Focslain

24 minutes ago, Mommar said:

No, that change is also stupid.  Exhaust ports are on lots of things.  The reason why it was hit was because Luke, with the help of Obi-Wan, force nudged a torpedo down into the tube.  Otherwise they all would have died.  It should have been an impossible shot otherwise.

Well the EU added the design flaw long before R1, but in that version it was a wookie foreman.

As for the torpedo sliding in, something tells me that the fact it was ray shielded would be a reason to use the proton torpedoes instead of any of the multiple solid ordnance at the time, like bombs and concussion missiles.

Sent PM about the VF2

1 minute ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Ja.

Never knew the actual classification prior. 

11 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Technically, the Battle-class, Quarter-class, and Elysion-type are all capable of that... independently operable modules has been explicitly described, including the ability of the Gunship to fire using its internal reactors, but never properly animated.  Macross Elysion was the first to actually depict the freely-detachable modular components operating independently in the case of the Aether and her sister ship Hemera... sadly with no sign of the long-awaited Rocket Punch.

Well with the movie coming up we have another chance at getting it. More so depending on how much this movie is condensing the series and the story of the new series.

Is the Cannon class that four armed behemoth in Macross II? 

8 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

I can see it now.  The first one to open the Star Wars: the Last Jedi BD box in his home will be visited by apparitions of the Disney board of directors, who will say "We have such sights to show you".

Is the disappearance of said person the next step cause my room-mate is a good candidate. She adores TLJ, mostly for reasons I don't like it, but I like my friends to have varying tastes.

19 hours ago, Tking22 said:

That man just needs to play Dredd again damnit. I LOVED Dredd, such a fantastic film, and Karl was perfect as Dredd himself.
 

Also, I read The Flash solo movie got two more new directors signed on today! Who wants to take bets on when they inevitably decide to leave the project like all the rest?

So guessing you haven't heard of the Dredd series that the BBC is getting ready to do? Believe it's called MegaCity One, and yes they asked and Karl showed interest as long as it was close to source.

3 hours ago, Bub said:

Thanks.  That means the only way I can play the update and downloads is with the Japanese account.

 

Correct, if your going to play japanese and english games on the vita/PSTV it's best to have a card for each region. 

38 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

I want to chalk that up to them hiring Zahn and pulling Thrawn back into the canon.  I remember the interdictor cruisers being a favorite tactic of Thrawn, both for trapping enemy fleets, and for springing traps by yanking his own ships out of hyperspace exactly where he needed them.  What I don't remember is if they were Zahn's personal invention, or things that were around before his first set of novels.

If that dreadnaught in the opening battle of TLJ had been an interdictor, it would have made the initial battle in TLJ feel a lot more meaningful.

The Interdictor first appeared in the SW:RPG in the Imperial supplement in 1989, then in Heir to the Empire in 1991. 

5 minutes ago, Mommar said:

Don't forget that Return of the Jedi still has the best space battle ever put to film too.

That space battle is the only reason RoJ is above ESB in my personal list. 

Plus in a SW:RPG campaign I got to fight in it and test my ship building mettle. Good thing I was on the rebel side.

On 1/14/2018 at 1:51 PM, Darth Mingus said:

New pictures of the Mirage Super Parts, due out in May:

Well, looks like I'm not getting the model kit as this is exactly what I wanted, reaction missiles and all.

On 1/14/2018 at 12:23 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

Kinda my point... it's not like the civil rights movement magically cured inequality, and even today there's still a pretty big struggle for minorities in film to escape being typecast into racial stereotypes.  Good luck finding a black man in a police movie who isn't either the partner, the guy who's two days from retirement and dies, a shrieking ninny like every character Chris Rock has played, or some kind of drug-dealing thug gangster pimp. 

*points at Bright* though if you swap 'black' for 'orc' your back to square one.

2 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

See, maybe they were really only explained in the EU apparently, but I thought the issue was that hyperdrives in general completely cease to function within a gravity well.  They were always referred to as "gravity well projectors," which if you think about the classic space-time as a bedsheet analogy, is like dropping a synthetic bowling ball in the middle of it.  Basically the hyperspace equivalent of getting your car stuck in the mud, it's not going anywhere no matter how hard you gun the engines.

Maybe that all changed in the canon, but the entire purpose of those interdictor cruisers in the EU was to drag ships out of hyperspace, and keep them there.  I'm sure there are safety features involved to a point, and maybe it would take a custom built hyperdrive to get around them, but it always sounded like using a hyperdrive in a gravity well could have consequences on a "fabric of space-time" level (kind of like what we saw in TLJ).

