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  1. Chronocidal
    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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    I wouldn't even mind the looks if the wings weren't setting off every OCD and structural nonsense alarm in my brain. The updated fuselage profile doesnt look bad at all, and the split engines are what the design had originally anyway. Honestly though... those lower wings look like they would snap off like twigs. I dont see anything even supporting them, it's like they're just pasted against the lower engines.
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    I dunno, TIE Fighter was always the superior game really, and they made up for the weakness the same way the Mitsubishi A6M did. It was light, fast, and could sneak around and kill you really fast if you weren't looking. Course, then you throw Interceptors, Advanced models, and the Tie Defender in there, and you just might as well go home and let the empire have its fun. Anyway, there's probably a million structural and aerodynamics arguments you could make for why the new X-Wing is just a bad design, and most of them could probably apply to almost any design in the Star Wars universe anyway. The thing that will probably continue to bug me though.. they did exactly what the JJ-prise did, whether JJ had anything to do with it or not. They went about changing an established design just to make it look new and revamped, without actually thinking about why the design was the way it was in the first place, or making changes that make any sort of logical improvement on the old one (even within established SW universe design philosophy). They changed it just to make it different, and on top of that, to my eye they just made it ugly. People will like or dislike it for whatever reason they prefer, but it's like this design ticks off all the checkboxes on what I personally would never want to see done to a ship design I like.
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    Problem is, seeing is believing, and they never had a reason to show the ties dodging, or taking minor hits. People just assumed they were soggy tissue paper cannons, and it stuck. They also didn't have the special effects ability to really show any kind of deflector shields, so we had to take everything from the dialogue. Given that a lot of SW combat was based on WWII air battles though, it definitely can be related to the air combat in the Pacific. Ties and X-wings may as well be Zeroes and Hellcats, with the Y-wings replaced by Dauntlesses. And anyway, yeah. It feels exactly like they changed the x-wing just so it would look different, without any consideration to how those structural changes would affect an actual craft, in any universe. But aside from that? Even ignoring any higher level of engineering principle... it just looks off. I mean, if you're going to change something just for the hell of change, fine, but at least make it look good. All this design does is throw my brain into a horrible fit of OCD because it ruins the 4-way symmetry of the original design for no aparent reason.
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    Until the wings open, it looks fine really. Then it just looks awkwardly off balance for no really practical reason.
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    Yeah, I kinda lost all respect for them after I saw how they "adapted" HAWX to run on the PC. And how they handled the DLC by including it on-disk, and subsequently banning any PC user who tried to bring up the fact that PC users could just install it for free with a file tweak.
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    I think I'll personally be more interested to see what they do with the 1/48 scale ships. At 1/72, you lose a lot of definition in some of the finer details on the x-wing (gun vents and engine exhausts in particular). Plus, I still want a decent 1/32 x-wing. A y-wing or b-wing that big might get a little cumbersome, but 1/32 is just about an ideal size for an a-wing or snowspeeder, since those are so small to begin with.
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    See, the thing that set Fine Molds apart in my mind? That Millenium Falcon kit wasn't quite designed based on the filming miniatures. It was based on all the hundreds of kitbashed bits that were stolen from other kits, and glued all over the base hull. They went and sourced the original parts from the original kits, and reproduced scaled versions of them to put on the model. It doesn't get more accurate than that. Whether Bandai will go to those lengths? I don't know. I still don't think I've seen anyone put a ton of detail into the Saturn V segments on the X-wing.
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    Or, in the reverse case, you could have people not realizing that they're names from a science fiction universe, and years from now, we'll have a bunch of kids named Wedge and Lando. I actually know a guy with a son named Revan. Yes, he was fully aware, but his wife was the one who suggested it. Something about a tradition of mixing relative names (if it's not ridiculous) and having uncles named Richard and Evan.
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    How easily people forget the prequels. Back then we were dealing with Qui-gon, Padme, Jango, and Dooku. And then we have Boba, Lando, Wedge, Jek, Biggs, Crix, Virar, ...Some of those might be EU, but still.
