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3 hours ago, Urashiman said:

Mhmm… Maybe a FUJIMI Macross Zero F-14 rebox? That would be possible too.

Yeah, but probably a skull squadron lobster

6 hours ago, Mog said:

^^Or a “Finder of Antiquities”/Grave Robber. 😜

I was trying to be nice by calling him a smuggler, but either way it’s usually unethical and scoundrel kinda fits as well 

1 hour ago, Thom said:

Looks like Ford is President again!

But is he gonna tell people to get off his plane?

Hanks is always a captain or a doof and Ford is always a president or a smuggler 

9 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

 

The Foster’s movie

I kinda forgot this was coming out in theaters. Doesn’t seem to be much talk good or bad about it yet

7 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

I finished the old Arii Regult Scout Pod from Macross yesterday. I placed it next to the Heavy Missile Regult I finished last year. I used Wave's H-Eyes lenses on both of these kits for the little red sensors. For the Scout, I filed down the piece offset from the center and replaced it with a big blue lens. (I painted the red and blue with Mr. Color Clear Red and Clear Blue colors.) I used Kotobukiya's M.S.G. vernier thruster pieces for the side thruster pods as well as the thrusters on the backs of the knees. Scattered about are parts for Haegawa's Armored Valk and Bandai/Imai's Q-Rau kits.

Nice vintage pile

5 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Man, we can't have anything nice these days. 

Why cancel one of the few things that Paramount+ and Star Trek have going for them? 

Going to be pretty upset if it turns out this got canceled so they could divert the money to Starfleet Academy.

About a month or so ago there was a lot of talk about P+ giving the axe to its animated shows and I guess this was a part of all that. Not sure if they’ll still get episodes of shows from other networks or if it just includes their originals. Not even sure honestly what if any originals they have since I still have yet to meet anyone with P+

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

We're talking about a child who is more than 50 years old and is still essentially a toddler.  The kid's unlikely to even hit adolescence in Din Djarin's lifetime.

Then it’ll be Din’s quest for a nanny.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Din Djarin's story came to a natural and satisfying end in The Mandalorian season three.

I don’t really think it was satisfying

1 hour ago, Jeff J said:

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I'm torn. Either Gambit is resurrected, which would kill the stakes, or he would stay dead, which stinks. I appreciate that the end of this episode had me fully engaged.

 

I know what you mean

5 hours ago, Spark-O-Matic said:

Some movies are classics and should just be left alone. The Crow being one of them, they also tried to ruin another Classic, Jacobs Ladder with a piss poor reboot.

One thing people are missing just like a lot of other business and institutions in America the government allowed studies to consolidate from several hundred studios in the late 1980's to just 3 to 4 mega studios who own and control subsidiaries, while themselves owned by an even bigger conglomerate.  its all part of a technocracy and it will only get worse because when government and corporate interest merge that's fascism. its all about generating profits to the max sweeping out any kind of passion in the films.

Now there is some hope? Yes but a compromise. Look at Godzilla Minus One, a soft almost reboot of the 1954. it was made in Japan with on screen dialogs . maybe the future is foreign movies from all over the world translated with AI into English? not perfect but still good.

Another future options in dealing with reboots like this having AI re-edit these reboots by fans to make them good. Example I've dreamed of AI fixed version of the bay transformers movies with fixing the characters, adding characters while redoing the whole story line. take all the movies and condense them into a three movie trilogy.

Another option is movie studios instead of doing reboots, instead creates AI tools allowing you to remake any film you want yourself for a small fee and maybe even have a marketplace were the studio will sell your director cut and you even get a small commission out of each one rented.

There is a solution to the reboot madness but only time will tell what it is.

To be fair, there’s a lot of crap that comes from foreign movie studios and we usually only hear about the really good ones. Netflix has a butt load of foreign garbage sci fi and such movies that I would never recommend to anyone unless they’re having a bad movie marathon. I think the major problem with American films is that they’re mostly mediocre, not necessarily really bad or really good lately just easily forgettable 

4 hours ago, Urashiman said:

Went to the hobby store with the kid again.

We got this:

I never build a Minicraft kit before. So I was eager to try it. Looking at the UK flag I was expecting a pile of rubbish. BUT, it was okay.

The kit is super small, it has some nice details. The quality is mediocre. There are seems everywhere.

CLAMPS!

The raw build.

The kid wanted to help mask the canopy.

he did a few patches. Then he wanted to Airbrush the primer as well.

And almost done:

While building this, a box arrived with new stuff

 

That’s a cute lil Harrier. And seems like you’re getting a lot of use out of that portable airbrush

3 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Still crouching towards the day it all will come together.

And this is one I’m eagerly waiting to see the end results of

3 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Up on FB.

Someone was popping a lot of pills while building models

49 minutes ago, Spark-O-Matic said:

I'm not a fan of GaGa the dudes ok

I was just thinking that she looked more manly than Joaquin in that theater scene 

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

What's left?  