That's how the gravity well generators worked. It's the same principal as the Kessel run. The Maw (a cluster of 5 black holes near Kessel) create a hyperspace sink hole. Since Han juiced the Falcon to better then military grade speeds (in the tech manual the Falcon is listed as having a x.5 hyperdrive while most military craft, an ISD for example is rated with a x1 drive and civilian craft and the stock YT-1300 series having x1.75 and greater. So yeah, smaller is better here) he can effectively skip over the sink hole and therefor cut the time and distance.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

(Wasn't she the one who built her lightsaber wrong and it blew up in her hand?)

Tanel Ka lost an arm in a duel with Jacen when her hand-crafted lightsaber failed mid fight. Her second attempt was better.

3 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

As per HobbySearch info:
- Scale: Non-Scale
- Size: Overall length of the aircraft: approx. 205 mm Frame height: approximately 155 mm

The Frame height is the figure since most shop says the figure stands at 15.5cm.

So that places it around.. *does mathing* 1/91 scale. Well since I'll have the 1/72 kit prior I can check to see how it looks, worst case I'll look at a 1/100 weapon pack.

On 1/8/2018 at 4:05 PM, mickyg said:

Focslain, I'm assuming you're talking about the Reaction missiles from the series, right?  I'm in the same boat.  We get the DX toy armour sporting the missiles as an inclusion, but the model kit release doesn't have them.  Doesn't make a lot of sense...

Nailed it.

From what I saw last I don't think @Xigfrid has reaction missiles. that or I was just missing them.

Going to get two of these, one to build as is the other to mod, not sure how yet though.

On that note does anyone know what scale the valk is? I want to see about supping it up.

Lovely work, I have to dig up my set from eons ago. If they survived where I believe they are buried.

On 1/9/2018 at 11:28 PM, zaino said:

The second opening of Magnus Bride is May'n

too bad reddit doesnt like it

their loss

I need to hear the new opening, every YT video that has it is region blocked to me for a reason (Victor Entertainment it seems). Might get to that ep tonight with my local anime group. Been trying to be nice and not watch ahead of them.

On 1/8/2018 at 4:54 PM, tankball said:

so u can just print this out on and it will work

 

So do these need to be of a certain quality or will a standard ink jet work?

So I'm looking at getting my hands on the Mirage kit in the next month or so, does anyone know where I can get a set of missiles for her super version? Either in another kit or possibly Shapeways?

10 hours ago, Convectuoso said:

How do they capture the video without the game elements, such as the falling spheres?

It's part of the S-Live option, when your on the window to select your idol/dress/valk in the top right there is an on/off option, this is for the rails. See below:

As for the sound, that is a simple edit of removing the original sound and overlaying the section from a cd rip of said song.

Edit: Also it seems that Uta added an AR element for the Sky Tower event. @nanoplasm if you've seen these and give some better translation then google can for those, that be amazing.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

For my money, the best recent Gundam is still Iron-Blooded Orphans.  A good Gundam series should feel like a suckerpunch to the gut when all is said and done, and Iron-Blooded Orphans stopped to put brass knuckles on first.

I'm about half way through season 2 of IBO, and agreed. There were parts in season one that cringey in a good way. Especially in concerns to those near Mikazuki. 

33 minutes ago, Kelsain said:

I, for one, have always thought that TIE Fighters got a raw deal in the EU as having no shields and being utterly disposable. In the films, they're really just as explosive as the rebel fighters - if you're hit, you're dead. Unless you're a main character, of course. 

Well the Rebel fighter take a few hits, most on screen deaths were from half a dozen shots connecting. While the TIEs popped if a rebel fighter so much as tagged it with a glancing shot.

If you have the ability/chance I suggest checking out TIE Fighter vs X-Wing on Steam. The Imperial side is hard as nails since your in a TIE fighter for the beginner levels. You have to earn them shields.

4 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Smart money says that, as with the Macross Delta TV series, the writers have decided to copy Macross Frontier... in this case, Walkure will probably be accused of being spies or being behind the Var outbreaks they control.

Considering Freyja was already rumored as a spy in the series it makes sense here due to time crunch. 

So anyone know what's with the angry mob at 0:14?

Also this movie seems to have an Uta Macross tie in? As the cubes at the beginning look just like the memory (plate) gachas. 

Think my biggest issue with the new trilogy is that it's feeling like a bad attempt to soft re-boot the SW series. I'm hoping that IX recovers the franchise cause SW is nearing DCEU levels of lost potential.

On 12/23/2017 at 3:21 PM, Marzan said:

Specially the Tsundere Heavy Cruiser Takao

Personally I liked Hyuga, but I gravitate towards the mad scientist types.

So saw this over the weekend, final thoughts it was meh. Not as good as the OT but better then TPM.

The bomber sequence angered me more then I thought it would. I mean why were those things even designed, the B-Wing was designed to do what they were and do it 100x better and it's a 30 year old design.