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    Judging by the return of Spacebieber, yep. I'm more amused at how the spy trio look like traced fashion models, and Kaifun manages to look like a cardboard cutout of a rejected sailor scout within the same panel. As far as the plot goes... I think it would actually work better in text form, so you didn't have those eye-gouging distractions going on all the time. It'd still be a mess, but I'm actually genuinely curious to see where this crazy train eventually goes. I'm also still hoping that at some point, they begin cloning so many copies of Focker that the SDF-1 is just overrun with them, they drive all the bars out of business, and then form a ridiculous drunken mecha legion to conquer the universe in search of more booze. Either that, or each successive clone becomes more and more mutated, and they eventually just start shoving all the mutations into a gym to keep track of them. Edit: Or even better.. as the Fockers get dumber, they just start reenacting Three Stooges bits. Lazlo: "Find Roy Focker.." Roy clone 1 and 2: "......" They each just point to the other.
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    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I love the nostalgia factor of those old markings, but they're missing the classic blue and red striping with the stars. Also, I enjoy the mental calisthenics of seeing a historically Navy squadron based at New Edwards... which funny enough, is actually the situation at the moment? Due to all the joint testing going on with the Lightning II, VX-9 (the merger of the old VX-4 and VX-5 squadrons) currently has a detachment flying out of Edwards.
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    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I mean, they copied the Yamato design right down to the stupidly oversized cockpit, so you can have both your 1/60 and 1/100 pilots needing arm extensions to reach the control panel. I'm impressed that they managed to basically replicate it at roughly half the size, but Bandai did almost zero design work to improve on the original, and goofed up the wing angles in the process. It's fortunately a really easy thing to tweak, but still a dumb thing to get wrong. On the other hand, the HMR's missiles stay put a lot better than the 1/60's. Don't get me wrong, the wing angles don't ruin anything for me, I still love having these little guys on my desk. As a side note, I checked, and no, you don't have to modify the valk at all to get the wings to drop a little. I did a couple more experiments with some tiny clippings of a business card slipped into the wing joint, and it was plenty to drop the wings down on an un-modified copy. I just used a piece the length between the two tabs, and about three millimeters wide, folding it into an L shape over a ruler, and slipping the lower flap under the arm/booster section.
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    I actually thought that was one of the more interesting things about Delta.. it kind of mirrored what happened in Zero.. sorta. Looking really good Xigfrid, always amazing to see how you get such clean prints of your designs! Who are you using for your prints for this version?
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    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    So I went super low-tech/low-effort on a fix for the wing angle in fighter mode, and realized that there's enough play in the wing hinges to kind of just force them downward. So, I just folded up a sliver of printer paper a couple times, jammed it in to the joint, and now the outer wings are even with the canards. I did originally make a small modification to the leg by shaving down the upper lip of the slot that the wing tabs into, but I'm not even sure that was necessary. It did let the wings drop easier, and not snap in level so solidly, but they're not rock-solid to begin with, and there's enough slippage in the joint to push the wings downward without any changes. I'm going to see if the paper is enough to push the wings down on my stock copy later today. As a side note, the wing hinges aren't pinned, and just pop in and out easily if you want to do more extensive modifications. Just doing something to beef up either the outboard side of those hinge blocks, or inboard surface of the wing root would push the wing downward. You'd need the equivalent thickness of about three layers of printer paper* to angle the wings down the same amount as the Yamato version. * I'm not sure what thickness of paper, but I'll check that later. It was whatever I had on hand at the time.
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    What, no Gadgetmobile? Although, to be fair, that's already a transformer, you'd just be adding another mode. Seriously though, I'd love some of those. The Herbie one especially, I grew up on the original Love Bug. Now I'm tempted to pick up a Bumblebee to repaint.
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    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    So.. given the similarity between this and the Yamato/Arcadia.. what are the odds Kurisama could just scale down his VF-4G head and snap it on? Or is that the head they've previewed already for the other versions?
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    Except vacuum doesn't cause corrosion. The cabin is sealed, but there's no reason a ship in space needs to be airtight all over. It'll probably be preserved just as well as any other aircraft sitting underwater for a decade or so would be, which is to say, the water will have probably seeped into every crevice, and unless every source of internal lubrication and coolant is sealed well enough to stave off the corrosive effects of plain water over extended periods, it's probably going to run just as well as your car would, if you parked it in your pool for a few years. Frankly, the fact that it was even recognizable under the water seemed odd to me. Either they just didn't want to make it look dirty, or the water on that planet is extraordinarily devoid of any ecosystem beyond the single fish that Luke speared.
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    Considering all the implied time shenaniganry in the Avengers universe, I wouldn't be surprised if we see Monica in the not-so-distant future as well. We've already been introduced to her, after all. Far as the "Captain" bit goes, did they mention her rank in the USAF? I know it's the rough equivalent of a full Lieutenant in the Navy, so it would make sense for someone her age/experience/flight status. I don't know if they'd be that literal with it though, and beyond that, I don't know if anyone has actually referred to her that way in-universe.
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    So.. wait a minute. This is sounding like Discovery basically lifted it's central plot straight out of Chrono Cross. Except I think Chrono Cross made more sense.
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    Nice, are Bandai re-issuing the 1/72 Cosmo Falcona nd Zero? I've had a Zero on backorder for probably a year or more at HLJ. Really wish they would expand the line in that scale, there are some great ship designs in both 2199 and the new series.
