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    I see Star Wars: Resistance was notably absent from that clip show... ...but what's this from?
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    Now I wish I'd bought another Clone Wars Y-Wing back in the day, so I could paint it up in that blue-striped 501st paint scheme... Much nicer than the original yellow, if you ask me.
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    I just can't get over how quickly you've done all that, Mog. I'm still blending edges and scribing panel lines, and I'm nowhere near ready for painting...
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    Yeah, I was pretty stoked to catch Caleb there.
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    No Millennium Falcon, no Jabba the Hutt, no Imperial Stormtroopers, even...! Obviously they thought D-0 was more important.
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    Thanks for the laugh, @jvmacross! I needed that. To be fair, that flimsy torso snapped with less applied force than it took to rotate the thighs! Still, I'd forgotten what a crappy-looking Hovertank it was. I'm still hoping that someone, someday, makes a decent-looking toy or model kit... but nobody with any talent seems to have tackled the project thus far.
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    Yeah, of course. It directly references Jim Cameron's creature design from Aliens. It's definitely my favorite Kubrick line.
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    It's gonna look something like this... And, under low lighting, more like this... ...provided I can figure out where to mount a battery pack so it remains accessible.
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    If you like that, you're gonna love the Kubricks!
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    It's videos like this, using scenes from the three trilogies together, that really throws the dichotomy into sharp relief. You see clips from A New Hope, and the nostalgia feels hit you... and then shots from The Phantom Menace, and you cringe... and then images from The Force Awakens, and your brain says "wait, that's not right." I mean, as much as the prequel trilogy sucked, it's still Star Wars, and that's ingrained in us now. But Disney's sequel trilogy just... isn't. I know, they're officially canon -- Lucasfilm is Disney's property, and there's no denying it -- but I just can't accept it. There's, like, a mental block there. Is it just me?
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    Sorry to hear about your niece, pengbuzz. But that DYRL conversion was unbelievable! I never would've believed there was a vintage toy under that. Lots of work still to do before I need to worry about painting, I suppose... Like kitbashed thrusters for the engines: I'm trying to maintain that slightly retro toy look. Two down, ten more to do.
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    Geez, you work fast, Mog! Are you gonna repaint the Prometheus deck to match the bright blue of your SDF-1?
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    Yeah, BBTS has it, too. It's about 1:28 scale, near as I can figure. Thanks for that. Looks like those of us outside the US may need to source those exclusives from Hong Kong...
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    The Black Sun is represented by Ziton Moj in The Clone Wars. He also appeared in Season 5. He's Falleen, but he's not Prince Xizor.
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    Arii's 15th anniversary VF-1D gerwalk. No question. Low quality, awkwardly-proportioned, poorly detailed, inadequately articulated, and not even show-accurate... and it doesn't even transform!
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    The more you show him of Macross 7, the less he'll want to build that Fire Valkyrie.
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    I'm not as taken with the show as Bolt. For starters, editing and story structure make it clear that this was not written or produced as a series, but a feature... and that the decision to break it up into half-hour episodes was made late in the production process. Individual episodes don't build to a climax, they just abruptly end. The opening action scene is a thrilling chase sequence, involving numerous combatants firing automatic weapons at each other from open-air vehicles. While the vehicles suffer damage in the resulting hail of bullets, RPGs, and missile strikes -- and people are thrown from their precarious positions by explosive impacts and high-speed crashes -- there's no blood spilled, and miraculously, nobody even seems to have gotten shot. Was SAC always this bloodless? The original film sure as hell wasn't! It seems unlikely Netflix would be imposing any kind of censorship... especially considering the surprising amount of littering our heroes do. Dynamic actions are, I agree; the characters look good when they're leaping around and fighting, and they have a legitimate sense of weight to their movements. Basic motions like walking or standing around, however, often look awkwardly distracting. Oh, the settings are fascinating, and exquisitely rendered.
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    What was the point of telling Anakin's story in the prequel trilogy? Why did we care or get emotionally involved in a character that we knew ended up dead on a funeral pyre?
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    We all know of the financial and time constraints the production was under in '82, but the issue here is not merely a matter of sloppy drawing or coloring mistakes. When it comes to Vermillion squadron, for example, they're remarkably consistent with the little bits of blue or brown on the white VF-1As, or the red stripe on the 1J... so I think it's clear that, in the case of the Macross itself, the studios just didn't have adequate color reference for the engine block. Nobody knew what color it was supposed to be! In my experience, it's really difficult to do convincing weathering on anything above 1:350. It has to be really faint and subtle, or it destroys any sense of scale. Don't be Stormtrooper Larry!
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    Progress report: I have progress to report! It was quite time-consuming and labor-intensive, cutting those sections out of the feet. Lots of different tools were required. Now, what color are they supposed to be painted? As our resident jenius has demonstrated, Takatoku wasn't at all consistent with their toys... ...so we can't rely on the original toy colors for reference. An early shot of the engines seem to suggest they were close, though. Mind you, there was so much variation in their anime depiction, there's no way to establish a "correct" color scheme... My research suggests this particular scheme was most consistently applied, however. Modern merchandise, on the other hand, seem to have settled on this scheme... ...and there's certainly enough evidence from the anime to justify it, I suppose...? I'm wracked with indecision.
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    Actually, I've been wondering lately why the Daedalus and Prometheus would've been painted the exact same blue as the SDF-1... You know, trying to justify it in-universe.
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    Are you intending to repaint all the blue sections, or just the legs?
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    It's not secure at all; I just grabbed whatever was handy to support a flight mode pose for the pics. It's usually displayed in landed configuration. Dude, I call BS. You're not gonna buy one. We know you better than that. You're gonna buy FOUR. In the meantime, these are for you! Live vicariously.
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    Ah, I get it. 4/20.
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    That's clean work, Mog. Still, it amazes me how you all just repaint the Daedalus and call it a day. It's by far the least-accurate part of the whole toy, and I'm not talking details... I mean, the whole shape is wrong! You could whittle a more accurate prow out of wood.
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