Chronocidal
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I didn't really imagine the size of it that way, but there was a fair bit of sneaking into the facility to start. It just turned bigger once they needed support, and the Alliance got their collective backsides in gear to accomplish something. I think my imaginary version of the battle on Scarif was pretty close to what the movie gave us, but only because my original impression of the fight was formed from one of the Han Solo EU prequel books from long ago, where they described a portion of the battle on Toprawa to steal the plans from some kind of communications relay station. It was a very similar suicide mission, and for all the details the book gave, could have easily been the same battle we saw in R1, with the names changed. -
So I messed with my trio of 1Ds last night, and they all had feet that basically refused to let the heel rotate past a flat-footed battroid stance. Checked my VT-1, and one foot was stiff, but with a little massaging I got a good 70-80 degree rotation out of both heels After a significant amount of pushing uncomfortably hard on the VF-1D heels, I managed to get them into acceptable gerwalk positions. It was scary, and it hurt my fingers to push that hard, but after several rotations back and forth, I finally got them to work. The direction of force I had to apply was actually more linearly along the length of the heel, rather than pushing it from the inside with an intention to rotate. Was actually concerned I would be breaking the plastic of the leg, since I kind of had to use leverage against the back of the leg to force the heel further inward. So yeah.. I'd much rather take the whole thing apart, and be able to see what I'm doing. I'm mostly having flashbacks to the Yamato/Arcadia VF-19 feet at this point, and wondering if I'm permanently loosening the ankles, but fortunately the HMRs are small and light enough to not really need that much tension to stay upright.
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Game of Thrones TV talkback thread. BOOK READERS STAY OUT.
Chronocidal replied to peter's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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Are the Bandai and Hasegawa kits similar enough to use the Bandai itasha decals on the Hasegawa fighter kit?
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Actually, with this release it's all the feet, and they also have a lot of issues aligning the toes with the heels.. like the foot will be spread, but the toes and heels touching, as if the joints are all out of alignment. Far as them being identical though, I noticed something funny very early on. They're not. I did a close inspection of the heels and toes, and they're all unique molds, no two parts shared.. the edges of the foot just don't match up. I thought it was odd, but they've kept the same unique shapes all along. How much of the internal foot mechanism is shared from side to side, I don't know. I just know that none of the feet on any of my 1Ds can rotate backwards at all.
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I noticed it on at least the VT-1 and VF-1D, and I think Hikaru's 1A might have been similar. It's going to take digging, all of those are still packed away after my move last fall. If it's possible, I might swap the better ones around to the VF-1D, since that's one of the few I actually would display in gerwalk.
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I should really dig them all out and examine the feet. I tend to keep everything in fighter mode, so I never mess with the feet much, but I wonder how many of them have this issue.
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I did think of those, and actually, all they do is convince me that my thought about them not making the normal wedge plates due to strength concerns really doesn't have much evidence. There are ways to work around it yes, but the lack of stackable and seamless 45 degree angle plates is just a huge limiting factor for some designs I've wanted to do for years.
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Ok, I know it's just coincidental due to the display, but I can't help feeling like Hikaru and Minmay took that snapshot in front of a big Duracell display kiosk. Otherwise though, those are beautiful. I wish I had the chops for resin kits, they look amazing in that scale. Side note about the VF-1D though... Someone at Bandai borked up the foot design hard, I think. If I didn't know any better, I'd think they mounted the feet backwards. I have zero ability to tilt the feet for gerwalk mode on one of mine. The feet will not rotate back past level., and the only thing I can do for gerwalk posing is either use a stand, or close the feet, and balance it on tip-toes.
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Honestly, I figured it wasn't that difficult a thing to handwave. I know it's falling back on EU pseudo-canon, but I would bet the ship could have had several separate ID transponder codes. I don't think they followed the ship immediately, and would have had to track it down along known trajectories, so it's possible they were running for quite some time.
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See.. That part is the entire problem though. It needs to look like this. ' Or even like this, or any other sized variant of that shape. ' Every other slope of angled plate has a version with a sharp end like that that can be used as a direct transition to another angle plate, EXCEPT the 45 degree ones. There's just no way to connect two 45 degree plates, or a 45 to a shallower slope smoothly.
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Oy, I'm glad to see the 31A variant still in stock at HLJ.. just grabbed two of those, and I'll probably grab a pair of the 31D as well. I dunno if I'll use the figures, but having more 31A models is never a bad thing.
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My experience with pretty much every HMR has been the exact opposite. Legs and arms don't snap into place solidly, and don't line up properly without a lot of massaging (mostly due to the sliding mechanism), while the Yamato/Arcadia ones just click together. The HMR backpacks never seem to want to snap down between the legs for me, because it seems like the arms are too high to let them fit properly, and even when everything is "together," the backpack, legs, and arms still look like they're not lined up right. End of the day though, I think people are just going to have different experiences with this, depending on the tolerances of the particular products they receive, and which one they have more practice with. For me, the HMRs are the ones I keep in a single mode and display so I don't have to dig for spare parts, while I transform my Yamatos back and forth depending on my mood.
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The thing I actually noticed most was that the choreography looked like it was actually based on how we saw them fight in the movies. Obi-wan's style looked similar to the stances he took fighting Grievous in Episode II.
