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    Wow, the "Tales of the TARDIS" are much longer than I thought they would be, even the shortest is about 90 minutes long! I haven't had a chance to watch more than a few minutes of each, and to be honest I'm not sure I'm going to able to fit them in for at least a good while (though much of the content is going to be made up from the "classic" episodes") but just the first few minutes of each are... thats not a tear, I'm allergic to... er... giant robot toys. Yes. That must be it. Also, its being speculated that after the November specials, the 15th Doctors run will represent a "soft" reboot of the series. Exactly what this means for continuity is unclear, though I personally have my doubts a fan as big as RTD is going to completely let go of everything that came before. Presumably Disney want something more "marketable" without a lot of "baggage". Hmm. That sounds like another Disney-owned property that has a similar issue, something about space wizards with... lazer swords? 😉 Maybe all the Mickey dollars might mean we'll finally see that long-held dream of SFX concept artists everywhere, walking Daleks...
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    “One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back… “ Well, he never said which and for whom… (iPlayer only sadly, AFAIK): https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/welcome-to-the-whoniverse-and-tales-of-the-tardis
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    Classic "Who" was often accused of having bargain basement production, but for that trailer it looks like they hired a real Mickey Mouse outfit to make it... 😉
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    Okay, I knew a bit of the story but not the full thing. I do realise, of course, that Revells "Robotech" really only shares a name and some of the mecha designs (which clearly is because they're from the same source material) with the "Robotech" that came later. Though I do wonder if there was perhaps a little bit more potential for one of the "big" publishers as "Shogun Warriors" was supposedly pretty popular for Marvel a bit earlier on.
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    Er... just regards Marvel or DC picking up the "Robotech" licence, didn't one of them actually release a "Robotech: Defenders" comic, from when Revell or someone was trying to market the model kits? Or am I getting mixed up with some other property? ("Mantech"?!).
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    Er... oops. I was talking about a different "Thunderbirds", one made through the magic of international licencing deals that were only possible in the 80s and never, ever came back to haunt the people that signed them. 😉 (in Japan I believe this series was called "TechnoVoyager", and the happy coincidence that due to a language quirk the vehicles had "TB" on the side suggested an English-language title with some resonance... ).
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    My view of "Robotech" and its effect is a bit skewed by being on the opposite side of the Atlantic; "impact" is a comparative term, it clearly was never as big a franchise as something like "He-Man" or "Transformers". Here, more people probably remember "Ulysses 31" or even "Thunderbirds 2086" than "Robotech", if they weren't introduced to it through the RPGs/comics.
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    Whittaker is clearly a good actress, but I felt she had the same issue as Capaldi did at first - they didn't have a handle on her incarnation. Unlike him, though, I don't think they ever really resolved that issue until the very end of her run (its notable that I can choose "defining moments" for most of the Doctors but can't think of one immediately for Whittakers Doctor). Couple honourable mentions - John Hurt and Paul McGann, who only had a short go at it but really made an impression, and although I'm not the type of person that buys audio dramas and the like, by all accounts Colin Baker has absolutely redeemed the Sixth Doctor over the years through that medium.
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    Yes, Eccleston was pretty... well, fantastic. 😅Possibly because he only got the one season maybe he tends to get a little overlooked. My favourite, if obvious, Eccleston:
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    Thanks for the replies, all. In the UK, "Robotech" was never really a thing, at least as far as I'm aware (possibly the closest comparison would be "Star Fleet/X-Bomber", which was so popular in the UK and Europe the UK company that handled the property seriously considered trying to make a sequel, and were only prevented from doing so when a fire destroyed many of the props and it would have been too expensive to begin anew; as far as I know though "Star Fleet" was never a thing in the US). I knew it from the Palladium RPG and comic books. Every so often one would encounter a cheap compilation video branded "Robotech", and I think one of the early satellite broadcasters here may have ran it for a time, but to the best of my knowledge it never really made any impact unlike in the US. I guess there may have been a little bit of a crossover appeal with "Battletech" fans just because of the whole "Unseen" designs thing...
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    I have to ask - there were a lot of these things. I know the comics market in the 90s was kind of its own universe for a bit, but there can't have been that many "Robotech" fans buying these? Was it just that people were so starved for anime related content (I mean, I know I picked up a few), a hardcore of dedicated fans, a "If we don't release something every couple months we lose the licence!" thing, or what?
