Chronocidal
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Hrmm, still listed as limit 1 per customer though. Kinda defeats the purpose of army building, sadly.
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Oh, yep, I was actually going to add that I just finished slapping a 262 kit together, and loved it. That thing is like a brick by comparison, and I was surprised how tightly the legs and wings locked together once I got them aligned correctly. Didn't expect it to be so well put together from the somewhat complex assembly, but it holds together nicely. Only sloppy bit with that kit seems to be the gunpod connection, and its folding fin doesn't like staying in place, but even the split tail seems to stay pretty well aligned. I might have to get a couple more, and I know I'll be grabbing a few of the non-Keith versions later. Here's hoping they make a white Roid one too.
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Freakin hell HLJ, stop doing this at 4am!! Ugh.. anyone who can grab one, I'll gladly buy it off you.. I just can't sit around and wait online all night.
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Yep, just got my warehouse notice from HLJ that it's available. Was hoping it'd arrive before I got my 31s, but looks like I'll just have to order something else from HLJ to go with it.
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I wouldn't say the VF-1 was a failure due to being too much like a perfect grade, I think they just completely blew it trying to reinterpret the design in ways that were A) not an improvement over anything commonly used on VF-1s, and B) pretty darn ugly. Redesigning the entire knee area to work like the VF-25's legs was just a mistake. The animation accurate leg system was actually quite an achievement I think (though it would have been better in a larger scale to be sure), it's just that that seemed like the only thing they were interested in being accurate about, and the rest of the changes they made to the design just looked bad to me. Far as the 31 is concerned though, I'm not sure I'd call it sturdier than the VF-25 kit, since I've never had that many parts popping off my VF-25s, but it definitely transforms a lot more easily, and fits together a lot better in fighter mode without all the tiny arm and shoulder panels to mess with.
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Ugh, really hope the Max becomes available at release or I'm going to be pissed. Bandai should've just made an exclusive M&M bundle pack, I'm sick of trying to catch both of them.
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I'm looking forward to this thing so much more than the VF-31.. it's just nice to see something with a more unique transformation again, and this one is all sorts of wacky compared with everything from the past few series.
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Heh.. maybe that bracket will actually stay on the wing. I know it's easy enough to just glue the parts together, but after building the Sv-262, it feels a lot sturdier than the VF-31 kit.
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So I had a really wacked out dream this morning that I opened my Hikaru 1Js only to discover that they were a completely different design... hardly any actual transformation, mostly swapping out huge chunks of the body, more like a Tomytec kit.. and the boxes were half-sized or something, with no accessories at all.
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Honestly, that entire system was one of the most boneheaded design choices on the entire thing. "We're going to include a mount that holds onto the neck shield in fighter mode.. but oh.. you still have to use a spare one for gerwalk, which has no place to store. Oops."
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I wish they could get those letters to be less of a bold font though, they look way too intense. Also, I'm not sure I understand how you mean that they made the DYRL GBP 1J specific to that scene.. none of the details you're pointing out except the gray visor were visible under the armor during that ~5 second scene in the movie. Unless they're going off of DYRL line art that wasn't animated? Both the original HM and GBP versions have the DYRL-style black around the canopy though, while the new HMR with the right chest stripes has the TV style paint.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in theaters Dec. 16, 2016
Chronocidal replied to Dobber's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I'm not going to lie. The x-wing flyby made me tear up, it looked so good. I'll have to see close-ups later, but it looks like they really nailed the look of the ANH models, rather than copying the CGI from the special editions. -
Love those little A-Wing kits, they're beautiful. And I did get two, I'll probably get a third soon. But yeah. Definitely not 1/72. The pilot's basically got a 1/60 torso, 1/72 arms, and 1/48 legs. And the turrets are better used with Bandai's upcoming mini kits of the ships, since they're way too small. One feature did frustrate me a bit though. While I can't fault Bandai for being accurate, the two little black hose pieces on the back panel were absolutely microscopic, and I couldn't press them into place without snapping them in half. I just left them off.
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Yeah, they simplified the construction of the 31 kits compared to the 25s, and they lost a lot of the reinforced structure that held them together. The transformation mechanism is probably better, but you'll have parts popping off every which way unless you glue the thing together.
