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    I always liked the ending images from Outlaw Star. They had really nothing to do with the show, but they sorta reminded me a lot of 70’s and earlier sci fi concept art that kinda got the imagination rolling.just a few of the pics from the end of the show
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    Bandai is notorious for milking molds, I have no doubt this will be coming soon
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    Yeah, kinda wish they’d go back to old school animation instead of cg but I’ll wait to see more
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    Looks pretty cool.
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    Watched a slightly older movie that kinda flew under our radar from the long forgotten year of 2022. The Contractor with Chris Pine. I think it’s best to totally skip it. The acting for the most part is fine for the kind of story it is and the action isn’t bad, just that there’s a few problems that are highly frustrating about the movie. It’s basically about a guy from the military that had a pretty bad leg injury and has had to take pain killers and steroids to try and keep his career going. He eventually gets booted out for drug use and that creates a lot of drama at home. That bit of the story isn’t so bad, but the filming is constantly done with shaky cam during these slow depressing scenes and kinda was making me feel sea sick. He’s got an old war buddy that helps him land a job with a military contractor that tells him everything they’re going to do is legit and they’ll always take care of them, of course that’s obviously not true, but when they finally start doing their mission things go south and they’re stealing a mcguffin that is the most mcguffin of mcguffins that I’ve seen in a while. So most of the team dies other than Pine and his buddy that are both hurting. Eventually Pine gets the buddy runnning to an unsure extraction while resting up for the rest of his escape with the mcguffin. So then the story takes a turn and now the people that were supposed to help extract him are trying to kill him and the movie never ever explains why they are trying to kill him and his buddy. Supposedly the boss pays the families big checks anyway even to the people that die and so money isn’t the issue. And I thought maybe they didn’t want witnesses, but then it turns out that when he gets back stateside that his buddy was fine. So then the witnesses thing isn’t really there either. He then makes his buddy cry and they go after the boss I an average action movie type scene, but even after dealing with the big boss nothing really gets explained about why they wanted him dead so badly they’ve risked even more high paid mercenaries lives. They even kill a guy running one of their secret safe houses for no real reason either. Also the shaky cam stopped somehow before the mission started for unknown reasons and I don’t remember it ever returning. Kinda glad they killed the first camera man at least, cause that guy was terrible at his job, hopefully the paid the camera man’s family well for his loss. I do feel like if there was a bit more work put into this movie it could’ve been a fairly good action film , but weird film styles and bad writing. And the reason they were sent to destroy or steal the mcguffin was because it was some goofy tech that seems to cure birdflu of all things and the company that hired them didn’t want competition with their treatment medications. Like I’ve said, the action wasn’t bad at all, but really was the only stable piece of the movie.
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    Oh definitely. It has a look of something designed at the tail end of the 80’s or possibly even something of today. And it has a super stylish simple onesie under the armor. It’s both tough and snuggly
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    I definitely get that problem. I have more than a few kits that are off waiting in dark corners to be opened and a few that are ready for paint and just waiting for some real free time to get that big step going. Hopefully I’ll have a few finished projects soon Oh nooooo!!!! I’m sorry to see that happen. Gotta be a bit of a highly frustrating setback. Hopefully you can get things finished on that beautiful kit
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    Yeah, at this point the thread should be renamed from What Will Hasegawa do Next to What Did HLJ do Now
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    As long as you can learn something, and it looks like you learned a lot. Great build and the paint looks smooth
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    Looks really nice. Very cool
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    The thing is kinda growing on me, I’m still not buying it, but something odd about it makes me kinda like it. I think when they get around to the more anime designs, I’ll get them. Still a bit in the fence though. Maybe if the reviews sound fun on the current ones might push me in that direction
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    Same here. I felt kinda dumb when people brought it up 20 or 30 years later.
  13. Big s
    Reminds me of how a lot of us loved the show Dukes of Hazard and then everyone in the next generation points out the flag on the car.
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    I’m pretty sure it’s the Kotobukiya kit. I think it was more of a continuation of the HLJ complaint subsection of this thread
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    I kinda blame the changes that the history channel and TLC channels made towards the end of the 90’s. They were far more about education than cheap reality tv. I still remember that the TLC in TLC channel as an acronym for The Learning Channel. Same thing with MTV being Music Television. Too much trashy unrealistic reality shows and not enough focus on what the channels were meant to be.
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    At least they’ve been letting you know , and knowing is half the battle
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    Loving this one so far
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    Kinda happy and a bit lt down. It had been a lil bit since I tried searching for one of my favorite 80’s shows and found that Amazon Prime actually Has Sledgehammer. Unfortunately it says available with commercials only. At least they have my show, but paying Amazon to remove commercials, but being stuck with commercials totally blows. Not sure when they added the show, but I’ve been kinda desperate to find it streaming, so I might see if I can deal with the annoyance
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    The Macross and Mospeada stuff isn’t available over here. There are however other Japanese options, but I’ve never had any problems ordering those items from hlj
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    Light fixture still counts as toy, car headlight is crossing some boundaries
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    Finally got around to finishing the show. Got derailed a lot by the final season of Stranger Things and a lot of personal matters that kept me from wanting to watch anything with a lot of death and despair over the holidays. pretty good show overall and luckily no one seemed to be putting up spoiler bait for the show since Stranger Things kinda stole this show’s thunder. Probably would’ve benefited from finishing before that show or coming out afterwards. Either way not bad, a bit of a few frustrating characters kinda get in the way of making the show perfect, but still pretty great overall. Pretty gruesome at times and some of the deaths hit pretty hard here. Kinda gave the show a you don’t exactly know who will survive kinda feel. The odd connections to other king stuff kinda gave a castle rock kinda feel, but way more dialed in than that show ever was. Now I guess I gotta find time to do a rewatch of the It movies
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    Could’ve also been an odd timeslot. Out here Voltron often came on early morning and if you didn’t get up early enough you’d miss it and everyone at school would talk about what big monster got diagonally slashed to death. Robotech oddly showed up right after school and if you didn’t hurry home, you might miss it. I remember when Dragon Ball first aired and it was super early on Saturday mornings, something wild like 5 am before the show took off and got popular here. Transformers and GI Joe and a few others had later afternoon time slots that allowed for hang out time with friends though and probably why some shows were watched by more people.
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    Still counts as a toy till you get in a heated argument with a neighbor and run him through
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    They pretty much are the only ones in Japan that do Bandai preorders to overseas customers, so I guess I could see that they probably get a lot of preorders for Bandai stuff, and I get the feeling that Bandai tells them that there will be more product on initial release. Luckily it usually doesn’t take long for the restocks. I do think that the U.S. sources are a decent option though these days unless the item is Japan only.
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    Dude is one of the few that actually loves the sequels
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