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    Like many I suspect, I tend to divide "my" Doctors into the "classics" and the "new"; Matt Smith is my favourite "new" Doctor (with Peter Capaldi a good second; I felt he was one of the best actors ever to land the gig but not as well served by the stories as Smith was). Of the classics - well, my memories of them are very hazy. I barely remember Tom Baker at the time - most of what I know of his run is from much later rebroadcasts; Peter Davidson was technically "my" classic Doctor but due to my age at the time the one I have the most coherent memories of is Sylvester McCoy. Again, though, despite not even being born during his run recent showings have given me an appreciation for Jon Pertwee (who in my childhood I mostly knew as sentient scarecrow "Worzel Gummidge", and now I think of it, maybe some cross-media memory from a past incarnation is the reason why the Tenth Doctor chose a certain punishment for one of the Family of Blood... 😅).
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    Its just possible one day I will find an anime production somewhere that Hideki Anno hasn't touched in some way... https://www.zimmerit.moe/hideaki-anno-gundam-chars-counterattack/
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    Okay, to be more accurate, all of "Doctor Who" currently available - I'm not sure if that includes the ice lolly [1] comic books and the like from back in the day... 😉 [1] Those of you on the other side of the pond - popsicles.
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    So the whole of "Doctor Who" coming to BBCs iPlayer... except the first four episodes (commonly known as "An Unearthly Child"), due to a licencing issue with theson of these episodes writer, who - and I think this all I can safely say here - seems to have a bit of an axe to grind with the BBC. Linked article has more details: https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-an-unearthly-child-streaming-stef-coburn-1850933733
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    Its a slightly similar curve to the original "Star Trek" - long seen as a bit dated, cheesy, and with a fan-base consisting entirely of nerdy geeks (or was it geeky nerds?). But the geeky nerds (or was it nerdy geeks?) that grew up watching the shows are now the people making the shows, and they have the benefit of fifty-odd years of advancements in TV production to call on. And both shows were always more than their tin foil spaceships and styrofoam boulders anyway (or in "Doctor Who"s case, real boulders in a quarry somewhere).
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    I'm not an expert on the history of "Who", but IIRC part of it comes from some of the episodes having been lost for a long time before being rediscovered. I think it was one of those where over the years when parts of it were missing, it gained a reputation as a legendary lost classic. To be fair, given broadcast standards at the time of showing, the block and tackle may not have stood out as much. A bit like how in the Hartnell era, one of the TARDIS walls is very obviously a canvas screen.
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    In retrospect, he probably set the template for all the superhero team-ups that came later, the ones where every member has a quip ready to hand for any situation. I didn't get to read a lot of his runs due to spotty US comic availability here at the time, but I very much enjoyed the "Justice Leagues" I was able to get,
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    From 1st November, in the UK at least (presumably on Disney + in other territories?), all [1] of "Doctor Who" - classic, modern, "Torchwood", "Sarah Jane" etc - will be available on BBC iPlayer. Now you too can discover if "The Tomb of the Cybermen" is the greatest achievement in the whole of human history! 😉 [1] Well, most of it - I'm not sure about the Richard E. Grant web episodes or "The Curse of Fatal Death"...
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    Big s, thanks for the reply about Gundam Markers. There are actually correct shapes moulded into the fists so presumably it's just a case of colouring in.
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    Just a thought I had - regards the detailing, would one of these Gundam Markers I hear so much about be an alternative to the stickers for detailing, say, the arrows on the fists?
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    I think I used to use a (normal) nail file every now and then, but TBH I was always about getting the kit built rather than prettying it up (this was in the days before things like "Robot Damashii" and the kits were the closest you could get to a "true" representation of an on-screen mecha). Thanks for the tip about the glass files!
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    Speculation, but could the name “Blue Jet” possibly be a holdover from some early form of the character at the design stage where it was blue?
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    Thanks, glad you liked the review! I did remember while building this kit that back when I used to build some Gundam kits some years ago I would use a file occasionally, but then I also had more time in those far-off days of yore... 🙂Might be something I keep in mind next time I try a similar kit.
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    I've just checked the model again and those panel gaps are actually rather less noticeable in real life than in the above image!
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