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if Unique toys take was it's only competition, I'd say TFC had a winner, unfortunately their effort is still a country mile behind MMC's not-predaking.

In that sense the UT one makes up for their lazy partsforming with a lower price and a much better integrated look in combined form compared to the TFC one.

The Ares torso has a simple looking finish but the legs have huge amounts of panel detail in comparison. And then you have the arms; they have more going on than the torso but because of a lot of raised areas instead of the more refined finish the legs have. All those differences makes for a rather slapped together looking combiner when you look at it closelly.

Fisher Price is doing their version of Feral Rex?

yeah. Gonna have to stop watching the show until I watch Thor 2. Way to drive movie sales Disney/Marvel!

Man, Marvel is just on a perfect roll with their marketing!

And now they even have four series directly planned for netflix:

http://marvel.com/news/story/21476/disneys_marvel_and_netflix_join_forces_to_develop_historic_four_series_epic_plus_a_mini-series_event

Wish DC would pull its head out of its gritty ass. I want a Justice League worth a crap.

Wasn’t expecting much but this ended up being one of my favourite not just Marvel movies but comic movies in general. Not even hamfisting the stupid “he is naked lol” gag two times ruined this.

BTW, in this video they explain the significance of

So are you telling me that the Avengers answered for the destruction that they caused? Did Tony Stark "answer for it" in Iron Man 3? Did Thor "answer for it" in Thor 2? Those movies and others like them of course being nothing but filler between Avenger movies? Let's not forget there was also mass-destruction in those two movies as well but neither Stark or Thor faced any consequences for the destruction that they helped to cause YET AGAIN.

Did YOU watch the clip? It doesn't MATTER what the politician or what anyone else says because NONE of the Avengers or any of the members of SHIELD were brought under scrutiny or trial for what happened! There was NO justice brought upon by anyone for the destruction of the city. I'm guessing that the point that you keep trying to make is that you wanted someone in MOS to at least "comment" on the destruction that happened in the movie? Because there certainly weren't any repercussions or punishment on the heroes in either the Avengers, Thor or Ironman. I'll agree there were some "comments" though.

Clearly you and I see these movies VERY differently and we're just going to butt heads at this point...

And we go again to why the badly delivered plot of MoS shoots itself in the foot: MoS is done showing Supes destroying everything in some big flashy fistfight. The Avengers is done with the intent of showing them acting like heroes while doing their flashy fistfights. See the difference?

You are going at it as if the Avengers destroyed the city but they saved it. The consequence of their actions is that they saved the day and people are thankful for it. The world approves of the Avengers. In a few seconds we are showed all of this, and it is organic and logical since the makers of the film showed the Avengers saving these people in the middle of the fight. That is good story constructions without the need of talking heads to deliver exposition or “moments” that come out from nowhere.

We know crap ship about Superman's Earth at the end of the movie. They waste a good long sequence that could have been done in a few seconds to show that the military is nervous … yeah, who would have thought the military would be nervous of a demigod living in its borders…

For such a gritty moan fest they forget to answer the most important questions they put up. Does the world need a Superman? Who the hell knows! Going by the death caused by him, the in world citizens probably blame that faceless crazy alien that caused everything. That is really the only information they have at the end of the movie, everything else are just blind guesses. People that were in ground zero survived because they saved their own asses; they were inspired by no superman to raise over their fears to help their fellow humans. They did that on their own.

My point is that MoS has a weak script hammered down even more by bad filmaking. The director can't show why his characters act the way they do when it would have been easy to do so, even with all the plot holes.

The Marvel movies have elevated the brain matter of big superhero movies. Evidently they are not works of art, faaaaaaaar from it, but they show that quality can be found in a blockbuster. Badly delivered smoke like MoS crap on that and make it look like you only need flashy FX and being dark and gritty (just because) to sell tickets.

