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    A channel I like reviewing a movie I like.
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    I'd imagine it at least builds more easily and sturdily than the earlier model, though, no? Which still looks great but has an of its time janky loose construction. IIRC it's still about half the price of the new Ver Ka, though, so... two of the same design for the same money? Not bad at all.
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    There was a MB Quanta Full Saber, right? What are the chances the Full Saber can be detached from its arm and the Exia's shield installed in its place? Or perhaps replace the backpack of either the Quanta/Exia with the one from the Full Saber. Seems it would be a simpler albeit expensive solution to the problem. I mean personally I love the Quanta's asymmetry, but I can see why people wouldn't. EDIT: Welp, guess I was wrong about that. Maybe there was a third-party Full Saber? Iunno.
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    Exia sees what the Quanta is doing and is like "Gonna get me some of that." I dunno, it just seems redundant. It's the Quanta with some Exia kibble here and there. This when the Quanta was already itself an iteration on the Exia.
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    Yeah, the forearms look like they literally split down the middle, and all so they could add ball joints to the wrists for a little bit more articulation. Not saying that IS the reason, of course. But it certainly doesn't look good, like at all. That element almost on its own has made me lose all interest in these kits.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    The "pedo" discussion is kind of silly, honestly. The naming of the figure set is really, REALLY stupid and in really, REALLY poor taste, but the figures themselves are... fine. Just that. Not extravagant, not poor, not hyper conservative, not creepily sexualized, just... fine. If the aesthetic is your thing, then you should feel absolutely no shame whatsoever getting them. It literally is JUST the name that gives everything a creepo vibe. I don't get how that got the OK from the marketing team.
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    Best Girl deserves more love than just this, but I'll take it all the same. Is there a separate thread for the 1/20 character kits?
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    frakking FINALLY! AND it's Best Girl, too! EDIT: That said, the sculpt isn't particularly accurate... There's far more of the regular VF Girl than I'd like, not enough of either Klang form. It actually reminds me of the "Half Age Girls" (still such a terrible name for the line, I don't understand what appeal they POSSIBLY saw in going with that) depiction of her. Ah well. The Megahouse figures are still looking good.
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    What are the two design revisions? A quick wikia shows a novel design ...and a SD Gundam G Generation design? Either way, the kit doesn't look like either. Before seeing the artwork, my impression was the kit looked pretty cool, but compared to what it could have been... huh. It's definitely hewing closer to the SD design, but it's still so different. Is the SD artwork a chibi-fied version? Or is it supposed to be the non-deformed design? The kit doesn't look bad, but it's certainly more... generic? common? expected? The silhouette of the head and shoulders makes me think of the Jagd Doga, but the proportions overall and the legs brings to mind the... Zaku Kai? Maybe. I dunno. Bizarre design choices...
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    Took the kids to see Weathering With You over the weekend (actually just a day after my first viewing), and... huh. I dunno what happened in between that first showing and the second, but I was way more into it the second time around. It still has all of the same "Shinkai-isms" as before, but I was far less irritated by them than I was the night before. Quite enjoyed myself this time around. The one musical cue that made me burst into stifled laughter still did so this time, too, though. Really such an odd place to put it...
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    Makoto Shinkai works are so... frustrating sometimes. You can always count on them to be beautiful, but beyond that, it's like being on a rollercoaster ride. The highest of highs and the lowest of lows. His short works tend to be his better ones. His feature-length ones have, until Your Name/Kimi No Na Wa, tended to be weaker; 5 Centimeters Per Second was probably his best of the latter, but that one kind of doesn't count because it's three short stories spread across only 60 minutes. Weathering With You is so ambivalent. There are some really good things about it, but there are some really bad things. The CGI models used for some pans of Tokyo are remarkably and distractingly low quality. I was amazed that such a meticulous director like him gave the okay to those scenes. He seems to have fully embraced the pop music lifestyle that he began flirting with all the way back when with 5CM. It worked really well in Your Name. Here, it's much more distracting, much more amateurish. When the movie broke into song during the climactic finale, I found myself stifling giggles at how tone deaf it was. Character design needs serious work. Main male lead is just Anime Male Student, and main female lead is just Anime Female Student. He's especially bad, as he looks just like the main male lead from Your Name, who looks just like the main male lead from 5CM, etc. At one point in the movie they're at an old grandmother's house and her college student grandson enters the scene and I swear to god I could not tell the difference between the two males. Meanwhile you have someone like the detective character, who's sporting a big ol' swooping forward mane just like Josuke from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I forget the inspiration for it, but regardless, it's such a flamboyant design that stands at odds with the rest of the film's more generic characters. I dunno... It still feels like Shinkai hasn't grown as a director since his indie days. He still makes the same storytelling mistakes, and he's still an unrivaled visual composer. He still has such a schizophrenic body of work.
