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    Gosh is it getting hot in here? In my experience, Bandai have actually tended to put more effort into their not-Gundam brands than they do Gundam, probably at least partly because they can be pretty sure the latter will sell on sheer inertia, whereas the former stuff needs a bit more... "oomph." Or maybe it's just me seeing things.
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    Honestly, the only thing that keeps getting to me is that DAAANG OOOL' SEEEAAAM LIIINE running the entire length of the lower leg. Like a dancer in a dangerously high cut dress. 😳
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    So for whatever reason, maybe I just imagined it, I was under the impression there would be more news about Macross physical releases at Otakon, that the above announcement was just Day 1. Is this true? Is there more news? Or am I just crazy?
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    Just checked my email and saw the same. Going to the site though, it's still "Backordered," suggesting the restock wasn't very big at all. Bandai really being stingy about allocation, or HLJ misjudging demand?
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    Yeah, given how much the YF-21 has to shapeshift between all three modes, way more even than the YF-19, and given that the DX Chogokin line typically takes slight liberties with mecha designs anyway, I've decided I'm not going to sweat the details any longer. If I REEEAAALLY want something that'll suit my taste in all three modes, I'll bite the bullet and scratchbuild it. This works well enough for what it is... and hopefully it'll bring down the price of the Yamato figure some, too. Always been a regret of mine that I wasn't financially solvent enough didn't jump on any of the Yamato toys as a kid.
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    I'd love to hear any stories you have to tell from that time, be they good, bad, or just plain interesting.
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    Eh y'know what, this isn't half bad. Just it's four obviously different styles traced into the same picture. Not ideal.
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    My hurried comment that I mistakenly posted in the Venom thread.
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    EDIT: Sorry, was going off the URL, forgot this isn't the right thread. Anyway... I doubt that's the ONLY reason. Word I've heard from the grapevine is that crunch was insane on Across, with Lord and Miller constantly changing story, character, and scene beats that had to be re-animated. By the time the movie released, they had only just started production on Beyond, making a next-year release basically impossible.
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    Weirdly enough, the fix to this stubborn problem is to bump up the framerate massively and/or lower it massively, both of which gobble up production budget. I can understand why they went this route, but it still sucks to see it.
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    Dang, beat me to the punch! EDIT: Gah, boo. Well, since I've spilled over to a new page:
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    From the article itself: "I heard someone say a new donut shop is opening up, but someone else said it isn't." This is about as news-y as a fart in the wind. I'm fine assuming it doesn't exist until concrete evidence turns up that it exists.
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    HLJ fills a small and shrinking hole in Bandai's... portfolio? market? That is, HLJ is the local Japanese shop that caters to overseas customers. Ever since Bandai refocused their efforts on establishing a Stateside foothold - partnering with then buying Bluefin, working with local shops, etc. - it seems they've allocated less and less to HLJ, who I'm sure they would prefer to compete for their local market, ie the domestic Japanese market. With the YF-19 in particular, I imagine they wanted a strong US/international launch and so have dedicated a far greater proportion of their stock to those territories instead of Japan. It would certainly explain why it's so easy to get one locally and nearly impossible to get one from HLJ.
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    Well there goes that theory.
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    Having never seen Shin Godzilla, I was under the impression that that's entirely standalone...? Or do you mean a prequel to the FIRST first movie, ie '54 Goji? Perhaps "Minus One" implies an alternate retelling of '54, reframing the nuclear weapons social anxiety around... maybe... the Tohoku earthquake/tsunami, and/or climate change more broadly. IIRC that was somewhat the case with Shin Godzilla, but there the movie was just evoking footage from the disaster while the social commentary focused on government bureaucracy. I dunno, lemme know.
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    Deserves its own topic? Maybe, maybe not.
