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  1. Chronocidal
    Yeah.. this kind of crap really makes me miss Yamato.
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    Ok, seriously wtf is that. That's like.. I thought that was a Far Side cartoon setup. People paid actual money for that?
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    I'd honestly re-sell it, unless you plan on displaying one in each mode (which would take a ton of room). For me, the only reason I ever sprung for any SDF-1 at all was because the PF version came along, and the combination of centerpiece potential with rarity pushed me over the edge. It's not that I don't like the design, but it's a lot less mechanically interesting to me than most other Macross designs.
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    Ouch... this would've been a much better time to spring for one. And here I thought Arcadia had stopped producing enough that their releases made it to the clearance bin (anniversary releases excluded )
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    In that case, I think that eliminates any need for the PS4 version for me. I still have a working PS2, and all those games. The question then becomes whether there's any chance of them releasing that bonus as a stand-alone purchase later, possibly even for other platforms.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Nope, the backpack just kind of sits half-closed like that. Still baffles me they couldn't come up with something that makes more sense, but it is what it is.
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    Yeah, none of the characters actually look very much like the original art at all. They're just drawn with the bare minimum of feature and outfit cues to tell at a glance who they're supposed to be.
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    I've seen enough to know that at least the actual internal art is nothing like the covers. The improvement in general artwork is actually a bit remarkable, in the sense that it's such a polar opposite to the covers, and how bad it was in the first couple of issues.
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    Ok, wait, I just realized what's in the reflection of that helmet in the poster. Is that a dragon Unikitty? And.. is that the Statue of Liberty fallen over?
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Funny thing I ran into is that the YF-19/VF-19 Advance fit together better if you don't press the wing hinges all the way down. On at least one of mine, lifting the wing gloves a little relieves some stress on the wing glove tabs and intake/arm/shoulder joints, and makes them easier to transform.
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    I might be interested if no one else snaps it up, but I actually did exactly what was discussed, and kitbashed myself a Max 1S using an incomplete 1A and a spare Roy. The 1A was missing the blue canopy cover, but the Yamato release of Max's 1S used the black one anyway, as far as I've been able to tell. I just swapped out the required parts, and used the stickers for the blue head arrows over the top of the yellow. Haven't done anything with the leftover Roy parts and 1A head yet, but I figure it can't hurt to have spares. Hmm... maybe I'll cross the streams for fun, cover the yellow with grayish-brown, and make myself a Jack Archer DYRL version. Does this make the VF-31 armored pack the equivalent of the clown-car act?
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    It's not the most popular, or we would have lots more merchandise by this point. What it does seem to be is a really obscure gem that people forget about for years, and then discover again. I can see the angle of it being a very popular valk with regular aircraft enthusiasts though. It's a beautiful design in its own right, and it's also one of those that you look at and think there's no way it could possibly transform. That alone tends to turn heads, especially in this day and age where most transforming aircraft toys look like a jet slapped on top of plastic brick.
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    It would help if they'd bother to get the thing painted up already.. but this has been my issue all along. There was never anything inherently wrong enough with the first version's design that a rehash feels justified to me. It'll be better construction.. but it's like upgrading a statue in your yard to an identical one that just happens to be reinforced with metal inside. Yep.. it's stronger.. and from a distance, it looks exactly the same.
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    I honestly think I'm just.. kinda done with the gaming industry. Season pass this, DLC that.. I don't want an mmo, or a series, or something that keeps changing with every month as they make more content. I just want a game I can play, enjoy, and be done with at some point. Not another monthly subscription I have to keep shelling out for the latest content. Maybe I'll wait until I can buy the whole game in a single box. It's just not worth it anymore.. and it drives me absolutely up the wall seeing the things I used to enjoy get destroyed like that.
