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    Yeah, that's mostly what I assumed the entire thing was about, but you know how sites love sensational headlines. They're not going to use a truthful headline about someone choked up to see their character growing significantly between series when they can make a clickbait title to grab attention.
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    Found the listing in time to grab the last available one at CD Japan with some rewards points I'd saved.
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    Found a listing doing a search for the untranslated name. Looks like a Black Lions F-14D.
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    Also, isn't the Enterprise E supposed to be slightly bigger than the Excelsior?
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    A little surprised, but keep in mind, the TF-30s were employed in a lot more than the F-14, and I recall reading that the F-111 fixed the compressor stall issues with intake modifications. I entirely get his explanation that all of the stalls he experienced were his own fault, since I think rapid throttle motions were really the main direct cause. The compressor stalls were just compounded by the yaw instability inherent to the design, which wasn't truly "fixed" until the controls were upgraded with computers that would prevent pilots from throwing the plane into a spin.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    If only they'd managed to give them all the same width as well, and just varied in thickness. A lot of the boxes have pretty varied widths, and the VF-2SS ones don't stack well with the others at all.
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    Nice as the leg packs are, I think the set is insanely priced for what it includes. I'd absolutely buy more 262s if they ever show up, but I'm thinking they'll be pushed to the far far end of the Delta product line, if they ever happen, and probably woven in between DX VF-1 releases. Unless we start getting re-releases, or other designs from Delta (VF-22 please?), that should be fairly soon, since we've finally gotten all of Delta Platoon, and all that's left are add-on packs.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    So, I'm kinda vaguely disappointed that Chuck didn't come with reaction missiles, after they started including them. I've got spares at least, but I wish Bandai would make up their minds and just be consistent on what they include with any particular release. Far as display options go though, I think I've got all the options covered in one way or another. I tend to pick up releases with a display in mind (even if I don't have anywhere to actually put said display). I've currently got enough to do some nice paired displays with Hayate and Mirage in both clean fighter and super-packed battroids, a good Messer/Keith head-on pass, and some combination of Arad and Chuck in both super and armor packs (probably alternating sets of battroid/fighter). If Bandai would just get on with it, and put out the Sv-262Ba, I'd have a Mirage and Bogue to pair with Movie Hayate/Messer and my second Keith.
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    I'm having this really dumb flashback to one of the Shatner novels... but I just remembered the entire thing was based on a Borg/Romulan alliance. I have to wonder if that was the entire inspiration for the Narada. It would explain a lot about that entire plot.
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    I mean, to be real here, I was never going to sign up for CBS's streaming service to begin with, so it's no loss to me. I'll watch it someday when it's free, maybe, if there's nothing better on.
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    You know, I thought for a moment I was having a weird flashback to 2012, in the very literal sense. I was thinking that broken landing gear looked familiar.. Are they still using that same prototype for their publicity shots?
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    NY finally delivered my first copy today, and I'm a little sad that this one seems to suffer from the same orange mismatching as the HMR VF-1D/VT-1. Probably related to lighting, but molded orange is a lot richer than the painted orange. Not too bad, since there's so little actual molded orange on it, just the shoulder joints and part of the chest really. One thing I did notice is that it seems like most pics I've seen don't have the radome folded up entirely underneath. It actually gets really compact, you just have to pull the extensions out quite a ways to get the flaps to collapse fully toward the middle.
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    I mean.. I'll be honest, I'm not even sure if them trying to work in a Star Trek crossover would make anything worse. At this point, I've fairly well written off this trilogy as a lost cause, and worse than a lot of fanfic I've read, so as long as we're diving down that particular gravity well, they may as well go for broke, and throw both fanbases something to rage over for the next few decades.
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    Boo.. you're all a bad influence.. I just went and grabbed the VF-84 F-14 and the A-6.
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    Looking good! I hear you about the clear parts though. My issues with the Refit Enterprise and Reliant involved the clear snap-in parts too. They actually made the snaps so strong that the nacelle windows started to crack when I tried to attach them. For all the good clear panels do on a kit that size, I would've preferred solid plastic that wasn't so brittle.
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    Part of the issue is that the Superhornets are draggy gas-guzzling bricks, aerodynamically speaking. The aerodynamic sacrifices they've made to give that plane good structural and flying qualities mean you almost never see them taking off without at least one or two external tanks, which also eats into their deliverable payload.
