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    Spent the weekend out of state visiting a friend. Had a blast, and I decided to splurge at their local comics store. I got the nephew a nice Overwatch cardboard poster, but he snuck it away before I could snap any photos. And I got this for myself. Upon opening the box, my immediate reaction: "That's a strong start."
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    When I saw the original low-res shots of the VF-31s' heads, I bore out hope that the VF-31F would feature a head design similar to this one from Armored Core 4's Aaliyah designs (also by Kawamori). Even as the series progressed, I didn't really get any clearer, sustained shots of the head, so it wasn't until the toy/model kit came out that I got a good idea what the F's head (and all the others', for that matter) looked like, hence my disappointment. The F's head looks fine by itself, but when the expectation is something like this, it's... unimpressive.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    It is, I was talking about the head design in general, not specifically about the toy.
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    Is this "extended" trailer just the newest one with the older one pasted on at the end? This channel does that a lot, it's pretty frakking annoying.
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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    ...each, or total? Before taxes/proxy fees/shipping, or after? Because one way I'm only mildly jealous, and the other way I'm super super jelly. I'll be sending mine out of PW once the month ends. I can barely wait.
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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    They might renew it somewhere down the line. They have October re-releases of the VE-1 and VT-1 incoming (should be coming into stores in a week or so), and the VF-19EF/A, which was released just in March, is getting a second production run in December.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I just wish the visor wrapped around the front instead of being two separate eyes.
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    The couple or so reviews of it I saw claimed it's a real looker that falls to pieces in your hand. The hands don't hold the rifles especially well (not surprising, given its redesign), and getting it into its iconic shooting pose is a nightmare. They also expressed some issues with the frame and parts fit, something about the frame being made in China while the armor parts were made in Japan so the quality control of the two halves don't quite match up 100% of the time. That's all hearsay, though. Best to look at some video reviews. EDIT: Actually, I remember seeing someone with it in the recent purchases thread. You might want to look there a couple pages back and see if you can find who it is.
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    Hm... Color-corrected how?
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    AKA through the sea, on a boat. I'm glad his items came out in one piece. Last time I used Surface mail, it took roughly 6 weeks and the shipping box AND individual item boxes were mangled. The items themselves were spared the worst, but phew, I'm gonna think twice about using it again in the future. Lesson learned.
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    Man, I was humming this earlier and I'm still sad that he's gone... (the director not the singer)
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    ...why is "sister" in scare quotes? Typical Japanese creative use of Latin punctuation, or typical Japanese looseness towards the Westermarck effect?
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    "Do you think we'll really find airbenders?" "Do you want me to be like you, or totally honest?" "Are you saying I'm a liar?" "I'm saying you're an optimist. Same thing, basically."
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    Anyone here use a trackball mouse? I've always found them really interesting, and this weekend my curiosity got the best of me; I bought a Logitech M570 on sale for $16 at Best Buy. It's been an interesting experience so far, and I got used to it way faster than I thought. I haven't tried it for any gaming, though; apparently I don't have any FPSes installed, so it's time to install me some L4D2 and test it out on there. What's your experience been like?
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    What's the difference? *perpetual Macross scrub*
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    ...didn't M+ visit the actual Edwards AFB to get reference photos and fly in fighters?
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    Is this the same kit that was being worked on in the Workshop thread? I need to get back in there, see what the latest updates are... EDIT: Whoops, never mind. I was thinking of the VF-5000 that Tage is working on. Still, the need to get back in there still stands.
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    It doesn't help that it's such an overused combat animation, too. You see it in everything from Gundam to Dragonball, the two combatants as streaks of light, crisscrossing against a static background.
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    Where are people seeing the Yamato similarities? Not saying you're wrong, I just don't know the toys very well. I love comparisons. I think it looks fine enough. It's certainly better than the Prime 1 statues, sad to say, insofar as looking and feeling like the VF-1. The hands of the GBP make me wonder: Does the GBP come with oversized hands as part of the package, or is that something more to do with the animation/lineart of the time? I don't believe the Yamato(/Arcadia?) toys come with oversized hands to match, do they?
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    Oh man, I didn't even consider Decultures of this. Maybe they'll finally release proper Kaname/Makina/Reina schemes. I would be all over those. Cockpit shots, flying shots, one plane shooting at another shots, those are all bog standard. Whenever the combat did something out of the ordinary, it more often than not defaulted to The Scissors, which is why that's what people remember. And even then, they weren't particularly creative about it - it was always framed the same way, started the same way, ended the same way... It got boring quickly. I hope they do a similar thing here. (I believe it's been confirmed to be a two-parter, yes?) Moving the story in a different direction little by little, enough so that the second movie is an almost entirely different thing from the show, can't possibly make for a worse story than what we got.
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    Is the original of this VF-19 kit available? If so, where? I'd gladly pay a premium for it, as E2046 has a spotty record with recasts anyway. I think there's definitely a place for recasters, but I agree that it's generally distasteful for them to copy a garage kit so soon after its release, and without consulting with the original scuptor/caster, no less. That said, even if the company did want to collaborate more closely with creators, I can understand the many many barriers that would keep this from being feasible. What I'd love to see happen more often is something like what RTKF did - ie buy the masters from the creators - or a working relationship where the original creator receives some measure of the profits from the sale of the recasts.
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    With the kaiju combining to form the big one (yes? I was under the impression it was a kaiju regenerating, but people seem to have gotten the impression that it's all the little ones coming together...), I'm willing to bet the Jaegers will also combine into a Gipsy 1.0-size behemoth, in the tradition of the best super robots.
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    Or go to a $3 theater once it hits that, if you have one near you and absolutely must get a theater experience.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I mean, the 31J Kai isn't even all that good-looking, so...
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    I thought Yeah, I liked it too, don't get me wrong. But a few parts did drag for me.
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