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    The astronaut who took the iconic Earthrise picture passed away in a plane crash off the San Juan islands. https://apnews.com/article/plane-crash-san-juan-islands-washington-6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263 Fair winds, bright stars and God's speed, good sir!
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    Gonna be a display full of barely leashed power!
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    Gettin' down and boogying!
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    I do hope we see more of Wolverine's mask in the movie than on the posters.
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    Sweet collection of models!
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    Finally watched the first season of 3 Body Problem, and it was pretty good. Very well done characters and scenes, including some really heartbreaking ones, and a compelling story. My only problem is I think they made the aliens too advanced... Maybe there'll be an explanation for it? Still, I liked it a lot and look forward to next season.
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    Nice homage! Definitely keeps its lineage, but with bells and whistles!
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    Agree in the hinges. Take another Bravo!
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    Someone got really imaginative with the TOS shuttle model! Awesome stuff!
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    That's really cool/cute!
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    Wow, @SteveTheFish nicely done! Those eyes are great!
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    Darn, I was hoping this was a sequel to the Vikander movie.
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    Ha! I was looking for the one with Kylo!
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    That.. works! Unify the paint scheme and it would look even better. And a nice up-armored VF-O!
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    Is it me, or do most of his characters all have long hair and beards..?
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    Wave 1/72 vf-171

    Thom replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    I would like to see that one too. Though, if you have Luca's RVF-25 then you can kitbash.
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    About what I'd be able to do too! It's a good felling having a model getting finished.
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    I'm in! Fun and adventure, what more do you need!?
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    I like her. Rogue One is definitely not a kid's movie! A similar approach could be said to have been done with the Harry Potter movies, as the first one is more for kids, and in that way serves as a good intro before they start getting old. I've only seen the Phantom Menace twice (if that) and it keeps getting worse every time I see it! Those are more of what you'd put on the back of a toy box. Hopefully, they'll have far more depth than that! Though that does remind me of Rebel Moon II and how the backstory of all the heroes is pretty much the same. Great Granddaddy Han is sure to make an appearance!
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    There were apparently Jedi temples all over the place, according to EU, comics and books, and the follow-up trilogy with Luke having retreated to the very first Jedi Temple. Sure they would, I'm just saying they probably shouldn't have depicted it, for stated reasons above. As to the Phantom Menace, I think they should have gone with an older Anakin (and not just because for the whole May/December thing with Padme.) They should have had Qui-Gon meet an older, more rebellious Anakin who was already pushing at the extremes of his power, but the Phantom Menace is basically a kid's movie, so... I would assume that Leia's influence, powered a lot by her death, was momentary. And that influence, I think, was just the awareness of his mother dying. Recall, he had the chance to do it himself and even urged Rey to 'kill' her past, but he couldn't do it himself. I would have to suppose that he was recalling killing Han and realized, after the fact, that patricide really isn't all it is cracked up to be. I'll have to find the hand book. It's in the Dark Side of the closet.
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    Oh, undoubtedly. Mocking, sarcastic and derisive, but it was there. And let's not forget, the Jedi had 'temples' all over the galaxy, which also tends to the view of a religion. I don't disagree that they would have looked for, and found ways, to measure and catalogue the Force, I just think that the decision to make that something they could do was a mistake. The Force was far better as a mystical mystery. Again, just IMO. I denounce midichlorins! Yes, Ben did die as well, but he was able to make more choices and perform more chosen tasks than Vader had been able to after he killed the Emperor. Truly, all Ben had to do was stand back and let Palpatine kill Rey. He made the choice however to fight with her, and even as she had died while using all of her life force to attack Palpy, Ben still chose self sacrifice in order to bring her back. If he had still been bad/evil, all he had to do was look into her dying eyes and 'thank you,' then walk away as the most powerful player left standing. To me, that signified a significant break from the Dark Side.* *A caveat being, of course, was Ben really a Sith, or just a fan-boi Ren? And what the heck is a Ren? Yet another thing to not like about the recent trilogy, the move away from historical nomenclature, such as Sith. They kept Jedi after all!
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    In the first one, the Force was refereed to as a 'religion,' with Vader countering about 'lack of faith.' I think, in all the following movies, we see the 'ever shifting sands' of meaning, where in the first the Force was very simply referred to and didn't need any further explanation, other a choking demonstrations, for it to be believable. IMO, they should have kept it in that simple area of understanding. Obi-Wan's explanation was really as in-depth as they ever needed to get. Again, IMO, turning it into something really measurable, such as by a computer, lessened the impact of it. Which is a pit-fall of continuing stories past where they were first intended to end. I just think making it something microbial was playing it too cute. Lucas should have left it as is rather than basically back-dating the whole idea. As to the 'evilness' of the Dark Side, again there are two clear instances where dark force users made a break from it. With Vader, it was basically one act in defense of his son and he died before we could see if he would be struggling against the urge to go Dark again, whereas with Ben he very clearly made a clean break. To me that signifies that a person's choice, to be or not to be (evil) is still just a choice and that the slippery slope may either be just a perception or an outright pontification of fear. The Jedi would not want others to even dabble in it, so pushing the fear of it, "Don't turn to the Dark Side or you will lose your sou!" served their purpose of combating their ancient enemy, the Sith.
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    Destroid!! But at least he took out the Zetran he was fighting. I think so at least, as I can only see half of him... 🤮
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    Fine looking Battroid @Urashiman Looks like a really good kit. @pengbuzz that Street Hawk cycle is looking great! As to the wheel, is there any way to make a resin copy of one of the other wheels? Or, if not that, buying another toy with similar wheels and just taking all you need from that one. And cool work on they Valkyrie @nightmareB4macross As for me, I can't seam to keep my model from morphing into different kits. Last I looked it was an Me-410, and now its a Crusader. It's not even the same scale!!
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    My thing is, turning it into basically microbes in the body, something that can be sampled and measured rather than a mystical force pervading the universe, really takes away from the wonder of it. I mean, if you can take samples of it, can you then not take them all from one person and inject them into another? Perhaps a bioweapon could be made specifically to kill off midichlorians (sp?) thus ending the constant tug of war between the Jedi and the Sith. Or at least knocking out their godlike powers. That little bit of dialogue dashed a lot of mysticism, at least for me. Which is why I was so glad that they did not mention them in the Rey Saga, when Maz basically reiterated Old Ben's original description. Ah, I thought I had heard mention of the Grays in relation to Ashoka, and they are on Wookiepedia. But then, like Wiki, take with a grain of Crait salt...
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