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    That assumes that the rocket doesn't have problems before leaving the planet though. Any serious issues during launch could send the entire thing crashing down, and no matter how reliable we think the rocket might be, nothing has a 0% failure rate.
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    Nice job overall, but I still can't get why Bandai chose to do some things the way they did. That nose shape has always felt really off for me for some reason, like it's too round. Sadly, the most prominent one I notice on those pics? Those folding joints for the tails look just plain nasty. I mean.. not only could they not make them hidden in any way, but they had to mold them in a color that belongs to neither the plane, nor the tails. '
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    Eh, the gist of what he said isn't too difficult. Sounds like they tried to slide the wings up to hide the gap between them with the backpack flap, but there just wasn't enough room to do it. They did manage the cover the gap with the nosecone from the front though, and I don't think it looks bad with the cape anyhow. One thing that stands out to me though.. the wing construction is what I wish Bandai could get through their heads as being a good idea. They always seem to mold things in whatever color they feel like at the time, and then go back to correct everything with paint. Arcadia on the other hand, molded the wings so that no painting is even necessary for the main wing colors, despite having different colored control surfaces.
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    Very pretty box art, hope it looks just like that. That circle might be indicating something about the pitot tube being rotated around, but it's not there in the picture.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I'm pretty sure that isn't the standard way those panels work. In the earlier pictures, they push back and lock against the back plate instead. I think someone modded them to get them to fold sideways like that. Cool idea, but that kit is already far too intricate for its size.
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    Fortunately, that's a pretty simple change to make to the overall design, so shouldn't be too difficult to implement if you want to try it. You might need a decent angle on the pivot surface to get the splay angle you want though.
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    Bandai's decals for their macross frontier kits aren't even worth the paper they're printed on. They are quite literally the worst decals I think I've ever seen.
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    Shadows of the Empire might have survived the book burning, but I think it was the only book that was ever considered anything close to "canon." Didn't one of the Ewok movies actually introduce a force "witch" that got expanded into some of the EU as well?
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    I may just pay their fee and consider it the price for gambling on a cheap deal, I don't think it's really significant enough to try and dispute. For those who did use Paypal though, there might be plenty of time to just dispute it on their side. They've got a pretty generous chargeback policy, I remember seeing up to 180 days at one point. Whether that's only for certain retailers though, I can't say.
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    Curious, have you considered angling the laser mounts similar to the standard 1/60 head to get them to tilt when rotated up? Or does the art actually depict them angling out when facing forward? Looking good either way! I almost wonder if those chin vents would work better molded solid, and then drilled out manually.
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    Eh, X-Wings look fine, except for the wings... it just throws the entire design out of balance having the wings those shapes. They were never meant to be aerodynamic in the first place, but it just looks bad to me having them not be symmetrical. Call it OCD, or whatever, but I think the wings just look terribly thought-out that way. Pilot gear looks similarly bad (that helmet is just baaaaad), and the fact they're still using those dumb Episode IV targeting computers makes me cringe considering how many more advanced things we've seen in the movies that were supposed to take place 60 years ago. Hopeful for the movie in general, but I'm really worried they're going to do exactly what Into Darkness did.. cram in every single possible reference they can to the original content, twist it in some way that may or may not make sense, and hope it holds together into a new story. Changing things just so they're barely different is a good way to both accomplish nothing that makes sense in-universe, and simultaneously kill anyone's nostalgia by making it just different enough that people don't like it anymore.
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    Yeh, it just is not that attractive an image of her. Between the weird face, the dumb hair covering half of it, and the sudden lack of limbs below mid-thigh, it just doesn't do anything for her. Now, if we could get one of these with Cathy on it instead...
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    I wouldn't mind seeing some VF-171 repaints from the game.. they had both a Gamlin and Millia scheme hidden in there.
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    I don't mind the packs in fighter mode so much, but have to agree they're horribly clunky and out of place on the design otherwise. They're just so out of place in battroid mode, and Bandai clearly has no faith in the joints' ability to hold them up so they don't drag on the ground. On the plus-side though, if it means we never have to look at the atmospheric VF-19 packs again, I'm perfectly okay with the updated design.
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