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    And the Robotech comics problem with perspective continues. If it wasn't for the fact the... Veritech?... wing is in front of it, it looks like its being charged by a way too small Battle Pod...
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    Regards the A.I. "Live" Gundam characters - that is, by far, THE hottest Bright Noa has ever been!
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    "Babylon 5 is a big pile of <censored>!" 🙂 Sorry, unable to resist a line from the UK TV sitcom "Spaced" (essentially the launching pad for the career of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, among others). 😄 Babylon 5 was indeed great, and I don't envy the actors who are going to have to fill the shoes of some very iconic characters in any new productions.
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    You're welcome!
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    Wow, thats a great creation! I really like the double cab, it almost looks like something from "Patlabor" or "Xabungle"!
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    I saw it the other day. As others have said, its not going to be remembered as a great work of art but it is great fun. In the UK, we have public holidays every so often called "Bank Holidays" and at least before streaming etc became a thing there were certain movies that would always seem to be shown on TV on them - "The Last Starfighter", "The Great Escape", "The Princess Bride"; movies that you might only see bits of at a time on such days but which stuck in the head forever and I can think of no greater praise for this film than to say that its a perfect Bank Holiday Movie.
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    Well, he is an astronomer after all... 🙂
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    Okay, thanks for the information all. Now I can go back to wondering just how I, of all people, missed the X-Bomber revival... 😄
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    All the better to smash in Commander Makaras battlecruiser with, my dear... 😃 Having built a couple Master Grade and High Grade Gundam kits some years ago, how do Moderoids compare? Is glue required? And the webpage mentions "stickers", do they mean actual stickers or waterslide decals?
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    You're joking. This can't be real. Surely? Did someone send a message out across the sky?!! 😁
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    Thats the one, thanks for clearing that up!
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    I'm not very familiar with some of the extended Gundam material, so what the he... heck is that thing that looks like a Nu-Gundam that shrunk in the wash?!
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    Eric “Winkle” Brown did a lot of the testing for that, apparently it worked quite well but the issue was if you had to divert somewhere without a 500 foot long bouncy castle. Also never seen any indications as to what happened to any underwing stores you might still have attached…
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    For me in the UK, for a long time, Matsumoto and his works were a legend in the true sense of the word - things of myth, spoken of in awed terms and seen in brief tantalizing glimpses but never as a coherent whole. When I finally did get to see them, as actual real things rather than whispers in the anime fan night, they more than lived up to the legend. I don't drink, but if you do, maybe today is the day to pour one into a large glass for Leiji Matsumoto.
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    Regards the potential FF:VII sets... they could have put FF:VIIs most famous scene in. You know the one... the one that made a million gamers scream out in shock... ...Barret and Cloud on the Gold Saucer ride? 😁 I jest. You know the scene I mean. I'm guessing not family friendly enough sadly...
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    That might work if I had a bath... 🙂 Again, being British garbage disposal isn't nearly as common here as it is on your side of the pond, but I'll keep an eye on the colander - maybe some cling film over the top will act as a preventive? Meanwhile, this is happening: https://surveys.square-enix-games.com/en/ffvii 😮
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    I was joking, but you’re not the first person to suggest the colander to me! Someone I know apparently saw a TV programme where they put Lego in a pillowcase, tied the case and then put the pillowcase in a washing machine on a “hand wash” or “gentle” setting! Don’t think I’ll be trying that as this stuff is quite old and probably more fragile than it was…
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    Thanks! Just hope I don't wind up clogging my drains with Lego trees... 😃
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    Thanks for the advice! Having had the chance to go through some of it today not all of it is as bad as I thought. I'll have to maybe separate the worst pieces and give them the ol' scrubbing treatment.
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    Looking for a little advice again - I recently recovered a stash of old Lego from a relatives. I don't want to say much more just now in case what I have in mind for using some of it doesn't pan out, but some of it is a bit cruddy with accumulated dust etc. I know some vintage toy collectors wash old toy parts before reassembling them in soapy water, so my question is has anyone any experience of doing that with Lego? And if they have, what about printer Lego pieces? Would that be safe? Also, on the same lines, there are several of the "classic" axles, the ones with the metal bar between the wheels. Some of these are a bit rusty. My immediate thought was WD-40 [1], but I don't want to cause a chemical reaction with the plastic. Again, any ideas? Thanks in advance! [1] I'm British, so "other lubricating oil products are available". 😉
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    I got an unexpected Christmas present in the form of the Luke Skywalker "Red Five" helmet, which I put together the other day. Compared to the Galaxy Explorer, which is an awesome display piece but also something of a marathon construct (the... PINS!) this was a rather more straightforward and faster build (just over three hours, compared to the nine hours or so it took for the Galaxy Explorer). It obviously has fewer pieces, but while it uses various modern tricks a lot of the construction reminded me of "classic" Lego, building up stacks of bricks to achieve a whole. Very nice experience... ...except... ...after I'd completed it, I noticed that I'd somehow managed to put two bricks in the wrong way round. These bricks were part of the display "tower" the helmet sits on, and barely noticeable from anything but close-up, but it bothered me. So I had a go at correcting my mistake. Oops. The problem I encountered is that the "tower" is built around a technic bar which is pinned in place at both ends. And to get to the pins, you had to remove quite a bit of brick work... ...so when I say "just over three hours", I mean more like "just over three hours, plus a couple hours swearing and about another hour putting things back together once I'd calmed down, walked away for a bit and come back and actually thought about things". 😄 On reflection, I could probably have got to the bricks without as much deconstruction as I wound up doing, but I was a bit tired and tried what appeared an obvious approach without enough contemplation first. "Thats impossible, even for the computer!" "No, its not... " 😉
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    Hah, good choice!
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    Our PM has officially announced a Marvel team-up... I mean, an international collaboration involving the UK, Japan and Italy to develop the Tempest fighter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63908284 Whether this means we're skipping fifth-gen to go directly to sixth (not counting the F-35B, but thats not really our baby) I'm not sure. Apparently it will use Artificial Intelligence to aid the pilot, which could lead to the pilot getting messages from the aircraft like: "CHK DGR, LFT. ALSO, MORE TEA?". And given that both the UK and Japan are two of the more geeky countries out that there when it comes to naming military equipment, one wonders what the A.I. will end up being called. The F-35 has already taken "Dave" in UK service, so my guesses might be "Kryten" or "Mickey" (not after the mouse, but a robot from the 80s UK childrens T.V. series "Metal Mickey")... 🙂
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    Hers was the most... human, Farewell, Saavik.
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    Would be nice if they bought back the M-Lovers. Despite the Takatokus notoriously fragile reputation, mine once fell off a table and survived, but the silver plastic that holds one of the fists is crumbling...
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