Chronocidal
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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.
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Has Hasegawa released any 1/72 weapons packs for their Frontier kits? As a side note, the reaction missiles included with the 1/60 VF-25 armor packs are probably just about the right size for a 1/72 kit.
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True, I've grown really cynical about Bandai's production tendencies. I'm kind of hopeful that the really die-hard fans will have just attended the event and gotten them that way. I do wonder what the production run size is like though, or whether they'll do a modified wide release down the road for the movie, maybe bundled with the super packs. That isn't a bad price on the YJA one though, depending on what hoops you have to jump through to get it.
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The only reason some of my Macross goods are still MISB is because of laziness. Well, also because of a lack of display space, but that's a separate issue. A lot of them just don't get opened for a while after they arrive. I didn't tend to buy duplicates of Yamato releases, and I don't for Arcadia ones either, because they're both easier to get a hold of, and easier to fix when they break. Bandai stuff? I deeply regret not buying spares of some of them when I had the chance. Between missing pieces (VF-25G crotch plate), bass-ackwards assembly (my VF-27 v1.5 had the limbs swapped), lousy paint applications (assorted issues across most releases), or the toys outright exploding into piles of scrap (ALL of the 171s), I don't trust Bandai to produce something that won't explode. I buy two of almost everything in the hopes that I'll at least get one complete working product out of the pair. Fortunately, most of the time that hasn't been necessary, and I've kept the spares MISB in case I decide to sell them later.
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Macross Δ (Delta) Movie Gekijō no Walkūre (Passionate Walkure)
Chronocidal replied to no3Ljm's topic in Movies and TV Series
I think the beam makes sense if you just consider it a linear rip through space time. Kind of like a weaponized fold engine that projects a very precise field that pushes anything falling within the beam into fold space. I just hope it works more like a lightsaber than an actual laser. This assumes they plan to develop anyone to begin with though. I can easily see them throwing a salvo of well known characters at the audience to inject a bunch of nostalgia, and raise the average characterization of the cast as a whole without having to actually develop anyone themselves. -
My money's on somewhere between "none" and "not nearly enough to satisfy demand."
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The line applies more in a meta sense than it does to anything actually in the movie.
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I think they've already teased a Nexx version for the future. I can't speak to the differences besides the different colored markings, but it should be pretty easy to replace the blue with red if you wanted.
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I'm not even thinking about the force ghost stuff. I just want to know how long Luke was in exile. I couldn't care less about the "retraction," Mark Hamill's original posting about how the character felt nothing like Luke hits every nail on the head simultaneously. It feels like there is no viable path from where he was at the end of ROTJ, and the start of TLJ. Time changes people, sure, but abandoning the entire galaxy to the whims of the student he failed? What did he expect to happen? This might be just my imagination playing with me, but it feels like the little "let the past die" mantra is leaking into the universe as a whole. It wasn't quite so prevalent in TFA, but this movie seems like it's going out of its way to show us that everything sucks, the galaxy is turning into a bigger version of Mos Eisley, everyone is completely incompetent at their jobs, and the universe is in need of a reboot. Maybe that's their ultimate goal in the long run? I can understand wanting to play with expectations, but they seem like they're actively working to kill off the bits that old fans like to hold onto, as if to say "Screw you, it's our movie now."
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I haven't been following Rebels, and knew about Thrawn, but bringing in Rukh feels really surprising. Really, the more they bring back from the EU, the more it feels like they could just tweak a few little details, and bring over a lot of novels directly into the new canon. Do we have an official timeline as to how old Kylo Ren is, and when he wrecked Luke's academy? Even if we say Ben was born a year after Endor, that still puts his turning around 15 years before TLJ, and that leaves a ton of time to fill in somehow. Luke wasn't gone that whole 30 years. I know some of the new novels have addressed the years directly after Endor, but how much of that time is filled in?
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Just watched both, and definitely think the logo in the bottom left works better than occupying both top corners. New format looks really promising, and should keep your content from getting copied. I do think the lower left watermark could go even lower, but it's not opaque enough to be intrusive, and you're correct, it's generally just covering part of your hand.
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It's no more or less silly than naming fighters with letters, or using any number of very reality-oriented phrases. I'm pretty sure I once caught someone saying "par for the course" in one of the EU novels, and thinking, "Wait... do they even have golf?" Also, this: https://xkcd.com/890/ A lot of things like chocolate or coffee they later introduced pseudonyms for, but you kind of have to accept that certain words are just going to be accepted as universal concepts.
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It's an entirely fair point, I am surprised she felt the need to keep everything from everyone. Even if they were worried about spies leaking their position, she should have trusted Poe with the plan at the very least. Either way, yeah, the Resistance is pretty much washed up at this point. I'm hoping we at least get some explanation of why they got no response from any allies (or at least some explanation for how the First Order took over the entire galaxy in the span of a few days), but I'm not quite holding my breath.
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She's only a bad character in the movie because now they're riding the merchandise train, and shoveling heaps of necessary expository content into alternate sources that you have to go out and buy. Really though.. the really depressing thing about the entire plot? The entire Resistance, minus what got away on the Falcon, were killed as a direct result of Poe, Finn, and Rose's cockeyed plan to rescue them. I have a really hard time shifting any blame to Holdo, because whether she should have been more forthcoming with the details or not, their reckless decisions cost who knows how many hundreds of people their lives. I get it that they were trying to teach Poe a lesson about leadership, but good freaking grief people... there are less severe ways for people to be taught humility than this. I mean seriously, if the three of them weren't all main characters, they would have been flushed out an airlock. You don't teach someone leadership skills by having them get caught committing an act they should be executed for.
