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  1. Knight26
    Sidewinders are/would have been, in a bay forward of the main weapons bay. The missiles in the main bay were to be arranged on a trapeze launcher.
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    Looks interesting, but reinforces the idea, in my head, that he is not "The Joker" but someone taking on the mantle.
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    I love my 3D printers (I have a CR-10S that I upgraded and an Ender-5) and am just waiting on the Ender-5+ (The CR-10 sized Ender-5) to come down in price so I can pick that up. I'm also looking at getting one of the LCD SLA printers this year for my small and clear parts (like canopies). I really should post the pictures of the fighters and other stuff I have 3D printed from my books.
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    Emphasizes my point. The bigger a hand Disney has in a production the less original and creative it is. Marvel was successful because Disney, by and large, have let them do their own thing. But even then, they are using established characters and stories and just putting a new spin on things. Pixar was a break away from Disney and then was brought back into the fold. Their best stuff was from when they were acting as an independent, now, it's sequel after sequel. Lucasfilm was doomed from the start, with Disney installing a puppet in charge (Kathleen Kennedy) that they could pull the strings on. None of the new movies have been original, Rogue One came closest, but it was a (AWESOME) nostalgia fest that was meant to close a plot hole. Rebels was meh at first, but once Filloni really got going it turned good, especially when he/LF/Disney struck whatever deal they did to get Thrawn in the series. BTW the Thrawn books are great and I home Zahn gets a chance to play with the character more in the post Rebels timeline. The Mandalorian looks good, but it is the draw to pull people to Disney+ and may only work because of who is behind it. I doubt Favreau would have done it if Disney kept too heavy a hand in it after how he got screwed out of IM3. Resistance I could just never get into, and it was about fighter pilots, but in typical Disney style they wanted it to be totally tied to the new movies and you got a pretty bad series. I don't really blame Filloni on this one, he tried his best with what his corporate overlords handed to him. Who knows, maybe Season 2 will actually have some merits, but I am more looking forward to Clone Wars Season 7.
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    Is it just me or does the poster debacle and the latest trailer really point to how creatively bankrupt Disney really is? And always has been? Have they produced any truly original movies since 60/70s?
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    @Kanedas Bike I honestly don't have a major issue with the character of Rey either. I have issue with how the filmmakers have used her. As I said, a handful or lines here and there could have thrown the Mary Sue argument right out. Unfortunately, as is Darth Abrams' way, he relied on the secondary media to build up her story and present that she had so many of these skills before. I also agree with you about Finn and Poe. Finn is supposed to be this guy we feel for, he was kidnapped and raised to be a storm trooper yet is obviously not cut out for it. He has the skills, but not the blood lust. Poe is an awesome character in Ep7, but is played for a fool in Ep8 and is wasted, as is Finn. The two had such a great dynamic in Ep7 and I think most people wanted to see that continue.
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    I hate to give HG money, but I do like the overall look, and price point, of these KC Valkyries. I haven't bought a Valk in ages, kids come first after all, and I can't justify spending the kind of money Bandai and Arcadia VFs for go, but I can stretch it to allow for $125 one. But, is it even worth that much given the QC/Fit/Build issues?
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    Revell and the Networks from the accounts I have read, with more of the pressure coming from the networks, which makes more sense. Why would Revell care if it was an anthology series instead of one long story? Their models came from numerous properties, and most didn't even feature in the three Robotech series. Keeping it as an anthology series would have worked in their favor because that would have opened the door for Dorvack, Dougram and other series they had the models for getting air time.
