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    No, I see where you're coming from what with the colors and stuff like the wingtip guns on forward-swept wings. Also the shoulder missiles kinda look like red flat pieces.
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    Macross Frontier the Wings of Goodbye: hero vehicle is a one-off prototype of God-like destructive power crammed to the gills with Fold Quartz of such size and purity that it can only be harvested from Vajra Queens which are themselves extraordinarily rare and ridiculously dangerous to kill. Said hero completely destroys vehicle while saving the day.
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    MEKANIMUSS

    Sildani replied to Perxion's topic in Model kits

    Thanks for the update!! Very glad I got my name in, this will be amazing!
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    I remember watching the DVDs of Gasaraki many moons ago and in the extras the mechanical designers talked about how they had to justify there being mecha in the story, when on its face a mecha isn't a great weapons platform or military vehicle, as tanks are smaller, cheaper, and much easier to conceal; so they leaned hard into the Mecha's superior mobility and dexterity. They also made them able to be solo-piloted by having a dedicated computer and sensor system handle all the actual motion of the mecha, all the pilot has to do is point the thing in a direction and the mecha will go there adjusting its speed, balance, and gait automatically.
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    Let me know when you're ready to sell, @mikeszekely. I've always preferred MMC and I always regretted not having Bruticus as a kid. Thanks!
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    Damn, they're making it REALLY hard to not get that HISS.
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    I've never transformed mine, and I won't. Can't be bothered, and this stuff makes me more paranoid to try.
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    Arcadia VF-5000G

    Sildani replied to daBlah!'s topic in Toys

    Honestly? The 5000 is niche enough that they should release the M7 version, then release an Assembly Kit version. It should be cheaper for them since they don't have to pay for assembly and paint, and the hard-core fan would get the scheme they want.
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    David Dastmalchian look like he's playing Raul Julia playing M. Bison. I have very little hope for this movie.
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    Arcadia VF-5000G

    Sildani replied to daBlah!'s topic in Toys

    None. Their existing VF-1 releases have been delayed for a year or more. The SDF was the last thing they put out, I believe last month.
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    Rest in peace, Crazy Eddie. Thanks for the great roles and memories.
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    So a thought I just had... dangerous, I know. When did fold carbon/quartz become so widespread and vital? Was the SDF-1 filled with it in order to work and the original Macross shows just not touch on it? Was it purely to use as a McGuffin for Frontier? How did the SDF-1 and other superdimensional devices work if not with fold carbon/quartz?
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    Any really great deals on pre-made gaming PC's anyone aware of for Black Friday? That Micro Center G527 with the 32GB of RAM and RX9060XT with 16GB is tough to cross-shop.
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    Just to clarify, it's the 31 Super Parts for the original Siegfrieds that fit, correct?
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    I'm lucky, I know, having one 20 minutes away. You need me to pick something up, @mikeszekely, happy to do it. Unless you just want to wander around in one...
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    https://www.microcenter.com/product/698874/powerspec-g527-gaming-pc I've seen this one; how is it? I'd mainly use it to run Escape From Tarkov and my Steam library.
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    https://www.ign.com/articles/valve-announces-next-gen-steam-machine-says-its-over-6x-more-powerful-than-steam-deck-but-theres-no-price-yet Missed opportunity to call it the "Gabecube" but Nintendo might Nintendo.
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    Grabbed one from there. Used my Sentinel TLEAD voucher with it.
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    Nin-nin and HLJ are order stop, PO'd one from AE. Yen to USD is pretty good, so I don't mind ponying up one last time. I AM worried about the QC though. The 31 Siegfried/Kairos mold was great, but it was the assembly that made them the best Valkyries Bandai produced. Ever since COVID, it's been a crapshoot, and more bad than good. Still, this is the one I always wanted, with the LO paint and missiles in the legs. And holy cow, as I was writing this AE has sold out! PO madness, one.. last... time...
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    Love the last sentence. Utterly pragmatic.
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    Holy crap! This was unexpected. Itagaki-san provided many hours of quality entertainment for me. Loved his work and his aesthetic. His games treated you like an intelligent human, generally didn't hold your hand, and punished you for failure, but kept success within reach - if you got gud. I also remember he would answer questions in a monthly column in one of the game mags, he did that for a while. He sometimes answered the question straight, sometimes irreverently, but always entertainingly. Wherever you are now, It's more fun and much more awesome now that you're there.
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    MEKANIMUSS

    Sildani replied to Perxion's topic in Model kits

    Please make a female version. I'll buy them.
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    MEKANIMUSS

    Sildani replied to Perxion's topic in Model kits

    Nifty!
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    So I got my $180 Amazon YF-21 and it's a good 'un. Straight head laser, whole canopy, and although a wing flap fell off I'm just going to put a drop of super glue on it and call it done. I doubt very much Bandai will make "bent" flaps for this thing. I haven't transformed it yet and don't know if I ever will. Fighter mode is where I leave the majority of my Valkyries. The exceptions were my Yamato VF-1J because it was dirt simple, and my VF-31C Siegfried because the engineering and care of assembly made a complex transformation pleasurable. No other model has come close. Finally, as to the model itself, I'm so glad I got this dirt cheap. It isn't worth anywhere near its retail price, and with the god-awful Super Parts you can see Bandai was phoning this in from 1,000 miles away. We waited 30 years for this? Lord knows they could have kept the idiot Delimiter Mode and included a Fold Pod in its place. Now what may be a surprising sentence: I'm very glad I have this. Macross Plus is my favorite Macross series, now given our current world more than ever, and I had considered my Full Set Pack YF-19 the best 19 available. I had a Yamato VF-22 Gamlin as a fill-in for Guld's 21, and the two just never meshed together. It was more than the different colors, it was the design choices of each as far as shapes, details, plastics, and so on. Plus, unlike many others on this forum, I rather like all the tampoed details and callouts. Reminds me of JASDF F-15s and F-4s with their monstrous amount of stenciled placards. You should see the decal sheets for their models. Ye gods... And so this YF-21, flawed and overpriced it may be, is a great companion piece for the Chogokin YF-19, and it looks like they are indeed from the same place and time, if that makes sense. And I do like that, both perched on the same YetiStand (sniff.) I have a Yamato VF-11 on there too, with a nice decal sheet printed by the great Anasazi37, that I'm going to get to apply and that should bring the "feel" of the 11 up to the 19 and 21. I doubt very much we'll ever see a Chogokin 11, and I have no faith whatsoever that Bandai wouldn't stuff it anyway.
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    MEKANIMUSS

    Sildani replied to Perxion's topic in Model kits

    That’s very nice! Some 1/48 Inbit would be nice!
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