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  1. David Hingtgen
    I'm also in the "doubting it" category, but even if they do make it, it won't matter----they'll make like 400, which will sell out in 0.26 secs, and then they'll wait another 3+ years before re-releasing Roy colors...
  2. David Hingtgen
    Dive-Dive. I mean c'mon, ballistic missile submarine. Most powerful (read:destructive firepower) alt-mode ever. And something never done in a TF (AFAIK).
  3. David Hingtgen
    Reminds me of that time I found an oatmeal box full of GoBots...
  4. David Hingtgen
    Gotta agree with that. It helps hide the actual shape of the car. Manufacturers, take note---THIS is how to paint a car, if you want to confuse spy-shots etc. Black and white checkerboard-patterns don't work...
  5. David Hingtgen
    Yup, go look at the jet-modes of the Go-Bot jets. Many still are among the sleekest, least-robot-kibbled transforming jets ever. They clearly went for jet-mode over bot-mode. (for the better, in many cases). Can't remember his name, but I dearly loved the orange MiG-21 guy. (as I think he was about the only MiG I had as a child---you could buy a zillion small Matchbox/Dynaflite F-14/15/16's etc, but "badguy" planes were very rare) And yeesh---the G1 Fireflight had 100% retracting, hidden arms in jet mode. And hey, they were even ball-jointed back then! They went backwards. "uh, just stick them on the sides, yeah, nobody'll see them..."
  6. David Hingtgen
    Does he have places where MP Laserbeak can perch? That ridge on his forearm kinda looks like MP Soundwave's.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Fixed
  8. David Hingtgen
    So---worth renting on Vudu?
  9. David Hingtgen
    *except the YF-23.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Umm, you just kinda proved our point. (Since Hiro's aunt is just a re-hashed Elsa---imagine how good the original is)
  11. David Hingtgen
    Now, Yamato had about the best "paint to plastic" color-matching I've ever seen in anything, so here's hoping that Arcadia can match the VF-0D's plastic equally well to that paint, if that's their intended color.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Those pics, yes. But I've yet to see a production Yamato/Arcadia valk exactly match the sample pics. We never know exactly how it'll look until someone actually owns one.
  13. David Hingtgen
    It's exactly as grey as the "real" thing. And was the primary issue with the previous tests----too saturated, not enough grey. More than any hue or brightness change, it needed to be greyer to match the show. It's like saying the YF-19 is an ugly shade of sandy-beige---yes, it may be----but that's what color it is!
  14. David Hingtgen
    I don't think I've ever seen that before. Can it hold it with the gunpod attached?
  15. David Hingtgen
    There is nothing to attach the adapter to. The v1 VF-27 needs something like the YF-19 fighter-mode adapter---a large clip to attach to/surround the fuselage itself. The v1 VF-27 has no parts included at all to attach to----but much like all the other Frontier valks, there are slots in the bottom of the forward fuselage where the diecast hip-bars clip into in fighter mode. But Bandai never made a bracket/clip to use them, and the VF-25's etc doesn't fit. The v1 VF-27's come with the valk and gunpod, but nothing else---no stand, no adapter, no bracket. But they've got mostly "similar" holes/slots as to the -25, so something could surely be done, much like the YF-19 clip, or a modified version of Bandai's own VF-25 fighter-mode adapter.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Still could use a non-renewal VF-27 adapter. There is no way to put it on ANY stand, as-is.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Just gonna close it for a little while, deal with the mess later, then open it back up.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Surprised I hadn't heard of this site before: http://acewhips.net/ So hideous you have to keep scrolling down... (it's always worse when you see a car you did/do own---you wonder why someone would do that, as you know extra-well how it should look)
  19. David Hingtgen
    Agreed---that's much more like Alto's -25. The only "-30" thing about it, is the "SMS030" modex. The head-on view alone should be enough to convince that it has -25 markings.
  20. David Hingtgen
    *is* better, not was.
  21. David Hingtgen
    I'm pretty sure they used a (tweaked) version of their "ice-fractal-generating" program for some of the microbot's formations.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Same as I suspected/feared---they still don't understand SATURATION of a color, vs its value/brightness. Darker isn't the (main)answer, LESS SATURATED is what it needs to be. They'll end up at navy blue soon, and be no closer to what they should be, saturation-wise. I hate to say it, but I may agree with those who say it's worse now. They basically DID THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN. Seriously, they need Koike himself to supervise, as a painter he certainly understands the concept exactly---but the guys actually mixing up the plastic dyes etc sure don't seem to. The revised/shopped pics/artwork do get pretty close, so they seem to know WHAT they want. They just seem to lack the knowledge on how to get it. (because making it lighter or darker isn't going to move it in the direction it needs---brightness vs saturation) (hue/chroma is rarely gotten wrong, that's 100x easier for people to understand)
  23. David Hingtgen
    Just saw an image that reminded me that Elsa looks just like her mom, and her mom has brown hair. So Hiro's aunt is Elsa's mom...
  24. David Hingtgen
    Just got back. Frozen was way better. (and Hiro's aunt is basically Elsa with different hair)
  25. David Hingtgen
    Can you give a non-spoilery answer to "is there a whole lot more to it, or does the trailer show pretty much everything". (of course, I intentionally never watched any of Frozen's trailers before I saw it so I wouldn't be spoiled at all...)
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