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tekering

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  1. What's with the apostrophe? ๐Ÿคจ
  2. 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. ๐Ÿคจ Epic fail. ๐Ÿ˜’
  3. 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. ๐Ÿ˜† Props, too. I particularly like their tricorders.
  4. 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. ๐Ÿ˜Š I'm happy to say I'm looking forward to seeing more.
  5. Giant Robo got a mention in the text crawl at the end, just to add insult to injury... ๐Ÿ˜’ Transformers, however, were completely shafted. ๐Ÿคจ
  6. The grammar issue is with the split infinitive "boldly go..." (which should be "go boldly..." of course). ๐Ÿ˜‰
  7. 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? ๐Ÿ˜ถ
  8. Houquet is amazed how much better the bike looks in red.
  9. 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.
  10. The front fairing is attached with ball joints, so there's actually a great deal of freedom there...
  11. 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.
  12. And after another rigorous round of casting... ...I think I've finally found my Houquet. ๐Ÿ‘
  13. That's from the Halloween episode. ๐Ÿ˜‰
  14. If at first, you don't succeed... ...there's a myriad of other options available at this scale. ๐Ÿ˜Š
  15. 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. ๐Ÿ˜’ Now disassembling and repainting the armour, that's gonna take more time.
  16. 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.
  17. Check the e-mail account registered with your account, guys. You won't be able to reset your password from here.
  18. Multiple outfits, too! That's Toys Era's "The Humorist." ๐Ÿ˜… Apparently Chinese companies are even less concerned about legal action from Warner Bros. than they are about Hasbro nowadays.
  19. Yeah, he gets it. Mog was just being facetious. ๐Ÿ˜ If only...! ๐Ÿ˜… 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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