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    FYI, FFVI is also available on the Wii virtual console, and I imagine it's probably on the WiiU. I've been meaning to play it myself, since the latest preview trailer for FFXIV actually recreated a snippet of the intro scene, complete with an orchestrated soundtrack. The thing about backwards compatibility I always come to is that it might convince people to jump on a new console sooner. It probably would convince me, anyway. See.. I have a first gen 360, and though it hasn't red-ringed, I almost wish it would, so I could get the newer model. Thing is, I can't justify that as long as it's working. I know that's only my personal situation, but I can't be alone. If they made the new one backwards compatible, I'd have a reason to pick it up, so I could enjoy my old games on better hardware, and maybe toy around with the new features while I wait for new games I actually care about. Otherwise? I'm not going to even consider it until A: an absolute must-have game comes out or B: I hear rumors of the Xbox Two. The backwards compatibilty thing for PS3 was a non issue because they kept churning out PS2s until pretty recently, and those seem to keep running forever. The 360 doesn't have that reliability, and I doubt M$ is going to keep making them nearly as long as Sony made the PS2. We may yet get to a point where you can just emulate a 360 as well as you can a PS1 or PS2 now, but if M$ pulls support for the console required to play those games, then forces you to buy them again from an online marketplace to play them on the new console, people are going to be pissed. Though, people are certainly going to be pissed either way, so that's nothing new.
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    Thanks, now I'm picturing a Fire Valk/Gurren Lagaan crossover, and thinking of sticking giant sunglasses on my VF-19. Though, now that I think of it, I really want to see that crossover done. I get the feeling replacing Basara with Kamina would have resulted in something truly epic.
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    Eh, true, but as in so many cases, size isn't everything. Actually what I'm still trying to figure out is why the first teaser trailer for 2009 trek seemed to show the ship as the same size as the original. Maybe I'm just imagining things.
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    They're just a piece designed to allow for the different versions' heads to all fit snugly. The ones on the Fire Valk open so the head can pop up, but the rest of them are just molded to fit around the head. The only one that actually needs them to move is the Fire Valk.
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    Actually, I have to admit here.. I'm curious about how they plan on addressing fixed points in history that happened independently of anything related to Starfleet. There are really a huge amount of things that have yet to happen, and the only reason they worked out the first time was because people were in the right place at the right time. I know new Spock didn't want old Spock telling him about his life, but I seem to think after the influence he's already had, he might want to warn them about a few specific things. Preparing ahead of time for the Doomsday Machine, V-Ger, the space whale probe, the Borg, etc.. you could save a ton of lives. And really.. given the size of the ships already? I'm starting to think he already did warn them. The JJ-prise is already approaching the size of the Ent-D, and the Vengeance was even bigger. Unless the Klingons (along with every other race in the universe) have been similarly scaled up, they're going to be flies for Starfleet to swat. I'm actually curious if they're going to revisit Talos IV. It would be the obvious next stop on the "plot points we want to revisit" list, but you'd think Spock would warn them about something like that.
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    THIS. And actually, I'd much prefer a series about Wraith Squadron, just because the characters are so entertaining, and more well rounded compared with the Stackpole books. Not to say I wouldn't like to see the Isaard books too, but I want to see "Yub yub, Commander" in motion. Also, it had better look as good, or better than this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBM2ZfncoU I want to say, the closer to an anime series this gets, the better, but mostly I'm just concerned about making the universe kid-friendly. The time while the Rebels were base-hopping to stay ahead of the empire was not a happy time.
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    Seconded. What type of battery are you planning on using for this? Assuming you're going to use a small button-cell, I can think of a few places to put something that size. The trick is just working the wiring in. Since you've got so many separate components, I'm guessing you'll need separate batteries in the nose, each leg, and the main body. You can probably fit a battery inside the nosecone if you cut away a little of the cockpit pieces. The backpack probably has plenty of room for the power source for the wing and tail lights as well, though running a connection through the backpack joint might get tricky. Guess you could replace the existing hinge pins with copper, and just make a rotating contact, but I don't know if it'd be necessary. If you modify the rear landing gear to rotate and fold like they're meant to, and use a collapsing piston like you made for the front, you should have plenty of room in the leg powering the lights there as well. The big question now.. are you going to give this same treatment to a set of strike packs?
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    Ok, you know, I have to laugh at the whole Angel Birds thing, especially with the redone Thunderbirds logo. Makes me want to do the reverse mashup, and make a team in blue and yellow, but call them "Blue Thunder," but sadly that name's already kinda taken. Beautiful display, though I like the deeper red on the Yamato version better. I do kind of wish the YF-19 was easier to come up with good schemes for though. That one just looks really busy, and the markings don't seem to fit very well. On the other hand, I'd actually like to see a YF-19 in standard USAF Thunderbird markings. The shape of the YF-19's nose makes it hard to find good ways to paint it, but I think the standard Thunderbird nose scallops would fit pretty well.
