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  1. Chronocidal
    Wow... I'm kind of flat out blown away that it made it! That other approved set, the ship in a bottle, I might have to grab as well. I didn't even know that many large transparent elements existed. Next review is looking like it has a few fun ones as well. Between the Bluesmobile and Red Arrows Hawk, it looks like some of those should be nice easy builds with not too much shelf space required.
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    I am hoping they'll highlight the improvements over the old mold, because I'm actually curious what the demand for this will be like. Much like the VF-0, barring any structural improvements, the only thing to really improve visually is the molding quality, and finer details. With the VF-0, we got the VF-0D first, so I feel like the new VF-0A/S were more a byproduct of that. The Sv-51 probably needs some posability and playability improvements (tighter joints, better mechanisms, that sort of thing), but from a display perspective? I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the old and new VF-0s displayed on a shelf, and I feel like this is going to be the exact same way.
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    Dangit, I entirely forgot the entire interior corridor fight and "drop the enemy into the bottomless pit" scene. Who built this ship, the Star Wars designers?
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    I think what does it for me with the Ideas shuttle over any of the others is just the proportions, and overall shape of it. I'm still not a huge fan of the curvy plated tip to the tank, but it does more to build the tank up to the proper size, and looks far better to me than any of the existing sets ever has. It also feels more like a display model than the other sets do, which I'm perfectly fine with, since it'd probably be displayed next to the Saturn V set. Judging by the rate it's getting support though, I think the bigger hurdle will actually be getting Lego to approve another NASA-themed design so soon.
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    To be perfectly fair, the "horrible fanfic" model they seem to be following had a great start with Nemesis. Between the long-lost brainwashed evil triplet hidden in the middle of nowhere and suddenly detected via plot device, the wacky old guy in an armored dune buggy car chase/shootout, the super-ultra-definitely-evil pleather-clad surprise-protagonist-clone villain gallivanting around in an invisible planet destroying WMD, the previously-unheard-of race of space vampire labor slaves finally deciding they want vengeance, the wacky old guy in a dune-buggy shuttlecraft corridor-chase/shootout, the super obvious Chekov's boomerang main character sacrifice (and subsequent complete negation of said sacrifice via insane robot clone logic), and... oh yeah, the "I'm not obviously evil enough yet, so let me just mind-rape someone" scene.. Yeah, there's nothing that's ever going to convince me that the outline for Nemesis wasn't unearthed from the bowels of some poor teenager's long-dead Livejournal account. You can't fill that many squares on a "Bad Fanfic Bingo" board by accident. Anyway... As far as Discovery goes, I have no expectations for anything of any sort of quality or entertainment. If the rumors about Sarek's role in this are anything to go on, I almost want to suspect that they're trying to start a third timeline, so they can be contractually free from any of the licensing nonsense that seems to be overrunning the franchise. Maybe they'll just say that Original Spock went back and eliminated himself from the timeline so Nero never destroyed Vulcan, and now we have a third copy of the universe where somehow there's no Spock at all, and they use that to explain that the main character is Sarek's replacement goldfish.
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    Yeah, I'm not a fan of the single piece cockpit, but in this instance, it actually allows for some interior detail in the correct scale that you wouldn't get otherwise, and it doesn't look bad with the proper markings printed on it.
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    Holy cow, I'd been hoping someone would make a properly scaled Shuttle after all these years, and that one looks amazing. Will definitely be F5ing that one if it makes it, it's so much better than the others they've made. Honestly though, Lego really needs to get on top of the "round parts" situation. We've needed better/more transitional stages for cylinders for as long as I can actually remember, because the standard 2x2 cone on top of the stubby 2x2 to 4x4 transition segment is an eyesore.
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    Wow.. I kind of had no idea about the CBS/Paramount nonsense. That's approaching Robotech levels of license shananiganry there, and doesn't speak well for the future of the franchise at all.
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    See.. you have a good point there, and I hope Arcadia realizes what it's doing to its own sales. I have the regular Miria preordered at HLJ, and I was going to grab a Max too down the line, but I already have the Yamato releases. I just wanted a second set to display in a different mode really, but it's by no means a must-have thing for me. With the premium finish version coming out, are the regular releases going to become bargain bin fodder for things like HLJ's Black Friday sales? I feel like it might be entirely worth just cancelling my preorder, and waiting to see how cheap they go.
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    So, if I read this correctly, what we need to do now is have the entire galaxy overrun by battling swarms of Whale Probes, and Doomsday Machines. I'm actually rather surprised that with all the universal translation tech that's developed over the years, we never got around to an "I speak whale" moment.
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    The Sv-51 was shown mounting both two and four pods, at various points in the series. On the other hand, the tan one was only supposed to have one cannon mounted in the intake fairings, but since the D.D. and Nora molds used two, the CF got a free upgrade.
