HardlyNever
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Damn... I didn't know I was the one holding this whole thing back... Let me go buy 5 and kickstart this whole thing so we can all be 3D printing this stuff next year... Get serious, man (but I am considering buying a 3D printer for our workplace). Maybe I'll buy an oculus rift, and a vive while I'm at it, because me not buying that is definitely holding back VR. Back to the hardpoints, is this simply a bad QC issue? Not to beat a dead horse, but me and 3-4 other people had part of their backpack break on the super Focker release, and no one was calling the mold dead then, it was just bad luck. This looks to be a similar situation to my eye, only this is getting more attention because the people speaking up are being more vocal about it.
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Right, I guess what I'm saying is, we were "supposed" to be at this point already, if you were to believe some of the proponents of 3D printing. It was supposed to be super cheap, super accessible, and nearly ubiquitous at this point. I know we can (and in some cases do) make replacement parts, but the cost is still pretty high, and thus limited either to a really common problem (like the v2 shoulder), or someone who already has access to the rather expensive tech. There really isn't an answer, I guess we just have to lump it in with flying cars and jetpacks. It just seems like 3D printing was going to become more accessible a lot faster, but I guess not.
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Yeah, that's what I figured, 3D printing will probably never realistically match mass producing from molds once you hit a certain production number. Thanks for the insight. Kinda shows that the "experts" that predicted we'd be 3D printing everything we own by now didn't really know what they were talking about. That said, I'm still surprised we can't 3d print our own replacement hard points or even wings. I guess the v2 shoulder breaking was such a common occurrence that it was worth someone going through the trouble and scuplting(?) one (digitally, ofc). I'm a bit surprised no one has 3D scanned all the major parts of the v2 by now, though.
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Not to derail the thread too much, but since we're on the subject of rising cost: wasn't 3D printing supposed to "save" us from all this? Shouldn't this hobby, as we know it, be radically different? Shouldn't we be buying blueprints/designs and 3D printing and assembling all this stuff ourselves by now? What happened? I know there are people 3D printing home-made kits and designs, but those tend to be very high in cost. It's also nice to have 3D printing to replace broken parts here and there (like v2 shoulders), but we were supposed to be 3D printing cars by now (by some estimates). 3D printing has been the "hot new thing" for 15-20 years now, and it still hasn't radically changed what should have been one of the very first industries it killed (plastic toy manufacturing). It seems like it still can't keep up with the economy of scale of mass producing specific molds and having (relatively) cheap labor put everything together. Is there something else going on? Also, to keep it a little more on topic, why can't we just 3d print replacement hard points? Or replacement wings even? It was supposed to be so cheap and easy by now.
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When Milia "weaponizes" their child, the shock of seeing an infant causes the Zentradi to run. I imagine they are all made as adults, or if there are Zentran children, it would be a very specialized/isolated part of their "culture" that raises them. I think them just creating full grown Zentraedi makes more sense.
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I think they are more "test tube babies," rather than true clones, as you see a lot of diversity, even among the rank and file (different faces, skin color, hair color, etc.).
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I believe some of those red lines are available as stickers in the regular release. I do think people are under-valuing how much some of those tiny paint apps really make the mold pop. And that kinda stuff is pretty time consuming, at least for novice modelers/customizers. I'm panel-lining one of my HMR valks, and that is going to end up taking well over two hours (but I'm new at it, and still pretty bad). Overall, I'm pretty happy with how it is looking, maybe not $150 happy, but it is kind of hard to tell without actually getting it in hand. But right now, I'm feeling confident about going with the PF version, and I skipped the PF versions of all the valks.
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People complain about the paint job, but I think it is looking pretty good in toy-form. I wonder why they aren't showing it with reaction missiles. This release does come with the missiles, doesn't it?
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Seems like the ve-1 is cursed. Mine's been stuck in New York for a week now. I know they've had some bad whether up there, but I don't think it was that bad...
