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    Woof, I'd love to preorder the three valks but the prices have gone up and that's a big hit all at once...
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    Bio Roid

    jenius replied to jorawar_b's topic in The Workshop!

    They are 3D printed though so that means you'd have to sand and paint them right?
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    My 80s Corvette was junk compared to the new ones.
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    I don't understand how anyone would run a business this way for NEW items. It's like none of these companies took a managerial accounting class... it CAN'T be profitable. Having a bot that scans Japanese sites and marking them up for older items? Sure... but even that business probably wouldn't turn a real profit. I still haven't received a shipping notification for my VF-31AX from LP. I'm not in a rush to get it but it's hard not to construe problems getting stuff shipped as a company that doesn't have their act together.
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    While COVID certainly hasn't helped anything, toy companies have been screwing up things like this since the beginning of time. With as much going on, very small tolerance changes cause very large issues. Hopefully Bandai is getting the feedback and making fixes to the mold.
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    I was probably just catching some daylight glare on the monitor.
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    Kuma, I feel like the last few photos are getting a little washed out... almost like the white background is illuminated. Might just be my monitor...
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    Alfred is in the CNC shop all the time, getting things done. The Christian Bale movies handled this well by having Wayne industries be a weapons manufacturer and Bruce just keeps walking off with the prototypes.
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    This is very unlikely... imagine just trying to run a business that way. All the extra effort you would create for less profits. You would be so much better served simply notifying customers that the item was out of stock and refunding their payment. It's much more likely that they save money by having the fewest number of employees and less automation so it just takes forever to get items out. It might be that they received several shipments all at once and some toys are buried behind others. My guess for NY would be more like layaway with distributors... they ran into cash problems so they only received stock as they were able to pay for it once their credit soured. We were just amazed at the slow trickle of stock they had... not realizing it actually meant they had become a insolvent.
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    It's fair to say that friction isn't the only way Styrofoam can damage paint. We've seen paint adhere to lots of things over the years... here are anecdotes from the Internet: 1) Yamato 1/48 pilots had the paint on the butt adhere to the plastic chair 2) Bandai DX SV-262 toys had the paint adhere to the shiny plastic inserts Bandai added specifically so the paint would NOT adhere 3) Flightpose stands with clear tops ripped the paint off various toys So sure, Styrofoam can doom paint through friction and if it's that grabby, it's probably stripped more than a few toys of their paint. I'd bet heat and humidity also exacerbate that problem. Ultimately, the solution is a piece of plastic between the Styrofoam and the toy and that is what Bandai does. For what it's worth, I was responding to questions about Styrofoam causing yellowing.
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    LOL, I said it was possible in the quote. This is how I would rank the issues: 1) UV 2) Heat 3) Poor quality plastic (this can vary from batch to batch and even part to part (especially if multiple different plastics are used) of the same toy and probably varied more in the past) 4) Other - including outgassing of packaging UV and heat also make any issues with 3 and 4 worse, compounding issues. A cool, dark, dry place is the best you can do and if it STILL yellows it's probably #3, possibly compounded by #4 might. The real problem with Styrofoam was wear, not outgassing. Putting a toy in Styrofoam causes a friction rub that can strip paint. That's why toys now come with a layer of plastic between them and the Styrofoam.
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    Given how many pristine toys from the 80s came in Styrofoam, I'm pretty skeptical. At the very least, outgassing Styrofoam is a distant third to other environmental hazards, particularly heat. It's possible today's plastic is more susceptible to outgassing, or that today's Styrofoam outgasses more, but I think the fact Styrofoam isn't completely inert leads to it getting faulted for plastic's natural degradation (which is itself sometimes hurried by variances in production).
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    Definitely a good read with sure fantastic sci-fi elements.
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    LOL, thank you for trying to make sense of this...
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    Bio Roid

    jenius replied to jorawar_b's topic in The Workshop!

    I think that's 1/18ish
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    When your local grocery store closes and opens as Walmart, it's not the same local grocery store
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    That might have had some punch before nearly every critical review dubbed it the same thing.
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    Honestly, you can watch just the last 5 minutes of this and it all gets summed up pretty nicely.
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    Season 5: Cobra Kai the College Years. Worked for Saved By the Bell... right? RIGHT?? LOL, this show has been such a guilty pleasure for me.
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    I would DEFINITELY watch that with expectations of something similar to a long Power Rangers episode.
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    After reading The Expanse I picked up the first Hyperion book since it is cited as an inspiration. I'm really enjoying it so far.
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    Watched it last night. All of the sequels have been really bad so I had low expectations other than that there would be some good spectacle. I was a little surprised by how soft the plot was... instead of "save the world" it was "find my girlfriend." Granted, that's a perfectly valid plot for plenty of movies, but after a bunch of "save all of humanity" stuff, it took a lot of punch out of it and sort of spoke to the whole movie's watered-down nature and sometimes invented conflict. There was some spectacle though so... I'm not ANGRY I watched it.
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    This whole back and forth is still nonsense... All of it is changeable, especially when Seto builds arguments around canon original series doctrine. Robotech is a mess. The invid were feared by everyone... The Masters warn about them... I think even the Zentraedi do. Sure, they may have seemed like clumsy bugs in the show, but that doesn't mean they couldn't have been more formidable in the past or even that they're just poorly represented. Even in what we see, the REF is like "meh, we'll never beat them, let's just blow up Earth." So, if you want them to be stronger than the Zentraedi, then they were. If Seto wants them to be the weakest, that's easily arrived at also.
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    It's sci Fi, you can literally have whatever you want happen. You can make the invid way more powerful than the Zentraedi... As long as you do something that explains how things get where they go.
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    I don't think Robotech has a canon other than what's in the show any more. They basically went YOLO with their comics and the brand is dead. If someone were to make a comic with the Invid squaring off against the Zentraedi, it would just be best that it doesn't directly conflict with the show. Even then... I don't think anyone is minding the store, so really it's up to how flexible the readers were with whatever the comic maker peddled.
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