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    They just weren't able to deliver really, and a few people got stuck paying a fee to return pre-paid orders. I can't say that no one got one there, but enough people got stiffed that it left them with a bad reputation.
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    You mean 32 as in price, or how many of them there were? Because that seems terribly high for a ship the size of a P-51 Mustang.
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    Honestly, when Scarjo was first brought up, my mind flashed back to the fight scenes in Lucy, and thought, "Huh.. yeah, she can definitely pull off the emotionless cyborg thing." Not that the Major was emotionless, but she definitely hid them. Whether that alone would result in a good movie, I can't say. But I think she'll at least be able to act the part.
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    I'd say if you don't intend to transform it frequently, or do a lot of posing in battroid, you have a pretty good chance of things being fine. The triangles now have a Shapeways replacement available, so those aren't as big an issue. If you just keep it in fighter mode forever, you should be golden. In terms of how the breakages work though, the lower triangles aren't really necessary at all for anything, they just cover a gap, and aren't that noticeable if removed entirely. The upper NUNS triangles are the bigger issue, because they surround the shoulder joint, and breaking them can mean the arms don't work correctly. The legs are a separate issue though, and one there really is no fix for aside from replacing the entire valk. Bandai just designed the transformation mechanism terribly, and combined with a metallic plastic that likes to break, can result in the leg being entirely destroyed. I had that happen to me, and that particular 171 was relegated to the spare parts bin, because the knee joint shattered into a dozen pieces. No amount of glue is ever going to hold it, outside of permanently gluing it into a solid piece and never transforming it again. As far as Bandai ever reissuing something that fixes something they did wrong, I wouldn't count on it. It would take a complete redesign of the 171 to fix some of the issues, and I seriously doubt Bandai would ever do it unless the 171 became the hero valk of a new series.
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    At least with Disney, you can count on them digging out the old movies every 5-10 years for some anniversary release. In Bandai's case, they may as well be destroying the molds after running out of stock for all the re-release potential they usually capitalize on. From a licensing perspective, it makes sense to target sales for a specific market, but that doesn't excuse them for all the OTHER releases they do this with. I generally hear nothing but horror stories all around for any Gundam or otherwise anime-related release from Bandai.
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    Given the background shown in "Arise," I'm not sure she even has a real name, but I don't know if that story fits the original continuity. Personally, I just hope this movie doesn't wind up so bad that it turns people away from the original too. Though, there is that glimmer of hope that at some point Hollywood will make so many bad anime adaptations that they stop trying.
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    I almost muffed this one up big time.. I was actually on a game running some dungeon with a few friends at 11, completely forgot about the time change, and thought I had til 12.. I panicked, loaded CD Japan (the page was appearing broken at the time, nothing loaded right), and found the right places to click, all while trying to play an rpg one handed. Still, most painless order yet, outside of webshop stuff.
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    Whoo, got one on CD Japan, not gonna worry about any other orders XD
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    I'd forgotten about those other missiles entirely (though they've been available on Shapeways for quite a while). Would be interesting to see if Bandai considers them worth the effort. I don't recall for sure if those missiles were carried by 171EXs though.
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    As much as people rag on ST:TMP, I still think it's the best of the "bad" TOS movies, but it really is more in the interstellar navel gazing vein that a lot of TNG was. Cut out the 20 min iMac screensaver sequence, and the movie gets a bit better. ST:VI is still one of my favorites. The entire cold war allegory and the Hamlet thing got kind of silly, but it was a solid political intrigue plot that worked well with the characters. Though, the TNG action movie thing.. by the time the TNG movies were getting done, I think the shift to more action oriented plots on DS9 and Voyager probably contributed to that. Once people saw modern action-oriented Trek, with all the political intrigue and big space battles, the damage was probably done.
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    I actually think that's a pretty common thing with Bandai products. I've heard similar horror stories dealing with a few gundam releases, or other Bandai products in general. A lot of it just has to do with their practices in terms of production numbers, and questionable existence of re-releases. When you deal with someone as prone to flat out denying market demand as Bandai seems to be, it makes sense that all their products get scalped.
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    That's actually what turned me off so horribly to Into Darkness. It took that original theme, and then pissed all over it, taking what had been a huge emotional event in the original film, and then twisting it all around, and deus ex machina-ing it away within the last 20 minutes of the movie. It probably wouldn't even have bothered me if they had come up with something original, but making it so similar while stripping it of any heavy impact felt like a mockery. Admittedly, that's just me being picky and nostalgic about TWOK. Hopefully the new movies can actually go forward into something truly original, instead of re-treading all the plots and ideas that've been established in previous series and movies.
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    Don't blink! Don't look away, don't turn your back, and mash that F5, but DON'T BLINK!