That touching montage at the end doesn't count; that news clip shows the "people" recovering; it doesn't show the Avengers being held accountable or holding themselves accountable for the destruction they've caused, or contemplating the meaning of the insane battle that just happened. The Avengers, like Kal, just wiped their hands clean and flew off into the credits.

I'm not denying that MOS doesn't have faults, or didn't miss the things that you mentioned; I actually agree with you completely, I just don't see the idea of consequences in the movie as being all that....consequential...

Doesn't count??

Did you not see the full clip? There is a politician saying that there “So called superheroes” have to answer for the destruction caused. You get the waitress answering the question if this was their fault with the fact that CA saved her life. The spooky blacked out overlords aren’t happy about not having the Avengers under their orders. There are consequences, there are questions, they are voiced. In a few seconds we see that the Avengers are seen as having saved the day.

Comparing the Avengers and MoS is a great way to analyse movies and to lean how to appreciate good work. To appreciate how a summer blockbuster can be turned into a good movie respectful to the audience or just an avalanche of pretty yet completely void visuals.

Whedon shows his heroes saving the day and saving people and he asks the question about their responsibility and answers with the citizens he previously showed being saved. That is a tight ship of a movie!

Snyder on the other hand shows nothing other than pretty eye candy. His plot has his hero be the main reason all the deaths happened. Only thing we get are repetitive fist fights and the Jesus/Cross symbolisms that has been overused with Superman already. He tries to sound deep but he is not up to the task in MoS.

Maybe I saw the wrong movie, but how did the Avengers "address" the deaths of civilians in New York or anywhere else in the movie? You mean the part where Bruce Banner comically rides up on a mini-scooter and says, "...........this looks.......HORRIBLE?" with a smile on his face? The Avengers rode off into the sunset, all smiles and sexy outfits, cool cars and digesting shwarma at the end of the movie.

Here you go:

News report voice about the incident while we see images of people lighting up candles in mourning as well as images of pick up crew picking up the mess. Those are the first images we see before the images of fireworks and happy people.

Furthermore, I'm sorry if you see Kal's "moping" to be all about nothing in the movie; his internal conflict was very clear to me and I was able to see it very clearly. If you don't care acknowledge it and just write it off as moping about nothing then that's your choice...

I should imagine that you saw it clearly. After all it was hammered again, and again, and again all through the movie.

You see, good movies have little details that paint the world they take place in. The somewhat campy Avengers addresses in a few seconds the aftermath of their public debug and its consequences in just a few seconds. Very clasy and to the point really fast.

Bad movies hamfist things over and over while at the same time wasting opportunities to show other things. One of the themes of the Man of Steel was if the world was ready for a Superman. Well, a bunch of crap happened and we know crap what the world thinks about a Superman.

I don't understand the criticism of Superman killing Zod. How else was that plot point supposed to resolve itself? Superman and Zod had fundamental, polar opposite views and plans for Earth; one of them had to die and could realistically be only killed by the other Kryptonian. I also contend that the unpopular decision to battle in the city makes no sense; where were Superman and Zod supposed to fight, if not in a city? Should they have signed up to be featured as an attraction in a UFC/MMA event to settle their fatal differences? Should they have fought in empty space? That doesn't sound particularly exciting or engaging, IMO.

The criticism is that is was so badly done that most can't swallow it. Snyder wanted that "moment". Fine, but have the damn plot go there, not have if pop up suddenly.

How do you fix the fight? Freaking easy really:

1. You start the fight in the city, have some destruction for a little while but have Supes acknowledging they are putting people in danger.

2. Show him TRY to same at least someone.

3. The city fight got boring after a while because we had already had had a great long fight in Smallville. So what better to change things than by having Supes trying to get Zod into another battlefield where there are no humans!?

4. Have Zod acknowledging Supes plan to get people safe and have him do the opposite. They both have “polar opposite views and plans for Earth”, right? Best way to show that is having the evil bastard wanting to destroy Supes beloved humans in front of his face like he just did with his New Krypton dream.

