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    He's a decent actor, though. He just got literally the worst part from the worst character director. George Lucas is notorious for not being actor-friendly (ie he has a very narrow vision of the characters and doesn't allow actors to stray from that vision), and the bare-bone sets certainly didn't allow for one to chew the scenery. I mean, look at Natalie Portman. She's a fine actress, she's been in some great movies and gave stellar performances, but in the prequels Padme was constantly flat, monotone, lifeless. Nobody looked good in those films. ...except maybe Ray Park.
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    Put another way, SDFM = marshmallow puff, DYRL = "conventional" mecha. I don't think Hasegawa ever released a VF-1 with SDFM-style hands.
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    If I remember correctly (I think it was... jenius' review?), you can mount the 171 weapons on the 30's underside. I'd imagine the 31's weapons/super parts will be backwards compatible, too, so long as the mold doesn't change too much. (Or if it does, retrofitting them to the 30 will be easy enough.)
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    I'd go so far as to say that most everybody was well-cast. The guy who played Anakin, whatshisface, is fine, too. The prequel movies remind me of BvS: A perfectly decent, workable cast made to look bad due to awful writing/storytelling.
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    And so she joins Walkure. In her pilot's uniform.
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    I'm still waiting on a Hasegawa VF-11/19/21/25 battroid mode...
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    A very quick question about the Bandai DX Chogokin toys: Do they have stated scales (ie 1/60), or are they all designed to a strict height/length specification?
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    I don't know anything about that. The last I heard was just that Gordon-Levitt was leaving. It's possible and probable that they did.
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    Wall of griping, so feel free to skip if you like. Responses to areaseven and Golden Arms herein.
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    I still don't understand Snyder's obsession with EDIT: I agree. I wonder how much of that is directly BECAUSE of the little amount of screen time she was given. I suspect that, were this instead envisioned as her origin story, she would be as insufferable as all the other characters (through no fault of their own).
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    What bulge are you referring to? The closest I can see are the protruding panels on the legs that cover up the hands. Or do you mean the whole arm assembly?
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    That's exactly the point, though. The films will male money no matter who you put at the helm. So why not put someone there who can actually direct a film? The built-in financial viability of these films will last for at least a while, so there's no harm in building some good PR in the meantime so that future projects can have easier paths to success. And eventually they won't be able to sell these on brand name alone, so they should be giving people a reason to support them after that security blanket is gone. That's partly why I still watch Marvel films despite a sense of superhero fatigue. I know they'll make for at least passingly good entertainment. But really, the faith DC/WB has put in Snyder is mind-boggling. Yes, it survived Batman and Robin, but this movie is way, way beyond Batman and Robin. It's enough that I can safely say I won't watch another DC superhero movie again. Given what they did to this, I can only imagine what they're doing to Sandman, the one DC superhero film I WANT to see. (And with Joseph Gordon-Levitt leaving over creative differences, I can reason out what those differences were.)
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    Further proof that Zac Snyder knows only superhero style and nothing at all about superhero substance.
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    Ah. That was one beautiful train wreck, wasn't it?
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Also: A negative-G pushover = ???
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    Dengeki Hobby listed those Mecha Collection kits in that picture as 1/144. As I said in that specific thread, though, I'm skeptical that they're actually 1/144. There's been no other source running with that scale.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I dunno if this has already been shared here, but it just now popped up in my Youtube feed. Some nice close-up video of the toy at... I dunno what event, either. Anyway.
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    Would that be possible? I thought the proportions were different between the Hasegawa fighter/gerwalk/battroid kits? ...unless I'm wrong and this is a Bandai kit...
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    Has it been confirmed by a second source that these are 1/144? Wouldn't that be competing with the Tomy Tec 1/144 Gimix kits that are set to be released in a few months? I thought BW didn't allow that.
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    In Evangelion, Gendo Rokubungi took his wife's last name, Ikari. Some commentary somewhere noted that it's common to do this in cases where the wife's side of the family doesn't have any sons to carry on the family name and the husband's side has multiple sons to do so. Then again, Yui Ikari was a pioneering bioengineer and so taking her name was more likely a strategic decision to gain political clout on his part. My bet is Mirage's personal conflict will be dealing with her family name and not living up to the legend, eventually coming to the realization that she can and has to forge her own path. Maybe she quits Delta Squadron and becomes part of Walkure? In her pilot uniform? Hey, let me dream.
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    Is that confirmation of a 1/72 VF-171 model kit in the works? Also, what's the story behind that large-scale VF-31 prototype on the right there? (Second pic.) EDIT: Whoops, never mind. I'm guessing these are the non-scale/1/144-scale Mecha Collection kits.
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    The last two pages should just be replaced with a big ol' PSA saying "We are Otaku."
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    Eh. As impressive as articulated hands are, they lose a lot of their initial wow factor over a fairly short period of time. Joints loosen, painting is hard and can scratch away anyway, they don't look terribly "accurate"... The cons definitely outweigh the pros, in my eyes. I used to be all for articulated hands until I got what I wanted.
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    Really petty gripe, but I hate that Bandai hasn't changed the style/size of their hands since the frickin' 1/100 No-Grade Gundam Seed days. I've seen them on everything from Macross Frontier kits to RE/100 to IBO. Like yeah, I get that they're probably perfectly functional and acceptable as a one-size-fits-all thing, but could they really not take five minutes to make sure the thumbs aren't clipping into the fingers? It's been like that for FIFTEEN YEARS NOW. COME ON BANDAI. HANDS DON'T WORK THAT WAY. (It's even worse when you look at their Builders Parts hands and see that those are just as bad. They look worse than some of the default hands included in the HGUC GM kits.) ra;lskdfj;alskdfj grumble grumble grumble.
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    http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/MSA-0011_S_Gundam 21.73 meters head height 25.18 meters overall height
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