Chronocidal
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Chronocidal replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I'm starting to think I should stock up on that VFGirl's Kairos kit.. seems to be the only readily available version of the 31A. -
There's nothing to improve over the original sculpt anyway. It's not like these were hand-drawn, they had the original CG models to work from in the first place. The plastic wing supports are not making me think this will be worth the asking price. I think the only thing that would convince me to buy one of these now is if they pulled your splinter scheme out of their hat. I don't need more of the ones I already have, and still display fine..
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Arcadia 1/60 Perfect Transformation VF-0D for 2015
Chronocidal replied to Dark_Ghost's topic in Toys
I think Arcadia should offer a trade-in/trade-up service for people who bought the first version. Otherwise, nope, I'm not sending them that much money to put out something they should have done right the first time. I'll paint my own, and it'll be a helluva lot cheaper. -
Captain Marvel, in theaters Mar. 8, 2019
Chronocidal replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Is it bad that the primary thing I focused on with the poster is that she's been shown flying F-15s the entire time, but the poster has a flight of F-5s, and they show all F-16s on the ground? -
I would say the 31A is a particularly lousy experience, because otherwise, while they seem to be slow across the board right now, they've at least been pretty reliable at sourcing the TWE items. What concerns me about the the 31E is their initial order ending so quickly, and then their continued sales at a higher price, but only for pre-paid orders. They know full well that the item isn't going to be released before everyone's Paypal claim dates are long past, and they already have your money. Their "store credit" is about as skeezy an arrangement as I have ever witnessed in an online retailer, and would have their business run out of town if it was located in the US. The only reason I've trusted them with at 31E order is that it's the first item I wanted from them that qualified for me to use the store credit from my cancelled 31A order. They already had my money, and I've got nothing to lose trying to spend it. I'm absolutely going to try and source another 31E from somewhere more trustworthy, but I'm also more than willing to play chicken with them over this 31E order. I'm not going to cancel, and if they can't deliver on time, I'm going to pester them until I either get the order, or they cave and give me my cash back.
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It might be, if you don't mind the potential wait to receive it. After the 31A mess, I'm really not expecting them to come through with anything approaching a reasonable deadline.
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I think it will just depend on where the pivot point is drilled in the door. It fits perfectly flush one way, but once you rotate it, the door on mine sticks forward ahead of the sliding hinge, and catches on the underside of the nose. You can kind of see that on your photo as well, since the boxy hinge structure is pushed back from the front edge of the gear well. If it doesn't feel like it's stressing it, that's great though.
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Just curious, how hard was it to push that door back in that way in the open position? I tried it on mine, and it just refused to fit in that way without feeling like I was going to break something. I still was able to get the catapult bar to raise past horizontal, I just had to push the door back against the strut at a slight angle.
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I remember having some trouble with my original release, but I believe it was related to which way I tried to rock the armor. I'd have to pull out my original Yamato release to check, but I think the locking nubs on one side of the arm are angled (or are supposed to be angled) to let the armor mounts slip over them. If that sloped edge isn't there, the only way to really do it is to gently lift the locking tab over one of those nubs with something like a guitar pick, or toothpick, or other thin prying device. I'd hesitate to use a screwdriver because of the potential to gouge the plastic, but a thin flathead, or something like a jeweler's screwdriver might work as a last resort.
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I'm not worried, we're all free to speculate how we like. Nothing to get butthurt about, I'm just fascinated by all the theories we tend to generate. Gives us something to yammer about during the empty months in the release schedule, after all. I do have to wonder what Bandai is going to pull out of its hat next though, because we're long long overdue for a TV Skull 1, and as much as I'm tired of VF-1s, that's the one I'd actually still like to get a couple of, especially if they include some TV-style fast packs. And please please please release the fast packs again? I need about ten sets. After that.. I'm going to guess Bandai intends to do something with Macross Zero? I think that was the final recognizable poster in that big teaser display. I would love to see a redone HMR VF-19, but I'm thinking that's more likely to be a 1/60 DX release somewhere down the road. No reason they couldn't do both, but as long as they have the YF-19 going, it's a logical progression.
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Enough to buy the dvd and watch it as many times as you want? I really can't knock the full theater experience, especially with big spectacle movies like Star Wars, but at the same time, nothing has felt right about them to me since the removal of the 20th Century fanfare.
