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    The one thing that sticks out to me is how small the actual pod is from how I feel it should be. I want it to be either slightly more voluminous, or the limbs scaled down slightly. That aside, I think the proportions are actually better on the Hasegawa pics than the Moscato dio. The Moscato dio's limbs absolutely DWARF its cockpit, it almost looks to be a kitbash of two different scales. I dunno, maybe it's just the angle, or maybe that dio isn't using the Moscato kit at all. 🤷‍♂️
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    Wow. Dare I hope for a Queadluun-Rhea in the near-ish future, too? I'm pretty sure they would have to make a completely new mold for it, but still.
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    Seems to be the new trailer meme now.
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    https://hiddenpalace.org/Star_Wars_Battlefront_III_(Nov_21,_2008_Prototype) A fully playable prototype build of Star Wars Battlefront 3 for Wii just leaked.
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    Eyyyy badum-tish That's about what I'd expect to see. Are you planning something that would require a similar process?
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    The timing here is eerie. I don't know that you specified a price range, but the ones covered here are all $350 or less. Comments have some recc's as well. Navigating the tablet market is like walking through a minefield, I don't envy you. Tl;dr: Walmart ONN if budget is thin. ALLDOCUBE iPlay 50 Pro Mini if you're tech-savvy. Lenovo Tab Plus/iPad 10 good all around. Galaxy Tab A9 comes in "last," but only because something has to. Walmart ONN 10.1, $99 - Nice materials, pretty clean OS, decent speakers. Low-res/low-brightness screen, sluggish 3GB ram. Good for the price if $100 is all you can spend. Best battery life, ~7.5 hours. ALLDOCUBE iPlay 50 Pro Mini, $140 - Surprisingly good all around - good screen, good processor, 8GB ram, metal chassis, etc. Single low-quality speaker, some build quality issues. ~6 hours. Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+, $280 - If getting, get the 8GB version. 90Hz screen, lightweight, tons of bloat, good camera and speakers. ~7 hours. Lenovo Tab Plus, $290 - Worth its price, great speaker setup (8!), has integrated kickstand, pen support. Heavy, tons of bloatware. ~7 hours. Apple iPad 10, $320 - Out of consideration. Surprisingly had the weakest battery life, ~4 hours.
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    Those red triangle stickers that fold over the backplate/wings really are annoying, aren't they? They're not nearly as bad as the ones that came with the Plamax fighter mode VF-1, but they still peel off all the time; if I weren't replacing my YF-21's ones with paint anyway, I probably would just cut the sticker in half along the fold and deal with it maybe revealing a bit of blue plastic along the wing edge. Very clean, very pretty build. Am I seeing it right, the hand guards did indeed end up being gray plastic with yellow stickers on top as hinted by the preview pics?
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    DX VF-27 Revival

    kajnrig replied to borgified's topic in Toys

    I didn't realize those were TWE. I stand corrected. And of course with the links popping up I look like a fool and should have just been patient literally one day longer. EDIT: Speaking of links... USAGS, $260: https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/macross-frontier-dx-chogokin-vf-27ysp-super-lucifer-valkyrie-brera-sterne-use-revival-ver Kappa Hobby, $238.88: https://www.kappahobby.com/products/dx-chogokin-vf-27ysp-super-lucifer-valkyrie-brera-sterne-use-revival-ver
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    DX VF-27 Revival