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    They're going to have to make a lot of improvements to get me to buy another set, I think. My originals are just fine as after I did some work to tighten the wing hinges. The lift fan is at least an interesting thing, but I put that at the same level as the airbrake on the 1/48th VF-1 on the "unnecessary detail" scale.
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    You know.. the literal only reason I would be even interested in the premium version is to have tampo'd boosters. I hate stickers, I've never used them on the fast packs, but not having the kites or skulls printed on the booster packs has always bugged me. It's definitely not worth the huge price difference just to get the boosters printed though. I know they wanted to let you use those packs on any valk, so it makes sense for the DYRL ones, but I think the TV packs should have come pre-printed to begin with.
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    I might be remembering wrong, but didn't launching a shuttle in TOS require evacuating the shuttle bay because they had no forcefield to hold the air in?
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    Holy cow, looking up the other Calibre Wings releases, I might have to get a few of these F-14s.. I've got a huge soft spot for VF-142 Ghostriders (the old 80s Monogram 1/48 kit markings), and they're releasing that scheme in November.. ugh. So much stuff to buy. I'm really tempted to go grab the Wolfpack version now, and park it on my desk at work. Right now the only decoration I've got is a smattering of Dilbert cartoons stuck to the walls.
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    Looking pretty nice, I'm tempted. One question, are the wing glove pylons and phoenix pylons on the belly removable? I've always preferred the slick look of a clean F-14.
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    I've heard bits about how to prevent yellowing paint, especially as it pertains to plastic models, and it usually involves mixing a very tiny amount of black paint into the white, or possibly some other shade. Apparently it's also used to prevent yellowing in housing paint for interior and exterior walls. This could also be why Bandai and Arcadia seem to love tinting their bright white plastic with some other shade. The internal degradation of the plastic is probably just going to happen over time, and heat and UV/light just happen to be accelerants. When I moved out after college, I dug through the box of my old G.I. Joes, and both my Crusader Shuttle and Hurricane had yellowed severely, with the bright blue of the Hurricane actually winding up a weird sort of sea-green. Oddly enough, the scout ship in the shuttle's bay is still pristine white, and I'm thinking the dark plastic of the shuttle's bay and black bay doors actually UV shielded it. Both vehicles were stored in a big cardboard box in the garage, and being in central California, they baked in the summer, so the heat is probably a factor, but the fact that the scout ship is still bright white makes me think the UV is a bigger problem, and storing things in dark plastic containers may be a nice way to shield them.
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    I don't think they thought anything through on the early DX VF-25s. I can't say those were aimed at collectors at all with a straight face, because so many sloppy decisions were made, and so many corners were cut. The fact that they're yellowing that badly is really no surprise given the overall quality of that line of toys. I don't think I've seen anything yellowing nearly that bad with the renewals.
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    I did love the Honest Trailer summary about how ScarJo's previous roles all turned into a 20 trope pileup as the Major. Though I think that might be one of the weirdest bits.. just "Major", not "The Major"? It sounds so awkward. I did read an interesting point someone made about the changes to the plot though, and how the film kind of swapped out the questions about human identity for ones that are more about racial/cultural identity. While I can understand why someone wanted to focus on a slightly more current philosophical debate, I also think focusing on that sort of subject didn't do the film any favors. It went from being about high level existential philosophy to being more about current societal issues that were never the main focus of the original material.
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    So, just out of curiosity, is the live action movie similar enough in content and dialogue that you could recut the footage and build a full dub in both Japanese and English using audio clips of the original movies/series? Not that I think it would be anywhere near worth the effort, and would probably be pushing the limits of polishing a turd as an analogy. I just think it would be interesting to see if fans of the original material could make something worthwhile out of the footage.
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    Anyone still waiting on the Saturn V, it's back available on the Lego shop site, not even backordered status.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I guess I wasn't expecting the missiles to be that big a price bump, since they're just lumps of painted plastic, but there probably is a little articulation with them. The stand base would absolutely make the set worth it though.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Does it list what the entire package will contain? If it's with the base, I can understand the cost better, but that's still more than double what a single Regult was sold for.
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    Now all I can think of is going the route they went in the Wraith Squadron X-Wing novels, and the only ultimate (il)logical conclusion to this is if they wind up with one of Gubaba's race as an ace pilot.
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    I've picked up a few of the Art Asylum ships over the years as well, but none of them can compare quality-wise, and while they're accurate enough, the construction and painting are pretty sloppy all around on most of them. Their best ones are probably the Excelsior, Ent-E, and the refit "All Good Things" Ent-D. The Bandai Refit 1701 is a beautiful kit, but it needs a bit of tweaking to get the lighting to look right. Mostly the bulbs are just too bright, and the deflector dish needs some kind of glazing or filter so it isn't completely transparent, and the wrong color.
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