Chronocidal
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Yeah, the hyperspace shenaniganry was one of the things I actually really disliked about TFA. Partly because of how silly it felt, and partly because of how much it reminded me of all the times I've seen it done much better in other places. I think the biggest problem with all of this stuff may just be that the EU was written will all kinds of meticulous details about how technology worked, and set a standard that the original trilogy never approached, and now we've got techie whiplash from the movies going back to not caring how anything works, and just doing whatever they want. It's not that they're not allowed to get creative with the universe and how it all works, but fans have been operating under a lot of rules and assumptions for a very long time. Saying none of it matters anymore and directly contradicting things people have held as canon for decades has a way of unsettling the fanbase. Though, to be fair, the SW fanbase isn't exactly what I'd call entirely stable to begin with. -
See, maybe they were really only explained in the EU apparently, but I thought the issue was that hyperdrives in general completely cease to function within a gravity well. They were always referred to as "gravity well projectors," which if you think about the classic space-time as a bedsheet analogy, is like dropping a synthetic bowling ball in the middle of it. Basically the hyperspace equivalent of getting your car stuck in the mud, it's not going anywhere no matter how hard you gun the engines. Maybe that all changed in the canon, but the entire purpose of those interdictor cruisers in the EU was to drag ships out of hyperspace, and keep them there. I'm sure there are safety features involved to a point, and maybe it would take a custom built hyperdrive to get around them, but it always sounded like using a hyperdrive in a gravity well could have consequences on a "fabric of space-time" level (kind of like what we saw in TLJ).
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You probably want to take overall demand into consideration as well. Demand on the 262 has been pretty stagnant for a while, and the prices are pretty low. I don't know how that compares to Mirage, but I'd wager she'll be more popular, and harder to get in the long term.
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Is there even any reason why that rear pod has two mounting positions? I'm guessing it's some minor discrepancy in the line art, like maybe someone thought it stuck up too far in battroid mode with the gun folded forward. I kind of don't see any reason for it, since the default mounting point doesn't interfere with the gun deployment in battroid. If it had been a sliding joint, I might consider doing it, but taking it off and repositioning it seems like a waste of effort, not to mention unnecessary wear and tear on the pivot point.
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Yep, I've got several boxes that have the proper footprint for a Bandai DX to fit, but are much too tall. Instead of getting shorter boxes, they'll use the taller ones, and cut the corners to make the taller sides into oversized flaps to fold over. It doesn't always work so well, and some of the boxes wind up with oddly angled edges if the sides fold lopsidedly, but the interior has never been a problem, and I've never gotten any damaged goods from a chop-job of a box.
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Hey, if it gives Chewie some better screentime in the next one, I'll take it.
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I might have to grab a Striker to pick up some of those parts, but I've also been eyeing a new UCS-style A-Wing MOC, and wondering how much I would have to order to build it. It's huge, but beautiful. Found some internal pics that show the structure, and I think I can recreate it with a few mods for personal preference. Far as the UCS Y-Wing goes, I wasn't impressed by the nose design on the previous one. There are a lot better ways to make the cockpit than using one of the stock printed minifig scale canopies, nose needs a bit better shaping, and the whole thing looked a bit off in proportion. I need a breather though.. right on the heels of getting my Falcon, I went and ordered a couple city sets, along with the Ideas Fishing Store. I'm feeling a sudden renewed interest in LEGO, and feel the urge to go buy up everything fun I can find.
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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 wonder how difficult it would be to build a custom computer case in that style.. -
Evolution Toy - VF-2SS Valkyrie I 《MACROSS II ~LOVERS AGAIN~
Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys
I'd love to see someone try that, but I worry that the change would require almost an entirely new mold. The system on the HMR version is very similar in concept to the hip swingbar used in Yamato/Arcadia designs, but it's quite a bit differently shaped. It's more like the legs are attached to a swinging frame that makes up the entire underside of the valk. -
Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Chronocidal replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Speaking of things that are way too huge... And to think I thought the PG Bandai kit was huge.