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
Chronocidal replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
What's actually weird is seeing a factory fresh aircraft. Got up close and personal with an F-18E once that was fresh off the delivery to a local squadron. The thing was so utterly uniformly painted, it looked like a toy. Completely flat paint, no dirt anywhere. It was bizarre. The pilots with the squadron were having a blast with it though, since it had come without a lot of mission specific components installed yet. No pylons, no pontoon mounts, nothing. They were hot-rodding the thing all over the desert, relishing in the low-drag/low-weight configuration, and how well it accelerated. -
Same, I can't have another Millia without a Max.. my Joke Machine has been lonely since I was five years old!
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Oh.. so looks like Bandai solved the problem with the paint scratching off the shoulder tabs on the M&Ms by... just leaving them red and blue instead of painting them. Guess that sorta works.
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Wow.. can't believe they're that inept at including the proper attachments... Hopefully the Hikaru comes with the proper one, and someone can shapeways it for the rest of us.
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Star Trek Beyond (the not The Search for Spock)
Chronocidal replied to areaseven's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Got to catch this on a business trip flight on tuesday, was pretty entertaining. Have to agree, they've got the characters nailed, and the in-jokes about classic Trek made me laugh pretty hard. -
Maybe dumb question, did they change the chest stripes on the Hikaru or not? All the promo images for the M&Ms show them with the better stripes, but the HLJ pics still show the original ones for Hikaru's.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
You haven't seen the FF/Star Wars crossover until you play or watch the story from XIV online.. it's so hilariously similar to the movies that it hurts. -
I realize those are tiny pilots, but wow does the paint look bad... might have to repaint mine when I get them.
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Well, slight spoilers for the series finale, but more colors of the 262 do appear, so we can all hope they wind up as web exclusives. Honestly, I'm more interested in buying up any variant of the 262 I can find than any of the VF-31s... except maybe Mirage's and Chuck's, and the A model. The 31 is just more of the "usual" Macross fighter, while the 262 is a truly original and unique design. I'd love if they work out a way to do the VF-22 as well, and would really love to see them make that variable F-104 we saw in a few old photos. Anyway, I'm waiting to see how orders go at release time. The pre-order madness is clearly not going anywhere, but the recent Hi Metal releases seem to be pretty easy to come by at release date, so maybe people are getting wise to the scams. I'm currently counting more supply at release to get a Max HMR, as well as a Hayate 31, so here's hoping it happens across the board.
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Very doubtful that you'd be able to apply the leg armors to the 0D, since the lower leg has a significantly reshaped profile. The entire back of the calf is reshaped to mesh with the root of the wing, and I doubt that those parts are something you'll be able to remove. The hip and waist portions might still mount correctly, but the 0D is also missing the little slots in the hips on the 0A and 0S that everyone has predicted are mounting points for the armor. The arms and upper torso armor might be fine, but anything connected to the legs or back is not likely to work the same way.
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Macross Δ (Delta) - Mission 26 -Finale - READ 1st POST
Chronocidal replied to azrael's topic in Movies and TV Series
So, watching the last episode.. am I the only person who had flashbacks to Final Fantasy X when the fleet went kablooie? But yeah.. yay for naked mind control neural tentacle networking. Honestly, the ending felt like a direct mashup of Macross 7 and Frontier, right down to Freyja struggling to sing to knock people out of their stupor. Which, ok, frankly? Do we have any proof that they aren't THE EXACT SAME THING? Think about it. The Varauta drained the spiritia of their captives directly, and turned them into zombie soldiers. Is anything that happened in Delta different, besides the method of delivery? Macross 7 used a direct mind linkage/drain, while Delta just used a wide broadcast system. And they were both defeated in the exact same way. Main difference seems to be that the Varauta lived off of that neural energy, while Roid just got off on backseat flashbacking everyone in the universe at once. Anywho, series is over, it had its high points and low points, but I thought the ending at least sort of mostly tried to wrap the important threads up. Windermere is still probably messed up, but at least Heinz got a taste of what it feels like to actually fight a war (if you can even call that fighting, and not mass murder). Frankly, all I'm left with is questions about what the Protoculture intended to do with all the nonsense they made, or what the point of it was. As goofy as some of the stuff in Macross 7 was, it actually did a fairly decent job of explaining why old Protoculture bioweapons were suddenly assaulting the universe. Same for Zero actually. This just didn't bother trying to give a reason for anything. Maybe the Star Singer was just actually one of the Evil series who never fell under the control of the Protodeviln? Music-wise though, I did love the piano version of the DYRL theme. The Mikumo version though, that was interesting. Really makes me think that the version from DYRL may have been only a partial recording that was filled in by human songwriters. Come to think of it, when the SDF-1 did start broadcasting it without lyrics, Minmay was only singing a small part, which was the only piece Mikumo actually sang, if I remember.