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Looks like these are starting to find their way to bargain bins. I grabbed one from Mandarake for $175 shipped. The transformation looks interesting, so I thought I'd give it a try, not sure if I'm even going to keep it in the collection. We'll see how it looks on the shelf. The Lil'Drakkens are still too high for me.
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If the hobby is more of a bother or concern than it is fun, then yeah, you should probably move on. No sense in spending hundreds of dollars for something that is causing more stress than joy. That said, have you considered just scaling down? Do you really need to own every variant of every valk? I just pre-ordered the vf-31S, but I know it will be my only one. I probably wouldn't have even gotten that if it wasn't for that ridiculous (awesome) armor from the movie. You can definitely still have fun with the hobby if you can scale back the completionist tendencies. But I know everyone collects for different reasons, so that might not be something that appeals to you.
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There is a thread for that.
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Well that was "fun." Got one at AmiAmi, was disappointed in the HLJ price. Time for bed, good luck to anyone still trying!
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Looks like NY just got essentially DDoS'd.
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The pilots without the helmet look passable. They got something horribly wrong with the helmets, though. I'm guessing you remove the hair and just put the helmet on? That's a terrible way to do that. Minmay just looks bad. If they hit the bargain bin, I might grab them.
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I have tomorrow off, and will have multiple store tabs open. This is only my second "pre-order madness" but that last one really wasn't that bad (vf-2ss). I know that isn't a DX Chogokin, so it isn't the same, but people predicted insta-sold outs for that, too. It didn't really play out that way. Maybe Bandai is improving their preorder model. Either way, I'm down to give it a shot tonight. I have a sinking feeling this won't be that rough, though, and basically everyone that wants to preorder will be able to snag one somewhere.
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My body is ready. Even my wallet is ready. But I'm still not looking forward to the preorder madness.
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I just played through that game on PC about 6 months ago on PCSX2. I used japanese bios, but I've successfully loaded it with standard/US bios, as well. I ran it on 2x resolution, but it didn't help that much. It worked almost flawlessly, had a few crashes here and there. I used an xbox one controller, but I'm pretty sure you could use a ps4 controller, if you have one. Any usb controller should work (you just have to set it up on PCSX2). The game is great, easily the best Macross game I've played. I should note, I didn't try to use the actual disc, I just used a download of the game (it's less than 1gb big, if I recall).
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Eh, as good as that looks (and it does look good), that isn't what I'd want my PF to look like. I'm not a huge fan of the cell-shaded look. I think the SDF-1 pulls it off, mainly because it is sort of a dull gray, but I'd still rather have what Arcadia is doing versus a "cell-shaded" sdf-1.
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Got the HMR stuff off the shelf: They ended up taking over the room for a bit:
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Not sure if trolling, or actually don't know about: http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossga/sdp-1.htm But that will probably never see any sort of "official" release. But yeah, I do get a little tired of the same vf-1, that's why I want the "rare" ones like the ve-1, vt-1, and vf-1d from Arcadia . I'm also not crazy about the idea of paying $300+ for each of those, though.
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I guess the good news (for me, at least) is that Arcadia is still somewhat interested in making vf-1's. The bad news is that some of them will look like this... Hopefully we'll get something a little more exciting from them soon.
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Just out of curiosity @jenius, what prices do you use for the "official" release price? Is it from the Bandai website? I only ask, because you have the HMR elintseeker listed at 9,000 yen, when almost every place that carries it has it somewhere in the 6-7k yen range. Normally your listed prices are a pretty good average of the release price, but this one seems a bit off.
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I think payload, etc. will vary greatly depending on the mission. But I do know higher-ranking pilots do (or it least did) have "their" planes with their name/rank etched/painted on (usually near the cockpit). I'm not sure if this is still in practice, but I would guess it is, at least in the US. It wouldn't be too hard to remove if the pilot retired/transferred, etc. Robin Olds was a famous Vietnam-era fighter pilot, and I know I've seen his name on planes he flew:
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
HardlyNever replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Those prices are what they were when they were first released, right? That screams glitch in the system to me. But hey, if not, congrats on the deal!