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I actually hadn't bothered to check the order number. Turns out I had 13901049.
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All I'm saying is that you have no idea whether these "allocated time slots" even exist. They're purely a construct of your perception, and have absolutely nothing to do with any plan, past, present, or future, that Bandai has in place for production. Just because you don't make one thing doesn't mean you have to make something else. It's entirely possible that removing the Dougrams would have just resulted in nothing being released. You're welcome to shoot the breeze with baseless assumptions all you like, my brain just mentally objects to all these leaps of logic that Evel Knievel couldn't hope to land. Really nothing to worry about though, I just think it's amusing. As a fanbase, we love to armchair quarterback Bandai, Yamato, Arcadia, and anyone else who is producing stuff we want to buy. Trying to read the tea leaves that these companies use to pick and choose their release schedule is deep magic.
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I know it's hypothetical, but like I was saying, you can't assume to know how Bandai has their stuff timelined, or whether one product is conflicting with another. It's similar to the old saying, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." You cannot assume that just because something else is released they had to take a slot from a Macross product. There may have been nothing in that release slot to begin with. Without inner knowledge of Bandai's production schedule, you really can't make anything but WAGs about that. But if you had a side product that you could run through that manufacturing facility to keep it producing something, why wouldn't you? That's just good use of facility resources.
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STAR WARS Merchandise Episode - 2
Chronocidal replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Okay, I admit I'm slightly confused by a couple of those figures.. maybe the photos aren't the best, but that Padme looks like it has Rey's head on it, and the Voss figure looks like... Neil Patrick Harris? -
Actually, no, the bots will be very useful for trolling HLJ's listings for new products now, because their search function is so utterly crippled. I actually expect the reason we're all getting HLJ cancellations is because we found the listing so late. They're usually right on time, but we used to depend on the advanced search to find the listings. WIth that functionality gone, the bots that get a huge advantage, because they can just parse the site at breakneck speed and clean out the orders before we've ever seen the listing.
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This would imply you know the inner workings of Bandai's development teams, and their internal release schedule plan. Just because you see a "slot" in the schedule doesn't mean Bandai sees it the same way. It's entirely possible that they just don't have Macross releases ready to fill those slots, and the non-Macross releases are literally to fill a production gap, and keep the factory running so they can avoid start-up costs for the next release. You can't make the assumption that producing something non-Macross is taking away time from Macross releases. Remember, this is Bandai. They're huge. They have multiple teams working on multiple products all the time. Unless you have insider information about one product taking development time away from another, it's just as likely that the non-Macross releases are being thrown in because they need something to keep the factories running between Macross releases.
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Robotech and REMIX by Titan Comics
Chronocidal replied to Old_Nash's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
If they've actually circled back around to self-deprecating humor about their own incomprehensibly unstable art, I have to give them slight credit. Slight. On the other hand, if they push the nonsense and fourth wall abuse much further, I fully expect the final issue to consist of Deadpool stealing Voltron to go back in time and kill Carl Macek before the entire mess happens. I actually think that would be a fitting end to the franchise.- 1934 replies
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I think I would still enjoy that more than the past two movies.
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So much for that idea. I think a good question right now is whether anyone who got an order with HLJ didn't have their order cancelled. Bleh.. I need to not look at this thread for awhile. Nothing to do about this until summer, and I can feel my arteries hardening by the moment over the frustration from this freakin trainwreck. Just going to pray for good news at release day.
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I'm trying to form a logical path to a PF anniversary release, and I keep feeling like my brain hits a brick wall. I want to think Arcadia would have to pay collectors to take those off of their hands if they made them.
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Out of curiosity, does anyone know how the prices for Arad's 31S are trending? I'm partly wondering if people are scrambling for Chuck's because they know he'll be getting the armor pack. I think Arad's pre-order missed the boat there, because the packs were only revealed after the pre-orders were closed, but I don't remember the timeline for certain.
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I should really work up some adapters to put the VF-31 reaction missiles on the other Bandai valks. Those stupid 171 versions were blimps.
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Far as I remember, everyone was limited to 1, even AmiAmi, after that mess with the DX VF-1 and all the accidental multiples. Part of me wonders if Bandai is actually nixing the Delta line production so they can crank out more VF-1s.
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Aaaaand I just lost interest in the franchise. The season pass model format can swallow barbed wire and floss itself.