Chronocidal
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Nice! Was hoping that would be her, and not Ranka/Sheryl/Cathy, since I've already got two of those. And, though I might just be clinging to an impossible hope here, I think they might actually have molded the lower wing gloves in color. They didn't bother to paint the interior of the lower wing glove on Ozma's VF-25S, but that one there clearly isn't blue.
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Well, actually, it had to do with the character designs. The style used for the drawings reminded me of some older anime, like Vampire Hunter D. The facial details seemed strange for this genre, but they reminded me a lot of a style I've seen in creepier stories. The way their eyes were drawn in particular reminded me of Blue Gender. Don't think it was necessarily bad, but they definitely played up the creepiness factor of many of the characters. It really came out in Tomahawk, and those two weird characters Rei met when he crashed.
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I'm figuring it will be that way too, but I'm holding out hope that they might realize what a bad setup it is. For Ozma, yeah, the tabs would get scratched, but they'd still be gray. For this, any missing paint is going to stick out like a beacon.
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Scanned or not, it's still easy to pick out those dipshits still haven't taken the time to color match the pieces in the knee to the rest of the leg interior. Seriously, Bandai, get with it here. I just hope they had the foresight to realize that if they don't cast the lower wing in white plastic, the pegs that lock into the leg are gonna turn blue and look hideous really really fast.
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Interesting.. I wonder if they're mixing around the elements of the series and the movies with this? That shot of the group walking down a corridor looks like Sheryl, Ranka, MIchael and Klan (wearing the Basara/Mylene costumes from the second movie), Kanaria, and... some random bluish-purple-haired person? Not sure if it's Kanaria either, but it looks like her hair, with the bandana she tended to wear tied into it. The mystery person looks like a girl, but knowing Alto.. Don't think he'd wear something that skimpy though, so it might be a random bridge bunny, or maybe even Nanase (looks too tall/thin to be her, though).
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They definitely went with a uinque style for the artwork. Can't quite put my finger on what it reminded me of at the moment though.
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Actually, they have book 2 at the moment as well, but only about 5 copies left (I just ordered #6, along with book 7 of the Haruhi novels ). Even if it's not that great a book, I figure it has to make more sense than the anime did.
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LOADS. They actually give the background for the characters enough that they make some kind of sense. Basically, the anime cut out all the exposition in the book, whether it was necessary or not.
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I'm not sure if all the books are translated, but I definitely bought the first book on a whim while wandering through Borders when it came out.
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Yeah.. just finished the first novel, and have to agree, that anime was a complete charlie foxtrot. It crammed the beginning and end of the first book into the first episode, then splattered random bits of the rest of that book across the episodes, before turning into some kind of "HAH, FOOLED YOU!" ending. The actual entire point of the plot got somehow lost in the backwash. Also was really disappointing how little screentime the actual Super Sylph got because of that. The book just made much more sense.
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
Chronocidal replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Wish I was a bit farther south, I could've seen that myself. Congrats to you all who got to see it fly in person. Oh, and I forgot.. it's easier than I thought. Just call it the J-21 Laptol. -
I do have one of these, and never noticed any problem with mine. I think it came from the later releases, so you'll probably be fine. I'd check the listing on Anymoon.com, since there's a fairly thorough listing of any v.2 VF-1s that were known to have shoulder problems. I know there was a supposed cut-off point, where any valks released past a certain release (I want to say Max's TV VF-1A) should be safe, but there were a few later releases that used old stock.
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Considering the shipping on those, there are probably much better ways to display your valks. I mean.. sure, you can set them on there.. but you're talking about a flat piece of plastic supported by posts. They don't sell the ones with the pedestals for mounting valks on anymore. I guess I never really understood why Yamato keeps selling the display bases without selling the mounting armatures anymore. Sure, they might work decently as risers for setting figures on, but I'm sure you could make your own risers out of clear acrylic very easily (and I know some people on these boards have done just that).
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
Chronocidal replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
For a country that experienced and dedicated in making cheap bootleg copies of other people's work, what else can you really expect? I'm tempted to start slapping Chinese sounding nonsense words together with "raptor" to come up with a really racist sounding nickname. -
Eh, I have the original, and my experience with it is exactly why I want a new one.
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Sheesh.. that's insane, 40% off? Note to self, just be patient with future releases.
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Well, should say, finished painted pictures. The ones posted in the other thread were all of what looked like a test shot for the molds.
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Secrets of the VF-14m7 P*L*U*S finally revealed!
Chronocidal replied to dialNforNinja's topic in Fan Works
Heh.. After playing so many Legend of Zelda games, part of me wants to call them "rupee launchers." Nice work on this, I always did wonder how this one was supposed to transform. -
Well, I'm content with sticking to HLJ for all but the most ridiculous (read "Bandai") releases. I'd rather have the possibility to get replacements in case something comes broken, and I know HLJ has a pretty good reputation there with most people.
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I need to go back and look at my billing, but I think when I paid ahead for NY it was much less than the current price. Now if I could just remember what day that preorder happened on..
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Are there still no pics yet of the VF-25G? Seriously, Bandai, it's like you don't even care about your own products, or you're just convinced that the only people who would buy them anyway already pre-ordered.
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Whoa, yeah... I need to cancel my NY order in this case, and reorder with HLJ.. the shipping is probably exaggerated because they don't have actual size/weight info, but there's no way EMS for those should be $100.
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Darn, I was hoping this was going to be the intro video for a new Tie Fighter game. Still.. that was freaking brilliant.
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If they're going to just release kits then, I wish they'd consider releasing some in different colors. There are so many white valks, they all blur together. And it's not like it'd be a massive undertaking to release them in colors they've already released. The VE-1 and VF-X were already in gray, all they'd have to do is prep the molds for more of those types, and skip the tampo and assembly processes.
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I guess then the kit version was made to appease all those fans who wanted non-canon schemes? If that's the case, they need to start issuing kits of everything. I don't get it though. They have to know what the low vis 1/48 goes for now. Maybe it didn't sell well to start, but there's a certain portion of the fanbase who'd be selling off spare organs to get military scheme releases of everything. Maybe it'd make more sense to make them web exclusives, but I have a hard time believing there's no profit to be made on them.