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    Strictly from hearsay, so take this with a grain of salt, but I remember seeing some WIPs (from loooong ago, I don't even remember where now) use the white decals and being surprised at how well they worked. If push comes to shove, you can at least use the decal as a masking guide and paint over it. It wouldn't be ideal, of course, but it is what it is. For my part, I'd probably ignore as many of the decals as I can, the stripes at the very least. I'd give the kit an undercoat of white, then mask the stripes and maybe the UNS kite circle, then spray the red on. But that's talking hypothetically. Ideally, I/they would create a "DYRL" Milia VF-1 scheme. Maybe the VF-1EX Mirage pattern but in red.
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    The high-ish price was perplexing for the longest time, but knowing that it's snap-fit now, that cost ties neatly into all the extra plastic needed.
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    Yep, what @anime52k8 said. It's the closest resemblance, but it doesn't actually look like either the TV or EW versions of any Maganac variant.
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    Same, straight into PW. EDIT: By the by, it was Order Stop leading up to release date, but HLJ shows it has plenty in stock, so if you're still looking to get one, now's your chance.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    The Arad 31S is a general release item, meaning there SHOULD be more produced of it, certainly enough for all the retailers to stock it.
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    Ah, yeah, I must have forgotten about scenes like that. I suspected as much even while writing that post. Be that as it may, Japanese popular media (or at least that which I see) still skirts around the issue, pushing homosexuality to the background in favor of developing heterosexual relationships. Ranka obviously got hot and bothered by Sheryl, but they always portray Alto as her ultimate romantic goal. Bobby has the biggest crush on Ozma and Nanase on Ranka, but those are never deemed "worth" devoting any significant runtime to exploring. More happened with the freaking May-December romance, and the franchise was more willing to endorse borderline pedophilia and incest than two people of the same gender, age, and social groups acting on their attraction to each other. Even Reina and Makina's relationship doesn't really get any development beyond "it exists." As far back as Cardcaptor Sakura (and I'm sure earlier than that as well), Tomoyo Daidouji's obvious romantic interest in Sakura and the ho yay between Touya and Yuki/Yue is never treated as being romantically "legitimate." They end the series with Tomoyo saying she's happy and content if the one she loves is happy, which is... fine... but it FEELS like such a cop-out. Japan may not be "stuffy" about it like America is, but it's like... homosexuality can't move beyond being a fetish. Like Japanese pop culture is saying, "You can have heterosexual and homosexual attractions, buy you can only have heterosexual romances." I'm being hyperbolic, of course, but I don't think by much. Growing up with what I think is similarly esoteric cultural practices, I think I'm at least mildly accurate about the state of Japanese sexual politics.
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    At first I thought this was a promo for a Hase VF-4 and I was like HNNNNNNNGGGGGHHH TAKE ALL MY MONEY but this is nice too
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    Bucket head and Maganac are the best of the bunch, but still don't match the rest of the body like the original Leo head does.
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    Hey man, you say that but I was immediately whisked back to the glorious mid- to late-90s and the years of reading Ranma 1/2 and learning how to laugh at boobs.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Well, if it turns out even the reliable sources are having trouble getting supply, then Bandai damn well better get started on a second run. I thought the whole point of the web exclusive was so they could more exactly meet demand. Still no reply from Mykombini either way for mine...
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    That really sucks. I ordered through them and haven't gotten a shipping notice yet either, if this doesn't work out I'll gladly swear them off forever.
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    65 million in China: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pacific-rim-2-strong-65m-china-opening-1097192 Plus merchandising, it MUST be a success already.
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    Resurrecting this zombie because really that's the only apt metaphor to use. https://heroichollywood.com/jason-fuch-teases-robotech-film/
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    Also true. Remember, the Mystery Box is all you need. Payoff need not apply.
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    Eh, implications and one-sided pining are all that there ever seem to be, sadly. The most blatant they ever got about it was Makina and Reina, but even then they hardly depicted them being any more intimate close friends might be. Alto and Sheryl downright fraked, and that was while the bounds of their triangle were still somewhat murky. I suspect that Macross will never openly endorse/depict an LGBTQ couple for fear of upsetting Japanese social customs. They'll need to delegate that to the next Revolutionary Girl Utena or something.
