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  1. Pontus
    I hope that the statement, "the items will be shipped with the Alus Edition UHD Blu-rays" means that the discs are coming soon. This has been dragging on for a while now. I know there was some extra stuff going on, but these were originally promised by last December.
  2. Pontus started following Macross DYRL in 4K UHD with English Subtitles , YOU'RE YELLOW! VF-25F turning all sorts of colors , The computer and electronics super geek thread and 3 others
  3. Pontus
    I thought I read somewhere that the styrofoam these were packed in was the cause of yellowing. If that's the case, then keeping them in the boxes may have been the problem.
  4. Pontus
    @Sildani, I'll bite on that one. For such a low budget, you might be better off going with one of the windows based gaming handhelds. I recently went with a Steamdeck because it's purpose built with a dedicated linux gaming OS that's easier on power than Windows, but there's no support for Tarkov, so that wouldn't work for you. But there's plenty of great options out there like the MSI Claw, Asus Rogue, Lenovo Legion (which actually has both SteamOS dedicated support and Windows, so you could dual boot), etc. These are all within your budget iirc. Old school/serious PC gamers may write these off, but the tech is seriously capable now (other than battery life, get an external one), and they all have docking options, bluetooth controllers, and double as a standard PC. Will they do 4k with ray tracing at 120hz? Not even close, but I think most of the latest models can meet your stated expectations not to mention being portable. Some can even connect to external GPUs, although that's not really all that practical... yet. Asus makes a good go of that but it's expensive. USB C vsn5 works but isn't quite up to the task, and the only one that has a PCI connection is the older Asus model. Just my 2¢.
  5. Pontus
    But seriously (well, half), these things have shoulder mounted missiles, cannons front and back... and freakin' valks have hands for no apparent tactical reason other than holding a ridiculous, handheld gun that makes zero sense (if design was considered BEFORE they knew they'd be tackling space giants). At least Spartans have big, heavy duty hands for both load handling and non explosive, close range tactical use on a SPACE ship where you don't exactly wanna be firing inside your own ship. In that regard these things make perfect sense.
  6. Pontus
    Has anyone had a chance to download the Alien3 4k fan edit yet?
  7. Pontus
    Pardon me if this is common knowledge and/or been asked before, but I just watched DYRL for the first time on this 4K release (just beautiful, glad I got it!) and noticed something; Flashback 2012 is not the first time the VF-4 was featured. Unless I'm mistaken here, in Hikaru's apartment scene, he has a blue model of a prototype VF-4 on his shelf. The only thing that might be different is that I don't see the front kenards on the model. (what am I talking about, I must be confusing my valks) But it's only a small part of a few frames. Anyway, I was just wondering if that's been noticed before, or is this only just now noticable (or perhaps confirmed) due to the high resolution?
  8. Pontus
    I was disappointed at first too especially after having to wait so long for a preorder, but looking back at the OG pics from SDFM to compare, it's really growing on me. Maybe I'm just being contrary after seeing all the negativity here, but I'm going to add some positivity and risk ridicule by saying... I think this is pretty good! Is anyone else making Max figures that look half this good with such articulation? Maybe a model kit, but ain't nobody got time for dat (and no articulation at all)! Sure, there's some nitpicks to make, but it looks like Max and has REAL CLOTHES that are quite nice. I am very happy to have finally gotten another great addition to their figure line up, and I hope they keep it up. All I ask for is Kakizaki (and it better have a steak), but Global, Claudia, or even another Misa in real cloth would be killer. Anyway, just my 2¢ and wanted to lend some perspective to what seems like a very negative reception. I mean, there's a fan with a company out there that's still making toys from an 80's anime for crying out loud! I'm so thankful for this. Still not doing kickstarters tho.
  9. Pontus
    Max will be shipping soon. Just got an email from KC asking me to confirm my address.
  10. Pontus
    I got mine yesterday. This is my second shipment from Crunchyroll after returning the first, and although it arrived without damage this time, it's not for better packaging. This time, they chose a "box" that was actually just a prefolded cardboard piece with no corners just slapped around it, and it was way too narrow so they just bent it over the edges, slapped some more miracle paper in there, taped it once across the middle, and called it a day.🤦‍♂️ For those that had issues extracting the disks from the book, I see what you mean, and I found the solution. It's tempting to wanna crank on that disk to get it out, but that only makes it harder to extract like an inverse finger trap. It's actually a rather nice retainer imho (better than too loose), but you have to really press hard in the center while supporting the back of the book with your other hand, and DO NOT pry on the disk - only use enough pressure such that it pops out when you press. It pops right out without stress that way, or at least it did for me.
  11. Pontus
    Interesting, mine spent several additional days in USPS shipping too after it came up with an error saying it was getting forwarded back to the shipper, but then it went back through the local shipping system again. My box only had a single wadded up sheet of paper under one side. I'll see if they'll exchange it, but I don't want to wait for them to get the return before shipping my replacement in case they run out of stock in that time, so I think I'll see if they'll ship the replacement before I ship it back.
  12. Pontus
    DO NOT buy this from Crunchyroll. They packaged mine in a box with zero padding other than some craft paper under one side. The whole corner of the box ripped out. Fortunately, it only dinged the corner a little bit, but this is unacceptable packaging!
  13. Pontus
    Got mine today. Very nicely done... other than powering the lights with 4 different battery sockets! And I love the instructions, "insert the batteries according to the instructions." These ARE the instructions ffs! And WHAT batteries?! They don't say what model to use anywhere that I can see. Does anyone know? I think I'll rewire it for USB power some day. As for scale, I bought it to match 1/100 instead of getting HMR because I feel like 1/72 regults match HMR valks better (and cheaper). I was already planning to build the bandai kit, but since I had super custom plans for that (a purple stealth sniper) this is really great to have a proper regult. But as the pics above show, it does seem a bit large for HMR (which isn't really 1/100). Happy to have it finally tho regardless.
  14. Pontus
    Gee, must be nice. I ordered mine YEARS ago, and I still haven't gotten any tracking. Oh wait, they can't keep track of email changes despite it being my main login... nope, nothing in my old email. Let's check my account... OH, it says "partial shipped" on the 15th of Sept. That's great, nice of them to let me know... wait, where's the tracking? No tracking, so MAYBE mine will finally show up on my doorstep one of these days (sans figure of course).
  15. Pontus
    I think you got a QC reject considering the paint issues and loose ankles. The ankles on mine are perfectly stiff, seem quite well designed, and allows for some confidently aggressive posing. As for the hands, I personally have no issue with the lack of fixed fold ins because I never display them on any of my valks of any model (unless forced to) because they always look tiny and delicate. And since you'd never get folding SDFM style hands to fit in the arms without something being out of proportion, I don't see any other way around it short of some complicated folding. I just put up a display shelf at work. This and Roy's will be placed here since I don't need more copies of the same thing at home, and these seem pretty tough and relatively cheap. It's kinduva shame to put these up at work tho, because so far, these are my favorite iteration of VF-1 and looks quite sharp! But it looks like I'm going to have to find some more to display here as it's looking pretty empty.
  16. Pontus
    Welcome back! As per the thread topic tho, did you choose @BigInJapan because you're a Tom Waits or Alphaville fan, or did you simply like the phrase as it applies to our hobby? And why did you choose that particular avatar pic?
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