CoryHolmes

I might have spoken too soon!  I just got a notice in my mailbox that there's a parcel waiting for pickup

12 hours ago, Protoman said:

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Crazy it's taking so long. I have had the figure for awhile now. I ordered directly from Kitzconcept and got it in like 3 weeks. 

Really?  I ordered as well and haven't heard squat from them.

1 hour ago, Big s said:

Looks like she’s struttin on a fashion show stage and he just dropped the mic while walking off

Great.  Forever will not unsee.

I hope you're happy with yourself!

3 hours ago, Protoman said:

3D print files for the Logan are now for sale. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-usUxCc158

I love this maligned mini-mecha more than most.  It perfectly fits the narrative I've invented for my head-canon Second Generation.

2 hours ago, tekering said:

Yeah, but you had no way to prove it, since quality Southern Cross mecha was never available to the market.  Before the Bio-Lloyds, all we had was a poorly-sculpted vintage kit, a couple half-assed Matchbox toys, and a few Spartas 3D-printed prototypes that weren't good enough to make it to production.

Ironically enough, the great Dyson Max had already proven an anime-accurate Spartas figure could be produced (as long as it didn't transform).  I would've bought a 3D printer just to make one of my own, if only he'd provided .stl files... but at least @captain america can use his model for reference. 🙂

Oh, hush you.  You can take your stoopid "reality" and "facts" and eject them out the ship Among Us style! 

I'm torn.  I love Godzilla 2016 because of how serious it is, but I love these because of how goofy they are.  Which do I support more???

And to think that you've doubted me all this time when I said there was demand for quality Southern Cross mecha 😁

Will the rerelease be... um... released here in Canada?  The interwebz didn't answer me.

9 hours ago, Big s said:

Yeah, it was. Now it’s not. They couldn’t decide and I guess they couldn’t figure out how to stretch the story enough to fit a series. Either that or they got really confident about releasing it as a movie 

That's a good thing, then.  I hate when TV shows have unnecessary padding, and they all do.

I'm a dum-dum who was so excited that he didn't read the post all the way through.  PM sent with my requests, Captain!

It's a film?  I thought it was a TV series!

Mere words don't suffice to articulate how I feel about this.  A picture is worth a thousand words, so...

*ahem*  After all that inarticulate screeching of joy, you can put me down for 2 kits.  Possibly 3, depending on how things go but I'm good for 2!

This isn't quite my birthday, but it sure does feel like it!

They do look very nice 🤔

I know I'm in the minority, but I really didn't like Prey at all.  I'm hoping the sequel is better for me.

16 hours ago, MKT said:

Pics from Gokin_z on X:
 

Hmmmmmm.  This isn't as awful as the rest, and if it were a bit more in my price range I'd be tempted.

They're too busy and have way too much going on.  While it's more a sign of the times it was animated in, there's something clean and elegant about the original Cyclone design.

All I want is more Mon Mothma in Coruscant.  The fact that it's wrapped up in a show called "Andor" is meaningless to me, I know what I like.

14 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

+1

Sean Young > Zendaya but that is just based on looks alone, lol. Zendaya is still a good actress and is fine in her role.

 

Call me crazy (and people often do) but I don't like Zendaya's a great actress or particularly good-looking.

I think I still prefer the Lynch version of the Sandworms, though.  Tri-lobed mouths for the win!

22 minutes ago, renegadeleader1 said:

I wish I could explain what comes next, but the director who also co-wrote this, utterly botched the ending by forgetting the one simple tenet that is the cause of and end to why anything happens on Arrakis matters to anything.

 

The. Spice. Must. Flow.

 

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The entire reason Paul is even able to seize power and become Emperor in the books is due to his control of the spice fields with the Fremen and the threat to destroy the pre-spice masses by introducing water to them and making the worms that create spice go extinct. Not nuking them.

 

Without the worms there is no spice. Without the spice the spacing guild navigators can't plot courses. Without navigators there is no interstellar travel. Without interstellar travel entire planets and systems collapse due to lack of resources and trade.

 

The spacing guild understands this and as such would never let the other great houses of the Lansraad openly rebel against Paul  and transport them to Arrakis lest he destroy the spice.

