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  1. Chronocidal
    I really just have one very specific request here.. Can we just get THAT stand for every VF-1 release ever? Because it looks awesome, and doesn't need a stupid bracket eating half the underside.
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    Seriously, all things considered, it really looks like they tried to just do a miniature DX. It's nice being saturated with good VF-1 products, but I just can't convince myself I need another scale to mess with, especially not when it costs more than I paid for my old Yamato 1/60 copies with super or strike packs. I know that's an outdated standard, and everything is more expensive, but I don't see it as an improvement in any way that matters, and I'm pretty well at the saturation point for the VF-1.
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    If the measurements are right, it's something like 1/67th, so right in between the KC and Yamato scales.
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    I have.. absolutely no idea what's going on with that weird VF-1J-ish thing. Are they trying to make one of the custom versions seen in some of the old video games? The fighter mode... looks not good.
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    Giving me flashbacks to a bad batch of guacamole I ate once.
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    So, it's about an inch shorter than a Yamato 1/60... which basically points to it being some oddball middle point about 1/67.
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    I guess we hadn't seen any neo-cubist takes on the VF-1 yet.. glad someone stepped up to fill that gap.
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    Yeah, those arms are drooping hard, and you can the gun has a tilt to it like the HMRs do. Funny they did Bandai one worse with the landing gear.. forget metal, they just made them black. (Probably a dark metal if they expect to have any stability at that scale, but still.)
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    I just noticed they actually split the secondary missile box on the Legioss in half so each shoulder gets a piece. I'm not sure if that makes sense exactly, but I like that it doesn't just hang off of one shoulder that way. It's actually looking pretty good, I think the pilot looks a little less cramped in that cockpit than on the Sentinel version, like the beefed up the overall scale a little. I don't know if I would pre-order, but I might try and get one if the price turns out reasonable. It looks a lot like the Sentinel version, with the legs tucked underneath nicely, so I'll have to keep an eye on it.
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    I have to say, I love the fact that it looks like his office shelf is literally crammed full of organizers full of LEGO bricks.
  11. Chronocidal
    I would only say sort of. Sentinel got the design accurate, but it absolutely lives by the rule of anything flying with enough thrust. Those wings and tails aren't what are keeping it in the air, and the design is mostly a giant bucket of drag. I've just always thought it would be interesting to make something with the same essential transformation, but expand it out into something closer to a Hornet in size, and actually streamline the rear of the cockpit.
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    I keep hoping someone will take the Alpha sometime and just go all out on a reinterpretation that stretches it out into something that looks airworthy. The proportions of the battloid mode don't really work with it, but it's a fun thought experiment at least.
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    And I think the Sentinel one was about 6 inches, so are they going for a rough 1/24 scale? I love the idea of a bigger one, since it's such a small thing.. but not with those fighter proportions.
  14. Chronocidal
    That is absolutely gorgeous! Are any of those kits still available these days, or have they just gone out of production? The last time I looked them up, the Eaglemoss pre-built versions were cheaper than the kits.
  15. Chronocidal
    So this surprised me, probably just because I missed it during earlier Wonderfest clips about the Trek kits. Seems like they're re-releasing some super old kits with no changes (original Naboo Fighter, and what looks like their ancient 1983 snap-fit B-Wing), but also making a couple of new things. Why they aren't doing an X-Wing first is anyone's guess, but I hope they get around to making something that can actually compete with Bandai's molding. This Tie looks good built up, but the close-ups bring back memories of the mushy molding on the old AMT kits. It's not terrible, just not nearly as crisp as Bandai's molding got it.
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    This is really my primary thought about this.. not that these sorts of games aren't fun to play, it just feels like a massive step back from something like Macross 30, which I would still love to get an official translation for. If these smaller titles are easier to produce, that's not a bad thing, and I hope they keep making more to bring more people into the franchise, but I'm hoping they eventually make the most of their licensing partners and get us a true Macross Ace Combat title.
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    Wish there was something better to do with those head antennas, always makes me like the blue one. Reminds me though, I love transforming those little things, and should dig one out again to display.
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    This.. actually cracks me up now that I realize it.
  19. Chronocidal
    Ok, but can we get T.C.'s chopper while we're at it? That would be huge, but awesome.
  20. Chronocidal
    Yeah, I'm still waiting on the same kit, but I'm in no rush to get more of them. I'm getting the impression that Bandai doesn't like HLJ very much for some reason Whatever the reason though, they seem to have gotten bumped to the end of the line for stock of that kit. Maybe an ordering snafu on the back-end?
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    It was never actually "canon" to begin with, it was always secondary to the movies, and a few other things. There was always a strange hierarchy of how canon certain things were considered, and I think official games game after the movies.. which got weird when a bunch of games started pulling things straight from the EU. Biggest offender I remember was the first N64 Rogue Squadron game, since that had a few things pulled from that same Dark Empire comic series (the World Devastators, and the V-Wings). Being honest though, I don't think they made the wrong decision writing something different for the sequels (or at least, not compared with any of the other wrong decisions that were made). The EU had a good, long run of wildly varying quality, and there are certain beloved bits that people always wanted to see as movies, but I don't think the majority of the EU would work very well on film. For instance, people would love to see a Thrawn "trilogy." It's a nice thought, but I think there's more than three movies' worth of material in those books, and that's still ignoring all of the other Thrawn books that came later. Bottom line.. if they were going to make the Thrawn books into movies, I don't think they would have satisfied fans of the EU anyhow. Going in a unique direction might have had a better chance of success, just because it would make it easier for casual fans to get into. Sadly, we're past the point where they could have directly adapted the books, so whatever we get now is anyone's guess.
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    I think those were actually from the Dark Empire comics series, but Disney has never been shy about yanking things from the expanded universe when they can't come up with something better themselves. This is just closing the circle on the fact that they pulled the name of the manufacturer for the new sequel trilogy X-Wings (FreiTek) from those same comics featuring the manufacturers of the E-Wing. It looks like they did tweak the ship though, since the original had a cannon where that droid was sitting, and that third upper cannon isn't in any of the pics that I've seen. If I'm remembering correctly, the droid in the original was a unique astromech that was permanently mounted to the interior of the ship, though the image below seems like it would still be able to be removed.
  23. Chronocidal
    I can't be the only person actually pissed that they didn't even bother to make an actual ROTJ A-wing. That's just stupid lazy. Late edit: It just hit me what they're trying to do with the paintschemes. If you're going to paint things like a poster image lit from a specific direction, wouldn't it make more sense to make your promo photos from that direction so people can see what it's supposed to look like?
  24. Chronocidal
    Sheesh.. not something I would have expected to see in this lifetime. Actually tempted to pick up a second, but I really don't need more YF-29s.
  25. Chronocidal
    I'd be really interested to see them display the other modes.
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