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  1. Chronocidal
    Part of me wonders how many people will just trade up to whatever newest version comes out over time, putting their Hikaru VF-1Js up for sale to pay for a new VF-1S, and maybe repeating the procedure down the road until they get the variant they want to keep, and then sell off all of their "test drives" for a profit. Assuming the cost of the VF-1J remains higher, you could theoretically have purchased a bunch of those at launch, and then gradually sold them off to pay for all the later releases. Hikaru's 1J will peak again later though, once they release the GBP armor for it. Anticipation of that eventual release may be keeping the demand a bit higher overall.
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    That actually makes me rather happy, since I would rather just have a normal one, but the complication of releasing both at once is getting annoying.
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    Note the missile pack, on alternating shoulders. Odds are that means it'll be removable. And I will absolutely grab that red one, it's a beauty.
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    All of the anniversary versions, at least. I'm not saying I expect it, I'm just saying it'll probably take that to get me to buy one. If any version will though, it's probably the bright purple one.
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    Mnn. Not sure I'm sold on the weathering, but the VF-4 does look good, happy to see it's not "weathered" like the VF-0D. I -might- set aside enough to try and grab one. Nora.. eh. I have the original, and not sure the new one feels like enough of an improvement. We'll see, maybe it'll hit the bargain bin like my first one.
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    Ok, yeah, I'll pick up a couple of those. The figure does look chibi-fied a bit, but still looks good, and it'll give me a nice HMR-sized super VF-25.
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    Wait, almost 19 inches? That's 1/1000 now? Does that mean they bulked up the scale like they did for the Kelvin timeline? Have to agree that it's a good design though, and I'll happily grab one. It's one of the better attempts to adapt the TOS design to the Enterprise aesthetic.
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    I'm not going to knock the figures, because they're well crafted, and easy to put together, but the entire reason I picked any of these up was to get more 31As. The fact that they're so close in scale to HMRs is just a bonus, and I barely see a reason to display these in anything but fighter mode. The figures are just kind of a side project that I might use for something somewhere down the road, but I'm not huge on character models or figures.
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    The bad photography doesn't dilute that amazing paintwork, don't worry! That F-14 is gorgeous. Can't wait to see what you do with the Bandai X-Wing! I've got three of those to do eventually, but I'm really not all that interested in the electronics, so I'm trying to rig up an alternative way to open and close the wings. I'm still kind of salty they never released a non-electronic version, since all I really want is a way to open the wings without batteries. Best option I've come up with so far is a pop-out handcrank that's hidden behind the back greeblie panel, and manually turns the motor mechanism. I'd love to remodel the entire thing as an upscale of the 1/72 kit, but duplicating the mechanism's precision would be iffy, and I can't deny the worm gear-driven mechanism is a solid way to keep the wings from sagging or rocking.
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    Are the Armada miniatures not kept to the same scale like the X-Wing minis are? I know the "canon" scale is all over the place, but I always thought the Nebulon-B was always depicted as much larger than that, compared with the Corvette.
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    I feel like that's getting a little too meta.
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    Kind of cautiously optimistic, since it looks and sounds really good, but I think the amount of fantasy fighting elements shown in this trailer might detract from it a bit. Either way, I really hope this turns out successful, because I would love to see Disney lean more in this direction for future live adaptations... less making scene-for-scene copies of their old animated movies, and more exploring the source material for ways to turn the stories into any number of different genre flicks.
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    This. All I want is the proper molded colors and tampos.
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    I think it's a comparative thing. Everyone in that series was criminally underdeveloped character-wise, but I feel like the first half actually tried with her until the story fell off a cliff, and she got shipped off to the far reaches of the triangle. Actually though, let's look at this from a practical standpoint. All of the main SDF/DYRL characters can sell out on nostalgia alone. Wouldn't it be nice to have a nice looking DX VF-1 without all that nostalgia baggage and pre-order scramble?
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    Reminds me.. I need to spray those barrel tips... and maybe add something inside them so it's not an empty hole. They're big enough, you could probably drop in something like a spare vernier nozzle in there.
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    Wasn't that the first live action movie though?
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    Yeeeeeaaahhh, about that... that is very unlikely to happen, for assorted reasons.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Probably not going to that effort, I thought it was in the same white as the FB2012 one based on the promo photos. All I'm really interested in is color swapping for variety without having to paint anything myself. If it is gray, I'll probably do a reverse swap, and put the tan nosecone and different fins/tails from the 2012 one on this one, then strip off the giant honking blocks of black on the inner wings.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I'm going to be kitbashing this version with the FB2012 one for the wing stripes, head, and possibly other parts and give Hikaru an upgrade, I think.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Really wish they would actually attempt to droop the wings.. it's honestly an extremely easy mod, all they have to do is enlarge the wing tabs on the engines so it sits lower.. there's a fair bit of tolerance in the mold to let them drop.
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    Honestly, I'd be up for it, I think the voicework and animation are on target. But please for the love of all that is holy, take that sound track, light it on fire, encase it in cement, and shoot it into the sun. That is not fitting in the slightest. In fact, it feels incredibly familiar for all the wrong reasons, being that it sounds like a mashup of the jazz feel in Cowboy Bebop, mixed with a dash of the recent CGI Lupin movie, and topped with a layer of edgy punk-rap that wishes it was Yoko Kanno. Just.. no. Nothing about that sounds right in the slightest, and it's the entirely wrong tone for the series, compared with the previous masterpieces we got from Kanno in the previous SAC series soundtracks.
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    Mnn.. no, too bulky, that's got to be Alto's with the armor pack, and Michael's rifle. That might be fun to make though.
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    Same.. much as I like the legacy of VF-31 carrying on, having those markings on a Hornet feels like blasphemy. I'd actually love to put together a full blown 68-80 carrier group, including an A-4, F-8, and maybe a legacy Hornet or two.
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    I'd have to read back on the history there, since I never really wanted to give it that much thought, but I'm honestly suspicious of the entire "we had time to build a fleet to evacuate the planet" situation. I didn't get that from the 2009 movie, it sounded unexpectedly sudden. This one sounds like enough of a rehash of the events previously (not) described by Trek 2009 that I could see it being treated as an alternate take where they slowed the explosion, but the android nonsense wrecked the chance they had. I dunno really. At this point, no explanation would really surprise me. However you slice it, the idea that they had to build an evacuation fleet, rather than just divert every available ship they already had, sounds ridiculous, unless you're talking about literally replicating entire ships en masse within a week or less.
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    To be entirely fair, I don't find it that hard to doubt the official line from the studio. Yes, this is supposed to be a follow-on to the events after Nemesis, where the star blew up and Romulus was destroyed. However.. I thought that's what Countdown was? And they seem to be ignoring that, soooo.... I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but it occurs to me that, while unlikely, they could theoretically portray this as the post-Nemesis TNG timeline from the Kelvin timeline. Frankly, I think it would make the entire thing slightly easier to swallow, because so much of the universe and events feel slightly off from the old standard.
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