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    Good to know. I've been thinking of checking it out myself. I'm noticing that most of my anime viewage nowadays comes from Netflix. I don't go on there often as it is, but it's just too convenient whenever I do that I don't bother with other streaming services like Crunchyroll. I should probably browse more on Crunchyroll, though... and Funimation? Weren't they going to get their own streaming service? 1) Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan makes me extra glad I never got into this franchise. 2) Short fights in Dragonball? My mind cannot possibly handle all this innovation!
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    Who voices the Imouto? Also, that music. I wonder if there's a rash of Radwimps clones over there right now, with Your Name's success. Or maybe that style of sound is just getting popular in general.
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    That's giving waaaaay too much credit to Justice League. The thing is that JJ Abrams doesn't do anything other than retread earlier movies But Worse. His inability to look past nostalgia hampers each and every film he has ever directed. Star Trek was the closest he ever came to doing something original, and one movie later he turned it into Wrath of Khan But Worse. It took Simon Pegg taking over to right the ship. TFA is... fine... overall, but he chains it to the OT just like he chained Super 8 to ET, like MI3 to MI, like Into Darkness to Wrath of Khan. Their road map for the franchise once it got going was always to have the main trilogy be "safe" movies and the standalones be the "experimental" ones. With the first of those two respectively being the exact opposite of what was planned, who knows what they're going to do. Solo still looks totally uninteresting, and IX being helmed by Abrams stokes zero fires in me, but if this is it for me and this particular franchise, I'm totally fine with having gotten this surprisingly beautiful and thoughtful movie out of it.
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    I legitimately can't tell if there's some subtle sass here or not. Are you surprised that he was a good actor because he's Clint Eastwood's son and thus should be a bad actor (because Clint Eastwood is a bad actor?)? Or are you surprised that he was a good actor just in general, and your response to me was bewilderment at me not knowing who he is (though I do)? Some bits of acting were better, storyline was... kiiind of better, I dunno. CGI was certainly VASTLY improved from the trailers. Yes and yes. Coincidentally, I rewatched Power Rangers the other day and god those suits and mecha are overdesigned. Blegh. Yeah, I thought that was a good decision, too. Didn't hurt that Idris Elba is also British(?). Eh, China's where the audience and the money is, or is going to be. I mean hell, it's only thanks to Chinese box office receipts that we're getting this sequel at all. Plus the financiers are a lot of Chinese companies, so... Pandered? It's not at American levels, I'll say that. Related question: Were the subtitles accurate? I always like seeing my language with English subtitles and knowing how accurate/inaccurate they're being. --- Some general thoughts after seeing it with the kids:
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    Bandai Sv-262 DX valk

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    What hits me hardest is that the modeler replaced those godawful gorilla paws with decent-sized hands. (They look to be... 1/100 hands, maybe B-Club resin VF-25/27 hands. EDIT: Yep, from WIP pics it's B-Club, either 1/100 Deathscythe Hell EW hands or 1/72 VF-25G/VF-27Beta hands specifically.) Are the DX's hands roughly the same size as these relative to the rest of the body, or are they larger?
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    Well, I'm glad my experience helped inform more people, at least. This is good to know, especially as I (probably) ramp up my physical music collection. I need me a Macross Plus deluxe box set that includes all four soundtracks on it now.
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    Is he supposed to be bad or something? I don't get it...
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    True true, I think we're both in agreement that slaginpit's got a hate boner on for this thing. My biggest plus is that it looks competently made, which is more than can be said of any other (American) giant robot movie in recent memory *notverysubtlecoughTransformerscough* and a good number of giant monster movies too, while I'm at it. I swear to god though, if it ends in a big giant laser shooting into the sky... Agreed, and that is absolutely the WRONG reason to green-light a sequel of this kind. No amount of "streamlining" would ever make this kind of thing super popular in the States, it just doesn't have those kinds of legs. If they were going to greenlight a sequel, it would have to be on the condition that they DON'T try to franchise it, they just do it because they're friggin' nerds and if it makes money it makes money. Merchandising the Jaegers was a good decision, striking model and toy deals with Japanese companies was super smart, but they're fools if they think that this will ever become Transformers... and really, they shouldn't want it to.
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    I was wondering about that, too. I mean, it certainly isn't the DUMBEST thing to ever be inked and colored... ...but still.
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    I was really hoping for the ending to be the arm letting go.
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