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  1. Chronocidal
    Could possibly do a JSF-based limb.. that thing's nearly as much of a brick as the F-22, and the wings are much smaller.
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    I wouldn't say the TWOK uniforms need to be changed at all. The current uniforms (which really don't look at all like uniforms in the first place) just mimic the look of the TV show, and depending on the squishyness of the timeline, we might be getting close to the uniforms in TMP. Actually, the dress uniforms are pretty close to the TMP version uniforms already from what I recall. I hope they go back to the classic TWOK uniforms, just because they were so iconic, and I don't think any of the others have really compared to them.
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    It's not this kit in particular, it's just their apparent ignorance or apathy about all things aircraft-related. It's just this amazing feeling that somehow, among all their design teams, no one in the group has ever built a model of an actual aircraft. They can't seem to understand what panel lines are. Also, slapping a 15 foot tall salami of a landing gear strut directly in the center of a 10 foot long bay doesn't work in any universe. They seem to be capable of amazing mechanical contraptions, but it's like they lose all sense when making something that's not in their usual repertoire. Yeah, I do apologize, I'm just annoyed over something most people won't even care about. It's just that the way Bandai goes about making aircraft is like nails on a chalkboard to my brain.
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    They didn't fix it on Ozma's either, so I think Bandai, for whatever reason, actually thinks the plain gray is accurate. It's not far off, but it looks really bad. Sadly, that spare gray crotch is still the only one my VF-25G has. At least the colors don't clash. Will probably have to preorder this soon. I kind of resigned myself to getting each super pack for the renewals, just to have them for display. Personally, I think they balance out the RVF design much better than a plain fighter with a big dorsal dish.
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    Well, I'm sadly not very interested in this particular scheme, but I do hope they sell well. The new price point could be for any number of reasons really, so that doesn't concern me too much. It's basically on the same level as the Bandai valks, and the tons of tampo can't be helping it. It must be a quality control nightmare to make sure the paint is all done well. Plus, I can think of any number of reasons they may have had to bump the prices. They may have lost their original factory, or costs of labor there have gone up. Maybe they just realized they needed to price them higher to break even after the company turnover. Could be it's partly to help pay off the cost of transferring/retaining the licenses from Big West. Heck, I wonder if Arcadia even had to match or outbid Bandai to keep the licenses. All that cost would have to trickle down. If I ever do see one on sale at HLJ, I might pick one up, but I actually hope that doesn't happen in a way. Paying $165 might make me think twice about any desired re-releases, but like someone said, we're all forking over that much and more for the Bandai ones. I just hope the demand is there to keep Arcadia going.
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    It is, and that's why I felt the entire plot of the reboot was facepalm-worthy. Granted, they eventually had the time police going around and trying to stop people from messing with the timeline, but I'd call a planet being utterly destroyed an extraordinary case, similar to the space whale thing. Spock and the entire TOS crew had seen their fair share of "temporal incursions" though, as the folks in the DS9 tribble episode called it. "The Naked Time" had them discover the time travel slingshot effect in the first place, "City On the Edge of Forever" had a WWII-era plot, "Tomorrow is Yesterday" had them go back in time to foil a plot to mess with NASA, "Assignment Earth" had them go back in time for research, and they managed to land an F-104 and it's pilot right in the shuttle bay. Then you have ST:IV. Time travel's been one of trek's key plot devices since the get-go. I'm not sure you actually have to make many changes to TNG for it to potentially fit. The only part of "Relics" that doesn't fit is when they recreate the TOS bridge on the holodeck, since you could otherwise just assume Scotty still winds up in the same situation he was in. "Yesterday's Enterprise" I don't think conflicts at all, unless things change massively involving Human/Klingon relations. Even "Generations" could eventually fit I think. Things are definitely skewed off onto a new timeline, and I believe things are delayed a certain extent, but Spock Prime seemed dedicated to getting the timeline back on track. If you ignore the ship designs and sizes, I'm not sure anything would be drastically changed. Thing is, the ships being more powerful from the get-go would rebalance a lot of history, and might change a few key things. If they want to do things right, it's going to take a lot of thought to pick out the fixed points in history and work around them. As far as "All Good Things" goes though, that was always just a potential future anyway, and the entire plot was a fustercluck of recursive paradoxes. Q used the situation to toy with Picard, and the entire mess had a really simple solution that Q just didn't feel like telling him. As soon as Picard saw that particular future, it pretty much guaranteed it would never happen.
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    You don't spend much time around aircraft fanatics do you? There's a reason they get called "rivet counters." And I'm pretty sure that's probably why. They figure if there's schematics out there, why are they changing something? Aircraft modelers basically worship at the altar of the schematic blueprint, because that is the end all/be all judge of how well they're building a kit. For part of this though, I'd have to agree that Bandai really doesn't even try. Just because it's a made-up aircraft doesn't mean you completely ignore how real ones look and function. And that's not really the issue with just this kit, but any aircraft Bandai attempts. For people who spend that much time making robots, they sure do seem inept about how mechanical moving parts work on an aircraft.
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    Wait. You can buy latex flightsuits?
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    Don't go unscrewing things before you check out the fit of every part on the plane. It's really sensitive to being properly transformed, so make sure everything is lining up with the shoulders, legs, tails, and head. One of mine didn't seem to fit right, but it was due to very slight misalignment in the shoulders. Once I fixed that, it all fit perfectly.
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    I'm tempted to grab one just because I could put it on my coffee table and/or wear it to conventions/halloween. I don't even ride.
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    I think the real issue in this case is that you're basically crossing the fanboy streams. You've got a mashup of aircraft and robot fans involved. Robots get redone all the time. They get re-rendered, re-detailed, redesigned so they look up-to-date. That doesn't happen with aircraft in the real world, barring actual upgrades. An F-14 will always be an F-14, and it will always look exactly like an F-14. When Kawamori designed the aircraft for Macross, he designed them as if they could be realistic aircraft, and fans of real aircraft latched onto that. So, now you have this clashing of people who see the original lineart as art to be reinterpreted, and those who see it as a schematic for an aircraft that shouldn't change. Where it gets ugly though is that whether Bandai intends it or not, a lot of the things they're changing don't look like an "artistic interpretation," they look like lazy mistakes. If they're doing it on purpose, fine, but when you have something that's been repeatedly produced in nearly the exact same form for 30 years, and you go and decide, "I think I'm just gonna change this stuff," and you don't say that outright, it looks like you're just doing it wrong, and don't care. Either way, Bandai still has no excuse for not bothering to research at least something about how aircraft work. It doesn't take that much work to look at a picture of a real plane and copy it, but apparently they can't even do that.
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    Given my experience with NY, they were plenty willing to ask Bandai for a replacement part, but I think they got stuck at the Bandai level. I don't think they replace parts, just entire items. Hopefully HLJ can prove them wrong. If so, I'm going to email them on the off chance they can get me a VF-25G crotch plate.
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    That's exactly where a lack of backwards compatibility fails miserably. Unless they keep making/repairing/selling the 360, people are gonne be screwed when their old hardware fails. Given the 360's history, I don't know what to expect there.
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    Though, yeah, if you really analyze a lot of them, they're all pretty stupid. Meh, but what do I know. I still actually enjoy TMP. That io9 review actually contained a link to a pretty similar review of TWOK, and yep, have to agree, Star Trek has never really been great cinema. They're just fun movies (except for Nemesis), which this apparently is, so ok then.
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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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