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Episode 3 and I have finally seen something that I've wanted to see ever scince I first saw Chewbacca being led into Jabba's Palace in chains in ROTJ. A Wookie fighting Gamoreans in close quarters. Admit it, we were all anticipating it back in the day. I just wish the fight scenes werent so damn dark.

That was good. I still have to find time to read the Mallorean, I never got further than Guardians of the West As for Dragonlance, other than Chronicles and Legends there were few gems. I enjoyed the books by Douglas Niles and Richard Knaak though.

So where does the Biopsycher get shown with five fingers? I thought it might be this scene, but no. Standard three.

Thats good to hear, I've only seen ep 1 as I'm still waiting for ep 2 to appear on my sis's telebox. Been watching season 2 of the Witcher as well but so far Bob is way better.

One of the Fantasy series I would recommend is the Stephen Donaldson Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Read it back in the eighties, before a lot of unoriginal DnD/LOTR high- fantasy-generic-quest type clones started swamping the genre. Here we see an awesome character from book 5 The One Tree, Nom the Sandgorgon. "Sandgorgons answer their release swiftly. Distance has no meaning to such power. Behold!" His voice sharpened. "Though the Doom lies more than a score of leagues hence, already the answer draws nigh." And out from under the virga came a plume of sand among the dunes, arrowing toward the Sandhold. It varied as the terrain varied, raising a long serpentine cloud; but its direction was unmistakable. It was aimed at the spot where Ceer and Hergrom stood against the Sandwall. Even from that distance, Linden felt the radiations of raw and hostile power. Then the beast itself appeared. Bleached to an albino whiteness by ages of sun, it was difficult to see against the pale desert. But it ran forward with staggering speed and became clear. It was larger than the Haruchai awaiting it, but it hardly had size enough to contain so much might. For an instant, Linden was struck by the strangeness of its gait. Its knees were back-bent like a bird's, and its feet were wide pads, giving it the ability to traverse sand with immense celerity and force. Then the Sandgorgon was almost upon Hergrom and Ceer; and she perceived other details. It had arms, but no hands. Its forearms ended in flat flexible stumps like prehensile battering rams-arms formed to contend with sand, to break stone. And it had no face. Its head was featureless except for the faint ridges of its skull beneath its hide and two covered slits like gills on either side. It appeared as violent and absolute as a force of nature. Watching it, Linden was no longer conscious of breathing, Her heart might have stopped. Even Covenant with all his wild magic could not have equaled this feral beast. Together, Hergrom and Ceer stepped out from the Sand-wall, then separated so that the Sandgorgon could not attack them both at once. The creature shifted its impetus slightly. In a flash of white hide and fury, it charged straight at Hergrom. At the last instant, he spun out of its way. Unable to stop, the Sandgorgon crashed headlong into the wall. Linden felt the impact as if the entire Sandhold had shifted. Cracks leaped through the stone; chunks recoiled outward and thudded to the ground. I'm currently reading Catfantastic, a lighthearted anthalogy by Andre Norton.

Actually I base it on the numerous scenes in SDFM where a Zentraedi soldier is shown eye to eye or mb a head shorter to a battroid. And A scene in Delta where a Zentraedi soldier comes up ro a Regult's knee. Plus The reasonable conclusion I would think that: . Mistakes in scale would be less likely when comparing 2 humanoid figures than with a non-humanoid figure . The pilot is more likely to fit . Max's Batrroid was able to fit in a Zentraedi uniform . Nonsense about Klan being larger than other Zentraedi can also be eliminatedetc Anyway the kits not being in scale isnt an issue because its always understood that the larger size pod wouldnt be practical as a kit toy You seem invested in the official stats for some reason. If you want to see it as being in scale then do so. You dont have to right a long post as to why I'm wrong just because I have a different view.

I"m not demanding that it be in scale (come up to the Regult's knee joint) just querying whether it was. Clearly it isnt. And thats as per usual.

Stuck in Macross Delta again. Freya won't sing because who cares blah, blah. Blah, blah feelings yadda yadda singing. Someone tell me this picks up again. I find it annoying that the writers seem to expect me to care about the characters waffling on interminably about the most insipid trivia. I am determined to finish this but damn its boring.🥱

So we are finally getting a Regult that's large enough, and a Battroid that's small enough, for them to be in scale with each other? The Regult didn't look that large to me.

What Zentran Soldier? And why do you think the Regult and Battroid are in scale?

Great thanks.

You do know that the Regult is right?

Nice!

I do have the actual comics and its not much. There is also a little bit in Return to Macross. And then a smidgeon in Robotech warriors.

Merry Christmas @mechtech and @Thom.

Merry Christmas.🙂

The only Invid mecha that is different in size between shows is the Regent's Malar vs the Regis's. The former scale with the Regent who scales with the Regis. Exactly so. I cant recall. I cant check my comics either as I'm n my hometown for Christmas. And on that note. Happy Christmas everyone.🥳

The smallest class of Zentraedi warship. We see 2 of them being destroyed at the beginning of Macross. Saying a Zor fortress is no match for a Zentraedi warship means ANY Zentraedi warship, even the least formidable. Wrong, one hit and the cruisers are destroyed. I'm referring to the interlacing beam weapons, not their anti-mecha guns. They are clearly depicted as larger as shown when the Regent grabs a Tirolian. Also when the Malar-gan tosses the Tirolian the grenade. If it is an error It is a good one.One of the things I loved about the Waltrip comic series, despite its silliness, was that they kept these Malar gigigantic. That "ultra-low budget" series contained quite a few goodies. Hellcats. Bioroids vs Invid. Our first glimpse of the Tirolian homeworld etc. And the animation of the attack on Tiresia was superp and I rewatch it often. I just wish we had more of it.

Can you confirm whether it is snapfit?

Mb.😆

I concur. Excessive weathering doesn't make a model look more realistic, it makes it look decrepit.

Well I preferred them because of the Inorganics, particularly the Hellcats I'm not sure they were necessarily more powerful overall. I think it's more of an issue of different focus due to being under different management. The Regent (like me) was big on the war toys and conquest whereas the Regis was more interested in evolving her race to adapt to their new home. Possibly the Regent's forces had more military assets. The Regis Invid OTH developed the Gamo and Gosu and had (IMO) a smarter leader who seemed to have some amazing transmutation and transubstantion powers. Definitely the alien factions are very powerful in the novels. The Zentraedi ships are shrugging off nukes and railgun fire in their initial advance into earth space in the first novel.

So they're clones? That all think they're the original? Or are they alternate reality Fockers?😄

Dont forget the Scout.

Care to explain that? How is a Tou Redir going to withstand the Zor's immensely powerful interlacing beam guns?