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    The last battleships of the Iowa class were retired, put into mothballs, or made into a museum ship not long after the first Gulf War ended. The last one USS Wisconsin was converted into a partial museum ship with restrictions in case of reactivation up until around 2009 when she was fully retired gifted to the city of Norfolk Va. and any restrictions as a museum ship were lifted.
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    Yeah you're right my bad.
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    So far the suggested prices I've seen are 23,000-25,000 yen which is roughly half the price of Kotobukiya Frame Arms Girl or Megami Device kit. Now I know Bandai is an industrial giant and can mass produce these on a level Aoishima and Kotobukiya can't which drives the price down, but it makes me wonder where they'll be cutting costs too. It doesn't seem like there's a lot to go with the base kit so that helps. I'm also a little skeptical on the quality. The early attempts at girl kits in the Build Fighters line were a complete mess full of ill fitting parts and dead soulless eyes right out of the uncanny valley. Things improved drastically with the introduction of Diver Nami and the rest of the girls from the Build Diver line, but things took a step back with figure rise standard line. Asuna from Sword Art Online was bad, but Fumina was okay. Neither were anywhere near a Kotobukiya kit in terms of quality.
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    Definately a high 8. The nub marks are bad, but the fit is tight and from a distance you likely couldn't tell it wasn't lego. You could do a hell of a lot worse.
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    I can confirm this. I've built the M26 Pershing, M5 Stuart, M4 Sherman, and M3 Lee. No missing parts, but tracks can be a pain as unlike the megablox Call of Duty battletank sets that use rubber tracks these are all individual links you have to connect to assemble and can be a pain. That being said once assembled they do make a nice clickety clatter sound like a real tank when you roll them, and I haven't had an issue where the tracks randomly snap and break just sitting on shelf like the CoD tank's rubber ones. Edit: As far as brick quality goes you can definately tell they're not quite up to lego quality, but definately much better than megablox's brittle and prone to stress marking if not outright breaking quality.
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    Looks like Bandai is really trying to play catch up to Kotobukiya, Aoshima, and others on the mecha girl model kit front with this new 30 Minute Sisters companion line to the 30 Minute Missions. I figure this line will live or die based on wether or not they can be relatively affordable, wether the faces are painted or stickers, and wether they use this as a jump off point for gundam crossovers because we all need a Charlotte Aznable Zaku II armor girl.
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    Almost everybody except most of the ninja's are based on people or characters from martial arts movies. Johnny Cage is Jean Claud VanDamme. Shang Sung is David Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China. Raiden is Lighting from Big Trouble in Little China Kitana is Lady Snowblood Liu Kang is Bruce Lee Sonya Blade is Cynthia Rothrock. Kano is O'Hara from Enter The Dragon. Jax is Mr T. The ninjas were originally supposed to be generic enemies with elemental powers as MK was originally supposed to be a brawler like Final Fight or Streets Of Rage before it became a one on one fighter as such they're not really based on anyone except for Rain which is a Prince reference(purple rain...get it?).
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    You call that low? This is low!
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    I wish I COULD forget the human characters from KoTM, that mother irritates me so damn much!
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    You assume he wanted to kill Luke. By this point there's likely a huge bounty on Luke to be taken in alive from the Emperor or Vader themselves.
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    Five bucks this film ends with Akeem rewriting Zamundan law to let his daughter take the throne, he is the king after all.
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    Wait... The thing that disabled all dilithium is call Su'kal... Suck all? How Appropriate for ST:D.
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    No I don't care how she lost her arm. No I don't care about how she learned of the "green place." No I don't care about how she came to work for Immortan Joe. What I do care about would be a sequel featuring "Empress Furiosa" bringing law & order back to the wasteland.
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    I didn't watch WW1984 because I'm a knuckle dragging hornball like Animal from the Muppets, I watched it because I actually enjoyed the first one and expected the same level of quality in the sequel. Boy was I wrong. That being said I'm still willing to give Patty Jenkins a chance, as even Spielberg has made some stinkers in the past. It's all a question of where she goes from here.
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    My only complaint is he didn't pry open the doors with the force and say: "I'm Luke Skywalker and I'm here to rescue you."
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    This.
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    I never gave even one wet fart about Voyager because it's entire plot of "Will they ever make it home?" was boring and oppressive especially when it devolved into a worse species of the week than ToS or TNG. The refugees searching for home had already been done before better by Space 1999 and original Galactica and Voyager didn't have the interesting cast, or space battles to hook you like those did. As for Enterprise it suffered from the same problem all prequels do, in that we already know how this all ends so why should I care about what happens in the show? The only mildly interesting storylines they touched upon like the Vulcans not being all that truthful about their intentions, or the birth of the federation were either dropped too quickly or addressed far too late to hold interest. A better follow up to Voyager would have been finding a way to establish a wormhole and explore more of the Beta quadrant that Voyager bypassed to get home. The entire show could have been based on territorial expansion and establishing frontier outposts/colonies alongside other nations like the Klingons, Romulans, or Ferengi using the 19th/early 20th century "Dash for Africa" as historical context.
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    That seems to be out the window now given what actress Letitia Wright did on twitter with going on a long rambling conspiracy rant possibly while high and or drunk like what Mel Gibson did except she replaced jewish people with transgendered people and blamed them for causing/spreading covid.... Yeah.
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    This is all for nothing if Michael A. Stackpole isn't involved in some way.
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    That was James Earl Jones choice. He felt at the time Star Wars and ESB came out his contributions weren't important enough to justify a credit. Back then Voice Acting didn't carry the same gravitas it carries today and was just something actors did to pay the bills until their next full acting role came in. By the time RoTJ came out the franchise was big enough and his voice role iconic enough that he was included in the billing for his work. That all being said Rest in Peace David Prowse.
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    I said this before and I'll say it again louder. Predator. Pacific Island. WWII.
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    I wouldn't be surprised if that was the plan in the end. Especially given... Edited to remove spoiler that didn't want to be hidden.
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    You sure you're not describing Warhammer 40k?
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    One major reason this game wasn't well recieved had to do with the previous movie tie in game the studio developed... Rambo.
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    Started playing Banner Of The Maid today. How can I best describe this? Picture a Final Fantasy Tactics style of turn based strategy game set during the French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars, populated by a bunch of busty anime styled waifus, and yet somehow still relatively accurate to history. I wasn't sure of this game at first, but I gave it a shot because l like the time period it's set in and it was cheap($16.99 on xbox). Surprisingly this game isn't just better than it has any right to be, it's just a damn good game! You basically play as Napoleon's little sister who in this world is also military officer trying to make a name for herself on the battlefield. The thing is between missions it plays out like a visual novel where you have to curry favor or take on extra missions between different politcal factions of the revolution in order to get better equipment and supplies for the front which is a neat little twist. The battles play like a typical turn based grid game except each character represents a regiment under their command that faces another enemy regiment in a line battle instead of character on character. So you have skirmishers, line infantry, light cavalry, heavy cavalry, and artillery each with distinctive strengths and weaknesses. You can even promote regiments to become elites like going from an regular line battalion to part of Boneparte's Old Guard. You guys should really check this game out! Edit: Behold Bridget Sharpe!
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