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    The Luke is a Gary Stu argument is tired. Throughout the movies, we seen lines of dialogue or actions leading to abilities that we see later, as well as training that he undergoes. Part of the Gary Stu argument comes from the uncertain amount of time he spent on Dagobah. Kirshner stated it was at least months, but Lucas edited it in such a way to make it seem shorter and Lucas shot down ideas regarding the crew of the Falcon looking like they'd spent months in transit. Anakin, again, it is implied via dialogue that he has been using his force skills innately to become a successful pod racer, and later, fighter pilot. After which he undergoes years of training to become a Jedi. The Mary Sue argument regarding Rey is because of how suddenly she comes upon her force powers, how she knows how to fly the Falcon without ever having flight training etc... ANd that is all JJA's fault because he assumes you will pick up the supplementary material (comics, books, toys, etc...) that explain that backstory instead of giving you those hints in dialogue or with other onscreen evidence. There is plenty that could have been done to kill the Mary Sue argument in the film, see my earlier post regarding that. All that also leaves out one of the biggest factors of being a Mary Sue/Gary Stu, likability. A true Mary/Gary is liked by everyone and never has to overcome any hurdles or obstacles. Luke and Anakin do not fit that requirement, they are constantly faced with people who distrust, don't like, or push them aside. They also both have to overcome obstacles on their journey and get nothing handed to them. The same cannot be said for Rey, she is instantly liked, trusted, or wanted by everyone she comes across with the exception of the scrap merchant.
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    I agree that it has issues and honestly treating them as three separate properties is still the best idea. But, the question remains, had HG done something more like that, would BW have been more willing to work with them on releasing future projects? Or would they still tell them to go stuff it for messing with their IP?
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    They clearly look to be mothballed, no lights on, and that formation is way too tight and linear to be operational ships. I think it is a Katana Fleet type setup, but in reverse. Though how F'n cool would it be if Grand Admiral Mother Freaking Thrawn shows up in this and it is his plan to steal those ships for the resistance, because he doesn't like the First Order, and we get the Chiss Ascendency coming in on the Resistance/Republic side. Ok, need to calm down, a fan can dream.
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    This is probably the first Legioss I have been excited about since the original. All the proportions look "right enough" it doesn't appear to be a floppy mess and even like how they dealt with the cockpit, a weakness on even Legioss toy. The sternum and crotch still seem to hang a little low in fighter mode, but not as bad as the Toynami POS. My only real crit would be the massive gap in the hip/thigh in fighter mode. I hope they come up with a good solution to that.
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    My biggest takeaways from the trailer: The end shot, from the lighting and mood was a force vision. That is who Rey was supposed to be, or could become. The fleet of Star Destroyers were mostly ISD-1s, which is interesting, I agree with @Dobber they resistance is going to make a play to steal those. The attack group of fighters made me happy, especially the B-Wings, but can we see some new fighters and maybe the T-75/80s? I HATE the T-70 design with an unreasonable passion, lol. The rest left me pretty flat, Rey still carrying the Anakin Saber, I mean it was destroyed, why not build an all new one? The Leia shots were interesting, the village leaves a lot of room for speculation, perhaps they are recruits to man the ISD-1s. This movie will have to cover a lot to make up for the mess that was Ep8. And, I must say, will probably be the first SW movie that I will wait on the reviews before buying tickets, even the kids aren't all the jazzed to see it. ANd that is saying something.