5. Zod has little experience with the super powers but is a military badass. He gets the upper hand and gets the fight back into the city putting more in danger.

6. A battered Supes did all in his power to save lives and comes to the conclusion that he can’t. But now Zod going out of his way to kill little humans is an strategic error caused by him going mental at the loss of all his comrades. He turns his back to eye zap a family and Supes sees the opportunity and grabs gets him in a choke hold from behind.

7. Supes tries to get Zod away again but he taunts him that he will get free again soon and he will return to kill that family. Supes knows this; he isn’t repeating the change of location plan. He’s had enough. He kills the bastard breaking his neck. Supes does his little yell.

Boom!, less lives lost, less repetitive meaningless action scenes, showed Super caring to save people and you see him finally going for the kill as the only option in a more organic way.

In short: in movie language you show instead of tell; the fist fest could have been used to show the characters differences and define their believes by their actions and not just as a dumb fist fest with a broken neck at the end.

That is how you have the “Superman kills” moment matter.

We are in a gritty movie right? Have the backlash of almost loosing the planed because some idiot alien landed here by chance. Half the world is pissed and scared but Metropolis citizens know things could have been worse and the Daily Planer has gathered all photographic evidence of the Superbeing saving lives while battling the enemy. Superman stays in Metropolis his new home and only safe place and vows to work to make it up for all the destructions his existence caused. Some guy named Luthor does not like that.

The End

Also, comparing Avengers and Superman is akin to comparing Valkyries and Gundams, apples and oranges, as they are written as two completely different styles of storytelling; one is a tongue-in-cheek adventure/romp featuring a motley crew, the other is intended to be a soulful (albeit brooding and whiny) introduction of a highly conflicted, isolated and misunderstood superbeing. BOTH movies are solid examples of what they were supposed to be, IMO...

That is the point. The " tongue-in-cheek" movie has its characters saving people in the middle of an alien invasion and addressed the deaths of civilians while the one about the "conflicted" superbeing showed jackshit of either of that.

There were no consequences. Half a city death and the next thing is Supes making wisecracks at the military and going to his spiffy new job.

So more than half of the movie has him whining over nothing and the real things that would actually be reasons to be mopy (his existence is the reason thousands died because Zod only found Earth because of him and for all his power he could only fix things killing like any puny human killer) and they completely ignored it.

Supes killing off Zod is stupid because if was badly forced in there just to have him kill. That is why giving a crap about the script should be important. But when you jam “moments” into it instead of having it flow you frakk it up.

The real end for this movie is the one “How it should have ended” did. The founding principles of the story are so badly done that that is where their logical consequences would take this movie to.

So in the end we have a demigod, with access to freaking incredible alien technology and the guidance of the conscious of one of the greatest scientists of his species aaaaaaand he gets backed into a corner where you have to kill in order to save a 3Dmovement challenge family after not giving a crap of fighting in the middle of a inhabited city crashing into building full of people.

So really lazy and stupid writing right there. Even the Avengers, which did not need gritty brooding and had a comedy tone in many places, had their heroes rescuing citizens and a nod to the mourning the deaths an alien invasion would cause in the news montage at the end.

Wow, they sure wanted to show all the episodes fast. I basically saw a movie.

Really enjoyed this last four episodes

And Nuktuk will always be my hero!!


BTW, missed fun moment they could have done:

I like the fancy color schemes of the transformers and I don't think that MP-11 would make a convincing fighter especially not from the rear. The Kawamori Starstream was a good idea but needed some refinement. I feel that Takara went in the wrong direction with MP-11.

Takara was beyond lazy with MP-11. They just reused the old pre Kawamori proto abd called it a day. Mp-11 is a really dated looking toy. And to top it all off they used that ugly and cheap looking grey plastic.

Very nice find.

With the first two I was reminded of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LWG05S30Ig

But then I saw "The Star" and "The Soldier". Creepy (but cool) stuff.

