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Does HG mean "High Grade"?

Thanks, I was going to consult my Mospeada Design Works book when I got home.

Looks good.

Not a drone, it's a precursor to the Legioss, I forget the name of it.

I think it's all the same color, just different lighting and camera. The promotional pics look a little overexposed whereas the video at the event leans the opposite direction.

I'm starting to unpack my collection at my new place and came across these. If I haven't opened them yet, I doubt I ever will, so I'm going to sale them... but I have no idea what they're worth. Anyone know?

Graydon is the perfect example that the writing was subpar. He could have been interesting as the betrothed... but never was. They didn't work that whole betrothed angle at all, it was immediately forgotten. It seemed like they were setting him up to turn against the team by giving hints to a dark past.... but that went no where. Then they let him languish in this puppy love state for a while which made zero sense since he was part of a team working to reunite the girl with her love. He could have been interesting as a fledgling magician... but he wasn't until like the last two episodes and then it was introduced with absolutely no lead up... like one day they were like "this guy sucks as a character, we should do something to make him interesting." Turning the bonereavers into sympathetic good guys was also... bizarre and handled so weakly... like "hey, let's drop a reveal, and then they're all friends" ignoring all the history and repercussions that go along with that. So yeah, count me in the group that says poor writing really hindered this show.

Whoa.

I loved him in Fringe (and everything since).

They need to figure out less expensive ways to make the shows so it's easier to keep them going.

Did Yeti sell his files?

There was buzz about how it wouldn't be renewed before the finale aired so I would have been much more surprised if it did go on. I don't think I could have convinced my wife to give a second season a chance.

I might be up for something like that. I was thinking I should get a booth with the vendors and sell all the Transformers I never got around to opening.

All true... Except they're avoiding hot sellers and giving us the B and C tier paint schemes.

Live action would make so much more sense if they were going to change the tone and make it much darker... they won't do that because, if they were, they would be wiser to not associate it with the fun cartoons. I think all the live action remakes of animation are a very interesting study as film makers wrangle with how the medium impacts the story telling. My kids LOVE the Train Your Dragon story so I'm certian to be watching this.

I would guess that a DYRL VF-1A Hikaru will come with the circle for his super parts, probably just thrown in the bag with the instructions. They will then do a standard reissue of the super/strike parts. Of course, Bandai has thrown us some curveballs in the past, so we'll see. Why did we get AngelBirds and Hayao before Hikaru's 1A? Crazy.

Is there currently no DX VF-1 toys on the horizon? I feel like they should always have us looking forward to something.

I don't really recall Orguss 2 at all but the badging makes me think it's the main mech from that show.

This year, I'm almost certain I'll be able to make it. Maybe I can even help in some capacity now that I'm fairly local.

This should be what welcomes you at the local comic book store.

I have a 10 year old and a 7 year old and they asked to see it so we all went. I was honestly, very impressed my 7 year old daughter hung through the whole thing. It's so visually interesting, that helps a lot. That said, it does end with like 45 minutes of pure violence and I was questioning my parenting afterward... though she said she liked it so that's cool. Next family movie will be Mario or something to reset

Looks like it will be available for more than a month from the Tokyo store so hopefully that means it won't be so hard to come by.

Do we know any release information about it?

Wow, never seen that before!

I was so excited when this arrived, I was really looking forward to doing a comparison to the newer 1/12 cockpit I had on the way. Another member here had moved and needed to downsize and offered to hook me up. Unfortunately, the trip to me was a very rough one and I'm not even sure perfect packaging would have resulted in a pristine display piece. Usually I don't allow my hobbies to make appearances at the office but, when this thing arrived at work, I was so excited to see it that I brought the boxes to a conference room. On my way I heard that dreaded 'jingle' that told me there were loose parts inside. There are two boxes, the very sturdy base, which came out unscathed was the first box I opened. The second box was the cockpit and when I opened it I saw the big crack down the center of the heat shield and hoped that meant the heat shield had busted up and took the brunt of the damage.... unfortunately, that wasn't the case. The pilot figure had been bounced so hard into the canopy that it broke the heat shield above it, messed up the canopy, and splintered the pilot and many parts of the cockpit. Yuck! I started formulating a plan. My thought was that I could salvage everything by making a "Farewell Big Brother" VF-1S cockpit. I would embrace the damage, toss the pilot figure and make a blood effect on the seat. I spoke to Palantirion about my plans. At the time, I knew him as another enthusiast, we shared some fun custom ideas, then we met up and he asked me to bring the cockpit so he could assess the damage. At the shop, he was looking at it and we discussed the type of damage a Queadluun Rau would do to a cockpit vs. the type of damage that FedEx (or UPS) would do to one... and they weren't very similar. To my great astonishment, he said "You know, I think you'd be better off restoring it." I looked at the crumpled cockpit canopy and thought that was akin to asking for a miracle. I think he saw how completely over-my-head the scope of this project was and took pity on me. "Let me see what I can do." Words he would spend the next multiple weeks regretting I'm sure! Enjoy this WIP journal folks! In my estimation, from my standpoint, it's documentation of the miracle that was worked. I'll do a video for anymoon so you can see just how amazing it came out. A little later, I'll do that comparison to the 1/12 scale cockpit.