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But they did make a bunch of missiles, and threw them in with the VF-171 and YF-19 sets. What, you don't actually expect them to sell add-ons in a practical and customer-beneficial way, do you? Full disclosure, I bought extra YF-19s specifically so I would have extra missiles to load my 31s with. I'd love some bigger weapons loads on multi-ejector racks, but the long white AMRAAM-ish looking missiles look really good under the wings of my 31A.
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So someone I know taking IT classes made a really funny point about this movie. The entire plan to save the universe was almost unraveled due to an IP address conflict.
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Heheh.. it's a fair point. One thing to keep in mind though: we don't know all of what Cap did in that alternate past. If we're running on the assumption that him going back would cause another split timeline, it's entirely possible he continued onward in that alternate universe doing what he could to improve the world. Even if it didn't involve a shield and uniform, there are so many things his knowledge of the future could enable him to do. He could have outed Hydra before it ever took root in SHIELD, and changed things for the better to ensure another reality never had to deal with Thanos, let alone any of the more catastrophic events of any of the other MCU movies. Just a few helpful words in the right ears could have resulted in a very different timeline. Even if everything up until the snap occurred exactly as we've already seen, all it would really take is four words passed on to Thor at the proper time: "Aim for the head." I did love that elevator scene too actually, particularly due to how they set it up as a mirror of the earlier/later scene in Winter Solder.
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I would vote for this sort of approach as well, making an exterior part that mounts the landing gear doors and gear themselves. While there may not be room inside the leg for a full landing gear well, you could make a piece that attaches to the underside, and just hides the lack of landing gear wells from any casual observers. You'd have a lot more surface to support the gear if you used the entire size of the gear bay, instead of just mounting the bare gear strut. Bandai did the same type of thing with their original Hi-Metal VF-19s, and didn't include landing gear initially, but later sold a display base with stationary gear that the plane rested on, acting like pedestals.
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So, are they going to cheap out again, and only offer stickers for all of them? Frankly speaking, those sculpts look fairly terrible, especially the VF-25. Misshapen, under-detailed for the size, and just plain off-model. Have to agree though, the idea of just making the noses as a display piece for pilot figures makes a bit more sense. On the other hand, I'd be all over a 31A or YF-19 kit.
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See, I'm really torn about the above, because while I'm frustrated by the lack of a coherent set of rules governing the way things work, I'm also fully on-board with the plot as a whole. I think it was an amazing ride, and a fitting end to all the build-up of the past movies. Cap's ending was exactly what I was hoping for, honestly, from even before Infinity War. The other big finale was literally ten years in the making, and after re-watching a few of the previous movies, you can tell it's what they had planned from long ago. The directors have even said as much. I just wish they had been a bit more consistent and clear about what's actually involved in tying up all the loose ends. To quote Mordo, "The bill comes due." I think the haphazard treatment of the universe in this film is absolutely going to take the next ten years of movies to actually unscrew.
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So I'll spoiler this for now, but I'm expecting the news to leak out fast with the official word being that all bets are off with the new Spiderman 2 trailer out.
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You're right, rotating the head forward was stickier than any of the previous HMR VF-1s that I remember, but I'm not sure it's consistent. I think one of my pair moved pretty easily, but the other did take a decent push to fold it under the nose.
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Ok, just as a precaution, if anything is snapping when you push the hip bar past the head, it should be the intakes clicking into place. If you feel like you're going to break something, odds are you will. You have to push the hip bar past the head before snapping the chest plate down. That'll let you angle the nose upwards, and slip the hip bar under the back of the head. Then, you can wiggle the fuselage and intakes together without having to force the hip bar past anything.
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I think where the line gets blurry with the Lepin sets is that you can't just say "I'm buying this to get a set LEGO won't sell anymore, so they're not losing any money" when the next guy goes "I'm buying this to get parts cheaper than LEGO sells them." You may treat a set as a whole, and only want certain parts, but LEGO is absolutely losing money on a part-by-part basis, because for every unique element that LEGO hasn't manufactured in 30 years, there are probably several dozen elements that LEGO still actively produces. Far as reissues go, yeah, I'd love to see more old sets re-released, but I think LEGO is slightly cautious of doing that. After the re-release of the Taj Mahal set a couple years back, I was thrilled to be able to get one, but I got the impression that there was some backlash from collectors as they watched the value of their sets fall back to retail price. The market for treating LEGO as an actual investment has grown a ton, and while I personally think it's rather ridiculous, it is what it is, and people will treat old sets like stock traders. It would probably be better if it had never happened, but here we are. I think my biggest gripe about the more recent sets is actually a lot of the elements they seem to have discontinued. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's the direct reason the IDEAS Shuttle set failed. I haven't seen the old notched-style space wings in years now, as they've been supplanted by the ever widening selection of angled tiles (which I still want more angles of, honestly). The big missing piece is that we no longer have a way to make a seamless 45 degree wing, because all of the modern 45 degree plates that I know of have squared off corners (please correct me if I'm not aware of newer elements that fix this). Some of the smaller tiles and longer shallower angles have sharp corners that let you blend the edges and angles, but putting two 45 plates together will always leave a gap. It's driven me insane on a few projects, honestly.