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Backdoor or not, I'm more surprised they didn't just go for the shield generators and level the cavern from orbit. Maybe this was a post-Hoth base, and they built them in a more secure location? Or maybe Hux and Kylo just wanted to kill them face-to-face. Given the flip-flopping tactics throughout the movie though, it's really tough to say whether they were hoping to capture the Resistance alive, or just blow them up.
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I don't think quality has anything to do with it, I think it's just that Yamato produced themselves right out of business by not adjusting to increasing costs. I have to give Arcadia at least a little credit for attempting to find cheap ways to give people more than just a straight re-release at a 50% markup. Might be thinking of the Virgin Road, since I don't think that ever had canon modex numbers on it. I think the M&Ms otherwise came out near the peak of Yamato's tampo-happy period, where they were cramming more and more markings onto the VF-1 releases. The M&M fast pack sets also got printed with some markings that none of the others ever did, if I remember correctly.
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I might someday, but really, it's not the markings themselves, it's the principle of the thing. I think those should have been tampo printed all along. Also, the idea of keeping things in "out of the box" condition appeals to me to some extent... but then again, with the fast packs, that's already been lost for the most part, since I modified most of my packs so they don't stress the tails so much. Maybe it's just time to suck it up and put the skulls an kites on my sets.
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You know... as amusing as it was basically trying to force the Resistance into a Helm's Deep scenario? I've got one big problem with that cannon. Wasn't that basically a mobile emplacement of the same type of weapon the dreadnaught was using to level the base at the start of the movie? It sure looked similar. "Miniaturized Death Star tech" my foot. All it did was crack an armored door enough for Luke to stroll through it. There shouldn't have been a base left.
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The truly baffling part of that entire mess is the idea that they've suddenly started caring that the thousands of disposable fighters they make exactly for this purpose are in danger. Weird to think though, I don't think that's really evidenced in the movies themselves? I believe a lot of our expectations for how combat in the Star Wars universe works are running off of material that's been written off as non-canon. Possibly one the worst parts of the EU getting nixed is actually losing the established tactics playbook that the universe ran on for the last 25 years or so.
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They pretty much are a joke of a threat, at least as seen in this movie. They really didn't accomplish anything notable enough to back up the idea that this group somehow has conquered the galaxy in the span of a few days at most. Pretty much the only way the whole hyperspace bullet idea doesn't hold up is if producing something capable of doing that is cost prohibitive for some reason, or maybe extremely unpredictable and difficult to control. It seems like an easy solution yes, but the fact that it looked like it ripped a tear in the fabric of space-time makes me think there's a really good reason it's not a common practice. Compared with a lot of the other things people are taking issue with, I don't really have much trouble accepting that one.
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The main thing in my mind is just that building projectiles with the required mass would just be prohibitively expensive. Even with all the mass in that mon cal cruiser, it was still mostly empty space inside. They already stirred the pot with hyperspace nonsense in TFA though, and I'm not sure they're following any particular set of rules at this point. Between going to hyperspace while inside a docking bay, to using it to warp through a planetary shield, I'm not sure anyone writing the scripts really gives a flying rat's ass at this point.
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Oh, absolutely, it's a ton of energy. I wouldn't be surprised if the death stars could have been wiped out with something like that. What I do wish a little is that they'd adapted more of the EU's established canon about how hyperspace works. The idea of mass shadows preventing jumps, gravity well generators, and things like Thrawn using interdictor cruisers armed with those to yank fleets out of hyperspace would have pretty much prevented any of the plot nonsense in TLJ from the start. Also, the EU did have a sort of hyperspace weapon, though being limited to the comics, I don't think the galaxy gun is one of the better known or understood of the empire's superweapons. I know it launched hyperspace warheads that could destroy everything from individual target cities to whole planets, but I don't think the warheads actually impacted at lightspeed. As for why it's never been used before.. I feel like the zig-zagging literal rip through space that wiped out most of the escort destroyers is a big reason (frankly, I'm surprised anything survived at all). While devastating, it looks like the effects might be entirely unpredictable. Being anywhere near a planet might have distorted the effect even more.
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Really.. technically speaking, you're dealing with a lot of mass, and a lot of unnecessary sacrifice to do that. As a last resort? Yeah, it'll do a lot of damage, but the cost is too high to be something you do when you have a better plan. Also, no, it wasn't in hyperspace, but you saw how little impact the Executor had on the second Death Star. The relative mass of what you're hitting is going to probably play a pretty big part in how much damage you manage to do.
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So, I've gotten both the normal edition and preordered the premiums, but I'm not likely to keep both sets. Really the only reason I care about the premium version is getting a set of super packs with the printed kites. If they release a premium Hikaru 1J with packs, I'll grab one of those too. I just hate the idea of using stickers for that kind of thing. If I could just buy premium super packs, I'd be set.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story, in theaters May 25, 2018
Chronocidal replied to Dobber's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Oh, completely. I don't mind them showing him being a little naïve to start out, but not nearly so reckless or goofy. Mostly all I mean is that GotG Vol.1's overall plot and action sequences (the serious ones) felt a lot more like Star Wars than most of the recent Star Wars movies have. The aerial battle over Xandar was the most satisfying science fiction battle sequence I'd seen in a really long time, easily up there with the best of the original trilogy or prequels, and more emotional impact than any of them.