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    On the flip side of that, if you've been considering a Disney vacation for a while, book your trip a couple weeks before it opens. The crowds will be completely non-existent.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I'd assume it's NY, which is why I'm going to keep poking them to see if I can't get them to complete the other half of my order. If they'd told me store credit was all I could get, I would have changed my mind about reducing my order, but they just did it without asking. Note.. it's not that I didn't expect store credit to be the only option, but I would have appreciated some confirmation. After all the refusals other folks had about modifying their order, I didn't expect them to just go and do it instantly.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    That was one of the most mentally offensive plot points in the entire series, honestly. Seriously wtf. I was sort of hoping they'd rehash it into something less ridiculous in the movie, but maybe leaving it out entirely was for the better.
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    Heheh.. honestly, I've always done that. Easiest and best space-saving way to pose a wide variety of valks. Some like the Sv-51, VF-27 and VF-17/171 take a little bit of twisting of the feet to get them aligned in a way that'll work, and they're not always entirely stable that way, but it's a huge space saver. I've even seen someone pull off a YF-21 pose that way by spreading the engine thrust vector petals, but I wouldn't ever want to leave it that way for more than a minute or two. The other bugaboo is the YF-29. The tails and shield are just too long, and the ankles don't extend far enough to really balance it well. I think the YF-30 might have this issue too, actually, since the tails stick out so far in back. Now that I think about it though, I wonder if you could extend the YF-21's feet out the back far enough, and twist them around enough for it to stand on them... The down side of displaying the Arcadia or Bandai YF-19s that way though is that gravity works against the high speed mode wing hinges. Let them sit too long, and they might start to sag, especially with weapons attached. The wings are also slightly too long to display that way folded back, since they stick out too far.
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    I've never liked the thought of dealing with the liquid printing process, just from the messier cleanup and material situation. But on the other hand, you also don't get the same sorts of problems of shifting platforms and print heads. I've had an UP!2 for a few years now, and it does decently, but I'm tempted to consider a newer/bigger/more advanced and enclosed printer in the future. The thing that gets me about the entire process is watching something big print, and then realizing midway through that the whole thing is going to pot, with no way to stop it or fix the issue.
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    I had no idea this existed, or that anyone had ever actually made a physical Arwing of any sort. Shame they didn't follow the SF64 model though, that's always been my absolute favorite.
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    I think it's too early to tell whether they've actually done that, or it's just a diversion from the actual plot. Recutting scenes to make it look like two characters are having a conversation is something trailers do all the time, while they may be completely unrelated scenes. The dialogue makes it seem like he wants her dead, but he could just as easily be setting up someone to die at her hands. I'm not going to get overly excited, because it does seem like the movie's trying to cover too much ground, but I'll be very interested to see how it plays out.
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    Very likely chaff/flare dispensers. Also, neat about the tail logo. I need to dig out my discs and replay those games at some point, it's been too long.
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    It's a really enlightening bit of documentary. Recutting the plot in TLJ to actually make sense and make literally anyone in the movie on either side look remotely competent would go a long long way toward making the movie more palatable.
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    This seems to be a lot more than an edit though, and more of a re-writing of the entire film using the existing footage, as well as new dialogue. And actually.. you can still accomplish a ton that way. I'd argue the same was done for ANH for its final cut, due to the way that a significant portion of the battle of Yavin was completely re-written, and recut using clips of prior scenes, with off-screen dialogue overlaid to produce relevant scenes. ANH's original screenplay was also pretty mediocre as I recall, and the entire final battle had little to no tension, because there was no running countdown. The computer displays showing the Death Star's firing arc were added in post-production, and Luke's second trench run was the only one we ever saw. Honestly, I'm pretty okay with both the start and ending of TLJ. I'd just like them to get there without turning several of the "heroes" into utterly unlikeable characters whose only skill seems to be dodging a 500 karma pileup. The Resistance (and the entire franchise even) would've been on much better footing if Holdo had shoved Poe out of an airlock for treason.
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    If I remember correctly though, weren't the F-5 and F-20 Area 88 schemes already included in one of the previous games? I feel like they were in AC:Zero, but they might not have had the tail logo.
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