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  1. tekering
    Look, I realize I'm the one who led us into this particular minefield, but I think you two better dial it back a bit. You're gonna give poor sqidd an aneurysm.
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    Now that @jenius is contributing to this thread, my participation seem redundant...
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    Note Yamato's first VF-1 toy (the 1:60 v.1) was released in October of 2001, and the first 1:48 VF-1 was released in November of 2002. Bandai's first 1:48 VF-1 was issued in late December of 2018. Frankly, though, it sounds like a pretty dull comparison. There's so little visual difference between the 1:60s and the 1:48s that I wouldn't bother putting them in such a display at all. By choosing the biggest available options, you're only representing the best of the best, as it were... and ignoring the much greater variation in VF-1 toys that exists at smaller scales. Consider, instead, something like this: Going back to the '90s, and including manufacturers like Arii, Kaiyodo, and Toynami, you'll find much more significant differences in proportions, detailing, and articulation, and provide more visual interest (particularly to anyone not intimately acquainted with the Macross Valkyrie). If you're gonna restrict your display to a single mode anyway, including such non-transformable action figures expands your options tremendously.
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    That's one advantage novelizations have over the prequels themselves -- you can read what the characters are trying to communicate to each other, without being so distracted by the poor acting as to lose sight of the purpose of the dialogue. Whenever I see Hayden Christensen on screen, I simply can't concentrate on what the story is trying to convey... and a lot of the other performances are similarly bad. Like, distractingly bad.
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    Wow, the aesthetics blend perfectly with the nu-Mospeada look, and the stickers are a great touch. "Hive Breaker" is a good name, Perxion. "Hivebuster" might be better.
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    Well, if you thought TOS was "mostly crap," I'm certainly not going to change your mind about TMP. But consider the thematic concepts, the ingenious visual effects work, and the soaring Jerry Goldsmith score... Now compare the themes, visuals, and music from Into Darkness... and remember how it treated the legacy of Star Trek II. You'll soon realize which one is the crappier movie. I thought that was Star Trek V.
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    Ah, that's no fun. Criticizing Star Trek is the primary motivation for watching it, and has been since its heyday. Even as a teenager, my friends and I bitched and whined about every new episode of The Next Generation, because we cared. It's only fans dedicated enough to nitpick every flaw that are truly appreciating the show. Casual viewers like you are understandably confused by our vitriol, I'm sure. Enterprise was cancelled before it finally found its feet, but much of Season 4 was good. We do not. Precisely. Star Trek fandom is no longer enough to sustain a Star Trek series, so they've adapted to service a more mainstream audience... and failed to satisfy either group, it would seem.
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    I don't even need to watch the video to make that determination: the thumbnail alone says it all. Looks like pewter. Edit: Okay, having watched it, that's just a result of crappy lighting... ...but I see other reasons why credibility is an issue. It's YouTube reviews like this that inspire me to do my own, if only because I know I couldn't possibly do worse.
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    Actually, upon further reflection, the misuse of "android" in Robotech dialogue was probably a deliberate choice, just as "robot tanks" was a deliberate change made in the scripts for Star Blazers. A lot less violence would need to be cut for American television if the censors assumed the enemy combatants were merely machines (regardless of visual evidence to the contrary).
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    I agree, it's obligatory. Why deprive yourself?
  12. tekering
    No, but I've barely touched it. Like virtually all my figures, I opened it up, found the combination of pose and accessories I liked, and then placed it gingerly on a shelf. My toys may get moved around or photographed, but they don't get played with. However, I'm not above making significant modifications to figures I'm not happy with... like, if it can't hold the pose I want it to, I'll make whatever changes are necessary to achieve it. Perhaps you should consider the same.
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    I always assumed they just didn't know the difference. They obviously didn't know what the word "android" meant.
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    I've been waiting for an EVA-02 reissue with better paint app's, since RAH did such a great job with the new Unit 01...
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    I'd pay to see John de Lancie perform it as Q.
  16. tekering
    So, Thanos turns out to be the hero! Interesting twist.
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    Is it any wonder? They shot it back in 2016, but it's taken this long to get any kind of distribution... Apparently, nobody had any faith in it.
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    Guys! The vintage Kenner figures from the Sears Cantina Playset are now canon! Anybody else notice 'em?
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    Much better, Bobby.
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    If it's anything like Flame Toys' "Furai" Transformers kits, I'm sure you'll be pleased.
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    And, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse... here comes episode 9. Far beyond mere scripting issues, this was disjointed, poorly edited and badly directed. I wasn't really expecting it to get better, but I didn't think it was going to get this bad... I actually have higher expectations for Discovery season 3 at this point. Mind you, that Sutra chick was HAWT.
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    I did! In related news, I also picked up this event-exclusive: Isn't he Mandadorable?
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    That's weird. They expect those to sell? That's insane. They can't possibly expect those to sell.
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    If only they'd at least added seatbelts... Poor George didn't even have body armor!
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    Absolutely. "The Beginning" was better than The Phantom Menace, and "The Director and the Jedi" was much better than The Last Jedi.
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