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ROTJ has most definitely been picked apart over the years, but those cries died out long ago, and everyone still seems to regard it as the worst of the original trilogy for that. It's just become water under the bridge at this point, which I expect TLJ will become at one point as well, somewhere down the road. A lot of the OT did kind of hinge on stormtroopers having pretty terrible aim, which was often blamed on their helmets, but it is what it is. The best that can be said is that the Empire really just had no idea how to deal with guerilla warfare tactics. I don't even want to say my expectations were exceedingly high, but I was expecting that this movie would give some payoff to all the setup in the previous one. That didn't really happen in most of the ways people hoped. I can kind of appreciate why, but it still winds up feeling like a bait-and-switch for people who were looking forward to where those plot threads may have led. Did the audiences expect too much? Probably, but the end result is basically getting rickrolled. At this point? The risks taken with the characters don't even really bother me at all. Even the lack of payoff I can appreciate the irony of. It's just that 2/3 to 3/4 of the plotline leading up to the finale was possibly the most cringe-worthy string of complete failure I've ever seen. The people alive at the end survived in spite of the actions of the "heroes," not because of them, and it left me with a distaste for a lot of the main characters, because I don't think they did anything substantial enough to redeem themselves. Like.. Poe? Seriously dude. You screwed up so hard. You don't get off the hook just because you suddenly have a revelation in the last 20 minutes about how important it is to follow orders. I don't know exactly how many people died because your half-cocked rescue plan drove itself into a ditch, but your actions probably just killed over a thousand people.* Nice going hero. *Star Wars wiki lists the crew of the Raddus as a minimum of 1139 people. Yeah.
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Is it actually a threaded screw? I suppose it wouldn't be hard to replace with one with an actual head if you could find the right size, but it makes me wonder how they got it in there in the first place.
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Taking off the nostalgia filter a bit, I'd say ESB had it's own problems, some of them very similar. Some of the tactical nonsense did seem to come into play in its own way, but I also think moviegoers were much less critical then. (As an aside, I actually mis-remembered one point I brought up earlier; I'd thought they specifically called out that the Rebel transports would be scattering after the evacuation from Hoth. Turns out Leia's only instructions were to head directly to a pre-planned rendezvous point. The scattering tactic is something that I think was mentioned later in the EU.) Anyway, I'll spoiler my other thoughts to save anyone the wall-o-text.
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Have to agree about the gray background as well, it makes the stuff you're focusing on pop just that much better, especially when half the things you review tend to be shades of white. Far as the line-up goes with the legs, I think the thing missing is that images 4 and 5 both show the legs in the same position, but they're not showing the legs out, they're showing them down. The underside of the chest plate curves inward, so while you're seeing the top of the intake under the chest, you're not seeing that they're also inset horizontally. There's also a direct line vertically from the outer edges of the nose section that lines up with the insides of the legs, and the HMR in your photo has a gap there that's the width of the hinge the hips swing downward on. Again, the angle the legs are at screws up the alignment in pretty much every way, and the poses are nothing alike, so it's a fairly bad comparison. I think if the legs were angled straight forward, they'd line up much better. The line art isn't even anywhere near consistent either, and the intakes in that picture look too wide anyway, so I would very strongly hesitate to say it's a solid reference. I also wonder if the hip bars could be pushed any farther inward, but it looks like that's as good as they get in gerwalk. Big picture-wise though.. I'm going to admit, this is me being very nitpicky over language, and questionable line art. I think it looks awesome anyway, and the angled stance you have it in looks much better than the line art to begin with. Far as bandwidth goes though, I think the board tweaks the thumbnails so they only load at the displayed size. I haven't noticed any slowdown, and I'm on a pretty slow network. Loading the full images from your review itself takes quite a while.
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It is, but the final position of the legs is shown in figure 4, which has them further in than the HMR looks like it does. I think part of the difference is that the HMR photo shows the intakes canted outward, which is messing with the perspective a little. The line art does however show the insides of the legs being even with the sides of the nose, where the HMR has the big round hip pivot there. On the other hand though, the ET version looks like they're actually too far inward, thanks to the massive thickness of the shoulder mounts taking up space.
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vf-31 siegfried WIP: Alternate Weapons Pods for VF-31
Chronocidal replied to Sanity is Optional's topic in The Workshop!
