to wonder too, who was the best pilot in Delta Flight. They make it seem like it was Messer, so was he a really good pilot before? Was Mirage just so-so and Hayate's natural talent for piloting really grated on her nerves? Where's my cool breakdance fighting battroids after the first episode? Sigh. So much potential.

More battroid dancing action?  That would have required them to transform out of fighter mode more than once or twice after the first episode...

DHL is both ridiculously expensive, and ridiculously fast.  Sometimes it's like they just have a courier hop on board the next flight out, carry it through customs, then bring it to you...

27 minutes ago, anime52k8 said:

What is this? A YF-29 reissue in the year of our lord 2020?

That is, sadly, among the least-noteworthy/odd things to happen this year...

Mike--you commented on Tentankil's headsculpt, but said nothing about his teeny-tiny eyes?  I still wonder if it's just me, or what, since nobody at TFW has ever mentioned it either (besides myself).   Am I missing something, or is Tentakil having eyes like 1/4 the size of any other character just not an issue? 

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Reina Prowler is the standard-issue short-haired sugar-and-ice girl with the troubled past who talks in monotone... what most call a Rei Ayanami expy.

That's a disservice to Rei, I think most of her clones floating in the tank had more personality than Reina...

54 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

What's it say about me that you have stacks of awesome-looking games but the one I zeroed in on is Knight Rider?

Zaxxon is what caught my eye.  That may have been the first video game I ever played. 

Even though Wing Zero w/angel wings is my fave Gundam, even I think it's kinda pointless to release ANOTHER 1/100 so soon after the HiRM.  Seriously, give me an MG Delta. Not Delta Plus, Delta Kai, or Hyaku Shiki, just Delta.   I want gold, and I want it to transform. 

Why on earth would they make the Osprey orange and black?  Or is it not actually an Osprey, and just very Osprey-esque? 

Yeah, his gun mode is by the most G1 of this set's gun-modes. 

Wait, so is this an all new, MG 2.0 of Wing Zero Custom? 

22 minutes ago, JB0 said:

I note the US Navy recently launched a retrofit program to step back from touchscreens after an all-touch bridge was tied to two fatal collisions in one year.  Interviews with the crews afterwards was pretty much universally "touch screens suck, can we have our physical controls back?"

Any links for that?  I read a very long article about one of the incidents, but don't recall seeing anything about post-accident interviews about touchscreens. 

4 hours ago, MechTech said:

That's cool. I hear you about carpal tunnel. Right hand is healed, may need to go in for work on the other.

ABS doesn't like to sand smooth like styrene. It gets "hairy." Sometimes acetone can give it a nice surface afterwards like 3D printers use to clean up bias marks on their prints. I started building a model in ABS and that was the only model I ever sold "halfway" done. The cements for it are toxic and then there's the whole sanding thing... - MT

I'd say "fuzzy", but yeah---working with ABS sucks.  Doesn't sand nicely, doesn't glue nicely.  It'll paint nicely, but really likes its "shape/structure" left alone.  

I have so many hobbies I pretty much have to cycle through them.  Like, all my money/time/forum-browsing will be focused on one for a few weeks/months, then switch to one of the others.  Eventually cycling back to see "all the new stuff I missed while I was enjoying my other ones".  

I hate touchscreens during winter---I want to keep my gloves on.  (most "touchscreen-compatible" gloves, aren't) .  Give me a button, not a spot to touch.  Or even better---knobs.  Knobs are the best.   Simple comparison:

My old car, had knobs. Current one has buttons.  A/C and radio, have the same issue.  Want to make a large increase in volume or temp?  Twist knob to right, almost instantaneous. But with buttons? Press, press, press, press, press, press, press, press, press.....   Takes a long time to go from Vol 10 to Vol 30, or change the vents to blowing out very hot or cold if you're trying to keep a meal hot or cold in the seat...     If you want anything other than "off" or "mute"----it'll take a lot of button presses to get there. 

I recall reading about a Russian pilot, who said that many people were designing color-coded screens and instruments for modern fighter jets---but he pointed out that when pulling high-G's, you experience greying out LONG before blacking out, and that color-coding instruments is pointless, or even harmful if it RELIES on the color-difference----it needs to be clear in black-and-white in a dogfight.  

IMHO, pretty much all beast-formers should have the beast-limbs fold away inside the robot, in robot mode.  Anything less is just lazy in this day and age.  All these figures with ginormous hollow robot calves, that leave beast-legs just hanging outside....

Exceptions for ones with ACTUAL animal alt-modes, like first season Beast Wars.  The "wearing animal skins in robot mode" are very much a core part of the look.  

Well yeah---jumping out of a plane has you going DOWN, launching in a shuttle has you going UP.   

22 hours ago, Dynaman said:

  The other item to remember is that so much visually cool stuff, yes even sand was cool in SW unlike the prequels,

Yeah, some prequel people really hate sand...

I'm one of the biggest Seacon fans around, but I passed on all of these, mainly due to price. Plus never being that enamored with Combiner Wars in the first place.  I love combiners above all else, and it's pretty much all I buy---but I just think Hasbro missed the mark, with almost all of them.  Also, I got most of my TFC limb-bots for $63 shipped. A single TFC Poseidon FOOT has more plastic and mass than Hasbro's Snaptrap.  I can't really justify paying $40 for a repainted deluxe when I can get new-mold leaders for 50% more.  (now, I adore the colors on Hasbro's, as they are spot-on to the originals, whereas TFC did mostly TV colors-----if TFC did toy-colors I'd sell my original in a second)      

Overbite ("Cyberjaw" for TFC) is by far the most mis-colored of TFC's, there's very little purple and it's the totally wrong shade (neither toon nor TV), and I'd love to have a new properly-colored one----but $40 is just way too much for a boxy remold of Rippersnapper.