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    One of the trailers showed the helmet being repaired, so I think it's pretty clear he'll be wearing it again, and thereby undoing all the characterization he received in the last movie. hurraaaay...
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    The Matrix, or at least its incarnation as of the movies, explicitly wasn't a paradise in order to better suit the people being plugged into it. The first Matrix was a paradise, and apparently failed because of it. Smith explains as much in the first movie, and the Architect does as well in the last.
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    According to the wikia, the Origin 78-02 has - 2x "Shoulder Magnum" (left side) - 1x "Gatling gun" (right side) http://dalong.net/reviews/mg/m190/p/m190_57.jpg Seems this release is more substantial than just a recolor as I'd originally thought. The earlier release apparently represents the "Early Type" of the design (probably used early in the manga), and this newest one is the "Late Type" design (probably used later in the manga). The "Late Type" replaces the chest armaments with those headlight-looking things, and swaps the shoulder armor for ones that have a similar "headlight" accoutrement, as well as whatever other minor detail differences exist between the two.
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    Remember how the first movie was a complete repudiation of the badass American super soldier fantasy that its sequels would become? Hmmm... The dialogue is so generic and the plot looks so generic and... I dunno, I was just really expecting more. And speaking of plot, if my assumption holds true and it's about Rambo pulling a Liam Neeson after the Mexican cartel kidnaps his American niece to sell into sex slavery... hoo boy. One look at a certain former billionaire's rap sheet would tell you an entirely different and entirely more truthful story... But setting that aside, that really is just the most boring dialogue you could have ever put to a trailer. That's honestly the only thing what did it for me. It's so bad, in both trailers, so mind-numbing.
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    You talking about the Tomemei toy? Last page or two we talked about it a bit. Some highlights:
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    The sequels are some of the dumbest, most up their own butts, overstuffed messes of movies ever. But good goddamn if they aren't still the best live-action anime adaptations until Speed Racer took that honor. The 100 Smiths fight? Great. The massive movie-long battle against the clock with drills vs gorilla-looking mecha vs footsoldiers vs squiddies vs the Hammer? Awesome. The Matrix Saiyan fight? ...okay, yeah, that one's not great, but also in retrospect I kind of love it. The movies aren't that good, for sure, but damn if they didn't make the most of their insane budget. And that first one still stands the test of time. I'd been feeling a bit nostalgic for ht series; I'm totally in for a 4th movie, maybe one last hurrah.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    I wonder what the materials are.
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    Saw Millennium Actress in theater on Tuesday. God, that movie is still such the best. The translator/team of translators failed to check the subtitles on a handful of occasions, though, and the translation itself was a bit... fuzzy... also on a handful of occasions. I brought two friends along and I was honestly a bit nervous about whether they'd have a good time or not, This isn't typically the kind of movie we go to the theaters for. But they both really enjoyed it. I was glad they did. Apparently it's being remastered for Bluray? I can't wait.
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    Did you mean to ask that in the gunpla thread? Or is there a new "build it yourself" figure that came out recently? Either way, Mineshima makes some tools that will get you where you need to go. Their nippers are pretty basic, but they'll work well enough for long enough, and they're cheap. I don't know about Amazon, but HobbyLink Japan has a pretty extensive catalog of tools: https://hlj.com/search/go?w=*&af=selectmanufacturer:mineshima
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    Thought you guys might like this somewhat unorthodox video:
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    What are the recent GI Joe films and what are the ones that have been delayed/canceled? Did the one with Bruce Willis in the back of a pickup even come out?
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    What even is this Musiculture thing you're talking about?
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    You know, now that they have the molds for it, I don't know why they don't release a LE "Super YF-19" kit.
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    What are you guys talking about it can't be that siiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh god damn it god damn it god damn it
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    I think the 00 re-release is going for the "Designer Color Version" look based on Kanetake Ebikawa's original artwork. Note the paler red and yellow as well. Bandai's hobby division released a similarly-colored kit back during the run of the show. left is TV version, right is DCV
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    I mean the real answer is whatever design Kawamori decides isn't TOO protagonist material. My money's on the VF-25. Since the -25 is a spiritual successor to the VF-1, it can fit into the same mass-production roles. It can achieve a heroic look, but not TOO heroic, wouldn't want to upstage the aces sharing the battlefield.
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    I think someone points out in the forums there that Gundam churned up interest in MSG by way of its more recent entries, allowing MSG to sell fairly well when it finally released on DVD(/BD?). You kind of need that modern entry point to get new fans interested in something as old as these OG shows rather than just relying on the dwindling and aging fanbase to achieve high sales.
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    Aggretsuko season 2 continues to have some damn good localization work. Weirdly enough, it reminds me a lot of Bojack Horseman, just with a somewhat cheerier disposition. EDIT: ok but anai's fraked tho
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    Gah, yeah, that too. I didn't mean to imply it was a bad or incomplete summary. In my own haste to be, well, hasty, I skimmed over some details myself. The irony...
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    Yeah, for as concise as the author was trying to be, the unintended result was that he skimmed over some important details.
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    ANN q&a about the recent license renewal: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2019-08-07/.148929
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    So you were saying that it looks basically like a MG Zeta 2.0, but is the parts makeup also similar? Did they just take maybe the inner frame, say, and recast it in metal?
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    Um. Think I'm good, thanks.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Man, these have really appreciated in value. Didn't they initially start at like 4k?
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    Apparently they turned a This American Life segment into a movie. Here's the segment in question: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/585/in-defense-of-ignorance/act-one-5 And here's the movie version: This is a very Asian movie. I'll probably check it out.
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