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That can't be final colors, the light gray is probably just a placeholder color for black. That or they will sell the "animation accurate" colors as P-Bandai down the line. Either way I'll pass on it until RG Tallgeese 2 gets a P-Bandai.

USA Gundam Store has it cheaper though they might make up the difference with shipping costs.

Exia with LED $289

Exia no LED $168

Even more incentive.

New trailer for the last Gundam Origin movie is up, if everything goes well the movie should end right before the series starts. Now we gotta wait and see if they actually remake the original series.

I've heard the GM Sniper Custom is a great kit though I haven't built one yet. I do have a MG GM Sniper II in my backlog, maybe I should get on that. 

Did you get the the fancy LED Exia? Let us know how the build goes!

Sounds like they may be trying to tone down expectations for this movie after the backlash TLJ got for everything it did and didn't do. Course none of that matters if they don't start marketing the movie soon, at this rate Solo will just pop up in theaters one day and disappear the next (maybe that's what Disney wants).

13 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Anyone else checking out the AGDQ streams? I didn't realize they had them already but have been catching a bunch of the runs on Youtube. Great stuff as always.

Yup AGDQ is always a fun time though I haven't watched too many of the YT highlights yet. The Bloodborne run was pretty great.

I also watched the Resident Evil 3 race, it's already one of my favorites from any GDQ.

56 minutes ago, Tking22 said:

Anyone picking up Monster Hunter World on Xbox by chance? PS4 I'm sure there will be plenty, but I know Xbox isn't as popular all around, let alone with this franchise. I've had mine pre-ordered for my X1X for over a month now, I'm excited! I haven't played a Monster Hunter since Tri on my old Wii. I played the beta several times on my dusty launch PS4 and loved it, but Xbox is where most of my friends play and that's what I've invested all my time in so I am mostly on that, my PS4 is for the occasional Sony exclusive that interests me. I'm definitely maining charge blade like I always do, then maybe I'll try insect glaive or dual blades, not sure yet.

PS4 here, going to be my first MH game. From playing the beta I'm probably gonna be using the Gunlance and Charge Blade.

I never watched Rogue One, did they really just go yeah it's an intentional design flaw? Next time just set the Death Star to overload when they fire the thing, save everybody a lot of trouble.

Yup that's Crossbone X1, oh no..... my wallet isn't going to like this. Smart metal build choice since there are at least 5 different versions of the design, with plenty of add on parts to sell separate. I wonder if they will do Phantom.... ooh I hope so.

What a cute idea, I hate to say it but I kinda want that robot kit. Course it is $80 for cardboard and a game..... and I don't have a switch  

Hah yeah that's the correct response, though from what I've seen 6 isn't quite as crazy as 0. I do wish they'd bring back the disco minigame but I guess extreme spear fishing will have to do.

Yakuza 6 is still a few months away from US release but here's a fun trailer to tide us over.

They missed a big opportunity to have a red X over Globals portrait in the cast of characters page. Hopefully they will fix that in the next issue when they kill off Rick so that Roy can be the main character.

Deep Fear, now there's a game I haven't played in a long time. It's a terrible RE clone but it has some campy story stuff going on that makes it worth it in a so bad it's good kind of way. Good luck!

Great job as always on the covers, I'm really liking that Super Turrican 2 box.

Oh yeah that reminded me I forgot to post this, poor Relena.

Well it can't end, Disney needs to keep making money so the war must go on!

It was a pretty thick door, now if they had tore through the side of the mountain instead of shooting the reinforced door maybe things woulda melted faster. Watching that gif I can hear the sound effect in my head, that can't be healthy.

"Two men, two styles of music, one war to settle Jazz vs Pop!" I could see that as a tagline 

I get where you are coming from now Seto, I don't think Thunderbolt is as heartless as you make it out to be but that's ok we will just have to disagree.

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Granted, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt doesn't actually manage to achieve Hellsing Ultimate's level of gratuitous hardcore violence... but, like I said, it's the fact that it's blatantly trying so very hard to reach that level of dark and edgy that makes it impossible to take seriously to the extent that the effort itself almost crosses the line into comedy.  Mobile Suit Gundam's Universal Century was already plenty bleak and dark so the sudden effort to be gritty and hardcore comes across as both completely unnecessary and as a desperate plea for the audience to take it seriously.  It's the cinematic equivalent of that one put-upon kid every school seems to have these days, who starts dressing all in black and posts selfies with replica anime katanas captioned with crap like "*teleports behind you* nothing personal kid" because they think that's edgy and will make them look like a badass.  (So, guys like Ben Solo c. The Force Awakens.)

