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  1. mechaninac
    The Disneyfication of every franchise they've consumed/subsumed over the last decade+ has been a massive disservice to those who created them and the fans who've made them popular and profitable over the years. So much squandered, if not outright destroyed, potential with mediocre and/or divisive content in the vainglorious belief that they could manufacture new fanbases while marginalizing, denigrating and even villainizing legacy audiences... all to ever diminishing returns in both creative and financial terms... such a shame.
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    You mean, like Paramount did with ST: Starfleet Academy?... I do think D+ will have much better returns with what is just the pointless filler that is Maul than P+ had with the THE MESSAGE-bloated cringe-fest unintended parody that is Academy, but the decision to approve a second season without proving the viability of the first comes from the same place unearned confidence and arrogance. At least in Filoni's case, CG animation is his wheelhouse, though he should steer clear of Live Action; nobody has been able to ever find Kurtzman's forte, other than being a consummate BS artist.
  3. mechaninac
    I guess, if that's the case, we may need to add stinky to the list...
  4. mechaninac
    Having this be a VF-25 instead of a VF-1 makes perfect sense from an aesthetic approach; after all, the Messiah is the closest Macross air/spaceframe in overall look to the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Got to say, I'm highly tempted to get a copy because it looks great and, like Yamato's 1/48 VF-1A Low Vis (to this day, one of my all-time favorites), "grounded" in realism.
  5. mechaninac
    Flawless launch. Congratulations to everyone involved and Godspeed to ARTEMIS II for a successful mission. Next 10 days are going to be interesting and inspiring.
  6. mechaninac
    Western adaptations of Eastern media have a natural tendency of doing just that with unerring regularity; so much so, that when one of these forays does turn out decent, let alone - good, it is worthy of note... Netflix got One Piece right, they also got Cowboy Bebop catastrophically wrong; which will it be this time around? Hoping for the former, expecting the latter.
  7. mechaninac
    Chuck Norris didn't die, he ascended to spar with Bruce Lee in the great dojo in the sky. Godspeed!
  8. mechaninac
    Chances would be extremely high that they'd end up Masters of The Universe-ring or Tomb Raider-ing it, if not downright Velma-ing the thing... soooo many examples of how off the rails it could get. Better leaving it alone as a time capsule of when shows were mostly good instead of almost all bad.
  9. mechaninac
    Soooo.... Wielder's Bane?
  10. mechaninac
    SA-23E Starfury Aurora, SA-32A Starfury Thunderbolt, Narn Frazi Heavy Fighter, Minbari Nial Fighter... all would be nearly impossible to pass up, but a more manageable 1/32-1/35 would be preferable. From the B5 Tech Manual (even 1/35 would be huge): SA-23E - L 9.56m x W17.87m = 53.11cm x 99.28cm at 1/18, 27.31cm x 51.05cm at 1/35 -- 20.91" x 39.09" / 10.75" x 20.10" SA-32A - L 15.54m x W18.70 (airfoils deployed) = 86.33cm x 1.04m at 1/18, 44.40cm x 53.43cm at 1/35 -- 33.99" x 40.95" / 17.48" x 21.04" Frazi - L 15.80m x W (not given) = 87.78cm x (?) at 1/18, 45.14cm x (?) at 1/35 -- 34.56" x (?) / 17.77" x (?) Nial - L 22.00m x W (not given) = 1.22m x (?) at 1/18, 62.86cm x (?) at 1/35 -- 48.03" x (?) / 24.75" x (?)
  11. mechaninac
    At 1/18-3.75" scale?... ... THAT WOULD BE HUGE!.. I wouldn't know where to put such a monster and it would cost a lot, but I want one...
  12. mechaninac
    Methinks you read too much into what I stated. I made zero claims regarding SFX/CGI quality or any statement as to which series was superior. All I commented on was the overuse, not the overall use, of the shaky cam and rapid zooming employed by Zoic Studios, in response to @Thom; their work was outstanding but those techniques did become VERY gimmicky and would've benefitted greatly from more judicious use, in my opinion; that's all. Given the primitive state of SFX/miniature compositing at the time and all the other constraints and network shenanigans you mentioned, it is a downright miracle they were able to create and deliver what they did, when they, on time for a broadcast schedule that was far more demanding in number of episodes and release schedules than what has become the modern norm, and you can't really fault them for the heavy reuse of canned SFX footage... it was, after all, the budget-conscious SOP (from before the original Star Trek to roughly midway through Voyager) up until CGI became cost effective. To this day, I still think it was a missed opportunity on Zoic's and RDM's part not to include the Turbo Boost effect (it was visceral and visually striking) in their Vipers' bag of tricks; that the original miniature artists did it, and how they accomplished it, deserves high praise.
  13. mechaninac
    It would have been infinitely better if they had used the shaky cam and quick zoom-ins sparingly to emphasize very specific sequences in only a few episodes per season, to sell the dynamism and intense chaotic nature of certain engagements of high significance, instead of turning the techniques into overused gimmicks.
  14. mechaninac
    It did have 1 memorable episode worthy of consideration as a true classic: The Return of Starbuck.
  15. mechaninac
    Start with YouTube. There is an incredible variety of overviews, introductions for beginners and tutorials... and the best part is that it is all free.
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