His quest to raise a child to be self sufficient. There’s still plenty of room for more, I’m not saying it needs to be done or that it will be good to watch. Macross is a good example as you mentioned about ending a story, but there’s plenty of anime that just don’t quit and carry on like Dragon Ball for example that take a child and he grows into adulthood has his own children and even grandchildren. Is Dragon Ball a great anime, that depends on who you ask. Starwars for years before the sequels tried to continue Luke’s story in book and comic form and eventually movie form. I never read any of it other than maybe a comic or two when I was younger, but it definitely happens for better or most of the time worse. 
It would take a good writing team to make any further stories with Din’n Grogu work and that’s probably not what Disney hired, but they definitely have other things and further adventures that are possible.

16 minutes ago, Urashiman said:

Got this one here now:

Just a rebox of the first one, but this time with water slide decals.

Yeah, but that’s kinda to be expected. The markings are also a different set for those that wanted someone other than Roy or Hikaru, but that’s just recolored decals. Now people can do the Kakizaki vs Queadluun Rau diorama 😞

45 minutes ago, Tking22 said:

Easily best show of 2024, after I finish up the series I'll probably check out the book too. 

It’s definitely a good show for a semi historical drama. My lady absolutely loves it and gets mad that we gotta wait for the next episodes every time one ends. It’s so far an early highlight for the year and will be tough competition for best show of the year for most people. It’s still only the first quarter and there’s a few shows I’m interested in coming up soon and one I haven’t had the chance to start yet 

9 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

While they're at it, how about a 1/300 Daedalus and a 1/300 Macross to go with it?

While that would be cool, after seeing their other products I’m expecting a weird Macross lobster

I don’t know specifics on sales numbers, but I always saw Gundam models in hobby shops and rarely Macross. Even at odd swap meets where you could find macross items, there was still more Gundam stuff and that was even before Gundam became a thing here in the U.S. Strangely it was easier to see things visually like video tapes from Macross, like Plus and 2, maybe the occasional videotape of the movie and Robotech Macross, but I feel as  the 90’s started even things like Americanized versions of Macross kits became a rarity. Merchandise like toys and models were definitely more Macross heavy in the mid 80’s to early 90’s while mid 90’s on seemed to be more and more Gundam items of various types 

15 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

... but those are two ways of saying the exact same thing, though.  You just said "No, except yes".

For a story to work, it has to have events proceeding towards a conclusion.  A sense of direction.  It may be a figurative, rather than literal, destination but the story has to be going somewhere in order to progress in any way.

The Mandalorian's third season ties off almost every plot thread in Din's story.  He's been redeemed in the eyes of his people, he's brought the Mandalorians together and back to Mandalore, he's defeated his people's nemesis for the last time.  What's left for him to do that isn't just starting over?

As far as a movie, it needs a bit more focus, if it were a series not so much. Disney unfortunately isn’t great at story telling these days, so I don’t expect much out of them. But there’s plenty of room for more Din’n Grogu. They didn’t die and they didn’t seem like the types to just sit back and do nothing just because certain goals were met.

2 minutes ago, TMBounty_Hunter said:

Fully transforming kits are definitely out of the question, that's way too fancy for Fujimi.

Speculation on Japanese twitter so far has been:
1/700 Prometheus and Daedalus
Ozma's and Mylene's cars
They've recolored some of their nature kits into Evangelion colors as seen above, so if they're lazy they might do that for Macross.
If they're not lazy some are hoping for Vajra kits

After seeing what they have for other anime in the last couple years, it seems like a bit of a list of disappointing items 

Oh, I just found this for the Eva fansseems they do bugs and odd crustaceans with various anime themes. This may just end up an awkwardly disappointing item like a Macross themed insect or something, but after a while these were the only kits I could find from them with joints and they seem rather limited 

32 minutes ago, SteveTheFish said:

Wave sticks to 1:100 scale

Wave kinda does almost more stuff in 1/72 scale. I think the only did the multi modes of the VF-1 in 1/100 with a few minor variations. Other than that they were all larger scale. 
As far as Fujimi, I couldn’t find any examples of robotic kits or really anything with joints, but I’m no expert on their stuff. I have a feeling they will stick to what they know 

7 hours ago, TMBounty_Hunter said:

Welp, and here we see exactly why Valk proportions do no work for a Battroid
 

 

I guess they didn’t want to wait for the Battroid kit to come out 

I wouldn’t mind some of the ships. A good tv version of the Macross or some of the Zentraedi ships would be nice for a start. I also wouldn’t mind seeing some of the non transforming aircraft. I’m not super familiar with the company and have seen some real world kits, but haven’t paid enough attention to notice any sci-fi stuff from them

10 hours ago, Mog said:

The question is whether they’ll actually stick with what happened.

Well after a rewatch, since overall it was still a pretty good episode compared to the last one