Put simply, the series is a poseur.  It's putting on airs of gritty grimdarkness in the hopes of covering up its weak, directionless mess of a plot and to distract the audience from the characters all being completely, hopelessly unlikeable.  It's all flash and no substance.  Nobody seems to have told Ohtagaki-san that a character who's a complete monster is only workable on a narrative level if those kinds of characters are few and far between.  If every character's a complete monster, that stops being intimidating or impressive and thus a complete monster is just the new normal.

I'm not sure where you are getting a directionless plot from, the first part was survival during the last days of the war and development of the Reuse P device. The current plot (or at least what I've read up to) is both sides racing to recover the data before the cultists start churning out an army of Psycho Zakus or whatever they can imagine stuffing a person into. At least that's the the super abridged version of goings on. It's a darker story than your average UC but I'm still not seeing the try-hard levels of edge that you are, I'd even count IBO as more wannabe edge than Thunderbolt. As for everyone being monsters becoming the new normal, that's probably what Ohtagaki was going for. Sure that's probably a bs excuse for bad characters but it works in a war setting as far as I'm concerned.

15 hours ago, eXis10z said:

Anyone caught Gundam Thunderbolt yet?

Yup it's pretty great though I think the first season is better since it's a complete story where the second feeds into a bigger story that isn't finished yet.

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Read the manga, and I've seen the first episode of the series.  I wasn't impressed.  

It's a Universal Century Gundam sidestory for this guy, in which abso-bloody-lutely everybody is a complete and utter psychopath and it's trying SO HARD to be dark, gritty, and Hellsing Ultimate levels of hardcore that it feels incredibly forced, almost to the point of becoming a self-parody.  (This is not helped one jot by the art style, which makes it look like the cast were rejected background characters from Charge! Cromartie High School and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.  The music doubles down on the weirdness, making the whole affair feel like they're trying to ape Cowboy Bebop as well.)

Aw come on it's nowhere near Hellsing Ultimate levels of edgy hardcore violence, though I will give you that everyone is a psycho. It's hilarious that the comic you posted called the fast descent into violence that the Transformers movies became.

2 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

yeah, Thunderbolt is kind of everything I hate about UC side stories. The battle sequences were pretty sexy though. BTW, I never fallowed up on Twilight axis after the first "episode". Did it start making sense after a while or did it stay a hot mess the entire time?

Twilight Axis is a hot mess through and through, who woulda thought that a low budget three minute episode show about nothing would be such a failure. I've gotta read the novel one day, I hear it's ok and slightly bridges the gap between CCA and F91.

5 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Thanks.

Aren't all of these recently-revealed designs general release items? Or are some of them P-Bandai?

EDIT:

Nvm. Seems the Efreet Nacht has been confirmed to be P-Bandai exclusive, so... Well, then again, the regular Byarlant IS a bit more mainstream than the other Byarlant variants and the Efreet variants, so perhaps it will see a general release.

From what I've been hearing most of these aren't even confirmed for production yet, it's just a new thing Bandai has been doing where they show off some new prototype designs at gunpla expo each month to gauge interest.

Byarlant vs Custom design differences are the head, arms, feet and boosters. There's a lot of little differences while the overall shape stays the same. I hope it gets a regular release since it's one of Jerid's main MS but I wont hold my breath. With all the P-Bandai releases of different Byarlant designs they have all the parts already cast, they just need to release them together. Hopefully we get a Baund Doc soon but that's a very strange design so....

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Hmm I dunno about parts for all of the S Gundam but there may be enough parts there to make a S Bst, that was only available as a P-Bandai exclusive a few years ago.

Finally got to the movies and watched TLJ, I had a good time with it. It is far from a perfect movie with some pacing issues and strange lapses of judgement of the characters but at the end of the days it still is nowhere near how terrible the prequels are.

A question that popped in my mind while watching.

Since hyperspace ramming is a thing couldn't the rebels have done that in ROTJ with the Mon Calamari ships to the Death Star instead of getting blown up running away for no reason? Could shields stop it, I'd assume not with how TLJ showed the main ship and like 5 others getting destroyed. It was cool and all but it kinda ruins space combat since all you need is a few suicide ships (or even droid ships, oooooh) to solve any problem you have, the more mass the merrier.