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  1. Mechapilot77
    that may be the most ignorant thing you've ever said. every sentence is fraught with fail
  2. Mechapilot77
    had no idea 6 can be read as mu...clever indeed. i knew 1-3 for some reason and i knew roku from initial D (hachi roku ). bit of triviea...the roku streaming device is the 6th company the guy who started it created.
  3. Mechapilot77
    awesome, the other day when i said iwas off to amazon...thats exactly what i bought. lol. got it yesterday, will experiment a tiny bit this weekend. finally going to see a benefit (aside form cost) of having a detolf over one of those more expensive and awesome shelves....tthose metal rods are gonna get used! the only other time i used its is when i tied a small figure's hand to it to make it look like he was hanging from a railing and shooting down at a much bigger figure (revoltech prime vs. tfc hercules if you're curious). oh and yeah i totally am taking the shelves off to do this. tons easier i'd think.
  4. Mechapilot77
    yup i think a simplied interior/hollow interior version would sell well since they could hit a price point people could accept. they do need to give the thing better, stiffer joints though. that would be the uiltimate insult if a simpliied hollowed out one couldn't hold poses well!
  5. Mechapilot77
    yeah if this was a traditional kit or even a finished toy it would have been LESS than the limited production HDP kit. But even at less than $400 they figured they couldn't get enough sales to make production tooling worth it so they went low production, high price is my guess. i woud love for them to reevaluate the business case for a full production kit/toy or toy/kit of the regult. the design could be based on this one with some necessary changes for higher production more toy friendly kit. to make it cheaper they can reduce the size maybe....even if they reduced the scale to 1/65 or 1/72 it'd look "big enough" next to a 1/60 valk. ideally 1/60 would be nice though.
  6. Mechapilot77
    simply stunning!!!!
  7. Mechapilot77
    always wondered if that would work....guess i don't need to wonder anymore. off to amazon i go for some fishing line....
  8. Mechapilot77
    agree except for the 3 separate releases. just release the missile racks etc. as add ons sort of like a set of fast packs. maybe a second release in DYRL colors.
  9. Mechapilot77
    wheeljack looks glorious!!! it's perfect almost the flaps around his fists are supposed to be on the bottom and no the side but i guess its shown both ways? either way its awesome. however, if ever there were a need for a light up gimmick its him but since its carbot size and pricepoint we won't get it. any third party ppl listening? get on this pronto!!! i don't need his lunchbox even if do remember that episode so i preordered 2 at AE... i figure if i really want it later i can pick one up off ebay like every other amazon special pack in.
  10. Mechapilot77
    sooooo awesome! i'm filled with both appreciation and regret (for not having bought the sucker when it came out).
  11. Mechapilot77
    am i the only one that doesn't like the "macross the 1st hikaru" paint scheme? that minmay guard hoax (it was a custom) needs Fast packs but pretty nice otherwise.
  12. Mechapilot77
    was thinking the same thing. so many things i would collect if i could and these would be near the the top of the list.
  13. Mechapilot77
    Aside from the most commonly mentioned ones I think Perceptor deseves an MP treatment. Not Sure if TT would do it anytime soon. there are so many other heavy hitters to go before you get to perceptor, but perceptor has an awesome bot mode, is both a microscope and a laser cannon tank thingy. He also has an easy repaint as Micro Robo Black pre TF deco (TF later repurposed this too as Magnificus). FT is doing the dinos. FT and Daca are both doing skyfire. i'd love to see the omnibots....no way TT will do those. they all had awesome vehicle alt modes too. i mean a ferrari a supra and an rx-7? 80s sports car goodness TT isn't likely to take on!
  14. Mechapilot77
    the thing about movies is almost nothing in them in unintentional. Its also conceived, reviewed, edited etc. almost nothing is "by accident". the most effective and insidious propaganda is the type you don't feel is propaganda. It just sort of floats in your head casually and influences your opinions without you realizing. Cynical or not I can see through any wool pulled over my eyes these days and i'm sick of it. I sat down to what I thought would be the most enjoyable movie of the year and left disgusted. it ruined a friday evening for me. I later rewatched it and analyzed why it was I had those feelings and realized it was no without reason.