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    I was talking to a coworker who actually professes to love the Indy franchise - me I'm meh on it entirely, don't think I've ever seen one all the way through - and I asked them if they should have just... recast Indy. Y'know, like long-running (and not so long-running) movie franchises have done plenty of times in the past. Cast a younger actor, so you can tell a younger story. I mean heck, it was already done before, in the 90s. Brendan Frasier took over the Indiana Jones role, and they called it The Mummy, and it was fantastic. The coworker was adamant, incensed even. "No, Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones!" they insisted. And if that's the case, then I think it would have been prudent to simply leave the franchise dormant. Anyone else? Would you have preferred a new cast? For as much as some people here like to go on and on about wokeness being the industry's downfall, what really crippled this movie to me was its counting solely on nostalgia to drive sales in a movie culture in which nostalgia (or at least this particular brand of nostalgia) was already waning.
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    They've already done them as Pixel Remasters just last year or so, so don't count of them getting the "2D HD" treatment they've been experimenting with anytime soon. There is word of a FF9 remake, though if it's in line with FF7R, that'll be a no thanks from me.
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    Oh okay, so it's not stopping third parties from jamming its mobile CPUs into teeny tiny desktop PCs, it just isn't doing so itself anymore. Seems fair. I wonder if companies will continue with its PCIe riser card-style NUCs that allow for dGPUs or go back to the traditional small ones that can be mounted onto the back of a monitor.
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    Macross the First, just using the VF-0, Cheyenne, and Koenig Monster. Done and done! (No, but actually though. The VF-0 feels like a proper modernization of the VF-1 that should be the default from here on out. It fixes the size discrepancy, it fixes the proportions, etc. It's just an improvement in every way.)
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    Late night toilet thought: Has the Su-75 been demonstrated? I remember the showy promotion and pre-order announcement, and forget if among or after that was ever any actual real-life footage of one operating. Makes me want to see one in a video game. Like an "all concepts" Ace Combat, where the roster includes it, the F-16XL, Super Tomcat, Silent Eagle, etc... and the Qaher-313.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    I'm amazed they really couldn't bother to even include at least the Fast Pack equipment. It's just... what, four static parts plus two spacers? I'd have been willing to trade that second effect part for them.
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    Another resource for manual scans is dalong.net. They have manuals, box photos, etc. for a bunch of legacy items as well, and a lot of the other manufacturers, too. (They're incomplete, especially now that every company and their mother have decided to dip their toes into the hobby, but still manage to cover a surprisingly huge swathe of the industry.) I can't compare the quality of the scans though because the bandai-hobby site is taking ages to load for me. EDIT: Manuals finally started loading for me. Yep, they're definitely of significantly higher quality than dalong's old jpegs, being probably the literal digital sources used for printing and all. Took a while to load, though, so in a pinch dalong's pics are probably faster. Still, that's such a great resource to have. Now I only hope to be able to download each one of them for posterity's aske.
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    Whoa, hold your conclusion-jumping horses now. I'm just comparing your assessment of the video to the video's own self-promotion because the dichotomy was like a record scratch and worthy of a laugh. I wasn't at all getting "very thoughtful even keeled analys[i]s" vibes from a title and thumbnail that clearly has a specific tilt, and so I wanted to make sure whether, its provocative cover aside, its actual book was worth my time or not. That all said, that did prompt me to look at the budget for this thing, and jeebus $300 million is a LOT. For reference, that's right up there with Justice League (apparently that lands them both in the top 10 most expensive movies ever), and for as bad as JL was, it had big superhero names to put butts in seats, and even then it still was a box office bomb. I don't think Indy has nearly the same clout... but who knows. Disney has a bunch of other ways of wringing profit from a media franchise, so... Plus it made over $2 billion on the Avatar 2 box office alone, which would more than account for this movie even if this movie made absolutely no money at all. $2.3 billion - $500 million Avatar production x2 - $300 million Indy production x2 = still a $700 million profit. That's frickin' insane. But as far as the movie itself goes, I saw an interesting opinion from the RedLetterMedia folks stating that the last major section of the movie - after a specific event involving the titular Dial of Destiny - was what got them to really perk up in what was an otherwise mediocre adventure film. Thoughts on that, from those of you who've seen it? Would you have liked that last bit to take up more of the film, or no? That's my b, I was poking fun at his statement and gave the impression I was pissing on his opinion and tempers flared.
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    You, uh... You sure about all that?
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