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    Good luck. If it's at all like the quality of their other [XYZ] Arts lines, you'll be pulling your hair out before long. 😕
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    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    kajnrig replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    Huh, seems you're right. The specs sheet even reflect that, with the 17 being shorter (length and height) and lighter than the 171. It certainly doesn't look like the smaller craft, though, and it being classed as a heavy fighter/bomber whereas the 171 is a general purpose fighter doesn't help, either. Well, not THAT drastic a difference, but certainly to my eyes the 171 looks pretty clearly downsized from the 17. I suppose I just inferred wrongly from the lore that "downgrade" and "cost effective" both meant smaller... because again, and I hate to emphasize it, but the 171 looks slimmer and smaller than the 17. Either way, I still don't like the decision. I agree that I'd be more amenable to it being a "VF-171 Diamond Force colors" or whatever instead. Also, apparently the head sculpt is significantly inaccurate anyway? The top of the head retains a glaring pointed detail carried over from the 171 when all the 17S artwork is very obviously not so.
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    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    kajnrig replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    Isn't the 171 explicitly an almost ground-up redesign that only superficially resembles the 17 and is canonically smaller and slimmer? Like the real world Hornet to Super Hornet but in reverse.
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    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    kajnrig replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    The moment I heard of this, I assumed it would be basically a reuse of the 171, and sure enough... I'm not a big fan of the 17, much prefer the 171, but even so I gagged a bit at the pics.
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    2.5 HOURS!?!?!? That sounds positively exhausting.
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    So it was recently revealed that Netflix show writers are advised to write dialogue that essentially narrates the movie in order for audiences who have it on in the background can know what's going on. I don't know why I felt the need to mention that just now. It's a real mystery. Anyway I'm super depressed for some reason, how about you?
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    It was indeed deafening in the theater. I may have posted about it the night I saw it. Well worth the price of entry.
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    Does the Spartan share the lower body that those other three do? I admit I've never taken a super close gander at it...
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    Just bringing this back up because I got curious about the scale of this thing, and it's apparently (relatively) TINY. ~17cm tall versus even the Kotobukiya 1/100 kit's ~22cm. Sure it's still about the size of a MG/MB/GFFMC/etc. Gundam, but at nearly 4x the cost of that kit, I would have wanted it to be at least the same size. Hopefully for you who buy it, all the bells and whistles makes up for it.
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    Weirdly enough, I never had such an issue. But then again, I didn't keep it long enough to notice many (or any) problems. I sold it along to someone almost as soon as I snapped it together.
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    Right, the 285K is actually a bit worse than the 14900K in terms of pure gaming performance, but it consumes less energy to do so. I think something like 70-80% the power draw for 90-95% the frames, generally. It also doesn't (seem to) suffer from the same degradation issues that plague the 13th and 14th-gen parts. It's also better overall in productivity tasks. Not by too much, but it's better while consuming less energy. If I were buying for myself, I wouldn't feel comfortable getting ANY 13th-/14th-gen Intel part, new or used. The 285K wins by default. Purely gaming-wise, AMD's X3D parts offer 20-30% better performance for sometimes half the power draw. Across a wider range of use cases, the AMD 9000 and Intel 200 parts tend to trade blows, though the AMD parts consume less energy. But I imagine the AMD chips are demanding a pretty premium at the moment, so if you can get a 285K for fairly cheap, I don't think you can go wrong.
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    The only way I'm getting this is if it's ThreeA-sized, because yeah, the Koto kit is constantly repopped and is fantastic.
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    While I'd much rather see the Arbalest or M9, or even this design in its original form, this is a welcome development.
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    Maybe I'm missing something. It just looked like a bunch of in- and out-of-engine cutscenes...? I'm no FPS player, but isn't BF all about the dynamic emergent gameplay and environmental destruction?
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    According to Wikipedia, that only started being prescribed to the logo in 2004. Before that, notable definitions included - "S" for "Superman" (origin) - an El family crest/coat of arms (from Superman: The Movie) - a design by Pa Kent based off Native American iconography, depicting a snake to symbolize healing (The Man of Steel, 80s) This desire for it to mean something super deep, and "hope" of all things, I find to be really weird and unnecessary. But that's coming from me as a casual Superman audience. Anyway, I think it's about as good and bad as any of the other James Gunn superhero movies. Choosing Israel-Palestine as a backdrop wasn't a great decision. The use of Krypto and an associated spoiler was a good one. The movie was at its best when it didn't take itself super seriously. I think it could have handled the "serious" subject matter more adeptly by leaning even more heavily into its super simplistic, cartoony storytelling. As is, its attempts feel half-assed. Altogether, it holds together better than the Snyderverse movies, but otherwise is surpassed by other superhero movies before it. It's a cut above/below Superman Returns, but generally in that same ballpark.
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    They're officially non-scale, but are roughly slightly larger than 1/144 scale, same as the regular Robot Spirits line. IIRC they target an absolute size of around 5-6" or 12-15cm and scale loosely amongst themselves. (Smaller MSes like Wing are smaller than usual, bigger ones like Nu are bigger than usual, etc.) Metal Build and Chogokin are indeed bigger and tend to map more directly to 1/100 scale, though IIRC they too target an absolute size of 7-8" rather than a strict 1/100 scale. Currently, no. I don't remember if the Granddaddy has even been made in MB/Choogkin/etc. The Robot Spirits Ver ANIME figure might work for you, but like the Metal RS you linked, it also is in the smaller scale. Bandai did release a version of the MG Perfect Gundam without its "Perfect"/"Full Armor" parts, which might work for you: https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2559803001006
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    That's my best guess, too. 🤷‍♂️ Oh well. Since it's been posted, I'll delete this thread. Thanks for the head's-up. EDIT: ...or not. I could swear there used to be a Delete option somewhere...
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    No, I mean what does "SCOOPUDA" stand for?
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    Ah, I see. I don't check that thread (obviously), what even is it? "SCOOPUDA" = ???
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    Just posting an FYI since I didn't see anyone had posted it yet. First episodes of 7, Frontier, and Delta are up. https://www.youtube.com/@macrossch2259
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    I don't know if my expectations have just dropped that much or the movie was legitimately that good, but I had a really good time with this movie. Gareth Edwards does a great job establishing scale, and there are tons of shots (maybe too many) that do a phenomenal job showing off just how big the big dinos really are. The story is meh, definitely doesn't reach the same level of smart and thought-provoking as JP1 but then again what has done, but it's serviceable enough and is told competently. As I suspected, the "fake" dinos are nowhere as interesting as the "real" dinos; the latter could still easily carry an entire film on their own, despite the insistence of the World movies. A future movie, I would love if they doubled down on their efforts here to be as "natural" with the dinos as possible. Even better if they make a dino the actual star of the movie and make smart decisions in order to tell a story from its perspective.
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    HMR VF-19P

    kajnrig replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    I don't remember seeing this in the anime/movie/OVAs. Can someone refresh my memory? I can only guess it was Basara's ride in Dynamite 7 and I simply forgot.
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    I'm just glad to finally see some news on these again after all these years. I was nearly about to renew a Hulu subscription again. Then again, that new Predator series did just come out...
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    I wouldn't say no to a Gundam Sentinel or Advance of Zeta animation. I know both are something of a rights abomination, but I would certainly appreciate the resulting repops or new molds entirely of model kits.
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    I'm an idiot, ignore me. Got my wires crossed and thought we were talking about the Plamax and/or VFG kits.
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