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35 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

..."it's pretty clear they really only intend to sell this to kids who don't care."

"I can't really fault them for targeting that market"

That's the thing that is totally bizarre, imo:  TNG ended its run over 2.5 decades ago; the number of kids who'd be even remotely interested in a toy of anything related to TOS, TNG, DS9, or Enterprise (closing on being 20 years since it ended its run... sheesh, I feel old ) today must be so miniscule as to be less than a statistical rounding error.  Merchandize for any of the old shows, regardless of which franchise/IP, are entirely targeted at parents, mostly men, riddled with nostalgia for items from shows of their youth, the vast majority of which will be far more keen, Super Deformed fetish aside, on authenticity than playschool-esque versions, especially hardware.

I think it has more to do with Stick and Rey, aside from being the main characters, having the same basic height and sharing the exact same armor and bike, differentiated solely by head sculpt, some colors, and a few accessories; next closest being Yellow with a small amount of unique components and a taller figure, and Houquet/Shinobu requiring a lot more changes than exist between all the boys... which makes me curious as to why Sentinel hasn't announced a Shinobu yet, to amortize their tooling, since they already engineered Houquet's components and all.

Art Asylum did a MUCH better job all around making theirs look very authentic and almost model-like... I mean, just look at the cobra neck on the battle section of this Playmates; it is atrocious.

Uhm... Wow!

51 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

Let's see how this plays out. I recall thinking the TERMINATOR television series was gonna suck but then I found it was very good early on and then it got cancelled 🤬

That was then (2008-2009), this is post 2016 now... an entirely different -- drastically lower, in general -- caliber of writers and producers with wholly different goals in mind... for every House of the Dragon, you get a slew of Rings of Powers, Willows, Blood Origins, and other sundry sludge.

If the Alien TV series turns out half as decent as The Sarah Connor Chronicles, we can count yourselves blessed; however, my enthusiasm has been subverted and betrayed so often that that tank is empty, so I'll not trust, but will certainly verify.

Those just look so wrong.

49 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Very well aware of this.

I was hoping for an updated version that could be used with either the HMR or DX. But yeah, I concur it’s more about proportions than anything else. 

I somehow know this…there are reasons.  

It is all too easy to get tunnel vision with these things, no matter how well versed one happens to be on the subject... the ambiguous anime magic involved and toy manufacturers don't make it easy; it's like one's mind locks into an assumption or some other bit of minutia that it becomes very hard to see the bigger picture.  We all fall prey to this kind of mental short circuit from time to time. 

Sheesh!  When some media executive, or worse - a CEO, gets a bug up their butt regarding some IP/programming (almost always sci-fi or fantasy show), he/she becomes the worst enemy of good worthwhile entertainment... CBS' Les Moonvez ignominiously cancelling Enterprise when it had finally found its legs, Amazon's Jennifer Salke vehemently passing on Conan The Barbarian because of... reasons, etc.

11 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:

But, if this is considered a 1/48(?). It should work with a DX or a Yamato. But clearly by looking at the pictures the 1/40 Orguss is the better choice.

So it looks like Bandai fiddled with scale too much?

Don't get hung up on scale.  The overall size and proportions are what would make the components to be swapped compatible between the two mechs.  The "real world" size differences of the VF-1 battroid vs Orgroid is too great for them to jive at the same scale... like trying to exchange parts between a VF-1 and a FV-0 -- impossible -- and those even share the same architecture.

The problem with ESG is that it is entirely, nefariously, political... and politics will derail and have this thread locked faster than anything I can think of, other than religion.  So, lets just say that companies bow to the scheme at their own peril, and leave it at that.

Back to upcoming movies discussions 

1 hour ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Does the pilot match up to the Yamato 1/48 or the Bandai DX?

I guess combining this figure with a HMR VF-1 is a no go for the Orguss Valkyrie.  

Not necessarily.  The VF-1 in battroid mode is 12.7 meters in height, while the Orgroid is 8.7 meters tall; so, the structural compatibility of the necessary components for a conversion between the two may be more in line with Orguss HM-R and a 1/72 Valkyrie... the chest plate dimensions would be a good indicator of what scales go together.  The Bandai DX would be way too big for the parts to match the line art of the kit-bash cameo.  Someone who has a KitzConcept VF-1 and an Orguss HM-R in hand may be able to post a side by side picture, maybe with a VF-1 HM-R thrown in, for comparison.

If Disney of 20, maybe even 15, years ago had announced -- even just a trial balloon -- their intent of making a theatrical "LA" version of Gargoyles, I'd be one of the OMG!!!OMG!!! crowd; current Disney, on the other hand, going by the godawful butchering they've been doing to most of their own past IP glories... not trusting them to do any justice to, or anything good with, Goliath and his clan and all the Druidic, Anglo-Saxon, Frankish, and Gothic mythology/folklore that underpins its setting, and that they won't make the casting look like downtown LA even for the pseudo-historical bits; as a company, they just can't be trusted until the product is released and vetted.  Caveat Emptor is most certainly advised.