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    I might do the exact same thing if they have leftover stock of both. Though I'm not sure what markings I'd give it. I actually still really want a 1/72 kit version, even if it isn't transformable, just so I can have it match the rest of the kits I have to build. I got a few of the 1/100s to paint up in various schemes, but they're missing the super packs, which I think actually balance out the design a little.
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    Ah, k, so they did use it that way. I never watched enough of Voyager to see that, and only knew of it as a higher powered propulsion method. Reason Scotty was associated with it in the first place was because he was the original engineer overseeing the prototype system tests on the Excelsior in ST:III.
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    Well, those were always glitches that you could technically duplicate under the right situation. This isn't really that.. it's more like, because we solved this equation, now we can use a transporter, which from what I recall is actually a point-to-point, line-of-sight transmission like radar, to send things beyond line-of-sight, beyond the range of the transporter itself, and even beyond the range of where we should even be able to detect a ship. It's like saying because you can do math, now you can instantly send giant data files to somewhere in Siberia, where they don't even have internet. It's kinda like the trek universe equivalent of fold quartz, I guess. I suppose it's not that much of a stretch overall, but they make it seem like this was something that existed in the original trek universe. It didn't, because trans-warp was never what they seem to think it is. If it was, Voyager would never have even happened, because they could have beamed themselves back to the Alpha Quadrant.
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    K, good to know. Looks like you could print a good number of things that size then. But yeah, I think the way to make the absolute most of that printing process is to break things up into smaller parts so that the print lines run in the best direction on each section. Shapeways definitely does that with their printing process, because the parts I printed are clearly layered in varying directions from how I oriented the model. It'll take practice, but you definitely need to dig into the models to break them up in sections that benefit the process. Like, for instance.. the back end of that Arrow model is pretty much flat, except for the nozzles. So, you make the back end the bottom, and make the nozzles separately so they plug in.' I wouldn't trust the natural divisions in that model though, since I'm pretty sure that's a raw export of the model used in the game. The breaks between parts might not leave you with a solid object. They might be the divisions set up to make debris when it blows up. If you want to try printing parts of that excalibur, I can send you that file to see how it's built. Or, I can dig up a good number of random sci-fi objects to print I suppose. Think I might even have an old original BSG viper model somewhere.
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    Yeaahhh... I really wanted to hit someone over that nonsense in the first movie. Really disappointed to hear they brought it back again. And considering they used it in the first movie to beam someone directly onto a ship that should have been light years away, and moving at warp speed, apparently they're not even being consistent between movies in how it's used. Though.. given how they treat time travel differently for each instance it appears, I suppose that's pretty standard. Far as I recall, "trans-warp" was just a reworking of the warp scale due to technology advances. The Excelsior tested a trans-warp drive. I never read up much on it, because I wasn't that interested, but it wasn't a freaking teleporter, it was an engine.
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    And the facepalming continues. By the way, anyone who hasn't gotten a set preordered might have a decently easy time ordering one after the fact. NY has usually had a few sets of the armor and such available long after the release date, probably because of the typical scalper preorder cancellations. Given how many of the YF-29 they've had, I wouldn't expect the super parts to be that hard to get. I just hope I'm not wrong, because I want a second set to customize into some less garish colors.
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    As a person still under thirty, but still loving the original franchise, I resemble that remark! I will agree it's been dead, but honestly, I'd blame that on how ridiculously convoluted the original timeline got once they got into all the nonsense in Enterprise. Well, that, and the amazing pile of feces Nemesis turned out to be. I guess that I'm sad that they took some of the best material in the older movies, and twisted it around into an homage that would only make sense to the same people it'd piss off. The whole thing just goes right along with our current "instant gratification" mentality. I'm glad it's enjoyable, but it's still two movies in a row where the entire plot winds up hinging on some horribly contrived plot device.
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    Nice! Not perfect, but definitely a good start. I think if you printed individual parts to build up into something, you could do a lot to minimize the effects the support structure has on the model by making the bottom areas hidden. I did read a CNet review of the printer that had quite a few issues with the way the software works, mainly that it was very limited in features, and made it difficult to tweak how things were printed. I think they said that some of the features you mentioned didn't exist, so it may have been an older review, and they've made changes to the software. I believe they did say that the layer thickness was fixed at 0.25 mm. They also made a bit of a fuss about the proprietary spools of plastic that the machine uses, since they seem to be about 3x as expensive as buying the plastic in bulk, but I suppose that's the price you pay for convenience of not having to learn to feed the machine yourself. How hard is the material to sand, now that you've printed it? And how much of a spool did you use up with those two prints?