No. It's not Dakka toys, it's Fan toys. haha

All three are from fan toys. Not sure why you're so confused.

Well, so far Daca Toys was the one making a huge Masterpiece Skyfire for $165:

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-3rd-party-discussion/957592-daca-toys-kronos.html

Bravo!!

I'm going to enjoy this.

So forgiving towards the hot women...

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lol

lol well, I certainly wouldn't mind partaking in that culinary feast, yum!.

OMGOMG!

Oh I find that the MP VV would be the perfect Voltron if not for all the diecast. All that weight makes it not take full advantage of all the great articulation it has. If there was a "plastic version" of it like there is of LV I would be in Voltron heaven.

Not showing up for me.

You can see the teaser here:

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-3rd-party-discussion/962140-warbotron-wb02-menasor.html

So last weeks episode was centered around one of the annoying characters and by the end of it I didn't want her to die. And this weeks episode was about the other annoying character and I also enjoyed it. I have to say that I now like both of them! Good job series.

SInce Bandai is legally tied and can't do a SOC Golion, I really wish Miracle Productions would become a full 3P and just do their own take on Lion Voltron. Even with its faults the MP Vehicle Voltron is far better than Toynami's old mold.

BBTS has the price for all the members of Warbotron. So for $476 you can have a gigantic combiner. So if their Menasor keeps the same price it will only be $86 more than FP Intimidator. And this one looks like the car limbs actually have some transformation in leg mode. In other words, FP is really overpriced.

And now with Fan Toys Dinobots the 3P war for the wallet is going to get really intense next year.

Kinda looks like Enemy at the Gates but with more explosions...

They've often said Hitler's greatest blunder was involving the Russians too soon.

In the scope of WWII, our job on the Western front was basically roadside assistance.

Compared to the amount of work and losses for us in the Pacific.

Hitler may have been a genius when it came to speaking and being a leader figure but we were lucky that that monster was an ego filled idiot too. Remember reading of how he was advised not to smash his head open againts the soviet wall when Europe was still not 100% in nazi control and the UK was alive and kicking.

Being also another crazy monster, Stalin would have eventually done something. Don't think he would have liked being surrounded by consolidated nazi Europe and Japan. But by then the technologically superior Germany would probably have been better prepared.

I once saw a Russian film about the atrocities done by the nazis in the USSR. Not pretty. The soviet thirst for revenge after that was also something extra that stupid Hitler created against himself.

Really wanted to get Ultimate Prime, specially since there could always be the possibility of an Ultimate Megatron but that price is automatic nono.

Also, for that price the inner detail should be epic, not just a Gundam knockoff. It is a transformer, the inside should look unique not just pistons everywhere. At least have the two frontal wheels show up inside the chest somehow; showing just back wheels in the back of the leg is not enough.

El genio de la resina de MW, Captain america, ha anunciado que quiere intentar sacar adelante un proyecto para hacer un kit de resina del Gurab de Mospeada a escala 1/48.

- Como en otros proyectos, el kit viene sin pintas y montar.

- Escala 1/48, alrededor de unos 10,2 cm de altura una vez montado.

- Incluye cañones de los hombros opcionales.

- El precio: 100 USD cada uno.

Para que el proyecto salga adelante se necesitan al menos unos 30 pedidos.

El pago es por adelantado.

Hay que apuntarse en el hilo en inglés:

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=40117#entry1081601

Si podéis, por favor difundid el prooyecto

Podéis ver algunos de sus otros trabajos en estos hilos:

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=35100&hl=

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=35684&hl=

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=33405&hl=

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=38959&hl=

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&mid=632&search_app=forums&userMode=title&sid=4c548a28d82b4a59f3d7a98399df5090&search_app_filters[forums][searchInKey]=&search_app_filters[forums][sortKey]=date

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=35962&hl=

:http://www.macrossworld.com/800/cool8tor-build-of-captain-americas-172-regult-scout/

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