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    That's pretty much the end-all be-all of SW. I wouldn't be surprised if half these people are on screen for 0.5 secs just the "establish" them in SW lore and get them an action figure for the first movie---then ACTUALLY have a role in the next film. Yeesh, I was just looking up the new LEGO B-wing---and it comes with a "General Cracken" figure. Who? Googled him---in a ROTJ deleted scene and never actually seen in theaters etc, but now he's got enough backstory to get a figure with the B-wing set... I don't think he's even on the DVD cut-scenes etc. So yeah, that's SW in a nutshell.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Well the short version is the first movie is a sorta DYRL-esque retelling of the TV series' first half. Similar things happen, but not quite how they did on TV. The second movie is like a completely different second half of the TV series. More than just an "alternate ending" it's an alternate entire chain of events. I liked the first movie better than the second, but I think I'm in the minority.
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    I'm going to buy the "ocean" stickers----cost way more, but as I'm finicky about "insignia crispness and border thickness"---I think they'll be worth it. (and time-saving, too----may replace all my FP Not-Stunticon insignias if they work out) Check THESE insignias out: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Ocean-TF-Decepticon-metal-Logo-decals-sliver-background/613353_1863551140.html
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    Custom colors would be the hardest thing. The Jolly Rogers often had to barter to get the extra-dark grey they needed for their low-vis tailfins, as that color was only supplied in small quantities for painting the modex numbers and nothing else. The dark grey tailfins were "allowed but not condoned"----they'd have to get the needed paint from other squadrons. Luckily, they have no need for red, while the Black Knights and Diamondbacks need a lot....
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    BTW, Benny's ship is up at LEGO.com. Free shipping plus free bonus mini-set. http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816
  7. David Hingtgen
    If you paid $60 for an Ozma, then it's a V1. Just a pair of broken legs from a V2 Ozma would probably go for more than $60.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Louder than old F-15's? Wow.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Yet still have kibble. (Yes, his "wings" are part of his look----but certainly not the tips of the tail hanging off his knees)
  10. David Hingtgen
    For Feralcon insignia---trim. Bovis' needs a lot of trimming (you'll only have a hair's-breadth border left) but Leo's should fit with minimal trimming if any. Using the small ones just look bad IMHO, but most people end up going that route because it's easier. Anyways, Maketoys MTCM-04 Guardia (Not-Defensor):
  11. David Hingtgen
    So is it a true mis-assembly issue or a weird "unintuitive transformation" issue to get the windows lined up?
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    1/48 dead?

    David Hingtgen replied to RCB's topic in Toys

    1/36 isn't a standard modeling scale. 1/32 is a common model airplane scale. 1/35 is common for tanks/jeeps/helicopters.
  13. David Hingtgen
    The NUNS triangles crack too, but it's the ones underneath that crack first and more severely.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Acidstorm does, by far.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Yup yup yup. I want all 3, but the first of those especially. Give me a TOY-color Thundercracker. That means orange canopy (not yellow), silver paint (not grey plastic nor gunmetal paint), and BLACK hands/feet---not charcoal grey. And of course, and most importantly, a rich deep metallic blue overall. Not "classics" in-between blue. Thundercracker has never looked better than his G1 toy colors, yet that's the only scheme variation that hasn't ever been seen since like 1987. They keep doing toy-toon hybrids, which isn't as good. If Bluestreak can consistently get every subtle variation done, Thundercracker can too.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Because doing it in-flight would be too much like Inception.
  17. David Hingtgen
    I get most of my 3P stuff from Captured Prey.
  18. David Hingtgen
    I think I've decided on how I'm going to replace the front canards (they just do not "fit" with the rest of the ship---they have no sweep nor taper, and the little flags are odd---going to replace with the classic 4x8 "space wing" on a hinge to allow them to retract along the sides of the nose, with tiled "strakes" to help give them support) but still have no clue how I'm going to re-do the wing-tip-ship's attachments. Would like to possibly use pins as there attachment mechanism, but non-clicky hinges etc may work. It's likely it'll be up for order at Lego.com itself at like midnight of the 1st, and they're doing both a free mini-set giveaway and free shipping over $75, so that's even better than getting from Amazon.
  19. David Hingtgen
    I see those stripes mentioned so often, but checking up on it, they only seem to be on the very very first ships. Like the next 10 year's worth didn't have them--so I don't see them as "essential" to "Classic Space".
  20. David Hingtgen
    Takara seems to be more like Bandai every day. "Ozma VF-25 reissue? Nope! Lets do ANYTHING but..." "Normal colors MP-10 reissue? Nope, let's try army camo and then an EVA..."
  21. David Hingtgen
    Based on reported warehouse numbers etc, it's looking like MP Grimlock will make MP Prime seem "easy to find" comparatively. So if you're going to get one, and going to pay $$$ for one---get one of the older-better versions!
  22. David Hingtgen
    Assuming everything is in fighter mode positioning: There is a tab poking upwards from the top of the intake-piece that goes into a slot inside the intake's roof. Thin that tab a bit. I think I made mine about half as thick, removing from the front side. But this can certainly vary valk-to-valk I think. Mainly I just compared it to my well-fitting right-side-piece, and carved the left one's tab to match it.
  23. David Hingtgen
    But it was a -25 that knifes them in the gut.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, my left intake cover now fits up tight and close.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Thinning the tab for the left intake cover a smidge actually makes it more secure----it's loose because it can't go in all the way to be fully latched, not loose because there's too much clearance.
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