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15 hours ago, danth said:

Collectible Mini Figure series.

Ah, thank you!

Sorry, "CMF"...?

You're welcome, regardless of what I know now about the whole thing it was always a treat to find "Robotech" comics in my nearest comic book sto... shop. 🙂

glane21, for what its worth, although I didn't get to read the whole series I also enjoyed the issues of "The Malcontent Uprisings" I was able to get.

Hah, I remember "The Cyberpirates" (don't judge, at the time my part of the UK was an anime desert and you grasped at anything that looked remotely "Akira" like it was a drop of water on Arrakis... ). If you think the cover is bad, you should see what it looked like on the inside...

On 7/19/2023 at 6:07 PM, Convectuoso said:

 

So how much more to get an auto-transforming Grimlock that speaks intelligently like the Marvel UK version? 😄 [1]

I'm not a big "Transformers" guy - I mean, I grew up with them and I'll always like them in that sense, but I don't go out of my way to collect them or anything - but I recently saw the forthcoming Studio Series Movie Brawn and for the price, just couldn't say "no". Brawn - the original minibot toy version - was the first Transformer I ever owned and while I wish they did a version in the Studio Series that replicated that, this new one is just close enough. Am the only one who prefers the originals "grapple" hands though? 😃

[1] I'm sure most of the people reading this know this, but just in case - in the UK, the G1 Transformers comic was printed weekly, and usually had a US reprint strip and an original UK strip in each issue (at least, thats how I remember it - possibly they alternated from one to the other at times depending on available material). This could lead to some interesting variations in content; for example, UK Grimlock was rather more intelligent than how his cartoon counterpart is usually depicted, and again if my memory serves more so than the version in the US strips.

Yeah, even at the time when I was a bit young to fully understand (and also really had no idea who Adric was, other than "that kid who follows the Doctor around") it made an impression. Though I'd already been introduced to the idea that TV show characters weren't immortal by the death of "Star Fleet"s (aka "X-Bomber") Dr. Ben (spoiler!), though thats a whole other tale of childhood scarring for life...  🙂 [1]

I vaguely recall hearing that the bubbles-of-goo were controversial, though only much later. There was plenty of TV at the time that was just plain horrific; just a school friends description of one show I wasn't allowed to watch (a near forgotten BBC series called "The Nightmare Man") gave me nightmares for weeks...!

[1] Though at some point around this time I did see Tom Baker regenerate into Peter Davison, I'm not sure that counts as a "death"...

I saw some of either "Kinda" or "Snakedance" on broadcast, which just goes to show how much of a withered ancient I am becoming. 😃I don't remember very much about them (the Fifth Doctor series that I recall the most is "Earthshock", see below for why... [1]) other than the snake, the mechanical... explorer thing and some "dream" sequences.

[1] Leaving aside the ending, this is a serial where agents of the Cybermen melt humans into tiny bubbling pools of goo. In a cave. Now imagine that you've watched that, and then go on a school trip to a series of caves, which proudly advertise their association with "Doctor Who" and Cybermen... [2] 

[2] The Fourth, and "Revenge of the Cybermen", but this is what childhood nightmares are made of...

Little bit unrelated, but the cricket [1] tournament known as "The Ashes" is happening on this side of the pond, and cricket being cricket, there are such long pauses between things happening that the T.V. cameras often wander around for things to look at - I only mention this because the other day they actually caught a F-35 (presumably a RAF "B" model) going past. Clearly more proof that this stealth stuff doesn't work and we should all go back to throwing rocks from Fokker triplanes like Grandad used to... 😉

[1] If you're unfamiliar with this British "sport", its rules are as peculiar as Quidditch only with every single thing that makes that game fun removed, and matches can last for literal days. And still end in a draw.  

Aurora, innit? 😉

Wow, I've been on a Concorde (on museum display) a couple of times before but somehow never noticed how small the windows are!

"Strange New Worlds" has one quantity that has been somewhat lacking in some other shows lately - fun. Above anything else, the show is just great fun. One could perhaps quibble (Tribble?) with certain elements, but its just plain enjoyable. One season one episode feels like it could almost have been an original series script that somehow didn't get used.

I remember reading an interview once with one of the artists on "Patlabor", who also worked on "Gundam", and he was drawing a GM but it looked a little like an Ingram (or possibly the other way round) and one of his colleagues said "Hey, its not not good to make jokes like that!" and the artists had to reassure him that it was actually a GM... (or vice versa). 😄

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...

Regards the A.I. "Live" Gundam characters - that is, by far, THE hottest Bright Noa has ever been!

"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.

You're welcome!

Wow, thats a great creation! I really like the double cab, it almost looks like something from "Patlabor" or "Xabungle"!

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.

Well, he is an astronomer after all... 🙂

Okay, thanks for the information all. Now I can go back to wondering just how I, of all people, missed the X-Bomber revival... 😄

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?

You're joking. This can't be real. Surely? Did someone send a message out across the sky?!! 😁

On 2/24/2023 at 7:19 PM, no3Ljm said:

Are you referring to the review video above? If so, that's RX-124 Gundam TR-6 [Woundwort]. A mobile suit featured in the Advance of Z: The Flag of Titans manga and photonovels. It's a transformable base core unit with a variety of optional parts.

I have to say that all the mobile suits from that manga is awesome. Worthy to have it in Metal Robot Damashii line.  

Thats the one, thanks for clearing that up!

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?!