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  1. David Hingtgen
    If no one says anything until after release, there's zero chance of fixing it. Mentioning things now means corrective action can be taken. Fixing things afterwards is expensive----doing it right in the first place is a lot easier.
  2. David Hingtgen
    I thought it looked like a Camaro even after reading what it was supposed to be first.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Let me ask you this---are you the type of person that can see the blue, in red? Specifically, the blue in "Milia red"? The 1/48 Milia is a very blueish red, as reds go. It's what separates "Milia red" from say "Alto/Hikaru red".
  4. David Hingtgen
    Agreed---purplish-blue, close to periwinkle.
  5. David Hingtgen
    Just gotta go by presence or lack of white striping, to know if it's the "proper" Shin release.
  6. David Hingtgen
    I actually think that's really good lighting----based on the background etc, that looks like a standard Yamarcadia "grey background drape" photo-shoot. And they just intentionally blurred it out. (or altered depth of field etc so it was inherently blurry) My vote is that this is from a dedicated photo-shoot, and not some quick "iphone at a desk" pic. At least a semi-official teaser, with a modicum of effort put into taking a decent photo.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Well, I see it as fairly similar to Macross---you can cling to and revel in the original series and accept *nothing* else, or you can enjoy DYRL's "revisionist history" and designs and everything that has come out since. And all that's ever going to come out in the future, is going to be based off the newer stuff/sequels. You can "expand" your hobby/franchise, or you can cling to the small initial offering and never allow anything more.
  8. David Hingtgen
    I've never known blurriness to affect the perceived color of something.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Frankly, without them, you're missing out on a big chunk of "G1 history that most of the fandom knows and references". Those games are considered "the new canon" for the whole "united franchise theory" Hasbro's been doing the past couple years. Plus the story is GOOD, and gives far better/more detailed backstory for a lot of what happened, vs the G1 toon.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Gah, that color is wrong in every possible way---hue, saturation, and value! Yeesh. If the final is anywhere near that, I WILL not buy it solely for that. That's more like periwinkle than anything else.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Should have molded the case out of transparent blue. Even better, one that had like a gradient from clear-white to clear-blue. (hey, if Lego can afford to do it on a tiny little 10-cent piece, it can be done on a PS4) The only system I ever did any visual mods to was my PSX---and it was a clear colored case. And it looked neat.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Well, due to his numerous lines/scenes in WFC and "extended cameo" in FOC, that is darn-near the default iteration of the character now. Because he was FRIGGIN AWESOME in it, and not a dumb grunting godzilla ripoff. I do believe WFC Trypticon has far more "screen time" than the G1 version. Kind of like how animated Blitzwing was a much more important/defined character than the G1 version-----when a different, more recent version of a character ends up with 10x as many lines as the original---it often sorta "overshadows" the original, or at least how people expect that character to be now. Classics Blitzwing clearly has several elements of Animated Blitzwing, due to how "influential" his later version is now----he's not a pure G1 homage.
  13. David Hingtgen
    I clearly stated *WFC* Trypticon. Not G1.
  14. David Hingtgen
    I just keep thinking--that Scorponok has the build/propotions/styling of WFC Trypticon---it's like they tried as hard as they could to make a WFC Trypticon to go with their Metroplex---without actually making Trypticon.
  15. David Hingtgen
    I'd love a stand like that! Simple, effective, not a ugly pile of heavy black plastic...
  16. David Hingtgen
    That's my guess---somebody somehow needs/wants a mask at some point, and it'll be a big enough plot-point for the trilogy that they hired the original Vader-mask-designer to do a new one.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Well, Lockdown has his hood badge and tail lights visible, that's about all I could find. Drift has a bit more.
  18. David Hingtgen
    They are tinted. Just not as dark as Sideswipe's.
  19. David Hingtgen
    I still think THAT silver, with the black hood, would have been the "perfect" Bluestreak.
  20. David Hingtgen
    I found the front fuselage impossible to get fully apart--I wanted to remove the windscreen to try to recolor it, but just couldn't get the area apart. I think you have to remove the main pin through the LERXes---and that is one big, tough, critical pin. I wouldn't risk it. You can open up around the canopy hinge enough to get it out, but anywhere forward of that isn't coming apart without a hammer and nail-punch. And if it's done the same way as the VF-25's (which is likely) the legs are superglued together top/bottom.
  21. David Hingtgen
    OK, *here* is what my fold crystals really look like---took some finagling to try to get the camera to catch it. (also shows how well Bandai did painting Ozma--you can't see him at all with the factory canopy color)
  22. David Hingtgen
    OK, did my best to try to photograph it to show the lighter-blue fold crystals (and corrected black LERX striping etc). But man, dark grey valks are hard to photograph!
  23. David Hingtgen
    YF-19.
  24. David Hingtgen
    In-universe, I figure the hinge isn't the only thing holding the backpack on, that there's additional latches etc at the front and center of the backpack that plug into the fighter's "spine", when the transformation is complete. Kind of like how the leg intake swing-bars are only for transformation, and aren't the main latch/joint holding things on.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Why do they have giant soccer-goalie gloves?
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