29 minutes ago, Mommar said:

Just arrived.  It's a big sucker.  Only the Monster and officer's pod are bigger.  Leans closer to a seven inch scaled figure.  A little finicky to pose so far, though.

So, roughly 1/48-1/50 scale...

Height = 8.7m → 342.52" / 7" = 48.9

Here's hoping Gunn can pull this off... current DCU still has two more -- very likely -- theatrical bombs to get out of the way before it can even begin to try and become a contender.  The only saving grace, for Warner Bros, is that its only rival is also circling the drain at the moment, and the foreseeable future... also ironic that the only Disney-Marvel movie that was both well received and made a (very!) modest profit since Endgame was a James Gunn flick.

That looks amazing.  

1/48 scale?

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

Ok, but can we get T.C.'s chopper while we're at it?   That would be huge, but awesome.

They go together like Peanut Butter and Chocolate...

4 hours ago, Tking22 said:

I don't even know what Orguss is but that's a cool looking mech, I may grab one. Is this a hero mech or cannon fodder? 

Hero/Titular mech; however, other variations pop up later in the series; notably, the Olson Special and Cannon Fodder.

2 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

They had planning, that of staffing too many contemporary ideologies along with memberberries bait in an overcooked lasagna. 

We all remember this taken from their behind the scenes...

I've yet to encounter a SW majority that wished for 'Dinosaurs'. 🙄 (Still cannot find any official survey or poll about this)

Oh, and Star Wars "not pro-war"? 🤣

And they really nailed "Relatable characters" and "Complicated monsters". 🤣

Yes, I remember that little gem... the blueprint, in whiteboard form, for a franchise's utter destruction.  It also reeks of using that which better people created as a therapy session for adult toddlers with axes to grind.

What I meant by lack of planning is related to how their preeminent product, the KK self-insert girl-boss sequel, was handled... a rudderless mess devoid of connectivity where they actually admitted they had no overarching plot for any of it, and were making $h!t up from film to film.  George Lucas had treatments for both of his trilogies, where they started, basic character beats, where they ended, and even provided Disney with his outlines for a sequel which Iger reneged on utilizing, handing the unfettered reigns to KK, because he trusted her (of course, foolishly, so did Lucas) to produce brilliance in pursuit of the "MODERN AUDIENCES before the pithy term was coined."

Going back to Asoka, going by the trailer alone, it is abundantly apparent -- I'd like to be wrong -- that the show has all the hallmarks of KK's Girl-Boss Force is Female overused bankrupt trope; heck, it reeks of being the crescendo of it.

Yeah, Lucasfilm (KK) summarily decided to ditch all the EU immediately after the Disney purchase because they (she) wanted to do their (her) own thing -- "The Force is Female" -- without being bound by ANY of the extensive lore in the books, etc.  Too bad for Lucasfilm under KK's handling and meddling and Disney's inability/unwillingness to keep her honest, they did not have the imagination, creativity, planning, or writing talent to pull it off... with the exception of a precious few bright spots, an entire decade wasted and a decimated franchise.

1 hour ago, Big s said:

These seem oddly familiar somehow 🤔

Reminiscent of Akira and Jin Roh (very much on the nose, methinks), respectively?..

5 minutes ago, Mog said:

Don’t sully the name of the Tread.  Those three massive, honking engine boosters overcome any aerodynamic issues! 😉

It's the ultimate bad-ass fictional example of the old real-world joke regarding the F-4 Phanton II:  "Proof that if you put enough thrust behind a brick you can make it fly."

2 hours ago, danth said:

I think some people in this thread would get along better with the bad guys from Indiana Jones than most fans of the movies. 🤣

Now THAT is a ridiculously ignorant, yet oh so typical, comment...

7 minutes ago, Dynaman said:

Nope.  My wife and I have zippo knowledge of the Expanded universe and love The Mandalorian (Bobba Fett's show not so much).

The Mandalorian, seasons 1 and 2 at any rate, harkens back to old westerns; that's what made it good, if not all that original, so it is easy to appreciate because it feels like old-school SW.  Unfortunately, season 3 became infected with a lot of the same drivel and poor writing that ruined, depending on your point of view, Obi Wan and BoBF... they better wise up, or the drop in viewership will only get worse.  Out of all the Disney Star Wars live action series, Andor is the only one consistently well written... it's almost as if Andor was produced by an entirely different studio, so it is a damn shame it got hamstrung by the garbage before it.

11 minutes ago, Raikkonen said:

Doesn't matter. Just keep buying more Hasbro figures. 

You mean multiyear peg warmers at deep discount retailers that eventually become regrind or dump fillers?   No thanks. 

15 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

Did the wreckage of the Heinkel HE-111 plus Indy's spent parachute somehow not affect the future (their in-universe present) that they all returned to?

Maybe Disney will require the purchase of a novelization or comic book to answer this question....

 

DoD is chock full of loose threads and plot holes.