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  1. David Hingtgen
    My only complaint is--why did they make him LOSE? Should have had him win, if he's the featured character.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Like most Bandai DX valks?
  3. David Hingtgen
    They all vary, there is no consistency. Trust me, I've looked at about every pic ever posted of that mold. Original Takara, Takara-Korea, early KO's, the revised KO's with better printing (namebadge, logo), re-release Takara, etc. And some are good, and some are bad. Most are "mediocre-poor". But you will find all "paint-quality levels" on all releases, in approximately equal numbers. Buying an original can get you a great one or a terrible one. Same for the KO's.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Ok, is that a Shenlong/Altron modified, or some other draconic Gundam? I wanna say the shoulder armor and waist armor are very Shenlong-ish. With "double" dragons from Altron.
  5. David Hingtgen
    In short, super is better than armor. But if you've got Ozma, get armor for him.
  6. David Hingtgen
    It's akin to automatically including GBP armor with every VF-1. Not everyone's going to want it, and it's not "free"---you're definitely going to be paying a lot more for it than the VF-1 alone would be. All those external missiles aren't even really canon to a lot of people, including me. Retconning an established design based on an old drawing in some book, and then bumping up the price a bunch to include it---not happy. Big ugly external hardpoints on the YF-19's otherwise clean wings. Recesses, holes, AND posts added to the wings to mount the missiles? Yeesh, talk about an inelegant design-solution. The original 1/60 had much nicer-looking wings. If it was like 5-10 bucks, then yes, it'd be pointless to comment on. But all those missiles plus the FAST packs? That is a good chunk of money compared to what a "bare" YF-10 would cost. AND THE FAST PACKS WERE OPTIONAL BEFORE. People who didn't want them, didn't have to buy them. And I never did.
  7. David Hingtgen
    But that's pretty much what the fandom wants at this point. They want a spot-on plastic figure of the *TV show* Skyfire. Not Jetfire, not a VF-1, not a "classics Skyfire". There's already plenty of those out there. They want THIS: And that's what it is. So those who want it, are probably happy with it.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Yeah---I've been UN-panel-lining my -19, as the lines are just too shallow-----thin crisp lines look nice when inked, "blurry-shallow" ones just look like a mess. And I'm not going to rescribe the whole thing to make the ink settle properly. It's just going to be pretty much "out of the box" and bland-looking, due to the how non-existent the panel lines are.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Arcadia did everything backwards---everyone gets the FAST packs and non-screen-accurate missiles, and many didn't want it/didn't want to pay extra for it. I would have MUCH rather had a $100 cheaper "bare" YF-19. It's got about the lamest FAST packs of any valk, and the missiles---were only ever seen in a book I don't own. Every time I look at that huge YF-19 box, I think what a waste half the contents of that box are---stuff I'll never use and never wanted, but I paid for and paid to ship over here. But tons of people want the VF-25 boosters---and few will be able to acquire them! I'd like them---but not nearly enough to go through the hoops required.
  10. David Hingtgen
    And Welker voiced Megatron in the 07' etc movie-based videogames, too. So movie-movie Galvatron sounds a lot like game-movie Megatron.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Mainly---the plastic cement is to literally weld the parts back together. The superglue should be used as an external support/bandage for the area. If you're going to fully sand and repaint--then yes, put superglue on the visible areas too. (I only did it on the internal/backside of the thigh-piece, as my crack was quite "clean" and hard to see when glued back together) My crack was at the "bottom" of the opening, yours is at the top. Mine was more of a "top/bottom split" whereas yours is almost like "exploded outwards from within".
  12. David Hingtgen
    Plastruct plastic weld works pretty well on Yamato ABS plastic. A true cement/solvent, as opposed to superglue. Use Plastruct to weld the parts together, then reinforce externally with superglue. It's what I did on my cracked thigh.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Nope! They don't fix 16000Y valks, they sure dont care about 3900Y figures.
  14. David Hingtgen
    ROTF Dirge is the best deluxe jet in a while. And yes, the best thing to do is use blocky alt-modes! X1000! The F-15 works for a reason. The F-16 doesn't...
  15. David Hingtgen
    Wait wait---you're saying Bumblebee CAN'T do a back-slide on his doors, then transform into a car with perfectly intact side-windows?
  16. David Hingtgen
    MP Magnus vs Citizen Stack---hard to have a debate about the two in a single area. No different over at TFW. The Citizen Stack thread can be mainly about Magnus at times, and vice-versa. Doubt it. *Snarl* had a finished engineering design ready to go from the MP team? He's not even one of the original Dinobots. (see: first appearance) There's a lot more "top tier" characters to do in the MP line before him. It's a whole lot more likely that Gigapower (that's who made that proto) simply copied elements of MP Grimlock.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Theft of a concept and theft of a physical entity are quite different things. If I sit here and hum a tune I just made up, and you "steal" it---vs grabbing food off my table---they aren't the same. (both wrong, yes, but very different degrees/damages)
  18. David Hingtgen
    If you think color alone would make those two TFC combiners sell to TF fans en masse, you're dreaming. The one could be a FLAWLESS copy of Defensor's colors, and cost $100 total, and I wouldn't give it a second glance. (Defensor being my fave Autobot combiner)
  19. David Hingtgen
    If there's one MP that's unlikely to happen, it's that. From what I've heard, HasTak no longer has the rights to that mold/design. The ONLY way to do it is unlicensed! And FT already did it. 3 runs worth. Even many of the diehard "official-only" collectors were swayed by it. What market is left? It'd be like doing an MP Huffer at this point.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Actraiser 1's greatness makes me sad when I think of Actraiser 2.
  21. David Hingtgen
    I really want a Delta, but I just know that if I buy the HG, they'll immediately announce an MG or RG of it.
  22. David Hingtgen
    MP UM has a red bumper, red chassis/frame, and red back-of-cab. Only the front/sides/roof of the cab is white. If he had a "white Prime" mode it'd have red legs and feet. Anyways----I passed on UT's Mania King almost solely because of its coloring. And now, they're doing "version 2": Will almost certainly pick it up. Those who have v1 are not happy though.
  23. David Hingtgen
    I'm going to say this game had the best audio of any SNES game period. That is, music and sounds combined. You can argue other games had better music (though you'd probably be wrong), but no game comes even close to its sound effects. Every little blip and tap is quite "musical"---from different weapons, to the enemies, to the different sounds made by weapon impact. It all blends with the soundtrack amazingly.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Pretty much that. Scalpers vs the actual company getting the money. If a car is popular, and the dealership is "scalping" it at $10K over sticker---it may be 'easy' to get, but that sure doesn't make it equal to the alternative car that is inherently $10K more expensive, but still selling at "only" sticker price. (not the best example, but the best my brain can do right now) Hey, a sealed G1 Starscream is "easy" to get---so long as you fork over a grand.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Never read any comments about it, but I bet the XB-70 made a heck of a racket with all 6 going... The sheer exhuast velocity alone required for Mach 3+ would cause a lot of noise. (speed of the exhaust is a big part of jet noise--basically the "ripping" of the air by hot, fast-moving exhaust, combined with the actual turbo-machinery of the core, are the main 2 sounds heard---some engines produce more of one type than the other). It's a big part of the reason airliners can make so much power, relatively quietly---they pump a massive amount of air, but it moves quite slowly (as jet engines go) and only a fraction is actually heated through the core.
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