  15. Mechapilot77
    I wanted to like PAcific Rim. i really did. I was excited for its release. I don't usually get tangled in political stuff, but what is in the film goes beyond political. del Toro did his best to cut out a lot of the more offensive stuff that was originally in the movie but he was polishing a turd and had to please the studio. I am not Japanese or even of Japanese ethnicity, but I was not only offended for them but was myself offended. Its another movie in the long history hollywood has of pushing its agenda. Let's examine some points about Pacific Rim. 1. It is a movie that "draws inspiration" from now classic Japanese genres of movies. Kaiju movies, robot movies, anime etc. However, instead of a tribute to those genres it makes no mention or reference as to the origin nor credits Japan in any way for it. There isn't even a Japanese jaegger team? 2. But wait you say, they put an ethnically Japanese actress in a big role. Yeah and while she is totally bad ass enough to beat down a generic horder of if you notice....all asian dudes in the training to see "who is better matched to whom". Oh and as it turns out she is best suited as a side kick to some good ol fashioned American dude. Oh and later he heroically saves her. Let's also remember...there is no logical reason why you need two people to pilot the jaegger. The reason give seems like an afterthought and excuse to show the world that the best mental "drift" match is good old boy white dude and "oppressed" emotionally helpless yet somehow badass asian girl. 3. So the movie is anti-asian? But wait there is a chinese team, shown as being heroic. I can only assume this is to draw chinese audiences, however when faced with the real danger they are all but helpless. And of course it takes 3 asian dudes to be able to pilot a jaegger when any two white folk will do. Lets not forget the random asian reference jokes in there...like the shop owner selling herbs promising virility. Oh and of course its also a front for some illegal activity too. This is the classic hollywood move of pretending to give an inch but then taking a foot. What is sad is the chinese didn't even realize this and spent $100 Million watching this garbage. 4. The solution to the threat evil ugly threat coming out of the Pacific was nuclear weapons! of course! Is it an analog to anything? hmmmm...... while we wouldn't think of nuking another country today because of both the humanitarian reason and the counter attack, this analog clearly is celebrating the bombs at hiroshima and nagasaki. they're less than human anyway right? I thought "The Departed" ripping off infernal affairs was bad for not ackowledging that it was a remake. in fact the only reference to anything asian in "the Departed" is you guessed it...asian mafia people who need their little tiny mini uzi guns. pacific rim takes it over the top another notch using a derivation of a country's own culture to then rape said country and race of people with it. Like I said, i RAELLY wanted to like Pacific Rim but the above jumped out as all too obvious. Also if you ever see portions of the original script online...it was much worse in exactly the ways i'm talking about.
  16. Mechapilot77
    Sentinel? Means it'll be a premium line but WAY WAY expensive.....hope it isn't priced into the stratosphere like most of their stuff.
  17. Mechapilot77
    btw although i've had issues with Anime Export, AE is the best place to order TF masterpiece IMO. $44 each right now (but you must prepay... of course hlj adn amiami will get these too (though its not up yet) and hlj may be an overall better bet (you can pay later and price will be only slightly higher is my guess), but for probably the best pricing....its NOW and its with AE before they run out of preorders.
  18. Mechapilot77
    1. arii box art darkish ("deep space" is what i call it) vf-1j 2. Low viz grey similar to the 1/48 vf-a/j/s kit 3. Stealth theme from the 1/48 line including Fast packs vf-1j 4. minmay guard vf-1s 5. some kind of real world digital camo http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/arii/76025b.jpg http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/arii/ar353-3-box.jpg
  19. Mechapilot77
    i'm with david. the toy's colors are off. purple is way too dark/saturated. the white should be grey or even silver...but not white. it just looks off. its like someone mixed the colorants into the plastic resin as a first pass and somebody colorblind looked at a colored test sample said..."good enough", lets run it...and the whole lot was made that way. that is how off i think it is.
  20. Mechapilot77
    they look bland and generic. :-(
  21. Mechapilot77
    Meet the Fockers? :-P
  22. Mechapilot77
    oh my a gosu would be hot! happy new years macrossworld peeps!
  23. Mechapilot77
    i think everything til 22 is still a hasui design. empty lower legs seems to be the one sacrifice hausi has had to make on all the carbots....they still look great but aren't "perfect"...nothing is actually. haha.
  24. Mechapilot77
    hah you're welcome to come over sometime but my skills are quite...beginner level at best. hahaha. i'm trying to decide if i should comission someone or attmpt it myself. it'll definitely get painted one way or another. haha.
  25. Mechapilot77
    WOW WOW WOW. looking awesome. bets inhibit model ever! seriously! can't wait to get this in hand...just wish i ordered more than 1 now. haha
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