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    Yes, and whatever fans Kotobukiya is marketing this figure towards will have already seen the screen test in question, or at least the photographs... ...and will know full well that "his iconic EE-3 carbine rifle" wasn't a part of the original white costume... ...nor was the Sacros K-11 sidearm... ...nor were the Wookie scalps... ...nor was the homing missile on the backpack, for that matter. The sidearm had no holster, the left gauntlet had a completely different flame projector, and there was no dent in the helmet! Sideshow did it better: Hasbro did it better: Hell, even the Kubrick figure was more accurate! All Kotobukiya did was repaint their ESB Boba Fett figure white... and they couldn't even get the right shade of white. 🤨 Epic fail. 😒
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    It's more like "acknowledging the work of a hopelessly bad student, whose grades have improved since he's started plagiarizing his older brother's homework." Excellent analogies, however. 😆 Props, too. I particularly like their tricorders.
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    Well, the pilot episode plays out like a Star Trek fan film -- derivative, conventional, utterly predictable, and full of legacy characters that don't really act like you'd expect them to -- but compared to what Akiva Goldsman has done with Discovery and Picard, it's difficult to find fault with Strange New Worlds. 😊 I'm happy to say I'm looking forward to seeing more.
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    I'd buy an MCU Helicarrier.
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    Giant Robo got a mention in the text crawl at the end, just to add insult to injury... 😒 Transformers, however, were completely shafted. 🤨
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    The grammar issue is with the split infinitive "boldly go..." (which should be "go boldly..." of course). 😉
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    Nah, that's just a Photoshop mock-up. I'm far too busy to actually do anything more than swap faces on Houquet for the time being... Are you repainting the bike by hand? 😶
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    Houquet is amazed how much better the bike looks in red.
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    I see @Podtastic continues to bankroll these projects, thus offsetting the cost for the rest of us, increasing the demand for a scale Hovertank, and ensuring the alien bad guys continue their galactic domination. Kudos, my friend.
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    The front fairing is attached with ball joints, so there's actually a great deal of freedom there...
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    Star Trek, with its decades of continuity, technical manuals, compendiums, encyclopedias, visual dictionaries, databases and Web sites, is uniquely suited to that sort of fandom.
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    And after another rigorous round of casting... ...I think I've finally found my Houquet. 👍
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    That's from the Halloween episode. 😉
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    If at first, you don't succeed... ...there's a myriad of other options available at this scale. 😊
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    Seeing as Houquet has such a generic Tatsunoko face, I'm amazed they managed to screw up the likeness so badly. Nah, I'm not going to ignore a problem with such a simple solution: Just heat up the head, remove the hair, and swap out the head with that of a generic 1:12 anime girl figure. Just about any head will look better than Sentinel's. 😒 Now disassembling and repainting the armour, that's gonna take more time.
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    Actually, Amazon sold out of their preorder stock months ago. Those units available now -- including the three you mention -- are from third-party sellers, and how much you'll pay (and whether or not they'll ship internationally) depends on the shop.
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    That would deserve a spoiler tag, were it not mere trolling for late April fools. 😅
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    Looks like the poster for Ready Player Two. 😅
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    Disgusting. I thought Gundam Build Fighters was shameless marketing trash, but this is so much worse... The crass commercialism on display here is so overt, it's making me sick to my stomach.
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    Check the e-mail account registered with your account, guys. You won't be able to reset your password from here.
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    Multiple outfits, too! That's Toys Era's "The Humorist." 😅 Apparently Chinese companies are even less concerned about legal action from Warner Bros. than they are about Hasbro nowadays.
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    Yeah, he gets it. Mog was just being facetious. 😝 If only...! 😅 Paramount wasn't stupid, they were just cheap. 1080p would've been high-definition, and DVDs weren't capable of that... so 480p was considered adequate (and cost-effective).
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    All the incomplete scenes, you mean? I couldn't believe Paramount thought unfinished effects shots were acceptable for an official home video release. The same sequence appears in the syndicated TV version, too! Not at all. I've always thought there was a lot to love about The Motion Picture, but it's far from "well-made." The production was a textbook case of mismanagement, right from Day One -- announcing a release date before they had a finished script, even -- and millions were wasted on unusable effects work from a studio that simply wasn't up to the task. The result was a production grossly over-budget, with an incomplete script, incomplete effects, an incomplete edit that needed a lot more work, and a film rushed to theaters that failed to satisfy critics, general audiences, or even most Star Trek fans. Over two decades later, Robert Wise was finally given the chance to complete the film properly, thanks to the success of the Star Wars: Special Edition. Incomplete shots could be finished with CGI, the sound design could be revised and updated, and the film could be properly edited for pacing and continuity. The 2001 Director's Edition is what the film was supposed to be, and it's far superior to the theatrical release, the "Special Longer Version," or the syndicated television cut. Of course, Paramount managed to screw up that release as well, with the short-sighted decision to render the effects and master the film in 480p. Within five years, Blu-ray had made standard-definition obsolete, and the subsequent HD release of The Motion Picture had to be struck from 1979 negatives. Now, 15 long years later, we're FINALLY getting a definitive release of the complete film in high-definition, with updated 4K visual effects elements. 🤩 @pengbuzz, you've waited long enough. It's time to join us in the 21st century. 😊
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