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    Another thing working in the F-35C's favor in that role is loiter time. I don't quite know how much, but the enlarged wing on the C-model gives it a heckuva lot more fuel to work with, and I think it has a decently longer range than a Superhornet.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Except the destroid situation is like the reverse extreme of this. It's like they're releasing them in backwards order, from least to most popular. Reserving the design everyone wants the most for last is also a really good way to kill a line, because what if the initial releases don't generate enough interest or revenue to keep the line open long enough to finish? I don't think they'll hit that point, but it becomes increasingly ludicrous to not release the most desired designs, while shoveling out bunches of other repaints and variants that, even in other toy production lines, have a history of being shelfwarmers.
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    The early designs produced at the opening of the Cold War make that era my absolute favorite in aviation history. Everything was streamlined to heaven and back because jet engine technology wasn't at the point where we could just overpower draggy designs, and some truly beautiful planes saw their day in the limelight. There were multiple reasons that we had everyone and his brother popping new designs off the assembly lines every couple of years, but I think the biggest was just that aircraft design and material technology advancement was running at a breakneck pace. Everyone was competing for speed and altitude records, because they expected to have to intercept nuclear bombers at a moment's notice, and only the best and most advanced designs would do. The Air Force went through dozens of designs for interceptor aircraft, a good chunk of which fell into the Century Series planes, ending with the F-106, and eventually leading up to the F-4, which I believe was originally designated the F-110. The F-107 Ultra Saber never quite made it, and the F-108 Rapier never made it past the mock-up stage after the B-70 was cancelled, but that all happened for similar reasons as the short service life of the B-58 Hustler: ICBMs made interceptor aircraft less of a viable defense mechanism. Far as the JSF goes though.. it's interesting to consider the history of joint-service aircraft. Historically speaking, the Navy doesn't take Air Force jets; the Air Force uses Navy designs, because the Navy requirements in terms of structure and capability are more stringent. Not all aircraft can land on a carrier, but the ones that can will always be able to land on a runway. The Air Force adapted the A-7, which was an offshoot of the F-8, and the F-4, but the last time the Navy was pressured into adopting an Air Force design, we got the TFX program, and the F-111B, which the Navy essentially railroaded off a cliff because they didn't want it, and we got the F-14 instead. I think the last successful Navy adoption of an Air Force design was all the way back in the 1950s, when the Navy adapted a version of the F-86 as the FJ-2/3/4 Fury. Actually read a really interesting article about the TFX program recently, and in hindsight, the Navy may have been better off purchasing a limited number of the F-111B to supplement the fleet, while the F-14 had the bugs worked out. That seems to be the approach they're taking with the JSF, since the Navy is buying a very small number of the aircraft, relative to the Air Force, and rumblings of a true F-14 replacement have been going for a while now. What actually baffles me about the F-35 is that I have no idea how they expect an aircraft stored at sea to remain stealthy. If the outer coatings and maintenance procedures for stealth aircraft are that sensitive to environmental effects and corrosion, I have to wonder what sort of maintenance nightmare the F-35 is going to cause aboard a ship in the long term.
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    Flying Mule has had some issues with Calibre releases in the past, I believe. I don't know how widespread this was, but they completely blanked on my VF-142 F-14 order, and I had to contact them to cancel it, before just ordering it direct from Calibre's site.
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    That's actually the one thing I do know about that game. I didn't get into the AC series until AC4, so I skipped the first generation, and found out about that mess in retrospect. I'd love to play a properly ported version, or a full translation, so I'd been keeping my fingers crossed that news of such a thing would pop up here.
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    I think the funniest part is when people actually model the old 1/55 leg swingbars right into the airframe, as if that's how the show shows them working, let alone how they would work on a full-sized aircraft. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see fan art that included giant-sized foot-diameter phillips-head screws sticking out at various points on their aircraft.
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    Heh.. I need to actually play that one first. I'm really not familiar with any of the content from that one, except that I know most planes used the enclosed canopies like the Falken. I'm personally really just after a good Morgan model at this point, though, possibly with a few custom tweaks to the airframe I have in mind to structurally reinforce it, so it doesn't look like the engines are going to snap off.
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    Or a Phantasy Star Online 2 character. I'd buy that crossover for a dollar.
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    I'm still dying for Hasegawa to give us 1/72 kits of everything. I don't know what made the AC: Infinity plane so special for it to get a full blown double release. I think I'm just going to start converting AC models into 3D printables and build my own fleet.
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