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I think I heard they cast Chris Pratt for everyone.

20 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

True... though, if anything, that's a Reality Ensues moment.

Gamlin was trained on the VF-11C Thunderbolt and VF-17D/S Nightmare.  Both of those VFs are at least two generations newer than the VF-1 Valkyrie and have considerably higher performance.  He hopped into a VF he'd never trained on, and discovered it had about 1/5th of the performance he was used to.  Like someone whose daily driver is a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat who finds himself driving a Toyota Prius while on holiday.

Oh, yeah, it is EXACTLY what anyone should've expected to happen.

It really makes you wonder why he commandeered Millia's VF-1 in the first place. I'll assume he just didn't realize it was roughly analagous to training on a Tomcat and then trying to fly a Mustang.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Gamlin was shown to struggle a bit to draw out the full potential of his VF-17D/S, which is 9 or 10 depending on model,

In fairness, Gamlin was also shown struggling to draw out the full potential of Millia's VF-1, which he got destroyed. Never forget!

22 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

Glad I'm not into the Japanese Transformers; that Ginrai looks all kinds of terrible to me.

Powermaster Prime was my first Optibotimus, and it makes me sad to see him done dirty like this.

2 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

See, it's comments like this that tell me people are actually reading my rambling opinions on toys and not just humoring me by looking at pictures and maybe liking the post.

I'm readin' 'em. I don't often have much to say, but I read 'em all.

I really do want a new Ejector. "Evil toaster that burns your bread and steals your drink when you aren't looking" is such a wonderfully ridiculous concept.

5 hours ago, Scyla said:

1. Simplified detail with regards to greebles and sculpt (since the toys and the cartoon were less sophisticated)

Sticker detail. The original toys had a crapton of random greebles represented as stickers.

4 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

  (Don't answer that, the correct answer is and will always be Dispensor.)

Studio Series Ejector when?!

22 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Y'know what?  Yes.  That's exactly what Titan Comics should do.

They had - for the first time since what? 1996?** - an actual original Robotech story that wasn't slavishly following or playing in the same sandbox with the TV series.  They had the chance to take the story somewhere new and different and they got cut off before they could really do something with it.

Yeah, I was phrasing it flippantly, but it was a genuinely interesting mess of a thing. 

20 hours ago, Big s said:

That and no more struggling with bad translations on bootlegs.

Hopefully it won't move to struggling with bad translations on officially-sanctioned polycarbonate.

2 hours ago, Jupiter Jazz said:

That's the rub though: I'd argue that the 2007 HD remaster is not even up to the standard of "exactly as it was in theaters," as far as the viewing experience goes.  If the 2007 HD remaster was shown in a modern theatre as is, (as in seeing the level of grain and inconsistencies that one sees when viewing the DVD) I would assume something was wrong with the film/projector/etc., and possibly even demand my money back.  There's something messed up about being better off watching a film on VHS on an old low resolution CRT television, rather than on a digital disk on a high resolution flatscreen TV.

It probably isn't. But I was speaking purely about the captioned zentradi scenes.

Like TMBounty_Hunter said, the problems they have originated from the original optical compositing. They're  inherent to the original production, and can't be "fixed" without leaving the source behind and (at best) reshooting the scene.

12 hours ago, lechuck said:

I wish Takara had come up with a solution to have the rear trailer wheels recess along the the feet instead of leaving it jutting out unsightly like that and breaking sculpt cohesiveness.

I agree, but some of the Powermaster Prime/Ginrai toy features wound up being carried into the cartoon as well, and I think wheels hanging off the toes is one of those things that's actually anime-accurate(as is Ginrai wearing the whole front of the truck on his back).

Enough of this, Titan! Bring back the epic saga of Sad Dana!

Honestly, he looks pretty G1 to me. Monochrome enough to be unstickered G1, but still G1.

10 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

That's because they need to degrease the plastic before the vacuum metalization process, which removes a lot of the plasticizers out of it.

On that note: I found a very thin foil tape that I use to either repair worn chrome or chrome a piece if it needs it. It can be a little fragile (especially in transform areas), but it does the trick and I'm usually pretty good about where to place it.

So THAT'S why!

Thanks, I had wondered about that for a long time.

12 hours ago, Jupiter Jazz said:

That's a shame that a truly great remaster is held back by such a process.

I mean, remastering isn't reshooting. They're stuck using the original footage, warts and all.

I'd personally argue "exactly as it was in theaters" is a reasonable target most of the time, and that editing to eliminate imperfections that have always existed is the first step towards the dark side of Special Edition reworks.

Peg's back, baby!

11 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

Sadly, Hasbro doesn't do chrome anymore, probably due to its tendency to chip and flake over time. I miss it.

My understanding is chromed plastic breaks easier, and has a tendency to leave sharp edges when it does. Hasbro doesn't want broken toys drawing blood. Buncha babies, I swear. Scars build character!

(My preferred dinobot representation is Gigapower's chromed releases, but they're in a very different price class than pretty much anything Hasbro makes, and I never could justify a full set.)

On 4/1/2024 at 4:59 PM, M'Kyuun said:

Which one looks right to you?

Neither. There's not a single drop of chrome or smoked plastic to be seen. 0/10, garbage dinobots.

"16 years later..."

On 3/28/2024 at 10:32 PM, bjsmaker said:

They are on the Megaroad 01 with everyone else who has disappeared

Party capital of the universe.

7 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Probably a dumb thought, but the DYRL issue can't still be related to the "Clash of the Bionoids" release, can it?

Ayup. No one knows for sure who that license wound up with in the end, or what the exact terms were.

Most importantly, no one knows if it has an expiration date in it or not, since a limited license term would render everything else moot. 

I'm hoping that Super Ginrai in truck mode is mistransformed. Because even by the standards of Powermaster Prime(the original toy sets a fairly low bar to clear), that's dire.

I'm totally shocked if that's the best a "masterpiece" can do with those arms, but the hollow thighs sure imply that MPG continues to set the target low and then miss it anyways.

4 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Are you referring to DYRL licensing outside of Japan?  Clearly, BW controls all licensing for DYRL within Japan (ex. BW sticker on all DYRL Bandai DX releases)...

Per @Seto Kaiba he says the "merch" rights still belong to HG outside of Japan....perhaps this is no longer the case?  

To be more precise in my statement: International distribution rights for the film are what's been lost in the shuffle.

Not any japanese rights(clearly controlled by Big West), and not international merchandise rights(clearly sublicensed to HG from Tatsunoko).

On 3/24/2024 at 10:35 PM, Big s said:

I was also not sure on DYRL. Does hg hold a license on that or just that the likeness of characters and mecha are similar 

Harmony Gold is actually one of the few places we're sure the DYRL distribution license ISN'T

The DYRL problem, as I understand it, is that it a whole bunch of bankruptcies and mergers happened after it was licensed. We know it WAS licensed, but no one's sure where the license wound up in the end or how long it was good for. There's a few companies that think they might have it, and everyone's waiting for someone else to make a move.

23 hours ago, Big s said:

I always felt like the Kotobukiya kits were a bit overly complicated. Lots of little parts with tons of seams in awkward spots. Like a joint piece that had a seam that had to be covered by more parts with more seams that had another layer that had more seams with a little greebly thing that attached and also had seams

My understanding, as someone who has none, is that you are totally correct.

I guess we'll find out, I ordered a Nineball.