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    These toys originally sold for...?
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    Hey, just to confirm, the response PDF was BW's response to HG's appeal of an EU court's decision in favor of BW's challenge to HG's trademark application(? copyright application?) for "Macross" in the EU. Correct me on any of that, and also on any of the following: This is their response being given to I'm guessing an appeals court or office or... Anyway, that means no decision on the appeal has been made yet; it was simply a submission of BW's argument, which the court/office/etc. can use in determining their ruling.
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    Saw 1917 again. Didn't plan on it, but friends wanted to see it and offered me a ticket so I wasn't gonna say no. Some things noticed on repeat viewing (spoilers just in case):
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    I personally prefer Himari's so done with it all sass.
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    Sigh... I'd love to get the G04, G05, and the Mudrock. Come the blip on, Bandai. They're all using brand new tooling. You've had more obscure kits see wider release. What the fudgesicle. At least with the former two, I may as well get the MGs for pretty much the same price... FAZZ looks alright, I guess.
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    Eh. CGI looks fine. As a relatively new convert to the GitS, I'm down for more.
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    Demi-chan is a rare breed of high school anime with practically zero fanservice at all. The closest you get is a "beach" episode, but even then the eye candy is decidedly more for the girls in the audience than the boys. It's a really wholesome show. I think the Crunchyroll has the OVA episode, too, which is also a lot of fun. I'm hoping they do a second season, but I'm good with what we have, too.
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    Oh, from the discussion I was under the impression that Robotech Remix was a, well, remix of the Robotech animation... which is to say, the Macross animation. Like I thought there was a second airing in the 90s or something with re-edited scenes or something. If it's just the Titan Comics continuing run, then, well, okay then.
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    ...what even is robotech remix
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    Not sure if this has already been posted, but alongside the leaked Trevorrow script for IX, there also appears to be concept art: https://imgur.com/a/lX9JG8F I think a lot of us will immediately jump to crowing how this version would have been so much better and what we got was trash and blah blah blah, but it's important to remember that these are just a script and some concept art. They're bits and pieces of a hypothetical movie, one that could have run into any number of problems or rewrites or whatever along the way. Me, I like some of the ideas this works with. A more literally down to earth rebellion, being fought in the streets of Coruscant. Leia with BB-8... Rey wielding a double lightsaber is kind of ehhh, though. I've said before that it would be more interesting and more in line with her character if it was a single-bladed pole arm. Keeps more traits of her staff in there while also being unique to her rather than aping Darth Maul. The lightsaber execution block is also kinda dumb. But eh. Anyway. Check it out.
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    Customs is kind of unpredictable. Sometimes I've had items spend a week or more there for no real reason, other times they go in and out the same day. It's just luck of the draw, often there's no nefarious or ulterior purpose behind it at all. The coronavirus outbreak MIGHT have something to do with it, but I doubt it; they would be screening people, I'd imagine, not packages... or rather, packages wouldn't be getting more scrutiny than they already do, at any rate.
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    The lightning pack looks suspiciously like one of the equipment packs from G-Unit.
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    They won't be able to stop my legally distinct "Tiny Gremlin with Long Ears" plush. I just meant in general. If an X-Wing can go lightspeed, I don't really see why a TIE can't, too. Sure, it probably clashes with intricate lore details, but... eh. It's the type of minor thing I don't mind handwaving, like how lightsabers supposedly work. Crystals, psh. Sure. As far as the X-Wing being functional again... sigh. That also strained my suspension of disbelief. I had a similar feeling with the Falcon in VII; eventually I just shrugged and said, "Fine. Whatever. You do you, I guess. But I reserve the right to glare at you grumpily for the remainder of the movie."
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    I mean... X-Wings have hyperspace drives or whatever in them, so I'm certainly not gonna sweat that minor detail.
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