 

Due to this inability to overtly strike back at Paul the next two novels Dune: Messiah and Children of Dune revolve around covert plots to assassinate Paul and his family by various factions, while Paul tightens his grip on the galaxy, consolidates power by starving out enemies, and debates the righteousness of "the golden path" that his presience gives him glimpses of and wether his conscience can allow him to take that path given the bloodshed and death it entails, meanwhile the Fremen are systematically hoping from planet to planet going full on SS concentration camp ethnic cleansing on anyone that does not accept that Paul is god. It's not so much a holy war but mass executions on a galactic scale.

 

The movie on the other hand has Paul threaten the great houses by nuking the spice fields unless they accept him as Emperor, they refuse, and he gives the order to attack the other great houses warships likely armed with their houses nukes already in orbit with the Fremen boarding troop ships with the spacing guild and the leverage they bring non-existent.

 

As far as I'm concerned, the greatest line in any of the adaptions comes from the Miniseries.

"Without the Spice the Navigators will become blind, the Bene Gesserit will lose all powers, and all commerce between the Great Houses will cease!  Civilization will end!  If I am not obeyed?  Then the Spice... will not flow."

Paul has them all by the short'n'curlies and nobody is willing to test his willingness to do it.  The Guild always chooses the safest paths, and the Bene Gesserit prefer to work from the shadows.  As an aside, I really like Irulian's walk across the palace floor in the Miniseries.  She's smart enough to see the way out of the mess and is willing to do it; in the movie she needed the Reverend Mother to explain what needed to be done.

Just came back from watching Part Two.

I know I'm in the minority when it comes to taste in media, but this was a terrible movie.  All my worst fears were confirmed, they cut out so much plot from the novel that it jumped from topic to topic, barely pausing to let things sink in before info-dumping into the next scene.  Even the individual moments weren't that good, imho.  I felt it lacked a sense of... epicness, for lack of a better term.  Paul riding the sandworm had little build up and thus it became a little thing  (I also subtract a million points for the lack of epic Stilgar air guitar 😤).

I found the Baron to continue being underwhelming as a villain.  Miniseries Baron is the Best Baron, and I'll fight anyone who claims otherwise!  Same with Fayed, just suffered from a lack of air time to flesh out his character.  Miniseries Fayed had the grace to be a smarmy, epic douchebag of a villain.  I did enjoy this Gurney and Stilgar, though.  Both had wonderful lines and enjoyable characterization.

And the epic duel at the end?  Not so epic.  The Emperor had almost no impact or presence, miniseries Irulian is the superior Irulian, and everyone here just seemed to be going through the motions.  The big battle, the culmination of Paul's revenge against those who murdered his House?  Done in a blink of an eye and then he's walking in on everyone and doing his thing.  Was I expecting another Battle of Helm's Deep?  Naw, but of the three versions of this battle put to screen thus far, this is the weakest.

20 hours ago, varitechs said:

yes and they have to make the molds profitable 😉

However, it's Macross over and over again... As a Robotech toy maker, I wish they explored the concepts of Southern Cross and Mospeada more...

From your lips to their ears 🙏

5 hours ago, JB0 said:

I mean, the best way to defeat CLU was to ignore him. LET him invade the real world, and be suddenly confused that his laser rifles and super powers don't work because he isn't inside the game.

Everything falls apart once you realize that.

But that's part of his fallen angel tragedy to me.  He's a shining example of intelligence without free will, compelled to create perfection out of nothingness.  And nobody knows if his laser rifles or light cycle butt-beams would work or not.  Nobody's checked what happens when a Program comes into the real world.

But I concede that the Clu thing was the least threatening plot ever.  At least the MCP, for all its contempt for humans, knew that the bigger threat was to muck around with the data it COULD access.  Besides that, everyone knows that Rinzler was the better enemy anyway 😜

16 hours ago, JB0 said:

I love to WATCH Tron Legacy. I don't think it is particularly well-written, but it is frickin' gorgeous.

(I was intensely disappointed that their interpretation of "inside the computer" adapted to the modern highly-networked "computers are everywhere" world by... ignoring it all and having them inside a mainframe with no outside data connection.)

I disagree about the "not well-written" part.  Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think the way it implies parts of its story without clubbing people over the head with it was a refreshing change.  It took me a few viewings to really appreciate some of what it was telling.

But the visuals and the oft-praised music are <CENSORED> awesome.  It's hard to pick a favourite scene because there are so many parts that individually enjoyable!

I want this to be good.  I really, really want this to be good.  Tron: Legacy took a few viewings but it's become one of my favourite films ever.