    kajnrig replied to borgified's topic in Toys

    Just want to be sure: Do I need to place an order now through one of the proxy sites, or will it for sure be available stateside? I know @sh9000 indicated the latter, but all I'm seeing is that it's TWE, which brings to mind items like the VF-31AX Super Ghost set, or Bogue's VF-31AX, neither of which saw release outside Japanese TWE IIRC.
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    Is that official? I sure hope not, that was... nauseating.
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    I'll be damned. Got mine in today and it's in good condition to boot. Didn't hear anything from either BN or Bluefin about it being on its way, but good to see nonetheless. The other posts, though, do have me wondering what it is about this part in particular that seems to be so troublesome to produce.
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    Was it? I vaguely remember the sentiment being that it was a letdown. I thought it was fine myself, even if it didn't reach the same heights as the first. I forget what it's about, though. The only things I remember are 1) a horde of infected chasing some dude down the verdant English countryside to a boat on a river; 2) some guy kissing an infected (an unsymptomatic carrier?) on the lips while she's strapped down and immediately becoming infected himself; and 3) Jeremy Renner's character doing a heroic sacrifice moment and pushing a car down the road while getting flamethrowered. Anyway, looking forward to this. Apparently Cillian Murphy is returning as well, so that'll be interesting to see. I don't think we see him in the trailer; I'll have to check again. EDIT: What's the voiceover narration? Seems to be reciting I want to say a poem, probably some old WW1/2 radio broadcast or something... EDIT 2: "Boots" by Rudyard Kipling. Written in 1903, recorded as apparently psychological warfare in 1915 by Taylor Holmes. (Not recorded to be psychological warfare, but used "for its psychological effects in US military SERE schools," according to Wikipedia.)
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    Do Sony care? I seem to recall their licensing agreement stipulates they have to create something using the IP every few years or so in order to keep it, so they're willing to waste money on ancillary projects like these as long as they maintain a stranglehold the cash cow that is Spider-Man. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
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    I really like Ikuto Yamashita's designs pre-Rebuild. Eva, Yukikaze, this Nu and the Sazabi apparently, Nadia's Nautilus... I think it was starting with the Rebuilds, you saw him and it embrace more and more of his current industrial design aesthetic/phase, which can be nice in the right context, but I haven't found it particularly enjoyable to look at so far.
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    Dunno if it's been mentioned already or not: "Look Back," the anime adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga of the same name, released on Amazon recently. It's a quick short film, just under an hour long. Very good, very heartfelt story, with some wonderful nuanced animation.
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    It only looks as good or bad as the Rebuild Evas do, so if you like those, you have no real reason to dislike this. I too went straight to Kyoukai Senki when I saw those offset joints. The mecha design doesn't really do anything for me, but I'm digging those character designs. It feels like Gundam is finally putting effort into modernizing their fashion sense. Like I felt with Delta, like I felt with other Gundam, I wish they weren't so cavalier about speeeenning the camera every which way during the action scenes. That said, I really like the way the GQX is animated grabbing the drone-looking thing, spinning and struggling with it, then throwing it into the other drone. Felt very kinetic, in a way that Gundam has long been lacking.
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    Studio Khara so that checks out. If anyone can drag Gundam back to modern relevancy, it's them, so best of luck to them.
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    I saw it just now. Thought it was perfectly fine. CGI was very obvious at times. Ending I feel is too optimistic and some other story beats were too clean given the rest of the movie. It was never going to live up to the first, but still, all that said, it comported itself well. What was so bad about the movie as to be angering?
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    That's a fictional 1:1 model. Something about AVIC being China's air force engineering division or something, and they've created a bunch of sci-fi scenarios to entice the public into getting into the field. This is one, with the fictional story of the aircraft being that aliens invade in 2050 and this is the sixth-gen superfighter that can stand up to them... or something like that. Apparently this whole endeavor is very well-known in China, but AVIC was more than willing to let foreign press come to their own conclusions across language barriers about the model, which is where we get the false reporting that China was showing off a prototype real-life sixth-gen air/space fighter capable of Mach 5, laser weaponry, and all other sorts of nonsense.
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    I don't think the movie is one that needed a live-action remake already, but it is what it is. I'd have liked for them to go much more naturalistic on these dragon designs, and especially tone down the eyes on Toothless. Seriously, can you imagine how well it must be able to see with saucers that big? Also, I think it would only have been fair if they brought back Gerard Butler that they also bring back Jay Baruchel as Hiccup. 40-year old man STILL looks like he's in the midst of puberty. Anyway, happy to see the composer and director are also returning. The original has such an outstanding soundtrack, I still regularly listen to it on its own.
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    The Gernsback and Arbalest use the XL-2 Booster, the Laevatein is the only one to use the XL-3. IIRC there was a MB XL-2 booster released as a TWE item, but don't quote me on that.
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    That's actually what I had hoped would be the case for The Predator. Altruistic Predator gets shot down trying to bring alien tech to humanity to fight a common enemy in the Super Predator, but ends up killing an investigation party in self-defense, then the Super Predator lands and it becomes a three-way hunt as the Predator tries to help humanity and/or make it out alive, humans try to kill the aliens, and the Super Predator does its Super Predator self-experimentation thing.
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    Thought for sure I've seen this previewed here already, but can't find the post. Anyway, saw it a couple days ago. Very good, solid movie. Typical high A24 quality.
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    The latter, plus missiles in one and missiles and Super parts in the other. At 1/48 I think it's just the paint scheme.
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    Now you mention it, I wonder what the M7 VF-19s could potentially look like in a more "realistic" style, with their bulbous shapes pared back to more closely resemble the YF-19/VF-19A they're ostensibly built on.
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