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    So I was, doing what I do, and out for a drive when I had a thought. Could Robotech, aside from the original anthology of mecha series idea, have been done in such a way that it didn't insult the originals as badly? And I came up with an answer, yes. Ok, put away the torches and pitchforks and hear me out. Thanks to the Macross sequel series, and even some SDF and DYRL lore, we know that other alien races do/did exist in the Macross universe, the Protoculture just had a habit of modifying or wiping them out. Using that as a starting point I figured HG could have made SDC Southern Cross and GC Mospeada quasi sequels to Macross, without majorly rewriting the stories. #1 Macross stays as written in Japan, maybe westernize the names like was their original intent: Hikaru Ichijo become Rick Yamata and so forth. #2 Put more emphasis on the colonization efforts at the end of Macross. #3 SDCSC becomes exactly what it was originally, a startup colony on an abandoned, yet habitable world. The OG inhabitants come back, possibly a protoculture offshoot race, and aside from that the story remains the same. Also Dana would not be Komillia, but the green haired girl could be. #4 GCM still takes place on Earth, but have a voice over that the UN Spacey was so busy creating colonies and sending out colony fleets that they left the devastated Earth largely undefended. The Inbit come, the colonies strike back, Mospeada can be left alone. And if they absolutely need a connection to the OG Macross, Make Stick Max's Nephew or a minor characters child. Other series could also then be integrated assuming that remained a hit, which it likely would. Megazone would take place somewhere between SDCSC and GCM. You might be even be able to bring in series like Orguss, Dougram, Dorvack and maybe even Votoms, each taking place on another colony world. Then when Big West started making sequels, HG could have gone to them, hat in hand, showing them what they did and ask permission to use the real Macross sequels. How that would have effected the stories that came later, who can say, but it might have made the issues between BW and HG far less contentious and could have allowed proper releases of Macross series and merch in the US easier. Anyway, just a random thought that came to me.
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    So, I stopped watching about midseason, when does this take place? Because KR has the facial scar from his battle with Rey in Ep7. Does that mean they skipped fowards at some point through episodes 7 and 8?
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    Crazy enough, sure, head trauma seems to be a job requirement there. Stupid enough to think that Big West would allow/play that game, no. But you're right, the way they handled even the notion of protoculture would ruin that possibility. You could, possibly, rewrite the Masters as an offshoot of the OG Protoculture, but their whole insistence that Protoculture was a fuel source, nope that really doesn't sell, given that Macross has always said that the ships were powered by fusion reactors.
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    Good point, I was thinking the EU when it restarted under Tim Zahn. I had also forgotten that Daley was involved.
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    I had forgotten that. But they started writing those before the Star Wars EU became a thing. Still, the whole notion that the SDF-3, which was built from parts of the destroyed SDF-1 and 2, plus extra parts, was sent back in time to become Zor's Battlefortress, which was then rebuilt into the SDF-1 creates a bootstrap paradox of such massive proportions it would take all 13 iterations of the Doctor, plus Doc Brown, the Enterprises, the USS Nimitz, Time Rider, Jean Claude Van Damme and every other time traveler ever to rectify it.
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    Basically at this point, they are getting ready to break the circle, or time loop they created back when the coke was flowing in the Sentinels writing room. Whether that is a good thing or not, who can say. I will admit to reading the McKinney books back in the day, early-mid 90s when I had only an inkling of the truth about RT, and getting righteously pissed off. In those pre-internet days the only way to express ones rage was to write a letter to the publisher and author. Which I did. The whole timeloop thing they created in those books was beyond drivel and drove me to write even more. So, yes I think they are getting ready to break the time loop, and in doing so attempt to erase the mistakes of RT past, and collapsing all the alternate realities where things like Sentinels, RT3K, Shadow Chronicles, Antarctic Press, etc... exist. This "Restoration" of the timeline will still be a righteous mess however based on the previews of their next planned series, which at least appears to have better art, that, from the looks of it, will steal heavily from Mac+ and Mac7.
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    He's a poster over on Robotech.com forums who is the only person there posting in the thread for the comic, and all he does is these spoiler posts.
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    Why? Reeves has a strong career without dipping back into that well, and unless I'm remembering wrong didn't he and Carrie's characters die at the end?
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    I like that head sculpt, a good mix of McGreggor and Guinness.
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    I, Jedi worked so well because it was a better version of the Jedi Academy trilogy. Yes, I went there.
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    For a peacetime mission, sure but I would hate to take one into battle. As was shown many times, they are glass cannons.
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    Whenever I see the Ent-D with the lifeboats so prominently painted it just reinforces that the Galaxy Class was never meant for combat, survivability, or long range exploration. It's like a modern cruise liner, the sides stacked high with obvious lifeboats. Then there's the overabundance of windows, an issue with most Trek ships to be honest, a pretty ship but seriously vulnerable to attack.
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