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The Transformers Thread (licensed) Next
jenius replied to mikeszekely's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I still much prefer text reviews and photos to videos but all of us saying that appear to be the minority from my own experience. -
So are you saying to let the first MacII releases pass and wait for someone else to take a stab after learning from Evolution's mistakes? 'Cause the Yamato V1 VF-1 and the Bandai DX V1 VF-25 didn't get good with the later releases... they got good when the company studied their failures a few years later and released an entirely new toy. Also, both those toys cost considerably less than this toy's MSRP which at least helped lower expectations a little bit. I dunno, I know people have been starving for anything MacII so I'm glad they're getting SOMETHING but... they have an uphill battle from what we've seen so far. I'm hoping they win me over with some pretty large revisions in the months to come.
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Terminator 5/Terminator: Genisys, opening July 1, 2015
jenius replied to areaseven's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
He appears to be nano tech. I think this is great, they took the alleged twist ending that was not to be from Salvation and turned it on its head. I don't really have high hopes but at least it looks more interesting than Salvation ever managed. -
Edit. I'll wait for more.
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Did my wife put you up to this? I got everything on super sale super cheap! I can sell it all for what I bought it for... if not more! I don't ask you about how much you spend on your shih-tzus. [/defensive rant against imaginary wife inquiry]
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Yeah, I think my Arcadia VF-1J +GBP cost $188 shipped... not bad.
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There have been a lot of valks over the years I thought would look really good in the blue GBP but at the end of the day... I always found myself putting it back on Hikaru... or Roy.
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The Unlicensed Third Party Transformers Thread
jenius replied to slaginpit's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
You have to handle MP-10 and MP-1 to get a good feel where each one shines respectively. -
Someone commented on my video they had the same issue so we're up to three assuming no shenanigans. Still not an epidemic. It's nothing like the bent tail spikes on the original 0S.
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It's not like that's retail. I feel like mine was $200. I'm not saying that's cheap by any means but not $330.
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Shouldn't that post go in whatever new forum you're jazzed about instead of preaching to the people happily still purchasing these items?
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You can tell the different version 1 toys really easily, the early ones require you to pull parts out of the arm to store the gun.
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I was told the mold would be too expensive though the door was left open for 'maybe some day.'
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Oh yeah, I've watched Robotech The Movie... it's awful.
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When I wrote about the failure of Academy someone wrote me in regards to The Masters arc and said that HG had uncontested right to Southern Cross. HG just knows people aren't very fond of that series so they don't cater to it.
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The 1/60 V2 definitely diminished the love affair with the 1/48 though there's usually somewhere out there looking to buy a 1/48 still. All things considered, they've held their value from MSRP very well. If you remember a time though when 1/48s demanded premiums over MSRP, for the most part that's gone.
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Yeah, I'm sure the word "Macross" pops up in both the original show and the Robotech adaptation. In a new movie they almost certainly would not use the word "Macross" which may seem counter-intuitive due to the trademark HG has but that relates to defense of their rights to the footage of the original series and doesn't denote rights to the IP. There are lots of other things that would be off limits from the original "Macross Saga". There'd be no Roy Focker/Fokker, Minmay, the term "Zentraedi", and they'd probably have to ditch the major theme of Macross where an idol's song basically saves humanity as that doesn't quite sound generic to me. So... I think what you're left with is Battlefield Earth with transforming fighter jets. Since so much of the Macross Saga overlaps with Macross, what we'd likely get is some amalgamation of the entire series in one movie. HG can use the Invid and the Zor/Robotech Masters, and they can use the characters from those arcs, so maybe Rick Hunter and his best friend Scott Bernard will team up to fight the Masters invasion of earth with the help of Zor, a runaway Masters scientist and the new super spaceship he has developed.
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It won't be pre-order panic if they go mass release.
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Still in a holding pattern waiting for more info. My guesses are 3/2016 (or never), 7000 Yen MSRP, normal Japanese retailers except for some stuff that will be Tamashii exclusive.
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There's a big licensing thread about it, and plenty of Robotech fan denial, but I think the way things sorted out is that Harmony Gold has the right to do whatever they want with the SDF Macross FOOTAGE (by way of Tatsunoko) and the right to merchandise based on that footage (including comics and video games as well as toys, apparel, etc.,They don't have any rights to the designs or characters. There are lots of unique elements of Robotech that were created by way of the adaptation, for example, Rick Hunter is not a character in SDF Macross though he may share a lot of similarities to HIkaru Ichijo. So Rick Hunter could certainly show up in Robotech the Movie but Hikaru Ichijo obviously wouldn't. In Macross "Protoculture" isn't a fuel macguffin so Robotech the movie can have Protoculture fuel (though one hopes they'd change the name to something that wasn't obviously lifted and seemed nonsensical for a fuel). That's why the folks at Harmony Gold are always careful to say "We have the rights to everything Robotech", because they do have the rights to anything that is UNIQUE in the Robotech story... they don't have the rights to everything MACROSS. There are lots of elements in both Robotech and Macross that would fall under "generic scifi" tropes so those too could be used. You could probably have giant aliens, transforming vehicles, etc without any issue provided they weren't identical to the ones in Macross or have identical names if those names are specific (so you probably wouldn't have an Exedore or Breetai).The generic field is one where the producers would want to err on the side of caution as to not invite a lawsuit by BigWest. At the end of the day, not being able to do Macross really shouldn't be that big a deal. They can still tell a story about a retrofitted alien ship fighting to save Earth with transformable fighter planes... it's just a lot of names will change and none of the vehicles will look like they did in the show but as others have mentioned, Transformers already showed us that our childhood isn't going to the big screen, it will be something else.
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Started shipping them only 4 months late huh? Toynami is really improving. They seemed really pricey for static figures so I passed.
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I thought it was 4/30.
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My predictions: 1) The VF-30 will be in the new show 2) The big change from the YF-30 to the VF-30 will be that on the VF-30 the tailfins will fold up and that the central missile bay will be a tiny bit different. This will let Bandai use the mold for some milkin'.
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I thought there were brownies (if not just accents) and then a gray VF-0A with a white stripe that was Shin's. Then Kawamori said the brownies are a contrivance because in reality everyone would fly one that looks like the 'unknown soldier' release, including Shin. Then someone reminded Kawamori the reason there are different paint schemes is to sell more toys so he said "Oh yeah, then Shin was gray with a white stripe and the CFs had brown accents." So yes, Shin has a unique VF-0A but if you were talking about "stats" it'd be the same as all the other VF-0A valks. Roy has his VF-0S which is a unique bird in both head and paint scheme.