Chronocidal
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Huh, fair enough, I guess the profile of the back window threw me a little. Looks good though.
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I think a lot of people would be plenty thrilled with even a re-release (especially the armor packs), but I wouldn't mind seeing them give the YF-29 treatment to the VF-25s.
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I feel like I need this just for all of the shaped white panels. Looks too long though, did they stretch it?
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HLJ just took a chunk from my card to pay for the Zeta, so looks like they're out and about!
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That's all well and good for when you're fighting in gravity, but the gunpod is entirely level without the arm packs mounted. It does make sense being articulated for aiming though, absolutely, and aiming upward does bring the target into your field of view better. It just doesn't look right.
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Heh.. you know, as irritating as the tilted gunpods might be.. it actually makes sense for them to be lifted when on the gear. I mean, they're mounted to robot arms to begin with. No reason they can't just flex to make sure the pod doesn't drag.
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I'm not sure if them getting along worse than Voyager's crew is a slight against Discovery, or Voyager. This, on the other hand, I found very entertaining.
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Starting to wish I had held out a little longer, since I overpaid for my copy, but I really don't regret getting this release. Weird joint issues aside, this one looks like a huge step up in quality compared with my original. The dull finish really looks good on it. Everything fits tightly, the shield doesn't fall off if you look at it sideways, and the ratchets in the wing nacelles are a huge step up from the original mold.
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No good photos, but I've had my Kairos loaded with missiles from the YF-19 set ever since I got it.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I can't say much in the way of recommendations for what I'd call "traditional" VR titles, since I got my Reverb purely for flight sims (mostly DCS and X-Plane). I would say Star Wars; Squadrons might be worth a try as well, because while I haven't done any of the online play, just being able to play a modern take on the old X-Wing/Tie Fighter games has been pretty refreshing. Should work pretty well with a gamepad as well, I think you can pull off what amounts to Ace Combat controls with a little remapping from the default. I don't know if the sale is still on, but I grabbed it for $25 on Steam near New Years. -
You know what.. I'm tempted to send that link to NY and tell them, "Here, I've already paid you more than that. Go buy that one and send it to me, and you can keep the change."
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Really don't care for that one, but I would probably be in for a Mirage and... wow, I can't even remember his name now.
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All thoughts of any sort of background agenda aside, I think they just made a terrible mistake with the direction of the story in this past series. They answered the central question to the entire existence of the series. Whether anyone thinks it was a good or bad answer, they removed the mystery. Full disclosure though, I started with Eccleston, and haven't seen all the way through the Smith episodes. My interest mostly fell off after the arcs with Amy and Rory ended.
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The Kai got them too, I remember because that was why I initially scrambled to grab one. The rush relaxed a little once we knew others were going to get them too.
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Hah, pretty much yep. I think this is actually the first time I ever actually put together one of the Bandai stands, because this is the first one since the VF-25s that looks almost presentable, just from the base... but the mount is still fugly as hell, so it'll probably go back in the box.
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Well sure, if you don't use the stand, it doesn't shove the gunpod up that way.
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I wonder if I just have the mount hooked too deeply under the intakes? No idea.. I'm just going by the solid plate on interior of the stand mount that seems designed to hold directly against the gunpod at that angle. In other annoying news.. anyone know which VF-1 these kite logos are supposed to match? Or maybe they always intended for this to match the VF-1J?
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Yeah, so the arms WILL NOT tab in and hold the gunpod level. They just flat out don't do it. They are designed to hold it pointed up at the underside of the nose, because BANDAI. You have to bend the arms so they drop entirely free of those pegs before the gunpod will sit level with super packs.
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Just got in my second Focker and super packs from AE, and.. I gotta say, the "special" stand kind of pisses me off. It's one thing to make your tabbing system sloppy, and misaligned, so you have to bend the arms to get the gunpod level. It's an entirely different problem when you design your display stand to hold the gunpod at the wrong freaking angle. Seriously. I just can't even begin to understand Bandai's designs. Yes, the gunpod is entirely capable of sitting level, if you drop the arms very slightly, and bend them at the elbows, which of course leaves the arms hanging completely below the tabs on the underside of the backplate. The tabs and slots that hold the arms in place with super packs on have enough slop in them that the angle doesn't keep them from locking in place. But, according to Bandai, the gunpod is supposed to be aiming at the underside of the nose.
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So.. STD is in-universe self-insert fiction posted on the TOS-era equivalent of DeviantArt or Livejournal? That makes a somewhat baffling amount of sense. It's like someone read "My Immortal" and said "hold my Romulan ale."
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I don't know about that, there was at least one instance of proof that the Star Wars universe had physical elevator shafts that you could climb if the elevator went out. "Charlie and the Great Glass Turbolift" even gives the "I just want a railing" scene a run for its money.
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Fun fact.. seating the arms fully on the pegs tends to point the gunpod so high Roy shoots himself in the backside. Only way I can get the gunpod lined up is pulling the arms fully off the pegs, and angling them down.
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I'm assuming you mean the joint allowing the lower leg to rotate for a good splayed stance, and I do believe some of mine are that way as well. I don't think Bandai has ever quite figured out a good way to make these joints. Worst example was the VF-171, where the entire leg rotated on a hollow plastic pin around a metal spring pin.
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Boy do I ever wish Hasegawa would get on with it, and make a matching YF-21.
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Not of that one, but I think the majority of the YF-29 markings are just stock SMS logos or other generic markings, so you could probably use VF-25 decals. If given the option, I'd try and grab a set of Hasegawa decals, rather than anything made by Bandai.
