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  1. tekering
    Oh yeah, I forgot about that. 😓 Those were off-scale AND off-model. 🙄
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    That works perfect for the Regults in DYRL... 👍 ...all 38 seconds of 'em. 🤣
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    Oh, you don't know the half of it... Harry Dresden is 6'9". 😂
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    Better grab a SHF '89 Batman before the aftermarket prices go through the roof! 😅
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    Quite an exciting commission, actually. The client wants a model of "The Blue Beetle" from The Dresden Files, a series of novels about a guy who goes around fighting demons in a poorly-maintained old Volkswagen. According to the book, the original hood and doors were trashed and replacements were scavenged from other Beetles, resulting in a mismatched color scheme with all sorts of damage evident. This project affords me the opportunity to work backwards, starting with a completed 1:18 die-cast VW: I disassembled it as best I could, but couldn't separate the doors or the hood. Instead, I had to do a lot of careful masking to ensure distinct color separation. Apparently, the original doors were torn off by hellhounds, so I'm adding gouges and claw marks around the doorframes. Much of the weathering work I've done in the past is to make plastic look like painted metal. Adding damage to actual metal parts is a very different experience. 😅
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    Yeah, lots of content to keep up with! Speaking of which: That Neptune turned out gorgeous, Bruce! I couldn't figure out what those bumps on the shoulder were supposed to be, and you turned them into a beautiful little mermaid. 😍 Isn't that a food dehydrator? 😅
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    It's this image that bowled me over: That internal detailing is sick, dude. 😲 Really? I posted pics of mine two years ago. 😅 I went with a clean, toyetic look to match my Hi-Metal R figures.
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    Sure, I mean, who would turn down a free... nightmare? 🤨
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    Not concerning the Regult, it isn't. Say what you will about official stats post-SDFM, but the original 1982 series was pretty consistent with Zentraedi height being equal to that of the battroids. Regults were always depicted in the animation to be about twice the height of a battroid, and it was only after DYRL went into production in 1983 that they decided to downscale the Zentraedi, thus all the scale charts published post-SDFM reflect the new scaling. Everything produced post-DYRL follows the aesthetic changes made for the film -- and merchandising has always referenced the 1983 stats -- leading to the scale inconsistencies that confound us all... but during the production of the original TV series, the Regults never changed size. I do wish Bandai, Hasegawa et.al paid more attention to the anime itself.
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    Yeah, more like 1:60. 🤔 Moreover, what is the point of producing such a large model if you're not going to add any detail? Without markings or weathering of any kind, there's no visual indication of size. It might as well be a capsule toy. 🤨 Conversely, here's a 1:72 scale Regult from yesterday's modeling exhibit in Okayama: Despite its comparatively small size, the surface detailing suggests a massive mech. The larger the surface area, the more detail you can add... ...and thus convey a much greater sense of scale. Just imagine what a talented modeler like this could do with a kit twice its size!
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    It's about time NECA got to the good show! If they maintain their standard 1:10 scale, however, the bad guys will all be huge and untenably expensive. 😓
  12. tekering
    Dan Trachtenberg has stated that Predator: Badlands is intended as a far-future scenario, closer to the Alien: Resurrection setting than any of the other films in the franchise(s).
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    The continued popularity of that 40-year old toy perplexes me. Both Yamato and Bandai have produced more accurate toys, at more practical scales, and in more variations than the original Takatoku versions, yet the outdated and inferior molds get continuously reissued...? 🤷‍♂️ Yeah, I agree with @M'Kyuun about retro Transformers (and Star Wars) reissues, too. 🤨
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    Ms. Yutani gained possession of all the Yautja tech retrieved after the events of AvP:R and The Predator (as depicted in both films), long before the Weyland-Yutani merger even happened... and of course Peter Keyes (in Predator 2) explicitly explains everything the CIA had known since 1987.
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    Useless without the Synth backpack.
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    Finally, some confirmation directly from Nacelle: Thank you so much for your message and for taking the time to share your feedback! We really appreciate your attention to detail and your commitment to keeping your community well-informed. We completely understand the confusion, especially with multiple sources of information out there. To clarify definitively: the correct and final scale for the new Star Trek line is 1/10. That has been confirmed by our product development team, and it’s the scale reflected in all official listings moving forward. We realize how frustrating it can be when conflicting details surface, and we appreciate your patience as things are clarified. If you’ve already shared the 1/10 scale information with your audience, you were absolutely correct and we’re grateful for your support in getting accurate details out there. Thanks again for your passion and enthusiasm, it really does mean a lot to us and the broader fan community. Thank you! The Nacelle Team
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    Or, you know, just use rattlecans. 😉
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    Back in 2016, DX9's "Tyrant" and FansToys "Sovereign" were released, and both were well-received by the fandom. Nonetheless, collectors wondered why -- five years after the release of Masterpiece Rodimus -- TakaraTomy still hadn't produced an MP Galvatron. Who would've believed, with the release of Sovereign 2.0 a decade later, we'd STILL be wondering? 😂
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    Just about, yeah. I was ready to order one from Zica, but the $150 shipping cost was unacceptable. 😓
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    TRON: Legacy is superior to TRON in every important respect, just as Mark Verheiden's Dark Horse Aliens sequel was superior to anything the Alien franchise subsequently produced. 😒
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    I see Clarence appears to be sold out, but all the others can still be ordered from their site... I sure hope these sold well enough to fund further figure releases, from MGM properties or elsewhere. I support Michaël's devotion to the villains, secondary characters, and any other gaps NECA et.al continue to leave in our collections... Like, how about Dutch's squad from Predator? The crew of the Betty from Alien: Resurrection? Or any human characters from AvP, Covenant, or Romulus?
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    That's a shameless cash-grab, even for Hasbro... 🙄
  23. tekering
    Appropriately, that's the general consensus for The Acolyte as a whole. 😂
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    You had me at "the horses they ride on top of that one Star Destroyer." 🤣 It's a miracle that Rogue One, produced under the same studio conditions, turned out to be so good... and doubly miraculous that we got both seasons of Andor. I mean, has there ever been a greater gap in quality within one franchise? Even the abyss that separates The Wrath of Khan from Section 31 isn't as vast (and those were produced four decades apart)!
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    Well, this is unexpected. With Nacelle's first wave of figures "in the final stages of production," according to this article at TrekCentral, they're suddenly claiming to be 1:10 scale... and BigBadToyStore has updated their listings accordingly. 😲 As I posted last year, this would actually make a lot more sense, since they'd fit with all those Diamond Select Star Trek figures from TOS, TWOK, TNG, DS9, and Enterprise... ...and low-and-behold, it actually seems to be happening! Naturally, this begs the question of when (if not why) this decision was made, why we're only hearing about it now, and how it's likely to affect sales going forward. How many more fans would've preordered these figures earlier, if they'd been marketed at this scale to begin with? How long was production delayed in order to upscale the line, and how much will the final figures differ from the prototypes we've seen thus far? How much were production costs increased in order to make the change? 🤔 Of course, there are other possibilities to consider. Maybe the latest press release was a mistake, and they're actually still 1:12 scale figures... 🤨 ...or perhaps they were designed at 1:10 scale to begin with, and the original announcements were in error. 😒 Either way, Nacelle now looks even more like a bunch of amateurs that don't know what the hell they're doing. 😂
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