Wow, this sneaked in under my browsing, I didn't realize you'd gotten the speaker/projector pod going that quickly. Looks beautiful! How much did those run you to print on Shapeways? If Bandai doesn't make any, I'll have to grab at least one and paint it up. -
Awesome 3D Printed Snap Tite SDF-1 1:1200 scale
Chronocidal replied to Knight26's topic in Model kits
Just in general, I would never make that big of a piece in a single print. Too many ways for it to go wrong mid-way through, and require a restart. There are many better ways that could be made into smaller chunks to print quickly. I tend to think of parts breakdowns like save points in an RPG. Imagine trying to 100% complete something like Final Fantasy X in one sitting, without saving. That's what printing a huge model all at once feels like to me. -
The thing that cracks me up about the entire SJW angle on this? Do you really want to be holding up all these stupendously incompetent characters as some kind of example to be praised? Seriously. I don't want to get into the politics of it, but just look at what the movie throws at you. All those characters that people hold up as examples of "diversity" and "gender equality"... what did they actually accomplish? Finn and Rose? Good job, your sloppy failure to execute your original goal wound up getting nearly the entire Resistance vaporized in space. Holdo? Enforcing a chain of command involves delegating responsibility, and keeping your key players informed. I can't fully blame her for that mess, but it certainly could have been handled better. The only really competent and effective characters in the entire movie were Luke, Leia, and Rey. Chewie gets an honorable mention for his cameo piloting the Falcon. Oh, and those two cannon fodder FO pilots who went ahead and fired on the bridge when Kylo chickened out. If the FO had more of those, the chase sequence would have ended really quickly. If anything, the SJW crowd should be ripping this movie to shreds for making the "diverse" characters out to be shining examples of utter failure.
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Have to admit, I was surprised to see the official Defender set on a store shelf one day. I forget why I didn't wind up buying it at the time. My biggest regret though is that I didn't grab the old Action Fleet version one day when I saw it in a shop. I'm almost tempted to buy three of the Bandai Tie Striker kits, and kitbash the solar panels into a Defender, since the solar panels are the correct pattern. I think they're too large though, and I'd need a much larger cockpit module for the wings to be in scale. What I'm personally waiting for is a revamp of the UCS Y-Wing, and a UCS A-wing so I can round out the OT rebel fighters. I've actually had a UCS scaled A-Wing for years, but it could use a full rebuild. I think I put that thing together sometime in 1999.
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I was actually kind of impressed by the Tracker I honestly, gave me a lot of good memories of the old TIE Phantom design. It doesn't take much to surpass the stuff from the new movies though, those designs have been almost universally terrible.
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I've read the summary of what that last training scene involved, and while I can kind of agree with why it was cut, it would have helped the training overall to make more sense I think? It mostly wound up with Luke looking even less like the old character than before, though the lesson involved wasn't necessarily bad. I dunno. I think the good/bad argument as a whole for this movie has gone nowhere, just because of how extreme the likes and dislikes are. Certain parts are incredibly good, and others are just completely terrible. I thought the Rey/Luke/Kylo portion worked pretty decently, and once they all got to Snoke's ship, it was mostly an exciting ride, but the path taken to get there had me screaming in disbelief that any cast of characters could collectively make so many dumb mistakes, and still be taken seriously in-universe, let alone by audiences. I want to say that sort of averages out, but there's a catch to it. You can sit in a room at 70 degrees, and wear short pants and a long sleeve shirt, and things kind of average out to keep you at a tolerable level of comfort. This is more like sitting with your legs in an icebox, and your upper body in a space heater. The temperatures might average out to a nice level, but no part of you is actually comfortable. This feels kinda like that, just altogether unease about the entire thing. It's over and done with, but it leaves me wondering just what on earth we're going to get in the next movie.
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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
Ordering spare super packs? I might have missed it, but where do you usually find these, and how many organs do they tend to cost? -
I feel like Arcadia is getting into the same cycle of "Let's release stupid expensive stuff to help fund the development of affordable stuff" that Yamato got into before the v.2 VF-1 came out. Prices have gone up overall, but I wonder if they're focusing on all these premium versions as a slightly less labor-intensive way to line their pockets for upcoming production runs. Either way, I think I'm done with the VF-0. I still have all three original Yamato versions, two 0Ds, and an Arcadia 0S, and even with all the improvements to the new version's mold, I can't help but feel like they cheapened out on a few features. Switching from molded plastic lights in the wings to black paint actually felt kind of insulting to see them pull. If there's anything they should be doing with a premium version, it's fixing that.
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Sheesh.. The fact that there is a dedicated help topic on the official site specifically about this set speaks volumes to the problems they're having. Wish they would just move to a "take a number" system and let people order them instead. Same for the Saturn V, which I've never seen actually go back in stock since mid-July (probably a few short windows like this one). I want to say this should have blown most of my toy budget at least until summer, but I'm taking a serious look at some of the other Ideas sets coming out, like the fishing store, and maybe the 50s diner. I've been cataloguing the sets I have on Brickpicker, and realizing that I actually have that many stand-alone sets, meaning a lot of the pieces I have must have been supplemented by spare parts sets from years back.
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Anyone trying to get the new Millennium Falcon, it's up on the webshop now. ^_^ I'd been planning to pull the trigger on this one the instant it went up for sale again, and managed to catch an open sales window about 20 minutes ago.