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    That's actually one feature that worries me. Bandai just absolutely LOVES to use ten parts to do the job of one. It's like they have a fetish for overly complicated assemblies and mechanisms. What they dont seem to understand is that while that all works fine on a CAD model, it has to be assembled and packaged by questionably skilled hands that may or may not belong to a gorilla. The more itty bitty parts they add, the higher the chance that something is going to be lost, incorrectly assembled, or flat out broken.
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    I had the benefit of never actually seeing that episode until years later.. My introduction was "Best of Both Worlds," where seeing the destroyed fleet, was a lot more impressive.
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    The side profile in fighter is bugging me too a little, but we need to see an actual clean side view. The nose just looks like it's pointing upwards too much, same as the Yamato. I do want to get one regardless, but I think I'll be doing some paint removal. I thought the black area behind the cockpit was already a little too big on the Arcadia vesion, but this one just looks waayyy too wide. I am glad to see the shoulder... things... are removable though. Too bad the seam underneath them reminds me of the Yamato 1/72. Clearly Bandai didn't think those shoulder vents were worth any effort to make them presentable.
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    I can kinda take or leave voyager, but I think a lot of what killed me about it was clinging like mad to cliches no one wanted to see, and watering down everything that used to make the borg such a terrifying villain. Well, that, and there was a reason Gilligan's Island only lasted 3 years. I think the only thing that kept it on the air was all the blatant fanservice they threw in. Insurrection? I didn't mind it too much, because it was just your typical TNG episode. Nemesis on the other hand devolved into something worse than the most terrible trek fanfic I've ever heard of. Personally, my problem so far with the reboot universe is that they made all these sweeping changes... And then went right back to telling the exact same stories all over again.
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    Color, shape, general look... Bandai just doesn't seem to get the concept of landing gear, and it's like they can't be bothered to look at pictures of real ones to imitate. They have gotten better over time, but I really can't understand why they're so obsessed with leaving them bare metal. They worked fine on the old toys, but as the detail on the rest of the valk approaches levels you see on plastic models, the metal gear just clashes horribly in detail and quality.That, and the few pics that show the underside make me think the front gear isn't even going to reach the ground, because the gear doors are tiny. I don't think there's any way the gunpod is going to clear the ground.
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    I still want to see a proper set of pics without the boosters, sitting on the gear...... Then again, given Bandai's history, maybe I don't...
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    I plan to buy one whether I can afford it or not. The only question is how much I'll need to shell out for it. Whatever it is, it won't be as expensive as the boosters for the Arcadia YF-19.
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    I should try that one, might be something to tide me over until I get Star Citizen going. I realized something fun and interesting about the old X-wing games at some point.. they always used a combo of rolling and yawing for the default, with a button you could hold to roll. I tried something for the luls once, and mapped that button to a toggle on my stick that I could turn on and off. It actually was a good deal more challenging to aim, and intensified the difficulty quite a bit. I had a lot of fun that way, and it seems the default AI tended to fly that way too. I kind of wish more games had more mapping options for controls. The peripherals exist now to give a huge range of freedom in how you set up your control scheme. Extra axes and trim controls are great.
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    Actually, I'm curious, did that ever happen for the new Star Trek? I havent really paid any attention to that universe since First Contact, but I know there were always huge amounts of published material with deck plans and tech manuals. I really don't remember anything that extensive for the Star Wars universe that wasn't rooted in the EU. There were a few "cross sections" books released, but nothing ever approaching the technical level of trek stuff. I fully expect a ton of fan-based works, but I don't think I'll be holding my breath for any official technical manuals or anything.
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    Oh, I think it is, but there really is no ending. At best, it's a teaser of things that haven't happened yet, and the story will clearly carry on well into Kyon's college years. Nothing is really resolved at all during the book, and it's all implied to be continued in the future (or in a different timeline maybe). I guess all I mean is that using Disappearance as the official "ending" kind of works, because to tell the rest of the books would probably take two more seasons at least, and you still might not get a satisfying ending. The stories also become longer to the point that they may be better as feature length movies like Disappearance. I think the combined length of "Dissociation" and "Surprise" may be twice as long as "Disappearance", and those two books are one continuous story. I admit I wouldn't mind seeing it myself, but finishing the books in animated format could take a long time to do, and I don't know how long the talent involved wants to keep going.
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    To be fair, the series from Disappearance onward just piles on even more questions. Once you got past that point, while there are a few one-shot stories, the majority of content gets wrapped up in the anti-SOS Brigade plot, and things get quite a bit more serious in general. I'd be happy to see the rest of the books animated, but I can understand why they would hesitate. The rest of the series isn't something you can just write an ending to, and be done with it.
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    Yeah, I think some of what grates people about the new design is that they're negating all the years of fan conjecture about how the ship works. The thing that did just hit me though.. mass distribution. Reworking the wings that way would definitely throw the center of mass off somewhere that's not the center of the wings. The old design didn't do that since the wings were all identical. There's no reason that you couldn't counter that with computer controls, but it still makes you wonder why.
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