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  1. tekering
    That figure based on the poster illustration is the dumbest Thing I've ever seen. 🙄
  2. tekering
    Well, at least Hunter is in the pipeline: Frankly, though, I think Hasbro should introduce a new sub-line for CGI-style figures, like the long-running Clone Wars line (or even the short-lived Resistance line). They could cover Rebels, Bad Batch, or even outstanding Clone Wars characters, as well as figures from the upcoming Tales of the Jedi series... and not have to super-articulate photo-realistic style figures to justify their inclusion in the (increasingly inappropriately-named) "Vintage Collection" line.
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    And yet, Ahsoka doesn't learn Vader's identity until years later...
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    The biggest of which was, of course, that old Hollywood chestnut: announcing a release date before they even had a script ready to shoot. If the audience doesn't know where the story is headed, you've got their interest; if the cast and crew don't know where the story is headed, you've got a disaster. Reaching your destination without a road map may be problematic, but when you don't even know your destination, you're going to be meandering around doing nothing much of the time... which is precisely why The Motion Picture feels like exactly that. 😒 What shocks me is how little Paramount has learned over the past four decades. Incredibly enough, they've made an even worse blunder going into Abrams' fourth Star Trek film, having already announced a release date (December 22, 2023) before they've even signed the cast, much less completed a script! 🤭 Pine, Quinto et.al. can demand whatever the hell they want now, and will probably be insufferable pricks on set, too... and the idiot studio execs have only themselves to blame. 🙄
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    This strikes me as a latter-day sequel to Revenge of the Sith... with all the storytelling quality that implies. 😒 The actors are doing a better job this time, at least, but this still ranks a lot closer to Book of Boba Fett than The Mandalorian. Watching Obi-Wan chase a little girl around in Blade Runner got old REAL quick. 😑
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    I can't agree with that. The model is beautifully lit, and proportionally very accurate to the original studio miniature. I love how, all these years later, it puts the whole V'Ger flyby sequence into perspective. Perhaps you were just disappointed by the creative decision to reveal the ship in its entirety, but concept art illustrates that was the original intent: It simply wasn't possible to complete the original 60-foot miniature in the limited time they had to finish the film. That I must agree with. 😔 What's worse, you can clearly see stars pass through his face during the shot. 🤨 That's doubtful. I'm sure the WoK release will be the same 35th anniversary "Director's Cut" Fathom released in 2017.
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    That's totally absurd. 🙄 Even by the standards of pulp-fiction space fantasy, this fleet concentration is pants-on-head stupid, as nonsensical as anything from Rise of Skywalker. 🤨
  8. tekering
    That may have been to the film's advantage, particularly concerning the inconsistent quality of effects work... This half-assed shot from The Director's Edition (above) actually looks worse than the 1979 original optical (below): You'll see the original matte painting matched the perspective of the live-action elements much better than the CGI shuttles in the new shot do. Look closely, and you'll also notice the ghostly after-image of extras not properly composited into the new shot: Most of the new shots looks better than this, but some are distractingly bad. Note how the actors have been digitally blurred to help matte them into the CGI background, since they painted out the original set wall behind them... except for that inexplicable beam that remains behind Kirk. 🤨 I assume you guys are taking about diopter shots like this one, where the anamorphic lens was split with two different focal planes: Robert Wise and cinematographer Richard Kline were known for embracing this technique (particularly in The Andromeda Strain), and Quentin Tarantino has employed diopter shots in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and more recently The Hateful Eight. While most filmmakers try to hide the lines between focal planes, the Enterprise bridge set in particular made it very difficult to do so... resulting in somewhat distracting shots like this one.
  9. tekering
    Yeah, that's X14, "Leah." She's just a little too large and ungainly to scale well with most of my "Legends" figures -- think MFT size, rather than Magic Square/Iron Factory size -- so I instead display her with other awkwardly-scaled figures that don't necessarily fit with their lines, either:
  10. tekering
    Looks like someone hasn't been keeping up. 😅
  11. tekering
    My Scourge is a repainted MakeToys "Battle Tanker."
  12. tekering
    I absolutely love the pilot compartments in the shells... although it's a shame the turtle pilots are facing backwards. 😑
  13. tekering
    I'd be surprised if they filled any more. 😶
  14. tekering
    A "love letter?" 🤨 I thought it showed tremendous disrespect to the original series, not only because the script was full of references to episodes that never even existed, but more importantly because there was no attempt to disguise John Mulaney and Andy Samberg's voices. Chip 'n' Dale have used the same recording technique for over 75 years to give them their distinctive voices, yet they suddenly sound completely different here... and with absolutely no attempt to explain it, rationalize it, or address it whatsoever. 😒 And then there's the body horror suggested by Gadget having given birth to 42 half-insect, half-mammal offspring (not to mention the nauseating implication Gadget and Zipper had sexual intercourse)... 🤮
  15. tekering
    Yeah, but how the hell are you gonna paint 'em? 😅
  16. tekering
    Never in a million years would I have imagined I'd see Blaster in a Disney film...! 😮
  17. tekering
    I guess that explains the vertical orientation of the warp core, then... They're not even trying to pretend it's the same ship. 🙄
  18. tekering
    Looks great by itself, but if it doesn't scale properly with all the other Legends-sized figures in my Iron Factory/Magic Square/MechFanToys/War in Pocket/NewAge collection (as many NewAge figures don't), I'll have no use for it. At this stage of the game, scale is everything.
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    So, without revealing any spoilers for "Ghosts of Illyria," I want to question a statement Doctor M'Benga makes in the episode. He refers to the Enterprise as "the flagship of Starfleet," a distinction I only recall being applied to Picard's Galaxy-class Enterprise. If memory serves, there were fourteen identical Constitution-class ships in service during Pike's tenure (some of which continued to be in service even after Enterprise was destroyed), so it seems disingenuous at best to call Enterprise the flagship. Are we simply to assume this is another example of the writers not doing their homework?
  20. tekering
    "Bust" and "breast" are not the same thing, Bandai. 🙄
  21. tekering
    Most of us here were children of the '80s, having grown up with Robotech, Star Wars, Transformers, Ghostbusters, Alien, Predator, and Star Trek... ...and, given what has been done to every single one of these franchises in the 21st century... ...I think we all need a hug. 🤕
  22. tekering
    Oh, so the Masters are an empire now? That's an entirely new sociopolitical structure. Who's the Emperor?
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    Okay, I never saw those. I stand corrected. (The War For Cybertron trilogy didn't have any human characters either, but I discounted it because of its incredibly low budget. It was produced so cheaply that they couldn't even afford real voice actors.) 😑 That would've been a terrible idea, and I'm glad it was never attempted. The premise doesn't require returning human characters, and it would greatly strain credulity if they had returned... unless it was merely as consultants (like Ian Malcolm's cameo in Fallen Kingdom). It was bad enough the Alien franchise had to keep bringing back Ellen Ripley... 🙄
  24. tekering
    Yes, but it's a marketing necessity if you're going to get studio funding. You can do anything you want in a comic book, but as soon as you're spending real money to produce a story, it's got to have mainstream appeal. That's why every Transformers film or TV series features a human male protagonist (despite the whole premise revolving around an alien civil war). You can even look to those rare examples where money was spent producing a film (or series) without a human protagonist -- The Dark Crystal, for instance -- and in every instance, they've been tremendous commercial failures. 😔
  25. tekering
    No, footage from "The Cage" was already used as a flashback in "If Memory Serves," an episode of Discovery's second season (which I take it you missed). Pike's encounter with the Talosians happened five years before Strange New Worlds, during his first five-year mission.
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