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    So, after seeing this trailer before Captain Marvel, I'm cautiously optimistic. Looks like it has a lot of potential, and I think reworking the story from the ground up was probably the best way to go in this case. You can keep the base setting and reference the original, without relying on talking animals and outdated/offensive stereotypes.
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    Please no.. I want to just be done with Flyboy McKarmahoudini. He was a sickeningly over-hyped mary sue pilot in TFA, and managed to avoid any repercussions for a mutiny that directly led to the vast majority of the entire Resistance dying in the most stupid way imaginable. I don't think I've ever directly wished for any main character in a Star Wars movie to die, even the bad ones, but Poe needs to loop-dee-loop himself into a black hole and disappear. TLJ is really unique in that regard. I don't think I've ever come out of any movie with such a firm belief that the film would have been much better if half of the main characters had died in the first five minutes.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Possibly, I think angling the edges of the tabs that hold the wings in place might do the trick easily.
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    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Picked my first one up from the post office a bit ago, and looks awesome! Haven't examined it in great detail yet, but looks like no obvious flaws or missing parts. If I were to make one nitpick, it's that after all of that old debate over wing angles with the Yamato release... Bandai managed to actually make the alignment worse. All of the fins more or less align, but the main wings lock in entirely level. You can kind of fudge the angles by unlocking the wings, but they tend to snap between level, and about 30 degrees downward, which is way too much. Judging by the tabs holding them level in fighter mode though, I think it should be a pretty easy mod to let them rest naturally a few degrees down from where they are by default.
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    Hmm, I'll have to see about picking one of these up then.. would go nicely next to my Alter Yukikaze 1/100s, and the odd HMR.
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    I half wonder if they'll try to firmly establish General Order 7's origins in this series, since they seem to enjoy revisiting old plots and complications. Logically speaking, putting yourself in that situation would be probably one of the worst direct compromises to any sense of security the Federation could ever have. Contact with the Talosians in any meaningful way is equivalent to unloading the entire contents of your brain into a USB drive, and handing it to them. The general existence of life as people know it essentially hinges on the idea that the Talosians remain impartial, isolated, and completely uninvolved in the larger goings-on of the galaxy. Realistically speaking.. the death penalty just sounds like a way to make the order sound super serious, without explicitly mentioning all the risks of going there, or implications for what could happen, at the risk of giving someone the idea of specifically doing those things. It's not like putting the violator to death would actually fix anything.
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    What's the opposite of a support group? Because I think this forum qualifies.
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    See... no. While it would be relatively reasonable for them to find a stash of vintage Y-Wings somewhere, the entire problem is that it takes literally zero creative effort to slap them into another movie. I'd rather they find literally anything else to fight with, just to prove that someone in the universe is capable of original thought, and may have developed a style of ship that we haven't seen yet. Tell me something.. Why, in a literal galaxy-spanning civilization, does every single freakin' group seem to use nothing but rehashes of OT ships? For crying out loud, they could pick something, ANYTHING from the EU already. There are probably thousands of different designs discussed throughout the entirety of both the old EU and the new canon novels. SHOW US SOMETHING NEW. They need to prove to us that they have a single creative bone in their bodies, and design something original that has a chance of being iconic on its own merits, instead of riding McQuarrie's coattails into infinity. The absolute least they could do is reference the designs they're making for the Resistance cartoon. Bottom line? They need to stop imitating, and innovate. Make the designs and movies stand on their own, and do something iconic. Make something they can make merchandise of that will sell worth half a damn, without looking like a knockoff of an OT or PT design. Please.
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    Did they actually mold the impulse engines in clear red plastic? This literally looks like an upscale of the Playmates toy... but somehow even less accurate. I'm half wondering if that's actually a badly photoshopped render, because the shapes and lighting look too even, and the decals look pasted in.
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    How much do those 1/100 fighters run? I might have to grab a few some time, they'd be a nice size for my desk at work.
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    As nice as it is seeing McQuarrie's designs again, they just prove to me that whoever is working on the new movies has a complete lack of any creativity whatsoever. Prior to TFA, every Star Wars movie was full of original designs that actually had a presence. Even the prequels made some attempt at reverse derivatives of some of the designs that eventually evolved into ships in the original trilogy, and like them or not, they were generally pretty unique, and served a purpose. The schlock we've gotten in the last two movies? All of the slightly passable designs have been direct rehashes of old content, and all of the original designs have been gosh darned ducking fugly pieces of excrement. Like seriously, WTF did they hire to do their concept art? The idea that they're going to raid the boneyard for more nostalgia fighters just hammers home that they just flat out have no imagination. Anyhow, I don't really trust that as anything more than a passable photoshop. Perspectives are wonky, design is pretty bleh all around, and I'm pretty sure that bowcaster was shopped directly over Threepio's arms. On the other hand, far as Kylo's helmet goes, it does look like the face is broken off... I have no idea what's up with the bottom half though, since it doesn't look like cloth exactly. Oh yeah, and the yellow alien looks like someone force evolved Dory, and sent her into space. That clueless look seems incredibly fitting for the franchise as a whole.
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    So, I'm fairly certain I wrote this movie around 4th grade, but with secret hovercraft tech plans instead of an ancient lost city. Seriously though, that looks way more amusing than it has any right to be. Probably wouldn't go out of my way to see it, but might be worth an amazon rental.
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    Will have to wait and see, but I think it's a fair bet that a lot of Infinity War will be reversed beyond just the actual snap.
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