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    Yep, that works, so a half mm gap between is enough then. The model might get ugly, but I'll try just making the panels by cutting the lines in and recessing them. I might make them a bit deeper than needed to make sure they cut out well. Thanks
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    This isn't rage over losing details due to accommodating transformation gimmicks, at least not for me. This is just facepalming over Bandai pretty much flaunting their refusal to follow established line-art for the design, and inventing their own nonsense panel lines, etc because they seem like they just can't be bothered to care. They don't have any effect on posability, transformation, or whatever, they're just flat out wrong for no good reason. I can't deny the changes to the legs and such are good for extra posability, I just don't personally care for them.
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    There's also the fact that years ago, the resin kits were all we had if you wanted to build a detailed model of a valk. They were there to satisfy the aircraft modelers who wanted more detail, because the Bandai, IMAI, and other kits were always fairly simple, or transformable/partsformable, and usually pretty small scale. Now, we don't have that issue, because Hasegawa has been sneezing out Macross kits in high detail and larger scales for years now. The resin kits have gone from "sought after because they're the only thing that exists" to "sought after because they're rare and collectible." They're worth so much, people don't really build them that often, or so it seems. I think a decent number of people were willing to look past inaccuracies and flaws in the early kits because they were all that was available. With the selection we have now, it's easy to get picky. Making something that's innovative can only take you so far if you throw common sense to the wind, and ignore the fact that you're actually doing things wrong. So, you're saying it took this long, and was still rushed? Wow. If they actually did that though, I hope it comes back and bites them in the backside with a vengeance.
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    Don't worry, you didn't ruin anything too much for me. I'm glad it's enjoyable, and people are having fun with it, so I don't begrudge anyone that. I just honestly can't really get into this new timeline version of everything very much to begin with. Also, there's no theater within easy driving distance where I can really see it at the moment, so it's partly out of being too lazy to drive 3 hours to see it.
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    Eh, you know, my original thought here was probably too harsh. I do think they're trying to invoke a bunch of emotions about a cast that hasn't been together long enough to even generate those emotions, but oh well. I admit, I'm going off the spoilers I read, and haven't seen it, so this may not be quite the full case. But that's what it feels like.
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    Yeah, it's not so much a "Get off of my lawn!" thing as it is a "Stop ripping out my lawn to replace it with astro turf!" moment. At a very basic level, it actually reminds me of what happened with the game HAWX. You try to expand on a genre, and make tweaks to make it more appealing to a larger audience. But that usually winds up causing two things: 1. You piss off the fans who already appreciated the genre for what it was by dumbing it down for the masses. 2. You do nothing impressive enough to actually draw more people in. I cannot say that Trek hasn't suffered from plot holes and such before (and the old odds/evens rule that Nemesis pretty much blew to smithereens with it's amazing sucktasticalness), but the whole ending of this movie is a complete insult to the original that it's paying homage to. It's like playing the national anthem entirely with flatulence. It has none of the meaning, none of the emotion, none of the value, and none of the payoff of the original. All the elements are there, but they mean nothing, because the entire resolution of the movie revolves around the stupidest deus ex machina I've ever heard of. Trek always relied on technobabble, but this can't even count as that. It's pure fantasy, and belongs right next to "red matter" on the shelf of "mysterious plot device to solve everything." You may as well just give McCoy a sonic screwdriver and call it a day.
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    I wonder how hard it would be to kitbash this kit together with a Bandai to let you use the super, armor, and tornado packs from the existing kits? If Hasegawa keeps the entire leg assembly as a separate structure, you could probably do it without too much trouble. I wonder if we'll be forced to do some kitbashing from the get-go to give them some pilots though. Hasegawa has gotten a little better with including pilots fortunately, but the VF-1 weapons pack nonsense was annoying.
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    Well, they've always been held together by technobabble to begin with, so the neck and pylons thing doesn't usually bug me (except when building the models.. I still haven't managed to build a 1701 original or refit that didn't have at least one nacelle snap off at some point ). In this case, it's more that the cutouts just look stupid, along with most of the ship really. I mean.. what actual purpose would something like that serve? Letting you make hand signals across to the opposite side of the saucer?
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    I'm anxious to see how well this thing works. If it's capable of printing anything like that Excalibur model at a bigger size (I'm aiming for about 10 inches long) and using a single spool or less, it'll technically be cheaper to produce than going through Shapeways (minus the startup costs ). For something like the YF-19 mod I'm planning, something like this could be far more useful than Shapeways, since you can bypass the entire order/shipping process. I'm not getting my hopes up too much though, since the plastic "thread" it uses looks pretty thick. It's a huge step forward for home users, but it'll come down to the printer's 3D resolution. Edit: So apparently those Cube printers can manage a layer resolution of 0.25 mm, since someone made an example object with one on that Matterform site. That sounds like it would work pretty well for larger detailed objects.
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